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Disco Elysium: Best Thoughts

Author : Hannah Jan 24,2025

This guide explores the best Thoughts in Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, explaining how to unlock them and their benefits. These Thoughts significantly impact gameplay, offering stat boosts, skill check advantages, and resource gains.

Updated December 23, 2024: Disco Elysium's compelling narrative and intricate mechanics make Thought selection crucial for optimal gameplay. Unlocking these powerful Thoughts enhances the detective's capabilities and success in skill checks.

14. Ace's Low

  • Unlock: Shoot the Hanged Man and slap it with Interlacing at 5 or greater.
  • Benefits: +2 Empathy for Kim Kitsuragi, +1 Esprit de Corps.
  • Why it's great: Improves your relationship with a key character while boosting a valuable skill.

13. Hardcore Aesthetic

  • Unlock: Ask Noid about true life and pass the Conceptualization check.
  • Benefits: +1 Volition, +1 Endurance.
  • Why it's great: Permanently increases crucial stats, improving skill check success rates.

12. Searchlight Division

  • Unlock: Speak to specific characters about missing people.
  • Benefits: +2 Perception.
  • Why it's great: Rewards diligent investigation with a significant Perception boost.

11. Apricot Chewing Gum Scented One

  • Unlock: Smell the card in the ledger's hidden compartment and the apricot chewing gum wrapper.
  • Benefits: +2 Perception.
  • Why it's great: A quirky but effective way to gain a Perception bonus.

10. Cleaning Out The Rooms

  • Unlock: Pass a Logic check with Soona after investigating the Void of Sound.
  • Benefits: +1 Suggestion, +1 Inland Empire, +1 Rhetoric.
  • Why it's great: Boosts three valuable skills simultaneously.

9. Detective Costeau

  • Unlock: Call yourself Detective Costeau (after failing a Conceptualization check).
  • Benefits: +1 Savoir Faire, +1 Esprit de Corps.
  • Why it's great: A humorous way to gain skill boosts and strengthen your bond with Kim.

8. Jamais Vu

  • Unlock: Speak to Lena and Joyce.
  • Benefits: +1 XP per orb clicked, all INT learning caps raised by 1.
  • Why it's great: Rewards exploration with XP and increases skill cap potential.

7. Bringing Of The Law (Law-Jaw)

  • Unlock: Repeatedly identify yourself as "The Law," "Lawbringer," or a policeman.
  • Benefits: Hand/Eye Coordination learning cap raised to 6, automatic success on all Hand/Eye Coordination passives, -1 Rhetoric.
  • Why it's great: Significantly improves Hand/Eye Coordination, outweighing the minor Rhetoric penalty.

6. Kingdom Of Conscience

  • Unlock: Wear the Interisolary Trousers or acquire 4 Moralism points.
  • Benefits: Moralist dialogue options heal +1 Morale, Volition and Logic learning caps raised to 5.
  • Why it's great: Provides morale healing and boosts key skills, aligning with the Moralist path.

5. Indirect Modes Of Taxation

  • Unlock: Wear the Brown Derbies Trousers or acquire 4 Ultraliberal points.
  • Benefits: Ultraliberal dialogue options give +1 Reál, -1 Empathy.
  • Why it's great: Generates extra in-game currency, offsetting the Empathy penalty.

4. Mazovian Socio-Economics

  • Unlock: Earn 4 Communism points.
  • Benefits: Left-wing dialogue options give +4 XP, -1 Visual Calculus, -1 Authority.
  • Why it's great: Provides substantial XP gains, despite minor penalties to other skills.

3. Actual Art Degree

  • Unlock: Agree to become an Art Cop.
  • Benefits: -1 Hand/Eye Coordination, Conceptualization passives heal +1 Morale & +10 XP.
  • Why it's great: Provides significant XP and morale regeneration through passive Conceptualization checks.

2. Rigorous Self-Critique

  • Unlock: Agree to become a Sorry Cop.
  • Benefits: INT & PSY red check failures heal +1 Morale, FYS & MOT red check failures heal +1 Health, Pain Threshold learning cap increased to 6.
  • Why it's great: Turns failed skill checks into health and morale regeneration.

1. Wompty-Dompty Dom Centre

  • Unlock: Learn about the Wompty-Dompty Dom Centre from Trant Heidelstam.
  • Benefits: Encyclopedia passives give +10 XP & 2 Reál, -2 Suggestion.
  • Why it's great: Provides consistent XP and Reál gains through Encyclopedia passives.

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