Try out the four paths of Fomoria! The weather has affected these groups, use it to find them! You can start all 4 paths at the same time. Winter is magic, Summer is warrior, Autumn is thief, and Nocturna is tamer (summoner too!). Lots of bosses! Dear god help me.

Duration: 1st March to 31st March 2023

Followers
○ T7 - Carnunnos
○ T7 - Glashtyn
○ T10 - Arisen Carnunnos
○ T10 - Arisen Glashtyn

Monsters
○ T7 - Carnunnos
○ T8 - Buggane
○ T10 - Glashtyn

Bosses (god please help me)

​Before going too far down this abyss, we strongly recommend you reading our starter guide (here) if you’re a fresh Realm. For the purposes of this guide, we are going to assume you satisfy the following conditions:

• Decently geared as a Realmshifter, don’t need best-in-slot equipment but you’ve been gearing for a while to have working knowledge of commonly used items at T10
• Unlocked all classes, and therefore we won’t be covering where to get skills in this guide
• Understand the basics of Endless and why you’d want to do it, and therefore we’re not going to discuss if Endless is better than Hard Boss, for example

To make this easy to understand, we’ll be covering all the different pieces of Endless chronologically rather than by topic. The reason for this is because Endless, unlike other content, requires quite a few different moving pieces in order for you to maximize gains. Don’t worry if you can’t make the stars align for every run, think of this as the ideal blueprint. With that, let’s get into it.

What? Not gear? Not spec? Which day? Yes. Maximizing gains in Endless means stacking as many boosting buffs as possible while you do it. Which day matters for the simple reason that every month specific days are set aside as events. The days we care about are:

• Orn boosting: Orn event and Spelunking Event
• Experience boosting: Exp event

Jamming your Orn runs while Orn boosting events are happening and Exp runs while Exp events are happening gets you what you want much more efficiently. Many Kingdoms also run temples during Orn/Exp events, all the more reason to pack it in during this time.

​So you’ve taken off work (or called in “sick”) during Orn/Exp events and you’re ready to smash some Endless Dungeons, next question is: what’s the best location? From experience, 3-4 dungeons “prepped” (more on this later) together is the optimal number. If you’re in your Origin Town, you have a minimum of two (Personal Gauntlet and Castle Dungeon), this means you need another one or two in addition. Less experienced / geared players will want 4, whereas more experienced / geared players will want 3. The forcing function here is actually how many dungeons you can fit into the length of one shrine (60 minutes) and the longer your runs take due to experience/gear, the fewer dungeons you can fit into the time of one shrine.

If you have only 2 dungeons, consider an alt location with 3-4 along with an Outpost so you can swap pets easily for the run. Obviously you can do it with just 2, but 3-4 maximizes the impact of your shrine.

OK so it’s an event day, your kingdom has popped temples, you have a spot with 3-4 dungeons as well as a way to change pets (Castle / Outpost). The first thing you’ll be doing is prepping all dungeons you’ll run in parallel rather than in sequence. This means if you have 3 tasks and 3 dungeons, you want to do task 1 in dungeons A, B, and C, before you do task 2 in dungeons A, B, and C (rather than finish tasks 1, 2, and 3 in dungeon A before going to B). The reason for this is because there’s a cost to each task in either orns (swapping specializations) or effort (swapping pets) and we want to quickly finish each task across all dungeons before moving on to the next.

Action sequence:

• Beowulf class (reason is you want Brynhild to stick)
• Raider specialization (reason is you want berserk later on)
• Check World loadout to adjust for dungeon cooldown (e.g. 2 x Concords will mean your personal gauntlet expiring within 60 minutes, so adjust accordingly if you need more time to finish an Endless run)
• Swap to ideally Steward Golem or Fey Yeti as a pet. Orichalcum Golem if you have neither of those.
• Swap to full immunity / buffing gear on Beowulf

​A few important things to note here before you start:

1. Do not use shrine just yet as it’s better to save the full shrine for floors F100-250 tightly packed together than to have a shrine active on F1-100 but run out later. If you’re rich or have access to more shrines than you can use, by all means go ahead starting at the first floor.
2. The main purpose of F1-100 is to zip through as quickly as possible while building up ward turns for later. This means Guarding Strikes III will be your best friend as it has enough pen to go through any zerk mobs you’ll see and also add ward turns insanely quickly. If you have a good Arisen Hel’s Feathers you can also use Volley III here to completely ignore mana. Just don’t get too complacent, you can still die to something like a zerk Fallen Beo if you’re not paying attention.
3. F100 is a rough checkpoint for this phase, you can certainly push to F150 before the next phase if you so choose

Specialization for this phase: Oracle. Reason being you’re likely not using and shrine and you don’t need to sleep dart anything just yet, may as well milk the most Orn / Exp you can with 2x Accessory Effectiveness amities.

​Gear Choice
For orns and exp respectively:

Notes on gear choice:

• Please don’t mix and match (and use Arisen Tomes for EXP while still having CJO on for Orns). It’s in your best interest to focus on either Orns or EXP and gear accordingly. Because of how multipliers work in this game, min maxing is the best strategy vs. taking the middle road and missing out on huge gains.
• Personally, I find going for a max crit build with basic attack to be most effective. The reason is in later floors there’s just no way to penetrate a zerk mob with anything else and those are where the juicy gains are (10B+ experience or 1M+ orns). So while it seems like I’m stacking too much crit for Sortie or Realmstrikes, keep Basic Attack in mind as your most commonly used attack after F200.
• The biggest difference between Orn runs and Exp runs are the armor and the accessories. Orn runs will use CJO whereas Exp runs will use a real beefy armor (as CJO does not provide any boosts for Exp), and Orn runs will use BoG whereas Exp runs will use Arisen Monster Tomes.
• You will generally go 50-100 floors further in Exp runs than Orn runs due to the beefy chest armor so mentally adjust your checkpoint accordingly

Action sequence:

• Grab Phoenix pet
• Blast mobs with Guarding Strikes III
• Use Earthstrike III or Lightningstrike III for Dragon immune monsters, over time you’ll have a good sense of when to use which skill
• Don’t worry too much about redlining or bloodshift, just get through these floors as quickly as you can
• Once you’ve hit Floor 100 (or 150, or whatever checkpoint you set for yourself because the mobs are getting a little tough to one shot), keep the exact same setup and rinse and repeat for dungeons 2, 3, and so on
• Proceed to phase 3 when you’ve reached the same checkpoint across all the dungeons you have prepped

To me, this is where the fun really starts as you’ll need to pay attention. From personal experience, I’d say Phase 2 is doable while watching TV whereas Phase 3 can quickly end your run if you get slightly distracted.

In terms of your build, there are a few notable changes:

• You will move out of Oracle and into Assassin for the guaranteed sleep dart as well as the def down procs
• You will swap out of Accessory Effectiveness amity into Crit Effectiveness amity to make sure one shots stay that way
• You’ll use the appropriate shrine and try to finish 3-4 dungeons before the shrine runs out

Here, what to do becomes an action priority rather than an action sequence. This means you’re running a mental checklist of what’s going on rather than slamming a fixed set of actions brainlessly. This is also why the slightest distraction can get you killed. Stay focused!

Action priority:

• Is mob sleep immune? If no, sleep dart
  • Once sleep dart is applied, think of this as a pit stop where you can take as long as you need to recover
  • Important: death occurs between pit stops, not at pit stops, so do what you need to as long as you need to while the sleep dart is applied.
  • Task 1: check ward. If you need to recover ward, use 1 turn skills like Ward of Mythril. Do not use Divine Bastion 2 because the mob could wake up in the middle of your cast and kill you.
  • Task 2: check mana. If you need mana, drink a pot.
  • Task 3: check Bloodshift. If you need it, cast it.
  • Task 4: check DC. If you need it, spam Ward of Mythril to wait for DC to cast. If DC casts and Bloodshift falls off, hopefully this is obvious, cast Bloodshift.
  • Task 5: can you one shot the mob that is asleep? If not, cast exploit.
  • Task 6: check HP, are you above redline? If so spam Ward of Mythril or Bastion to let your own zerk bring you back down to redline.
• Is the mob sleep immune? Yes. This is where the fun starts because bosses and some nasty zerk monsters are sleep immune. However, killing these are also where the juicy rewards lie so let’s charge ahead!
  • Can I kill with Guarding Strikes III? If yes that’s the best because it’ll never crit and you’ll stay in redline.
  • Do I have elemental advantage with an elemental strike III? If yes, that’s second best because while you’ll crit, you’ll also likely kill it in one shot and live another day.
  • Is it resistant to Dragon damage? If no, go ahead and Basic Attack. If yes, you have two choices here:
    • Keep your current weapon: Forbid (if it’s a melee mob), Stun (just in case it has Mystic Feather), maybe Exploit, and then try to kill it with Dragon damage.
    • Change your main hand. Bring a beefy 2 hander with neutral enchantment (i.e. physical damage) and blast it away and live another day.
  • Is it immune to Dragon damage? If no, see above. If yes, you have two choices here:
    • Change your main hand to a beefy 2 hander with physical damage (as above)
    • Use another elemental strike III even if you don’t have elemental advantage as long as you believe it can still penetrate
  • Is the mob Nidhogg? If yes:
    • Congratulations, you may rest. Nidhogg is the ultimate pit stop floor as it can only deal dragon damage, which you are immune to. Nidhogg is where you can do longer things such as Divine Bastion to fully recover ward.

​As you can see, Phase 3 is where decision-making occurs. Specifically, it’s what you need to do on floors that are sleep immune as they pose an immediate danger to you. As you get more and more practice underneath your belt, you’ll come to see floors that are NOT sleep immune as safe harbor checkpoints and feel your blood pressure rise on floors that are sleep immune.
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Check this playlist for a full end-to-end guide that covers all of the above: ​www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmfIIT-0syBGvdT98MFA7dNu6huQbmm7R
​Couple of vids below to start you off on that series, and then another two below for exp runs:

​I’m glad that y’all have came down all the way to the final message, that means you at least gave a look at my guide and I appreciate that.  If you have any questions about Alting, feel free to go to the Orna main discord or Orna Legend discord and @ShortAsianGrandpa.  I will answer to the best of my abilities.  I actually have more Alting type methods but I kinda want to see if y’all can find what those methods are.  I’m very open to chatting and theory crafting with alts if y’all are interested in that kind of convo.

Northern Forge released Towers of Olympia in February 2023 as a massive piece of "longform solo end game content" available to players of T9 and above in both Orna and Hero of Aethric. Find and climb Towers out in the world to defeat increasingly stronger enemies on each floor, ending with a Titan Superboss at the top! Collect a new currency called Tower Shards along the way by defeating enemies, to customise your character with celestial weapons, augmentations dropped from Titans, and there's even 22 new celestial classes available to unlock with new skills and passive abilities. This is arguably the biggest content drop in the game's history to date!

In this guide we're going to cover everything there is to know from finding towers, how to acquire olympia tower keys for entry, the different types of towers and their final titan superbosses, mechanics behind wild tower spawning in Orna, how the total floors grow over time allowing for greater hauls of tower shards, weekly reset, then we'll delve in to the Titan Workshop and explain exactly how to spend your hard-earned tower shards to construct and upgrade your own towers, craft  and augment celestial weapons, and finally unlock the new celestial classes!

Every worthy adventure starts with a quest, and Towers of Olympia is no different, although arguably the questline thus far is rather short-lived. 
Speak to Pelops, a new NPC who looks like they've guarded a tower or two in their time. Pelops will give you your first Olympia Tower Key which is used to enter towers.

• Orna: Pelops will be next to you like all quest NPCs
• HoA: Pelops is in New Lyonesse town

You may have to complete any outstanding side quests for Pelops to show up. Do these if you're +T9 and can't find them.

Once you've spoken to Pelops and started the Towers of Olympia quest, the new Tower Guardian T9 monster can now spawn in the world (cryptid rarity, cannot be cheese spawned with party resets), who can drop more tower keys (you don't actually need to complete the quest by ascending 2 tower floors, so if you fail your first tower early you can still find this mob to drop more keys). 

Orna

• Towers are randomly spawned around the world, and their density should hopefully mean you're never more than a few km from the nearest tower (devs may adjust in future depending on feedback). The best way to find towers is by using the Scouthawk from your Keep/Fortress/Castle Lookout function (it's the top option). Be sure to turn your compass map layer on! Use the Scouthawk on cooldown every hour because it can find new things each time.
• Towers appear on the buildings map layer.
• They do not take up or replace dungeon spawns or any other building spawns.
• You cannot interact with towers whilst in a wayvessel.
• Towers shuffle locations randomly every week on weekly reset (the same time as dungeons 00:00 UTC Sunday/Monday night).

HoA
There are currently 5 towers in Aethric with fixed map locations, giving you access to one of each type of tower:

• West Lyonesse: Tower of Themis
• North Lyonesse: Tower of Eos
• Dragon's Foot: Tower of Selene
• East Meropis: Tower of Oceanus
• South-West Balor: Tower of Prometheus

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1. There is 1 monster that can drop olympia tower keys; T9 Tower Guardian

• Kill them using +luck gear if you can, as the key drop is not guaranteed of course. Outside of towers they are a world spawn only i.e. they do not appear in dungeons.
• For world farming use max monster spawning equipment such as: Lover's Lost accessories, Amity with increased monster spawns, torch, occult candle and beast blood.
• Definitely also use affinity candles to filter out lower tier monsters, because the mobs we're chasing are T9.
• Using chaos scroll may be a useful choice for a greater chance of finding berserk guards, which can drop 2 keys and will guarantee at least 1 key drop. The only downside is chaos scrolls introduce more monsters in to the spawn pool.
• HoA zones to farm are the T9 zones around Balor and T10 zones around Olympia Trails.
• 🔥Hot tip - use world party play on +T9 bosses to spawn additional monsters, this often ignores spawn rarity and early reports say you can find more Tower Guards this way than from traveling around normal world farming. Use an alt or a friend if you have those!

2. Ascending floors inside the towers can give you a key as the random item reward.
3. Bazaars may rarely have some in stock!
​4. Runeshop $$$

• If you disconnect during a tower run you should be able to reconnect thanks to the latest tech update, similar to dungeons now too. If you are at the same IRL location you should also just be able to continue the tower. 
  Note for Orna; you can re-enter a Tower within 4 hours only, and if you start a dungeon you will only have the option to reconnect to the dungeon, not the Tower, but you should be able to re-enter if you remain physically next to the Tower IRL
• In Orna you can travel in GPS mode to find a tower, enter it, lock your phone (or keep playing if you're not driving/cycling), and move back to your home or a warm location to continue playing (cold weather tip).

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This is where we spend all of our hard-earned tower shards 😄

Orna
After first speaking with Pelops to start the quest you can immediately build the Titan Workshop in your Origin Town, costing 2Mil orns and 1Bil gold.
HoA
Titan Workshop is already built for you for free in the NE region of the world map with same name. You access this zone via Fallen God's Rest in the first T10 zone. 
Players at T9 have access to Prometheus' Workshop in Balor town, which has all the same functions apart from the ability to construct your own towers, which can only be done in the T10 area. Make sure you unlock the waygate at the T10 area to allow fast access to your Titan's Workshop in the future!

Let's check out all the options available to use in the Titan's Workshop now...

7.a. Grand Crucible
​"Trade tower shards for useful items"

• Tower Core - needed to construct each one of your own 5 towers, and it's 1 core required per tower
• Tower Plane - need one per each tower floor upgrade, towers do not share upgrades of course
• Weapon Moulds - each of these are a one-off purchase thankfully, the mould grants you the ability to assemble the celestial weapon in Prometheus' Kiln

Note that your own towers that you build will remain permanently in your origin town - you do not have to worry about resets. 

Hopefully you found this guide useful, I will update with more information and pictures as time goes on, I just wanted to get some initial information out there in the first instance. Video guide will surely be linked below once ready also. Thanks for reading as always, and big thanks to the Arisen Orna Legends for supporting me on Patreon and Twitch! Your support always greatly appreciated 😊
- Shabbash

By: Zeir, Trystan, Meny and Tempo on the official Hero of Aethric discord server.

I hate pressing the potions after battles to heal, is there a better way?
Yes! If you are outside of combat and long press the menu that opens for the consumables, it will heal you to full starting with your lowest level potions* (there is an option in your game menu that will allow it to “over heal” you meaning it will waste some potion potential to allow autoheal to take you to full health/mana.

How do I buy a pet?
You can acquire pets from Bestiaries found in various cities. Eventually you will also be able to build your own in your Origin Town.

Is there a guide to this game?
There currently isn’t, however this is a game that shares a lot of info with the other Northern Forge Studios game Orna. Other than you’re in-game codex, you can find more info from the official Codex on https://playorna.com/codex/ or the unofficial guide at orna.guide has the best database for systems in this game.

Orna Legends also has more written guides available for the game and class builds.

How do I get more orns?
Aside from the achievements mentioned above, there are many ways to boost the amount of orns you get from killing monsters/bosses:

• many bosses drop an item called “Lucky Silver Coin” these with 2x your orns 
• Shrines of luck that you can buy from the rune shop or find in the world are able to also 2x your orns
• Some gear give bonus’ to gathering orns, while in common rarity the bonus can seem small, higher quality versions of these items can yield a much larger orn bonus
• Completing amity hunts can get you a decent amount of orns as well (usually somewhere around 100k-130k)
• Dungeons! Adding modifiers to your dungeons will give you more orns upon completion as well as from them monsters inside!

Note: these orn bonuses from coins, shrines and gear do not apply to Arena rewards, End of dungeon rewards and Raid rewards.

How long is the day/night cycle?
It appears to be roughly 40 minutes daytime and 20 minutes night for a day being an hour. Night cycle is from xx:25 to xx:45 every hour.

I’ve seen “Tiers” mentioned, what exactly does that mean?
A “tier” is basically just a block of levels for unlocking access content like Classes, specializations, pets, gear and new areas on the map.The tiers are typically indicated by a number of stars and then after tier 3 they are indicated by a star then a number. The tiers are as follows:

How does Fishing work?
Step one: get near water (I’ve found I usually have to be right on top of it). 
Step two: In your inventory select one of the fishing lines, this will take you into the minigame 
Step three: tap in the water to start the power meter and cast your line to any distance (it really doesn’t matter a ton, but I’ve found casting closer seems to work better for me)
Step four: Just wait, your character will jump when a fish appears but that doesn’t mean you do something, the fish will swim back and forth a couple times and will automatically catch when it runs into your bobber. This won’t always yield a fish, it will sometimes start a fight with a monster or catch an item.
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Am I able to use an emulator such as Bluestacks?
Yes, for now it is not restricted in the terms of service, unlike the GPS based game Orna, which is a sister of this game. It does not use GPS features that could be abused.
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X class sucks! I'm doing no damage.
Every class has difficulties in some regard, however the majority of the problem is being under geared. If you are struggling, you can step back to a lower tier area to look for higher quality gear, or place your existing gear in the blacksmith to improve its level. Another useful tip is that for the first two levels of a weapon you can use a whetstone to instantly put it at level 2, followed up by a fine whetstone making it level 3.

Which class is the best?
All classes are great, early on some of them can be a bit of a struggle at the start due to their own respective weaknesses, however, regardless of the challenge, they all become powerful. If you are having any trouble with the specific class, feel free to ask for support in the discord for recommendations.

Which Specialization should I pick?
The first specialization you pick is free, after that they will cost orns. It's a very common practice to ignore the weaker tier 3 specializations and wait until you reach tier 5. Skills and bonuses you get from the specialization are temporary and will be lost when you change specialization again. As far as which specialization you should pick, if you still haven't decided after reading the above information, feel free to ask which the community feels would work well with your respective class. 

I'm too low on orns to get my new class when I’ve entered a new tier!
Early on in the game it is very easy to tier up faster than you can class up. Just stick to areas you feel comfortable, continue to fight monsters/bosses in the current area you are comfortable with until you acquire enough orns. A good way to get a large amount of orns is to accomplish achievements which is a trophy icon at the top right of the main menu. Some of these achievements can be accomplished fairly quickly.

Ok, that’s cool and all but really how do I get more orns?

• Aside from the achievements mentioned above, there are many ways to boost the amount of orns you get from killing monsters/bosses:
• many bosses drop an item called “Lucky Silver Coin” these with 2x your orns 
• Shrines of luck that you can buy from the rune shop or find in the world are able to also 2x your orns
• Some gear give bonus’ to gathering orns, while in common rarity the bonus can seem small, higher quality versions of these items can yield a much larger orn bonus
• Completing amity hunts can get you a decent amount of orns as well (usually somewhere around 100k-130k)
• Dungeons! Adding modifiers to your dungeons will give you more orns upon completion as well as from them monsters inside!

Note: these orn bonuses from coins, shrines and gear do not apply to Arena rewards, End of dungeon rewards and Raid rewards.

How do I get skills?
Every class you unlock shares its skills. You will be able to use them on any later class you acquire. There are also special skill shops that can be found in various cities where you purchase unique skills.

How do I make my pets more effective or hit harder?
Note: All values are additive, quality does not affect the act rate or state boost
Class Passives:
Valhallan Way: +1% Act, +55% Stats
Valhallan Strength I: +3% Act, +65% Stats
Valhallan Strength II: +7% Act, +110% Stats
Valhallan Dissonance: +12% Act, +90% Stats (see below for health scaling)

Specialization passives:
Beastmaster: +5% Act, +50% Stats
Tamer: +8% Act, +55% Stats

Gear bonuses:
(Arisen) Feral Staff/Sword/Claws: +7% Act
(Arisen) Feral Hood: +15% Stats
(All Pieces) Fey Dragon Armours: +2% Act
(All Pieces) Fey Chimera Armour: +5% Act, +10% Stats
Dragoon's Charm: +2% Act, +4% Stats
Freyja's Charm: +4% Act, +10% Stats
Beowulf's Charm: -5% Act, +25% Stats

Adornments:
Symbol of Doom: +1% Act, +2% Stats
Bestial Eye: +1% Act, +1% Stats

How do I find xxx Material?
Items can be acquired multiple ways. The most reliable way is defeating monsters, however, you can also buy some from shops, dismantle gear, or pick them up off the ground.

Where do I find a blacksmith to upgrade my gear?
The first blacksmith is located in the city named Svarga which is south-east of Loton. When you have acquired enough materials you will also be able to build one for yourself in your origin town.

I see my equipment has slots in them, how do I put things in them?
You can visit a Jeweller shop which will have the option for adornment.

Can I trade in this game?
In your Origin Town after performing enough story quests, you are able to create a Trading Post. When you use the Trading Post you provide it an item, In return you will randomly receive an item another player has offered that is equivalent quality and tier. There is no direct way of trading.

How long does it take to upgrade gear in the blacksmith?

How do I masterforge/demonforge/godforge equipment?
Masterforge:
To masterforge an item, you need to find an alchemist in Lythryn. “Masterforging” is similar to upgrading an item to level 11. Doing so requires the item be level 10, as well as 1 million to 100’s of millions in gold and (item’s quality %)3 for materials. So a perfect 200% Ornate item will require 600 materials. Masterforing is instant and will replace the “Ornate” quality in the item’s name with “Masterforged”. It will also increase the item’s quality by +1%. A 200% Ornate will become a 201% Masterforged item.

Demonforge:
To demonforge an item, you need to go to Balor Forge. “Demonforging” is similar to upgrading an item to level 12. Doing so requires the item be masterforged, and costs 10’s of millions to over 1 billion gold in a very wide range, and (item’s quality %)6.66 for materials. So a perfect 200% Ornate item will require 1,332 materials. Demonforging is instant, and will replace the “Masterforged” quality in the item’s name with “Demonforged”. It will also increase the item’s quality by +1%. 

Godforge:
After the demonforge has occurred on an item and when you are in tier 10, you will have a chance to encounter arisen gods such as "Arisen Thor, the Storm God" upon reaching the end of a gauntlet. When an arisen god has been defeated there is a very low chance that your demonforged gear, while worn, becomes godforged. 

I have started a quest that wants me to use a diluted mnemonic in search of an amity but I don't know what to do.
You must search for unique glowing structures with blue npcs around them. They are found around the world map. If you have any, you can use explorer's waystones to activate a compass marker to help point you in the right direction. Just note, that the compass marker does not instantly update and can point a bit off course at times.

How do I get more Diluted Mnemonics?
You can receive them at the chapel in Athantia. When you have progressed enough you also will have the option to build one in your Origin Town.
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I can't find xxx boss!
Bosses can be found in the relevant tier areas. A new boss will appear after you finish one off. It's random as to which of the local bosses will appear after the kill.
Some bosses are restricted to special areas like the water or in dungeons as well as as being others locked behind story quests.

Where can I find fallen xxx monster?
The fallen monsters for the early quest are located in the Lythryn woods. They are quite rare and will require a good amount of time to find. If you have a friend available to assist you, you can attempt a tier 3 party dungeon. Party dungeons have multiple monsters appearing per floor. 

Help! All the monsters/bosses around me are berserk and I can't win!
If you are not in a party, you may invite another player to a party. This will form a new "instance" which replaces all the monsters, bosses, items, etc. that are in your surroundings. If you are in a party, you can leave it to return to your home instance, or you can request support from others in the discord to help you win.
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How do I get a gauntlet key?
Gauntlet keys are best acquired by defeating bosses that appear beginning in tier 3 (Level 50+). Not all bosses drop the keys.

I'm unable to beat a dungeon!
Some dungeons, such as "A Mushroom of Perilous Visitation" in Great Plains north of Loton Woods have an option you can enable to lower the tier to a level you can handle.
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Help, my kingdom gauntlet has picked a monster that I am confident I can not beat.
If you notify an officer/leader that your fight is not winnable, they have the ability to shuffle the battle to a 

Why does this game not have kingdom wars like in Orna?
This game has been designed to be played more casually. The decision to bring back kingdom wars and other competitive features may be considered at a future point.

Why can't I join a raid in my kingdom?
Before you are able to attempt a raid in the kingdom there is two things to take note of. First, you must have been in the kingdom for at least 24 hours. Second, the raid has to have been activated by the Officers/Leader of the kingdom.

​I am in or running a kingdom, but how do I level it so we have access to more/better raids?
Kingdoms are leveled by kingdom quests, at current notes from dev, it is around 15 quests/level
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Where do I find X NPC?
NPC's rotate every 6 hours with a 50% chance for each to spawn somewhere in their respective tier zone or town. You can use the inn such as Rose's Rest in Vinland to help you locate NPCs by checking for information for 1000 gold.
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Where do I find the arena?
The first arena can be located at the top right of the Fen Lagoon. It is towards east of the Great Plains.

How do I get to Onogoro?
At the far bottom of the map in Meropis there is a little ferry(ship) towards the south east that can bring you over. To return from Onogoro there is a dock at the bottom of an island that will return you to Meropis

Is there a map of Aethric?
Yes please check our mapping section on Orna Legends here: Aethric Map
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Help I made a purchase and didn't receive it!
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​ How to get gauntlet keys as a new character in Aethric? 
 There are a number of dungeons located around the world of Aethric that require at least 1 Gauntlet Key to enter. Some options like Boss Mode or Hard Mode require more keys, and higher tier dungeons also require more than 1 key. The tier 10 Valley of the Gods dungeon requires 20 keys to enter it normally solo!
 
 In the Aethric main story questline at tier 3 Seeker Mara asks you to complete a gauntlet (gauntlet = dungeon in terminology). Dungeons are essentially a series of monster or boss fights back to back for a set number of floors, depending on your tier. Each mob starts fresh at 100% HP on each floor, whereas your HP and mana levels do not get refreshed, you'll need to consider bringing a few large health potions here! It's common to fail your first few dungeons in the beginning, as players normally don't have decent gear to withstand the constant barrage of damage from a series of monsters, so farming more gauntlet keys is always worth it!

​Gauntlet Keys are regularly dropped from certain bosses out in the world, and from a few bosses who only appear inside dungeons (but we need the key first!). Farming bosses for dungeon keys is the most common way to increase your stack of dungeon keys in Aethric. The list below shows the first few bosses available to kill in the game that drop dungeon keys, starting with the Demon Knight in ★3 in Lythryn, up to Carman at ★6 in Jotunheim.
 
 ★3 Demon Knight - Lythryn Woods
 ★4 Carman's Gargoyle - Odin's Finger and Suddun Desert
 ★5 Griffin, Deathworm - Suddun Dunes and Meropis
 ★6 Carman - Jotunheim
 

​It is also possible to receive gauntlet keys as daily login rewards, and you can receive quite a few at once, more than 10 on occasion.
 
 Another way to get more gauntlet keys is to buy them in the Runeshop for IRL money, the item chests tend to include some gauntlet keys along with other useful items like Galar Hammers and Diluted Mnemonics. However, farming bosses for keys is still the best way and you shouldn't need to ever buy more keys with cash. On my first Aethric character I had accumulated over 1200 gauntlet keys by the time I reached tier 10! And there are more bosses at higher tiers that drop gauntlet keys so bear that in mind, keys will likely be more plentiful for you later on.
 
The final way to receive more gauntlet keys is from raids. All kingdom raids starting with Starlord at tier 5 and above can drop you gauntlet keys, as long as you do at least some damage to them. I recommend joining a kingdom that matches your general activity level and hitting all the raids for at least 1 hitpoint of dmg if you can, that gets you a chance to loot a gauntlet key when the raid is killed. The more dmg you do to a raid boss as a percentage of its total HP, the higher the chances you will receive a gauntlet key, and even multiple keys as well as more loot overall.
 
 You can check all the mobs in the game that drop gauntlet keys by visiting the Orna.Guide website and searching for gauntlet key, I've also linked that search here.

"How to find stone in Hero of Aethric?" is one of the most commonly asked questions from new players entering the world of Aethric for the first time, and its valid because we need the stone to construct buildings in the Origin Town to continue the main questline. However it's no secret that there's a distinct lack of stone material around Aethric in the early game, especially compared to aa material like wood which is much more abundant as there's plenty of items and gear that can be dismantled into wood that's dropped from plenty of monsters in the first few areas of the game.

Here are the three main ways to get more stone in Aethric in the early game:

Farm clickables around the map. These clickables can be in the form of a chest, shrines, wood or stone which can give around 5-10 stone on average. Each clickable you tap respawns as another random clickable somewhere in the same zone. A good place to farm these early on is in the Great Plains, between the North Loton barriers up to around the corner from Vinland. Walking back and forth between these zone boundaries clicking every clickable you see will not only net you a decent amount of stone, but if you're lucky also net you a shrine of wisdom or luck for double experience or orns!

Make sure you tap all the clickables you see, such as trees and chest because they can respawn as stone in the same zone!

Monster drops. There's no gear that dismantles in to stone in the early tiers of the game, but there are a few mobs that can drop stone as a material directly. Here are the monsters in the first 3 tiers up to Lythryn Woods area that can drop stone:

• Earthworm ★2 rain weather spawn
• Rubbish ★2 water spawn
• Buried ★2 night time spawn
• Golem ★3 in Lythryn Woods
• Ogre ★3 in Lythryn Woods
• Great Mimic ★3 in Lythryn Woods (rare)

Hero of Aethric offers many classes to unlock and play as you level up through the game, which can be freely switched between once unlocked. Additionally, there are specialisations that act like sub-classes, allowing you to mix and match class and specialisation to tailor your own unique playstyle. Whether you want to be duel-wielding staff mage, a warrior with hundreds of thousands of extra hitpoints in the form of ward, or a thief that sacrifices defense for ungodly high attack, the simple yet deep class and specialisation system in Aethric has you covered. The classic warrior, mage, and rogue archetypes become more nuanced as you progress through the game, and before long you can even build your character around pets or summoned beasts that can deal devastating damage. The options are endless and allow you to customise your playstyle to your heart's desire. 

Class Progression
In Aethric, players are given the freedom to switch between different classes and playstyles once they have been unlocked with orns. All skills learned from unlocking classes can be used by any other class, giving players the flexibility to customise their character's abilities.

​Specialisations, on the other hand, cost orns to switch between and will only grant their stats and skills while they are selected. It's best to try and choose a focused path for your specialisation for the long term, until late in the game, as frequent changes will consume a lot of orns. Many specialisations work well with different classes, allowing players to mix and match to find the best fit for their playstyle.

Tiers and Levelling Up
​In Aethric you start at level 1 and tier 1.
​Tiers are used to introduce new content such as classes, specialisations, followers, mobs, raids, and items. Players will enter a new tier every 25 levels, with a total of 11 tiers including the maximum level of 250. At certain new tiers, players may encounter new mobs and bosses that will be difficult to defeat without upgrades. The table below shows the level ranges associated with each tier:

• Tier 1: Levels 1-25
• Tier 2: Levels 26-50
• Tier 3: Levels 51-75
• Tier 4: Levels 76-100
• Tier 5: Levels 101-125
• Tier 6: Levels 126-150
• Tier 7: Levels 151-175
• Tier 8: Levels 176-200
• Tier 9: Levels 201-225
• Tier 10: Levels 226-250

It's common to find that you're a class lower than your current tier level in Aethric. For example, you're level 115 (tier 5), but you don't have enough orns to unlock a tier 5 class yet. In the early game, this is normal, but it's important to try and focus on earning orns to keep up with your class. As you progress in the game, you'll need more power and your class is a key factor in this. Make sure to work on gaining orns to unlock higher tier classes as you go. Killing world bosses in the highest tier zone you can manage is a good way to farm orns for the entire game.
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Class Archetypes Progression
Hero of Aethric generally follows the typical fantasy RPG archetype progression. This means that you unlock more powerful mage classes as you progress up the mage route. You must unlock a class at each tier in order to keep progressing, and you cannot skip tiers with class upgrades. Each new class at each new tier has a prerequisite class that must be unlocked before you can unlock that class, with one exception, the Attuner class at tier 7, which is unlocked by completing a quest for Horus NPC - this is the beginning of the summoner class line.

The class tree infographic below (credit: Waifugeddon) shows the class progression through all the tiers. The arrows indicate which prerequisite class is required to unlock the next tier class. The weapon icons show what gear the class is limited to wearing (warrior, mage, thief, valhallan or summoner). Some classes can wear multiple gear types. The orn cost for unlocking classes is shown on the left beneath the class tier. If a class costs a different amount of orns it's shown above its sprite.

Warrior Class Progression
Warrior > Paladin > Battle Master or Centurion >Adept > Majestic > Blademaster > Majistrate > Atlas Vanguard > Titanguard > Gilgamesh

Mage Class Progression
Mage > Archmage > Sorcerer > Mystic or Spellsword > Druid > Battlemage > Archdruid > Nekromancer > Omnimancer > Heretic

Thief Class Progression
​Thief > Rogue > Battle Master > Adept > Dragoon or Majestic > Blademaster > Majistrate > Arcanic > Nyx > Realmshifter

Valhallan Class Progression
Pet classes become viable at tier 7 when you can unlock the Beastmaster spec, making your follower stronger and more active in battle. Until tier 7 you can play what you like, but definitely pick up Druid on the way. You can also use Dragoon class until you have enough orns for Dragon Knight. In brackets are beginner pets you can use at each tier that will demolish pretty much everything in your path:
Dragon Knight (Arcane Slime) > Freyr (Breathing Sword/Hammer/Dagger) > Bahamut (Crimson Gazer or Nidhogg) > Beowulf (Fjalar)

Summoner Class Progression
To unlock the summoner class line you first need to find Horus NPC and complete his quest, by handing him a set of standard quality Attuning gear, found from the Arena as PvP loot. In Aethric the NPCs can change location every 24 hours at midnight local time. Check the Discord to see if he's around or check Inns in towns like Vinland for information if Horus is in a reachable spot today.
​The first Attuner class is free!
Attuner > Grand Attuner > Summoner > Grand Summoner
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Specialisations
At tiers 3, 5, 7, and 9, you can choose a new specialisation for your class in Aethric, which acts like a sub-class. Keep in mind that it costs orns to switch specialisations, and any skills you learn with a specialisation will be forgotten when you switch.

The first specialisation choice is FREE! You can only use this free choice once, and you have the option to save it for later tiers if you want. It's recommended to save your free specialisation choice until tier 5, as you should be able to reach level 100 without much difficulty, and the specialisations available at that tier are more powerful than the ones at tier 3.

Most specialisations will increase some stats. It's important to note that these increases only affect your base stats, not the stats you gain from gear. Some specialisation passive abilities change your stats based on gear, but we're specifically talking about the stat changes that are visible on the specialisation 's stat page.

For the most part, early to mid-game specialisations are a small bonus that you don't pay much attention to. The exception is the Berserker specialisation at tier 5, which allows you to learn the skill Berserk at level 100. This buff increases your damage by 50% while also causing a 5% DOT (damage over time) each turn. At lower levels, this DOT doesn't cause significant damage so we highly recommend choosing Berserker if you're wondering what to choose. Check the second video below to see what the Berserker spec can do!

Summary Video and Conclusion
If you'd like the class system summarised in video format you can check the first one below, otherwise be sure to visit the Orna Legends discord for detailed class discussions, and check out our Builds section for more guides. Thanks for reading 🙂👍

Quest 8: Asmund in Svarga - The Bestiary: Build a Bestiary and get a follower
​New: It’s time to build your first bestiary and get a follower! Building cost for your first bestiary is:

• 100,00 gold

• 10 stone

• 25 hide

The gold we should have covered after 5 wins in the arena. Stone can be a little awkward but my preferred method is farming the clickables that can appear on the map, as they respawn into different things one of which can be a stone giving us up to 10 stone at once! Check the video below for more detailed methods as we'll also need stone later on for more buildings. Hide is easily found by dismantling Bandit's Cloaks and Hoods, and other low tier gear like Simple Shoes.
Find a Bestiary in Svarga or in Vinland and buy a follower. Any follower will do although I recommend a Snake for its high action rate and ability to poison enemies, and they cost just a handful of gold. Now you’ll have a friend! You can name it in a bestiary as well. 
Experienced: I’d hope you have built a bestiary and got a follower by now, this should just be an autocomplete.

Quest 16: Seeker Mara - Become stronger
New: Congratulations! That’s all there is for Tier 3 quests. Similar to the last quest of tier 2, you’ll need level 75, and a Tier 3 class but also now need to select a specialisation (basically a sub-class). Your first spec choice in the game is free so you can either choose to select one of the three tier 3 choices (not great in grand scheme of things) or wait until lvl 100 and selecting a nice tier 5 spec such as berserker. If you're already lvl 100 or close to it, definitely pick a tier 5 spec, otherwise there's nothing wrong with selecting a tier 3 spec to progress the main quest line, as more ways of gaining orns will be open to us very soon, the tier 5 specs cost 25,000 orns.
Experienced: Press that continue button and get a move on, there’s Fomorians to kill.
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Quest 21: Ceres in Suddun - Fallen Hero Part 1: Acquire Fogstone (5), Mirror (1), Undead Bone (3)
New: Welcome to the new tier! Here, you’ll have a few quests that fetch various items. Fogstone is dropped by Lesser Sluaghs and Sluaghs (Tier 5 boss), and can be gotten by dismantling a Fog Blade (also dropped from Sluaghs). Undead Bone can be gotten from killing Undead Golems (Tier 4 boss) and Draugrs (Tier 3 boss, found in dungeons). Lastly, the Mirror can be gotten as a drop from the Arena. If you have auto-dismantle turned on, turn it off for Standard quality. Keep fighting in the arena until you get one, it might take a while.
Experienced: Chances are you have the materials, you just need the mirror. Fortunately, 3.1 added lower tiers to the arena drop pool for higher tiers, which not only allows you to get this Mirror significantly easier, but it also allows you to farm Berserk Mushrooms at a higher rate. Just be sure to turn off your auto-dismantle for these.
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Quest 23: Catha in Athantia - Ambush!: Defeat Balor Guardian (5), Reaper (3), Balor Worm (1)
New: Both Balor Guardians and Reapers show up at night (between XX:25 and XX:45 minutes past every hour) so you’ll want to grind monsters in the world then. The best place to farm is in Meropis, south of Suddun. Use as many monster spawning boosters as you have available and do the party reset trick to refresh the mobs and you should smash this out in no time. As for the Balor Worm, they are exclusive to dungeons so normal boss dungeons are the best bet.
Experienced: For the higher tiered player, we have Underworld Portal Balor we can rely on at Tier 9. This will make it incredibly easy to get the Reapers and the Balor Worm, but the Guardians will still be a decent grind. Consider getting some mates and running through a few of these.
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Quest 25: Ceres in Suddun ​- A Fallen Hero Part 4: Acquire Darkstone (50)
New: This should actually be a quick one. The Balor Guardians you defeated for a previous quest drop Darkstone, and their Balor Swords can be dismantled into it as well. On top of this, most “dark” things drop them - Ghosts, Demons, Dark Slimes, and Yokai, to name a few.
Experienced: Hopefully you have 50 Darkstone by now, running those Underworld Portals should be a great source of it.
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Quest 26: Ceres in Suddun - A Fallen Hero Finale: Defeat the Fallen Hero, Lover Lost
New: Welcome to the next story boss! After completing the previous quest, you were given the Lover’s Lost accessory. To easily encounter the boss, you must have this equipped when traveling the world and kill bosses in Tier 5 zones that is Suddun Dunes or Meropis until he spawns. Just like with Fomorian Lords, he can be found at the last floor of a Tier 5, 6, or 7 gauntlet, but Tier 5 gauntlets are preferred. 
Experienced: Just like with the new player, you’ll want to equip the Lover’s Lost accessory you got from the previous quest. Wear it while smashing bosses in Tier 5 zones either Suddun Dunes or Meropis.
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Quest 29: Gol in Jotunheim ​- The Jeweller and the Herbalist:  Build a Jeweler and a Herbalist
New: Time to build interesting shops! A jeweller can sell adornments, which are small gems that can be put on weapons and armor to give them a small stat boost. A herbalist allows you to craft your own potions! You’ll be able to make potions like Elixirs by putting together resources. More often than not, you’ll need empty bottles, which you should have gotten on your journey. Farm runestone in Fen Halls by killing Living Armour (blue coloured knight type mobs) and dismantling all their gear! Hide can be farmed by killing crows and bandits in Loton Woods.

• Jeweller: 1,000,000 gold, 30 stone, 50 runestone
• Herbalist: 5,000,000 gold, 10 runestone, 25 hide

Experienced: You should already have this, hit continue.
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Quest 30: Gol in Jotunheim ​- The Citadel: Build a Citadel and Residence (10)
​New: A Citadel is a place where your townsfolk can give you gifts! The higher their morale is (see the Town Hall), the more often they’ll give you gifts. You’ll also want to build more residences - do note that this quest only needs you to build 5 additional residences, for a total of 10.
You may want to forget this quest for a while as it takes 2-3 hours of dedicated stone farming to accumulate 425 stone at this tier... Northern Forge have stated they might lower the price of these buildings in the future (15th Jan 2023)

• Citadel: 5,000,000 gold, 25 stone
• ​Residence 6: 3,000,000 gold, 60 wood, 30 stone
• Residence 7: 3,500,000 gold, 70 wood, 35 stone
• Residence 8: 4,000,000 gold, 80 wood, 40 stone
• Residence 9: 4,500,000 gold, 90 wood, 45 stone
• Residence 10: 5,000,000 gold, 100 wood, 50 stone
• Total 6 - 10 residences: 20,000,000 gold, 400 wood, 200 stone

Experienced: You should already have this, hit continue.
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Quest 31: Gol in Jotunheim ​- Town Morale: Have Town Morale at 20%
New: Time to raise your town’s morale! In order to do this, you’ll need to complete the various quests found in the town hall. Each quest should increase  the town’s morale by a couple percentage points, and once you’re at 20%, you’ve completed the quest. Do know that the morale goes down over time, so to keep your townsfolk happy, you’ll need to keep doing quests occasionally.
Experienced: You should already have this, hit continue.
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Quest 34: Samson in Loton - Unlock a Tier 7 class
New:  You’re at the point in the game where your orn income is starting to pick up! Before going on, get yourself a Tier 7 class. The best methods of orn farming at this point in the game come from killing bosses in the world, or from constant dungeon runs. A Tier 7 boss dungeon will almost give you as many keys as it takes to enter. There are also pieces of gear that boost drops of gold, orns, and XP. Consider the Deathbringer and Reaper's Robe, dropped from Ankou, to boost orns. Mimic King Head drops from Mimic King in Tier 4 zones with forest biome like Woven Forest, also gives boost to orns.
Experienced: You should already have this, hit continue.
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Sidequest: Samson in Loton - Defeat Arisen: Minotaur (25), Cerberus (25), Lord of Wolves (25), Lost Pharaoh (25), Orc Lord (25), Camazotz (25)
New: This sidequest is very tedious. It’s advised you don’t focus on this much, as it’s not necessary to complete the story. However, to find most of these, you’ll see benefits in running a Beast Den. Orc Lords can be found in Goblin Fortresses, and Lost Pharaohs, well, they’re just kinda out there.
Experienced: Run a Valley of the Gods for this, if you’re so inclined to do this quest. Should come naturally if you regularly do Valley runs. Obviously, this assumes you’re Tier 10.
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Quest 36: Emile in Nothren ​- Acquire a Crystalis
New: A Crystalis is actually a very useful weapon! For melee users, it’s a great source of debuff protection - it prevents many stat debuffs, which allow you to use things like buff skills from the Druid class with minimal drawbacks. They’re obtained by defeating an Enlightened Prince, who can also be found in dungeons. Chances are you might’ve found one by now.
Experienced: Just like the new, run a Tier 7 boss gauntlet to quickly encounter an Enlightened Prince, and get its Crystalis. Remember to turn auto dismantle off.
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Quest 37: Emile in Nothren ​- Acquire Rosa’s Brooch and Verrick’s Ring
New: After finding the Crystalis, you canonically piss off the king and queen of the Enlightened. Your job is to defeat them, and get their accessories. Just like the other quest bosses, the easiest place to find them is by killing bosses in the relevant tier zone, which in this case is the Myrkheim Mines, or at the last floor of Tier 7, 8, or 9 dungeons. Make sure you keep a hold of them! We need a standard quality brooch and ring.
Experienced: Farm bosses in the Myrkheim Mines. Remember to have auto drop off, as you need a standard quality of both accessories.
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Quest 38: Emile in Nothren - Become stronger
New: Congrats for finding those two bosses! Use the scroll you got from the past quest to learn some skills that will help you defeat Arisen enemies. Then, when you’re ready, get to level 175.
Experienced: Use that scroll you got from that quest, and head on to the next batch of quests. We’re getting there, I promise.
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Quest 40: Damra in Lyonesse - Acquire Orichalcum (3), Witchstone (3), Lightstone (20), Pure Lightstone (1)
New: Damra of the Dokkalfar wants you to gather some more materials! Orichalcum can be gotten from the two Orichalcum enemies, being the Golem and the Knight, which spawn in Lyonesse. As for Witchstone, it’s dropped by Carman and her dungeon equivalent, Carman of the Underworld. These are bosses you encountered in Tier 6, so you might have enough of the material, especially if you farmed bosses in Jotunheim for a while. Lightstone, as we learned in the last quest, is dropped from Ljosalfar and Dokkalfar monsters, mainly in Lyonesse. Pure Lightstone, however, drops from the lords of Ljosalfar and Dokkalfar - Tier 8 bosses you might be able to find in the world in Lyonesse or dungeons, respectively. You should only need to kill one.
Experienced: These are all materials you should have! If you’re missing one or more, see where to find them in the last quest. Witchstone is also dropped from Arisen Carman, if you can find them easier than the boss.
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Quest 42: Damra in Lyonesse - Have Town Morale at 60%, Complete 10 NPC Quests
New: Lastly, Damra wants you to do the best that you can. Do some more Town Hall quests and get your Morale up to 60%. As for “10 NPC quests”, this refers to the NPCs that show up in the world and have no connection to the main storyline. Complete 10 of their quests (multiple from the same NPC are counted separately)
Experienced: Hopefully your Morale is at 60%, and you’ve at least done some NPC quests. If you’re lacking on either, consult the New area.
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Quest 46: Mara in Resting Place - Defeat Balor King (25)
Welcome to your second extremely long quest of Tier 9! For this quest, Balor Kings are bosses, so running party Tier 9 boss gauntlets is your best bet, as they show up frequently. Resetting bosses in Balor is also a very good way to complete this quest relatively fast, especially when all your dungeons are on cooldown. Check the party resetting trick video above. It’s also not a bad idea to consult Underworld Portals again, but dungeons in general are typically going to be the quickest way of getting these.
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Quest 47: Mara in Resting Place ​- The Giant Long Fetch Quest Of Insanity
Welcome to your third extremely long quest of Tier 9! There’s loads to get. So much in fact, that I’ll be breaking this apart into a bulleted list. If you’d like to see the entire list, here’s a picture. It might help to have this open while reading the following list.

• The elemental stones can be gotten in large quantities from running Underworld Portals (yeah, those again), but chances are you have enough already - the Balor Gateways in these dungeons drop all of them frequently.
• Darkstone, just like before, can be frequently found from just about anything. Chances are you have all of this as well, but if you don’t, look at the list of things that drop them here. Anything “FOR” can be dismantled into Darkstone, and anything “DROPPED” by is pretty self-explanatory.
• Viper Chestmail is dropped from Guivre, a rare Tier 9 dragon. Consider running a Dragon Roost to find them or farm in Balor.
• Basilisk Talons drop from Dark Basilisks, a Tier 8 monster. They’re also found in Dragon Roost in Valhalla's Cradle relatively easily, normal dungeons or Lyonesse at night time.
• Dokkalfar and Ljosalfar Swords are dropped from their respective clans’ Warriors and Knights. The best way to find these is to run Tier 8 normal dungeons. Horde will improve this as well. Ljosalfar Swords can be more easily farmed in Lyonesse.
• Kobold Cloaks are dropped from Kobold Mages, which can be found pretty frequently in the Goblin Fortress at the Fen Halls, or farmed in Balor.
• Frilled Naga Halberds and Staves are dropped from both Frilled Naga mobs. These can be found quite often in Balor zones, so it shouldn’t take a lot of world farming to get all five of each.

The best way to group these up would most likely be:

• In tier 9, world farming the Balor zone with an Affinity Candle / doing normal gauntlets will get you the Frilled Naga weapons, as well as the Dokkalfar and Ljosalfar Swords. (If you’re Tier 10, the alternative is Tier 8 or 9 normal gauntlets.)
• Running Dragon Roost in Valhalla's Cradle will net you both the Basilisk Talons and the Viper Chestmail.
• Running Goblin Fortress in Fen Halls for any missing Kobold Cloaks missed from running normal gauntlets.

Running Underworld Portals in Balor for the elemental stones, if needed.
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Quest 49: Mara in Resting Place ​- Defeat Fallen Gods (Demeter, Vulcan, Thor, Ithra)
As each god fell, each uttered the name of Mammon. Time to put them out of their misery! Boss farming in Balor and running Tier 9 boss gauntlets should be the fastest way of getting these, and should only take a couple runs. Remember that each is immune to their faction element. The reward is the Band of Gods, an amazing accessory that increases your EXP, Orn, and Gold rates by 50%.

Once the quest is finished, any completed gauntlet has a chance to drop another Band of Gods, though it’s very uncommon. Running Hard dungeons guarantees that it will have a quality (improving its boost rates), at the cost of extra keys.

Let me start by saying you first acquire your first class in this class line from a NPC quest from the NPC Horus. Finish the quest by acquiring a common quality Attuner Hood, Robe, and Shoes. Upon completion of the quest you gain access to the T7 Attuner class. Next to get for 6 mil orns is Grand Attuner at lvl 175 and then unlocking your Summoner class at lvl 200 for a hefty 11 mil orns. Grand Summoner is unlocked at lvl 225 and can be purchased for a heftier still 16 mil orns. This guide mainly focuses on Summoner/Chronomancer build but some of this also applies to Grand Attuner/Time Mage build as well. 

Main Strengths- high burst damage from summons
Lacuna/Lacuna 2//Lacunas/Lacunas 2- stasis status affliction. Targets one enemy//Targets all enemies in battle.
"Stasis Loop" (to be explained)
World farming, raid farming
Soloing raid bosses
PvP beast 60% of the time every time. 

Main Weaknesses- low character stats- very low hp, low defences, survivability is a gamble, very gear and spell dependent. 

*Includes example videos at the bottom of the written guide!*

​The main focus of Grand Attuner/Summoner combined with the Time Mage/Chronomancer spec is high ward, fast summons and stasis lock or "stasis loop". The best part of this build is the ability to solo raid bosses in one battle with minimal use of pots using only 3 or 4 spells. Really helpful boosting your lvl quickly from 200 to 225. Early on as an Attuner/Time Mage when you are not guaranteed an auto cast of your first equipped summons be prepared to be one shot in a lot of battles. When you do enter battle with your first summons auto casted your survivability chance is greatly increased but still not a guarantee. Any mobs that require more then one hit from your summons to kill requires you to use ward to avoid being one shot or being afflicted with an annoying status condition that prevents you from being able to cast spells or attack like stun, frozen, blight, asleep, petrification, etc. Your first goal is to keep your ward up and get your summons out as early as possible. As a Grand Attuner/Summoner your first equipped summons is auto casted and Summoner has a chance the second equipped summons will also be auto casted but you are playing a very squishy character with low stats and no real defenses. So gear selection is extremely important when considering using this build.

Ward of Mythril is your friend, Grants 5 turns of ward and 75% damage absorption. 
Attuner's best friend is the hydra, it is your most powerful summons as an Attuner and your hydra plays the roll of your tank and with an abundance of hp and a fairly high attack. My advice is to avoid switching to this class until lvl 175 when you unlock the hydra, prior to having the hydra this class is super tough to play. 

Another spell worthy of mention is Very Scary Skeleton, if you were lucky enough to find it in a spell shop out on the world map during the Halloween event. With it you have a huge advantage and a summon spell you will be using until T10 Grand Summoner. Skelly has the chance to proc double def down and double res down when attacking enemies offering a hood chance to deal out some heavy hits. They also do 4-10k damage per hit. Skellies can and will be one shot by many tier 9 bosses and mobs but will be your best source of damage even going into tier 10 Grand Summoner Class. Two battle turns to Summon. 

​Gear selection- okay here is the real trade off to focus on your summons stats and not your own because the idea is to make your summons as powerful as possible and focus mainly on gear that boost your summon stats like attuner gear set or Summoner gear set (hood, robe, shoes) you are also looking for gear with high ward. The best gear set for t8 and t9 Summoner/Grand Attuner IMO is going to be the Old Olympia Headdress, Mantle, Leg Wraps, and Ophion Banner. All the pieces of armor have +10% boost to summon stats each for a total of +30% combine with the +20% boost to summon stats from Ophion Banner making a total of +50%. This increases their maximum hp and damage making them much stronger and much more likely to take the hits for you. All of the old Olympia gear has + to ward and summoning stats Ophion Banner is 2 handed taking away your off hand but adding a total of +105% ward (legendary quality, lvl 10). It also has the ability Ophion's Stance giving you the possibility to pass your status afflictions on to your summons instead of becoming afflicted. 

All of this gear drops from Ophion of Olympia who spawns from celestial moon drops, dropped by celestial moon chasers in dungeons, lots of farming is necessary to aquire the moon drops and endless mode is the way to go to see celestial moon chasers (side note that these mobs and world raid bosses were only available during the Of Giants and Titans event). The celestial moon drops spawn 3 different titans Ophion being your target. Just a heads up be prepared to farm him alot before getting decent quality drops from him and the right pieces of the set to drop. Any quality common or above Ophion Banner is a good start, it has the highest Stat boosts and ward out of the entire set. This weapon can be mixed with the attuner/summoner gear you get from pvp or mob drops quite effectively without needing the entire set but the entire set is the real key to achieving super high ward and much more powerful summons and higher survivability chance. 

As far as accessories to carry around I use bag of treats and band of gods because the full Old Olypmia gear set and the fact that you aren't trying to boost your own stats offer the opportunity to focus your accessories on boosting things like luck, xp, gold, and orns. You could also focus on immunities to stun effects like blight, stun, paralyzed, petrified, frozen. You could also focus on more ward, view distance or any other boosts you would normally not want to sacrifice Stat boosts for.
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Amities is another story as far as Summon path us concerned we have no amities made specifically for Summoner class and I would recommend anything useful that boosts orns or gold or luck or some type of farming based boosts until amities are created specifically for Summoner path. I personally use "Hybrid and Unearthing" because it further compliments using mimics mischief (double up att and mag) and helps add damage to my Lacuna 2 spell. 

-As mentioned earlier Hydra is your best friend, your beefy tank, and your high damage. (for Grand Attuner) This should be your first equipped summons so that you always have the chance to have a hydra out at the beginning of battle. It's nice to have hydra out to get smacked giving you the opportunity to bring out more summons. 

-Your other best friend if you were lucky enough to grab the spell during the Halloween event is Very Scary Skeleton. Very high damage, 2 turns of battle to summon, has the chance to summon more then one at a time (I have had 4 pop with one cast). 
-Ward of Mythril- Grants 5 turns of ward and 75% damage absorption. Needless to say this is what will keep you alive while you bring your summons into battle and for solo raid fights while you try to proc the "stasis loop". 

-Lacuna/Lacuna 2 for mobs, bosses, and raid bosses- decent amount of damage and has the chance to inflict "stasis" status effect. Trapping the enemy in time, they are unable to make any action in combat, please note this doesn't effect the enemy follower or summons and has a much lower chance to proc on a player making this ineffective in pvp.

-If you don't have skelly then Warg or Garm will be a sufficient replacement but their role in the battle is different then skelly. They are single turn summons (quick pop up meat shield) and give your enemies something to hit while you cast hydra (3 turns in battle so have 3 meat shields out before attempting to summon hydra if it wasn't auto casted at the beginning of battle).
-Any debuffs that DoT or stun in some way (stun, blight, frozen, paralyzed, petrify, bleed, poison, toxic, rot, cursed) as well as anything that will decrease enemy stats like def, res, attk, mag, dex. Spells like Miasma 2, stun dart, smoke bomb, sleep dart, poison. This helps break the monotony of ward, Lacuna, ward, Lacuna etc... 

-Fortify 3 Grants 7 turns of ward, very helpful building up your ward turns quickly in battle. 
Summon Guivre- when you unlock the Summoner class (11mil orns, lvl 200) totally replaces the hydra's place as first equipped summons even though the hp is about half the hydra's hp Guivre does significantly more damage and crits for massive damage. 2 turn cast (1 less then hydra) and should be a Summoners first equipped summons. Here is where the skelly as the second equipped summons makes t8 mobs and most t8 bosses one round battles and t9 bosses and mobs 2 or 3 round battles and has a very high survival probability. You start to become pretty tanky at this point and fights become much more simple as you get used to the battle mechanics and preforming the "stasis loop."

-Lacunas (Time Mage spec)/Lacunas 2 unlocked at lvl 220 (Chronomancer spec) is extremely helpful on Horde mode in dungeons because it targets all enemies in battle with the chance to proc stasis on all of them at once. You can freeze the whole lot in time while your summons wipe them out. 
Another great 1st and 2nd equipped summons is Kellie and Guivre as you can see below… Kelpie is super tanky and puts out serious damage as does your Guivre summons. When both of these pop the only world mob or boss mob that can survive more then one round is northren type and immortal type. They are hard to hit and do super high damage and warding round one is highly recommended when facing any immortal mob or immortal lord. 

This depends on the enemy/battle type but all are very similar that you ward, summon, maintain. 

World Mobs/low health/one round battles
-Ward and watch. Cast Ward of Mythril and let your summons kill the enemy. Simple and quick battles.

PvP arena battle- depends on the class and pet of a player enemy but basically there are only 1 real play here with situational variations of the same strategy. 
1st Cast Ward of Mythril and next cast Very Scary Skelleton 2 times, then recast Ward of Mythril, if the player isn't dead by your second cast of Ward of Mythril then cast Lacuna/Lacuna 2 and try to proc stasis but beware it is not as effective against players and procs much less in PvP battles. It's a gamble every battle and Summoner vrs Summoner can have any outcome all depends on your summon's ability to strike the other player. If you don't have Very Scary Skeleton then your first and second Summons should be 1 Guivre and 2 Hydra. Hydra is great for pvp tank against Nyx and Realmshifters and Guivre can hit them at low health when their stats are highest. Stasis status afliction is not effective in PvP it has a much lower chance to proc on a player then it does a mob or boss and is not recommended to use in PvP as a reliable strategy. I wouldn't recommend using Lacuna or Lacuna 2 in PvP as it doesn't proc stasis often enough to rely on, though when battling another Summoner Lacunas/Lacunas 2 is very helpful targeting all enemies in battle sort of cheating your way around the other summoner's summons protecting them from the attack and a chance to proc stasis on all of them. 

Raid Boss Fight- Kingdom or WRB
First Ward of Mythril then Very Scary Skeleton (until you have 4 Skellies and 1 Guivre popped) while keeping ward active. (Or Kelpie, Guivre, and 3 skellies)

-Example-
Round One, Ward of Mythril
Round Two, Very Scary Skeleton
Round Three, Very Scary Skeleton
Round Four, Ward of Mythril
Round Five, Lacuna/Lacuna 2 (continue to cast until A. Ward reaches 1 turn left in which case bring ward back up and go back to Lacuna/Lacuna 2) until stasis is inflicted on the raid boss. Remember keeping ward active is priority over stasis affliction because we cannot take big hits we are squishy and need to defend against any one shot deaths (there are many on this path) so if ward is at 1 turn and the boss is not afflicted with stasis you should ward and then try Lacuna/Lacuna 2. 
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Here is where you attempt to lock them in the "stasis loop" I referred to earlier. There is a trick to keeping the boss locked in stasis. As a Time Mage/Chronomancer spec all your attacks and offensive spells have the chance to proc "stasis" and Lacuna/Lacuna 2 also have the chance to proc "stasis". The round following the boss being aflicted with stasis Ward of Myhtril is casted over and over until the stasis afliction wares off in which case you rinse and repeat by casting lacuna/ Lacuna 2 again until the boss is aflicted with stasis again and then back to keeping ward turns up in between. So Ward, Lacuna, ward Lacuna, ward Lacuna etc. Boring but very effective, with Guivre and 4 Skellies it's should only take about 10-15 minutes to wipe 90% of raid bosses you have access to. Just maintain Mana, HP, Ward, and your summons in between the "stasis loop" and you should be able to solo any raid boss you have access to. Keep in mind that interrupting the stasis loop by casting something other then ward (casting a summon spell) when they are in stasis is almost garenteed to take stasis off the boss and you will have a few rounds of casting Lacuna/Lacuna 2 to get them aflicted with stasis again. They can wipe some of your summons at this point in battle and you will have to re summon then go back to putting the boss back under stasis afliction. 

Another good strategy in any battle this applies to (any enemy that can be petrified) is using the Cockatrice (Unlocked at lvl 200 Grand Attuner) because it can petrify your enemies and having 2 Cockatrice out in battle will almost guarantee petrification. Couple stasis with petrified and you are almost guaranteed not to be hit in battle.

I also use mimics mischief to double boost magic and attack followed in the next round by using the item Panacea (it cures the cursed, poison, def and res stats down caused by mimics mischief and refreshes your Mana and HP) while fighting raid bosses to help add damage to my Lacuna/Lacuna 2 spell. Please note that having Ophion of Olympia activated (Ophion's Stance ability) will place the cursed effect and Stat down effects onto your summons so cast it before taking Ophion's Stance unless you want to have to re summon for no reason. 

Endless/Horde Mode Dungeon Master!
Horde mode for any T9 Chaos or Underorld Portal or Battleground is tough, Summoners prevail here and have no issues soloing a T9 dungeon on Horde mode, so long as they survive the first floor! If you survive the initial onslaught of rounds 1, 2 and 3 while you ward and then summon you are in a good spot. Remember Lacunas/Lacunas 2, it targets all enemies in battle with a chance to proc stasis. This can be a life saver when you hit a floor full of berserks and arisen berserks or berserk boss mobs. 3 Arisen King Meliodas and a couple berserk Heimdalls can and will wipe you if you are unprepared or down a summons or two at the first round of combat. It's pretty much a 50/50 chance but worth the risk because the rewards and xp are great. It is a great farming method and a good way to knock out daily quests as well. 
In Endless mode you are going to find you can go from floor to floor until your summons can no longer damage the enemies because their stats are boosted well above your summons ability to cause damage. Easily traversing above floors 100-150 depending on the mobs. Note that mobs like Mighty Mimics above floor 55 you will not be able to damage and are immune to your summons attacks. Immortal Lord's, berserk Immortal mobs, berserk Nothren mobs, berserk Ortanite Golem above floor 50-55 are also all run killers so beware. 

I hope you enjoy the build guide and playing as a Summoner/Chronomancer. T10 Grand Summoner Build coming soon!! Happy Grinding out there... 

-Knightsky-

Enemies
○ T4 - Alfar
○ T5 - Alfar Mage
○ T8 - Arisen Alfar
○ T9 - Arisen Alfar Mage

Bosses
○ T5 - Alfar Lord
○ T9 - Arisen Alfar Lord

Raid Bosses
○ T5 - Scruug
○ T9 - Ebon Scruug (https://tinyurl.com/ornaebonscruug)
○ T10 - Arisen Ebon Scruug

Items
○ T4 - Alfar Trinket - increases the chance of higher quality items from Stranger's Gifts (supposedly)
○ T4 - Stranger's Gift - a consumable with a mimic-like drop pool
○ T5 - Presents! - boosts luck a ton, a great grab
○ TX - North Star(s) - competitive with scrolls as an offhand! Mana Burn can get you to low mana instantly.
○ TX - Jolly Stockings - the only boosting legwear, at +15% luck!
○ TX - Most Scrugg Gear - boosts luck by a decent amount (+3%)!

📘 Notes 📘 
○ Scruug (T5) is weak to fire! Apart from that, every raid has all 11 status immunities, so pack yourself that Gargoyle for a codex entry or 3.
○ The recent patch makes lots of Scruug gear sport +3% luck! If you'd like to deck yourself out in a bunch of jolly swag, you'll be a lucky fella! Pick yourself up some normal quality Stockings, too. Don't feel obligated to wear it all the time though - feel free to mix up your leg slot if you'd like. Otherwise, you have a full set of boost gear!
○ Stranger's Gifts tend to give better gifts if opened up on Christmas Day (December 25th)! Don't open them too early!

🧙‍♀️ Followers 🧙‍♀️
○ T6 - Fey Gazer
○ T7 - Fey Dragon
○ T9 - Fey Yeti
○ T10 - Fey Chimera

🧙‍♀️ Kingdom Raid Bosses 🧙‍♀️ 
○ T6 - Sister Neman (https://tinyurl.com/ornasisterneman)
○ T7 - Sister Badb (https://tinyurl.com/ornasisterbadb)
○ T8 - Sister Macha (https://tinyurl.com/ornasistermacha)
○ T10 - Arisen Morrigan (https://tinyurl.com/ornaarisenmorrigan)

🧙‍♀️ Items of Interest 🧙‍♀️
○ Find a Morrigan drop you like? Go for that but Arisen.
○ It's also a good idea to just hit Arisen Morrigan often, even for a little bit of damage. The majority of her items have Greater Souls as a material, and who knows? You may get a shiny Ornate with low damage.

📘 Notes 📘
○ Arisen Morrigan has the ability to Bleed due to her move Coup De Grace. For Realmshifters, this is simply a skill issue. Carry a skill like Cure Bleeding in order to continue living life on the edge.
○ Arisen Morrigan's codex entry is mostly drops - after you get the initial status immunities, it'll just be running her until she gets all her drops. For her immunities, she's immune to all 11 status effects, as well as Def and Res 🡣 AND 🡣🡣, Mag 🡣, and T. Mag 🡣and 🡣🡣. It's highly advised to use multiple different runs to get all the immunities.
○ Fey Chimera is a direct upgrade from Chimera and is a must-pick for T10s! Fey Yeti is a great pet for T9 players as well, you can't go wrong with it.
○ While this raid is one of the most heavily farmed, please don't overwhelm yourself. This raid is one of the bigger causes of burnout, so please do take breaks often, and don't put raid luck too hard on yourself. This event was previously a month-long event, but due to the overwhelming burnout it caused players, Northern Forge have decided to only make it have small appearances like this.

I wish you the best, Unfelled.

🗿Raids (NEW!)🗿
Raids summoned by a Moondrop:
○ T8 - Asteria of Olympia 
○ T8 - Atlas of Olympia 
○ T8 - Ophion of Olympia 
○ T10 - Arisen Asteria of Olympia 
○ T10 - Arisen Atlas of Olympia 
○ T10 - Arisen Ophion of Olympia

○ T9 - Zeus - Kingdom Raid (doesn't need Moondrops)

🗿Bosses (NEW!)🗿
Bosses  summoned by a Stardrop:
○ T6 - Aegir 
○ T8 - Eistla 
○ T8 - Gymir 
○ T10 - Arisen Aegir
○ T10 - Arisen Eistla 
○ T10 - Arisen Gymir 

🗿Followers (NEW!)🗿
Followers of this event are found by using Mnemonics given by completing quests 3 (tier 8) and 4 (tier 10). These work exactly like steward candles giving a random follower as per below, and can be found from end of gauntlets once completed the quest. You can still find these mnemonics after the event ends.
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Jotunheim Mnemonics:
○ T6 - Aegir 
○ T7 - Gymir 
○ T8 - Eistla 

Olympia Mnemonics:
○ T10 - Asteria of Olympia 
○ T10 - Atlas of Olympia
○ T10 - Ophion of Olympia 

🗿Questline🗿

• Quest 1: Gather a Stardrop (see monsters above)
• Quest 2: Gather 30 Stardrops (see monsters above)
  Reward: Jotunheim Mnemonic
• Quest 3: Gather a Moondrop (see monsters above)
• Quest 4: Gather 20 Moondrops (see monsters above)
  Reward: Olympia Mnemonic 

📘 Notes 📘 
○ Start the questline as early as possible! The monsters are available in dungeons for farming en masse, and a Tier 7 or 8 dungeon will get you one of the three decently quickly. This may take anywhere from 1-10 gauntlets before you get the drop.
○ The tier 10 bosses have an arisen aura! Use these to grind out godforges if you have them en masse.
○ Zeus drops loads of different items for tiers 5 thru 10! If you are in any of those tiers, it's a good idea to (attempt to) hit Zeus!

Resurgence states that “You will become more powerful as your HP decreases in battle.” This means starting at 50% HP, all your stats (attack, defenses, dex for dodging, etc.) will start increasing for a maximum of a 2X gain when your health reaches 1%. When you see the term “redline” mentioned, they are talking about this effect where a Realm is strongest at that last sliver of HP. With resurgence maximizing stats at 1HP, this means ward is a Realm’s new effective health. To repeat, HP keeps you alive up until Tier 9, whereas ward keeps you alive starting at T10 as a Realm.

High Tenacity says “damage taken from some self-inflicted status effects will not fully deplete your HP.” Practically, this means berserk (triggered by skill, pet like chimera, or via consumables like mushroom) cannot kill you when you are at 1HP. As berserk is a main source of damage buffs (and defense too in the case of berserk 2 and berserk 3), high tenacity works seamlessly with resurgence above like peanut butter and jelly: you can stay at 1HP without killing yourself from your own damage boosting buffs. This does not cover other damage over time afflictions such as bleed, toxic, curse, burn, etc. and those will still pierce the ward and kill you easily at 1 HP.

Mystic Feather says “your chance to dodge attacks increases as damage is taken.” This means your dodge rate is the highest it can be when you’re sitting at 1HP and is a key part of a Realm’s defenses in raids.

Summary of core Realm mechanics

• Resurgence = Realm is stronger at 1HP
• High tenacity = Realm does not die to berserk at 1HP
• Mystic Feather = Realm dodges more at 1HP
• TL/DR: Winning as a Realm = do the most damage possible while dodging most attacks sitting behind your ward at 1 HP.

You may have noticed that Recharge II was missing from the above. You might have fond memories of using Recharge back as an Arcanic, but with Realmshifter’s trifecta of power being centered around staying at 1 HP gaining it back on a crit actually ends up being a very bad thing. Recharge II can heal up to 50% of your health, which means if you were at 1HP for full Resurgence it’s taking away the entire 50% stat boost and most of your mystic feather protection. So if you were raiding you’re not only doing less damage, you’re getting hit more and taking a lot more damage when you do get hit. At level 235 you’ll unlock the skill Bloodshift and critting will be a different story, but that’s outside of the scope of this guide.

Realm’s Light and Saboteur II are nice convenient passives that you get to enjoy, but you don’t need to worry about anything special with either of them. You have extra VD and sometimes you lower opponent defenses for free. What’s not to like?

Tl;dr Just go Charmer.
Here’s why:

Charmer: Realm as a fresh T10 is like a baby eagle trying to fly: there’s so much potential but you just don’t have the gear or the knowledge. We firmly believe Charmer is the most approachable, least painful specialization for a Realm at T10 so you can soar like the rest of your Realm buddies ASAP. A few strong selling points of Charmer:

• Access to Warrior’s Pavane, one of the strongest melee skills in the entire game
• Access to Mage’s Pavane, one of the best AoE skills in the entire game (see section below on using Charmer for AoE)
• Innate 30% boost to mana which means you waste fewer turns on using mana pots
• Lull as the specialization ability procs fairly often, forcing your target to skip turns which means you waste fewer turns on refilling ward

This guide will focus on Charmer, but if you want to forge your own path these are the other specs than can be viable:

Raider: Raider’s skill of Berserk III can let you easily get into redline while boosting your damage. The downside of this is that you’re left using the incredibly mana intensive Swordplay III skill, which even while under the effects of Berserk III still does comparable damage to Warrior’s Pavane. And on top of that the 20% HP reduction from this spec reduces your survivability.

Assassin: Assassin’s random chances to proc T. Def ↓↓↓ and the additional mana from using potions are both very useful, however Assassin, like raider, is held back by needing to use Swordplay III. Mana is a huge issue for early Realmshifters.

Zwei-fencer: Zwei-fencer is fairly tanky and gives you access to Sweep; one of the few melee AoE skills. Unfortunately, especially early on, Zwei-fencer’s overall damage output is quite low and without powerful gear Sweep won’t be sweeping away any dungeon floors beyond Goblin Fortresses or Mystic Caves. Good two-handed thief weapons are also far and few between, so you likely won’t be able to take advantage of the 15% passive stat boost.

Cataphract: There isn’t much to say about Cataphract. It’s the most defensive and survivable of all the Realmshifter specs, but that survivability comes at the cost of having low damage output compared to any other viable spec.

Ranger: Arrowstorm II is the reason to go Ranger, as it’s both a viable AoE spell and reasonable single-target attack. Unfortunately it has very low penetration so the damage can fall off heavily in raids, PvP, or even just against tankier dungeon enemies.

Swashbuckler: Swashbuckler is immensely complicated and plays differently than any other spec with Realmshifter. It is very, very bad at raiding early on but is very capable for dungeons and excels at PvP. Fully diving into Swashbuckler is beyond the scope of this article as it nearly may as well be a class of its own.

Like all T10 classes, playing Realmshifter effectively requires buying more classes than just Realmshifter. Right away you’ll want to pick up the following:

Atlas Vanguard

• Divine Bastion (can be used if too poor to also buy Titanguard)

Titanguard

• Divine Bastion II

T9 Faction God Class

• Deific Channel

Arcanist Skills

• Ward of Ortanite
  

And you’re not done spending your Orns yet, you’ll also need to pick up a couple of pets: Chimera and Orichalcum Golem (yes, the tier 7 golem). There are many useful event pets as well but since those are seasonal we’ve put them into a later section.

Later on at level 230 you’ll also want to pick up:
Beowulf

• Gait of Gunnr

Gilgamesh

• Ward of Balor II
• Guarding Strikes III

Your main objective as a fresh T10 Realm is to do at least 3-5 million of damage to Apollyon and Morrigan comfortably in a single run. This benchmark sets you up for long-term success because if you’re able to do this, you’re also able to clear most World Raid Bosses with the same setup or minimal modifications.

As an example of an effective raid build that you can probably build shortly after reaching tier 10, we designed this loadout. Your Fey Yeti Coat probably shouldn’t be broken, but it’s what Knight had on hand:

Your goal is to get to 30K ward as a benchmark. With 30K ward, you can do decent damage to Apollyon and Morrigan. This gear is reasonably easy to obtain as a fresh T10 as nothing is locked behind events or the very raid you’re trying to kill. Old Nothren Crown is a quest item, a standard quality Fey Yeti Coat is doable via WRB even if you only have a few scrolls, boots are irrelevant in this setup, shield can be high roll Mighty Griffin (T9) or Fallen Shield (T9) or even a Heimdal’s (T8), and weapon is a Bident (T10) from dungeons or Ithra’s Blade (T9).

For weapon adornment, we strongly suggest you use Assassin Jewels for all your slots. Not only is it a huge DPS boost in causing temp defense downs on the raid boss, the debuff on boss also triggers bosses like Morrigan to use cleanse which means a skipped turn on doing damage to you (similar to lull mechanic from Charmer spec). To an extent more Assassin Jewels have diminishing returns, however nothing else you can adorn your weapons with at this stage will be better. For armor adornment, we strongly suggest you use the strongest ward adornments you have, as breaking that 30K ward benchmark will be your top goal.

For your pet we strongly suggest you use Chimera as it provides a free berserk buff that helps you get into resurgence range. You can mess with other options after you’re comfortable with Chimera so check out the “Pet” section later for alternatives. If you don’t mind spending berserk mushrooms from the Arena or using Double Edge to get your HP down then Orichalcum Golem can make raiding more relaxed and safe by keeping up your ward turns.

Example action sequence
>>> SETUP PHASE <<<

• Turn 1: Ward of Ortanite so you don’t get one shot
• Turn 2: Golem’s Fortitude
• Turn 3: Barrier II
• Turn 4: Sonata of Power, if you get Atk Double Up, you can skip Mimic’s Mischief below
• Turn 5: Mimic’s Mischief
• Turn 6: If MM procs down’s / curse, use Panacea now
• Turn 7: Ward of Ortanite to refresh ward turns
• Turn 8-10: Divine Bastion 2
• Turn 11-15 or so: Omnistrikes until you proc Atk down, Mag down, and Def down
• Turn 16: If you choose to use mushroom do it now
• Turn 17+ or so: Ward of Annwn until you get all the elemental defenses or until you have enough ward turns for the entire run. Over time you’ll get a good sense of how many turns you need but it’s very important you “front load” all your ward turns because raid bosses grow in strength when you do more damage, so it’s “weakest” while you’re buffing

>>> ATTACK PHASE <<<

• Spam Warrior’s Pavane now, gogogo!
• Things that you need to do during the attack phase

1. When mana is low, pot
2. When ward drops below 50%, cast Divine Bastion II again to regenerate your ward and you should treat your ward bar as your “health bar.” At 30K ward, a single DB2 will recover 25K of ward.
3. If a boss telegraphs “coup de grace” which causes bleed, you need to NOT cast a multi turn skill AFTER the notification

To DC or not to DC
Deific Channel is a popular skill to boost damage as it doubles your output at a cost of taking 3 turns. Here we have 2 different points of view on DC and a verdict. At the end of the day, try to decide for yourself.

The case for DC (Signet’s POV): it’s a nice 2X to your damage and you can pop out some nice numbers if DC is up, you’re at 1HP with berserks, and also def down(s) are on the boss from Assassin Jewels. The big numbers provide psychological benefits to keep grinding. It’s also a nice defense boost as you take very little damage (relatively) when DC is up. You’d add DC into your rotation by casting DC (3 turns), and then spamming Pavane until DC falls off, and then casting DC again.

The case against DC (Knight’s POV): manually casting DC is a waste of time. It doubles your damage for at least 2 turns, but you spend 3 turns to cast it and most commonly it’ll go away 3 turns after you cast it. That means you just spent 3 turns for the sake of seeing some big numbers that’ll most commonly even out to the same average damage. If you have to do anything else like cure bleeding, restore mana, or restore ward during the turns DC is up you’re further wasting the turns you spent to get DC in the first place.

The verdict: we both agreed DC is worth it if lasted longer than the 3 turns it takes to cast. So in cases where you have an amity that increases buff duration by 40%, 50%, etc. then it’s a no brainer. DC will likely last 5-10 turns at the cost of 3 so you’re definitely “in the money.” Without the amity it’s likely not worth it.

Raids to focus on early in your Realm life

• Apollyon: weapon, head, chest, legs
• Fey Yeti: chest
• Morrigan; weapon
• Ashen Phoenix: head, chest, legs, shield
• Third Horsemen: quality of life via view distance adornments

Solo dungeons are one of the only pieces of content that doesn’t change all that much once you reach tier 10. Everyone has their favorite ways of running them and there’s a lot of room for customizing to fit how you want to play, so don’t worry too much about deviating from this guide once you understand the enemies and challenges in a T10 dungeon.

Things to keep in mind:

• Boosting gear is your friend, but it doesn’t do you much good if you can’t survive the dungeon! Don’t be afraid to swap out one or two pieces of boosting gear for something more defensive if you find yourself dying before reaching the end.
• Tier 10 bosses have a lot more HP and can hit a lot harder than T9 bosses. You’re a Realmshifter so with proper setup you can still easily one-shot them, but don’t underestimate the value of those setup turns.
  

Reference loadouts for Charmer dungeons:

Example action sequence:

• Turn 1: Ward of Ortanite
• Turn 2: Golem’s Fortitude
• Turn 3: Sonata of Power
• Turn 4: Mimic’s Mischief
• Turn 5: Panacea (if needed)
• Turn 6-8: Divine Bastion II
• Turn 9: Another WoO or two to build up a ward turn buffer
• From here, use Double Edge to kill enemies until you’re redlining.
• Once you’ve achieved the lowest HP you can, you can use a weak skill like Tricut II for easier enemies and Warrior’s Pavane for tougher enemies. You may be able to use Warrior’s Pavane for the entire rest of the dungeon if you have enough mana.

Starter gear explanation:

• Head: Lost helmet (world), Mighty Mimic Head (world), ONC (quest)
• Body: Court Jester’s Outfit (Arena), FYC (WRB)
• Legs: Whatever you want, preferably with a bit of ward.
• Weapon: Questing Bow (Dragon Roost) or Venin (Boss)
• Shield: Another Questing Bow, Venin, or a shield
  (Explanation of benefits/downsides of dual wielding)
• Accessory #1: Band of Gods (Quest)
• Accessory #2: Band of Gods, other boosting item, Briny pendant

Gear upgrades:

• Boots: Smelly Shoes or Ifrit’s Feet
• Accessory slot swaps for different content
  (Different boosting items for different needs)

​

Option 1: Realmshifter / Zweifencer (we suggest option 2)

The best setup for melee AoE that currently exists in the game is probably the Zweifencer specialization thanks to the skill “sweep.” However, as this guide is geared towards fresh T10 Realms, our strong recommendation is that you just use the caster route outlined below for horde dungeons and party play for the following reasons:

• Damage without great gear is lackluster as for a fresh T10
• Sweep is difficult to sustain mana wise for fresh T10
• Changing spec from Charmer to Zwei is 250K orns and very expensive for fresh T10

Option 2: Changing to Deity or Heretic and using Mage Pavane

Keeping in mind class swaps are free in Orna whereas spec swaps cost Orns, the Charmer spec gives you a free way to do Horde Dungeons simply by switching to either Deity or Heretic. We’ll use Deity as an example here but either class works and you can work out which one you’re more comfortable with.

For skills: Mage’s Pavane from the Charmer spec is your best friend as a true AoE skill and an absurdly mana efficient cost of 60 mana. For single targets we recommend Faction Seal skills as they do decent damage and add ward turns. Otherwise, Drain or Transference can easily burn down any left over from the carnage of Mage’s Pavane.

For gear: you can literally use the same gear you have for Realm (which is super helpful for early T10 due to shortage of ward adorns, etc.) and equip those on a Deity. The only thing that needs to change is the weapon, swapping out something that does attack to something that does magic. Any high roll magic weapon here works, e.g. Horror, Terror, Demeter’s Staff, Ithra’s Staff, etc. As long as your weapon has 1000+ magic damage, you’re good to go!
Action sequence: same as raid where you’re buffing Ward of Ortanite followed by Golem’s / Barrier II. Then Sonata (looking for Mag up this time) and if that fails Mimic’s. Pop a panacea if you get cursed, spam a few Bastion/Fortify to add some ward turns, and let your Mage’s Pavane loose, baby!

Fast PvP is Realmshifter’s specialty, and it’s going to be the one place using crit can be a good idea. For Realmshifter PvP your singular important tactic is killing the opponent before they kill you. That’s not to say Realmshifter can’t be defensive or strategic; it can. But that’s not how you should play Realmshifter to start off if your main goals are to grind through the arena, win kingdom war battles, and take over territory.

For skills, Realmshifter has a few different options:

• Realmstrikes: A big damage multi-hit crit attack. It’s only worth using if you have a high crit chance but once you can consistently crit it’s the go-to move for one shotting your opponents.
• Sortie: Another crit attack, this one also has high penetration but lower damage than Realmstrikes. When opponents get a few defenses up or you just need a consistent hit when someone’s second chance triggers, Sortie is there to help you out.
• (Charmer Only) Warrior’s Pavane: With a higher damage output than Swordplay III and costing much less mana, if you’re a charmer then just using Warrior’s Pavane will let you slice through opponents with no problem.
• Guarding Strikes III: If you bought Gilgamesh then you’ll have this skill available to you. With more penetration and damage than Sortie, Guarding Strikes III can help cut through very defensive opponents when you’re not consistently critting.
• Swordplay III: Swordplay III is mana intensive, low penetration, and can’t crit. But if it’s all you have it’ll definitely get the job done when you’re starting out.

Gearing:

• Even more so than other content, attack is what you need to maximize for Realmshifter PvP. Your goal is to not need to buff at all and still kill your opponent, preferably on turn 1 before they even get to act.
• Fey Arrows from the arena can be a great pick up for an early attack boost. Even at legendary they’re worth upgrading to level 10, and they’ll provide a 300+ attack boost to your setup. Additionally their offhand skill, Volley III, can be used in PvP (as seen here)

Sequence:

• Turn 1: Attack
• Turn 2+: Repeat Turn 1

Territory & Kingdom war defense
Good luck! Realmshifter is quite bad at these, especially early on. Your best bet will be to minimize the AI’s ability to do something silly, and only have 1 or 2 skills equipped. This helps to ensure that your AI tries to kill the opponent as fast as possible instead of wasting turns buffing your ward or something.

The fifth and final major content you’ll encounter in Orna is Endless Dungeons. As this guide is primarily for fresh Realmshifters who just hit T10, we consider Endless to be out of scope of this article. Realm/Charmer is a great spec for endless, and hopefully we’ll discuss this a bit more in a future piece of content. Meanwhile check out this guide to see the potential:

Head: Old Nothren Crown (ONC). Find the NPC “Borr” in the world (pro tip: use Discord to access him via someone else’s Wayvessel) and finish his quest. You’ll get a normal 100% quality one which is absolutely good enough to take it all the way to Demonforge / Godforge. Every end game Realm has at least one Godforged 100% ONC in their stash. The important things about this headgear are 1) the built-in immunity against Attack Down (single and double) which allows you to use Golem’s Fortitude for defensive buffs without worrying about curing Attack Downs, 2) the sheer number of slots that you can jam ward adornments into as a fresh Realm, and 3) how easy it is to get as a fresh T10.

Chest: Fey Yeti Coat (FYC). This is probably the easiest chestpiece you can obtain (starting in T9 no less!) that will add a substantial amount of ward. Higher % is better, but anything Famed or better is OK to take all the way to Demonforge and it’ll last you quite a while. If you’re lucky you’ll come across a high roll Realm Garb (from Apollyon Kingdom Raid) or a high roll Ashen Phoecian Garb (from Ashen Phoenix WRB), which are both great. There are also event-locked chest pieces which we didn’t mention here to make the guide applicable year round.

Boots: this slot is the hardest to gear by far as a T10; don’t worry you’re not the only one! The game just doesn’t give Realms a pair of boots that has ward on it easily, so keep grinding and eventually a good pair will drop for you. Boots available year round are Realm Boots (Apollyon) and Ashen Phoenician Boots (Ashen Phoenix). Keep in mind for the basic raid setup of 30K ward, you don’t need ward innately from boots in order to meet the ward threshold, so any pair that has decent defenses with a few slots for ward adornments will suffice for now.

Weapon: generally speaking attack is the single most important stat you’re looking for in weapons with very few exceptions. This means you should prioritize attack above dex, mana, etc. for the foreseeable future. Deviate away from this once you “graduate” from this guide and know what you’re doing.

• Early T10 weapons: High roll ornates from T9 (Ithra’s Blade, etc.), T10 dungeon drops (Bident, etc.) are perfectly serviceable. Generally speaking these weapons peak out at around 1200 attack.
• Mid T10 weapons: High roll ornates such as those from Apollyon, Arisen Ithra, etc. are great. Generally speaking these weapons peak out at around 1400 attack.
• End game weapons: Once you get here you’ll know what they are, but if you find something that maxes out above 1600 attack, it’s a keeper and will likely last you for quite a while.

Offhand: ward is the single biggest stat to look for in your off hand. Something 160% or greater is sufficient for entry level T10 raiding. Examples of decent shields are Heimdal’s (stun protect too), Mighty Griffin Shield (dragon protection), and Fallen Shield, eventually with the Arisen Shield being best in slot in terms of ward.

Accessories: strongly recommend you start with Briny and Annwn. You can deviate away from these two when you know what you’re doing.

Amity: for offense, buff uptime and crit effectiveness (for later); for quality of life, mana regen, ward regen, accessory effectiveness; for PvP definitely pick up 80% resistance to any element to counter Ultima. To hunt for specific amities you want make sure to check out the Amity Hunter channel within the Orna Legends discord.

Events are a big part of Orna gameplay with some event-specific items (labeled as “exotic” in-game) making or breaking a build. Good news is we wrote this guide without a reliance on any event specific gear, but we also wanted to give you this list to set you up for future success as a Realmshifter. New events are added all the time, so this list might not be exhaustive!

Phoenix

• Pet: Ashen Phoenix
• Gear: Great Phoenician Shield

Kerberos

• Adornment: Dark & Blackened Eyes of Kerberos

Mischievous Clurichauns

• Gear: Bricriu’s Bow
• Gear: Amergin’s Razor
• Gear: Smelly shoes
• Gear: Amadan’s Staff (for AoE without Charmer)

Cerus

• Adornment: Ferocious Bull’s Eye

Beguiled Apollyon

• Gear: Beguiled Mystic Katar
• Gear: Books of Light, Arcane, Darkness, and The Dragon.
• Pet: Apollyon’s Apprentice/Pupil

Fallen Heroes of Avalon

• Pet: Great Pegasus
• Gear: Finesse’s Katana

Nothren Legends
Arisen Hel

• Gear: Arisen Hel’s Feathers
• Gear: Arisen Hel’s Garb
• Gear: Hel’s Garb
• Gear: Arisen Helhest

Arisen Surtr

• Gear: Arisen Surtr’s Cuirass
• Adornment: Saturn’s Eye

Draconian Era 

• Gear: Ymir Feathers
• Gear: Trialing Bow
• Gear: Ymir Vritra Charm
• Adornment: Jewel of Creation

Riftfall

• Gear: Arisen Riftrogue Head/Chest/Boots

The Hallowed

• Gear: Old Hallowed Blade
• Pet: Very Scary Skeleton

Balor Invades

• Gear: Lugus Gauntlet
• Gear: Arisen Balor Crown
• Gear: Arisen Dagda Boots

Mimic

• Gear: Mightiest Mimic Head

Sisters of Morrigan

• Pet: Fey Chimera
• Pet: Fey Yeti
• Gear: Every thief item dropped by Arisen Morrigan.

Lyonesse Legends

• Gear: Trevelyan’s Charm (get two!)

​This build was born out of a desire to get away from the tedium of heretic endless runs and a realization that dragon align synergizes well with the Questing weapons, as well as the other benefits Dragon Align provides, namely elimination of Nidhogg as a threat. Inspiration was taken from Shabbash’s previous swash endless video.

Buffing is done as Beo/Raider and it is quick. It can be done while at a wayvessel as well but it will take longer as you will have to regen mana with Guts for Ward of Balor/Annwn casts. We only need the basic four elemental resists as Realmshifter has natural Light/Dark immunity. With Outpost access resistances are gotten through Fey Yeti first and Zerk 1 from Chimera. If Chimera follower is not possible, you can get Zerk 1 through the Zerker spec or Chimera Raid weapons.

​Buffing Order goes
Ward of Ortanite>Golem’s Fort>Barrier II>Divine Bastion>
(Ward of Balor>)Mimic’s Mischief>Wyvern Speed II>Wyrm’s Song>Gait of Gunnr>Berserk (I)III

​A lot of thought went into the gear selections. Since the build relies on Dragon Alignment, it rules out a shield which tanks our ward available. This is why the Axe of Gilgamesh instead of a Crystalis. Briny status immunities (notably Blight and Toxic) cannot be healed with Wisp Heal so that’s why Briny instead of Annwn. Chest gives curse immunity and a decent amount of ward, while boots give Doom immunity.

This goes very fast so be on the lookout for Fallen Freyja and Fallen Beowulf sprites!

Gear
Weapon:
Questing Bow is our weapon of choice for its synergy with Dragon align and the volley skill. The ward is nice too

Offhand:
Our offhand will be Arisen Hel’s Arrows. Fey arrows are an alternative but you will have to spend more attention to make sure you don’t volley on a Freyja or Beowulf!

Amity:
I use a 30% dragon damage amity but a better one would be an accessory boosting Amity. %ward regen would be good too, but mana pool might be too small to get much use out of %mana regen.

Legs:
I use Smelly Shoes but another (better?) alternative would be Broken Arisen Riftrogue boots.

Chest/Head/Accessories:
Standard booster gear, so Mimic’s Head/Lost Helmet, Court Jester’s Outfit, and Band of Gods/Arisen Tomes.

Adornments:
I use Jewels of the Deep in my arrows, and Crimson Pinions in all of my armor slots. 
Ferocious Bull’s Eyes in the Questing Bow are very hard to part without for the mana which is desperately needed to offset pinion use, but seeing as they are an event item and in short supply outside of their month, you might be able to make do with Eyes of the Morrigan in the weapon and supplementing with Ashen Pinions/extra Jewels of the Deep where you can. Experiment!

Follower:
Ashen Phoenix

Combat
Our main skill will be Volley 3 for its synergy with hard mode, dragon align and our Questing Weapon. 
Purifying Strikes on Fallen Beowulf/Fallen Freyja and Nidhogg after recovering mana/ward if needed (You’re immune to Nidhogg’s attacks besides basic Attack, which isn’t performed that often. Nice!)
Quadcut/Realmstrikes on higher hp mobs depending on if you need to risk the miss. Use your judgment!
Stun Dart on dodgy mobs as needed, common endless cc
Sortie if extra crit chance is needed for recharging

*There isn’t much that can be done if you are having to run Fey Arrows for second chance mobs (besides maybe X Slash at lower floor counts) but you can minimize early run deaths by taking it slow so you don’t Volley Beowulfs and Freyjas! You don’t have a ward cushion in case you get Immune’d!

​In the later swiss rounds of the last pvp tournament, Z6 skunked me 2-0 with a realmshifter build that got me thinking. The big takeaways I had from that set were that:

- Ashen Phoenix might be the best all around pet for melee pvp when you get its action rate high enough to have reliable access to Deific Channel. Deific Channel>other pets basically.
- Raider synergizes in every way that makes Ashen good. 

In my first swiss set with Z6, he zeroed out most of my Ultimas and crushed me with 1HKO crits. It wasn’t close at any point. After that loss I knew I wanted to make my own version of the build, but as a deity instead of realmshifter (which is of course a good thing). This build would become my go to for live pvp and is an overall powerhouse.

​Since we need to get follower action rate high enough to have Deific active most of the time, Blackened Kerberos Eyes stand out as the most accessible and stat efficient way to get there. Here was a quick test I ran at one point to see what Phoenix’s actions look like with 12/9/6 Blackened eyes (there’ll be a higher margin of error given the smaller sample size but this gives you an idea):

​6 eyes had a much higher no action rate than I would have guessed, and 12 almost never whiffed. 9 was a decent midpoint but I decided it wasnt enough because in this build we also rely on Ashen Phoenix for our ward turns. 10 was the number I settled on, with the idea that anymore would be diminishing returns. 

Among our strongest options for high slotted weapons, we have 2 handers like Ymir Feathers/Arisen Labrys or Finesse Greatsword that can offer atleast 10 slots. Finesse has great stats and leaves our offhand/accessory slots free from being locked up by a 2H build. I had a good one too so thats where I started.

​(Note I'm using normal eyes for this article so with full superior+ factor in another 10% ward)

From here we can go a number of different ways with the build. We have ward turns covered with Phoenix, so given that we want a decent sized ward pool there are two metagame considerations Im gonna point out that informed which options I went with:
- Berserk 3 and DC also boosts dexterity among everything else. With these multipliers we can approach a dodge chance that most meta pvp builds can’t.
- Assassin is a clear counter to this type of build, and I wanted to have broad protection against status immunities to avoid randomly dropping games I didn’t have to.

​Arisen Hels Garb and Beguiled Mystic Katar work really well together. You have Burn/Rot/Frozen/Paralyzed/Stun/Blind covered without any overlap and 525 built in dexterity. Can we get more ward going with other choices like FYC and Arisen Shield? Of course, but the tradeoff is warranted I believe in how these two pieces round out the rest of the build. 

But where do we go from here? In the Orna Champions tournament, up against high damage powerhouses like Ratakor and Z6, there was an obvious flaw going this route with raider; our HP pool is close to low enough where we become vulnerable to 1HKOs even with ward turns up.

We can mitigate this a few ways. One is to gain the foresight advantage and not open ourselves up to a turn 1 attack without Berserk 3 and ward turns from Phoenix. Thankfully we have a headstart on foresight by running both Blackened Eyes and Katar offhand, but often times thats not going to be enough. 

Another way to mitigate this is to expand our HP pool, making us less vulnerable to having our whole health pool penetrated by a big, early attack. Luckily Beguiled Appolyon armor does both this and foresight well. Given who my opponents were in the Top 4, I settled on the warrior set for the head/leg slots.

Can we build to zero out opponents better with Old Nothren Crown or Arisen Fey gear? Sure. Is that necessarily better? In some spots you’ll definitely want to adjust in that direction but going first is extremely important when our first spell is Berserk 3. 

“But what about your ward pool? Arent you giving up alot of ward not using something else?” 

Not as much as you might think. Beguiled gear is actually pretty good in terms of ward, particularly if you adorn them right. Thats because based on the way ward is calculated, 2% adornments weight better when its 6%+2% as opposed to 32%+2%. (I could be wrong here but thats how I understand it.) Add that to the giant HP pool that the Beguiled Warrior set has, and we come out with a very nice ward total. 

​Red Pinions and Ashen Pinions are my first choice to adorn the head/legs. Add another 240 dexterity to our count with 16% crit / ward. With another 4% Crit from the Katar we’re closer to our baseline crit requirement. Luckily we set aside 2 adornment slots on the Finesse Greatsword as a flex spot. Ferocious Bull’s Eyes are an easy fit, and that just leaves the adornments on the chest/Katar.

​“Turul Feathers? Really?” Well, is 28% crit chance enough? Theres already some variance with 40% + Wyrms Song so I don’t think we can accept too much less than that. Can we get it other ways? Im not convinced we want anymore negative stats from ashens; each one hurts more than the last and 4 might already be too many. Can we cut a blackened eye or two to get closer? Possibly, but I don’t think we want to trade away critical chance variance for Ashen Phoenix variance as the latter is the more gamebreaking of the two. Maybe if you have follower action rate as a secondary amity trait, but I dont. Theres a ward loss to using turul feathers, sure, but the dex/crit combo is the missing link at this point in the build.

Since our gameplan will often involve multiple turns of buffing to outscale the opponent, Arisen Arch Gadget is a must in the accessory slot. As for the other slot I lean towards Ankous ring to complete the basic status protection but I could also see a case for Carl’s Ring or a singleton Lugus Gauntlet in its place.

As for the amity, generally we will want whatever gives us the most survivability and/or dmg. In the PvP top four I opted for 3% Ward Regen/10% to block dmg at 90%+ of hp, but now that I have the 40% crit amity that strikes me as much better in a vacuum.

​I wont go too deep into the skills beyond the general gameplan. 
- Berserk 3 turn one just about every game.
- Buffing damage or defense is optional beyond this point, but we always want to be within 1-2 hits of killing the other guy so we also often want to go for Mimics Mischief. If you can tell your wall will be effective against your opponent spend a turn getting def/res++
- My favorite big damage skill is Osmostrike 3 for the extra survivability but I usually will opt for any of the higher penetration single hit crit skills as the go to damage. The attack button is your last resort in terms of penetration but its a good one.
- Early into sets I like to throw out some debuffs if I think I have a turn or two to safely probe.

*Ascension level 30

So we have high penetration crits, a 40k HP/90k ward pool that we can extend with Osmostrike 3, a tough defense wall, higher dodge chance, immunity to assassins, high foresight, free ward turns, a really clutch second chance, and modest pet damage. 

Theres also some room to meta game tweak here and there. Up against a wall and need more penetration? Unless theres a tremendous mismatch you can’t get walled out with Lugus Gauntlet while fully buffed. Need more foresight? Swap out the Arisen Hels Garb for the beguiled warrior chest. Against magic? The build works the same way with the beguiled mage set equipped.

A vulnerability I noticed with this specific version of the build is that if we’re matched against someone that can deal both high attack and magic damage, they can get through alot of our defenses. As the Deity Ashen Raider, this is where we will want to consider whether the tradeoff with the Beguiled set is worth it and if it would be better to run higher ward/lower foresight options.

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I hope you enjoyed reading my thoughts on this build and maybe get a chance to tinker with it yourselves! 

Followers:
○ T6 - Scary Skeleton
○ T7 - Spooky Ghost
○ T9 - Very Scary Skeleton

Bosses:
○ T4 - Spooky Ghost
○ T8 - Terrifying Ghost

Monsters:
○ T1 - Frightening Skeleton
○ T4 - Scary Skeleton
○ T8 - Very Scary Skeleton
○ T8 - Onryo (NEW!)

Items:
○ Ectoplasm: Physical resistance but has negative stats and a high chance that you'll fall asleep

This is exactly what the first ever event post was ~1 year ago (I added Onryo, which is new to this year). I would like to thank so many people for the support I've gotten on these over the past year. I read all the thanks, whether I respond to them or not. I post these in 5 servers, with many I'm sure of pasting these across the various Orna communities, but originally my first event post landed itself in the good ol' general channel of Orna Main. I've come so far - no, we've come so far from that start. Doing these led me to do more projects in the Orna space, like the questline guide, the visuals, and loads of other things. I owe you guys all the credit for making this as big and as useful as it is in present day, and I will never stop loving this community. Here's to another year, two, or more. 🎂

Sincerely,
Konq, your Unfelled Balor Mage

The Battlemage is the most popular Tier 6 class for mages in Orna. Introducing elemental multi-hit spells and higher mage stats after Druid in Tier 5, the Battlemage can be played successfully with a few different specialisations. This guide looks at the duel-wielding Duelist spec, specialising in fast hard hitting nukes perfect for PvP on both offense and defense. It also excels in solo dungeons but lacks the additional damage available to Berserker spec for longer term raiding.

If you want to get a taste of real turn 1 PvP power at tier 6 and become a war hero for your kingdom, this could be the build for you!
Includes detailed video guide below!

Gear
​The most important consideration for this build is finding two weapons that are similar to each other in power. The Duelist spec works by giving a +15% boost to Attack and Magic stats when duel wielding. Remember that duel wielding first also reduces each weapon's stats to 65% of full power, so ideally you want to find two weapons close to each other in Magic power.  The Battlemage has Archistaff weapon proficiency so if one of your good weapons is an Archistaff be sure to equip that in your main hand (left side on equipment screen) to get the +5% weapon proficiency bonus.

Unless you're flying through the levels playing non-stop, tier 6 is a point in the levelling where we start to spend a little more time, meaning we want to level our gear to at least level 5 or 6 in the Blacksmith. If you check in on time you can do this in 24 hours. Levelling even further increases your power even more, especially your weapons.

All decent gear to consider for this build listed below is easily attainable outside events. If you are fortunate enough to obtain a high quality event piece of gear that will more than likely be an upgrade to the build and what you can find normally. Each section is linked to Orna.Guide search page where you can check all available options for the gear slot.

Weapon

• Witch's Archistaff 
• Black Witch Staff
• Moon Staff
• High Draconian Staff
• Your next highest magic weapons...

For the armour slots we can as Battlemage also wear Warrior gear but bear in mind at tier 7 you may not be able to wear Warrior gear depending on which class you choose. For the purpose of this guide I have only listed Mage gear but please feel free to use good high quality Warrior gear if you have it.
Head

• Witch's Hat
• Wyvern Hood
• Moon Hat
• Arcane Hat
• Runic Hat
• Mimic King Head for farming
• Orna.Guide Mage Head slot gear including events...

Armour

• Moon Robe
• Arcane Robe
• Wyvern Robe
• Runic Robe
• ​High Draconian Robe
• Orna.Guide Mage Amour slot gear including events...

Legs

• Infernal/Oceanic/Tempest/Terra boots from Arena
• Moon Boots
• Arcane Boots
• Runic Boots
• Wyvern Mage Boots
• Orna.Guide Mage Leg slot gear including events...

Accessory

• Steady Pendant
• Waking Pendant
• Ancient Troll Charm
• Troll Charm
• Mage's Ring
• Dragoon Charm

Amity
Increase your faction element damage
HP or Mana recovery per turn

Follower
Greater Yokai for PvP only
Great Jinn
Orthrus
Banshee
Gheist
Wisp

Skills
For one-shotting people in PvP we want to use the lvl 75 Sorceror unstable magic spells (Cataclysm, Inferno etc).  As a backup use Bolt 3 in case opponent is resisting your elemental damage, or try a different unstable skill like Flare II (from Dragoon). If playing regularly, Sorrow and Sorrow II are fantastic spells to use but you do need to kill plenty of animals within last two days to keep them fully charged!
War Defense
I recommend limiting your skill loadout to offensive magic skills only, giving your defending AI the best chance to pile constant high magic damage pressure on your enemy! In this order:
Cataclysm, Inferno, (Sorrow I and Sorrow II if you keep them charged), Fulmination, Glacier, Bolt 3

A cheap skill like Magic Strikes always useful for dungeons and other content.
For raiding your multi-element faction skill can be used.
The buffs from Druid are also mandatory, Golem's Fortitude and Mimic's Mischief for dungeons, raiding,  and any rare tough PvP fights.
​

Hello and welcome, it’s your friendly neighbourhood amphibian. After the recent rework of Spiked Shield you no longer need an extremely min-maxed, high-end build with tons of ward to have a decent damage with the SS skill family. In this guide I’ll try to focus on the performance of SS1 in 3 different scenarios:
1. Entry-level Gilgamesh (around 100-120k ward)
2. Mid-game Gilgamesh (around 120-180k ward)
3. Endgame Gilgamesh (above 180k ward)

Keep in mind, this build is not built around pumping extremely huge numbers, it performs well in all raids, has really high survivability and not a lot of key pressing. The rotation is pretty much based on 1 skill and 1 temp buff.

Gear
​Firstly, I’ll list out all the decent ward gear you should be looking out for. We won’t be focusing on 2-handed weapons since we’re mostly looking for ward and the best way to achieve it is to get a good 1-handed weapon and a shield. I’ll also note which items are obtainable only during certain events throughout the year, the rest are mostly farmable through dungeons and kingdom or world raids. With that said, the damage is nothing to scoff at

Head

• Abyssal Helmet
• Arisen Avalon Helmet (event)
• Arisen King’s Crown (event)
• Arisen Riftguard Helmet (event)
• Ashen Phoenician Helmet
• Fey Yeti Horns
• Old Nothren Crown
• Tarnished King’s Crown

Body

• Abyssal Armor
• Arisen Armor
• Arisen Avalon Armor (event)
• Arisen Riftguard Armor (event)
• Arisen Surtr’s Cuirass (event)
• Ashen Phoenician Cuirass
• Bulwark
• Fey Yeti Coat

Legs

• Abyssal Greaves
• Arisen Avalon Leggings (event)
• Arisen Riftguard Leggings (event)
• Ashen Phoenician Greaves

Off-hand

• Arisen Rhada Greatshield (event)
• Arisen Shield
• Arisen Tizona (event)
• Ashen Phoenician Shield
• Atlas
• Fallen Shield
• Polished Aegis
• Spiked Greatshield (event)
• Ymir Coiled Shield (event)

Weapons

• Abyssal Axe
• Arisen Colada (event)
• Arisen Demeter’s Halberd
• Arisen Fey Neman Havoc
• Axe of Gilgamesh
• Demeter’s Halberd
• Fey Neman Havoc
• Finesse’s Greatsword (event)
• Finesse’s Katana (event)
• Ymir World Eater (event)

Accessory

• Carl’s Ring [T10] - great boost to pretty much all stats, recently it also received built-in ward
• Immortal’s Ring - Probably the biggest ward buff you can get, slightly lowers your attack and mana

You could also equip other accessories that protect you from status effects but with Gilga’s Steadfast passive you’re better off equipping something to boost your ward

Adornments

• For armor use your best 2% ward adornments you have, some better options include: Greater Bull’s Eyes, Jewels of Creation, Jewels of the End
• For weapons you usually want to adorn at least one Ruby or Ashen Ruby as a way to regenerate your HP while attacking. Fill the rest with the best ward adornments you have, for example Arisen Teardrops. Some other adornments worth noting: Assassin’s Jewels for T. Def ↓, T. Def ↓↓, Blackened or Dark Eyes of Kerberos for ward and pet action rate.

Pets
There are quite a few options, I’ll mostly focus on 2 types.

Defensive - ward regen + turns:
Gorynych, Son of Mountains
Living Arch-Armor
Ortanite Golem
Fey Yeti
Steward Golem

Offensive - buffs:
Ashen Phoenix - Deific Channel (with enough action rate it also keeps up the ward turns)
(Fey) Chimera - Berserk 1 buff
Apollyon's Apprentice - Elemental alignments, also some hp regen and ward turns
Very Scary Skeleton - Wallop for T.Def↓↓
Phoenix - Deific Channel

Please remember that for some of those pets you need a higher action rate to make full use of their buffs. You can achieve that by equipping a Freyja Charm as one of your accessories (and by that, sacrificing a little bit of your ward) or adorning your weapon using Blackened Eyes of Kerberos or Dark or Dark Eye of Kerberos.

Amities
Some of the best amities to look out for are:
Increases (faction element) damage by 20%
Your accessories will be 25% more effective
Positive effects will last 50% longer
You will recover 5% Ward each turn

Specialization
Cataphract is your best bet when raiding with Spiked Shield, the ward regen and huge hp boost is simply great for this build.
Oracle could also be an option if you have two 5% ward regen amities.
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Buffing will look pretty much the same for all levels:
Ward of Ortanite > Golem’s Fortitude > Barrier II > Divine Bastion II > Wyvern Speed II > Bear’s Might > Faction Affinity

Then you can also add Prism wall if you’re using Cataphract and Gunnr if you’re sure you’re not going against hard raids like Morrigan
Using Berserk Mushrooms from Arena is also good if you have a lot of them and you have Ruby or Ashen Ruby in your weapon
Remember to keep Osmostrike/Osmostrikes in your loadout in case you don’t get a lot of Ruby procs.
Adding Omnistrike/Omnistrikes or Exploit for debuffs is also advised.
If you’re not using a weapon with a lot of pet action rate with Ashen Phoenix then you also must put Deific Channel in your loadout.

Be sure to check out all 3 of the different level showcases below most relevant to you!

​1. Entry-level
[Level 237 Gilgamesh without any ascensions - 117k Ward]

• Skill rotation after buffing
• Sharpen (also repeat when it wears off) > Spam SS1
• You can use Ward of Ortanite to regen your ward. 
• With ward regen amity you would get more ward than you spend.
• 180k-250k per turn with all buffs

Showcase run vs Fey Chimera (2min 45s)

2. Mid-game Gilgamesh
[Level 237 Gilgamesh without any ascensions - 145k Ward]

• Besides the normal skill rotation we’re adding Gait of Gunnr
• Skill rotation after buffing
• Sharpen (also repeat when it wears off) > Spam SS1
• You can use Ward of Ortanite to regen your ward. 
• With ward regen amity you would get more ward than you spend.
• 380k-420k per turn with all buffs

Showcase run vs Fey Chimera (1min 40s)

​3. End-game Gilgamesh
[Level 250 Gilgamesh, Ascension level 41 - 259k Ward]

• Going against easier raids we can entirely skip the Golem + Barrier part and focus only on attack buffs
• Using Bear’s Might gives us Def/Res↓↓ which is useful for regaining mana from Gilga’s passive. You can use Panacea later on if you start taking too much dmg
• Skill rotation after buffing
• Sharpen (also repeat when it wears off) > Spam SS1
• You can use Ward of Ortanite to regen your ward. 
• With ward regen amity you would get more ward than you spend.
• 600k without DC, 1.2mil with DC

Showcase run vs Fey Chimera (less than 1min)