I've finally got round to writing down a bunch of helpful tips that typically answer a lot of common questions about Orna. How many do you know?!

• Long tap on mobs & bosses in the world to immediately enter battle.
• Long tap the quick potions menu button at the bottom of the world UI to auto-heal
• Tapping on the mini mob icons at the bottom of the world UI takes you immediately to that encounter (e.g. your kingdom gauntlet/war/raids or exploration and control).
• Buying small HP/mana potions then quickly auto-healing is the best and most cost-effective way to return to full HP/mana. You can buy 1000 at a time in shops. (although you do regenerate 1% HP/mana per minute when your game is closed)
• Always use a torch because its 60 minute buff allows you to see in the dark at night time, increases monster spawns and acts as a view distance multiplier. Buy them in shops for pennies!
• View distance boosts stack together multiplicatively (for the most part). One of my favourite utilisations early game is to use 2 Lantern accessories (buy in shops or mimic drops), then dual wield weapons that give view distance - Draconian Sceptre from the Draconian Lord boss for mages, or Firepike from Pyre NPC quests for melee - in my world gear loadout in order to scout and to access dungeons from further afield, then ensure I'm using my good gear in my gauntlet loadout.
• Always use boosters when farming. Lucky Coin, Lucky Silver Coin doubles your gold/orns income from killing anything in the world and in dungeons. You'll never run out of these. Exp potions are commonly dropped from low tier kingdom raids as well or worst case bought for 500 orns from Runeshop.
• Exploration monsters and bosses yield double rewards compared to in the world.
• Monster remains can be bought from shops on rare occasions, allowing you to spawn a random boss at your feet.
• Use map filters to show/hide stuff on the map as required, saves you accidentally using a shrine you were saving up!
• Killing a boss out in the world can have 2 outcomes: 1) there's an 80% chance the same boss will respawn in same spot after 3 hours or 2) a new boss will spawn randomly nearby instead
• You can view and fight bosses up to 1 tier higher than you out in the world (well at least until tier 8 - tier 9 players cannot see tier 10 world bosses).
• If playing with friends you can all kill the same world boss or mob as long as everyone enters the fight before someone kills it.
• You do not receive any rewards on world bosses/mobs you've damaged incrementally unless you deal a killing blow yourself.
• Greyed out items in shops and similarly spells in Arcanists are tier-locked. Level up to purchase.
• There exists a Day-Night cycle in Orna. Night time is from 8pm - 6 am local time. Some mobs are day or night time spawning only!
• Weather in Orna works in a 23 hour cycle per each individual area. It does not reflect the actual weather at your current location in real life. Weather lasts for 1 hour and each area will see 1 hour of each weather type per day).
• There are 3 weather types in Orna being Rain, Snow and Sun/Moon (Day/Night). Each weather type has specific rare mobs that can only spawn during that weather period of 1 hour (Yeti coat anyone?).
• Biome specific mobs and bosses also exist in Orna, these biomes being Land, Water, Wood, Dungeon.
• All mobs/bosses except weather specific mobs can appear in dungeons.
• The Orna overworld map is augmented using Open Street Map - biomes in the game are depicted from there.
• Playing and opening up the game on a regular basis increases item spawns on the ground. Common theory is at least being offline for 10 - 15 mins to reopen. Good to save shrines for a solid grinding session.
• Walking around locally and an increased player activity in general, can and will cause new buildings to spawn naturally in the world. Pray for that dungeon spawn! I believe different players/characters and also slightly different routes taken can expedite these spawns. Also bear in mind this will probably not work in already congested areas.
• Story and NPC quests that require item hand-ins need your items to be both unlocked and be standard normal quality.
• After finding fishing lines from shops, drops from mimics or as a quest reward you can now start fishing. You'll need to be directly beside a place with dark blue looking water with waves on the map or you can also fish from a consumable fountain (this will be consumed). Decor fountains/wells do not work for fishing.
• Higher tier fishing lines reduces the waiting time between bites.
• Using a split screen feature on your mobile device makes fishing easier by reducing the spawning area of the ripples you need to tap.
• Allowing too many fish to get away will cause your line to break.
• You can start up the fishing screen at a certain location, then put your mobile on hold, to resume fishing again after moving location. Maybe useful if you live in a colder/wetter climate.
• Fishing can get you some decent things:

1) Fish, used at the Herbalist for brewing potions or to enter fishing contests
2) Water biome mobs/bosses (e.g. Lizzar Lord for story quest)
3) Random items that can genuinely be awesome sometimes (I once found an Ornate Arisen Monster Tome from fishing, but I was already max level)
4) Fisher sprite! 

• World mobs/bosses with a yellow exclamation mark (!) above them are part of a kill quest available for you to complete (Story, Daily, NPC, Inn, Kingdom, Town Hall).
• NPCs with a yellow question mark (?) should have new quests available for you to accept.
• Each NPC has an individual mini quest line for you to complete, available once you reach their relevant tier.
• Once you complete their quest line, NPCs can offer you regular random quests to complete.
• Buildings with a yellow exclamation mark (!) have restocked naturally (Shops, Bestiaries, Inns for new quests)
• You can determine if a building is player-made if its name shows (…'s) to indicate possession.
• The wee arrow always visible on your world map points North. That's all it shows. You can double tap your screen to reset the view to have North showing upwards.
• The tier rating of monster kill quests is the same tier as that monster. That should give you an idea of what dungeon tier to select if you're using dungeons to find the mob.
• How do you move in Orna? Well it's a GPS game so you have to move about in real life. Walk, cycle catch a ride. Not mandatory to play the game but has advantages if you can move regularly.
• Boosters and the like do not affect raid rewards in any way. (exp potions, lucky silver coins etc)
  

• Disabling animations from the options menu will speed up your fights, eventually saving you huge amounts of time. Some skills take way too long to animate. I wish there was an option for faster animations!
• Dexterity and Mystic Feather miss rates:

- In battle your dexterity stat is compared vs your enemy's dexterity and the max dodge chance from a difference in player dexterity is 40%
- The max dodge chance as a result of mystic feather is 70%
- They do not stack with one another, rather the game will take whichever one is greater at the time of an attack and miss chance rolled from that.

• Use Omnistrike 1 skill to lower enemy stats whilst saving skill slots. Works great for Raids. Don't discount your pet damage as well, I like to get all for stat downs (Def↓, Res↓, Att↓, Mag↓)
• Multiple effect-causing adornments stack together e.g. 5 Assassin's Jewels increases the total proc chance of decreasing your enemy's temp defense. Same idea for Arcana jewels, Mammon Teardrops etc.
• Charge-up skills can actually go beyond the shown 100% buff cap charge on your character menu, by buffing your relevant offensive stat in battle (Att/Mag). Sorrow/Summon Dead for Magic, Dragon's Vengeance for Attack. E.g. in Arena sometimes you'll get hit for punitive damage (meaning they haven't actively charged this skills in last 48 hours) and sometimes you'll get blown apart!
• Status effects on you caused by your pet cannot immunised against (Crimson Gazer)
• +Crit Chance from gear and battle buffs now affect all skills that can crit (most strike attack and fey magic spells). Skills that have specific crit rates in their description cannot have their crit chance changed (Guts, Lunge).
• The following status effects will cause a 100% guaranteed hit rate even if blinded: Asleep, Stunned, Frozen Petrified. (Remember this also works against you equally)
• Raid bosses get stronger the more damage you dish out in that run. That's why you'll see your damage numbers slowly dwindling each turn and the boss damage ramping up. World Raid Boss stats increase at a faster rate than Kingdom Raids.
• Skill elements override your weapon element. You can still proc the elemental status effect from your element though.

• Keep an eye out for lucrative daily quests and multiple quests asking you to complete the same task. This is a great way to earn tens of thousands of orns. Examples:

 - Ancient Mimic ~ 20k orns
 - Multiple gauntlet completion quests
 - Multiple arena kill quests

• Sprite Packs - You can purchase alternative class sprite packs for your character in the runeshop after unlocking that class, as well as monthly event sprite packs.
• You can use any purchased sprite pack on any class - it's a fantastic way to support the game!
• Free Sprite Packs - There are actually a few alternate sprite packs you can find in the game for FREE with just a little hard work:

 1) Fisher (from fishing)
 2) Mayor and 3) Villager (after reaching 100% morale in your Town Hall)
 4) Spec sprite change (costs orns - e.g. you want Merchant sprite but you actually play Berserker, spec swap to Merchant (25k orns) and change your sprite in Appearance to the Merchant sprite. Switch back to Berserker spec (25k orns) and you'll keep the Merchant sprite!

• Use the Hidden.Info spreadsheet available from Orna.Guide for tonnes of detail into game mechanics https://orna.guide/gameplay?show=17
• Use Orna.Guide as the best resource Orna game database https://orna.guide/
• Using Emulators such as Bluestacks to play Orna is actually against ToS and you will eventually get banned. You can however use screen mirroring like Chromecast or scrcpy.
• As long as you have a Keep with enough storage space, any new pets you buy will send your currently equipped pet safely back to Keep storage.
• You can rename your currently equipped pet at a Bestiary
• Different sources of boosters stack together multiplicatively (Exp, orns, consumable boosters etc)
• Choosing a faction at lvl 10 doesn't really change your game too significantly, I'd say either go with the faction description that resonates the most with you or remember that if you want to play with friends in the same kingdom you have to be in the same faction.
• You can change faction in the Runeshop for about $1 quid.
• Levelling up in Orna is an absolute grind. Switching your priority from world farming/dungeons/boss dungeons/raids/pvp etc is a great way to mix it up and avoid burnout. Take a break if you need to - the grind is real.
• Finding Stone early for your first few buildings can be challenging. Keep your eye out in the world because you can find stone on the ground as well as buy directly from shops. It's a common daily login reward and there's a couple of tier 3 mobs that drop it (Golem, Ogre). 
• Nothing will happen to your character if you die, it's not in hardcore mode.
• Gauntlet keys can be found mainly from killing bosses. Not all bosses drop keys but a good amount do, starting from tier 3.
• The regional leader board and regional chat are sections of the world map split up by 10° x 10° regions.
• If you want to increase your rank and climb the leader boards the most efficient way to do so is complete boss dungeons and quests.

Stacking any Realmshifter Swash build full of crimson pinions creates a delicate balancing act between available mana and your maximum attack stat. So by using Fey Arrows as our off-hand we can forget about balancing mana and in-fact forget about mana entirely and smash out arena wins using the Volley 3 off-hand skill instead. Farming arena is ideal for accumulating Greater Souls, a fairly rare material that's used to upgrade a tonne of endgame items.

With the right DPI on your phone you can actually line up Volley 3 and the Rematch button to AFK farm the arena and still win vast majority of fights. 

🠕 Volley 3 melts most builds, big win streaks possible, excellent clear speed
🠕 Tap same spot to kill and rematch arena fights, don't need to look at phone
🠕 Don't need to think about mana
🠕 Netflix and farm greater souls (or better Fey Arrows)

🠗 Occasionally lose fights without knowing why, breaking the flow
🠗 Gets more consistent with higher attack stat
🠗 May need to change phone settings to line up Volley 3 and Rematch​
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We can generally just go for max attack here and at the very least we don't have to worry about mana at all so can pack in crimson pinions however we like. A good status immunity option is Aldon's Hat as stun is most likely the most common status we get hit with, although if you just kill them first there's not much coming in the way of retaliation.
Use your highest attack weapon, ensuring you have preferred weapon bonus for that 5%.
Fey Arrows are the one item that make this build work, thanks to Volley 3. So work towards finding a better quality Fey Arrows however you should be able to use this build with a normal quality version, level up and Masterforge each one you find of better quality, every little attack helps. The materials are quite common.
Chest is Lunar Garb from Titan kingdom raid. A really high base attack on this makes it ideal for crimson pinions and you don't need loads of them.
Unknown origin boots for the 8 slots all crimson pinion filled, if you don't have a lot of pinions use Lunar Boots.
​Use your best Arisen Rings to bost attack and lower defense as much as possible.
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​Lol. None needed. Volley 3 is gained automatically from equipping Fey Arrows in off-hand.
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Attack above 6.5k should allow you farm like this relatively easily.
The goal should be to breach 9k attack to genuinely demolish everybody in the arena without care.
Be sure to have party bonus and preferred weapon bonus available, as swash makes these bonuses very lucrative in terms of boosting our attack stat.

​Greetings Travellers!
Welcome to Part 2 of our written guide of our Thief Class Progression Guide for Orna. I've also uploaded a video version to YouTube you can check out here:
​In this guide we'll cover itemisation and gearing options for thief classes from tier 1 to tier 10. We do go into a little more detailed discussion in the video guide which you can find here on YouTube.
The items considered in this guide are core-game items, not event raid items. Therefore some best-in-slot items may not be in the guide, however all items suggested can be found throughout all parts of the year.

Greetings Travellers!
Welcome to the written guide of our Thief Class Progression Guide as part of our Beginner Guide Series for Orna. I've also uploaded a video version to YouTube you can check out here:
​This will act as Part 1 where we cover Classes, Specs and Pets in particular. In Part 2 we'll cover itemisation and gearing options for thief classes.

We'll start with the general overviews of the thief class tree and supplementary classes, followed by recommended specs and pets. Following that I have written out in more detail some solid description of each class below.

rite folks!
We've just uploaded part 1 of a 2-part Mage Class Progression guide video series to YouTube and are currently in the process of fleshing out a proper written guide for this site. You can check out the video guides here:
Part 1: Classes, Specs and Pets
Or at the bottom of the page!
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In the meantime we'll post the summary screenshots for each tier that we mention in the video. If you haven't watched the video yet, these screenshots give a general class progression guide for you to follow the true and pure mage path in Orna. It also shows what supplementary classes you'll want to pick up for their useful skills.

In the second image we can see what specialisation options I recommend, unfortunately a bit boring with Beserker spec again recommended as our first pick up but it's just too strong! For pets in general you can follow the top line of pets and then situationally can consider the pets along the bottom also.

Orite folks!
We've just uploaded a 2-part Warrior Class Progression guide video series to YouTube and are currently in the process of fleshing out a proper written guide for this site. You can check out the video guides here:
Part 1: Classes, Specs and Pets
Part 2: Itemisation

In the meantime we'll post the summary screenshots for each tier that we mention in the video. If you haven't watched the video yet, these screenshots give a general overview of which items you should be aiming for at each tier, without the added detail as to why we missed certain items out.

Greetings Traveller!

Welcome to my beginner basics guide to Orna, which I've decided to create after some deliberation. Asides from the excellent wiki Orna.Guide, there's not really much in the way of guides, builds or game info available yet, and the stuff I do see online is usually either out of date, not greatly explained, or even provides bad advice for new players. So if you've been desperately trying to find a decent Orna guide, you've found it! Light your torches, grab a beverage and settle in, I will share all the knowledge and lower your entry threshold to begin dominating your world.

Orna blends classic fantasy RPG features with modern mobile technology, developed by one ethical man Odie, he takes a strong stance against pay-to-win models that . This mobile game has zero ads. I'll repeat, this game has zero ads! Almost unheard of in free mobile games available in the app stores. This fantastic GPS powered RPG has got so much to offer fans of the genre, including immersive multiplayer and turf-war-like augmented reality features.

This is a solid and comprehensive guide that covers all the basic features Orna has to offer once you've made a new character and you're ready to slay. There's plenty of game mechanics, tips, tricks and understanding to be had which takes time to learn and master. The depth of the game will surprise people considering the size of the dev team. In order to make this guide as future-proof and robust as possible I will concentrate on the fundamentals of the game in this guide, with links dotted about to other guides and builds as we expand our content and delve deeper.

Particular and specific knowledge is learnt with experience and long hours of playtime. I always say it's best to play the game in a way that is FUN for you. For many people that involves getting more knowledgeable about the game allowing you yourself to share knowledge, and of course to get strong. Get sick loot, learn powerful spells and unleash domination upon your local world, that's what Orna Legends is all about!

As a final precursory note before getting into it, please note that I am just one person, and although I have played this game a lot (top 20 first players to reach max level), I may be wrong on some points. What's important is this guide exists to assist you in getting more enjoyment out of your own game-play. Please feel free to contact me in regards to this guide, and about anything on this site with any comments you may have! Without any further ado let's take our first steps into Orna!

Orna is described by the dev as: "... a classic-style RPG that augments your real world. Enjoy turn-based combat, collect and upgrade your weapons and armor, learn spells, fight bosses, and claim real world landmarks with your mobile phone, wherever you are." Although you can of course play single player, Orna has fantastic multiplayer features that you'll definitely want to check out. That revolves mainly around kingdoms, basically the game's guild function. Participate in wars, defeat kingdom raid bosses for sweet loot, and fight other kingdoms for glory and kingdom orns.

There's no trading mechanic in this game, no "economy" or "auction house" to play. This will surely turn away some players but it leaves the essence of the RPG genre at the heart of the game, so that's what we'll concentrate on here; playing the actual game.

Orna has many classes available to unlock and play. All classes you unlock can be switched to freely. There are also specialisations which act like sub-classes you can switch between, allowing you to mix and match class+specs to further specialise your play-style. Want to be a tanky mage or specialist big damage spells - no problem. Want to be a warrior with a raging beserker mode to do more damage to both you and your enemy, or a warrior that sacrifices all defense for attack, or even a warrior who likes massive shielding extra hitpoints - absolutely no problem.

The simple class and spec based system starts with the classic warrior/mage/rogue archetypes, that gets more in-depth as you progress further into the game. You can even end up going full pokemon style with pet-based builds where you buff your pets to do obscene damage (if they can be bothered to attack).

There are no stat points in this game. Each class has a base level of stats that grows a number of pre-determined points each time you level-up.

"What! No stat points? But how what about build diversity?!" We all remember dumping all spare stat points into Vitality in Diablo 2 right? Did that stop build diversity? Not really. A big power source of stats in Orna come from your gear. Build diversity in Orna comes from the combination of class, spec, follower, gear, play-style and the content you want to play in the moment. Some builds are better than others at certain aspects of the game, but that often depends on what level your gear is at. Every build can do all content and that's a fact. Odie (the dev) is great at improving the game with content and balance, and tends to roll out updates on a monthly basis.

Notice I did not talk about build diversity in Diablo 3, let's quickly move on.

​As I said, there's no ads in this game and no pay-to-win aspect. There's a small amount of temporary pay-to-progress a wee bit available in the form of a temporary experience boost available, but that is also easy to find in the actual game, especially if you move around. Speaking of which...

Orna is a GPS augmented reality game, that works similarly to Pokemon Go in that the in-game world map is based around the real-life world map, and Orna uses OpenStreetMap in that regard. So that means you have to move around in real life, go for a walk, bike ride or ride shotgun down the highway to find cool new mobs and bosses to smash, new lands to claim and other player's territory to conquer. Find an Arcanist down the street to buy new spells, a rare Demonologist to unleash your weapon's maximum potential, or even a dungeon at the in-laws' to defeat and claim its special rewards (now you might even look forward to visiting). 

​Well if you're reading this then Orna probably is for you, or you've already tried it and want to get more hardcore. I just want to point out that Orna can be enjoyed by everyone in their own way. It's not hardcore in the fact that you can die and resurrect yourself ad infinitum, there's no "hardcore" die-once mode. It gets grindy sure, but towards the mid to late game as you may expect. You can still enjoy the game logging in to kill a few mobs, fight your kingdom war battle and a couple of raids every day or so. You can still make progression that way, and being a mobile game it's perfect for a wee passive grinding session whilst commuting or chilling on the couch. There's also plenty of kingdoms (guilds) that cater to all levels of player activity, whether you can only play once a day or you can't stop playing and find yourself at the higher tier levels super fast, you'll be able to find a great kingdom to call home, there's a great community within the game.

​With all that being said, Orna has certainly become one of my favourite games ever. You must find it within yourself to learn to play the game with your own passion. Play for fun in these crazy covid times. Respect yourself and your kingdom mates, respect the local hero who controls your entire city. Motivate yourself to take them down!

Let me help you with that, let's start assisting your world domination. Carry on!

Apart from your character name the most important decision here is choosing your starting class. You have three choices: Warrior, Mage or Thief which set the scene with your classic RPG class archetypes. You can choose your gender but also switch at anytime in-game.

Now I certainly recommend you choose your first character thematically, you're not going to miss out on anything and you'll end up unlocking most of these classes anyway. This guide will ensure you can smash things up nicely with swords and daggers or blast mobs away with powerful magic spells. We'll find out later how class progression works so you can target a certain higher tier class easily, and we'll also release class-specific progression and build guides soon to check out.

You've set the scene for your play-style with your initial class choice and now you've loaded up the world screen. Welcome to the world of Orna, or to be more precise, our own world; planet Earth, with the game world of Orna augmented on top of it! If you've ever checked a local map or something like Google Maps you'll probably be familiar with the map layout with roads and such in game.

You'll see your character sprite in the centre of the screen, surrounded by a few menacing-looking mobs and maybe a building or two. You'll notice your character sprite represents your physical location in the real-world without any obvious way to control character movement.
Yes you'll have to physically move in real life to move in the game. That doesn't mean you can't play sitting on the couch though!

Tap a mob to get a little more information about it, and you can then tap the battle button to attack it. You can also long tap mobs in the world to go straight into battle, hold your finger for a second on tapping the mob.

Orna utilises turn-based gameplay in battles. You'll notice you can use a spell, attack, defend, check skills, flee or use items. On the top row tap on the spell or attack button to start dealing damage to the mob, you may receive some in return! Hopefully you slaughtered the mob and claimed some rewards for your troubles!

• Experience Points - Killing mobs, players and completing quests will all grant you experience points, allowing you to level up your character and unlock new content. Every 25 levels are split into tiers where you'll face new mobs and bosses, unlock stronger classes and be able to wield more powerful equipment. One reason we all loves RPGs is the experience gain and grind, beware this does become a very grindy game!

• Gold - Primarily used for the acquisition and upgrading of equipment. Spells can also be bought with gold from Arcanist buildings you may find in the wild. Throughout the beginning and into mid-game you'll naturally accrue considerable quantities of gold without even trying. You won't have a clue what to with all your stash and may wonder if you'll ever get the chance to spend it. Well the answer is yes, you will! Praise the Ornaconomy. Higher tier items will start costing you BILLIONS to upgrade and adorn.

• Orns - The game's most precious and sought-after currency, the game is called Orna after all! Unlocking new classes, swapping between specifications and buying new followers are the main reasons you'll love grafting for more orns. Orns are also used for constructing buildings and upgrading certain types of equipment, mainly boss loot and elemental resistant armour.

• Items - Your main power source in this game will come from equipment gained from looting the corpses of thousands of slain enemies. Kill mobs to get loot to get stronger to kill more powerful mobs to get more powerful loot to kill even stronger mobs... You get the idea! Orna has a fantastic array of different items to find and equip, with a great system that keeps you on the hunt for upgrade after upgrade.

If you're coming to Orna from another Augmented Reality game such as Pokemon Go, the first major difference and improvement you might notice is the unlimited spawning of mobs in Orna. Of course in Pokemon Go you catch the few pokemon on your screen then there's nothing in that location for quite some time forcing you to move if you want to keep catching.

In Orna there's a limited amount of mobs that can appear on your screen but they keep on spawning as you kill them with fresh meat. Now that you've decided to go on a rampage and killed a few mobs you'll likely notice your health and mana going low and you're close to impending doom.

If a mob kills you do not worry, you won't lose gear or stats or anything to that affect. You can die an unlimited number of times. The mob that killed you will have a cool-down of 5 minutes before you can attack it again. Gives you time to heal up and re-assess your strategy!

As with any new game, it can be a struggle to find where things are hidden within the user interface for the new player. Even if you're an experienced RPG player you may be wondering where to find your stat screen or equipment load-outs in Orna. This guide will take you through the basics of the Orna UI from the perspective of a new player. Hopefully you've started the game and killed a few mobs already, a crow or a couple of slimes, perhaps already levelled up a few times and you're wondering how to equip that shiny new weapon; this guide will explain the entire ins and outs of the menus, so let's get into it!

Entering the game will always bring you to the world map view, where you should see your character sprite, a few mobs looking ripe for plunder and perhaps a local building or two. These buildings will likely be randomly generated, but we'll go into that in more detail later. If you can't see your character, mobs or buildings then don't worry, we'll show you how to make sure these are not hidden from view with the clever map options filtering function.

​We've put numbers on the world map view screenshot that correspond to the UI elements listed below. 

1. Area Information
2. World Buffs Information
3. Kingdom Menu
4. Quests Menu
5. Main Menu
6. Potions Menu
7. Area Menu
8. Map Options Filter

​The five main functional game menus are accessible from the circular buttons at the bottom of the map screen, and there's also two notable game info sections you'll see at the top of your screen. We go over everything as you keep reading below.

Map Controls: ​By default the map controls should be set to single-touch mode. You can swipe left-right to rotate the map, up-down to tilt the view, and pinch to zoom in and out. You can change this settings to dual-touch mode if you prefer that setting later on.
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Map Options: Another great newish feature is the ability to filter what's visible to you on the world map. Tapping it just gives a simple list of check-boxes to enable or disable what you want to see. Over time with experience you'll learn when's best for you to disable certain things, although the one thing I'd suggest keeping on 100% of the time is events.

The two lines of text seen at the top of the world map view screen shows two bits of  information on the current area you are situated in: Area Name "Orna Legends Village" and the kingdom currently in control "The Earthen Empire".

The small icons appearing at the top right lists your current active world and event buffs, these are items you use that increase your rewards from killing monsters in the world, in dungeons and in exploration such as e.g. extra orns, experience and gold rewards. These are always temporary and you can see their time remaining in the main character menu.

​Upon reaching level 25 you will have grown strong enough to join a kingdom. This is the Orna guild or clan function and is a fantastic feature for players to join forces and play together. Please check our basic kingdom guide for more info on kingdoms.

​Shows your current available and completed quests. There are four different sources of starting quests in Orna, as you can see from the four tabs at the top of the quests menu.

5.1 Story
The main Orna quest line is shown here. Remember you have to physically click accept to start and click complete to finish each quest from this tab! You must complete your current story quest to unlock and accept the next one. It's a good idea to try and keep on top of the story quest line, as it leads to great item rewards in later tiers.

​5.2 Daily
A range of random quests are available for you to complete once each day. Levelling up the tiers unlocks new available quests, allowing you to gain more quest rewards. These quests auto-accept and also auto-complete, and are the same for every player globally each day.

5.3 Jobs
Visiting Inns in the world will allow you to accept quests from locals who need powerful heroes like you to kill local mob infestations and find rare items for them. You'll have to manually accept inn quests and then return to the same inn to hand them in once completed. Quests refresh in Inns every 11 days or so, be sure to check back regularly to help out the locals.

5.4 NPC
The renowned NPCs of Orna require your assistance. Travel around and level up to find them all and complete their quests. Powerful and useful items will typically be your reward. Remember NPCs swap locations every month, but as long as you find the NPC to complete your quest, they don't have to be in the same location!

5.5 Completed
You will find all your completed story and NPC quests listed here, as they are both one-time only quest completions.
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Check out our latest quest guide here to learn more about why you should be questing in Orna, and tips on how to complete the story and NPC quests, even if you think you've out-levelled them and can't find a Lizzar Lord to save your life!

​This will be your most commonly used menu screen in the whole game, your bread and butter of character management, so it's a great idea to get to know it a little better.

​Early game orns can be hard to come by in sufficient quantity to keep up your class for your relevant new tier, so we've written a great guide for early game orn gathering. Check it out here to help you unlock the early game classes with ease.
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​​6.2 Achievements
A fun and great way to gain orns is by completing achievements. All focusing on game-play mechanics like killing mobs, bosses, PvP kills, territory takeover and class or spell unlocks. Some achievements give u to ten ranks with increasing orn rewards at every stage. Completing achievements also unlock some character titles for you to choose from in character customisation, allowing you to show off some of your proudest completed milestones.

​​6.3 World Hub
Shows what time limited special events are currently running in-game (also visible at the bottom of the character menu). You can also invite your crew to try the game through the invite link: maybe there will be rewards for inviting a number of new players by the time you read this in a future update. You can also see a small summary of your local area in "whats nearby". But this is quite a vague overview and it's always more beneficial to check out your local area in person to see what's around. Odie then credits the third party resources he's used to create this fantastic game! I highly recommend joining the official discord via the link at the bottom as well. You'll be able to discuss the game with other players, and is also the best place to search out the most active kingdoms for recruitment.

• Influence - All areas you are currently in control of will be listed here, showing individual area location relative to your current position, your health as the territory holder, and its resource yield.

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• Leaderboard - The global rankings are based on contributions from all your normal gameplay metrics. Tap on players to see how many mobs or players they've killed. All the stats there contribute partly to your overall ranking. Each leaderboard only shows the top 100 players or kingdoms, and refreshes once a day. However tapping on any individual will show you their real time stats and world loadout.
• Competitive - Love discovering new lands and fighting turf wars? You may end up on this leaderboard with the folk who have burned the most fuel or ridden around a lot on the bicycle!
• Regional - One of my best Orna moments was breaking into the top 100 in my region. The regional board is based on the same global rankings but filters players into a 10 x 10 lat/long grid. The region your origin town is based in determines what square in the map your regional board is.
• Kingdoms - Here you can check out the highest ranking clans in all of Orna. Find the top kingdom in your faction, and even one day dream of joining them. This leaderboard is based on the last 30 days of kingdom activity. If you want to see your own kingdom break the top 100 for public fame, I strongly recommend beefing up your war efforts, winning wars is the most powerful metric and it's not uncommon to see low level kingdoms who have won 25 wars in a row here, but aren't even a level 10 kingdom yet!

Power and Influence are the cumulative total of all kingdom member player levels and reputation respectively.

​6.4 Notifications 
​The green bell lists your in-game notifications split into world, kingdom and areas. World notifies you of things like equipment upgrade finishing in the blacksmith and when world raid bosses you attacked have been defeated. Kingdom notifies you of raid starts and completion, when you have a kingdom gauntlet fight, and kingdom war starting/ending. Areas notify you when someone has defeated you in an area under your control, now becoming that area's commander, go take it back!

6.5 Character buffs
All character buffs can be seen just below the top bar in your character menu, and you can tap on each individually to learn more about each buff. Class and specialisation passives, item buffs, origin town and party bonus, are all shown alongside your temporary buffs as seen in the world map view.

6.6 Status
​This is your character stat screen and you can also check your exact experience numbers. Remember the stats on this screen only take into account your world quipment load-out. So if you want to check stats for your PvP load-out with different equipment, you'll need to replicate that in your world load-out temporarily to see your exact stats with that gear equipped.

6.6.1 Follower
Here you can see important metrics regarding your currently equipped follower. Its base attack and mag stats only go up as you level up, or if you're a pet based build. Follower skills are broken into five separate selective states, with different activity rates dictating the chance of what your follower might do in battle. The pet skills and respective usage chance rates are seen here.
This page won't show up until you purchase your first pet. If you're wondering where to rename your pet well you'll have to go visit a pet shop (bestiary)!

6.6.2 Record
Check your playtime statistics on this record screen, your global rank and your actual play time. Most of the things on this screen determine your global rank (excluding distance travelled and play time). It's a great place to check on personal milestones and perhaps set some grinding session goals. Some high level kingdoms may ask you to show a screenshhot of your record upon application, mainly to ensure you're not just a raider who doesn't contribute much to gaining kingdom gold.

6.7 Equipment
​This is the place you can equip your freshly looted bandit's cloak, and is the real power source for your character. Tap on the slots to change gear. The next screen will only show you gear your class type is capable of equipping. So if you're a new mage, tapping your staff here will only give you options to change if you've found a new mage weapon; that dagger from the goblin you just killed is not usable by your current class.
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You'll see the four tabs at the top here allowing you to change your equipment for specific situations. World - Gauntlet - PvP - Raids. Apart from the world load-out, you have to manually tap the check-box to enable that load-out is actually used. Otherwise you will always use your world load-out for everything else. If you're wondering why you just got slaughtered in the arena you may have checked the box without equipping any gear on your PvP load-out. Self inflicted suicide hardcore mode engaged!

6.8 Inventory 
​The first thing we can all say is thank the dev for almost infinite bag space! You will eventually receive a pleasant message asking you to dispose of some clutter if you never get rid of anything though. But you'll never have to worry about not being able to pick up new items. Cycle through the different item categories on the side bar. You can then search, sort and filter your items by tier or quality by using the small green menu button on the bottom right. These parameters remain while changing item category until you clear the search or just exit the inventory.

6.8.1 Curative
Shows your magical healing inventory. You can tap on a potion to use it from here but I recommend using curatives from the quick potion button in world view.
Items - other consumable items are shown here. Typically your temporary buff items like lucky coins, exp potions and torches. Whetstones and Fine Whetstones are also only usable from this screen - use them to freely upgrade your world load-out weapon to levels 2 and 3, a great and immediate power boost at all tiers. Rarer items that summon bosses and world raid bosses are also used from here.

6.8.2 All other gear
Tapping on your accumulated gear will let you see its stats, tier, acquired date, adornment slots, class usability and the required materials used for upgrading this piece of gear. You'll then also see a few options:

• Drop - You lose this item forever
• Dismantle - Turn this piece of gear into valuable materials (highly recommended)
• Lock - Locked items will prevent you from accidentally disowning them
• Mark as junk - Good for mass selling gear later on
• Send to keep - Found your third ornate yeti coat? Send it to your trophy cabinet visible to nobody except you!

tip: long tapping a piece of gear for about one second will allow you to then select up to 50 items by fast tapping. This is great for mass dismantling or marking all as junk to be sold later, it's lovely to see all those dingy robes and chainmails get turned into hide and iron in a poof of dust!

Upgrading a piece of gear will also allow you to rename it. Useful if you're regularly swapping out gear pieces and experimenting with your load-outs, and for having the exact quality rating on the gear. So you equip your 200% Fey Crowsong instead of your 199%!

6.9 Options
​6.9.1 Gameplay 
Change your language settings to your preference. Plenty of these translations were done by members of the community and keep an eye out for their special sprites in the arena! The other options here are quite self-explanatory, the one thing I'd say is you surely have to have area grid-lines enabled!

Game Controls - These were only introduced during summer 2020, Odie truly busted his arse during lock down to give you options so try them out and use what's best for you.
Other option - Caster Mode - I suggest you try it after levelling up and equipping a couple more spells, you'll probably never turn it off after.

Auto Dismantle - One of the best quality of life features added to the game, and this now affects all item drops from monsters, PvP and Raids. While you're still learning the game and progressing fairly quickly through the tiers I'd recommend leaving this turned off for now. A new common quality weapon dropped from a world boss or raid you can kill at a new tier might still out-damage your dusty old legendary from 50 levels ago. As you progress and get a more thorough understanding of your gearing in this game remember to come back here and turn this on for your own sanity. Swashy builds need not comment! You'll also notice the highest quality found items cannot be auto-dismantled (Ornate).

Overheal - Checking this box will always heal you to 100% when using the auto-heal function in world. Leave this off if you're tight and like to save every penny on potions or if you find yourself running out of gold to buy more. Check this on if you love taking swords out of stone!

6.9.2 Graphics
Map Graphics - The main thing to note here is that the low setting will actually disable the map rotate and tilt functionality, so try and go with at least medium setting if your device can handle it.

• Don't use light theme unless you're at the beach and it's clear blue skies! So yes that's right I've never used light theme here in sunny Scotland...

Disable Animations - Usually a personal preference or hardware limitation, but in Orna disabling animations will actually also speed up your battle gameplay. Checking this will mean only damage numbers will be visible in battle but you will find that turn times will be noticeably reduced. Definitely use this later on if you fancy a solid grinding session and you want to beat your record max hour mob kill count. I must also say that having animations back on in my new play-through (having turned them off for over a year), Odie has done a great job recently with improving the fluidity of the animations. Like a whole bunch of features they have been greatly improved upon since I started playing.
Main take away: if you love the animations then just keep them on!

Weather - Who doesn't love seeing relaxing raindrops falling in their world, both in Orna and out my window! I'd say only turn these off if you really notice your hardware struggling with them, The moon weather effects in particular are my favourite.

6.9.3 Notifications
World notification pop ups are very useful for knowing when your equipment upgrades have finished or when an enemy player is going on an area rampage on your turf.
Kingdom notifications are very important when you join a kingdom. I really recommend turning on all notifications here. You'll want to try and fight in every war regardless if you win or lose, this will show your kingdom you are committed to the cause. If you find that kingdom raids are always dead when you log on, raid notifications will alert you when they start thus allowing you to get some damage in and reap the rewards. You'll also want to be sure you complete any kingdom gauntlet fights as promptly as your kingdom requires.

6.9.4 Character
Here you can set your privacy settings either on or off. Having them off will mean you will remain anonymous in any interaction with other players in the world. For example if you take an area off a player they will not see your name, it will instead be replaced by your class and faction like "Majistrate of Frozenguard". Obviously if you fancy making a name for yourself and causing local uproar, leave these checked off.
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Another rare thing that may happen involving other player buildings: if someone finds your home-base they might think it funny by building a bunch of shops or bestiaries over your buildings, disrupting your ability to shop in peace. If this happens I recommend checking the "hide buildings" box. Also a good idea to hide all your home base buildings from other players anyway, you can do that on individual building options.
You can also log out of this character to hop onto a different character you've created, connect to google play games, or even forget or delete your character completely.

 6.13 Party
Another important cooperative gameplay component to Orna is partying. Now you have to be practically next to the person you want to party with (approx within 100m), but once you're in the party you can go your separate ways and gain all the benefits of being in a party without issue. On this screen you can invite, leave or disband your party. Tap on a nearby traveller to invite them to your party, they will get a world notification to join the party(you have to go to the world notification screen to join). We'll include party bonuses in the beginner's guide.

6.14 Skills
In here the skills loadout works much the same as the equipment loadouts, with the same four loadouts available for World - Gauntlet - PvP - Raids. Once you unlock or buy new skills you'll be able to use them on every class. Tap on a skill slot to equip a new skill which will then be available to use in battle. Different classes will have a different number of skill slots available to them, so you may have to be selective. A good mix of buffs and attacks is typical, but more in-depth information and strategies will be available in our builds section.

6.15 Character
We saved the best to last on the main menu screen! This is where to unlock and change class, specialisation, sprites and even your character name. Remember that every class you unlock will then be always available for you to play, you can switch class freely at all times, however specialisations work differently and you'll have to pay every time you want to switch specialisation. I personally love this thematically, if you want to go into defense mode you can specialise into that, or if you want to try pet builds you'll definitely want to be speccing into beastmaster and later tamer.

6.15.1 Class
Each class will have a small description of its lore backstory along with its most important strengths and weaknesses. Use the arrows to cycle through all the classes, locked classes will be greyed out as you haven't met their prerequisites yet. Orn costs will let you know your goals. If you've unlocked multiple classes you'll be able to switch freely between them.
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Stats will show you the required level and previous unlocked classes, the number of skills lots you'll be able to load, its preferred weapon types which provide 5% offensive stat bonus, and the general type of skills you learn with this class. You'll also see the stat changes that will occur if you switch to this class, these are base stats so you may be confused if you check the stat page and the numbers don't match up, you ened to take into account any stat bonuses affecting you.

Skills will show you all the skills you'll learn with this class at the responding level required to unlock. Remember if you've switched classes and levelled up, you may have to go back and switch to classes to unlock their skills.

Abilities show your class passives which are active as soon as you switch into that class. Some passives require charging via specific mob type kills or playtime, these typBes of passive will typically provide a stat boost. Other types of passive may increase the healing from potions, increase critical strike chance, increase pet power and activity rate or even allow you to avoid death in battle.

6.15.2 Specialisation
At tiers 3, 5, 7 and 9 you'll have access to new specialisations which are basically a sub-class to your main class. Remember you have to pay to switch specs, even to switch back to a spec you've used previously. Specs also apply base stat bonuses and have weapon proficiency, new skills and special passives.

6.15.3 Customise
Here you can change your character title, sprite and gender. You'll notice that your specialisation has a sprite available so you can actually change your sprite for free, gender changes most sprites a small amount also.

6.15.4 Information
​You can actually change your character name here and link an email address to your account, important for password recovery if ever necessary.

Quick Potions Menu - This vital little menu will help you every day in your Ornaventure. Tapping it shows your available curative potions and item buffs available, careful not to double tap your item buffs! You'll also notice the auto-heal button in the top right, hold it for a second to automatically drink just the right amount of potions to fill your health and mana bars. This function uses your smallest potions first, then large and greater and so on.
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Quick tip: To use auto-heal you don't even need to be in this menu, you can actually hold down the potions button in the world map view and it uses your auto-heal immediately!
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Tapping the area button will open up one of the most fascinating world features of Orna, and something that brings out the best of currently design augmented reality features in mobile gaming. The world map is scattered with territories (areas) approximately 500m in diameter. Opening the Area menu will give information on the current area you are situated, its name and its centre-point distance to you is visible in the top left. You have to be within 250m to interact with the area. This menu is split into five tabs: Areas - Explore - Control - Build - Nearby

8.1 Areas
Below the area name and blue shield you can see the resource yield this area provides you if you've explored or are in control of the area. You'll then see three influence bars which dictate how strong the player in control is in defending this territory. This influence is determined by who is in control of its surrounding areas. So if a local player has captured your entire town, they'll have maximum influence. You can also make your current area your origin town. You can change your origin town once every 7 days and I recommend making the place you play most often (e.g. your couch) your origin town, but it's extremely useful if you're away for a week or so to move origin town, as it provides a massive 10% stat boost whilst inside it. If you're in control of the area you can also rename it for 100,000 orns.

8.2 Explore
Every area in the game has a guardian, a mob that is waiting to be defeated to grant you income. The mob is random in each area and can be any tier and can also be a boss. Try your best to explore any new area you can, the mob kill rewards are also doubled, so it's a good way to boost your exp and orns when paired with shrines.

8.3 Control
Shows the player currently in control of the area, their faction and kingdom if they are in one. Hold to challenge to try and take control. Attacks on controlling players are restricted to one per hour, so you may have to chip away at a stronger player a few times to finally defeat them. But it's great motivation in getting strong enough to finally take control off the stronger local players.

8.4 Build
Here's the place you can construct buildings at your location. Shops, bestiaries and blacksmiths can be built in unlimited quantities in an area, but the jeweller and outpost are limited to one per area. Your keep can only be built once and has to be in your origin town. You can also spend your decor tokens here to buy decorations to make your local area a nicer place to slay mobs!

8.5 Nearby
​This screen shows the mobs and bosses alive in your current area. Silhouetted sprites indicate you've not battled that mob yet. You may see bosses of much higher tiers also silhouetted out with three question marks beneath it, that just means you're not high enough level to encounter that boss yet. This screen is useful as it shows weather specific mobs as well even if that weather is not currently active.

So I think I will end this UI guide here, as I feel it gives a decent overview of where to find most features in game. Sure there are a couple of things missing, for kingdoms especially, but that will be covered in a kingdom focused guide. The game certainly allows you a number of different options to cater your playing experience to your taste and current in-game situation. Please bear in mind that new features may have been added to the game after this guide was written, but we'll do our best to keep it up to date. As always please feel free to get in touch or drop a comment down below if there's anything we've missed and anything in particular you'd like more help with.
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Thanks for reading!

Immediately upon starting the game you'll find a distinct lack of something: ads! Crazy in modern times, but for Orna and its single developer Odie, the monetisation strategy has proved perfect. Zero adverts are the first win for gamers, the second is zero pay-to-win either, with an in-game runeshop that caters only for additional sprite packs (let's call it micro-transactions), and yes there are shrines available to purchase that increase your progress minimally, but these are easily available in the in-game world anyway.
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​Orna mixes the classic fantasy RPG elements and turn-based combat with the relatively new tech of GPS gaming and it works amazingly well. This has established a decently sized player base with typical backgrounds from RPGs, but also from newer games like PokemonGO, where the GPS related content is rivalled and arguably bettered in many ways by Orna's one man dev team. So if you've come across this post without ever trying the game for some reason I highly recommend downloading it and giving it a blast, be sure to head back here for strategies and guides to help you conquer your local domain!

Having logged a good bit over 100 days of playing time over the last 12 months across at least two accounts, and currently at the time of writing am only 2 levels away from max, I'm looking to now share my knowledge and understanding of the game to all players. There's heaps of blog posts, guides, builds and strategies arriving here soon, catering to all levels of game progress. 
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There's certainly useful information available to you regarding the game, with a helpful main discord and Orna Guide (which I will undoubtedly be referring to regularly), but I've noticed there's a decent gap of player made content for the game that's easily consumable. Of course not everyone is actively on discord either, so there's a definite hole to fill for players to learn more about the game. My plan is to fill that gap with Orna Legends, and maybe on YouTube.

​Whether you and your kingdom are struggling to defeat The Morrigan, or you need some tips on gearing to overcome your current tier wall, or even if you've only just managed to take down your first local Bandit Lord, this is the perfect place to understand the game better and take your geo-location rpg experience to the next level.
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To start with there'll be guides and stuff loosely based under a limited number of categories, which I will endeavour to refine as we go along and there's actually content I've made that needs refining. I'll definitely be looking to engage with the Orna community and you, the reader on content you'd like to see, guides, builds, videos, etc. There's certainly a lot of knowledge that isn't easily available outside of kingdom chat and discord servers, which I'll be finding a home for here. Anyway the list below will be a rough indication of the content arriving to this site over the coming weeks and months.

​As always please get in touch if there's anything specific you'd like help with in-game!

• General gameplay guides, split into early, mid and late game
• Unexpected or unknown tips and tricks covering all aspects of the game
• Build guides for all archetypes, at all gameplay tiers covering classes, specialisations, gear, skills and followers
• Build guides split into PvE and PvP
• Bestiary guide - how to kill everything in the game
• Kingdom management
• New play-through content, play a new char with me!
• Eventually plan to set up a YouTube channel to turn everything into video content if there's a decent amount of demand
• Oh and a beginner's guide outlining the basics of the game because everyone loves them and you might even discover something you didn't know!

So that concludes my first ever blog post online - the finger is officially out - time to really get this site up and running and filled with quality Orna content for you glorious folk.

Thanks for reading