For quick build loadouts from this guide please go here(not released yet), otherwise please continue on to read the full guide below!
​YouTube video at the bottom of the guide also.

The first opportunity to strip naked for high attack in Orna obviously starts when we can unlock the Swash spec at tier 7 (lvl 150). Typically it’s rare for all players to have the heavy 2 Mil orn cost to purchase their tier 7 class directly on reaching level 150. However the 50K orns cost for tier 7 specs is an easier pill to swallow and in the case for this guide, provides a great introduction to the world of Swash with the Blademaster class (the main melee option at tier 6).

Going Swash first gives us time to get accustomed to the Swash life and be prepared - it’s the ultimate glass cannon playstyle and likely very different to how you’ve played Orna up until this point. As usual when entering a new tier in the game we’ve got a number of fairly brutal mobs to deal with at tier 7 that can be especially tough to deal with while being a class tier down. The tier 7 Majistrate class gains over 1000 HP which will make most difficult Blademaster encounters much easier to deal with, however we gotta start somewhere.

​Nevertheless, Blademaster Swash is fun, fast and as long as you’re prepared to die regularly and lose a few dungeons here and there, it’s definitely an awesome and viable entry into tier 7 and more importantly for your overall Orna career, it’s a great first step into the wonderful world of Swash.

​As always, we’ve got heaps of experienced Swash players on hand to help out in the Orna Legends discord server, welcome to everyone - you’ll also want to join the dedicated Swash server set up by Swash legend Lenneth Valkyrie called  The Arisen Swashbuckler. A must-visit for all aspiring Swashies.

Once your character reaches level 50 (tier 3) you will unlock the ability to enter Gauntlets and Dungeons to slay the foul demons and beasts within! You will need gauntlet keys to enter but don't worry, there are plenty of opportunities to find these by playing the game normally. One of the best ways early on is to kill as many bosses in the world that you can, also keep an eye out for quests giving keys as a reward.
Dungeons and your menu Gauntlet are effectively the same content, just that Dungeons are statically located on the world map and your menu Gauntlet is of course accessible wherever you are. All dungeons and your gauntlet have individual cooldowns, they are not shared, allowing you to complete many many dungeons if time allows.

What you may have realised if you've completed a number of dungeons already through different levels, is that the number and type of monster you encounter within Dungeons actually changes depending on what tier of Dungeon you have entered. You can actually change the tier of dungeon (up to your tier) with the drop down menu. If you enter without changing anything the game will create a dungeon of your current tier automatically.

Each Dungeon Tier has a set number of mobs/bosses that will appear within the dungeon. For example a tier 5 dungeon has 3 extra floors and 2 extra bosses than any tier 1 - 4 dungeons, but also certain floors will have a certain tier of mob that always spawns. The mobs within those tiers are always random. Any mob can spawn in dungeons except from weather specific mobs, so it's a great place to farm water biome mobs for example. There also exists dungeon-only mobs which can be lucrative also.

The infographic below is a useful resource showing what tiers of mobs spawn in each tier of dungeon, as well as what floors you will find bosses on. 
The X-axis dictates which tier of Dungeon you are entering and Y-axis shows how deep or how many floors and therefore number of mobs the relevant tier of Dungeon contains within.

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?!

​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.

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!