Starter Guide [Callback]

How to Start Efficiently in 2024?

• Hello! Welcome to Dekaron Rising. This guide is built for people who are overwhelmed with new information and do not know where to start. 
• Some quick notes:
  • As of October 2023, all characters created start at Level 200. You already have Meisters, Grand Meisters, and Trans UP 3 Unlocked!
  • You are also given a few freebie boxes, open them and use them as needed. READ EVERYTHING IN THE INVENTORY IF YOU ARE NEW - YOU MIGHT DISCARD IMPORTANT ITEMS!!!
  • As of November 2023, new characters created no longer have the 15-day Holy Water in the Level 199 box. A 1-day HW is in the Level 220 Box, 7-day HW in the Level 225 Box, and 15-day HW in the Level 227 Box. Along with this, there are some extra freebies which will help you in your journey.

• Here is how I will start my character (as someone who played since the start of the server and has not stopped since) if I am entering the server today. Take any of the following with a grain of salt - and better yet, learn from it and make it better for your own journey. 

Quick Guides

• AFK Leveling (Arcadia Parties)
  • This is a quick way to level up to 210 (to max Grand Meister skills) really early on if there are parties available. Find a party using the party search. Open the Party UI, click “Find” then click “Search”. MAKE SURE TO NOT ATTACK TO AVOID DYING. ‘Arcadia’ and ‘Arcadia Prison’ require you to have an item buff named ‘Arcadia Protection’ activated which would not be available to you early on.
    • Pictures for party search
• AFK Leveling (Arcadia Prison)
  • This is the better version of the Arcadia Party. Similar concept but you need ‘Arcadia Protection’ activated AT ALL TIMES. You will die here without it activated EVEN IF YOU DO NOT ATTACK. It is optimal to use Battle Support in this map so you can level even if you are not actively playing in-game.
  • However, because of the changes to the Holy Water freebies, you may level at Arcadia Prison later on instead. 
• Deadfront / Ice Castle
  • This is the best way for you to level up at all stages of the game. However, it is only available during certain times. Look for the events time on the Launcher and on the Website. 
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• AFK Farming (Mitera)
  • Great way of farming early on if you are not active in-game and it gives a bit of exp at the early levels too. You will get here items such as Mitera Ghost, Insanity, and Anger fragments, Seed of Dreams, Snowflakes, and Gemstones which will be important later on. 
  • **Note the Holy Water change from above. You may not be able to this way of farming as much in current times.
• Early Dungeons you should do
  • Elonohm - teleport to Elonohm Shrine [Elonohm] directly using Holy Water or teleport from Makaio -> Valley Rift, walk to Ydnak NPC -> Elonohm Sanctuary, then walk to Elonohm (Dungeon). Dungeon gives a good amount of EXP, dil, and Seed of Dreams (5x a day)
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  • Ruins of Baz - teleport to Dravice Village using Holy Water then teleport to Ancient Presence (Dungeon). Without Holy Water, teleport from Makaio -> Valley Rift, walk to Dravis Town, then walk to Ancient Presence (Dungeon). Dungeon gives a starter amount of dil, and Gniar’s Stolen Scroll (unlimited runs)
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  • Ruins of Rudene - same entry as Ruins of Baz. Gives a starter amount of dil, and Seed of Dreams (unlimited runs)
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  • Forgotten Underground Temple - Using holy water, teleport from Ardeca map to Closed Dimensional Door then enter Mitera. From here, teleport or walk to the entrance. Without holy water, just walk the whole way from Ardeca. Dungeon gives a good amount of dil, Mitera’s Ghost Fragment, Mitera’s Anger Fragment, Mitera’s Insanity Fragment, Helpyron’s Flame, and Weapon Mudrocks.
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  • Karon’s Fire Pot - Similar to Forgotten Underground Temple, they are both located in Mitera. However, the entrance of Karon's Fire Pot is just on a nearby location as Forgotten Underground Temple. You can get Stone Gems, Armor Gems, Weapon Gems, Jewel Gems, Helpyron Armor Boxes, Steel Gemstone from here.
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  • Colosseum (Solo) Arena - Enter via buying tickets from Dein NPC, located in Colosseum Lobby. To get to the lobby, enter the door (behind Capelia Myst High Priest NPC) at the bottom left of Ardeca. This dungeon gives you Fight Tickets, Champion Tokens, and Grade Points. 
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Once you have read the quick guides, we can move on to the actual start of the game. 

The 3x Characters you want

• Note that a player is allowed to use 3 clients per device. I would create any Main character (up to you), and two farming characters: Good starting choices are Vicious Summoner (Synthetic Bringer), and a Segita Shooter (Pierce). I would also create a separate account as my “24/7 seller”. This is done via the Consignment Seller skill. I will be trading items from my farming characters to this account and sell them here so I can sell items even if my computer is offline.
• Why a TB Summoner and a Pierce Shooter? 
  • First, a TB Summoner is the strongest class at the start, and is solid at all types of PVE from early game to the endgame. The main reason is the surviability. This class has Shadow Revenge which gives great Damage Resistance and Blood Bats which allows you to heal up to full HP. This will allow you to finish any early dungeon with just the freebie items equipped. Because of innate survivability, you can opt to go full STR making your character naturally have high damage output while not dying in dungeons. 
  • Then, a Pierce Shooter is the strongest PVE class in terms of raw damage output. This will finish the dungeons the fastest given that the character can survive.
• For this “pretend” scenario, I will be restricting myself to 3 clients played at once. You may use as many as you want, depending on your capabilities in terms of devices and how much time you have. 

First Week in Rising (Main Character only)

• For the first 7 days, my Main character will 24/7 be AFK in Arcadia Prison parties (ideally) or Arcadia. This is dependent on whether you are spending on Holy Water and Arcadia Protections at the start. With the new Holy Water change, expect to AFK on Arcadia most of the time. I would be staying AFK at parties in Arcadia, whenever they are available. The reasoning for this is the 7-day EXP Talisman freebie. This will catapult you into high levels right at the start.
  • Along with this, attend Deadfront / Ice Castle as much as you can.
  • picture of the result after 7-day AFK (level 225-226).

What YOU SHOULD DO at the start

1. First, create your main character. I would highly recommend starting with a PVE character such as a Summoner, or a Shooter like I have said above. For this guide, I created a main Shooter. The first thing you do with this character is 5x Elonohm.
   • Here is what an Elonohm looks like as a starter character:
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   • After 5 runs you will have something like this:
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   • With this farm, sell your Seed of Dreams and focus on getting your Meisters / Grand Meisters maxed. For example, I was able to sell the following into this via buying Arcadia Protections trading them for 35m each, and bought 20k Gniar's Stolen Scroll for 700m dil.
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   • Here are the results after using 20k Scrolls:
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2. Then, you have an important decision to make. The fastest way to farm in the early game is doing Elonohm DG. As of November 2023, a starter character can finish it. Are you willing to do 1 dungeon hundreds of times? If yes, you will be creating a bunch of 'alt' Farming characters. Around 10-15 characters. These characters you will use ONLY TO DO Elonohm (5x Daily).
   • A combination of 4500 Snowflakes and 4500 Gemstones will be key to get your mount. This is crucial because of how fast you can navigate the maps with it.
   • The Seed of Dreams you farm should be sold to buy the things you need first, or you can dump them all into Arcadia Protections whenever you do not need dil. Seed of Dreams are not tradeable. However, the items you can exchange with using Seed of Dreams are not. 
   • Your main character will need Arcadia Protections to level up in Arcadia Prison for the first 7 days. Note that Arcadia Prison is A LOT faster than Arcadia. You will not be available to play 24/7 on 3 characters at once. It is efficient to always keep 2x characters AFK (if you have Holy Water) while you play actively on your main character.
   • If you do not like this way, you may do the following below:

Farming without Elonohm Alts

1. For this way, you will be doing Ruins of Rudene and Colosseum (Solo) Arena. These dungeons do not have a limit. Rudene will give you Seed of Dreams and dil. Colosseum Arena will give you Fight Tickets, Champion Tokens, and God of War socket gems. 
   • Sample Ruins of Rudene
   • Sample Colosseum (Solo) Arena
2. Make sure to upgrade your Shooter’s Meister and Grand Meister first as they are much more important for you at the start. Personally, I would do step #1 and rush sell materials until my Shooter’s Meisters and Grand Meisters are at least maxed. 
3. Then, after upgrading skills, the tickets and tokens you continue to farm will be used to make your God of War Bracelet and Champion Bracelet. The God of War socket gems can be used to make Socket Powder that you can sell, or you can use them as ‘crap gems’ to socket your weapons, bracelets, and belts. You need 380 Fight Tickets and 1700 Champion Tokens in total.
4. Another dungeon you can spam is Karon’s Fire Pot. Your goal will be to acquire Weapon Gems, Stone Gems, and Jewel Gems (optional) as they will be of great value to your free items. Get 9% Elemental Weapon Gems which matches your character's element, while physical-based damage may use any element. For example, Shooters you may use 9% Lightning Weapon Gems and 7% Lightning Stone Gems for bracelets/belts while for Twin Blade Summoners, you may use any element. If you are lucky enough, you could get Jewel Battle gems which can give you attack damage for your wings. If not, you may just buy them from the Agency. Other items here will drop which you may sell for dil: Helpyron Armor Boxes, Armor Gems, and Steel Gemstone. The other gems that you would not need for now like Enhanced Jewel MP, Health Sardonyx, Health All Defence, etc. you may sell for now. Note that you do not need, and you cannot put Armor Gems in the free starter set. The free +15 set itself has the 4x armor gems stats already in it. 
   • Sample Karon's Fire Pot
5. After you get the gems you need in Karon’s Fire Pot, you should have a good amount of ‘crap gems’. Use the crap gems you got from Fire Pot or Colosseum Arena to socket your Twin Blade, Pierce, Bracelets, Belts, and other weapons you will be using. 

Sample Daily Routine as a starter

1. After you are done with socketing your weapons, bracelets and belt, you should now be able to do all of the following dungeons with ease:
   • Elonohm (only 5x per day)
   • Forgotten Underground Temple (unlimited)
   • Ruins of Rudene (unlimited)
   • Ruins of Baz (unlimited)
   • Colosseum (Solo) Arena (unlimited)
   • Karon’s Fire Pot (unlimited)
2. Repeat all the dungeons above until your 3 characters have the following:
   • Maxed Meisters and Grand Meisters
   • Socketed Free Elite Helpyron +7 Weapons
   • Socketed Panacea Bracelets (x2 per farming character)
   • Socketed Gold Dragon Scale Belt 
   • Socketed God of War Bracelet and Socketed Champion Bracelet (for your main)
   • PVE Mount Type 1 for all characters
3. Future upgrades you can buy / make (if you are a fast farmer):
   • Rare Frozen Necklace
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   • Abyss-Fallen Sailor’s Ring
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   • Offensive Wings
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   • PVE pet + pet ATK gem
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   • Talisman V
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   • Aquanic / Snowflake Emblem V
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   • Divine Moon Star Earrings
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Daily Routine after 7 days 

1. Same dungeons as before, with the following added:
   • Sacred Claw - until you have crafted your Perpetuus
   • Dravice Secret Passageway - until you get your title
   • Python Castle - until you get your title
   • Favnil’s Nest - until you get 25 Lava Stones
2. Last step, you may move on to the tougher dungeons and tougher maps. Both of them require a party of 3 players to start. You may bring more players as much as you need. Here are the two:
   • Kastrioti’s Mansion (party of 3) 
     • Maxed Armor Gems
   • Tower of Magic (party of 3)
     • Maxed Jewel Gems, IV Stone Gems, and Grade Points
   • Arcadia (AFK)
     • Snowflakes, Gemstones, Gniar's Stolen Scrolls, Seed of Dreams, C Coins, Copper/Silver/Gold Argates
     • Requires Arcadia Protection activated at all times
   • Arcadia Prison (AFK) 
     • Liberty Essence, Gemstones, Fortress Vouchers, Snowflakes, C Coins, Copper/Silver/Gold Argates, Copper/Silver/Gold Argates
     • Requires Arcadia Protection activated at all times
3. Once you are now using your main character actively, you may do the following easy titles for stats (as you see fit, and as many as you can). You may complete other titles if you believe you can. 

Savior (2/34)

• +25 Heal stats.
• Doomed Maze -> Python Castle (InDun)
• Python Castle Dungeon - Kill 1000 prisoners to complete the quest.
• Take quest (Savior) from the Python Castle (InDun) entrance.

YOLO (3/34)

• +500 Defense
• Elleghos Dungeon - Kill boss Mellias
• Space of Pilgrimage -> (InDun) Warp
• Note: You have to kill every monster to progress the first part of the dungeon. 

Spirit Summoner (4/34)

• +2% (M) Damage Tolerance 
• Elleghos Dungeon - Kill 2nd boss Irias without dying since the start of the dungeon.
• Space of Pilgrimage -> (InDun) Warp)
• Note: You have to kill every monster to progress the first part of the dungeon. 

A Destructive Instinct (6/34)

• +125 All Attack
• Valley Rift -> Elonohm Sanctuary -> Dravice Secret Passageway Dungeon
• Dravice Secret Passageway Dungeon - Kill 1000 non-spawning dungeon monsters.
• Take the quest at the Entrance.

I Fly Solo (8/34)

• +125 All Attack
• Valley Rift -> Deadlands -> Jakhan NPC
• Infinite Battle 2 Dungeon - Finish it solo.

Taste of Combo (10/34)

• +125 All Attack
• Norak Cave -> Norak Secret Arena
• Norak Secret Arena - kill final boss.

I Hate Yogmond (12/34)

• +5% Movement Speed
• Dravice Village -> Dravice Field [DK Server]
• Dravice Field - die 5 times to Yogmond.

Frontier Pioneer (14/34) 

• +125 All Attack
• Ardeca -> Vascuda NPC
• Guild Frontier - enter the Battlefield area. (Ask any active guild for help)

Power of Helpyron (15/34)

• +125 All Attack
• Ardeca -> Closed Dimensional Door -> Mitera -> Forgotten Underground Temple
• Forgotten Underground Temple - give all materials to Miriam.
• Get 1x Baron's Crystal, 1x Baron's Necklace, 1x Bishop's Bible, 1x Bishop's Crystal, 1x Helpyron's Eye, 1x Helpyron's Nail, 1x Helpyron's Skin from the dungeon. 

Suffering Corridor (17/34)

• +125 All Attack
• Denebe -> Butler Alfredo [NPC]
• Death Corridor - Clear Normal Mode

Greedy One (19/34)

• +125 All Attack
• Denebe -> Butler Alfredo [NPC]
• Death Corridor - Clear Easy Mode

Solo Champion (20/34)

• +125 All Attack
• Ardeca -> Colosseum Lobby -> Dein [NPC]
• Colosseum Arena (Solo) - Finish the dungeon.

Agent of 12 Gods (27/34)

• +120 All Elemental Resistance
• Crespo -> Crespo Abyss (DK Server) -> Karon's Fragments [InDun]
• Finish Karon's Fragments [InDun].

From here on out, feel free to do any of the dungeons that make the most profit for you. Figure out the items that the market needs then farm them. At this point, it is a matter of repetition and quick grinding until you reach the endgame. Make up your own routines and achieve all of the goals found in the full Progression Guide.