Starter Guide

So... um... I was getting asked about how to start... I'll share my gameplan (if I was f2p) with yall... Might not be perfect, but eh... Keep in mind that you will not be able to max your character in a day or perhaps a week... But you will be able to max it easily...

Patch 10.2: https://dekaron-rising.com/news/articles/patch-102-changes-r13/
Patch 10.3: https://dekaron-rising.com/news/articles/patch-103-rng-removal-dungeon-improvements-r14/
Patch 10.4: https://dekaron-rising.com/news/articles/patch-104-newbie-revamp-rng-removal-and-more-r15/
Patch 10.6: https://dekaron-rising.com/news/articles/patch-106-black-friday-3x-weekend-bug-fixesqol-changes-r17/
Patch 11.3: https://dekaron-rising.com/guides/how-to-get-dk-coins-as-of-patch-113-santa-karon-dungeon-pet-rng-removal-r59/

TODO LIST:

Go to Mitera and get your meisters.
Use the Closed Dimension Gate in Ardeca to get to Mitera (That's the NPC you use to go to Shangri-La/El-Mar in Rising A9). Go to Meister Gniar to start the quest. If you're having difficulties look up videos on how to do Meister Quest on youtube.
Do Trans Up 1 and Trans Up 2.
You are going to need them eventually to do Trans Up 3. You can find videos for all trans up quests with guides on youtube.
Get to Lv. 200.
Try to get yourself an AFK party in Arcadia or worst case scenario, afk farm in Mitera... You'll get Mitera Ghost, Anger, Insanity drops, Gniar Stolen Scrolls, Fortress Vouchers and other useful things that you can sell if you need DIL for dungeons.
Do your Trans Up 3 quest.
There are plenty of parties in Shangri-La farming Adamentium and Heavenly Energy, that might add you if you just need the monster count for the quest. Worst case scenario find a spot to grind out until you get the 300 monsters. There are videos with guides on how to do trans up 3 on youtube
Do your Grand Meister quest.
This is legit the most important quest ingame. The Starting NPC is Mystra in Ardeca (Right infront of the entrance to Mitera). The quest is long and annoying, but pretty easy. Look up guides on how to do it on youtube.
Do Ellonhom or Ruins of Rudene to farm Seed of Dreams.
Ellonhom dungeon is easy enough to solo, worst case scenario - duo. This gonna require some dungeon spamming. Similar to the one you were doing in A9 for your gems/MC3s and so on. You can find this dungeon in Ellonhom map. (use your Holy Water premium functions to teleport there). Alternatively you can do Ruins of Rudene to get seeds as of Patch 10.3. Pro Tip: Buying an independent necklace from Incarnation of Helion shop (NPC, Ardeca) is super important. Only costs 50 Seed of Dreams anyway
Do Forgotten Temple for DIL and Helpyron Belt/Bracelets and Mitera Material boxes.
You will probably need a party for this. The dungeon is not hard, however the spider room can be tricky as cyclopses that one shot you spawn when killing monsters. Try to make a big lure with all the spiders you can get on you and then use your best AOE skills to clear the lure. Final boss drops Mitera Materials Box, which you will need to upgrade some of your main accessories
Do Karon's Fire Pot for mid tier gems and helpyron armor/weapon boxes.
Tips:
1. Kill the big caccoon in the room with the first boss to have the normal mode of the dungeon, otherwise you will not get drops after killing Dr. Lobo.
2. Take the title at the entrance. When you kill the 1k cocoons you'll get a 1% PVP Res bonus. Wait for 2/3x Drop Rate events.
Do Ruins of Baz for Gnire Stolen Scrolls.
Patch 10.3 introduced a new way of farming Gnire Stolen Scrolls aside of Battle Support farming in the lights of the well known dungeons Ruins of Baz. Finishing the dungeon will get you a total of 450 Gnire Stolen Scrolls, which is pretty solid having in mind how quick the dungeon is. Strongly recommend spamming this as much as possible until your meisters are maxed.
Repeat 6,7, 8 and 9 to gather materials, gems, helpyron parts, gnire scrolls and so on.
Do Dead Front and Ice Castle until you get a New Moon Earring.

Also: There is an attendance event going on which would give you mid tier crests. don't forget to pick them up by clicking on the check mark icon in the top left corner (It's eventually going to start glowing when you've reached the requirements)

OTHER IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES:
This part is for those of you that have enough damage, have their meisters maxed out and have worked on their accessories. It's pointless to rush through content that you're not ready for.

Get your crafting mastery
Guide on the crafting system here: https://dekaron-rising.com/guides/crafting-guide-r10/. All in all, get your mastery up so you can eventually start crafting.
Do Undo Mazukie dungeon
You will need to get materials to start crafting your Helion gear. This dungeon wouldn't be hard for the people that have spent some time grinding, boss bosses don't have one shot mechanics, so you should be fine. Pro tip: Get a group to spam it with. The drops are currently super generous.
Do Crespo Hard dungeon
Aside of the final boss mechanics where you need to avoid the shitty rocks falling on top of you that could probably one shot you, there's not that much else you should keep in mind for this dungeon. Dungeon isn't hard, but still requires a party. Pro tip: Don't forget to kill the mini boss.
Farm in Shangri-La
You will definitely need the drops there... Adamentium and Heavenly Energy are needed for crafting Helion Weapons.
Get a Fallen Sailor's Ring
Guide on how to get a ring here: https://dekaron-rising.com/guides/obtaining-the-fallen-sailors-ring-as-of-patch-106-black-friday-3x-weekend-bug-fixesqol-changes-r40/
Craft your shit (Helion Armours / Weapons and MC3s)
This part would require you to have your crafting mastery at Lv. 3.
1. For the weapon mastery you'll need:
  Socket Powder - Disassemble gems or soul stones at Carmen
  Fortress Vouchers Farm in Mitera / Dravice
  Gemstones Farm in Mitera / Dravice
  Creator's Mudrock - Crafted with Weapon Mastery Lv. 1
  Adamentium - Farmed in Shangri-La
  Heavenly Energy - Farm in Shangri-La
  Sun Essence - Farm in Undo Mazukie dungeon in Space of Pilgrimage
  1st Grade Weapon Mudrock - Farmed in Forgotten Temple or Crafted through Weapon Mastery Lv. 1
  Helpyron Weapons - Farmed in Karon's Fire Pot or crafted through Weapon Mastery Lv. 2
2. For the armour mastery you'll need:
  Socket Powder - Disassemble gems or soul stones at Carmen
  Fortress Vouchers Farm in Mitera / Dravice
  Gemstones Farm in Mitera / Dravice
  Helion Blessing Token - Undo Mazukie dungeon
  Helion Ordeal Token - Undo Mazukie dungeon
  Helion Courage Token - Undo Mazukie dungeon
  Monochrome Ore - Undo Mazukie dungeon
  Sun Essence - Undo Mazukie dungeon
  White Knight Leader's Reference - Undo Mazukie dungeon
  Helpyron Armours - Farmed in Karon's Fire Pot or Crafted through Armour Mastery Lv. 2
3. MC3 Materials:
  Arcadian Gold Dust - Craft Arcadia Coin Wing, Arcadia Coin Sun, Arcadia Coin Moon into Arcadian Gold Dust through Common section of Crafting Mastery or farm Crespo Hard dungeon
  Enhanced Plate - Farm Crespo Hard dungeon
  Condensed Fire - Farm Crespo Hard dungeon
Farm in Arcadia Prison
This is the only place that currently drops Liberty Essence, which you can use to put sockets in your wings (At Carmen) and upgrade them at the Blacksmith next to Pablos
Holy Water's premium service is your best friend!
You can open the store, stash, mail and agency remotely as well as teleport to any normal server map and any NPC on it. Additional information can be found here: https://dekaron-rising.com/guides/holy-water-of-almighty-r28/
Farm your DK Coins
Collect your DK Coins. You will 100% need them to upgrade your Perpetus or re-roll it. Guide here: https://dekaron-rising.com/guides/how-to-get-dk-coins-as-of-patch-113-santa-karon-dungeon-pet-rng-removal-r59/

Upgrade your shit.
START WITH HORN (guide below). Get your horn to the second to last version (When the success rate is 20%). Once you get to that upgrade start upgrading your New Moon Earring. (More information below).

Slot your Weapon and armlets.
I mean... It's obvious WHY you should do it... DMG diff is huge. You can go ahead and brand them as well.

ALSO:
Don't forget to do your dailies...
Death Corridor in Deneb (NPC - Buttler Alfredo) - 2x per day (For circulation argates, you're gonna need these to upgrade your circulation emblem)
Favnil Dungeon in Dravice - 2x per day (to get your wings)
Transport Ship in Requies - 1x per day (to get fallen sailor ring)
Colo Solo dungeon in Colosseum Lobby - ?x per day (to get whatever, pointless... Drops suck anyway... Success rate sucks too)
Deux dung in Doomed Maze - 2x per day (to get the title)
Crespo Abyss in Under Crespo (Next to Iyad NPC)- 5x per day (to get ranks)

I'm probably missing some here...

if you are farming in Mitera do CQ quests so you can donate Adventure Points to your guild. Also, Mitera main quests give a lot of experience at Lv. 180 - Lv. 200.

Buying/Upgrading Meisters:

Farm Gniar's Stolen Scrolls by either battle support in Mitera and Arcadia or by doing Ruins of Baz.
Go to Desacato in Mitera
Open the shop (3rd row)
Buy the skill book boxes you want to upgrade (When opening the boxes, select the correct class and the skill tree that you are using)
Go to Meister Gniar (next to Desacato in Mitera)
Open the Meister Upgrade UI (1st row)

Incarnation of Helion (NPC, Ardeca):

Q: What is the Incarnation of Helion NPC in Ardeca?
A: This is the NPC where you exchange majority of the materials that you gather across the maps from farming, doing battlegrounds and so on.

Q: What can I exhange my materials for?
A: Lots of stuff. Few important ones: Arcadia Protection - Used for grinding in Arcadia (150x Seed of Dreams), Crest costume - Costume that you can put crests in (4500x Seed of Dreams), Crests (1000/3400x Seed of Dreams), Meister Change (8000x Seed of Dreams), Graces and Glories (1900x Seed of Dreams), Soul Stones (1500x Seed of Dreams), Death Moonstone - Used for upgrading the New Moon Earring (250x Mitera Ghost), extra dungeon tickets (prices vary) and more...

Q: What is the second tab for?
A: Second type is for the same items as in the first tab, but for non-binded materials. This is due to the difference in the indexes of the materials and the requirement for each purchase.

TIP! Brand your gear:
Brand even your starter gear... Any brands are going to be of help. Depending on your character go with what it requires. I legit don't feel like going into details as there are 13 (soon 14) classes in-game. Might leave it for another day 🤷‍♂️.
Anyway. Get such brands that would even increase your attack (Could also get Vitality) or health (Flat HP, % HP, Heal). Concentrate on farming, balance is currently shit anyway.
HOW TO BRAND: https://dekaron-rising.com/guides/branding-whatever-r34/

Main Accessories:

Upgrade your Snowflake Emblem
Guide here: https://dekaron-rising.com/guides/how-to-craft-the-snowflake-emblem-v-as-of-patch-104-newbie-revamp-rng-removal-and-more-r36/
Upgrade your Independent Necklace.
Guide here: https://dekaron-rising.com/guides/how-to-upgrade-the-independent-necklace-as-of-patch-104-newbie-revamp-rng-removal-and-more-r39/
Get your Fallen Sailor Ring or Fallen Sailor Ring of the Abyss
Guide here: https://dekaron-rising.com/guides/obtaining-the-fallen-sailors-ring-as-of-patch-106-black-friday-3x-weekend-bug-fixesqol-changes-r40/
Getting Great Devil's Horn:
Guide here: https://dekaron-rising.com/guides/main-accessory-great-devils-horn-as-of-patch-106-black-friday-3x-weekend-bug-fixesqol-changes-r48/
Getting Aegis/Divine Moon Star Earring:
1. Farm a New Moon Earring from Ice Castle or Dead Front
2. Go to Aria -> Upgrade -> Earring and upgrade:
  New Moon Earrings -> Crescent Moon Earrings -> Half Moon Earrings -> Full Moon Earrings -> Pure Moon Earrings
3. Go to Aria -> Upgrade -> Earring and choose either:
  1. Divine Moon Star Earrings (Requires Heavenly Energy, which can be found in Shangri-La as drop from monsters)
  2. Aegis Moon Star Earrings (Requires Adamentium, which can be found in Shangri-La as drop from monsters)
4. Death moonstone can be found at Incarnation of Helion (NPC, Ardeca). 250 Mitera Ghost = 15x Death Moonstone.

DISCLAIMER:
A lot of accessories farming (e.g. Perpetus, Moonlight Qune, Garnet earring and so on...) will not be mentioned in this guide as of update 10.3 as the way of obtaining them will be reworked. Stay tuned for future updates.

If you've noticed that I've missed something, please let me know so I'd add it...

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