What to do next?Key TipsMake your progression with a balance of going for the cheapest and the most useful upgrades. Max out your PVE damage first. You will not be competitive in PVP with 50% gear or even 80% gear. You need to be 95% geared to fight. You will be spending most of your time in the early game farming. Join a guild with a buff as soon as you can. Having no guild in Dekaron in is a HUGE DEBUFF. If spending a good amount of dil or d-shop, make sure to ask veteran players for the price. People will be people and they will be trying to rip you off especially if you do not know the normal prices!! Keeping up to date with updates (patches, events, donation discounts, etc..) is KEY! Join the discord channel as soon as you start downloading the game. First DayNew to Dekaron Rising? Check out our First Day Guide to get started the right way. It walks you through the essential early-game steps, important NPCs, free rewards, and the fastest way to begin progressing your character. If you prefer watching instead of reading, there's also a video version available. For the full written guide, visit the link below and follow along at your own pace: Video Link Your First Day in Dekaron Rising 2026 Item Master ListIf you are struggling on finding out how to obtain certain items. Here is a complete spreadsheet on how to obtain all the items currently available in the game: Item Master List Early Game PrioritiesHoly Water SystemAs of November 2023, Holy Water of Almighty is no longer available immediately upon character creation. However, you unlock a 1-day Holy Water on Level 220, 7-days on Level 225, and 15-days on Level 227. If you watched or read the First Day guide, you should have these freebies already. Use them wisely! Do not use a 15-day Holy Water then not play afterwards. If you have already used up the freebie Holy Waters, you may consider buying a 30-day Holy Water as one of your top priorities. Learn more about Holy Water and the benefits below: Holy Water + Battle Support Guide Getting to Level 210 / 220 / 223 / 225 / 227 / 231This is an important milestone as you unlock free accessories (Starter Devil’s Horn, Starter Fallen’s Sailor Ring, and Starter Pure Moon Star Earrings). You also will be able to unlock your Grand Meister 2 Skill at level 210. If you watched or read the First Day guide, you should be Level 230 on Day 1. If not yet, run Scream Cave [Dungeon] 5 times daily in Elonohm Shrine. Get there via Makaio NPC in Ardeca -> Valley Rift -> NPC Ydnak -> Elonohm Shrine -> Scream Cave [Dungeon]. You will unlock a bunch of freebies on Levels 220, 223, 225, and 227. You will unlock one of the most important dungeon in the game at Level 231, Elonohm. In this dungeon, you will get a steady amount of DIL and Seed of Dreams. You can run this dungeon 5 times per character, per day. To read more on how to level up, check the new Leveling Guide Leveling Guide Buy an Independent Necklace Worth only 50 Seed of Dreams, you can buy this from Rising Helion NPC in Ardeca. It is an amazing starter accessory. It can be upgraded to the Frozen Necklace which is going to be a best-in-slot accessory for PVE later on. Maxing Grand Meisters and MeistersThis is the biggest damage spike as a starter. The damage increase you will have from having level 1 meisters / grand meisters to level 10 is insane. Ruins of Baz is the fastest way to farm Gniar’s Stolen Scroll. However, it is faster to farm Seed of Dreams in Elonohm then sell it for DIL, then buy Gniar’s Stolen Scroll from other players. You may do either way. Use your own judgment. If the prices for scrolls are high, farm it in Baz. If there is a good supply of scrolls somewhere, do not hesitate to buy them. If you have watched the First Day video guide, you should know how to upgrade your GMs and Meisters. If not, watch this video below: How to upgrade your Grand Meister / Meister guide (link) Socket your Weapons and AccessoriesFarm the gems you may need at Karon’s Fire Pot. The earliest gem you can get from a dungeon is 7% stone gems for bracelets and belts while 9% elemental gems for your weapon (NOTE: ONLY USE 9% WEAPON GEMS IF YOU GET THEM). 12% weapon gems are relatively cheap now. DO NOT BUY 9% weapon gems. The main reason is you would need to run Karon's Fire Pot for many reasons: Title, Helpyron Armor Boxes, and Steel Gemstones. You would get a TON of 9% weapon gems even if you don't want to. Since you can have 3-4 gems in your weapon, 1 stone in each bracelet and 2 stones in your belt, you can have a 55% - 64% damage boost from this. This is the best damage spike for your character, after the maxed Meisters and GMs. Picture of sample gems / made weapons and accessories. Great Devil’s Horn This is a best-in-slot accessory that is very cheap. You can buy the materials if you have dil, but along the way, you should have some of them naturally from doing the Forgotten Underground Temple, and AFK-ing in Mitera. Learn more about the Great Devil’s Horn below: Devil’s Horn Page Abyss-Fallen Sailor’s Ring This is a best-in-slot accessory that is already very cheap. This is one of those items that would be hard to get if you do it in your own, but endgame players will loot this randomly for free. You should never farm this on your own as a new player, ALWAYS buy this from other players. Sailor’s Ring Page Rare Frozen Necklace This is a great accessory for PVE. Materials are easily available. This is the upgrade of the Independent Necklace you should have bought earlier. A Rare Chaotic Necklace also exists, but for the sake of this guide, only PVE is considered. Learn more about these accessories below: Frozen Necklace Page / Chaotic Necklace Page 30 Day Dragonic Perpetuus Expiry PreparationYour Dragonic Perpetuus will expire in 30 days. This is the most important accessory that you will use at any build possible, defensive, offensive, PVE and PVP. Start to farm the materials for Perpetuus as soon as possible! Here is the complete guide on how to obtain, and upgrade this accessory: Perpetuus page Offensive Wings If there is no ready-made wings for your class in the auction house, you can get it for 1450 D-shop coins. I would personally save up for 3000 D-shop Coins, for the Wings, and a 30-Day Holy Water for 1375 Coins. You can also choose to buy the wings itself from other players (recommended). This is because Wings have to be upgraded using Liberty Essence, and have to be socketed as well. Depending on the prices of these materials, it can be expensive to make your own. Add sockets and jewel gems as soon as you can. Learn more about the Wing System below: Wings Upgrade System Page Why offensive? Most people will tell you to get a defensive wing first because it is more important, and it is better value. And while that is true, having a defensive wing will make NO DIFFERENCE in whether a maxed player 1 shots you or not. Having a defensive wing early on will make an endgame player do 230k damage on you instead of 240k damage. Having an offensive wing will make you do about 5k+ more damage to monsters. That 20k damage decrease from other players is useless to you early on because you will get 1 shot anyway, but that small increase in attack in PVE is crucial. Max out PVE Damage first before getting any defensive item. PVE Pet pic of porsche stats here There’s two choices for this: Sayre (left) or Porsche (right). You would want the Sayre 95% of the time because it gives 5% Damage Res and 15% Critical DMG. In rare cases where you would want to be more tanky in PVE, you can buy the Porsche pet for 9% PVE DMG Res instead. In both pets, you want to have the 8% Melee Attack gem (Pet Taric), 9% Magic ATK gem (Pet Piz), or 8% Ranged Attack (Pet Clamp) for PVE. There's also the Blue Dragon (3800 D-shop Coins) for the maximum all attack (7%) from a pet in the game. However, for the sake of this guide, that 15% critical damage is something you probably have not maxed at this stage of the game. In endgame PVE, you will have to choose between a Porsche or a Blue Dragon. Learn more about Pets below: Pet Page Talisman V There’s only two versions of the Talisman you can buy or make. A 50% EXP Talisman or a 5% DMG Talisman. EXP Talismans are generally useless with the current ways to level up in the game. EXP given by key monsters in the game currently are FIXED and as such, EXP bonus items are useless as of June 2026. Note that 5% DMG Talismans are weaker than your Level 230 Talisman. The only reason you would buy or create a Talisman V is to have something to upgrade into their Purified version. In choosing which one, the generally most wanted are: Curse, Magic, and Poison. Learn more about Talismans below: Talisman Page Aquanic Emblem V & Snowflake Emblem V This is a best-in-slot item (Emblem slot) which is very cheap and is a great bump in stats. Later on, you (might) need both. You would want an Aquanic Emblem V 90% of the time in PVP while opting for Snowflake Emblem V in certain cases. Not all classes can use Snowflake. This is mostly used in PVP because of Abnormal Status Resistance. Some classes can reach really high Abnormal Status Resistance with this, and some classes do not need this at all. Note that Snowflake would be more useful for you in PVE. Learn more about these Emblems below: Aquanic Page Snowflake Page Easy and Good PVE TitlesFeel free to add any other title you wish and are able to acquire. Check the "Titles" guide below for the full list. Titles Link 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]. 30 Day Costume Expiry In 30 days, your free Costume will expire. Depending on how fast you are at farming, you can either make a free one or start a strong PVE costume instead. I would strongly recommend to make a cheap one ASAP, then investing in a permanent PVE costume. Fisherman’s Hat is the cheapest costume in the game as this can be obtained via fishing. However, in the current meta of 2026, fishing is not too useful. There is virtually no supply of this costume. Your cheapest option is the Basic Transcendence Costume Box worth 4500 Seed of Dreams in the Rising Helion NPC. You can choose to create a "Free" Costume like one of the following below: Example of 2 free costumes: Pro Tip: You can create new characters and trade the Free Starter Crest Select Box to your main character for free starter crests. Permanent PVE Costume: Buy any of the two above (Fisherman's Hat Ex-Box or Basic Transcendence Costume Box) and use the following crests: Movement Speed for Green until you get max movement speed, All Attack if you are max movement speed 24/7. PVE Damage Res for for Blue mostly, or Damage Res if you somehow need it for your PVE setup. DK Attack for Purple, there is an All Attack option for this crest as well. However, the hardest (and most relevant) dungeons are found in the DK Server. And, DK Attack Damage scales so much more than All Attack does. All Attack for Orange. Pro Tip: If you are starting with having 0 crests, it’s better to buy the new “Best PVE Crest Box” for 378 D-shop Coins and gamble there until you get all of them. The PVE DMG Res 12% is naturally high in price so it’s sometimes worth the gamble. All Attack 23% and All Attack 27% generally have okay values as well. If you do not fully understand what this means, stick to buying the crests instead of the box. Getting the crests for DIL is better than gambling D-shop you cannot afford to lose. Learn more about costumes below: Link Divine Moon Star Earrings This is a best-in-slot offensive earring. It is both useful for PVE and PVP. Similar to the concept of getting offensive wings first, you would want to get the Divine first instead of Aegis (defensive equivalent of the Divine Earrings). Remember: Max out PVE Damage first before getting the defensive accessories. Learn more about Divine Moon Star Earrings below: Page God of War and Champion Bracelets These are the last cheap upgrades you can get. Make sure to use at least the IV stone gems in socketing these bracelets. These are bracelets you use for your Defensive set. You would need 7 pairs of these bracelets in the endgame. Choose the element which increases your damage in creating your first pair, then upgrade it with 2 damage brands. Do not go for 4/4 damage brands as these are not the bracelets you use for your Offensive set. Examples here (pics) Learn more about these bracelets here: Page (link) Majestic Diamond Earringspic This is a best-in-slot PVE earring. It is used only on PVE. Note that this earring is not something you can farm in one day. The Death Corridor dungeon that drops the materials for this earring is only available 2x a day. However, you can purchase this from other players, and has a generally good supply in the market. Learn more about this earrings below: Page Midgame Priorities Now, it is time to get yourself the main gears: Weapon and Armor. There are two ways to do this, incrementally or buying as a set. Making items incrementally Pros: You get stronger as you gear up meaning you may farm faster along the way, and get more competitive along the way. Cons: More expensive in general. Why? The prices for items that are already maxed will always be cheaper than the price you make them because of the concept of “secondhand items”. Someone may be willing to sell a set for 30-40k coins while making it on your own can cost up to 50k+ coins depending on luck. Buying “made” items Pros: Way cheaper and you do not need to take chances. You would not be “fighting luck” in this scenario. You will spend a fixed amount of coins for an item while it may keep on failing over and over if you do it on your own. Cons: You do not get to choose the stats. If you want for example a 26% CDR maxed boots, it might be difficult to find one because a lot of people will need it. If you are able to find ready-made boots, you might find a 24% CDR, 25% CDR and so on. Finding the item you need at a good price is hard. If you make your own item, you get to choose exactly how you customize it. After the Weapons and Armor, you can start looking at the maxed accessories for PVP. Note that at this point, you should have the PVE accessories first. It is incredibly inefficient to do PVP first before the PVE items if you will be progressing the game 100% F2P. Buying “Made Items” In my opinion, you would want the following order: Helion Weapon > MC4 > Gloves > Armor = Pants = Boots > Zuto Weapon. Helion Weapon is the absolute first item you should buy. It accelerates your farming rate insane amounts. MC4 is the next item because of the raw stats this piece of armor gives. I preferred gloves next because of its offensive stats. Armor, Pants, and Boots have somewhat of an equal impact in terms of PVE. Why is Zuto Weapon the last item you need? Because at this point in the game, there is no such thing as a “Midgame PVP player”. You either have to be complete, or you will be losing 70% of your matches. Having the damage is useless if you cannot sustain long enough to deal the damage. Making Items Incrementally First, click this link to make sure you understand all the mechanics in crafting, upgrading, socketing, branding etc. Item Making Breakdown Reinforcing Socketing Optioning Branding System Crafting Aria Crafitng Helion Weapon Craft a Helion Weapon. The stats don’t matter. Make it +7, and put 11% weapon gems. Brand it with a flat 750+ DMG. This should only cost you a bunch of Soul Stones. Then, start crafting for a good Helion Weapon. Look for at least ~7000 All Attack in total. The other stats do not matter. Once you have this, make it +9/+10. This would vary on your luck and overall feeling. +9 is a safe bet and should be easy for the most part. Armor Pieces You do not need to create a +7 random armor. Remember that at this point, you are wearing +15 starter set. Those are better than even +10 armor pieces. Start crafting armors with good stats. For the MC3, it is recommended to have at least ~23000 HP. Decide for yourself if you would be happy with 22000, 22500 etc. For the Armor, it is recommended to have at least ~580 all resist, block at 2150+ (optional). All resist is more important in most cases. For the Pants, it is recommended to have at least ~580 all resist, and vitality at 330+. This case, you would want both. For the Gloves, it is recommended to have at least ~2.3k Mastery and ~11% Critical Resistance. For the Boots, it is recommended to have at least 25% Critical Damage Resistance. Why the following stats? Remember, you are spending more by doing it incrementally. Do not overspend in making items that are substandard. You would end up making it for a lot of coins, then selling it for cheap just to get it replaced by something better. Note that in the endgame, even the smallest amount of difference in stats makes the world of a difference. Upgrade them incrementally. You may start getting them to +9 first. Then making them one by one into +10. Once you successfully made a single +10 piece, make them immediately into +12. Note that this is a 100% chance on both upgrades. It is cheaper to get one piece from +10 to +12 than it is to get a +9 into a +10 on average. Once they are +12, you can start branding 3 good lines into them. The regular choices for offensive branding are: Melee Attack Damage / Ranged Attack Damage / Magic Attack Damage Flat Strength / Spirit / Dexterity DK Attack Damage Melee Attack Damage / Ranged Attack Damage / Magic Attack Damage % Vitality Cancel Abn Res Physical Penetration / Magical Penetration Once they are +12 and has 3 lines of brands, you can replace the corresponding item in the starter set. Repeat the steps above until you no longer have your starter set. At this point you are all +12, with ¾ brandings. You can invest incrementally here until you make them all +15 while you invest in other midgame accessories. However, getting the 4th brand is a mistake here. The reason is it could cost you a fortune just to get that 4th line while you are still missing key pieces in your character’s build. PVP Gears First up would be making a +15 Zuto Weapon. Ideally, you would want a weapon with 4.7k+ Destroy, and 6k+ All Attack. Decide it upon your luck in opening boxes, or budget that you are willing to spend. 4.7k Destroy is overrated. It is a common theme for players to find weapons with at least 4.7k Destroy believing that Destroy is a key component. That is only partly true. However, you can compensate with Destroy using Attributes. If you have a weapon that gives you extra +100 destroy, but loses you 600 attack, you basically lost 3 attribute points if you are physical damage and lost 7 attribute points if you are magic damage. Look for weapons with a good balance. You want both, not either. Then, you would want decent Zuto Bracelets. You have to find the bracelet that matches your character’s element. The more %element of your class, the better. Once you find something like 5%-6% of your class’ element, start upgrading them into +10 and branding them too. At this stage, leave the belt. Do not get the Zuto Belt or the Darkness Belt yet. The ‘Vanilla’ Offensive and Defensive PVP Costumes You can start making your own costumes by using a basic offensive one and a defensive one. The basic rule is you have to be 75% PVP DMG Res, and 75% Damage Res. The rest are optimal based on your character’s build, class, and playstyle. For the offensive costume: Green can be either Movement Speed or All ATK depending on your class and preference Leave the Blue empty for now. Purple should 90% of the time be DK ATK, while All ATK in some cases Orange should 90% of the time PVP DMG Bonus, while All ATK again, in some cases. The only way to know is to test it with your character’s setup. For the defensive costume: Green can be either Movement Speed or HP Blue would be PVP DMG Res if you are not 75% PVP DMG res, DMG res if you are not 75% Damage Res otherwise it should be Melee DMG res / DK All Res / Abnormal Resistance. This would be based on preference Purple would be Cancel Abn Res if needed, DK ATK / All ATK otherwise. Orange would be PVP DMG Res, otherwise it can be PVP DMG Bonus / All ATK / HP crest PVP Accessories For offensive you would want to have the following: Moon Light’s Qune Earring Page The Only Chaos Necklace / The Only Freezing Necklace (you may only need one of them) Page Fine Therapy Necklace (optional, you might not need it) Page For defensive, you would want to have the following: Aegis Moon Star Earring Page White Candy Earring Page Ring of Hard Gemma Page Helpyron’s Belt Page Endgame - ‘The Building’ At this point, you start to have nearly all of the items obtainable in the game. Here, you will start conceptualizing to min-max your character. This is a highly customizable part of the game where there is no “correct” build. You have to find out what works for you. However, there are some common denominators among different builds. Defensive Set Swap For this set of items, you want to maximize your tankiness. It is common to have a second set of armors. The idea is to have a completely different set of brands. Instead of putting offensive brands like Melee / Ranged / Magic Attack Damage, Strength / Spirit / Dexterity , DK Attack Damage etc., you may also use defensive brands like HP, Health, Magic Resistance, All Res, Cancel Abn Res, DK All Res, and Defeat Resistance. It is based completely on what you want for your own build. For the accessories, you would normally want to be 75% PVP DMG Res, and 75% Damage Res. Feel free to use any combination in achieving these stats. However, you would still prioritize getting more Melee DMG Resistance and Critical Damage Resistance even when you’re at 75% PVP / 75% DDR already. Offensive Set Swap You normally have this set of armors already. Your PVE armors are technically the set you use for offensive in PVP. Attack Damage, Stats, DK Attack Damage, Penetration, Vitality, and other offensive stats are used for this swap. For the accessories, some would prefer to be glass cannon. They would be maxing out their damage output by using completely offensive accessories. This means that they would take even more damage similar to how they output more damage. Others prefer a balanced build of increasing just the damage while maintaining a set amount of defensive capabilities. Multiple Mounts / Pets / Costumes Also at this stage, you can start experimenting with using different mount, pets and costume crests combinations. You can get Abnormal Resistance from pets, PVP DMG Res from mounts and Pets, while the costumes are completely bonkers as you could get Melee DMG Res, DK All Res, Abnormal Resistance, PVP DMG res, Damage Res, Cancel Abn Res, and Max HP from them. Note that you have to be right on the money. Being over the maximum limit of stats will waste it. Check out the Competitive Character Building Guide for specifics on how to make your character complete!