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| The major part of this guide is written by @Username#7620 and @mazunki [they/them]#3247 on the Discord community. If you got any questions, or anything is wrong make sure to shout out to either one of us. Feel free to edit the guide, or add stuff to it too.
| | == What is HCCO? == |
| | HCCO stands for {{Icon|Hardcore}} {{Icon|Combat}} Only. This implies that you cannot use any non-Combat skills at any time, and must play on {{Icon|Hardcore}}. There is a secondary challenge, 12b, which means you may not buy any [[Bank]] slots, and are limited to the 12 provided to you by default. This is a popular additional challenge and most of the guide is directly applicable to 12b players (albeit with a lot more bank management). |
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| Thanks to everyone in #hardcore-mode-chat for making this possible. :)
| | To create a HCCO account, one can create a typical hardcore account and abstain from all non-combat skills. Alternatively, through the official mod manager one can use the [https://mod.io/g/melvoridle/m/hcco Combat Only Account Mod] to create an account with non-combat skills completely disabled and hidden. This mod offers the option for a mediumcore version, which is identical but doesn't have permadeath (you still lose one random item on death). This is different to a Standard account (aka Softcore), which has a different combat triangle that is less punishing and has health regen. Most of this guide will assume HC and therefore will sometimes be overly conservative for a softcore account. |
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| =Preface=
| | There are currently no tangible differences between either of these options for playing HCCO mode, and one can [https://mod.io/g/melvoridle/m/save-game-converter convert between gamemodes through the use of mods]. It is recommended to use the mod for MCCO or HCCO mode for the most immersive experience, as the community will add unique content specifically designed for CO in future, including a CO option in the collection log. |
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| | == Preface == |
| Food is vital to a HCCO account and your first food source (and one that you will be relying on for quite a while) is plants. Starting out, you should fight plants for the potatoes they drop and to increase your combat levels. | | Food is vital to a HCCO account, and your first food source (and one that you will be relying on for quite a while) is {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}}. Starting out, you should fight {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants|nolink=true}} for the {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}} they drop and to increase your combat levels. |
| Note about {{Skill|Attack|ATK}} vs {{Skill|Strength|STR}} vs {{Skill|Defence|DEF}}: All three combat skills are very useful to level in their own ways. ATK increases your chance to hit and unlocks new weapons to use, STR increases your maximum hit, and DEF increases your chance to not get hit (which saves you food). In general, they should all be leveled equally.
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| DEF should be your first combat skill that you level, as it greatly reduces the amount of damage that you will take from plants (roughly by half). ATK should be second and STR should be last (since you have a low chance to hit, it’s more important to level ATK rather than STR).
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| Weapons in this game have different attack speeds depending on their type. Daggers attack quickly, with an attack speed of 2.2 seconds, and Battleaxes attack slowly, with an attack speed of 3.1 seconds, for instance. Weapons that attack more slowly also deal more damage per hit and weapons that hit quickly usually do less damage per hit.
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| There are different styles in the game, depending on the weapon you’re wielding. Melee weapons, which will be our main focus for the first part, have Stab, Slash and Block. Each style gets a bonus to the accuracy rating depending on the specific weapon. Swords usually have a better stabbing accuracy, while scimitars are better at slashing, for instance.
| | Note about {{Skill|Attack}} vs {{Skill|Strength}} vs {{Skill|Defence}}: All three combat skills are very useful to level in their own ways. {{Skill|Attack|nolink=true}} increases your chance to hit and unlocks new weapons to use, {{Skill|Strength|nolink=true}} increases your maximum hit, and {{Skill|Defence|nolink=true}} increases your chance to not get hit (which saves you food). In general, they should all be leveled equally. |
| The style you choose will also give you experience towards the combat skill in question: Stabbing gives Attack experience, Slashing gives Strength experience, while Blocking is used to train Defence.
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| During the beginning of HCCO, you’ll have to eat manually to ensure that you won’t die. Later on, you’ll be able to automatically eat food so eating will be less of a worry.
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| | {{Skill|Defence|nolink=true}} should be the first combat skill that you level, as it greatly reduces the amount of damage that you will take from {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants|nolink=true}} (roughly by half). {{Skill|Attack|nolink=true}} should be second, {{Skill|Strength|nolink=true}} should be last. Since you have a low chance to hit, it’s more important to level {{Skill|Attack|nolink=true}} rather than {{Skill|Strength|nolink=true}}. |
| =Chapter 0: Your first gear= | |
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| | Weapons in this game have different attack speeds depending on their type. Daggers attack quickly, with an attack speed of 2.2 seconds, and Battleaxes attack slowly, with an attack speed of 3.1 seconds, for instance. Weapons that attack more slowly also deal more damage per hit and weapons that hit quickly usually do less damage per hit. |
| You should get to about 10 in all melee combat skills (usually expressed as 10/10/10) by fighting plants and then it’s time to start getting your first gear.
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| ==Chapter 0—I: Starting naked==
| | There are different styles in the game, depending on the weapon you’re wielding. Melee weapons, which will be our main focus initially, have Stab, Slash and Block. Each style gets a bonus to the accuracy rating depending on the specific weapon. Swords usually have a better stabbing accuracy, while scimitars are better at slashing, for instance. |
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| After you have a decent stack of food, it’s time to get your first pieces of gear from the {{MonsterIcon|Golbin}}. You should have some levels in all skills (10/10/10 or so) and about a hundred {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|potatoes}} or so. You’re looking for a {{ItemIcon|Bronze Battleaxe}} (1 in 27 chance) and a {{ItemIcon|Bronze Shield}} (1 in 27 chance). If you get unlucky, don’t worry. Just kill plants for food until you’re able to get both.
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| {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}} have very low HP, so having a faster weapon allows you to kill them faster, as you don’t need more than 20 damage to kill a plant. So, your next goal after your {{ItemIcon|Bronze Battleaxe}} is an {{ItemIcon|Iron Dagger}}. You should have about 15/15/15 stats and a few hundred potatoes. The {{ItemIcon|Iron Dagger}} has a 1/33 drop rate from the {{MonsterIcon|Goo Monster}}.
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| Your next gear upgrades will come from Zombie Hand. You’re looking for the {{ItemIcon|Iron Platebody}} (1 in 4 chance) and {{ItemIcon|Iron Platelegs}} (1 in 4 chance). Some people might go for the {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight}} first, but since the {{MonsterIcon|Zombie Hand}} has a better chance for gear, it’s recommended to do it first. You should have about 20/20/20 stats for this and, once again, a large stack of {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|taters}}.
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| After you kill the {{MonsterIcon|Zombie Hand}}, you should then move on to the regular {{MonsterIcon|Zombie}} for the {{ItemIcon|Steel Platebody}} (1 in 5 chance). It also drops {{ItemIcon|Steel Boots}} (1 in 5 chance), but you shouldn’t grind for them since {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight|Steel Knights}} are easier to get them from the {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight}}. (20/20/20 stats recommended)
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| You’ll end the first part of your HCCO journey with {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight|Steel Knights}}. They drop the {{ItemIcon|Steel Helmet}} (15 in 67 chance), {{ItemIcon|Steel Shield}} (10 in 67 chance), {{ItemIcon|Steel Sword}} (10 in 67 chance), and {{ItemIcon|Steel Scimitar}} (4 in 67 chance). You should be using the {{ItemIcon|Steel Sword}} on ATK and DEF and the {{ItemIcon|Steel Scimitar|Scimitar}} on STR when killing most monsters, but again, daggers should be used on plants due to the fast attack rate.
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| | The style you choose will also give you experience towards the combat skill in question: Stabbing gives {{Skill|Attack|nolink=true}} experience, Slashing gives {{Skill|Strength|nolink=true}} experience, while Blocking is used to train {{Skill|Defence|nolink=true}}. At the start, you’ll have to eat manually to ensure that you won’t die. Later on, you will unlock {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier I|Auto Eat}}, so eating will be less of a worry. |
| =Chapter II: Mithril armor=
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| Start: 5x Steel Armour, 10/10/10, Steel Scimitar
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| End: Amulet of Looting, AE1, 5x Mithril Armor, 40/40/40, Ice Sword, Adamant Dagger
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| | == Chapters == |
| The next Knight after {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight|Steel}} is {{MonsterIcon|Black Knight|Black}}, but should skip it, as the drop chances are very low, and the next tier is not much harder anyway.
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| Your next step, therefore, is {{MonsterIcon|Mithril Knight|Mithril Knights}}. Because they only drop gear a quarter of the time when killed (on average), it can take quite a while to get a full {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|mithril set}}. You will probably get {{ItemIcon|Mithril Boots|boots}} (25 in 268) and {{ItemIcon|Mithril Helmet|helmets}} (15 in 268) quite often, and the eventual {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platelegs|platelegs}} (5 in 268). The {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|platebody}} has quite a low drop-chance (1 in 568). This is quite the trend on these knights. Before getting the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|platebody}} you will probably get both a {{ItemIcon|Mithril Scimitar|scimitar}} (1 in 67) and a {{ItemIcon|Mithril Shield|shield}} (5/134), too, so equip these once dropped, for a decent upgrade. You may equip the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Sword|sword}}, too, but I’d stick with the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Scimitar|Scimitar}} for now, to efficiently level up your {{Skill|Strength}} skill before practically perma-equipping the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} for a long while.
| | === Chapter I: Gearing Up === |
| | {{:HCCO/Guide/1}} |
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| As mentioned, you will want to get the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} after getting full {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Mithril armor}}, or even before getting the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|platebody}}, as it is a really good upgrade at this point. It is practically a cold {{ItemIcon|Rune Sword}}, in stats, except it is slightly better defensively than offensively. The drop rate is 10% at the {{MonsterIcon|Ice Monster}} over at the {{ZoneIcon|Icy Hills}}. Huge. If you’re around level 30, you will use around 80 {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|tarters}} per monster. Because of variance, you might get it on your first kill or your 20th, but don’t be discouraged. Also, the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} is better at grinding {{Skill|Strength}} than all weapons from a lower tier, meaning that the next best strength weapon after.
| | === Chapter II: Mithril Armour === |
| | {{:HCCO/Guide/2}} |
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| Now, before you go away from the computer, or to sleep, it’s time to upgrade your dagger. At the {{MonsterIcon|Purple Goo Monster}} you can get a cheap {{ItemIcon|Adamant Dagger}}. Going from 429 to 444 {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}}/hour? Good business.
| | === Chapter III: Mithril to (G) Adamant === |
| Feeling sad because your neck and fingers are naked? Go on a date with the {{MonsterIcon|Mummy|mummy}} in {{ZoneIcon|Penumbra}} for some gifts! The {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Strength}} and the {{ItemIcon|Gold Emerald Ring}} are shiny, and will give you free gains! For only 3 potatoes per kill you have the same ~10% chance to get both these items.
| | {{:HCCO/Guide/3}} |
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| ==Chapter II—A: Looting Amulet== | | === Chapter IV: (G) Adamant to Full (G) Rune === |
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| | {{:HCCO/Guide/4}} |
| The {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting|Looting Amulet}} is a special amulet which automatically loots gear acquired from Combat Areas and Slayer Areas. You may get it from the {{ItemIcon|Spider Chest}}, with a 1/22 chance. Due to the nature of HCCO, you will spend a lot of potatoes in the early game (and beyond, too), so you might want to rush this item in order to ease the grind for food as soon as possible.
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| By using {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Mithril Armor}}, and having around 40 melee stats, it will take you around 500 taters per run of the {{ZoneIcon|Spider Forest}}. Before you start running the dungeon, you should have a buffer of at least a thousand potatoes, just because RNG might be on your bad side.
| | === Chapter V: (G) Rune to (G) Ancient === |
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| It is quite possible to beat the zone without having any form of Auto Eat, and just make sure you time your manual eating right, since the damage of the spiders in the area is not too high.
| | === Chapter VI: Non-Melee Training === |
| | {{:HCCO/Guide/6}} |
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| ====Don’t do this, please ==== | | === Chapter VII: (G) Ancient to God Dungeons === |
| Otherwise, if you ''really'' don’t want to manual the dungeon, you should know the base max damage of the zone is 142, requiring 710 hp for AE1, 480 hp for AE2. This requires 6 million gold, which would require around 30 hours of '''active''' gameplay at Master Farmer, since you still don’t have auto looting. Bad idea.
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| ==Chapter II—B: Auto Eat 1== | | === Chapter VIII: Into the Mist === |
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| | === Chapter IX: T90 grind === |
| As soon as you have your hands on an Amulet of Looting, you can start to make money. A relevant point to make here, is that [[GP|money making]] at this stage is a compromise between risk and reward. Consider the time it takes to farm up the food you need, and the time it takes to farm the gold you want.
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| ====Safe path==== | | === Chapter X: Unhallowed Wasteland === |
| The safest way to make money, for now, is to kill {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}}, collecting their {{ItemIcon|Leather|leather}}, and upgrading it into {{ItemIcon|Green Dragonhide|Green Leather}} through the shop. The selling price for {{ItemIcon|Leather}} is 50 GP, while the selling price for {{ItemIcon|Green Dragonhide|Green Leather}} is 200 GP. By upgrading it, you effectively get 100 GP per piece of {{ItemIcon|Leather}}.
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| Assuming you’ve got the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}}, the average gold yield per {{MonsterIcon|Cow|cow}} is 203 GP.
| | === Chaper XI: Impending Darkness Event === |
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| This chapter ends when you’re 40/40/40. Use {{ItemIcon|Adamant Dagger}} for idling {{MonsterIcon|Plant|plants}}, and {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} for tougher enemies.
| | === Chaper XII: Throne of the Herald === |
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| | {{:HCCO/Guide/12}} |
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| =Chapter III: Mithril to adamant (g) + rune boots (g) + rune gloves= | |
| Start: Amulet of Looting, AE1, 5x Mithril Armor, 40/40/40, Ice Sword, Adamant Dagger
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| End: 4x (G) Adamant Armor, 1x (G) Rune Boots, 1x Rune Gloves, 70/40/70
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| How does it feel to be able to get FREE FOOD overnight?
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| While your next target is necessarily {{MonsterIcon|Adamant Knight|Adamant Knights}}, you should know that leveling attack and defense up to 50 from your 40 stats will effectively reduce your (raw, without AE efficiency loss) {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|potato}} per knight count from 170 to 120.
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| Important note: '''DO NOT IDLE KNIGHTS'''. Make sure to always have more {{Skill|Hitpoints|HP}} than the max hit of the enemy, and try to eat food right after your attack timer ends, so you don’t reset an attack in progress. Eat until full HP, or at least until you have enough HP to survive any attack. The 2.6s interval of the {{MonsterIcon|Adamant Knight}} is not really a danger provided you’re '''PAYING ATTENTION''' and have enough food.
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| Your {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} is great for leveling {{Skill|Attack}}, and your {{ItemIcon|Adamant Dagger|dagger}} is fine for leveling defense. You may do this at {{MonsterIcon|Statue}}, in preparation to gear upgrades, and thus your first Damage Reduction points!!
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| Each {{ItemIcon|Adamantite Bar|Adamant}} piece has a 1/48 chance of dropping, which, mind you, is much better than the drop chances of {{MonsterIcon|Rune Knight}}. Good luck on that! While you don’t really care about the {{ItemIcon|Adamant Boots|Green Boots}} nor the {{ItemIcon|Obsidian Cape}}, you may as well equip them once you get them. It will be a while until you replace the {{ItemIcon|Obsidian Cape|Cape}} for anything else, but there’s no point wasting {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver}}/{{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold bars}} on the {{ItemIcon|Adamant Boots|Boots}}. You will get {{ItemIcon|Rune Boots}} quickly anyway.
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| Upgrade the Equipment you get to (G) Adamant as soon as you get them, since each piece gives you 4% damage reduction.
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| Now, grind up enough [[Slayer Coins]] for the {{ItemIcon|Desert Hat}}, and 50 {{Skill|Slayer}} levels, so you can gain access to the {{ZoneIcon|Arid Plains}}. You may as well kill {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer|Master Farmers}}, for [[Gold Coins]]; or hit some {{MonsterIcon|Statue|Statues}} for some {{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold}} and {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver Bars}}, which are both Easy Slayer Tasks, meaning they’re free to reroll.
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| Now, why would you want to unlock Arid Plains? Well, there’s a few reasons:
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| * {{ItemIcon|Sand Treaders}} at {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Riders}} — -0.1s to all attacks? Great for plants.
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| * {{ItemIcon|Rune Boots}} at {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Riders}} — Excellent upgrade, easier to get than from {{MonsterIcon|Rune Knight|Rune Knights}}.
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| * {{ItemIcon|Desert Wrappings}} at {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Archers}} — 2% dr gloves, best until {{ItemIcon|Paladin Gloves}}.
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| Also, you don’t even need to manual these two enemies! After getting these upgrades, you should keep on to your hat (literally!), because your next weapon upgrade comes from the {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Giant}} at the same area. You could also sell the hat, and rebuy it a bit later. The [[Slayer Coins|Slayer Coin]] cost is not too huge.
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| Farm up enough [[Gold Coins|Gold]] to upgrade your [[Auto Eat]] to Tier II at Master Farmer. With [[Auto Eat - Tier II|Auto-Eat II]] you can idle {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Giant|Turkul Giants}}, provided you have 23% dr and level {{Skill|Hitpoints|50 HP}}. With this, upgrade your weapon into the {{ItemIcon|Dragon Scimitar}} or, even better, the {{ItemIcon|Desert Sabre}}.
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| The Master Farmer gives a total of 14 unique items. You want to prioritize your bank slots for the most rewarding items, taking the price and drop rate into account. This mainly comprises the Tree Seeds, requiring 5 slots. By reserving five slots for the Master Farmer grind, you get a total of 84% of the gold drops. That’s around 809 gp per kill.
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| {{ItemIcon|Oak Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Willow Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Maple Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Yew Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Magic Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Compost}} > {{ItemIcon|Sweetcorn Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Tomato Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Strawberry Seeds}}.
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| =Chapter IV: Adamant to full rune (g)= | |
| Start: 4x (G) Adamant Armour, 1x (G) Rune Boots, 1x Rune Gloves, 70/40/70
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| End: 5x (G) Rune Armour, 1x Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Strength. 70/80/80, Sunset Rapier / Ancient Claw, AE3
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| The first thing you should do in this part of the story is to upgrade your {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Strength}} into an {{ItemIcon|Elite Amulet of Strength|Elite}} one, simply by farming more {{MonsterIcon|Mummy|Mummies}}. On average you need to kill around a thousand of them.
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| The next step is to farm the feared shiny {{MonsterIcon|Rune Knight|Rune Knights}}, and upgrade your four armor pieces into {{ItemIcon|(G) Rune Platebody|(G) Rune pieces}}, for a total of 29% damage reduction with the {{ItemIcon|Paladin Gloves}}. You will need a bunch of {{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold}} and {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver pieces}}, farmed at {{MonsterIcon|Statue}}.
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| Assuming you already have 60 {{Skill|Slayer}} (and if you don't, then go get it; {{MonsterIcon|Giant Crab}} tasks are your friend here), the last thing to get before moving onto the next section is a better weapon. {{ZoneIcon|Deep Sea Ship}} is your next stop for a {{ItemIcon|Sunset Rapier}} to speed up killing {{MonsterIcon|Pegasus}}. You'll be killing around 3300 of them to get 100 {{ItemIcon|Ancient Claw Fragment}} which can be upgraded into the {{ItemIcon|Ancient Claw}}. This will be a great weapon until you upgrade it to the {{ItemIcon|Infernal Claw}}, which is still well off. Don't bother getting any {{ItemIcon|Dragon Claw Fragment}} from {{MonsterIcon|Griffin}} yet, as they will just take up space. If you're lucky enough to get an {{ItemIcon|Ancient Sword}} before the {{ItemIcon|Sunset Rapier}}, then feel free to use it until you get to {{ZoneIcon|Volcanic Cave}}, as it will drastically reduce your food consumption and the associated food farming time. After that, you'll probably only want to use it outside dungeons due to the high monster damage reducing the benefits of the lifesteal.
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| =Chapter V: Rune (g) to ancient (g)=
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| ==Ancient storyline==
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| Start: 5x (G) Rune Armour, 1x Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Strength. 70/80/80, Sunset Rapier / Ancient Claw, AE3
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| End: 5x (G) Ancient Armour, 1x Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Defence, 90/99/90
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| {{ItemIcon|Elite Amulet of Defence}} from upgrading {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Defence|Amulets of Defence}}, which are dropped by {{MonsterIcon|Purple Goo Monster|Purple Goo Monsters}}, and {{ItemIcon|Silver Diamond Ring}}, dropped by {{MonsterIcon|Mummy|Mummies}}, are our best friends for now; the limiting factor for the remaining dungeons is how much DR you have access to.
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| Now that you've got full {{ItemIcon|(G) Rune Platebody|Rune (G)}} and {{ItemIcon|Paladin Gloves}} for 33% DR, 86 hitpoints will allow you to idle Volcanic Cave for your first useful cape, the {{ItemIcon|Fire Cape}}. At this point, you can expect to eat around 3000 {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}} per kill without prayer.
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| You're probably noticing that {{ItemIcon|potatoes}} just won't cut it for food anymore, so switching to {{MonsterIcon|Sweaty Monster|Sweaty Monsters}} for {{ItemIcon|Salmon}} and {{ItemIcon|Lobster}} will reduce your overall time spent farming food. Expect to get food equivalent to 10.2 hp/kill in {{ItemIcon|Salmon}}, 6.25 hp/kill in {{ItemIcon|Lobster}}, and 2.3 hp/kill in {{ItemIcon|Shark}}. Swapping food sources often means that saving all 3 types of fish might not be worth it for some players.
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| Hopefully you find the {{ZoneIcon|Volcanic Cave}} comfortable, as the goal is to get the {{ItemIcon|Ancient Platebody}}, {{ItemIcon|Ancient Platelegs}}, {{ItemIcon|Ancient Helmet}}, and {{ItemIcon|Ancient Shield}}. There are no Ancient Boots and {{ItemIcon|Dragon Boots}} are unobtainable on HCCO (as is the {{ItemIcon|Dragon Helmet}},) so you'll continue rocking your {{ItemIcon|(G) Rune Boots}} for quite awhile. Getting the {{ItemIcon|Dragon Platebody}} and/or {{ItemIcon|Dragon Platelegs}} is only useful if you plan to upgrade them to (G), as you still need the extra DR that comes from the (G) upgrade. Once you get your full {{ItemIcon|Ancient Platebody|Ancient Armor}}, make another visit to {{MonsterIcon|Statue|Statues}} to finish off gathering {{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold Bars}} and {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver Bars}} and upgrade everything to (G). Luckily the {{ItemIcon|Elite Chest|Elite Chests}} you've been opening also drop plenty of {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver Bars}} and {{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold Bars}}. In total, you'll need 6000 {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver Bars}} and 10,000 {{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold Bars}} for full {{ItemIcon|(G) Ancient Platebody|(G) Ancient Armor}}. If you get all the {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver Bars}} you need, move to {{MonsterIcon|Purple Goo Monster|Purple Goo Monsters}} for faster {{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold Bars}}. You can also hold onto the {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Fury|Amulets of Fury}} for the {{ItemIcon|Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs}} grind later; you'll need 10 {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Fury|furies}} in total.
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| After getting the {{ItemIcon|(G) Ancient Shield}}, there's nothing stopping you from immediately upgrading it again to the {{ItemIcon|Dragonfire Shield}}, so head to the {{MonsterIcon|Green Dragon|Green Dragons}} to get 7050 {{ItemIcon|Dragon Bones}}. You can alternatively wait until getting some range levels, as {{MonsterIcon|Green Dragon|Green Dragons}} are slightly weaker to mage and range than to melee, but at this level, you shouldn't have any trouble, and the 8% DR of the {{ItemIcon|Dragonfire Shield|DFS}} will be very useful as a mage and range offhand for God dungeons.
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| Once you have full {{ItemIcon|(G) Ancient Platebody|(G) Ancient Armor}} and {{ItemIcon|Dragonfire Shield|DFS}} for 44% DR (or 41% with {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting|looting}} and {{ItemIcon|Sandstorm Ring}}, it's time to grind any remaining melee skills to ideally at least 90/99/90 while working your way towards 70 slayer for your next food upgrade - {{ItemIcon|Trout}} from {{MonsterIcon|Raging Horned Elite|Raging Horned Elites}} or RHE; you can also take advantage of the {{ItemIcon|Gold Emerald Ring}} from {{MonsterIcon|Mummy|Mummies}} to speed up stat grinding. Once you get to this point, you can expect 447.8 hp in food for every kill! Once you start killing {{MonsterIcon|Raging Horned Elite|RHE}}, hold onto the {{ItemIcon|Ancient Arrows}} they drop as they're your best {{Skill|Ranged}} arrows, even if they can't be equipped until level 70. Additionally, the {{ItemIcon|Large Horn|Large Horns}} that they drop will likely replace {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer|Master Farmers}} for GP farming, as the GP/hr is about the same (not to mention the food, arrows, and prayer points you're getting), and it only takes 1 extra bank slot.
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| {{Skill|Ranged}} is quite straightforward, but we’ve been pushing it forward for mainly two reasons: It doesn’t provide any real benefit until you start fighting wizards, or other magic monsters, and getting its gear without having the space in your bank or loadouts for the gear and weapon(s) will be annoying.
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| Get your first two bows (level 5 lets you use {{ItemIcon|Oak Shortbow}}) from the {{MonsterIcon|Ranged Golbin}} over at the {{ZoneIcon|Golbin Village}}, and use the {{ItemIcon|Ice Arrows}} from the {{MonsterIcon|Frozen Archer}} over at the {{ZoneIcon|Icy Hills}}. These are almost as strong as {{ItemIcon|Rune Arrows}}, which you can start to use at level {{Skill|Ranged|40}}, but are much easier and cheaper to farm, and can be equipped from the very beginning.
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| Literally all your next upgrades, except if you go out of your way to get the {{ItemIcon|Yew Longbow}} from the Holy Archer at level {{Skill|Ranged|40}}, will come from the {{ItemIcon|Bandit Chest}}. At level {{Skill|Ranged|30}} you can upgrade to the {{ItemIcon|Maple Longbow}}, at level 50 you can use the {{ItemIcon|Magic Longbow}}, and finally you will get to use the {{ItemIcon|Redwood Longbow}} and the {{ItemIcon|Ancient Longbow}} at levels 60 and 70.
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| Once you get into higher levels you may consider using the {{ItemIcon|Adamant Arrows|Adamant}} (worse than {{ItemIcon|Ice Arrows|Ice}}), {{ItemIcon|Rune Arrows|Rune}} and {{ItemIcon|Dragon Arrows}} you’ve collected from the {{ItemIcon|Bandit Chest}}. If you’re farming {{MonsterIcon|Raging Horned Elite}} for food you may also use {{ItemIcon|Ancient Arrows}} in {{Skill|Ranged|ranged combat}}.
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| {{Skill|Magic}} in this gamemode will mainly consist of casting air spells, since you can remove one colour from the rune costs. All spells cost air runes, but water, earth and fire runes additionally cost their respective runes.
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| This is a bad thing, for us, since we have no real way to farm a lot of runes yet, but we can get started by farming some catalyst runes at the {{MonsterIcon|Vampire}} and the {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}}. The {{MonsterIcon|Vampire}} is probably best for now, [[Combat Triangle|since it is a ranged monster]], meaning we can strike it with melee, even considering the drop chance and drop rates are lower than from the master wizard.
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| Catalyst Runes are the runes you use to power up your spells, while Elemental runes select which element you’re using. You can remove the cost for Elemental runes with staves, which we will abuse to completely nullify the air cost, and thus only use air spells.
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| The {{ItemIcon|Staff of Air}} reduces the cost by 1, allowing you to cast up to Wind Strike for free (20 dmg), the {{ItemIcon|Air Battlestaff|Battlestaff}} reduces it by 3, allowing you to cast up to Wind Blast for free (130 dmg), while the {{ItemIcon|Mystic Air Staff}} reduces it by 5, allowing you to cast up to Wind Wave for free (170 dmg).
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| =Ancient (g) to God gear and beyond (everything maxed, current end game)=
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| ==Pre-Gods==
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| ==Ragnar==
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| ==ITM==
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What is HCCO?
HCCO stands for
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Combat Only. This implies that you cannot use any non-Combat skills at any time, and must play on
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Hardcore. There is a secondary challenge, 12b, which means you may not buy any Bank slots, and are limited to the 12 provided to you by default. This is a popular additional challenge and most of the guide is directly applicable to 12b players (albeit with a lot more bank management).
To create a HCCO account, one can create a typical hardcore account and abstain from all non-combat skills. Alternatively, through the official mod manager one can use the Combat Only Account Mod to create an account with non-combat skills completely disabled and hidden. This mod offers the option for a mediumcore version, which is identical but doesn't have permadeath (you still lose one random item on death). This is different to a Standard account (aka Softcore), which has a different combat triangle that is less punishing and has health regen. Most of this guide will assume HC and therefore will sometimes be overly conservative for a softcore account.
There are currently no tangible differences between either of these options for playing HCCO mode, and one can convert between gamemodes through the use of mods. It is recommended to use the mod for MCCO or HCCO mode for the most immersive experience, as the community will add unique content specifically designed for CO in future, including a CO option in the collection log.
Preface
Food is vital to a HCCO account, and your first food source (and one that you will be relying on for quite a while) is 
Plants. Starting out, you should fight Plants for the 
Potatoes they drop and to increase your combat levels.
Note about
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Attack vs
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Strength vs
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Defence: All three combat skills are very useful to level in their own ways.
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Attack increases your chance to hit and unlocks new weapons to use,
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Strength increases your maximum hit, and
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Defence increases your chance to not get hit (which saves you food). In general, they should all be leveled equally.
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Defence should be the first combat skill that you level, as it greatly reduces the amount of damage that you will take from Plants (roughly by half).
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Attack should be second,
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Strength should be last. Since you have a low chance to hit, it’s more important to level
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Attack rather than
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Strength.
Weapons in this game have different attack speeds depending on their type. Daggers attack quickly, with an attack speed of 2.2 seconds, and Battleaxes attack slowly, with an attack speed of 3.1 seconds, for instance. Weapons that attack more slowly also deal more damage per hit and weapons that hit quickly usually do less damage per hit.
There are different styles in the game, depending on the weapon you’re wielding. Melee weapons, which will be our main focus initially, have Stab, Slash and Block. Each style gets a bonus to the accuracy rating depending on the specific weapon. Swords usually have a better stabbing accuracy, while scimitars are better at slashing, for instance.
The style you choose will also give you experience towards the combat skill in question: Stabbing gives
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Attack experience, Slashing gives
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Strength experience, while Blocking is used to train
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Defence. At the start, you’ll have to eat manually to ensure that you won’t die. Later on, you will unlock
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Auto Eat, so eating will be less of a worry.
Chapters
Chapter I: Gearing Up
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To start, you should have: Nothing!
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At the end, you should have: 4
Steel Armour pieces
Press here if you are ready
Chapter II: Mithril Armour
To start, you should have: Full
Steel Armour,
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20 /
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20 /
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20,
Steel Scimitar
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Auto Eat - Tier I, 4-5 pieces of
Mithril Armour,
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40 /
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40 /
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40,
Ice Sword,
Adamant Dagger
Press here if you are ready
Chapter III: Mithril to (G) Adamant
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Auto Eat - Tier I, Full
Mithril Armour,
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40 /
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40 /
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40,
Ice Sword,
Adamant Dagger
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At the end, you should have: Almost full
(G) Adamant Armour,
Amulet of Looting,
Rune 2H Sword,
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70 /
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70 /
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70
Press here if you are ready
Chapter IV: (G) Adamant to Full (G) Rune
To start, you should have: Almost full
(G) Adamant Armour,
(G) Rune Boots,
Desert Wrappings,
Rune 2H Sword,
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70 /
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Auto Eat - Tier II
At the end, you should have: Full
(G) Adamant Armour or Full
(G) Rune Armour,
Paladin Gloves,
Elite Amulet of Strength,
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80 /
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80 /
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80,
Sunset Rapier /
Ancient Sword,
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Auto Eat - Tier III
Press here if you are ready
Chapter V: (G) Rune to (G) Ancient
To start, you should have: Full
(G) Adamant Armour or Full
(G) Rune Armour,
Paladin Gloves,
Elite Amulet of Strength,
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80 /
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80 /
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80,
Sunset Rapier,
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Auto Eat - Tier III
At the end, you should have: Full
(G) Ancient Armour,
Paladin Gloves,
Elite Amulet of Defence,
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88+,
Dragonfire Shield,
Sandstorm Ring
Press here if you are ready
Chapter VI: Non-Melee Training
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1 and
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1
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85 with Full
(U) Ancient D-hide,
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Ancient Crossbow and
Scaled Shield and
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85 with
Mystic Air Staff and
Ancient Wizard Robes or
Black Wizard Robes
Press here if you are ready
Chapter VII: (G) Ancient to God Dungeons
Press here if you are ready
Chapter VIII: Into the Mist
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86 and
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Dungeon Equipment Swapping
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At the end, you should have: 
Passive Slot
Press here if you are ready
Chapter IX: T90 grind
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To start, you should have: IDK!
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At the end, you should have: IDK!
Press here if you are ready
Chapter X: Unhallowed Wasteland
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To start, you should have: IDK!
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At the end, you should have: IDK!
Press here if you are ready
Chaper XI: Impending Darkness Event
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To start, you should have: IDK!
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At the end, you should have: IDK!
Press here if you are ready
Chaper XII: Throne of the Herald
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To start, you should have: IDK!
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At the end, you should have: IDK!
Press here if you are ready
Chaper XIII: Manual Content
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To start, you should have: IDK!
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At the end, you should have: IDK!
Press here if you are ready
Ancient Arrows, 
Death Runes and 
Food. 
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs and full 
Aeris,
Glacia,
Terran and 
Ragnar God Armour.
Guides • 
Easter Eggs • 
Pets • 
Throne of the Herald • 
Atlas of Discovery • 