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The Shimmering Oasis

Earth Layered Shield

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Wind Strike

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Level 115

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Battleborn

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HP 1,200

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HP

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Level 50

Ahrenia

Combat Triangle

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The information contained within should not be considered fully accurate and/or complete.

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Into the Mist

Harold

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Pillar of Skilling

5,000 5,000

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Curses

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The Best Axe

Spider Spectre

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Slot	Obstacle	Bonuses
1	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cargo Net	+3% Global GP (except Item Sales) +2% Fishing Mastery XP
2	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Monkey Bars	-4% Firemaking Interval
3	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pipe Climb	+5% Melee Evasion +5% Melee Max Hit
4	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Coal Stones	-4% Skill XP for all Skills +10% Food Healing Value +20% GP gained from Thieving +3% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills
5	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cliff Balance	+20 Maximum Hitpoints +5% Ranged Accuracy Rating +2 Prayer Point Cost for Prayers +5% Magic Accuracy Rating +5% Melee Accuracy Rating
6	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rocky Waters	+50 Maximum Hitpoints
7	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Boulder Trap	-20% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills
8	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Raft Building	+20 Maximum Hitpoints +2% Damage To All Monsters +1% Damage Reduction
9	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ice Jump	+20 Maximum Hitpoints +5% Food Healing Value +5% Chance to Double Items Globally +10 Mining Node HP +10% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills

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BIG DISCLAIMER The site is currently being activey worked on, please check back in a few hours for an updated version of this page. The Fishing Advice was removed as it was a terrible suggestion, alternative methods for bank slots / GP will be offered in the new version

Melvor Idle is a cut down RPG game with many hidden depths. There is no right or wrong way to progress in the game, and you will rarely (if ever) be punished for experimenting. Melvor Idle is about the journey not the destination.

Enjoy!

The Wiki

The Melvor Wiki is a majority community lead project. The raw data is imported directly from the game, this includes the pages with Monster, Item, Area, Spell, Skill Information/Data. One can almost guarantee that the information on those pages matches in-game content 100%.

As mentioned, the rest of the wiki is written by users/players such as yourself. There are a few Discord Administrators/Moderators that (occasionally) participate in helping on the Wiki, the majority however is done Players. There is no active professional team that keeps the wiki up to date. This is done to the best of the abilities by the people participating on maintaining the Wiki, things do however fall through the cracks. If you notice something that is incorrect/misspelled/out of date or just could be better in general, feel free to create your own Wiki Account and edit it!

Every edit is monitored by other Players and Discord Moderators, egregious edits will be undone/removed, they can also be discussed on the "talk" pages on the Wiki or on the Melvor Discord in the #wiki-discussion channel. This channel is open for:

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When following guides, please check the version in which this was published, some guides are very out of date or no longer relevant, there's work being done on updating them, but writing a good guide takes time and the current dedicated editing team is small. We'll welcome any help we can get, no matter how small or big.

Goal of this Guide

This guide gives one method for how to start your Melvor Idle journey. The goal is to give players a helping hand in the early stages of the game. It is in no way complete, or optimal for all play styles.

There are several ways to play this game. Some choices can be found [|here]

Why not to use this guide?

There are many reasons that this guide may not be useful:

This guide is intended for Standard and
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Hardcore Game Modes:
- If you are playing Adventure game-mode then please refer to the Adventure/Guide.
- If you are playing Ancient Relics game-mode then please refer to the Ancient Relics/Guide.

Before you start

In general:

This game is meant to be idled - this means that it is intended that you do not actively play this game, but instead do other things, such as go on a walk, or visit the zoo! And when you come back, hopefully you will start to see some progress, but do not expect to complete this game in a week.
- This game however also some more active play when it comes to the combat. You can spend as little or as much time as you want optimizing your farming there.
Items and equipment will give you small benefits that stack up over time, so do not expect to be a Melvor god after you have completed all of the steps outlined below - you will still have a lot of gameplay left, and the expansions are a great investment if you are yearning for more!
You should expect some parts of these guide to take many days and weeks to complete, so feel free to deviate from the guide at any time.
Off-line progress is capped to 24-hours, and so once you start following these steps, you may feel it necessary to keep the game running continuously, or feel the need to check-in on progress regularly. If you do need a break, this is ok - the progress cap might feel like a limitation at first, but it also means that your township doesn't fall into disarray after a long break.
- If you're unable or unwilling to log in within the 24 hour timespan, there's the option to download the "Unlimited Offline" Mods, please be aware that the longer you stay offline with that mod, the longer it will take for the game to load in.

Skills That Boost Other Skills

These skills are mostly centered around "if you invest in this skill, other skills will get stronger". Some of these skills also provide some direction about what order to work on other skills, because the bonuses to work on other skills come in a certain order. For the sake of simplicity, this section only discusses non-combat bonuses. See the full skill page for how they provide buffs for combat skills.

If you wish to see how Skills effect other Skills please expand the column below.

Meta Skills
Skill	Description	Order of unlocks for other skills
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Astrology	This is the most straightforward Skill Boosting-skill. Study constellations to unlock permanent bonuses for the respective skills. It takes a lot of investment in Astrology before Astrology buffs itself.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Farming * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Woodcutting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firemaking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fishing * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cartography * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archaeology * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Agility * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Thieving * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Astrology
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning	Create Summoning tablets that provide a small bonus to the corresponding skill, using a combination of materials that use ingredients from the skill and materials you buy for GP. Unlock much stronger bonuses by using synergies after progressing in multiple different summons.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Woodcutting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fishing * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Thieving * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firemaking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Agility * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Astrology * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firemaking	Firemaking provides flat percentage bonuses for all skills: skill XP in the form of Firemaking Skillcape and mastery XP, from the pool checkpoint and achieving 99 item mastery. It's also required to unlock better cooking fires.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore	Most skills have at least one potion that provides a bonus. For non-combat skills, these potions are usually increased output of resources, but there are some important exceptions for speeding up progression.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firemaking - Controlled Heat Potion * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Astrology - Secret Stardust Potion * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining - Perfect Swing Potion * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Agility - Performance Enhancing Potion * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting - Elemental Potion
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Agility	Build obstacles that provide fixed bonuses to specific skills. The higher your skill level, the more obstacles you can build, at higher tiers. However, these obstacles also get progressively more difficult to build, both in terms of money and in terms of items, but they also have some of the strongest bonuses in the game. As you progress in Melvor, you will find yourself swapping between obstacles reasonable often.	Agility has too many bonuses with complicated ordering, so it's difficult to enumerate them like in the previous sections. Please see the Error creating thumbnail: File missing Agility page for full information.

Raw Material Gathering Skills

These skills provide items that usually aren't useful for themselves, but are very important for doing other skills.

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Herblore

and

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Agility

aren't explicitly included because the materials for these skills come from everywhere.

If you wish to look at which Skills power which other Skills, please expand the table below.

Skill	Description	Primary skills powered by these items
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Woodcutting	Chop Trees. Get logs.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firemaking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching - Bows & Javelins * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Farming - Bird Nest and Raven Nest * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting - Hardwood Armor
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining	Hit Rocks. Get Ores.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting - Gems * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting - Rune Essence and Pure Essence
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fishing	Catch Fish.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting - Gems
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Thieving	Steal all kinds of things, each thieving target gives different stuff from all over the game. Thieving targets also provide unique items that can provide unique bonuses for many different skills.	These items are used everywhere.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Farming	Plant Crops. Harvest them after some time has passed. Farming is passive output, you don't activate Farming.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore - Herbs for all potions are made in Farming. ** Also makes logs for the same things as Error creating thumbnail: File missing Woodcutting
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archaeology	Go to dig sites, and find cool stuff. Most of these items don't impact other non-combat skills, but there are some exceptions.	* Crystalized Mithril Fragment * Crystalized Dragon Fragment * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Woodcutting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning

Finished Goods Artisan Skills

These skills provide finished items, usually used for combat.

If you wish to look at these items, please expand the table below.

Artisan Skills
Skill	Description	Primary skills powered by these items
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing	Make bars (ingots), then turn them into metal items.	Melee weapons and armor. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching - Javelins, Arrows and Crossbows
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting	Make items that you wouldn't use a forge for.	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ranged armor Jewelry (a wide variety of uses) Consumables (also wide variety of uses)
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching	Ranged weapons and ammunition.	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ranged
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting	Transform essence (from Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining) into materials needed for magic	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Magic Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alt. Magic

Choosing the Way to Play The Game

There are several ways to play the Game, depending on your goals and preferred game play. Here are some suggested ways to play the game and a guide on how to do it.

Laid back, only logging in once/twice per day, what to set your offline times to and what to do when online
Skilling Focused, max out everything to 99/120 then start combat while having access to everything and being as overpowered as possible
Max efficiency without Throne of the Herald , mix of the 1st and 2nd but then choosing the most optimal way
Max efficiency with Throne of the Herald road to 100% completion, this will be combat focused, level as little non-combat as possible to rush herald for the 2% interval, after which skills and item collection will be done.

Before Settling on Desired Game-play

Before we get into the actual different way to play. It is generally advised you get a good feel of the game and how it works / interacts. This is generally achieved by leveling all the skills to around Level 20-30 and beat a Dungeon or 2. Once everything is around level 30 you should better understand how the game works and if you like it. The Core Game Mechanics won't really change much, it gets slightly more complicated especially when it comes to Combat later on, there will be more and more Skill interactions once you get to higher levels. Faster Experience Gains and you'll receive loot quicker. But this is about it. This would be an excellent point to determine if this game is for you or you'd rather move on.

The entire process of leveling everything to around level 30 should take about 2 hours. If you don't have that time to spare in 1 sitting, do what you can and then switch to

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Astrology

until the next time you log back in. There is never any harm to level

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Astrology

, it will only give you more benefits. At later stages you might want to switch to different skills for other benefits, for now this is your best choice.

It is advised you start by leveling
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Astrology for the minor gains you'll get from that at low levels.
- You can stop at
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  Level 40 for now.
  - Buy the the first 5 levels of the first 2 Stars (the Blue ones) in each Constellations (
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    Deedree,
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    Iridan,
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    Ameria,
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    Terra and
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    Vale). If you have enough Stardust.
  - This will give you 15% Global Accuracy, 5% experience and
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    Mastery gain in:
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    Woodcutting,
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    Farming,
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    Smithing,
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    Fishing,
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    Firemaking,
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    Mining and 5% Experience in
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    Attack and
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    Strength
Your next skills should be
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Woodcutting and
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Summoning
- Summoning is a very important skill for boosting all your other skills, and it is leveled by equipping summoning tablets. It levels very slowly while you do everything else, and it is nearly impossible to come back later and rush level it.
- Start chopping Normal Logs until you get your first
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  Ent mark.
- Sell some of your logs and use the money to buy Summoning Shard (Green) to make about 100
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  Ent tablets.
- Repeat (moving up to Oak Logs and Willow Logs as they become available) until you have
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  Level 15
Your next skills should be
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Fishing and
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Cooking (and more
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Summoning)
- To get enough Gold Pieces to upgrade the Shop upgrades for the first 2 Axes, Fishing Rods and Pickaxes,
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  Octopus and
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  Pig tablets.
- Once you get to roughly
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  Level 23 you should get enough Gold Pieces to upgrade the Fishng Rod to the level 20 one.
- At
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  Level 30 Sell all the Junk that you got apart from the Fish, and about half of the fish.
- When you unlock
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  Octopus, stop to make some tablets and equip them.
- Make sure to save 300 Raw Herring and 300 Raw Salmon for the next section.
- Next is
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  Cooking the fish caught from
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  Fishing, this will be used in Combat.
  - Make sure
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    Level 25 before you switch to
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    Cooking, so you can unlock
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    Pig.
The next skill would be
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Agility
- This has some minor increases for
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  Woodcutting,
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  Cooking,
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  Agility,
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  Herblore,
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  Firemaking,
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  Mining and
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  Archaeology at low levels.
- Switching
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  Agility Obstacles can be quite pricy at these levels, especially before you have a good moneymaking Method. If you can focus on 1 Obstacle in each Tier and leave them for now, we can start switching later on.
- At
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  Level 20, make sure to build
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  Pit Jump as your Tier 3 obstacle with the fish you saved from the previous step.
After this finish the rest of the Skills to Level 30, the order in which you do this is not very important, you might run into not being to some Artisan Skills yet as you don't have the resources from the Gathering Skills yet, just come back later to those skills.

There are several ways to earn Gold Coins in this Game. Here are some suggestions how you can obtain them effectively.

When Combat is the main focus, it is generally recommended that your first 1,000,000 goes towards

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Auto Eat

Skill	Level	Method	Comment
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Thieving	54 / 57 / 77	At apropriate Levels thieving Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fisherman, Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cyclops and Error creating thumbnail: File missing Knight provides some of the best GP/h, you will however need to obtain Chapeau Noir, Golbin Mask, Thiever's Cape and Sneak-Ers from Error creating thumbnail: File missing Thieving, also Gloves of Silence from Thief in Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runic Ruins requiring Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 45	It takes quite a while to set up Error creating thumbnail: File missing Thieving correctly, be sure you don't do this before Error creating thumbnail: File missing Auto Eat as you'll most likely die. Also don't forget to enable the "Continue on Stun" option if you have plenty of Food available
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fishing	??	Fishing in general is quite bad for , it is however an easy and AFK method to grind out the first 1,000,000
Low Level Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining	0	Low Level Mining with Gem Gloves might sound like a good idea, it does give you some profit, it is however very poor gains per hour.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining	85	Mining is a really good way to earn , it however doesn't really start generating a lot before Level 85. It also requires you to have . Pure Crystal sells for 750 each, which racks up quite fast and should average around 4,000,000 per hour without any boosts. Perfect Swing Potion help immensely if you wish to farm with this Method

With this minor preparation of the Skills, we're now ready to start picking the desired Way to Play, be it Skilling or Combat you should be set for both!

Ways To Play The Game

Laid Back

only logging in once/twice per day, what to set your offline times to and what to do when online

Skilling Focused

max out everything to 99/120 then start combat while having access to everything and being as overpowered as possible

Max efficiency without Throne of the Herald

mix of the 1st and 2nd but then choosing the most optimal way

Max efficiency with Throne of the Herald road to 100% Completion

This Method aims at clearing

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Throne of the Herald

as soon as possible for the Harold reward. Which gives:

Max Pool Mastery Cap increased by 25%
2% Global Interval reduction
0.1 Attack Speed Interval reduction
5% Global Mastery Gain
as well as many more useful things.

Doing this first has great benefits on the entirety of your account & required Playtime to reach 100% Completion.

This will be combat focused, Level as little non-combat as possible to rush Herald for the benefits, after which skilling and attacking will be faster/easier. It's the biggest boost one can get in the entire game.

Before going into Combat it is suggested to Level these Non-Combat Skills:

Skill	Level	Reason
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting	85	For Ancient Runes & decently crafted Wizard Equipment.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining & Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing	40	At 40 Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining and 40 Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining you can mine & craft Silver Bar and Gold Bar, which are required to upgrade Melee Armour to (G), so they actually get their Damage Reduction
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Later Aims should be:

Skill	Level	Reason
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore or Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cartography	90	Both these Skills grant access to Damage Reduction Potion IV which is very helpful, especially in the Throne of the Herald Expansion. When Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore is chosen it will also need Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 90. In Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cartography it 1000 can be gotten at (31, 19) The Sand-Covered Treasure. These can be turned in for 5,000 Damage Reduction Potion IV with Township Task Hard 15.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archaeology	90	Only when also doing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 90, this allows access to Underwater Ruins which has the very powerful Engulfing Vortex Longbow, this is quite a grind but well worth it, it shreds through Throne of the Herald content
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archaeology	118	This is highly Optional Not required but very fun to play with, Merman Pendant and Pirate Hook are 2 very powerful items only obtainable from very high Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archaeology. You can defeat the entire game without them, they will however make some parts of the game faster/more fun.

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Before Settling on Desired Game-play

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Before Settling on Desired Game-play

Ways To Play The Game

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