HCCO/Guide
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The majority of this guide is written by Username, mazunki, and @ERRORMONSTER#8764 of the Discord community. If you have any questions, or if anything is wrong, please make sure to reach out to any of us. Feel free to edit the guide or add anything to it as needed.
Thanks to everyone in #hardcore-mode-chat for making this possible. :)
What is HCCO?
HCCO stands for
Only. This implies that you cannot use any non-Combat skills at any time, and must play on
. 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 guide is aimed more towards 12b players, but playing without this restriction just means you can spend less time on bank management.
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
vs
vs
: All three combat skills are very useful to level in their own ways.
increases your chance to hit and unlocks new weapons to use,
increases your maximum hit, and
increases your chance to not get hit (which saves you food). In general, they should all be leveled equally.
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).
should be second,
should be last. Since you have a low chance to hit, it’s more important to level
rather than
.
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
experience, Slashing gives
experience, while Blocking is used to train
. At the start, you’ll have to eat manually to ensure that you won’t die. Later on, you will unlock
, so eating will be less of a worry.
Chapter I: Gearing Up
To start, you should have: Nothing!
At the end, you should have: 4 
Steel Armour pieces
You should get to about 10 in all melee combat skills (usually expressed as
/
/
) by fighting Plants. After that, it’s time to start getting your first bit of equipment.
After you have a decent stack of food from fighting Plants, it’s time to get your first pieces of gear from the 
Golbin. You should have some levels in all skills (
/
/
or so) and a couple hundred potatoes or so. You’re looking for a 
Bronze Battleaxe (1 in 27 chance) and a 
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.
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 Bronze Battleaxe is an 
Iron Dagger. You should have about
/
/
stats and a few hundred potatoes. The Iron Dagger has a 1/33 drop rate from the 
Goo Monster.
Your next gear upgrades will come from 
Zombie Hand. You’re looking for the 
Iron Platebody (1 in 4 chance) and 
Iron Platelegs (1 in 4 chance). Some people might go for the 
Steel Knight first, but since the 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 taters.
After you have the gear from the Zombie Hand, you should then move on to the regular 
Zombie for the Steel Platebody (1 in 5 chance). It also drops 
Steel Boots (1 in 5 chance), but you shouldn’t grind for them here since it's easier to get them from the Steel Knight next. (
/
/
stats recommended)
You’ll end the first part of your HCCO journey with Steel Knights. They drop the 
Steel Helmet (15 in 67 chance), 
Steel Shield (10 in 67 chance), 
Steel Sword (10 in 67 chance), and 
Steel Scimitar (4 in 67 chance). You should be using the Steel Sword on
and
and the Scimitar on
when killing most monsters, but again, daggers should be used on Plants due to their fast attack rate. The 
Mirror Shield is a useful item to get around here, but if you decide not to get it, you can avoid ever getting tasks in the
. It acts as a decent early Shield, before you get the 
Mithril Shield. However, it's optional.
Chapter II: Mithril Armour
To start, you should have: Full Steel Armour,
/
/
, Steel Scimitar
At the end, you should have: 
Amulet of Looting,
, Full 
Mithril Armour,
/
/
The next Knight after Steel is 
Black. However, you should skip it, as the drop chances are very low, and the next tier is not much harder anyway.
But before you visit the 
Mithril Knight you'll want to take a detour to fight the 
Mummy for 
Silver Ruby Necklace and 
Gold Emerald Ring to fill out your neck and ring slots. Your next step, therefore, is 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 Mithril set. You will probably get 
Boots (25 in 268) and 
Helmets (15 in 268) quite often, and the eventual 
Platelegs (5 in 268). The Platebody has quite a low drop-chance (1 in 568).
Before getting the Platebody you will probably get both a 
Scimitar (1 in 67) and a Shield (5/134), too, so equip these once dropped. You may equip the 
Sword, too, but consider sticking with the Scimitar for now, to efficiently level up your
skill before equipping the 
Ice Sword for a long while.
The last thing to consider before moving on to the 
Ice Monster is to get an 
Amulet of Calculated Promotion from the 
Leech while your name is set to "witwix". However this is only a 1% chance, so you might instead want to put it off until later.
As mentioned, you will want to get the Ice Sword after getting full Mithril Armour, or even before getting the Platebody, as it is a really good upgrade at this point. The drop rate is 10% at the Ice Monster in the
. The Ice Sword is better at grinding
than all weapons from a lower tier.
Now, before you go away from the computer, or to sleep, it’s time to upgrade your dagger. You can get a cheap 
Adamant Dagger from the 
Purple Goo Monster. More damage to Plants? Good stuff.
Chapter II-A: Amulet of Looting
The Amulet of Looting is a special amulet which automatically loots gear acquired from Combat Areas and
Areas. You may get it from the 
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.
By using Mithril Armour, and having around
/
/
, it will take you around 5000 healing from food per run of the
. 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.
It is quite possible to beat the zone without having any form of
, and just make sure you time your manual eating right, since the damage of the 
Spiders in the area is not too high.
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
,
480 HP for
. This requires 6,000,000
, which would require around 30 hours of active gameplay at 
Master Farmer, since you still don’t have auto looting. Bad idea.
Chapter II-B: Making Money Early Game + Auto Eat 1
As soon as you have your hands on an Amulet of Looting, you can start to make money. 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 GP you want.
The safest way to make money, for now, is to kill 
Cows, collect their 
Leather, and upgrade it into 
Green Dragonhide through the shop. The selling price for Leather is 50, while the selling price for Green Dragonhide is 200. By upgrading it, you effectively get 100 per piece of Leather.
Assuming you’ve got the Ice Sword, the average GP yield per Cow is 203.
Important: As you farm Cows early game, Master Farmers later in the game, or 
Statues for gear upgrades, it is ALWAYS recommended to use free the easy
reroll to get your current objective, as all 3 of them are included.
Use Adamant Dagger for idling Plants, and Ice Sword for tougher enemies. This chapter ends when you’re at
/
/
.
Chapter III: Mithril to (G) Adamant
To start, you should have: Amulet of Looting,
, Full Mithril Armour,
/
/
At the end, you should have: Almost full 
(G) Adamant Armour,
/
/
While your next target is 
Adamant Knights, you should know that leveling
and
up to 50 will effectively reduce your healing per Knight from 1700 to 1200. Additionally, if you decided not to get the Amulet of Calculated Promotion previously, you should definitely get it now, since you'll have extremely low accuracy on the next two Knights.
Important note: DO NOT IDLE KNIGHTS. Make sure to always have more
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 Adamant Knight is not really a danger provided you’re PAYING ATTENTION and have enough food.
Your Ice Sword is great for leveling
, and your dagger is fine for leveling
. You may do this at Statue, to prepare for gear upgrades, and thus your first Damage Reduction points!
Each 
Adamant piece has a 1/48 chance of dropping. Good luck on that! While you don’t really care about the 
Adamant Boots nor the 
Obsidian Cape, you may as well equip them once you get them. It will be a while until you replace the Cape for anything else, but there’s no point wasting 
Silver/
Gold Bars on the Boots. Upgrade the Equipment you get to (G) Adamant as soon as you get them, since each piece gives you 4% Damage Reduction.
Chapter III-A: Making money early-mid: Master Farmer + Auto Eat II
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 Farmers grind, you get a total of 84% of the GP drops. That’s around 809 per kill.
Chapter III-B: Late to mid Game food: Slayer
It is highly recommended to build up
150,000as
is a great purchase to idly build up
. With them, you can purchase 
Standard Resupply, which nets you both a useful 150 Crab and 500 
Magic Bones per purchase. This tends to be the most efficient HP per
, and is worth saving up for. These can be used throughout the rest of the game for easy food.
As per usual, free rerolls may be used to acquire Master Farmer as your
task.
Beware of 
Wizards when using
, and ensure they can not bypass your
threshold. They should be skipped either way, as they will consume a lot of food due to their high accuracy on melee armour.
Chapter IV: Upgraded Boots, Gloves, and Weapon
To start, you should have: Almost full (G) Adamant Armour, 
(G) Rune Boots,
/
/
At the end, you should have: Almost full (G) Adamant Armour, (G) Rune Boots, 
Desert Wrappings, 
Dragon Scimitar,
/
/
Now, grind up enough
for the 
Desert Hat, and at least
, so you can gain access to the
. You may as well kill Master Farmers for GP, or hit some Statues for some Gold and Silver Bars, which are both Easy Slayer Tasks, meaning they’re free to reroll.
BEWARE: Do not
Potatoes in the
unless you have at least
. You will lose all your Potatoes instantly.
Now, why would you want to unlock
? Well, there’s a few reasons:
Sand Treaders from 
Turkul Riders — -0.1s to all attacks, good for farming lower level monsters.
Rune Boots from Turkul Riders — Excellent upgrade, easier to get than from 
Rune Knights.- Desert Wrappings from
Turkul Archers — 2% Damage Reduction gloves, best until 
Paladin Gloves.
Also, you don’t even need to manual these two enemies! After getting these upgrades, you should hold on to your hat (literally!), because your next weapon upgrade comes from the 
Turkul Giant in the same area. You could also sell the hat, and buy it again a bit later. The
cost is not too huge. Farm up enough GP to upgrade to
at Master Farmer. With
you can idle Turkul Giants, provided you have 23% DR and
. With this, upgrade your weapon into the Dragon Scimitar or, even better, the 
Desert Sabre.
Chapter V: (G) Adamant to Full (G) Rune
To start, you should have: Almost full (G) Adamant Armour, (G) Rune Boots, Desert Wrappings, Dragon Scimitar,
/
/
At the end, you should have: Full 
(G) Rune Armour, Paladin Gloves, 
Elite Amulet of Strength,
/
/
, 
Sunset Rapier / 
Ancient Claw,
The first thing you should do in this part of the story is to upgrade your 
Amulet of Strength into an Elite one, simply by farming more Mummies. On average you need to kill around a thousand of them.
You can wait to get the Paladin Gloves until after getting 
Rune Armor, or you can farm it now. At this point, you will use around 65 Potatoes per 
Paladin kill, and the chance to get them is 1/171. Not too hard.
The next step is to farm the feared shiny Rune Knights, and upgrade your four armor pieces into (G) Rune pieces, for a total of 29% Damage Reduction with the Paladin Gloves. You will need a bunch of Gold and Silver Bars, farmed at Statue.
You should get
and a second
. You should also consider getting the third one now, too. Assuming you already have
(and if you don't, then go get it; 
Giant Crab tasks are your friend here), the last thing to get before moving onto the next section is a better weapon.
is your next stop for a Sunset Rapier to speed up killing 
Pegasus. You'll be killing around 3300 of them to get 100 
Ancient Claw Fragment, which can be upgraded into the Ancient Claw. This will be a great weapon until you upgrade it to the 
Infernal Claw, which is still a ways off.
Don't bother getting any 
Dragon Claw Fragments from 
Griffin yet, as they will just take up space. If you're lucky enough to get an 
Ancient Sword before the Sunset Rapier, then feel free to use it until you get to
, 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.
Chapter VI: (G) Rune to (G) Ancient
To start, you should have: Full (G) Rune Armour, Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Strength,
/
/
, Sunset Rapier / Ancient Claw,
At the end, you should have: Full 
(G) Ancient Armour, Paladin Gloves, 
Elite Amulet of Defence,
/
/
, 
Dragonfire Shield, 
Sandstorm Ring
Elite Amulet of Defence from upgrading 
Amulets of Defence, which are dropped by Purple Goo Monsters, and 
Silver Diamond Ring, dropped by Mummies, are our best friends for now; the limiting factor for the remaining dungeons is how much DR you have access to.
Now that you've got full Rune (G) Armour and Paladin Gloves for 32% DR,
880 Hitpoints will allow you to idle
for your first useful cape, the 
Fire Cape. At this point, you can expect to eat around
30,000 HP worth of food per kill without
.
You're probably noticing that Potatoes just won't cut it for food anymore, so switching to 
Sweaty Monsters for 
Salmon and 
Lobster will reduce your overall time spent farming food. Expect to get food equivalent to 10.2 HP/kill in Salmon, 6.25 HP/kill in Lobster, and 2.3 HP/kill in 
Shark. Swapping food sources often means that saving all 3 types of fish might not be worth it for some players.
Hopefully you find the
comfortable, as the goal is to get the 
Ancient Platebody, 
Ancient Platelegs, 
Ancient Helmet, and 
Ancient Shield. There are no Ancient Boots and 
Dragon Boots are unobtainable on HCCO (as is the 
Dragon Helmet,) so you'll continue rocking your (G) Rune Boots for quite awhile. Getting the 
Dragon Platebody and/or 
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 Ancient Armour, make another visit to Statues to finish off gathering Gold Bars and Silver Bars and upgrade everything to (G). Luckily the 
Elite Chests you've been opening also drop plenty of Silver Bars and Gold Bars.
In total, you'll need 6,000 Silver Bars and 10,000 Gold Bars for full (G) Ancient Armour. If you get all the Silver Bars you need, move to Purple Goo Monsters for faster Gold Bars. You can also hold onto the 
Amulets of Fury for the 
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs grind later; you'll need 10 Fury Amulets in total.
After getting the 
(G) Ancient Shield, there's nothing stopping you from immediately upgrading it again to the Dragonfire Shield, so head to the 
Green Dragons to get 7,050 
Dragon Bones. You can alternatively wait until getting some
levels, as Green Dragons are slightly weaker to
and
than to
, but at this level, you shouldn't have any trouble, and the 8% DR of the Dragonfire Shield will be very useful as a
and
offhand for God dungeons.
Another grind that can be done around this time is the Sandstorm Ring from 
Sand Beasts, which will be your best-in-slot
DPS ring.
Once you have full (G) Ancient Armour and Dragonfire Shield for 43% DR (or 40% with Amulet of Looting and Sandstorm Ring, it's time to grind any remaining melee skills to ideally at least
/
/
while working your way towards
for your next food upgrade - 
Trout from 
Raging Horned Elites or RHE; you can also take advantage of the Gold Emerald Ring from 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 Raging Horned Elites, hold onto the 
Ancient Arrows they drop as they're your best arrows, even though they can't be equipped until
. Additionally, the 
Large Horns that they drop will likely replace Master Farmers for GP farming, as the GP/hr is about the same (not to mention the food, arrows, and
points you're getting), with a much lower bank demand.
Chapter VI-A: Ranged
is quite straightforward, but we’ve been putting it off 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 weapons will be annoying. Get your first two bows;
lets you use 
Oak Shortbow) from the 
Ranged Golbin over at the
, and use the 
Ice Arrows from the 
Frozen Archer over at the
. These are almost as strong as 
Rune Arrows, which you can start to use at
, but are much easier and cheaper to farm, and can be equipped from the very beginning.
Literally all your next weapon upgrades, except if you go out of your way to get the 
Yew Longbow from the 
Holy Archer at
, will come from the 
Bandit Chest. At
, you can upgrade to the 
Maple Longbow, at
you can use the 
Magic Longbow, and finally you will get to use the 
Redwood Longbow and the 
Ancient Longbow at
and
. An alternative (but less efficient) route for early
training is to kill 
Thieves in the
for 
throwing knives, which, due to their higher attack speed and inherent 15% ammunition saving, can help with early training.
Once you get into higher levels you may consider using the 
Adamant (worse than Ice), Rune and 
Dragon Arrows you’ve collected from the Bandit Chest. If you’re farming Raging Horned Elite for food you may also use Ancient Arrows in
after
. Most of your ranged armor upgrades will come from the
, moving through 
Green Dragonhide at
, 
Blue Dragonhide at
, 
Red Dragonhide at
, and finally into 
Black Dragonhide at
. Upgrading
armor is much easier than
armor, as you can buy Leather from the shop, which can then be used to buy Green, 
Blue, and 
Red dragon leathers for upgrading their respective armor tiers.
Alternatively, killing dragons in the
can provide all chromatic dragonhide, including 
Black. 
Ranger Hat and 
Ranger Boots are a nice bonus for saving ammunition while training, but after
, ammunition will be plentiful thanks to Raging Horned Elites, so they aren't necessarily worth the time to grind out.
Chapter VI-B: Magic
in this challenge 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 spells additionally cost their respective runes.
This is a bad thing for us, since we have no real way to farm a lot of runes yet. However, we can get started by farming some catalyst runes from the 
Vampire and the 
Master Wizard. The Vampire is probably best for now, since it is a
monster, meaning we can strike it with our powerful
. Even considering the drop chance and drop rates are lower than from the Master Wizard, this will be faster overall.
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 Apells.
The 
Staff of Air reduces the cost by 1, allowing you to cast up to
for free at 20 damage. The 
Battlestaff reduces it by 3, allowing you to cast up to
for free at 130 damage. The 
Mystic Air Staff reduces it by 5, allowing you to cast up to
for free at 170 damage. Keep in mind you will also need the Catalyst runes for each tier. Once you get to
, you can start wielding battlestaves, and should therefore also cast
. No need for 
Mind Runes anymore, so sell them all.
After you can cast 
Death spells, you might want to go back and forth between 
Chaos Runes and Death Runes, since they both deal decent damage, and are both farmed decently at the Master Wizard for a while. Eventually, as you get more magic evasion through leveling
, you will only use Death Runes, as the 
Necromancer stops hurting too much.
(G) Ancient to God Gear and Beyond (everything maxed, current end game)
Pre-Gods
It's about time to get your best-statted amulet, the Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs that has 1% more Damage Resistance compared to Elite Amulet of Defence in addition to offensive and defensive bonuses. Refer to the FEZ/Guide for getting all the materials to make it. The
pet is good to have by this point as well, as it's a free 1% DR. Another useful item to get around this time if you don't already have it is the Sandstorm Ring, for its unavoidable special attack.
Aeris
Getting 99/99/99 melee stats is not a bad plan at this point, but before moving into the
, you'll want to have at least 90/90/90 melee stats, full (G) Ancient melee armor, (G) Rune Boots, Paladin Gloves, Dragonfire Shield, Fire Cape, FEZ or Elite Amulet of Defence, and level 85
. This combination of armor will allow you to reach 43% DR and idle the
with as low as level 97 hp for 1000 total health, including the 30 hp bonus from the DFS. If your hp is at least level 95, then you can even use the 
(U) Ancient D-hide Vambraces for 2% DR more than Paladin Gloves.
Your goal is to get full 
Aeris God Armor from the 
Scrolls of Aeris, with the 
Stormsnap being optional. The 
Aeris Godsword is wholly unnecessary, as you'll want to keep using the DR of the DFS awhile longer, though all of the godswords can be used for non-dungeon grinding.
You'll want to hold on to the
which can be upgraded into 
Air Chests, containing various crossbow bolts. These won't be enough to supply you for the
but will at least save you some time grinding ammunition in the future. The 
Deadeye Amulet and the 
Deadeye Ring are each pretty good DPS increases for Ranged, but DR is so tight in most god dungeons that you may not be able to use it over the FEZ.
Glacia
Hopefully you've gotten the 
Finn, the Cat pet by now, because the 10 max health bonus makes DR and max hit calculations much easier, not to mention potentially saving you 1% DR here and there. That and the
pet will be assumed from here out for the sake of example gear, just for simplicity, alongside level 99
.
will be done with
. Your goal is 49% DR. While it's much easier to reach this threshold with the
from
and a Dragonfire Shield, gathering bolts from either Air Chests or
resupplies is pretty tedious (though autoslayer helps, and again, Giant Crab tasks are your friend. Use basic resupplies for the most ammo per SC,) so an alternative
is to use the Stone Skin prayer and the Ancient Longbow, full Aeris, FEZ, Silver Diamond Ring, and a Fire Cape. Without level 88 prayer, you'll have to use a shield.
If you do go the
+ DFS route, then Aeris provides enough damage reduction for you to wear otherwise fully offensive gear, including the Deadeye Amulet, Deadeye Ring, and the 
Cape of Prat or 
Ranged Skillcape.
Regardless of your gearing, the goal is full 
Glacia armor in 5 pieces from the 
Scrolls of Glacia, with the 
Warlock Ring from 
Water Chests being a neat bonus and the 
Warlock Amulet not being very useful. The 
Glacia Godsword is not worth grinding for, nor is the 
Cloudburst Staff. The cloudburst doesn't provide any air runes, which are required for all standard spells, so where you can use a 2h staff, you'll likely want to use your Mystic Air Staff to prevent needing to farm Wizards for air runes, but most of the late-game magic content requires a wand and shield anyway, so it's moot. Maybe you could use it for an ancient magicks setup with Icicle Volley, but 
Ancient Runes are also a pain to get in bulk. Water Chests are actually the best place to farm ancient runes due to the low drop rate and amount from 
Magic Chests. Hold on to a 
Magic Wand (Elite) if you get one and have the bank space to spare, as it's the best one-handed wand you'll have access to for awhile.
Terran
With full Glacia, a Mystic Air Staff, and 45% DR, you can go do the
to get your 
Infernal Cape and get 10 
Infernal Cores to upgrade your Ancient Claw (and 
Dragon Claw if you don't have one yet) into the Infernal Claw for melee farming.
Terran must be done with mage and has a very tight window for gearing and Damage Reduction. Specifically, your attack speed needs to be faster than 3 seconds and you need 47% DR. In a worst case scenario, 
Terran will increase your attack interval by 33% for 2 turns then stun you for 1 turn. If he hits you while you're stunned, you'll take an additional 30% damage, drastically increasing your necessary DR to safely idle.
As with the
, there are two ways to do the
: you can use a Mystic Air Staff, FEZ, 
Skull Cape, and Silver Diamond Ring and use the Surge I Aurora to just barely make your attacks fast enough to avoid being smacked while stunned and slowed, or use a Magic Wand (Elite), 
Miolite Shield (or Dragonfire Shield if you're lazy), FEZ, Skull Cape, and the Warlock Ring, which is fast enough to not worry about needing surge.
There are also two reasonable choices for spells. Gathering Ancient Runes is a slow process, but it allows for the use of Wind Surge, which will shred through the dungeon at around 250 casts per kill for 3.7 kills per hour with the wand or 350 casts per kill for 2.3 kills per hour with a staff. On the other hand, Death Runes are much easier to gather in bulk from Necromancers so you could instead use Wind Blast at around 350 casts per kill for 2.5 kills per hour with a wand or 800 casts per kill for 1.5 kills/hr with a staff. Using
Ancient Magicks is not recommended, even with a Mystic Air Staff, as while you can get 5.5 kills per hour with this gear, it also costs almost 600 ancient runes per kill.
TL;DR - farm ancient/light runes and use wind surge for the staff setup, or farm death/air runes and use wind blast for the wand setup.
The goal is to get an 
Earth Layered Shield and least 4 pieces of 
Terran armor from 
Scrolls of Terran, though 5 is, of course, ideal. Make sure you finally put your (G) Rune Boots to rest; they've earned it. Terran isn't necessary to upgrade your melee gear further to 
Ragnar armor, but you will need a few Terran pieces to reach the DR threshold for
. Again, the 
Terran Godsword isn't worth grinding out due to the DR opportunity cost of not being able to wield a shield and not having access to Damage Reduction Potions. You'll also want to get both a 
Guardian Amulet and a 
Guardian Ring from the 
Earth Chests, which provide BIS DR in their respective slots (10% for a necklace when below 50% hp, 5% otherwise, and 2% for a ring.)
Ragnar
Ragnar is completely optional for game progression, as Ragnar God Armor actually has LESS damage reduction than Terran God Armor, though it has much higher strength and melee attack bonuses.
Wasteful Ring is required to do
as a CO, so grab some 
Climbing Boots, head over to the
and kill some 
Wicked Greater Dragons. While you're there, you might as well stock up on 
Jadestone Bolts from 
Hunting Greater Dragons, if you have the food to spare. While they're the best bolts in the game, the food necessary to grind them out in any notable amount may dissuade you from changing away from 
Topaz Bolts or 
Sapphire Bolts from slayer resupplies.
Range is your best option for the
due to the 1300 magic max hit of the final boss, 
Ragnar. Even once you have your Wasteful Ring equipped, you'll need 63% DR to idle
, which at this point, can only be done with the Guardian Amulet or the
pet from
plus FEZ and otherwise full tank gear. We only have access to 66% total DR from ranged (with wasteful) until after
. Full Aeris, Earth Layered Shield, Infernal Cape, and Stone Skin will only get you to 60% DR.
If you aren't after full collection log completion and just want to speed your way to
and T90 weapon farming, then pick up 2 pieces of Ragnar Armor. The helm and platebody provide the best offensive bonuses, and all pieces have the same DR, so these will be the best bang for your buck.
Unfortunately, the 
Ragnar Godsword isn't of any use to us without Damage Reduction Potions to make up for the lack of a shield, nor is the 
Big ol Ron. The strength of the Sandstorm Ring means that the 
Fighter Ring isn't any good for endgame monsters, and the stun effect of the 
Fighter Amulet is overshadowed by any other end-game amulet due to its lack of actual stats (specifically DR.) If you can afford to give up the DR of a necklace, you're better off using more Ragnar Armor and a FEZ or just toss on your Amulet of Looting. This means that the 
Fire Chests are more or less useless for progression.
Into the Mist
upgrade is required to complete
. The minimum recommended gear is full Terran, Aeris and Glacia god armor but it can be completed pre-Terran just with more active strategies (swap Terran Gear for Ancient Gear and swap Earth Layered Shield for Dragonfire Shield.) Recommended skill levels are
,
,
,
, and
at least level 90,
at level 99 and
at least level 76. Each of the 3 phases of the boss can only be damaged by an attack type that matches their own. Melee vs melee, ranged vs ranged, magic vs magic. The DR numbers provided assume a max hp of 1000 from level 99
and Finn, the Cat. (500hp max hp after affliction.)
The two eating strategies used in this guide are Auto Eat and Hold Enter/Spam Eat.
Auto Eat is what it sounds like, letting the attack get healed by
which keeps our attacks uninterrupted.
Hold Enter means that after you click on your food to eat manually once, which will target your equipped food. (You can see a bold grey box around your food to indicate it's selected.) Then you hold the Enter key on your keyboard, which will automatically try to eat each tick, and automatically eat when damaged. Do not let go until the attack is completed. This technique only works in browser versions of the game and is not required to complete the dungeon; it just makes it easier. Spam clicking your food can work as well.
The most important thing to understand about
is the Affliction debuff, which lowers your max hp by 1% for every stack and stacks up to 50 times. Every time an attack hits you, while in this dungeon there is a 70% chance to gain a stack of affliction. This means that in long fights your max hp will drop to 500 which puts your auto eat threshold at 200. The only way to remove affliction is to defeat the current monster or run.
Afflicted Monsters
For the afflicted monsters you will want to be using your strongest melee, ranged and magic sets. Swap sets according to the attack style of the monster to gain combat triangle advantage. Due to the variability of the monsters you face this phase can either be very easy or very hard. Keep your eye on your current
threshold (which will drop from 400 to 200 as the fight continues) and the max hit of the monster you are currently facing (keeping in mind status effects like sleep, stun and freeze.) You will likely need to eat manually in this section. Alternatively you could hold enter to eat either some or all of the time. This phase is not a race against time like phase 1 and phase 3 so there is no need to rush.
Mysterious Figure - Phase 1
Recommended Gear: Terran or Ragnar Armor, FEZ, Guardian Ring or Fighter Ring, 
Darksteel Dagger, Earth Layered Shield, Infernal Cape
Recommended Prayers:
,
Combat Style: Stab
Attacks
Mark of Death (50%) (Auto Eat req 34DR)
-An unavoidable attack that deals 300 damage, and applies +1 stack of Mark of Death to you (Maximum 3 stacks). Mark of Death gives 50% decreased damage reduction regardless of number of stacks. One stack is removed after each of your turns.
Cursed Edge (35%) (Hold Enter/Spam Eat)
-An avoidable attack that slices at you 2 times, dealing 600 damage each.
Reap and Return (15%) (Auto Eat req 56DR)
-An avoidable attack that hits 7 times, plus an extra time per Mark of Death stack applied to you. Deals 450 damage each and heals the enemy for 100% of damage dealt. Removes all Mark of Death stacks from you after attack.
Strategy
For this fight it is very helpful to use a weapon with attack speed lower than 2.6. This means that you can avoid getting hit while you have a stack of the Mark of Death debuff. Mark of Death is survivable with
at max affliction provided you have at least 34DR. Cursed Edge can kill you through
at high affliction stacks so hold enter to eat for this attack once its max hit is higher than your
threshold. With 56 DR you can survive Reap and Return using just
even at maximum affliction stacks. This fight is a race due to the healing the boss receives from Reap and Return. For this reason we use
to limit the amount of healing the boss can do. It is important to not use Sandstorm Ring since the special attack will stop you from clearing the Mark of Death stacks before being hit. Darksteel Dagger is very strong here due to how the bleed scales with monster max hp.
Mysterious Figure - Phase 2
Recommended Gear: Aeris Armor, Deadeye Amulet or FEZ, Deadeye Ring or Guardian Ring, 
Ancient Throwing Knives, Earth Layered Shield, Infernal Cape or Cape of Prat.
Recommended Prayers:
,
Combat Style: Rapid
Attacks
Mark of Death (50%) (Auto Eat req 34DR)
-An unavoidable attack that deals 300 damage, and applies +1 stack of Mark of Death to you (Maximum 3 stacks). Mark of Death gives 50% decreased damage reduction regardless of number of stacks. One stack is removed after each of your turns.
Concealed Danger (35%) (Auto Eat req 56DR)
-An avoidable attack that hits 1 time(s), plus an extra time per Mark of Death stack applied to you. Deals 450 damage each. Removes all Mark of Death stacks from you after attack.
Shadowstep (15%) (-)
-The enemy is surrounded with mist, gives the enemy +20% Global Evasion,+40% Damage Reduction and -20% Attack Interval for 1 of the enemy's turn. If buff is already active, perform a Normal Attack instead.
Normal Attack (Instead of repeating Shadowstep while the effect is already active) (Hold Enter/Spam Eat)
-772 Ranged Damage
Strategy
For this phase we are once again avoiding the Mark of Death debuff by using a fast attack speed weapon. In this case our attack must be faster than 1.75 which Ancient Throwing Knives with the rapid attack style allows us to do. Mark of Death is survivable with
at max affliction provided you have at least 34DR. With 56 DR you can survive Concealed Danger even with maximum affliction. The attack which you must watch out for is the normal attack which happens instead of Shadowstep if the boss already has the buff (the attack bar of the boss will be blue rather than yellow.) This attack can kill you through
at high [Affliction|affliction]] stacks so hold enter to eat for this attack once its max hit is higher than your
threshold. This phase is not a race against time so slow and steady will work for this phase.
Ahrenia
Recommended Gear: Glacia Armor, FEZ, Warlock Ring or Guardian Ring, Magic Wand (Elite), Miolite Shield or Earth Layered Shield, Skull Cape or Infernal Cape
Recommended Prayers:
,
Spell:
or
Attacks
Shadow Burst (70%) (Hold Enter/Spam Eat)
-Fire off 3 large, avoidable, dark explosions that deal 800 damage each. Gives you -1% Global Accuracy that stacks up to 40 times.
Into the Mist (15%) (-)
-The enemy disappears into the Mist. Gives the enemy +10% Damage Reduction each time they are hit for the duration of this attack (Stacks up to 10 times) and gives Regen that heals 10% of the enemy's max hitpoints over 10s.
Fallen Light (15%) (Auto Eat req. 50DR)
-The Mist breaks away and the sky opens up to an unavoidable, falling ray of Darkness, dealing 400x15 damage over 2.8s.
Strategy
For this fight you will first and foremost need to achieve accuracy higher than 33,334. This allows us to stay above the 20k accuracy requirement for Ancient Magicks while accounting for max stacks of the Shadow Burst debuff. Once you achieve the required accuracy you should then try to get at least 50 DR. How you achieve this combination of stats will depend or your exact
level and which pets and gear you have currently collected. It isn't possible to reach the DR needed to survive Shadow Burst even at low affliction stacks so you will need to hold enter to eat whenever you see Shadowburst (this will be most attacks.) Into the Mist healing the boss means this fight is a race against time. This is why we're going to use 100% accuracy Ancient Magicks.
is a good choice but
will also get the job done. Fallen Light can be survived with
at max affliction as long as you have at least 50 DR. It is important to use
for Fallen Light since that will allow you to attack without being interrupted by manual eating.
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