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What to level second
Introduction
This guide was written with the intent of giving a rather fresh player 3 good options for their first major goal in the game. It wants to cater to different kinds of players which is why the 3 example routes presented here have a different playstyle in mind.
The first route or goal is called 'the Completionist route'. It focuses on getting important key items, bonuses and in general useful stuff so that the rest of the game will be facilitated as much as possible.
The second route is called 'the Slayer of Gods route'. Its main goal is to complete the God dungeons as well as the dungeon Into the Mist as early as possible in order to gain great bonuses for the rest of the skills. These are the God dungeon upgrades which are buyable in the shop and the passive slot from completing Into the Mist.
The third route is called 'the Banker route'. Going for this route will unlock the most powerful money making method in the game: Fletching Dragon Javelins. After following this route the player will be swimming in money for all of their financial needs (which are a lot in this game).
The starting point for all of these routes is the aforementioned requirements from What to level first.
What you choose to do first depends entirely on your personal preference. Always remember that this guide does not think that these routes are the only way to play the game. In fact, it might be more enjoyable to figure out the game by yourself or with the help of the Melvor Idle Discord: Discord
The following guide starts where 'What to level first' left off. This means that you should have:
Skill or item | Explanation |
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95% mastery pool in Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firemaking |
+5% Global Mastery XP |
at least 90 Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning |
with 31 marks from WC, Fishing and FM |
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with at least Error creating thumbnail: File missing Deedree 80 and Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ameria 80
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Ancient Ring of Skills | +8% Global Skill XP |
Ancient Ring of Mastery | +7% Global Mastery XP |
Firemaking Skillcape | +5% Global Skill XP |
Pyro | +1% Global Skill XP |
The Completionist route
What you will get
This should set you up with the most useful items and bonuses for the game. In the beginning, we will concentrate on getting more global bonuses, the most important being skill and mastery xp. A lot of research went into planning a logical sequence of obtaining items and bonuses. The bonuses were chosen by how easy they are to obtain and how much benefit they bring to the table.
In this guide you will get the following items:
Globally useful items
Item | Bonus |
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Aorpheat's Signet Ring | When equipped +100% GP granted from all sources except Alt. Magic and Item Sales, +5% chance to obtain double loot from slain monsters or Thieving, +10% chance to gain double resources from any skill. |
Amulet of Looting | Passive: Auto-loots when equipped |
Book of Scholars | Passive: +3% Global Skill XP and -15% Global GP (except Item Sales) |
Chapeau Noir | Passive: +10% Chance To Double Loot in Combat and +10% Chance to Double Items in Thieving |
Clue Chasers Insignia | 10% increased chance to receive Global Rare Items, Mastery Tokens, Bird Nests from Woodcutting, Gems from Mining, and Coal from Firemaking |
Crown of Rhaelyx | +10% chance to preserve resources in non-combat skills (Does not work with Alt. Magic).
This bonus is increased to 25% if there is at least 1 Charge of Rhaelyx in your bank. There is a 0.1% chance a Charge will be destroyed per action |
Gold Emerald Ring | Passive: +4% Combat XP. Does not work with Slayer or Alt. Magic. |
Merchant's Permit | permanent 10% discount on all skill gloves that can be purchased from the Shop |
Ring of Wealth | +7% Chance to Double Items Globally and -3% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills |
Skill-specific items
Item | Bonus |
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Amulet of Incantation | -0.2s Magic Interval and +10% Rune Preservation for Alt. Magic Spells |
Chef's Hat | +1% Cooking Skill XP, +1% Cooking Mastery XP, and -0.1s Cooking Interval |
Chef's Spoon | +1% Cooking Skill XP, +1% Cooking Mastery XP, and +2% chance to successfully Cook an item |
Cooking Apron | +1% Cooking Skill XP, +1% Cooking Mastery XP, and +20% Food Healing Value |
Fine Coinpurse | Passive: +10% Global GP (except Item Sales) |
Golbin Mask | +20 Stealth while Thieving, +20 GP From Thieving, and +2% Thieving Mastery XP |
Jeweled Necklace | +5% Global GP (except Item Sales) |
Lumberjack's Top | +2% Chance for Bird Nests to drop in Woodcutting and +2% Woodcutting Mastery XP |
Miner's Helmet | +3% Chance to deal no Damage to a Mining Node and +2% Mining Mastery XP |
Nature's Call Staff | Reduces the Nature Rune cost of spells by 1, and grants access to the Nature's Call Spell |
Sailor's Top | -3% chance to receive Special Items from Fishing |
Sneak-Ers | +40 Stealth while Thieving and +5% Global GP (except Item Sales) |
Thiever's Cape | +25 Stealth while Thieving, +10% GP From Thieving, and +2% Thieving Skill XP |
Skill requirements
There are a few skills in this game which are designed to facilitate other skills so we will want to level these up as well. We will want to get:
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- Error creating thumbnail: File missingHerblore 99
First preparations
Because a lot of the items that are either globally useful or useful in certain skills come from
, we will have to make sure that we have enough
to survive their hits. Therefore, we will have to level up our
Combat Level as well as getting the
Auto Eat upgrades from the shop. This is done so that we can idle the thieving targets.
We will start by going back to fishing for three reasons:
- Getting money for the Error creating thumbnail: File missingAuto Eat (AE) upgrades
- Getting 300 Salmon and Herring for Error creating thumbnail: File missingPit Jump
- Getting enough Raw Magic Fish to sustain the combat and thieving grind
And here is how we will do it:
- Equip your best fishing gear which should include the Fishing Skillcape and the Error creating thumbnail: File missingAmulet of Fishing.
- Change the Error creating thumbnail: File missingAmeria bonuses to **total** at least +5% Chance to Double Items in Fishing and -3% Fishing Interval.
In this guide, we will usually work with these numbers. A 5% total bonus from Standard Modifiers should be easily obtainable without too much re-rolling and the same goes for 3% bonuses from all Unique Modifiers combined.
- Build Error creating thumbnail: File missingOctopus to go with your fishing grind as it will speed up the process.
- Get 300 Salmon and Herring and build Error creating thumbnail: File missingPit Jump.
- Fish Raw Magic Fish for a total of 26,000,000 . You should be able to get there while fishing overnight.
- Fish even more Raw Magic Fish for 5k to 10k fish to equip as food.
This is all we needed to fish for right now. There is one more thing for us to do before we will go into combat. We will need to get some mastery levels in
constellations. As mentioned earlier, this guide aims at easily achievable rolls. For this reason, we will generally aim for 5% in standard modifiers and 3% in unique modifiers. If you get better rolls that's good but do not stress it. In total we want:
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+5% Attack Skill XP, +3% of Maximum Hit added to Minimum Hit |
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+5% Strength Skill XP, +3% Strength Bonus from Equipment |
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+5% Hitpoints Skill XP, +3% Lifesteal or preserve Food when eaten |
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+5% Defense Skill XP, +3% damage to Slayer Tasks |
And we're done!
Leveling up Combat
After this section you will have:
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- Error creating thumbnail: File missingHitpoints 45
- Ice Sword
- Full Adamant armor
- Gold Emerald Ring
- Amulet of Looting
- Clue Chasers Insignia
Some general information on combat in general and in this guide. Feel free to skip this paragraph if you already know how combat works. Guide specific information is highlighted in bold:
- First, go to settings and Toggle offline combat. Because we have Auto Eat Tier 3 we do not run the risk of dying in this guide. I will always list the required HP values to idle a certain monster when you are not already at the required threshold to do so.
- To level a certain skill you will need to change your combat style in the combat menu. Stab gives Attack, Slash gives Strength and Block gives Defence. Hitpoint XP is gathered passively in combination with the other 3 skills.
- While fighting you will discover new marks in Error creating thumbnail: File missingSummoning. As you already know you will have to craft the corresponding tablets once in order to get more marks. This is why I recommend to craft them once when you get your first mark. This is easily doable by investing a little bit in Mining/Smithing for most of them. The table below shows you what you will need to craft a tablet:
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50 Bronze Dagger - Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing level 1
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50 Shrimp - Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking level 1
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50 Bronze Battleaxe - Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing level 8
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1,000 |
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50 Bronze Shield - Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing level 12
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5 Dragon Bones - obtained from killing Dragons; the guide will tell you when it is feasible to go for this tablet. |
- Error creating thumbnail: File missingSlayer: the way slayer works is that you get XP andError creating thumbnail: File missingSlayer Coins for killing monsters that are your current Slayer target. You can find the Slayer tab in the combat menu. When you click on 'New Task' and 'Easy', you will randomly be assigned a monster to hunt. For easy target (meaning ranging from level 1-50) you can reset your target for free. That means you can cancel your assignment and roll for a new one. This will be done throughout the guide, so that the monster we are killing is also our Slayer target.
That is all you need to know about combat for now.
Here is how we will accomplish the goals list at the beginning of this section:
- Craft 1 Bronze Dagger (get 1 Copper Ore and 1 Tin Ore from Mining, smith 1 Bronze Bar and turn it into a Bronze Dagger) and equip it.
- Also craft 1 Bronze Gloves. Getting to 5 Error creating thumbnail: File missingSmithing takes no time at all and these are the only gloves we will get during this grind.
- Equip your Firemaking Skillcape.
- We will start by killing Cows for Error creating thumbnail: File missingAttack,Error creating thumbnail: File missingStrength andError creating thumbnail: File missingDefence level 10.
Keep Raw Beef forError creating thumbnail: File missingHerblore later. - Next, kill Steel Knights for a set of Steel armor as well as a Steel Sword and a Steel Scimitar.
In general, we will use a sword to level up attack and defence and a scimitar to level up strength.
Keep Bones forError creating thumbnail: File missingHerblore later. - Kill Mummy for the Gold Emerald Ring and the Amulet of Strength.
You can find this monster in theError creating thumbnail: File missingPenumbra slayer area and the drop rates for both items are really good at 9.43% each. So this will be quick.
Equip both.
Now is a good time to get Clue Chasers Insignia. I recommend following this guide: Easter_Eggs#Clue_Chasers_Insignia
- Kill Frozen Archer until you have your combat stats at 20/20/20. This is done to have a good baseline for further grinding.
- Kill Mithril Knight for a big upgrade to your current equipment. You will want to get full Mithril armor as well as Mithril Sword and Mithril Scimitar. Getting the Mithril Platelegs and Mithril Platebody might take a while because they have drop rate of 0.93% and 0.19% respectively.
- Now you will want 40 Error creating thumbnail: File missingAttack to go for our next equipment upgrade. The most efficient way to get this is to continue killing Frozen Archers.
- At 40 Error creating thumbnail: File missingAttack we want to get the Ice Sword from the Ice Monster. You need 23Error creating thumbnail: File missingHitpoints in order to idle this enemy which you should have at this point. The drop rate here is really good at 10% so this will take no time at all.
- Now grind your Error creating thumbnail: File missingStrength andError creating thumbnail: File missingDefence up to level 40.
You have two options here:
1. Going for Frozen Archer again for the highest XP/hour at 20.7k or
2. Going for Adult Farmer with an hourly rate of 16.2k XP/hour or Master Farmer at 14.8k XP/hour. The reason to go for these enemies is to get more seeds to use inError creating thumbnail: File missingFarming andError creating thumbnail: File missingHerblore later.
At 40/40/40 in your combat skills you should also be at around 40Error creating thumbnail: File missingHitpoints. - Another equipment upgrade. Kill Adamant Knights for their armor set. They actually have a better drop rate than their Mithril counterparts at 2.08% chance per piece. You will not need the weapons this time because the Ice Sword is still better at this point. If you are lucky you might also get an Obsidian Cape which is a good defensive cape option.
- Last but not least we will face our first dungeon: the Error creating thumbnail: File missingSpider Forest.
First, turn on Automatically restart dungeon in the settings menu. We want to stay here until we get the Amulet of Looting which will enable us to automatically pick up loot from combat when we wear it. The drop rate is 4.55%. Feel free to idle this dungeon overnight. You will use around 200 Raw Magic Fish per hour so make sure you account for this.
Tadaa! This concludes the combat section of this guide. Now we are well-prepared to get a lot of useful items in a short amount of time.
- kill Frozen Archers until 45 HP and around 40/40/40
- get Amulet of Looting
- farm Adamant Knights for full Adamant armor but at least platebody, legs and shield
At this point we're going to start a thieving grind for a lot of beneficial items.
- buy thieving gloves
- steal man till 4
- steal woman till 12
- steal bandit thug till thievers cape
- steal golbin chief till golbin mask
- go back to woman till jeweled necklace and fine coinpurse
- at 30 thieving get 500 teak, 500 coal and 500 onion seeds (from bird nests --> bird nest potions?! ; ent octopus)
- agility to 30, build gap jump, level to 40
- mining to 30, copper/tin to 15, iron to 30
- steal merchant till merchants permit
- steal assistant cook till chef's spoon
- steal chef till chef's hat
- at 50 thieving change agility obstacle 5 to Rooftop Run (500 lemontyle from merchant, 750 lobster from chef)
- steal dock hand till sailor's top
- steal lumberjack for lumberjack's top
- steal miner for miner's helmet (acolyte first if at 75 thieving)
- steal acolyte for book of skills
- level mining to 40
- get enough silver and gold ore for upgrading adamant armor (1250 silver, 2500 gold)
- buy smithing gloves
- smith bronze bars and gear to level 10
- smith iron bars and gear to level 30
- smith silver bars to level 40 and get 1250 silver bars
- smith gold bars until you have 2500 of them
- upgrade your adamant armor to their (g) variants for a total of 20% DR or 12% from platebody, platelegs and shield
- smith one pair of steel gloves or mithril gloves if your mining is at 50 and you have 44 smithing (which you should have from smithing gold bars)
- level hp to 48 by killing bandits which give you the highest xp/hour and access to amulets of ranged which will be useful for the future (FEZ)
- steal court jester for ring of wealth (can equip book of scholars with adamant platebody and platelegs (g))
- steal wizard for amulet of incantation (need adamant shield (g))