full game guide

Overview

illustrated maps, tips, hints, lists of in-game items, help with achievements – everything you need

tips, hints, trivia

• you can level-up the initial ability (Runewarden). most of players didn’t notice it. Runewarden is the only source of LUCK stat
  
• overly, you don’t need to buy any equipment in the game, you can easily find all good swords and armors in the chests all around the world. same for potions and food
• the best weapon in the game is either Sword of Deception or Sword of Verum – both of which are obtainable in the optional Dungeon of the Decayed near the end of game
  
  • Sword of Deception has 800 ATK at LV5, but is extremely slow. it is better to combine that weapon with fully-upgraded Wyvern Attack and Aerial Strategy ability (+15% damage in the air). together they deal tons of damage (6000+) for a low RAGE amount
  • Sword of Verum has 400 ATK at LV5 and is very fast. any skills will go along with it just fine
• second to them are Big Bro’s Hammer and Lich King’s Memory
  • Big Bro’s Hammer has 140-160 ATK at LV5, quite fast and deals electric AOE damage – it is especially useful against hoards of enemies
  • Lich King’s Memory has 230-250 ATK at LV5, has normal speed and deals extra ice damage. if you pepper that sword with few IS runes (extra ice damage) you will get a good boss-killer weapon
• the best armor in the game is, undoubtedly, Bikini, which you can buy in The Void’s Coffinhead for 200,000 Mana. it has 150 DEF at LV5 with no other armor came closer to that value

• two armors next to Bikini are Robes Of Purification & Skin of the Abyss. the both have 100 DEF at LV5 and mostly likely be found in The Void’s chests
• the sword Bloody Moon may appear worthless at first, given its pathetic ATK 5 at LV5, but apparently it serves a good purpose if you dispose it. no matter how much Mana you spent on upgrading it, you always get its full amount back plus few extras during disposing. for example if you spent 34,000 Mana to fully upgrade it, then you will get back 40,000 Mana. nice profit
• use a regular food to heal yourself (apples, bananas, egg, etc): pause the game, select “consumable”, use a food and proceed forward. compare to the potions, food doesn’t not have a cooldown and is much cheaper
  • Elixir does not have a cooldown
• effect of cooking is effective only to the base stats (minus equipment), so it is not that much useful to boost ATK and DEF, better to use cooking to boost HP, RAGE or LUCK
• the best skill in the game is Tornado Slash, at the end-game you will spam it a lot
  • Dimensional Sword seems to be a lacking skill, but if you use Adrenaline (grants unlimited RAGE for 10 seconds) then it will be the most devastating skill in the game

• lots of chests are hidden on the higher ledges, on which you seem to have no way to get to. in order to get that high you need to combine double-jump with Heaven’s Fall or Power Upper skills or combine double-jump with Aerial Drop (jump + heavy attack)

• Golden Chests can be opened with Golden Keys only. some of them may be found in regular chests, but there is still not enough Golden Keys to open all Golden Chests. in order to get more Golden Keys one need to play through RIft, Golden Key appears as random drop in the reward chest. harder the rift – most likely it will spawn (~5% chance for the easiest Rifts, ~10% chance for the hardest ones)
  
• at the beginning of the game concentrate on finding and using RAD & GIFU runes; after you hit “Area 5: Glizzian Area” and upgraded your abilities, concentrate on getting HAGAL & SIGEL runes
  • SIGEL rune is said to “increase critical damage”, but that’s not fully correct. that rune in fact increases a critical damage and the damage of normal and heavy attacks. it does not, however, boosts the attack power of skills, comparing to UR that boosts everything. SIGEL and UR may work together, while UR increases all damage via a flat bonus (+2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10), SIGEL increases those attacks further by a certain percent (+0.5% / 1.0% / 1.5% / 2.0% / 2.5%)
  • DAEG, IS and TYR runes add extra elemental damage ONLY if you use the weapon of the same element. for example, using Incinerator sword (of fire element) with a TYR rune (of thunder element) gives no effect whatsoever
  • FEOH rune cancels Charging ability – that makes FEOH very lacking rune and overly inferior to the Charging ability:
    FEOH LV1: recovers 5-10 Rage with 80% chance FEOH LV2: recovers 7-12 Rage with 75% chance FEOH LV3: recovers 10-15 Rage with 60% chance Charging ability: recovers 10 Rage with 100% chance

• in the Wheatawn city there is a fishy merchant who sells you random junk for a huge amount of money (Amulet for 50,000, second Amulet for 100,000, Bloody Moon for 200,000). buying all those stuff from him will make his ghost to appear in The Void’s Coffinhead where he will sell you random LV5 runes for 10,000 Mana. this is the best place to get high-leveled runes in the game. save the game close to him, pay him and hope for a good random rune, otherwise reload

• in “Area 5: Glizzian Area” you can find the dead body of that merchant with a spare Bloody Moon. proceed to the shown area and destroy the red thorns

• in the Wheatawn city there is a beggar, who will give you a rune if you donate him money 10 times
  
• also in the Wheatawn city there is a homeless person in an alley, who will give you 2,000 Gold if you talk with him few times
  
• in the Bluereel village there is a homeless person, who will gives a rune if you give him 1/10 of your money (one-time offer)
  
• in the The Void’s Coffinhead there is a soul, who gives random LV5 rune for a Golden Key
  
• that food vendor is not just a random character – it is Mina Han from Battle Chef Brigade game (consider it a cameo)
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• the whole game is a tribute to artistic design and graphical appeal of the works of Vanillaware[en.wikipedia.org] studio (including highly-stripperiffic character designs and gorgeous backgrounds)
• original game design and character art (proposed on Kickstarter) was completely different; game concept was scrapped and changed after the project didn’t successfully raised the needed fund
  

maps

legend:

• – a camp-site, bonfire, save game & cooking food (credits: freepik[www.flaticon.com])
• – a stela, save game & traveling (credits: freepik[www.flaticon.com])
• – a rift (credits: Valve)
• – regular chest (credits: smashicons[www.flaticon.com])
• – golden chest, requires a golden key for opening (credits: aha-soft[www.aha-soft.com])
• – a key and a door it unlocks (credits: Dominic Flamini[pixabay.com] & Pixel Perfect[www.flaticon.com])

farming

• a good early-game farming point with a save-point nearby
• move back and forth of the center of area and spawn enemies, kill them all, spawn them again, rinse and repeat
• it nets ~600 mana & ~2,000 gold per run
• run takes 10-60 seconds

• a mid-game farming point
• enter the Rift and fight the hoard of Homunculus; compare to other Rifts – it is not that hard
• it costs 15,000 gold
• it nets ~1,200 mana per run. at the end you may receive Golden Goblet (sell for 10,000) and Crystal Ball (sell for 20,000), so a gold income covers expenses with extra profits. you may also receive Golden Keys and LV1-4 Runes
• run takes 15-80 seconds

• a late-game farming point
• enter the Rift and fight Master Shroom boss. the easiest way to kill him is stand in the middle and spam Tornado Slash – it will damage both “lesser shrooms” and the main boss himself
• it costs 20,000 gold
• it nets ~3,000 mana per run. at the end you may receive Crystal Ball (sell for 20,000) and The Ring (sell for 50,000), so a gold income covers expenses with extra profits. you may also receive Golden Keys and LV2-5 Runes
• run takes 20-90 seconds

• a mid-game farming point
• proceed to the point shown on the map and you will find a red tree at the background, walk back and forth near it and a single Skeleton will spawn. he is nothing special just has way more HP than usual, kill him and repeat the process
• it nets ~10,000 mana & ~8,000 gold per run
• run takes 5-20 seconds depending on your build

if you want to thank me…

…then check my guide about fixing various game issues: launching, crashing, optimization, stuttering, gamepads, etc. the guide is huge, but the topic is broad to begin with
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lists: weapons, armors, accessories, potions

lists: food, recipes, materials, for-sale

lists: skills, abilities, runes