Are there any strategies for getting better weapons/items in Realm of the Mad God?

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I am constantly dying in this game, and I would like to be able to equip myself better/more swiftly. I haven't found any rhyme or reason to the way enemies drop weapons yet. Are there any specific ways I can go about finding better items/weapons?

Asked by Jeff

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Here's a site to details just what drops what kind of items:
http://forums.wildshadow.com/wiki/realm-mad-god/equipment

These are determined by the type of item (armor, weapon, ability items, ring, etc.) and the item's tier (amongst its own type). Also remember that all the drops are random. Nothing is ever guaranteed to drop and more often than not monsters drop nothing. Bigger groups seem to generate more drops tough, so group up (more on that later).

For early game, go after the quests you get. Those should direct you to little boss monster (usually surrounded by smaller monsters) that drop low tier items to get you started. Pirate Cave is also a great place to get starting gear and it's easy enough to clear on your own.

For late game, to get usefull items, you'll need to find either

• Lesser Gods (these roam the woods near the middle of the map)
• Treasue Chest Bosses (special locations, higher tier nearer to the middle of the map)
• Gods of the Realm (volcanic area near the middle)
• or Dungeons, doors to which some of the above drop.

Problem with all of these (in increasing degree towards the bottom of the list) is that they are all quite deadly and you'll have a hard time dealing with them on your own, even at level 20. The solution is to not go at it alone.
Look the minimap in the upper right corner. Zoom it all the way out with your mouse wheel and find a big bunch of other players. Click one of them and choose "teleport". More often than not you'll be teleported smack in the middle of a fight. The closer to the center of the map the group is, the more likely there will be tough mosters of some sort around for you and your newfound friends to kill.

And don't worry too much about getting your loot stolen. The better gear gets dropped in a differently coloured, "soulbound" loot sacks that only you can see and open. However, they only drop if you did enough damage to the monster in question.

Answered by DJ Pirtu

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How can I delete Realm of the Mad God account?

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How can I delete my account of Realm of the Mad God?

Asked by Leadri

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As it currently stands you can not do this.

If you are looking to free up an email address so you can use it to create a new account, you can email them. The link to do so is in the comment below by @MarkTrapp.

Answered by James

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How can I fight the gods?

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I'm always getting to level 20, and then I go up to the gods, getting crushed.

So what am I doing wrong? Why can't I survive the Gods on the max level?

Asked by Fredy31

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To be honest, to fight Gods, you're going to need to play a long-ranged character, and get better at the game. Know how to use your abilities optimally, avoid bullets, and get better gear.

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Is there any significance of booze/getting drunk?

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I found some pirate rum and used it like a potion. The screen got blurry for a bit but then everything was normal. Is there any point to alcohol in this game other than just to make your screen blurry for a couple seconds?

Asked by spaghetticowboy

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Pirate Rum is completely useless, it just blurs your screen for a while.

However, the other alcoholic drinks (Wines) in the game do have a use; they're potent HP/MP potions. They're dropped by enemies in Oryx's Wine Cellar though, so they're rare and hard to get.

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Can I get back into Oryx's chamber if I died during the fight?

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While I was running around on my level 7 Wizard, suddenly, the ground started shaking. I was teleported into a large castle and thrown into some massive fights with several other people. I leveled up twice before we entered Oryx's Chamber.

Unfortunately, once we got to fighting Oryx, I was one-shotted by a Ring Element. After I rerolled and spawned back in the Nexus, I tried asking people in chat whether there was any way to get back into Oryx's chamber if I died during the fight, but no one answered. No one answered me in Realm chat either, and Oryx's article on the official site has a link to "Oryx's Chamber", but there's no page created yet.

Is there any way for me to rejoin the fight against Oryx if I die, or was this a one-time opportunity and I'm stuck waiting until the next cycle?

Asked by FAE

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When you die you die. If you notice, there are many different instances of the realm from the starting area. Before the battle with Oryx begins, he will tell you that the instance is locked "for you all to die alone." Unfortunately, this means you can not get back into that instance until Oryx is cleared. If you spend about 20-30 minutes in an instance though, you will end up at Oryx again before you know it. Generally in the time it takes to get a character to 20, you should see Oryx at least once.

And just some advice, I'm a new player as well, but I pretty much always die at Oryx if I try to fight him with the others. Until you can get some good gear and maybe stat potions on a character you like, you would probably benefit to warp to nexus once you get to the actual battle with Oryx. You can be one/two hitted even at level 20 if you are not extremely careful. You will still gain 2-4 levels on the way to fight him, but generally you won't get XP at the boss battle, nor will you get any drops if you hang around the edges just trying to survive. It's not really worth the risk of dying to stick around.

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Can I get back to the main menu without exiting completely?

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I seem to be unable to get back to the main menu/title screen without completely exiting the game and restarting it. This is a bit annoying, as it seems to be the only place that you can change which character you're playing or what server you're on.

Is there any shortcut or menu option to go back to the main title screen that I'm missing somewhere? Or am I forced to completely close the game and restart in order to get there?

Asked by FAE

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There is no shortcut to do so. However, you can use a "portal" to get there.

In the Nexus, there's a gray warrior statue, which can be used to change characters.

Stand in front of it, then click the "Change" button in the lower right corner. You'll disconnect from the current server and go back to the character selection screen. From there, you can click "main" to go back to the main menu.

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What benefits are there to being in a guild?

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I've just started playing Realm of the Mad God, and I noticed that you can create a guild for 1,000 Fame. This sounds like... a lot of fame.

What are the benefits to being in a guild? I assume there is guild chat, and I noticed in the Nexus that there is a portal to a Guild Hall if you're in a guild. Does the guild hall offer any sort of benefit to gameplay, like guild storage? Is there any guild leveling system?

Asked by FAE

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According to the Official Wild Shadow Forums:

Guild chat is a cross-server message system only seen by members of your guild. Messages in guild chat will appear as green text; to type your own messages into guild chat, type "/guild [message]" or "/g [message]".

Guild Fame is accumulated by getting fame on guild members. It can be spent on guild hall upgrades.

The guild hall can be accessed from the lower part of the nexus, directly to the left of the vault portal. In the guild hall, there are a few important locations:

• Guild Chronicle: From here, you can view the current members of the guild, and the guild fame they have contributed. The Founder, Leaders, and Officers can change their ranks and remove them from the guild.
• Guild Hall Upgrade: This is where the Founder and Leaders can
  spend guild fame to upgrade the hall
• Guild Board: This board contains a large text field which can be viewed by any member, and edited by the Founder, Leaders, and Officers.

Apparently, the Guild Hall Upgrades are even more ridiculous than the cost of forming the Guild itself; the first two upgrades cost 10,000 Guild Fame and 100,000 Guild fame.

Each successive upgrade will increase the size of the guild and add additional cosmetic features, such as rugs, weapon racks, tables, etc.

Other than that, it doesn't specify any other sort of benefits. Though, the inclusion of a Guild Chat that goes cross-server can be pretty beneficial in the long run, I'd say.

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Are there any ways to get Realm Gold?

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Is there another way to get Realm Gold than to buy with a credit card?

You start with 100 of it, but can you obtain more from having enough fame?

Asked by Fredy31

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As far as I've seen anywhere, the answer is no. I don't know of anything that lets you get more gold for free, but you can buy some things with fame instead.

Answered by Ullallulloo

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I'm level 20: what now?

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I have a level 20 warrior. I've read the wiki's Game Objectives section, which lists

• Gravestones
• Achievements
• Class Quests & Fame Ranks
• Fame Earning
• Guilds

I'd like to hunt big monsters or gods, since it's the only "mini-quest"/objective that I can perform (seems a bit silly to me, by the way). But even if I have a level 20 character, one of these fellas will kill me with a simple shot. And if it doesn't, the swarm around them will.

How can I continue to improve my character's performances even after I reached the level cap ? I can't find any good stuff (armor, weapon, spell), because I can't kill the big monsters that will drop it...

Asked by Anto

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Group up. The game is all about ad-hoc parties. Just take a look at the minimap (you can zoom out with your mouse wheel) and find a big cluster of players. Press "teleport" and you'll most likely end up smack in the middle of a fight.

You'll propably want to find a place with lesser gods (big monsters that take lots of hits, but aren't in your mini-quests). Killing them in a group of even a few people, if there's even one healer around, shouldn't be too difficult, but I'd still advice you to be carefull.

Once you're geared up so that you can take more than one hit from the big gods (but don't get too cocky, they'll still hit hard), try to find or gather up a group to kill one of the big baddies that Onyx keeps mentioning. They'll take a lot of hits and practily require a group of at least a dozen players, with exeption of few of the weaker ones.

And even tough you've hit level cap, you can still progress. Gear is the easiest way to get more powerful, but what all players really want to gater are stats raising potions. These drop rarely and only from the toughest of monsters. They will permanently increase any of your stats, thus making you a bit more capable at fighting bigger monsters and finding more. You'll find them most reliably dropped by (late game, ie. not Pirate Cave) dungeon bosses.

tl;dr Don't solo, teleport to a group, get gear and stats potions.

Answered by DJ Pirtu

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How can I rotate the map?

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I just started playing Realm of the Mad God on Steam. The intro video shows the map rotating as players move around it, but I can't find any key (or key maps) which do this. Is it possible to do in the PC version?

Asked by Dan Rasmussen

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Check the options. There's an option to set the map's default angle to 45 degrees (default) or 0 degrees as well as some options to change hotkeys and there's where you'll find the defaults for rotating the map (which I don't know off the top of my head but I believe they're Q and E). You have to unlock the map for rotation in the options though before you can use Q and E, this is of course assuming that those are the right keys to do it with.

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What are the class quests?

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It tells me whenever I select a new character how many "Class Quests" I've done. Those appear to be different from normal quests, as I know I'm done many as an Archer, and it says I've done "0 of 5" class quests.

I don't see it explain what those are anywhere. What are those quests?

Asked by John the Green

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In the Tooltip of your Character, it tells you what your current Classquest is, e.g. while logging in.

See this screenshot:

It is meant as some sort of progress through the game and you can also get an achievement on Steam for doing a lot of them.

Answered by scorcher24

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Is there a way to increase your inventory slots in Realm of The Mad God?

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From what I see, the first 4 slots are for equipment and other 8 slots are for items.

Now I want to know if there is a way to increase the amount of inventory slots, because 8 slots is really low.

Asked by ChrisHateZ

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There is no way to increase your inventory size beyond the 8 slots.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realm_of_the_Mad_God:

A character's inventory capacity is very limited as the player can store 8 items on a character (beyond what the character has equipped), plus a free private vault chest in the nexus which stores items across deaths/characters.

Players start with 1 free vault and can purchase more vault chests. Items in these chests are account-based so any items in the vault can be used to equip a new character.

http://realmofthemadgod.wikia.com/wiki/The_Nexus says:

Each chest can hold eight items; any items left on the floor will disappear when you leave your Vault. You get one vault to start off with, but the rest you must pay for using the money in the game.

Answered by Pherione

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Can you download and play Realm of The Mad God from somewhere else other then Steam?

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I'm not a big fan of steam,and i hate playing over my browser even more,so is there a way to download the game client from somewhere else and play it without third-party software like steam?

Asked by ChrisHateZ

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No, not really. Currently the only forms in which it can be played are through the main website, Steam, and the Google Chrome Web Store.

After some work, you could maybe disassemble the flash loader file and download the files from the server, but you would have to keep on top of changes to the system because it seems they upgrade relatively frequently (monthly). And in all the announcements for Steam support, it lists it as a browser game, which would indicate that it has no support for other forms.

Haven't tested, but if the flash file loads files from the server in the right manner, you could potentially just download the loader file (the one the browser loads) and play it in flash player. But that is probably the best you'll be able to do for now.

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What are the most efficient uses for the first 100 gold that you get?

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I just recently started playing Realm of the Mad God.

You start off with 100 gold, what are the most useful/effective things to buy with it?

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You can get a pirate realm key!

And you might be able to dye yourself.

And that, my friend, is it.

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