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Progression Tasks and Missions
Through various stages of Archlight there are tasks/quests you can do to progress your character's equipment, or gain access to areas with bosses or quests. Here is the general order you will want to follow and a quick guide on what stages unlock what.
Making Archlight Tokens early game
Some of the best ways to make money early game is to look at which blood is selling for the most, and farm that. You can also farm and sell Wargate Currency since it almost always sells well. Selling the loot from ritual lords once you can do them. Bounty 60% loot slime and farm those in your favourite hunting spot.
Progression
Jorus → Seals → Castles → Forgotten Islands → Minerva's Uprising → Minerva's Tomb → Darkness Quest → Olympus → Darkness Olympus
- Jorus(Solo Quest): Access to Otherworld, Access to Goldencrafted Armor
- Seals(Located inside Otherworld, north of depot): Inners Seals in Otherworld
- Castles(Solo Quest): Goldencrafted Weapons
- Forgotten Islands(South of depot, through the boat): T4 Healing Emblem, T2 Soul Rune, Access to Kraken Vendor and Forgemaster Vendor
- Minerva's Uprising(Top of depot, after Forgotten Islands is done): God Spell
- Minerva's Tomb(Located in Hideout Shores): Rift Knife
- OPTIONAL Darkness quest: Access to darkness spawns past OW
- Olympus(Unlocked after Minerva's Uprising): Olympus Weapons/God Spell
- Darkness Olympus: Darkness Shard to corrupt Weapon/Armor.
Note: If you are having issues with the Solo Quests, you can find a group for the group quests and progress that way.
Promotions
You can buy the first and second promotion through the Token Exchanger in the depot, Medusa's Skull(First) and Royal Emblem(Second). The third promotion is through the side quest Warlords(Level 900).
Starting out
In the beginning you will have access to various monster tasks in the Monster Portals which will help you get from level 20 to 1500+. The best experience you can get at this level is through the Big Game Hunter, starting at 600. The Big Game Hunter is located in the last spawn portal. Before 600, you can do Dungeons starting at about level 250, just go slow until you can pull more monsters.
Daily Missions
Below depot -1, there are 8 NPCs that will provide you with a daily profession or gathering task. Make sure to complete it, as it will provide a passive bonus to your character, as well as the ability to gather resources that you can later sell for Archlight Tokens. You can find more information about professions on this link https://wiki.archlightonline.com/doku.php?id=professions.
- Bonuses
- Cooking: Food Buff Duration
- Alchemy: Healing
- Blacksmithing: Overall Damage
- Jewel Crafting: Gem Efficiency
- Tanning: Movement Speed
- Woodworking: Attack Spell Cooldown
Having energy issues? Visit the Token Exchanger at the depot and purchase Super Charged Magnet (120 AT). (Can also purchase from market if cheaper)
Gem Upgrades/Keys
Hard time surviving? Keys, and the gems they unlock are one of the best ways to boost your health regeneration or mana regeneration. Follow the gems guide to regrade your set and get stronger. https://wiki.archlightonline.com/doku.php?id=gems&s[]=gems
Enchantments
Another great way to boost survivability or damage is through enchantments. Life bloom and Clear State are two ways to make your character tankier, while things like Richochet and Enflaming help you deal more damage. You can use mimic scrolls or enchantment remover to remove/move these enchantments from weapon to weapon.
Quests
After reaching level 500, you can start archlight quest line.
The quests have to be completed in order, it is not possible to enter the Heroes Quest without having done the Voodoo Quest first.
Quest | Requirements |
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Voodoo | Level 500+ |
Heroes | Level 750+ |
Eternal Tombs | Level 900+ |
Sharptooth | Awk. Level 50+ |
Halls of Darksteel | Awk. Level 100+ |
Pits of Archlight | Awk. Level 125+ |
Iceforged | Awk. Level 150+ |
Jorus | Awk. Level 200+ |
Otherworlds Seals | Awk. Level 250+ |
Otherworlds Castles | Awk. Level 300+ |
Misty Mountain | Awk. Level 300+ |
Cooking Up A Storm | Awk. Level 500+ |
Note: A task on Azmar Sands - Forgotten Islands will be unlocked 3 days after the first team completed the Cooking Up A Storm quest. The task rewards players with the Glooth Sandwich in case they haven't completed the quest yet.
Awakening
At 1500, you will Awaken. This will reset you to level 1 and allow you to unlock your specialization. Go to Vyktor in the Stronghold to choose one of two options. Keep in mind you must have the first three promotions done.
More information: https://wiki.archlightonline.com/doku.php?id=awakening
Feats
The Chaos and Order Feat NPCs have been removed. The limitation of only being able to unlock a certain amount of feats based on the player’s level has been removed.
More information: https://wiki.archlightonline.com/doku.php?id=feats
Otherworld
After level A.200 and completing Jorus, you have access to Other World where you can do tasks/quests to obtain the base version of the second best armor and weapons in the game(Goldencraft). Otherworlds
Ashen & Marius
After completing the Iceforge quest at A.150+, you can begin the Shadows of the Ashen questline, at the end of the Ashen quest line is the start of the Council of Marius Questline. Each of these questlines have tasks you can do to upgrade Ashen Weapons and Vampire Hunter Armor set respectively, which you can ultimately imbue with stats and combine with your equipment you got from Otherworld. Shadows of the Ashen Questline Marius
Forgotten Island
Once you have completed Misty Mountain Quest and reached A.400 you can head to Myrefall, the first of the Forgotten Islands. These islands provide a variety of tasks, quests, essence farming and Forgotten Gold, the currency of the islands. There is also a shop to buy the elusive Forgotten Emblem and the Forgotten Soul Rune. The vendors for Kraken and Forgemaster are also located here.
Ritual Lord
Lord Rituals require Awakening 500+ to participate in.
Loot bags are based on the gold you donate, so donate as much as you can handle without dying. It goes from 250,000 to 50kk. Rewards include: Awakening Wands, Guild Feathers, Keys, Soils, Legendary Stones, Large Stat Stones, Normal Stat Stones. Lord Rituals are instanced arena fights against 1 of 7 different Lords. There are 2 optional alters, one for guilds which can be initiated by guild leaders, and one for freelancers “a single player”. Guild Lords require 1kk minimum, and Freelance Lords 250k minimum. Ritual Lords give 1 additional bag per 100k sacrificed, as well as gaining more health and power. In guild rituals the rewards are divided evenly among the surviving guild members after the lord is defeated. Ritual Lord bags can be collected in the depot inbox.
Prestige
At A.500, you can Prestige for the first time. This is the act of resetting your awakened level and gaining 2 perks, one being primary and the other being secondary. You can prestige at level 500, and every 100 levels after. You can also wait to gain more skill points before going through with it or do it right away.
More information: https://wiki.archlightonline.com/doku.php?id=prestige
Minerva's Uprising
This quest will walk you through choosing a wizard master, unlocking Zagor's Tower and unlocking a new spell for use. It is also required before going to Olympus.
More information: https://wiki.archlightonline.com/doku.php?id=minerva_uprising&s[]=minerva&s[]=uprising
Minerva's Tomb (Rift Knife)
After getting some awakened levels many players seek to get a Rift Knife, this allows Dungeons and Greater Dungeons to have an additional Darkness bosses for more experience and additional darkness boxes. This also grants access to special darkness hunts, one being Minerva's Tomb and OW Darkness. You can acquire a Rift Knife by completing Minerva's Tomb
Darkness P5 quest (Dimensional finder)
At prestige 5 you can attempt to do the Darkness quest at OW. This will unlock additional darkness hunting spots, beware that its extremely tough and might not be possible to do until you have some proper gear or a really good team. Darkness quest
Olympus
After completing Minerva's Uprising speak with Charon The Ferryman. He will help grant you access to Olympus for better monster spawns plus access to a up-gradable god spell. This is upgraded through reputation, every 1000 reputation is 1 level once turned in through the god of your choice.