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· When starting a new season, the most important step is character selection. It's best to first choose a class that intuitively appeals to you, then refer to tier list videos to understand the pros and cons of each class.
· For beginners, caster classes might be easier to level up, provide good damage early on, and have low reliance on starting gear, making them a more comfortable choice.
· Don't get too hung up on early item prices. It's more efficient to use the leveling guides and starter gear builds provided on the Graxy website to quickly enter the farming phase.

· The goal of the campaign is to advance to the next difficulty as quickly as possible. Upon arriving in the first town, immediately set up a loot filter to prevent your inventory from filling up with unnecessary items.
· Only complete essential quests that accelerate your start, such as the movement speed flask quest, and boldly skip the rest.
· It's recommended to fully clear 'Redн', the first dungeon, for experience and early gear. Afterward, proceed with Ahriman's questline.
· Efficient campaign progression involves moving to necessary dungeons to farm experience, resetting and repeating dungeons, then skipping unnecessary sections and heading straight for bosses.
· When distributing stats, avoid the mistake of focusing solely on damage and dying frequently. Invest in Vitality for stable survival, and consider looking for gear with 'mana on kill' or temporarily investing in Energy for mana regeneration.
· Don't forget to regularly update your HP and mana potions from merchants.
· In Nightmare and Hell difficulties, the difficulty spike is significant. If you get stuck, it's crucial to level up sufficiently and farm gear in lower difficulty dungeons before attempting again.

· Satanic Zones activate after defeating Mevius and restarting the server, applying buffs and debuffs to random areas. These effects apply equally to all players.
· It's important to actively utilize Satanic Zones when specific buffs (e.g., enhanced artifact farming) are active. If a required dungeon is within a Satanic Zone, that buff will apply.
· Early gold can be secured by selling Mythic and cheap Satanic items to merchants, but merchant selling profits decrease later on, so it's best not to develop the habit of picking up all junk items.

· Hell 1-5 difficulties are unlocked sequentially by defeating Mevius in the previous difficulty.
· After Hell 5, serious endgame farming begins, involving character enhancement, specific area farming, collecting keys, artifacts, base items, and consumables.
· To enter Inferno, you must defeat two bosses in Hell 5: Gabriel and Amun-Ra. Entry tickets for these bosses can be crafted from specific materials or purchased from the auction house.

· The CraftBench is one of the most important interfaces in the game, used for crafting gems, items, entry tickets, Codex (maps), and various consumables.
· Gems should be combined, used, and valuable ones sold on the auction house.
· Destiny Shards are used to enhance an item's star level, but there's a risk of the item becoming Corrupted upon failure. Corrupted items can be restored through separate crafting, but it incurs a cost.
· The Prospectron is primarily used for three purposes.

Category	Details
Unnecessary Satanic Items	Reprocess to obtain materials
Ores	Crush to obtain gem crafting materials
Specific Runes	Used to lower their level

· Runes can be socketed, used to create Runewords, or used as crafting materials.
· Runes are categorized by rarity and value. You can lower the level of specific runes via the Prospectron, or combine three identical runes to upgrade them to a higher tier. This is useful for obtaining runes needed for specific builds.
· A Runeword is a powerful item activated when specific runes are socketed in the correct order into a white item with the exact number of sockets.
· When crafting Runewords, the correct base item, exact number of sockets, and rune insertion order are essential. You can check the list of Runewords in the in-game database.
· White base items with good stats remain valuable throughout the season, and these stats are inherited by the Runeword, so don't ignore white items dropped in the field.

· Trading with other players is done through the Marketplace, accessible from NPC Verс in Act 3 town.
· Starting from Season 9, a price suggestion feature has been added for selling items, which is convenient. However, the actual value of items with important options (stats, rare suffixes, etc.) can differ significantly from the suggested price, so don't blindly trust it and manually verify.
· The auction house charges a 1% listing fee and a 10% selling fee. Therefore, endlessly relisting or moving items around incurs costs, so it's important to understand an item's true value and sell it carefully.

· The Mercenary system allows you to hire mercenaries, equip them, and gain additional benefits for your character.
· They are primarily used for Aura effects or Magic Find (MF). The MF equipped by a mercenary also applies to the player.
· The most useful mercenary is the Swordsman from Act 1; other mercenaries often die frequently or are less useful.
· It's best to hire a mercenary when you can properly equip them. If their gear is poor, they will constantly die, only consuming revival costs.

· A loot filter is essential even during campaign progression. Hero Siege drops a huge number of items, and without a filter, your inventory will quickly fill up.
· In the early season, use class-specific campaign filters, and as the season progresses, it's good to switch to a general endgame filter.

· Ores are an important means of obtaining top-tier gems, crafting materials, and earning currency.
· The types of ores that can be mined vary by difficulty, such as common ores in Normal difficulty and rare ores in Nightmare.
· It's advisable to check efficient mining locations through guides beforehand.
· Jewel Crafting involves processing ores through the Prospectron to obtain materials and leveling up the corresponding crafting profession.
· Jewel Crafting leveling can be accelerated by purchasing necessary ores from the auction house instead of directly mining them.

· After level 100, Hero Levels are unlocked, allowing you to strengthen your character through a massive passive tree. This tree significantly impacts your build, damage, survivability, and endgame play experience.
· Nodes and skills have tags, and the game indicates which skills are affected. Some skills gain additional tags as you progress through the skill tree.
· Interactions can be broader than what is displayed, so it's important to understand and test your skill tags rather than simply copying builds.
· After level 100, experience loss upon death is very significant, so be careful.
· The Farm Tree is a system that enhances farming mechanics (bosses, ores, specific activities) separate from character strengthening.
· The Farm Tree can be activated through Atlas Points, unlocked after the Helladin quest, and it greatly impacts progression speed and farming profitability, so it's good to invest in it quickly.

· You can check all item information in the in-game Knowledge Base.
· Items are categorized by rarity and power, and drop methods also vary.

Drop Method	Description
No specific binding	Can drop anywhere
Specific Act/Dungeon/Boss designated	Higher drop chance in that area
Specific source only designated	Can only be farmed in that area

· It's efficient to plan your farming route after checking what items you need and where they drop.

· Most keys are used to enter enhanced versions of content. Talking to an NPC and consuming a key makes monsters stronger but yields better rewards.
· Rare keys unlock specific areas, events, and bosses, and are necessary for late-game farming, progression, and powerful character enhancement.
· Angelic Keys are important for crafting and armor Augment.
· Armor Augment is a long-term investment in your character, allowing you to grant passive effects to armor in specific areas and level them up. Some Augments enhance builds, while others can completely change the play experience. Angelic Keys are expensive, so use them carefully.
· Chaos Keys are needed for Chaos Pillars, a late-game endgame farming content, which can be a top source of income.

· Wormholes are content where you test your character's limits, compete on leaderboards, and earn rewards based on season results.
· You clear floors and defeat bosses to advance to higher floors. Clearing quickly allows you to skip more floors.
· Wormhole difficulty increases very rapidly, and being able to consistently clear high floors is proof of a powerful build.
· Wormholes are primarily for challenge, ranking, and build testing, and are not suitable as a main source of income.

· Don't try to remember everything at once; focus on these five key points.
· First, choose your class and starter build.
· Second, install a loot filter.
· Third, skip unnecessary quests and progress through the campaign quickly.
· Fourth, unlock Satanic Zones.
· Fifth, start stable farming in Hell 1 difficulty.
· Afterward, as you progress through the game, you can gradually understand crafting, runes, keys, and late-game endgame systems.