Newbie Guide

Pick your party

First, decide your team composition. For the current version of MWRO the recommended party is 2 Mages, 1 Borg, 1 Centaur and 1 Human. You can run all 5 clients on one account — put your login into the launcher and press Login to open the five clients much faster.

Mage ×2Any genderFull INTMana & spell damage. Your main trash clear.

CentaurMaleFull STAHealth. Heals and revives the party.

BorgFemaleFull STRAttack damage. Extra melee resist + Protect.

HumanFemaleFull AGISpeed. Chaos / Hypno the enemy first.

Open your Newbie Fortune Bag

Right after creating your characters, open each inventory (Alt+I), select the Newbie Fortune Bag and press Use. The items you care about:

• 1 mil gold card
• Sword Spider pet egg — hatch it at the Pet Breeder in Sky Passage or the Pet Keeper in Woodlingor Woodlingor 62, 219
• Skill Tome
• Teleport Scroll (the feather) — vital, it always brings you back to Woodlingor if you get stuck. This guide calls it your Feather Scroll.

Equip your pets, then leave Sky Passage by heading left.

Accept the Treasure Quest

As soon as you leave Sky Passage, talk to the big red NPC named Treasure. He's right beside you if you walked in from Sky Passage, otherwise he's at the top right: Woodlingor 198, 88

You'll grind this quest for your first few levels.

Shopping list before you grind

Windseeker

Woodlingor Grocer 121, 150

Unlimited-use teleport to many maps. You'll use it constantly. You start with 1,120,000 gold after the gold card, so this barely dents your wallet.

Also grab some Devil's Tears (blue vial) to avoid random fights. To remove the effect early, relog your party leader.

Teleport scrolls

Desert City Grocer 121, 240

Take the Woodlingor Teleporter Woodlingor 79, 118 to Desert City. The Grocer is just down-left of the teleporter. Buy one each of the four coloured rune scrolls and the Winged Scroll.

Only the Winged Scroll has limited uses (50). The rest are unlimited.

Potions — hundreds of them

Woodlingor Stuff Shop 69, 224

Feather Scroll back to Woodlingor. This Shop Keeper sells the best potions in the game at a bargain price. Buy hundreds for every character — type into the Quantity box instead of clicking.

Level your first skill: the Skill Tree

MWRO does not use the old skill list any more. Your skill window is now a Skill Tree: four columns, one per skill your class and gender owns, and four rows — Rank I at the bottom, Rank IV at the top. Everything happens in this one window.

Your four Rank I skills are already unlocked when the character is created — there is nothing to buy or learn. Click a node to select it, then:

The footer always shows the selected node's level and its next cost on the left, and your Talent Points and gold on the right, so you can see whether you can afford the click before you make it.

Use the Skill Tome from your newbie bag for extra Talent Points, then push your main skill to level 4 or 5. Higher levels also matter later: a rank cannot be unlocked until the rank below it is level 2, so levelling is what opens the tree upward.

Character	Main skill
Female Mage	Ice
Male Mage	Fire
Centaur	Heal
Borg	Absorb
Human	Chaos

The Battle Pass trick: free armour and 50 million gold

One last stop. Feather Scroll to Woodlingor, take the Teleporter to Demon Square and buy 60 Medium Health Potions from the Grocer Demon Square 80, 187 — 96,000 gold. Here's why:

Open the Battle Pass at the top right of the client, below the map name and coordinates. Holding 60 of these potions completes two missions at once:

The Heavenly Armour (also called Armour of Dreams or AoD) is the best equipment you'll have for a long time. Claim both rewards on your leader, then disband the party (party members can't give items) and use Alt+G to pass the 60 potions to each character in turn, claiming the rewards every time.

Your leader's inventory should end up looking like this. Now use your Windseeker and teleport to Revive Arena.

Grind the Treasure Quest to level 20

Run around Revive Arena fighting random encounters. Set your pets to Dodge — they're mostly there to tank hits. Mages are your main trash clear, though a full-STR Borg can pick enemies off one at a time too. Enemies drop the quest item, Sweet Wine.

1. Collect 5 Sweet Wine per character. Drops are random per character, so check every inventory before you leave.
2. Feather Scroll back to Treasure.
3. Before turning in, use your Winged Scroll and record your position so you can jump straight back each time.
4. Turn in and re-accept on every character. Repeat until level 20.

Rank II skills: the Skill Sigil hunt All 5 accept

The quest is called Skill II Initiation, and it no longer hands you the skills. It opens a hunt: beat one boss, then farm monsters until the sigils drop, and spend them yourself in the Skill Tree.

Rank II skills hit multiple enemies, so they're essential. Level your main one right away — the higher the level, the more targets. Aim for at least level 6. It eats most of your Talent Points, but those become trivial to earn within a few dozen levels.

Levels 20–40: outspeed everything with Agility Essences

Levels 20–40 are a slog with no new quest, but one zone gives fantastic experience. Enemies were recently buffed, though, so until you can wear your AoD at 40 it's risky: monsters outspeed you and kill your party before your Human can Chaos or Hypno them. The fix is to be faster. Enter the Essence system.

With only two enchanted pieces, a level 20 test Female Centaur had 6,864 speed. Enchant every piece you bought — Helmet, Boots, Weapon, Necklace and Bangle (buy the last two at the Stuff Shop Desert City 188, 74). Most importantly, your Mages and Human will now outspeed the monsters.

Southern Rivage: the best early grind

Windseeker to Southern Rivage (or red rune to Blython and leave through the top-left exit). The monsters here give absurd experience for your level: 600k–800k per fight on average, with a record of 2.14 million during double EXP. That's a huge step up from the 80k per Treasure turn-in. Grind here and only here.

At level 40 equip your Heavenly Armours (+75 dodge). With that and your boots' dodge — buy higher + boots in Desert City or Demon Square once you're 40 — you're near the dodge cap and almost untouchable by most enemies.

Rank III & IV skills: Drowcrusher, then the long hunt All 5 accept

At level 50 the Skill Trainer offers Challenge Drowcrusher. Like the Rank II quest, winning the fight does not give you skills — it switches on the Rank III and IV sigil drops. Your Borg matters most in the fight, so make sure its Absorb is high level.

1. Accept the quest from the Skill Trainer Woodlingor 64, 51 on every character — the option only appears at level 50 and once you already own Rank II.
2. Buy each character a piece of their own class armour or boots +5 at the Demon Square Armourer (male mage, female mage, female borg, male cent, female human).
3. Challenge Drowcrusher by the bank Demon Square 77, 329. He brings 3 elite ghost warriors and 6 centaur raiders with him.

After the win: hunt Sigil III, then Sigil IV

The hunt works exactly like Rank II — 1% per defeated monster — but it runs in two waves, and the game decides which sigil you get:

So the order is forced: you cannot rush straight to Chaos IV. Unlock all four Rank III nodes, push each to level 2, and the Rank IV sigils start appearing. Grinding Southern Rivage while this runs means the hunt costs you no extra time — you were killing those monsters anyway.

Win and you have your best skills. You just don't have the Talent Points to level them yet…

Hendel Quest: the best talent points in the game Leader only

At level 60, find Hendel Southern Rivage 95, 220, almost directly below the Windseeker arrival point. Use Devil's Tears to skip random encounters while you run back and forth.

1. Talk to Soldier Laura (top left), then Firetroy next to her, then Sarrior up the stairs to the right of Firetroy.
2. Fight Skeletar Southern Rivage 129, 71. Tough for your level, but Chaos II trivialises it.
3. Fight Coldbeast Southern Rivage 88, 275 at the bottom of the map. Chaos, Absorb spam, Mages blast.

Repeat it as much as you like to level your level 4 skills — higher levels hit more targets. Chaos IV quickly outpaces Chaos II, so it's your #1 upgrade.

Blython Defence (level 60–82) Leader only

Once you have more talent points than you know what to do with, get back to levelling. You can stay in Southern Rivage for a long time, but by the mid 60s–70s this quest is a nice change.

1. Red rune to Blython. Talk to Defender right by the arrival point Blython 20, 75.
2. Enter any shop (e.g. the Weaponry Shop Blython 79, 77) and talk to the shopkeeper repeatedly, cancelling until you get the fight dialogue below.
3. Chaos IV the reborn characters, then let your Mages and Borg go to town.
4. After 10 rounds, grab the quest from Defender again.

Rewards grow each round up to round 10. Round 1 lists 350,000 EXP, but you actually receive 3× the EXP and 5× the gold (75,000 instead of 15,000 per fight). Round 10 gives 900k × 3 = 2.7 million EXP.

Blython Defence stops giving EXP at level 82. From there, it's the Seal Quest.

Seal Quest (Scroll Demon) · 82–92 Leader only

Buy another Winged Scroll from the Desert City Grocer — you'll be spamming them. Then visit our friend Treasure Woodlingor 194, 88 (record this spot on a Winged Scroll if you haven't) and take the Scroll Demon quest. Talk to him again and choose Receive Scroll to learn your target.

Travel to the zone and use the purple Sealed Scroll to start the fight. Unlike vanilla MW2 the coordinate radius is very generous — a target of 26, 35 could be triggered from 80, 77. So record Winged Scroll spots in the centre of each map and you can usually fight the moment you arrive. Kill the mobs, Winged Scroll back to Treasure, repeat.

Like Blython Defence, EXP is paid three times: round 1 gives 450,000 × 3 = 1,350,000, and it rises every round.

At level 92 the Seal Quest stops giving EXP. For the final sprint to reborn:

Papa Drow (Drow Lord) · 92–104

At the time of writing this is the best option, since Howling Beast is bugged. It's a straightforward grind that also drops useful items.

1. Buy a +5 weapon for each character at the Blython Weaponry Blython 64, 71.
2. Talk to Drow Lord next to Drowcrusher by the bank Demon Square 64, 345.

Each win grants 1,350,000 EXP (450k × 3) and a chance at one of these. All three are great later, so stockpile them:

Howling Beast Quest Leader only Bugged at time of writing

From the Beast Hunt NPC Woodlingor 77, 295 (bottom left; listed as level 30 for some reason). Three tough fights in a row — no special strategy, just Chaos IV and blast.

Reward: 10.5 million EXP, plus a very rare chance at the Crimson Wraith pet.

At level 104 you're ready to reborn. Before resetting to level 1, run through this checklist:

• Talent points. Farm Hendel until you have around 60k.
• Better gear. See 6.2. You may prefer to wait for your final (3rd reborn) roster, because drops match your class and gender, which change as you reborn.
• Better pets. Tired of Sword Spiders doing nothing? See 6.4.
• More gold. Talents probably drained you. See 6.1.

The reborn quest All 5 accept

Go to the Elder Zone Woodlingor 117, 113 (right of the Teleporter) and talk to the Elder of Night. You need 5 Soulstones. Unlike vanilla MW2 it's simple: go to a zone, win one battle, get the stone, then take the next part from the Elder — progressing it on every character.

With all 5 Soulstones on all 5 characters, Windseeker to Snow Ridge and talk to the Elder of Faith Snow Ridge 116, 41. Plan your paths first (see 6.7 or the Guides section on Discord). After the dialogue and a relog you're level 1-1. Congratulations! Level up the same way again for 2nd and 3rd reborn.

Gold pays for talents and gear rolls. There are two main ways to make it.

Survival Quest

The best gold source in the game, but an end-game quest beyond this guide. On the MWRO Discord, look in Guides for "Best Way to Claim Vival Rewards" when you're ready.

Battle Pass gold card rotation

Recommended for new players. Simple but extremely tedious. Each rotation earns 50 million gold, 5k talent points and optionally another Heavenly Armour.

You need: a character on your main account with free inventory space and 60 Medium Health Potions (see Section 1), plus a second MWRO account.

1. Park your main next to the east exit of Sky Passage Sky Passage 85, 110.
2. Create a new character (the "alt") on your second account. Race, class, gender and name don't matter.
3. On the alt, immediately hold right click and head south-west out of the starting zone.
4. On your main, press Alt+G, click the alt as it arrives, and right click the potions to give all 60 at once. Confirm.
5. On the alt, open the Battle Pass and claim the 5 gold cards (row 2, mission 1) and optionally the Heavenly Armour (row 1, mission 3). Close it with the X (right click doesn't work here).
6. Alt+I, use the newbie bag, right click to close.
7. Alt+G, click your main and right click to give back the 5 gold cards, 60 potions, and the AoD or talent book.
8. Reopen the inventory and use the Feather Scroll.
9. Right click to close, then hold right click and walk into the Elder Zone (route below avoids desyncs).
10. Talk to the Elder Register → Delete my Character.
11. The client closes instantly. Click Login to log back into the alt account.
12. Repeat as many times as you like.

Get good at it and you can make a billion gold in under half an hour. Fair warning: carpal tunnel and burnout are real.

Fire Defender farm All 5 accept

Take the Fire Defender Quest Blython 29, 62 (next to Defender) on all 5 characters, then green rune to Ashes Pit 3.

You're meant to kill four NPCs (Ogre, Fire Giant, Blue Lich, Sword Demon) and turn in — don't bother. Stand next to Sword Demon and fight him over and over. Each win gives 250,000 EXP and a random +7 to +10 item for your class and gender, with 3 random stats.

Stats roll from +1 to +15. What to look for:

Take your gear to Armor Catastrophe at the Desert City Smithy Desert City 21, 167 and give it to him with Alt+G. For 10 million gold he rolls 5 extra stats, for up to 8 random stats per item.

• The 5 new stats are always different from each other, but can repeat stats already on the gear.
• Rolls are +1 to +15, or +15 to +30 with a Randomizer Core (Item Mall → Potion tab, 120 Ingots).

Pets are currently mostly Crit builds or HP walls. These are quick to get and have the best stat growth among free-to-play pets.

Green Chinchilla GCC

Recommended

Do this once you have your III and IV skills. Talk to Existent Southern Rivage 122, 145 to start the Survival Quest. You want the Battle Pass mission on the last slot of row 1: "win 15 rounds of Survival". It really means 15 total rounds, so just clear round 1, cash out, and repeat (or go to round 4 and quit — your choice). The reward is 2 GCC eggs per character.

Hatch them, feed them any Mystical Fruits from Papa Drow, then max their varied Growth Rate with Stone of Moon (1 million each) from the Pet Stone Shopkeeper at the Pet Market Woodlingor 59, 234.

Ignore the tooltip: set the pet to Battle, open your inventory, select the Stone of Moon and press Use.

Demon Dragon DD

Can have higher STA growth than the GCC, so it has more HP unless your GCC is rolled to perfect STA. Eggs drop often from the Sleep Dragon just north-east of the Desert City teleporter (level 40+). Chaos or Hypno their team, Drain with your Borg, blast with Mages.

GCC is still the recommendation: if pets are ever buffed again, it's far more versatile and can also be a solid Berserk pet.

Saint Pets

Daily · 3 PM EDT

From the Spring Event in Blython Blython 36, 73, next to Fire Defender. Only the 3rd challenge, the Boss Challenge, has a (very) small chance to drop one. The Glitter Tiger is the real winner. The fourth Saint Pet, Stone Tortoise, is a pure STA pet (not shown).

Pet Crystals: the five permanent sockets New system

Every pet has five permanent crystal sockets, shown as a row of gems along the bottom of the pet window. They are separate from Magical Crystals and Magical Stones — a pet can have both. Each socket boosts one thing, and the boost is a rolled number, not a fixed bonus:

Step 1 — farm shards

Shards drop straight from fights, with no quest to accept:

The type is random, so expect a spread of all five. You'll see [Crystal Hunt] Found 1 Fury Crystal Shard in chat. Life Tree Bandit stages also hand out shards and the Forge Booster.

Step 2 — forge at the Master Gem Forger

Take them to the Master Gem Forger in Demon Square. Set the pet you want upgraded as your active pet first — the forge only ever works on the active pet, and refuses with "Select an active pet before forging" otherwise.

His window lists all five crystals with your shard count, the cost, and the range you can roll. Press Forge on an empty socket, or Upgrade on one you already own. Each press raises that crystal one stage, up to Stage V:

Shards must match the crystal — Fury Shards only feed the Fury Crystal. Taking one socket all the way to Stage V costs 75 shards of that type and 2.25 million gold. All five maxed is 375 shards and 11.25 million gold, so pick the sockets that matter first: Vitality for a wall pet, Fury for a damage pet, Aegis if you keep losing pets to magic.

Magical Crystals & Magical Stones

A pet can take up to 9 MCs / MSs, each adding bonus resistances. Don't apply Magical Crystals to pets directly. Instead, roll an MC, save the result into a Magical Stone, and use the Stone on the pet. Every stat stored in an MS gets +3 (so +10 Crit Rate / +13 Crit Damage becomes +13 / +16).

Select an MC in your inventory and press Use to roll. With an MS in your inventory you get three choices: accept on the pet, save to the Stone, or cancel. A single roll never shows the same stat twice.

Dragon Bones & Dragon Eyes

Each pet can take 1 Eye and 4 Bones. They raise the pet's Growth Rate (the "Exp" value in Pet Status): Eyes +100, Bones +30. Growth Rate decides how much each stat point adds — a higher-GR pet gets more HP per STA point.

Sources: Battle Pass rewards, Papa Drow and God's Chests.

God's Chests hold otherwise exclusive items. You need a Master Key to open one.

Each reborn grants resistances based on the class and gender you reborn from, so plan every character's path to spread them out. The general rule: don't reborn into the same class/gender twice if you can help it. Your starting FHum shouldn't still be an FHum at 3rd reborn.

Reborn resistance bonuses

These numbers come from the author's own observations and may not be exact.