New Player Guide

Getting started in a new game can always feel a bit overwhelming. So many options can mean so many places to mess up and fall behind in progression. This guide will walk you through the first weeks in Elethor. There are many different ways to progress in the game, so don't be discouraged by taking somewhat different paths. The worse paths or traps that new players may fall to will also be explained in these guides. Any improvements to this guide should be submitted so new players can start off on the best foot!

Instead of choosing combat or mining in Elethor, you choose both. The first thing you should do when getting started is click “Fight” and start fighting some rats. Their drops will be useful for some time, so no extra rat hides will go to waste. In fact, no drops are truly useless as they can be sold on market.

Once you're fighting, click over to “Mine” to see the mining section of the game.The mining page has 4 segments: Resource nodes, Mining lasers, Fossils and statistics. For now, go to “Resource nodes” page and start gathering from the pit; the default mining node everyone has.

As you fight rats, you will want to craft Rat gear in the crafting window. You'll see that each crafted item (until tier 8) can have +/- 3 stats from the average (what you see on the recipe itself in the crafting window). Try to craft an item for each slot that has better than average stats across the board. For all items you craft that are below average or aren't worth equipping, deconstruct them into scraps.

Once you get an item with good stats across the board, it's time to reinforce and energize it. Using the scraps you got from deconstructing, unlock 3 energizement lines on the gear. If you are short on scraps, craft the scraps themselves from the crafting page or buy from market if you're feeling lazy. As the prices of every energizement and reinforcement below the maximum tier are abundant and thus extremely cheap on market, you can buy the required reinforcement and energizement shards for cheap. reinforce all your rat gear (and your hunting rifle) for a mix of +5 savagery and +5 fortitude.

Repeat this for all equipment slots that you can craft rat gear. While working on this, you'll also want to complete the first leg of the Sidearm Instructor quest. This will give you a Troatic Sidearm, which can also be energized for %Damage, which will give you a nice boost.

After getting +5s across the board craft some energizing shards to reroll so 2 out of your 3 lines on your rat gear is 3% in either savagery or fortitude (or damage if it's your weapon or sidearm). Speed is useful, but a bit less so since you have such a low base speed to start with.

As soon as you can reliably kill the max amount of Skrivets (which is 15), stop investing in your rat gear. It will get replaced with Skrivet gear very soon. Start farming Skrivets for their pelts, as this is the main ingredient needed for T1 armor.

Repeat the same process with Skrivet gear as you did with rat gear. You'll find it's a bit more expensive because there are now 4 reinforcement slots to fill rather than 1, but your power will spike quickly. Keep farming!

This process will be repeated for T2 (Razen) and T3 (Karth) gear. Except at this point, you may find that it may be more beneficial to sell your drops to purchase crafting materials for the next tier on the market rather than farming them yourself. At this point you'll be able to decide on your own progression goals what you want to do.

While you're gearing up, you'll want to balance your gold spending between crafting equipment, getting their reinforcements/energizements and unlocking masteries. Masteries are generally related to mining, combat, income, injections and various miscellaneous masteries.

Early game, most of your income will come from selling Plat and ores from mining. It will take a long time to change that, so don't worry about not max killing the monsters you're fighting. Progressing through quests and gathering exp is more important than optimal combat early on.

For faster progression, exp masteries are a must. They are cheap to pick up and level up fast too. Any player that wants to progress fast should take these masteries, both for mining and combat.

Some combat masteries may look inviting, but they won't pay off for a while and might not even take effect at all (1% more gold from 8 gold is…still 8 gold) until you hit higher monsters that have higher income that you can kill many of. An exception is the drop rate masteries; these are decent. In my opinion, focusing on mining or exp masteries early is a good option. You can buy data chips on market to increase your masteries instantly.

DO NOT invest into cybernetics; they are designed as a data chip sink for end game players that grant some decent benefits for massive costs. It's much better to get your masteries maxed and progress with other masteries ASAP.

When in doubt, focus on your gear progression, look for quests to complete, and focus on what brings you the most exp.

Now that you know the basics, let's dive a bit deeper into the game.

Recyclobot takes monster drops (of any kind) and converts them to points. Then, you spend 250k gold and an increasing amount of points (starting from 10k, increasing by 1k until 21st plat, then increasing by 500) to craft a platinum (called plat from now on). It goes on like this:

• Plat #1: 250k gold + 10k points
• Plat #2: 250k gold + 11k points
• Plat #3: 250k gold + 12k points

…

• Plat #21: 250k gold + 20k points
• Plat #22: 250k gold + 20.5k points
• Plat #23: 250k gold + 21k points

and so on.

Plat is then used in Companions (Drone, Drake, Merchant, Prospector) to give passive bonuses that range from essential to powerful to niche to useless.

Recyclobot has 2 types of infinite upgrades: ore (level bonus) and gold (level exchange). The ore boost gives you a chance to craft another plat from thin air every time you craft one (you can get multiple plat from a single click if you level it high enough). The gold boost increases the points you get from drops.

At the start of the game, as your companion levels are low, investing into companions by spending plat isn't as lucrative. Therefore, you should craft and sell plat for profit. When you have none of the Rbot upgrades, you should craft 10 plat (subject to market prices of course, but it's mostly stable) by buying “Drop of Aether” from the market, converting it to points, crafting a plat, selling it on market and repeating it until you have crafted 10 plat and sold them all. This should give you up to 10M gold income per day; a pretty good income early on.

Mining is much simpler than combat overall. If you hover over the amount you're expected to collect, you can even see the actual formula mining is based upon. However, the path to raising your mining income is expensive. Mining income is raised 90% through mining lasers, 9% through Prospector abilities, 1% through fossils. This is why if you want to invest in mining, simply level up lasers and don't even bother upgrading fossil shop at all, it's very expensive even late game. You unlock a new mining laser to use every 30 mining levels. Start with the percentage laser, then follow up with base ore laser when you get to lvl 30 mining.

In the “Resource Nodes” section, you'll see that there is an option to craft omninodes under the “Surveying” section. You passively have a chance to get geodata every minute and if you use 5, you can craft an omninode that only you can use. The omninode can have modifiers that make it better and it also always has 20% better stats. For this reason, you should always craft omninodes and stay on them. You can enhance the omninodes by spending platinum or geodata, but I recommend not doing that, as it has low return value. At the beginning of the game, you will overflow on geodata since your mining lasers are weak. This is ok, but if you don't like this, you do have the option to spend geodata to enhance omninodes (not recommended like I said).

By mining omninode, you will get fossil shards. By spending them on fossil shop, you can get temporary mining bonuses. You also get 3 resets per day. Try to focus on experience boosts early on. Don't upgrade fossil shop until late game, it's way too expensive for little gain.

Finish the 'Sidearm Instructor' questline up until your first sidearm. Do this as soon as possible, it's a free item with decent stats and can be energized for %Damage, which will be a good boost this early.

Once that's done, focus on the main questline by completing 'A Grand Beginning' first. You might get gated at the final step of the quest (which requires killing Skrivets) but complete it when you can.

Then complete 'The Outlier' followed by 'Maintaining Supply Routes'. The end of 'Maintaining Supply Routes' will give you your first augment, which is another boost to your stats. It will also unlock 'The Gishin Excavation' questline, which will unlock your other 3 Gishin augments. These can be reinforced for stats that other items can't be, which you can see on the equip slot page.

The 'Hunter's Bounty' daily quest is always worth completing as much as you can. The monsters to kill are the “main tier” monsters, meaning their drops are used to craft the armor for that tier. Drops will always be useful in either crafting the gear itself or scraps needed for higher tiers of gear.

The 'Pod Building' weekly is a good way to boost your experience gain and gain permanent action. At the start, it may seem a bit expensive, so it may be skipped for week 1.