Game Progress Route

**Game Progress Route** for Megido: Abyss covers a recommended progression path for the main campaign of the game. This progression guide maps out the optimal path to take to avoid missing objectives, important NPCs, Items, and many more without too much backtracking. This page only contains an overview of the game's main quest that will lead the player to reach the ending of the game.

* Please note: The recommended level is not a determination of how hard an area is. It's following available materials and the natural progression of the walkthrough so far.
* This playthrough doesn't follow every NPC interaction.
* Please see Quests for NPC questlines.
* Please see Recommended Level by Location for level-based advancement.
* Please see Areas for area connections and access requirements

## **Derelict Bastille**

Level: 1-12 Upgrades: +0

1. Find 3x Healing Fruits.
2. Obtain Shortsword.
3. Obtain your Starting Gift
4. Obtain your Starting Class Gear.
5. Defeat Garrison Magistrate.

## **Leere**

1. Use the Save Crystal.
2. Talk to Captain Doran to receive the Distress Beacon and Sunlight Eye.
3. Talk to Lonely Florist for her Questline.
4. Buy Ariadne Threads from Item Merchant.
5. (Optional) Buy your first spell from the Magic Seller.
6. Talk to the Adventurer to start his Questline.

## **Pilgrim Road**

Level: 1-16 Upgrades: +0 ~ +1

1. Obtain Lifeblood Ring.
2. Obtain 1x Healing Fruit.
3. Defeat Raging Minotaur.

## **Great Hollow**

Level: 12-20 Upgrades: +0 ~ +1

1. Obtain 1x Healing Fruit.
2. Obtain Great Hollow Smithing Text.
3. Defeat False Idol.

## **The Catacombs**

Level: 18-25 Upgrades: +1 ~ +2

1. Talk to Captain Arem, then talk to Worried Knight and Captain Doran in Leere, then talk to Captain Arem again and repeat the 2nd step to do most of the Captains' Questline.
2. Obtain 1x Healing Fruit.
3. Obtain Forbidden Spellbook.
4. Obtain Ring of Sanity.
5. Obtain 1x Healing Increase.
6. Obtain Ring of Toughness.
7. Defeat Hollow King.
8. Obtain Ring of the Evil Eye.

## **Darkwater Caverns**

Level: 18-25 Upgrades: +1 ~ +2

1. Obtain Ring of Invigoration.
2. Obtain Dolphin Ring.
3. Obtain Boat Dock Key.
4. Obtain 1x Healing Increase.
5. Defeat Defiled Construct.

## **Verdant Bastille**

Level: 20-30 Upgrades: +2 ~ +3

1. Obtain Jester Trickbook.
2. Defeat Abyss Magistrate.
3. Obtain Gorgon Ring.

## **Memorial Gardens**

Level: 22-30 Upgrades: +2 ~ +3

1. Obtain Fleetfooted Ring (Requires Dolphin Ring).
2. Obtain 1x Healing Increase and Ring of Resilience in the small part of The Great Hollow connected to the Gardens.
3. Unlock the Gates to Royal Colosseum and Leere Marshlands.

## **Leere Marshlands**

Level: 25-30 Upgrades: +3 ~ +4

1. Obtain Huntsman's Manual.
2. Defeat The Black Hood.

## **Royal Colosseum**

Level: 25-30 Upgrades: +3 ~ +4

1. Defeat Barbarous Champion (Requires Writ of Courage.
2. Obtain Knight's Ring from the Hopeful Son Questline.
3. Obtain the Ring of Curses.

## **Proving Grounds**

Level: 25-30 Upgrades: +3 ~ +4

1. Finish the Captain Doran & Captain Arem Questline and obtain the Elixir Charm or the Bloodthirst Charm.
2. Obtain 1x Healing Increase.
3. Obtain the Cell Key, defeat the Rabbit of Caerbannog, and obtain the Ring of Robustness.
4. Obtain Writ of Courage.

## **Windfall Canyon**

Level: 30-35 Upgrades: +3 ~ +4

1. Obtain Wolf Ring.
2. Obtain Gypsy Spellbook.
3. Obtain 1x Healing Increase.
4. Defeat Shadow Swordsman.

## **Ironvale Quarry**

Level: 30-35 Upgrades: +3 ~ +4

1. Obtain Miner's Instructions.
2. Obtain Bulwark Ring.
3. Obtain 1x Healing Increase.
4. Defeat Bloodrot Knight.

## **Dysmere**

1. Give Boss Essences to Anima Smith and Anima Mage.
2. Buy Ice Hammer from Anima Smith to unlock the Darkwater Sanctum Save Crystal earlier, and to get an Essence Vessel, 2x Iron Block and 2x Gold Block within the Sanctum.
3. Give an Ariadne Thread to Fisherman for his Questline.
4. Talk to Bartender if you have completed both Windfall Canyon and Ironvale Quarry for a Healing Fruit Upgrade.
5. Obtain 3x Gold Nugget by doing some parkour in the Anima Mage's home.
6. Obtain Dragonflame Ring in the basement of the Anima Mage's home.
7. Talk to Gossip Girl for Questline hints.
8. Talk to Village Elder for the Queen Leere Questline
9. Give a Large Branch to the Woodworker for an Ent Halberd.

## **Ashen Peak**

Level: 40-45 Upgrades: +5 ~ +7

1. Obtain Fire Witch Tome.
2. Obtain Cat Ring.
3. Obtain Brawler Ring
4. Obtain Healing Fruit Upgrade.
5. Defeat Demon of Ash and obtain the Fire Crystal.

## **Darkwater Sanctum**

Level: 40-45 Upgrades: +5 ~ +7

1. Obtain Scholar Ring.
2. Defeat Ancient Queen Shiva & Templar Knight Valasca and obtain the Water Crystal.

## **Temple of Idols**

Level: 40-50 Upgrades: +6 ~ +7

1. Obtain 1x Healing Fruit.
2. Obtain 1x Healing Increase.
3. Obtain Temple Writings.
4. Defeat the Sculptor of Idols and obtain the Earth Crystal.

## **The Pits**

Level: 50-60 Upgrades: +6 ~ +7

1. Obtain Pygmy Encyclopedia.
2. Obtain Viper Ring.
3. Defeat Fetid Horror.

## **Illusory Forest**

Level: 55-60 Upgrades: +7 ~ +8

1. Obtain the Obscuring Ring.
2. Obtain 1x Healing Increase.
3. Obtain 5x Illusory Shards (Only 3x are required to obtain Soulbrandt from the Anima Smith).
4. Defeat Maleficent Scourge.

## **Bloodroot Necropolis**

Level: 55-60 Upgrades: +7 ~ +8

1. Obtain the Madman's Bauble.
2. Defeat the Profane Inquisition.

## **Phantasmagoria**

Level: 60-70 Upgrades: +7 ~ +8

1. Obtain 2x Healing Increase
2. Obtain the Prisoner's Chain.
3. Obtain 4x Illusory Shard.
4. Defeat Blackguard for the second time, if you have been progressing his questline.
5. Obtain the Ring of Retribution.
6. Defeat the Lord of Illusion and obtain the Wind Crystal.

## **Luveno's Archive**

Level: 65-75+ Upgrades: +9 ~ +10

1. Obtain the Challenger's Seal.
2. Obtain 3x Illusory Shard.
3. Obtain 2x Diamond.
4. Defeat Fading Phantasm and obtain the Magus Ring.
5. Enter the Shattered Realm ExpansionDLC.

## **The Abyss**

Level: 65-75 Upgrades: +10

1. Obtain 1x Healing Fruit.
2. Obtain 1x Illusory Shard.
3. Obtain Anima Vessel
4. Obtain Anima Tome.
5. Obtain 2x Anima Crystals.
6. Obtain Anima Eye.
7. Complete Adventurer Questline.
8. In the Blacksmith Building, loot 3x Iron Block and 3x Gold Block.
9. In the ruins of Alendale, loot 2x Diamond.
10. Defeat Formless Entity.

# **The Shattered Realm Expansion**

## **Pygmy Burrows**

Level: 75+ Upgrades: +10

1. Obtain the Slayer Ring.
2. Obtain the Nugget Tome.
3. Obtain 1x Diamond.
4. Obtain the Flower Blade secret weapon.
5. Defeat the Scion of Delirium

## **Breeding Grounds**

Level: 80+ Upgrades: +10

1. Obtain the Orb of Power.
2. Obtain the Bloodstained Kotoborro set, then obtain Hermes Boots by showing it to the Worried Pygmy in the town.
3. Obtain 1x Diamond.
4. Obtain the Flaming Brand secret weapon.
5. Obtain 3x Spider Egg to disable Hellspawns appearing in the area and in the bossfight.
6. Defeat Demogorgon.

## Darkwater Palace

Level: 80+ Upgrades: +10

1. Obtain the Dusk Crown Ring.
2. Obtain the Ingot Tome.
3. Obtain 1x Diamond.
4. Obtain the Chronos Axe secret weapon.
5. Defeat The False Prophet.

## Howling Gulch (Lower)

Level: 85+ Upgrades: +10

1. Obtain 1x Diamond.
2. Obtain the Vengeance Ring.
3. Obtain Static Shock at the end of the area, in the shortcut back to Pygmy Burrows.
4. Defeat Howling Phantasm for the first time.

## Howling Gulch (Upper)

Level: 85+ Upgrades: +10

1. Obtain 1x Diamond.
2. Obtain the Conductor's Wand secret weapon.
3. Defeat Howling Phantasm for the second time.
4. Obtain Plague Aspis in the shortcut back to Pygmy Burrows past the boss arena.
5. Speak with Luveno after defeating Howling Phantasm to receive the Nocturne Ring.

## The Shattered Realm

Level: 90+ Upgrades: +10

1. Obtain 2x Diamond (One within the Town "Megido: The New World" area behind a hidden wall after a few Angels encounters, and another behind a hidden wall in the Temple of Idols-like section within the Phantasmagoria-like area, behind a hidden wall in the drop-down to where the Bone Chip is located).
2. Defeat Cornelius.
3. Defeat Xande.
4. Defeat Arkan Prime.
5. Defeat Shadow of the Origin.
6. Defeat the Origin of Sin.