Beginner's Guide

Welcome players to the world of EPIC RPG! Here on this page you will find the basics to help get you started as well as tips and tricks to make your playthrough a little easier and hopefully regret free!!

It is highly recommended you read over /start for a general basis of how the bot game works. For more depth, read on, dear adventurer~

## **Basic Commands**

Below is a list of general commands often used, including their descriptions:

 /inventory
 /cd
Check marks indicate a command is ready
Commands on cooldown will display a timer until the command is ready again
 /rd
 /help
Do /help [command / item / event name] to see specific info

## **Getting Started**

The first thing first -- after reading **/start** of course -- is to equip yourself. The worst thing that can happen when starting out is experiencing dying to a monster while out adventuring, as you will lose a level as well as any experience you have accumulated. The must haves for starting out can be purchased in the shop, which you can access by typing out the following command: **/shop**.

 /buy [item] [#]
EX) /buy life potion 10

The shop will display a list of items that players can purchase. Starting out, players are given 250 gold coins to spend; but do not worry about this amount as there are several ways to gain more gold which will be discussed shortly. Here is a recommended list of what to buy as soon as you can afford it:

 Basic Armor
 Basic Sword
 Horse
The boosts from horse type and tier will make your playthrough easier in both the short and long runs
[See horses for more info]

## **Gaining Experience and Coins**

### Combat Commands

The combat in EPIC RPG is quite simple, players will have access to three combat related commands: **/hunt**, **/adventure** and **/duel**. The hunt and adventure commands both give a random range of experience and coins with a small chance of dropping a lootbox. Hunt has a chance to give a monster drop used for crafting, which will be discussed later.

Some things to keep in mind when using these commands: the monsters in adventure are stronger and therefore hit harder than the monsters in hunt. Please remember to heal if you see or think your health is low, the cost of healing is worth more than the cost of dying!

Receive exp and coins if monster is killed
Can receive lootboxes and mob drops
 /adventure
Receive exp and coins if monster is killed
Can receive lootboxes
 /heal
Must have a life potion in your inventory

[See hunt and adventure for more info]

Dueling is a different form of combat as it is a command that requires another player in order to initiate it. It is a player versus player command where you will duel against another player and if you win, you will receive experience and coins based on whoever has the lowest level. If you lose, do not worry as you will not lose a level or any progress; the only thing lost will just be your cooldown.

Must tag the other player and they need to say yes

[See duel for more info]

### Non-Combat Commands

Aside from those commands that put your skills to the test, there are also other ways of earning experience and coins.

Quest is one way of earning coins and experience and can vary from hunting down a number of certain monsters to simply trading with the EPIC NPC. You can accept a quest and must complete it before starting a new one when the command is ready after 6 hours, but the cooldown timer will start once a quest has been accepted. If you choose to reject a quest, the cooldown before accepting a new one will be 1 hour.

If you happen to have bred your horse and have a special type horse, you will have access to the epic quest which is simply fighting a select number of waves for instant completion. Canceling will not give you a penalty of 1 hour. You will not lose a level or progress if you die, you will take damage so be sure to heal before and after.

May take a while depending on your quest and luck
 /epic quest
Amount of waves is dependent on your stats and current health, so remember to heal
Instant completion, survive to receive rewards

[See quest and epic quest for more info]

Training is another way to earn a lot of experience, but it will not grant you any coins. The command will present you with a random question pertaining to the game or, if you are in a higher area, ask the amount of rubies in your inventory unlocked in area 2.

[See training for more info]

Arena and Miniboss are events you can trigger which give better rewards depending on the amount of players that participate. For arena, you need at least 1 other person to initiate it while miniboss can be done solo but the chances of winning increase with more people.

Winners are selected randomly and will receive an arena cookie per kill
Arena cookies grant a small % of experience
 /miniboss
Host earns coins while helpers earn a portion of that
Chance of gaining +1 level as well
Shares a cooldown with dungeon

[See arena and miniboss for more info]

## **Gathering Materials and the Crafting System**

To get strong enough to pass through areas and dungeons, it is necessary to collect materials and mob drops in order to craft better equipment for yourself.

### Collecting Materials

There are several ways of collecting materials, but the three main ways are from hunt/adventure, working commands and from lootboxes.

Hunt and adventure both provide chances of monsters dropping a lootbox, but only the hunt command has a chance of dropping a mob drop. Mob drops are used in almost all recipes and are required for when you eventually reach dungeon 10 so do not sell them!

Working commands refer to the "**chop | fish | pickup | mine**" on your cooldown list and grant materials based on the respective command. Starting out you will only have access to the chop and fish commands, however, and will gain access to the pickup and mine commands on later areas. Higher tier version of the four basic commands are unlocked in certain areas, so refer to rpg help for a list of commands by area. You can only use one working command every 5 minutes, this means you cannot do both chop and fish at the same time.

**Tip**: Chop gives more materials than fishing does. If you require fish for a recipe, refer to the next sub section, "---," for info on trading.

 /fish
 /pickup
 /mine

[See working commands for higher tiers of these four basic commands]

Lootboxes are another way of obtaining materials and, unlike hunt/adventure and working commands, have a chance of providing materials, mob drops and more. How many items and what kind of items you may receive depend on the lootbox tier with tiers ranging from common to godly; what you get is also dependent on rng, that is to say, it is luck based. Players are able to buy lootboxes (only up to edgy tier) every 3 hours and as you are just starting out, there are level restrictions for purchasing that can be seen in **rpg lootbox**.

Includes possible loot per tier
 /buy [lootbox]
Can only purchase one lootbox at a time
Common to EDGY tier only

[See lootbox for more info]

### Crafting

Crafting is highly required when progressing through the game as it is the only way to get better swords and armors than the basic ones in the shop. You can find a list of recipes for crafting by using the command, **/recipes**. Keep in mind that similar to lootboxes, there are also level restrictions when crafting which is incredibly important since you are required to sell your sword/armor if you want to replace it with a new one.

 /craft [sword / armor]
 /sell [sword / armor]
Required if you want to craft a new equipment

**Tip**: If you'd like to be cautious before replacing your equipment, do not sell your equipment yet and just issue the craft command. If you have enough materials, the bot will alert you that you cannot hold more than 1 sword/armor. If you do not have enough, the bot will tell you that you do not and will display what you are missing.

[See crafting for more info]

### Trading and Dismantling

To start off this section: There are no player to player trading.

If you find yourself having more of one material but lacking another material, you have the option of trading with the EPIC NPC. Trade rates vary and are dependent on your max area only. The EPIC NPC only accepts trading of materials in it's lowest tier form, the lowest forms being:

* Wooden Log
* Normie Fish
* Apple
* Ruby

If you have a lot of higher tier materials and not enough low tier materials to trade, fear not. You have the ability to dismantle higher tier materials into a tier lower, but you will only receive 80% of the amount it would have taken to craft the higher tier material. You can see crafting conversion by using the command: **/recipes 4** or **/recipes items**.

 /dismantle

[See trade and crafting for more info]

## **Dungeons and Moving Areas**

When you feel you are strong enough and are ready to take on the next challenge, the next step is to challenge the dungeon and move on to the next area for stronger monsters and more rewards!

### Dungeons

To start off, you will need another player of whom you can trust your back to as the dungeons must be ventured into with a party of 2-4 players. If you are having trouble finding a partner or wish to grab more players to increase your chances a bit but do not have access to a pool of players, please join the EPIC RPG Official Server to get started with looking for partners there. Once you have your party, make sure that everyone is healed up, make sure everyone has a key or a T6+ Horse and then head over to an appropriate channel to do dungeons. Be sure to tag all participating members!

The goal of dungeons are simple: kill the dragon and try to damage the boss as many times and as hard as you reasonably can. Do not worry about dying in a dungeon, as long as one of you lives when the dragon is slain, all party members will have beaten the dungeon and will progress to the next area. You will not lose any progress for dying and/or failing a dungeon, only your key and cooldown will be used up regardless if you win or fail.

Each player must have a key or T6 horse to enter
Each player must be in their MAX area

[See dungeon for more info]

### Moving Areas

Once you have beaten your first dungeon, you will be granted access to new commands, this including the ability to move back and forth between areas. This command is useful when you are being one shotted / killed instantly in a new area and need to go back an area to grind for more experience before attempting the monsters in the new area once again. The command is especially used for when you need to farm a specific mob drop as you can only find certain monsters in their respective areas i.e. wolves are only found in areas 1 and 2 but not area 3 or higher.

Moving back areas will NOT:

* Lock you out of your higher area(s)
* Allow you to reattempt lower area dungeons
* Change your trade rates
* Change shop prices

Can only move to areas you have reached

## **Time Traveling for the First Time**

So you have reached the end of your run, are close to reaching it or are just curious what this feature is. The time traveling command is a progress reset where you will be taken back to the beginning with everything reset back to level 1 and your inventory will be empty; in exchange, you will be granted bonuses to your experience gain, mob drop chance, increased amount of materials from working commands, and more.

### Before Time Traveling

As stated prior, time traveling will reset most of your progress, but not all will be lost. A full list of what stays can be found on the time travel page linked below, but the quick take away is that coins will remain after time traveling. This means that any leftover materials can be sold or used to level up your professions. If you are planning on selling, please only sell once you have reached your final area (which is area 11 if you have not time traveled before) to ensure there are no mistakes prior to completing dungeon 10. The biggest mistake is selling all your mob drops and finding out you are required to have a full edgy set to do that dungeon.

If you are worried about surprise instant time traveling right after dungeon 10, do not worry, the time traveling command has to be manually done and reconfirmed by you. Take the time to look over your profile and inventory to ensure there is nothing that you still need to sell.

### After Time Traveling

Congrats on time traveling and welcome back to the start! This portion is quick as there are only a few aspects to keep in mind:

* There are no more lootbox level restrictions, so have fun buying all those edgy lootboxes from the get-go!
* You now have access to the time travel command for checking your time travel status
* You have a new title available!

Certain items will stay
Need to confirm the time travel
Once done for the first time, command is always available to check TT status
Time Travel area changes based on TT#

[See time travel for more info]