How to reach 1–150 — the buffed dungeon run

You do not grind to 150 here, and you do not quest to it either. A new character spawns already buffed to the ceiling — the same values a fully maxed Eternal Buff Stone gives, plus pieces and arena pieces — and those buffs last five hours. The whole route is built to fit inside them.

The five-hour clock

Everything below assumes the starting buffs are still running. They are the same level a maxed Eternal Buff Stone grants, and the pieces and arena pieces come with them. That package is what makes a fresh character able to walk into dungeons far above its level and kill things there.

Do not waste the window. Five hours is enough for the whole run if you keep moving. It is not enough if you spend the first hour reading the market or rerolling your look. Sort your appearance out afterwards.

What you do in the first minute

You spawn on Trainee Island. Open your inventory before anything else — the Eternal set is already in it. There is one weapon per weapon type, so whatever class you rolled has something to hit with:

Eternal Longsword Eternal Greatsword Eternal Dagger Eternal Spear Eternal Greataxe Eternal Mace Eternal Heavy Mace Eternal Longbow Eternal Crossbow Eternal Small Staff Eternal Big Staff Eternal Axe

Plus the five shared pieces — armour, shield, mirror, boots and gloves:

Eternal Armor Eternal Shield Eternal Mirror Eternal Boots Eternal Gloves

Equip the weapon for your class and all five pieces, then add the World Cup Ring. Both rings go on.

Set your title. Open the title window and set EternalNewbie. It is easy to skip and it is not cosmetic — leaving it unset costs you the stats the rest of the route assumes you have.

Getting off the island

Once you are geared and titled, use your Return Scroll. It puts you in Horizon, which is where every dungeon on the route is reached from.

The route

Four dungeons, in this order. Everything after the first is entered through the dungeon teleporter in Horizon, and the second and third are run on hardcore difficulty — that is where the experience is.

There is nothing to farm in between and no side quest worth the detour. Finish one, take the teleporter, start the next.

Before Astral Grove — spend your Newbie Coins

Do not walk into Astral Grove Stage 1 on bare gear. Take your Newbie Coin to Lich Valindra and buy Teardrop stones — every one on her shelf costs a single coin:

Teardrop Valor Stone Teardrop Guardian Stone Teardrop Precision Stone Teardrop Spry Stone Teardrop Wizard Stone Teardrop Perception Stone Teardrop Crush Stone Teardrop Pierce Stone Teardrop Escutcheon Stone Teardrop Annihilation Stone Teardrop Pinpoint Stone Teardrop Mindwall Stone Teardrop Blur Stone Teardrop Brawl Stone

Socket them into the Eternal set you are already wearing. Pick the stones that match how your class actually fights rather than buying one of each.

This is the step people skip. Astral Grove Stage 1 is the first place on the route where the mobs genuinely hit back. Unsocketed gear is the difference between clearing it and dying to it, and the coins are worthless afterwards.

Astral Grove

The mobs here are strong — noticeably stronger than anything before. The starting buffs are enough to kill them anyway, which is the whole reason the route is ordered this way and the whole reason the five-hour window matters. If the buffs run out mid-Grove, you will feel it immediately.

Watch it done

The full route, start to finish, on Ice Maiden 9.10:

And the same run followed on a single class, from 1 to 160:

Common questions

What if the buffs run out before I finish? You are not stuck, you are just slow. Levelling continues normally — you will simply be killing at the speed of your own gear instead of borrowed buffs. Most of the route is survivable without them; Astral Grove Stage 1 is the part that is not.

Can I skip a dungeon? You can, but the levels have to come from somewhere. The order exists because each dungeon lands you at roughly the level the next one expects — skip Crystal Valley and you arrive in The Sanctuary underlevelled with no buffs to spare.

What happens after this? You come out the far side around 150 with a set worth socketing properly, and the progression guides take over from there.

Related guides

Farm Zones · Wooden & Relic Boxes · The Eternal Buff Stone