Dota 2
Realm Of Chaos - The Legend of Mt. Shu
Blurrg Jul 1, 2017 @ 1:26pm
[ENG] Progression Guide
DISCLAIMER: This guide is written assuming you are playing the sword based character (Chen Tian). All suggested items for bosses are based off this character.

DODGING: Use shift to dodge, many bosses have AoE or projectile attacks which you can dodge if timed right. If shift doesn't work as a hotkey, you should at least click it. This allows you to fight bosses you normally can't fight if you try to tank their spells. Item suggestions for bosses will be labeled [D] if you can dodge their spells.



Wolves, Water, and Plants:


At the start just grab the quests from the starting town and the city directly to the right. You can right click the prisoner quest on the left of your screen to find him immediately. Complete these small delivery quests ASAP. Make sure you're using your run.

Teleport to base and grab the wolf quest to your right. Go down to the plant area, and kill the boss while grabbing 5 Reiki plants. If the plant boss drops the boots, use them, they are great damage. Kill some wolves in the cave and grab all the fangs/skins that you can.

Note: For perfect gear in the future, you'll need 10 fangs, 20 skins (10 for quest, 10 for compose). Don't go out of your way to get these though, they can wait until you have free time.

If the plant boss spawns again and you don't have the boots yet, kill it again. If you have the boots, you can take out the Wolf boss. Complete the wolf skin quest and wolf boss quest ASAP, you'll be equipping the wolf skin armor and the new sword that is given.

Once that is done, move to the water area and grab some pearls from the small enemies and kill the boss. You'll need 10 pearls total for perfect gear, grab 5 Orchid Leaves while you are here. Go to the fisherman as well and buy 20-40 nets and spam them in the water, you will gain a ton of levels once you return the quest when you use all the nets.


Kowloon City

Suggested Boss Items:

WK:: Grass Boots + Water Demon Quest Armor/Water King Item OR 2 Water King Items
PA: Same as WK
NS: At least 1 Kowloon Set Piece
Kunkka: Forged Weapon


Grab the quest from the base just to the right and start killing Kowloon mobs. Everytime you kill 5, teleport back and finish the quest. You'll need one of each of the drops from this quest to complete the Kowloon Set. While you run back and forth, kill 6 meepos in the mountain area to get 6 cloths. You'll also need a total of 15 leather from Kowloon mobs. You should be able to kill the WK leader quite easily. The bosses in this area will drop your characters Grade C weapon, equip it immediately when dropped, and decompose anything they drop that you don't need (extra equips/weapons). Once you have 15 soul stones unequip your Grade C weapon and compose a mold then forge a level 2 weapon.

While doing this area, kill Water Boss/Wolf if you have to wait, you'll need two of each set piece (2 cores, 2 boots, 2 armors, 2 Wolf Hearts). Grab 1 of each of the Kowloon accessories, and pick up every C Spar Stone you can. How fast you complete this area is completely RNG. Hopefully you get lucky here!

Once you're out of Kowloon with all 4 accessories, go upgrade your State and complete the wanted quests ASAP to grab your wings.

Ending Equipment: Kowloon Set, 2 Bite Heart Pendants, Level 2 Forged Weapon

Fire and Ice

Suggested Boss Items:

Wind Xiao Beast: [D] Kowloon Set, 2 Bite Heart Pendants, Level 2 Forged Weapon OR IceFlame Helmet, IceFlame Boots, Kowloon Armor, 2 Pendants, Level 2 Forged Weapon
Ice Beast: Kowloon Set, 2 Bite Heart Pendants, Level 2 Forged Weapon
Fire Beast: IceFlame Boots, Kowloon Amor/Helm, 2 Pendants, Level 2 Forged Weapon
Ice Devil: [D] IceFlame Boots, Kowloon Amor/Helm, 2 Pendants, Level 2 Forged Weapon OR IceFlame Helmet, IceFlame Boots, Wind God Armor, 2 Pendants, Level 2 Forged Weapon
Fire Devil: IceFlame Helmet, IceFlame Boots, Wind God Armor, 2 Pendants, Level 2 Forged Weapon

You do not need anything from the mobs here. So just go for the bosses and complete the quests. Your characters weapon will drop from either the Ice or Fire Devil. When you get it, immediately compose into a mold and forge your level 3 weapon. From these bosses you'll also need their beads, and an extra set of IceFlame Boots/Helmet. Ultimately you are working up to two of the EX accessories

Once you kill both devils, complete the quests inside the ice palace and grab the key. In the ice area, there is a place in between the entrance and the beast where you can jump north onto some pillars and open a chest. Use both keys on the chest, the chest will drop the last piece of the IceFlame set and some other useful things.

Ending Equipment: IceFlame Set, 2 Bite Heart Pendants, Level 3 Forged Weapon

Elemental Bosses and Desert

Suggested Boss Items:

Troll: IceFlame Set, 2 Bite Heart Pendants, Level 3 Forged Weapon
Warlock/BM: IceFlame Set, 2 Bite Heart Pendants, Level 3 Forged Weapon
Fire Monster: IceFlame Set, Lich Shield, Level 3 Forged Weapon
Ice Monster: IceFlame Set, Lich Shield, Level 3 Forged Weapon
Water Monster: IceFlame Set, Lich Shield, Level 3 Forged Weapon
Earth Monster: IceFlame Set, Lich Shield, Level 3 Forged Weapon
Wood Monster: IceFlame Set, Lich Shield, Level 3 Forged Weapon
Void: Ice Flame Set, Lich Shield, Devil Ring, Level 3 Forged Weapon

This part is probably the hardest part (at least for the sword character). The pendants that Troll drop are direct upgrades to Bite Heart Pendants, so use them if you need. The mobs in the desert drop a compose piece that you need, for perfect gear you'll need 40, otherwise 20. Start building up to a Lich Shield. Once you complete a shield go to the top left of the map and start the Elemental Monster quests. You should be able to kill all of them relatively easily EXCEPT the Wood monster. I'm unsure what items are useful to make you not die to him, but you should be able to kill him after dying a couple times. Once you finish the Elemental Monster quests, you should be able to upgrade your Lich Shield to a Lich Divinity Skeleton after killing the last desert boss (Void). Once completed, keep killing more of the Elemental monsters and pick up their armor drop to eventually compose a Devil Ring. You'll want two rings and lich shields for perfect gear.

Somewhere during this stage you should be able to start another set of Wanted Missions. Complete them ASAP and upgrade wings.

Note: If at any point you need Spar Stones around now, kill the spirits. They are guaranteed to drop a Rank A and a Rank C.

Ending Equipment: Ice Flame Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 3 Forged Weapon

Mountains and Demons

Suggested Boss Items:

Elder Titans: Ice Flame Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 3 Forged Weapon
Pit Lord: 1 Hexa Taoism Piece, Ice Flame Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 3 Forged Weapon
Slardar/Naga: Hexa Taoism Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 3 Forged Weapon
Weak Medusa: Hexa Taoism Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 3 Forged Weapon

Once again you'll want two pieces of each part of the Hexa Taoism set so you can make 2 EX rings. While in the Demon Area, you'll need to get the rank Z armor set (luckily only need one set here). You can make it by forging the pieces that the Slardar/Naga drop then using one of two drops from the Weak Medusa to finish a piece.Try to collect as many of the Slardar/Naga pieces as you can so you don't have to wait for Medusa to spawn as much.

Ending Equipment: Divine Spirit Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 3 Forged Weapon

Heaven and Hell

Suggested Boss Items:

Lich/Spectre: Divine Spirit Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 3 Forged Weapon
PA/Disruptor: Divine Spirit Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 4 Forged Weapon
King of Hell: Divine Spirit Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 4 Forged Weapon
Strong Medusa: Divine Spirit Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 4 Forged Weapon. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO DODGE
DK/Oracle: Divine Spirit Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 4 Forged Weapon
King of Heaven: Divine Spirit Set, Lich King Divinity Skeleton, Devil Ring HexaTaoism, Level 4 Forged Weapon. MUST BE ABLE TO DODGE


This is basically end game. Complete the last quests in the top right while you proceed here. Spectre and Lich will drop the next weapon you need to create level 4 forges. Kill Medusa whenever she spawns (she is weaker than the King of Heaven but spawns slower). If she drops a Fusion Stone, use it to create the EX accessory and equip your second Ring/Shield. Keep practicing on dodging the King of Heavens RP skill, eventually he becomes pretty easy. He can also drop fusion stones and you can use the boxes he drops for a Mystery Man quest. Use your 2nd fusion stone to create a 2nd Lich King Divinity Skeleton, then use your final fusion stone for a second EX accessory. Once you finish the heaven and hell quests, open their respective chests and you can use a 4th fusion stone to create a Z weapon that will be upgraded soon.

For your D and F skills, I highly recommend speaking to the Ice Queen for the freeze passive, and the sword guy in the top left who gives you a Critical-Like spell. Freezing + Critical gives you a TON of damage and freezing bosses will be useful (though it may make it harder to dodge stuff).

At any point after you get the level 4 forged weapon, you can head to the ice palace and go to the chest from earlier. You can jump from the brewmaster circle to the black hole place if you click on the closest part (normally you have to kill king of heaven to get here). All bosses in the black hole area require you to be able to dodge their abilities or you will die. Wine Roar will drop compose equipment for your level 5 forge weapon, the others will drop armor sets. As of writing this, the Sven set can be upgraded to an EX set once you collect 3 more fusion stones for a Mystery Man quest.

The black hole boss requires rank Z set and the Z weapon obtained from chests. When you kill the black hole final boss he will upgrade your non-awakened weapon to an EX weapon if you have it equipped. Once again you must be able to dodge his abilities to kill him.

In the current version, this is the end. Once you kill the black hole boss and have all EX gear you are pretty much maxed out outside your state level.

If you have any questions on completing specific quests ask below. My knowledge outside the sword character is limited, but I've completed every quest and mostly know every area.
Last edited by Blurrg; Jul 1, 2017 @ 1:29pm
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MaryuZ Jul 1, 2017 @ 5:59pm 
So here's my 2 cents:
First of all, so many people just miss the whole point of the game....completelly.
The actual end goal is not to just roam around like an idiot killing bosses just to get all the ex gear...the point i to do that while defending your base from the 20 waves of creeps that come to kill it....if you don't start the waves....what's the point? There are 2 buttons above the minimap...one to start spawning and one to go into a mode where normal creeps skip and just the boses spawn.
Second: I have a question about an end game quest (the one from mystery man luo duo) The description of the quest lists as a reward 'awaken ability'...anyone have a clue what abilities it upgrades or what are some hidden prerequisites for that awaken to work it always fails when i do it and its a one time only quest that takes like 2 hours to get to.
Some tips for people:
don't grind ♥♥♥♥♥♥ lvl 5 quests for merit you can get your 2000 merit for state 12 by doing the late game quests:
the town blacksmith takes the lasst crafted armor and 15 talismans from heaven and gives you 3 saint chips
mystery man in wind beast area takes 3 saint chips and 3 fusion sstones and turns your Z set into EX armor set (note: not the crafted one, the dropped one thats why the dropped one is actually a bit weaker...because it upgrades via quet to EX )
mystery man luo duo takess some seals from heaven and gives you 120 merit and awakens one of your abilities (don't know which ones exactlly yet only had it work on 1 char so far where my ult would just proc randomlly via autoattack on lance guy -PL) note: not sure about the exact prerequisitess for that awaken to work though or even if it workss on all heroes.
Does anyone kow of any more quests in the late game that I'm missing?
Final thing:
GOOD LUCK WITH THE LEGION COMMANDER (wave 20 boss, actuall end of the game)
Blurrg Jul 1, 2017 @ 6:06pm 
Originally posted by MaryuZ:
So here's my 2 cents:
First of all, so many people just miss the whole point of the game....completelly.
The actual end goal is not to just roam around like an idiot killing bosses just to get all the ex gear...the point i to do that while defending your base from the 20 waves of creeps that come to kill it....if you don't start the waves....what's the point? There are 2 buttons above the minimap...one to start spawning and one to go into a mode where normal creeps skip and just the boses spawn.

Knowing the progression is important to get faster. If you can't go fast you won't be able to keep up with waves.

Second: I have a question about an end game quest (the one from mystery man luo duo) The description of the quest lists as a reward 'awaken ability'...anyone have a clue what abilities it upgrades or what are some hidden prerequisites for that awaken to work it always fails when i do it and its a one time only quest that takes like 2 hours to get to.

Luo Du? The quest I got from him was to get two drops from the King of Heaven. Does he have more?
MaryuZ Jul 1, 2017 @ 6:11pm 
No...just the 1 quest with the 2 drops from king of heaven but when i did it on PL it gave me a cool passive ult....did it on sword char(Jugg) andd the awaken trigger failed....it said awaken ability 0. I didnt actually noticed what that text said on PL run but I assume that's what gave me the passive ult procs.
sword awaken ability gives you passive Q procs. Staff awaken gives you R procs. Blade gives you 4-5 hit omnislash procs. Didnt test on dagger and lance cuz dont have time
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