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The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Rune Slayer

Mastering Rune Slayer: Essential Tips for New Players After a long wait and two delayed launches, Rune Slayer is finally here, and it's fantastic! While incredibly fun, the game has a steep learning curve, especially for MMORPG newcomers. This guide offers crucial early-game advice to smooth your a

By Henry: Mar 04,2025

Mastering Rune Slayer: Essential Tips for New Players

After a long wait and two delayed launches, Rune Slayer is finally here, and it's fantastic! While incredibly fun, the game has a steep learning curve, especially for MMORPG newcomers. This guide offers crucial early-game advice to smooth your adventure.

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Here are some things we wish we'd known from the start:

Avoid Unprovoked PvP

A Rune Slayer Orc is looking at other players

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Initially, the full-loot PvP aspect was concerning. Thankfully, it's not as brutal as feared. Death doesn't result in item loss, regardless of the killer. However, attacking players incurs a bounty. Higher bounties mean greater item loss upon your death. Therefore, unless you have a compelling reason (or a strong party), avoid attacking other players.

Craft Bags Immediately

A Rune Slayer's player equipment showing a bag equipped in the bag slot

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Inventory and bank space are severely limited. Fortunately, you can craft bags. Two can be equipped simultaneously, starting with the Cotton Bag. Find Cotton north of Wayshire and Flax south (be cautious of southern mobs). Each Cotton Bag provides 10 extra slots – craft them early!

Pet Deaths Are Temporary

A Rune Slayer player is talking to a Stable Master

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Contrary to popular belief, pets don't die permanently. After reaching zero health, they have a 5-minute summon cooldown. Check this cooldown using the 'T' key. Also, storing and retrieving your pet at the Stable Master provides a quick heal (you have one free slot).

Accept All Quests

A Rune Slayer player has walking into the Adventurers Guild

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The sheer number of quests can be overwhelming, but most are simple "kill X" tasks. To streamline progress, accept every quest you encounter, including those from the Job board. Often, multiple quests can be completed simultaneously.

Craft Everything At Least Once

Rune Slayer armor crafting menu showing everything the player has learned to craft

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Prioritize crafting necessities, but also experiment with crafting items you don't immediately need. Initial crafting often unlocks more advanced crafting options. For example, smelting Iron Ore unlocked new Iron Armor recipes for us.

Join a Guild

While Rune Slayer is solo-friendly, tougher enemies require group efforts. Guilds provide the easiest way to find groups. Use general chat or the official Rune Slayer Discord to find a guild and tackle challenging foes together.

Enjoy your Rune Slayer journey! For further assistance, consult the Rune Slayer Trello and Discord server.

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