What to level first

This page was last updated for (v1.0.1).

Introduction

This page presents one of the ways to start your Melvor journey. Note that this advice predominantly applies to the Standard and Hardcore Game Modes, for Adventure the skill unlock orders described in Adventure/Guide are likely to be more suitable.

The goal of the provided steps is to make your overall progress to 100% completion as fast as possible. However, it is unknown whether this approach is the fastest one, so feel free to diverge from it if you want to.

This page is a wiki version of the following reddit post.

Steps

1. Level Astrology up to Ameria and get Ameria to 80 mastery.
   That will give you access to 3 basic astrology bonuses and 2 unique bonuses. Use the dust you got from leveling Astrology to roll some Fishing bonuses in Ameria.
   In Standard Modifiers, aim for at least 5% total Fishing XP bonus. In Unique Modifiers, aim for at least 5% Special Chance increase or 3% Interval Reduction otherwise.
   
   
2. Level Fishing. Do it until you get both the skill and mastery rings. You will probably hit Level 99 by the time it happens. Keep Diamonds. Sell anything else. Now it shouldn't be an issue to spend money on any of the Fishing Rods, Multi-Tree upgrade, and so on.
   • Fish Raw Magic Fish for money, or Whales if you don't have Message in a Bottle yet,
   • Redeem Skeleton Fish for Prayer points,
   • Fish Seahorses if you don't care about anything but rolls for Special per hour. It doesn't apply to your case as you can fish Skeleton Fish or get to Level 99 to massively improve your money gains with the Fishing Skillcape.
     
     
3. Level Astrology further. Equip the mastery ring and level Deedree to 80 or 99 mastery. In Ameria, roll for some Firemaking bonuses.
   
   
4. Level Woodcutting and Firemaking. Our goal is Level 99 for the Skillcape. As soon as you get Redwood Logs, save all of them. Only burn Yew Logs to get Firemaking to 99. Skip Magic Logs. This means double axe-ing Redwood and Yew.
   • Level Summoning. Make a bunch of Ents for your woodcutting. Try to always have Ents going. You will get more wood and, more importantly, level summoning.
   • Level Farming. Open your birds nests. Start farming. Keep Strawberry Seeds for thieving potions. Keep Watermelons for Agility.
   • Level Agility. Second obstacle has a Firemaking bonus, and a third one has a wood/fire bonus. Definitely get these as you get to Level 30 and Level 30 for the requirements.
     
     
5. Back to Astrology. Level it to Level 99.

At this point, you have an 8% skill ring, a 5% skill cape, and a bunch of other bonuses. Jump back to Astrology to roll on bonuses with what you're working on.

Mining, Smithing, and Fletching would probably be next for the Dragon Javelin money-making method, which is one of the best in the game. That's where you will use your saved Redwood Logs.

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