Darkness Rises Wiki

Welcome to the Darkness Rises player Wiki! All content here is created and maintained by players like yourself and has no association with Nexxon. Please feel free to help out: there is no registration required to edit. Much of the content here was compiled from helpful users in Discord so a big shout out to them!

Special thanks go to: LJayce, Lani, and DETECTIVE PIKACHU for taking the time answer so many questions from users.

Quick Start Guide
Aside from the tips below, new players should just have fun and don’t need to worry much about things. The basics are that you have items like Gear, Runes, Gems, Pets, and eventually Magicite that have ascending ranks N,D,C,B,A,S,L and sometimes + or ++ additions to their rank, which is important for Fusion as well as item stats. You ‘feed’ these other items, or Polish and Refining stones in the case of Gear, to raise the item level (enhance) or level cap (transcend) or raise or add traits and attributes (refine). You fuse max level items to try for higher-rank items (not pets). Each type and often rank of item has specific rules for how these things are accomplished.

S++ weapons have gear skills and L rank weapons have those as well as special skills which can be changed with L skill tickets. Rank L accessories give automatic bonuses to various character skills when worn. These can also be changed with L skill tickets.

To start with it’s good to focus on character power? and get your power up. Later you will want to focus on Gear sets, probably wearing items with much less character power? in exchange for better/faster damage. Be sure you don’t waste resources on items you will not use long-term. Try not to focus on any one aspect; often if something (like fusions) isn’t going well, working on something else for a time and coming back brings better luck. There are many ways to advance in the game.

Beginner Tips

 * check out the FAQ and Abbreviations to learn the nomenclature
 * start your alts (characters of all classes) asap - everyone gets stat bonuses and you multiply other goodies
 * stay on top of the story and main quest until it’s all completed
 * find a good guild, playing with others is vital later in the game; try the discord #enlist channel
 * experience, used to level characters honey/chests (e.g., from guild shop) will help you level quickly but you cannot use them after level 100
 * Try to stay with L PvP gear, at least don’t transcend or refine Ultimate PvE gear even if you’re PvE focused
 * Ignore “Vanilla” (no PvP or PvE in title) L gear unless you know what you’re doing (e.g., cape/belt for specific PvP build)
 * Don’t fuse PvP Battlefield (S++) belt or cape for L gear, you will want a set for Bakura and possibly PvP (some use helm/garment instead)
 * Try to get daily rewards from tower, ranked match, and logins at the least. Daily raids and guild logins are a priority, as well.
 * Get clear tickets and keys from the guild shop every day, even over experience, used to level characters chests (experience, used to level characters isn’t that hard and hitting 100 before you have good gear means no experience, used to level characters for a long time anyway) save clear tickets and keys for events ~1300 clears for some events.

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Items

 * Gear
 * Runes
 * Pets
 * Jewels
 * Costumes
 * Magicite

Resources

 * Gold
 * Gems
 * Polish
 * Essence
 * Shops
 * Tickets

Systems

 * Skills
 * Enhancing
 * Fusion
 * Refining
 * Transcending
 * Crafting
 * Rerolling