Dreadmyst is a new indie online fantasy RPG that aims to combine classic role-playing progression with cooperative dungeon crawling and competitive PvP action. You choose from four distinct classes, each with unique weapons and roles. Combat centers on cooldowns, crowd control, and ability timing.
Customize your character with stat allocation and build hybrid ability mixes across skill options. Explore world zones, complete quests, level up, and run 4-player dungeons to progress in PvE. Gear and progression come from vendor items, enemy drops, dungeon loot, and stat builds.
1. Dreamyst Overview
Dreadmyst Character Creation
Dreadmyst combines MMO-style character growth with dungeon-centric gameplay and PvP encounters. Progression revolves around gear upgrades, stat allocation, skill trees, and dungeon mastery, rather than grind-heavy systems.
- Four playable classes: Paladin, Mage, Ranger, Cleric
- Each class uses specific weapon types and fills a defined role
- Core attributes include Strength, Agility, Intelligence, Willpower, and Courage
- Gear degrades over time and must be repaired at merchants
- Class trainers unlock new abilities in starting towns
- Gold management is important early on
- Dungeons are central to progression—boss mechanics and teamwork matter
- PvP emphasizes ability timing and crowd control, not just stats
2. Choose the Best Class
Paladin Class
Picking the right class early makes progression smoother and more enjoyable. Each class caters to a different playstyle and role within PvE and PvP.
- Paladin – Beginner-friendly tank and melee defender
- Mage – High burst magic damage with low survivability
- Ranger – Agile ranged DPS with hit-and-run gameplay
- Cleric – Support-focused healer with utility and crowd control
2.1 Paladin
Paladins are the backbone of group content in Dreadmyst, serving as durable frontline fighters built to absorb damage, control enemy attention, and protect allies during difficult encounters. Paladins thrive in dungeon environments where sustained damage, boss mechanics, and party coordination matter more than raw DPS.
- Primary Stats: Strength, Courage
- Weapons: Swords, Maces, Axes, Shields
- High base health and armor allow Paladins to soak heavy damage
- Defensive abilities provide damage mitigation, buffs, and utility for the group
- Shields greatly improve blocking, stamina efficiency, and sustain
- Excels at holding enemies in place during boss fights
- Ideal for new players learning dungeon mechanics and positioning
2.2 Mage
Mages are high-risk, high-reward spellcasters who specialize in dealing massive magical damage from a distance. Success as a Mage depends heavily on positioning, cooldown awareness, and mana management, making them more mechanically demanding than melee classes.
- Primary Stats: Intelligence, Willpower
- Weapons: Staves, Wands
- Extremely high spell damage output but low survivability
- Access to elemental spells such as Fireball, Inferno, Freeze, and hard crowd control
- Strong synergy with cooldown reduction and crit-based builds
- Mana management is crucial to avoid being locked out of abilities
- Best played at range, using CC and positioning to stay alive
2.3 Ranger
Rangers excel at mobility, precision, and sustained ranged damage, making them one of the most versatile DPS classes in Dreadmyst. They specialize in controlling space, kiting enemies, and exploiting openings with rapid attacks or burst damage.
Rangers shine in both solo play and group content due to their ability to reposition quickly and deal consistent damage without relying heavily on support.
- Primary Stats: Agility, Strength
- Weapons: Bows, Daggers
- Exceptional kiting and repositioning tools
- Strong against both mobs and bosses due to sustained DPS
- Agility boosts attack speed, ranged damage, and evasion
- Can switch to daggers for close-range combat when needed
- Stealth abilities provide tactical advantages but are cooldown-limited
2.4 Cleric
Clerics are the cornerstone of survivability in group PvE, combining healing, defensive buffs, and crowd control to keep their party alive through prolonged encounters. Unlike pure healers, Clerics can also stand their ground in melee and contribute meaningfully to combat.
- Primary Stats: Willpower, Intelligence
- Weapons: Staves, Maces, Shields
- More durable than Mages, capable of surviving frontline pressure
- Strong healing, shields, and defensive buffs
- Provides crowd control and combat sustain
- Can function in melee when necessary
- Essential for smooth dungeon runs and difficult PvE content
3. Character Customization
Character page
In Dreadmyst, how you allocate your attribute points shapes your playstyle. Every character has core attributes—Strength, Agility, Willpower, Intelligence, and Courage—that influence combat performance, weapon effectiveness, spellcasting, and survivability.
- Strength: Increases melee weapon damage and improves physical attack power.
- Willpower: Enhance Mana Regeneration and mitigate negative status duration, along with spell stability.
- Intelligence: Increases magic damage and boost mana pool, along with spell effectiveness.
- Courage: Reduce Fear effects and improve damage while under pressure.
4. Find the Class Trainer
Class trainers are your primary gateway to unlocking new abilities, spells, and progression tools in Dreadmyst. Each class has a dedicated trainer who teaches both core and advanced skills as you level up.
4.1 Class Trainer Locations
Class Trainer Location
Visiting your trainer regularly ensures you can stay competitive, learn essential rotations, and access utility skills that enhance survivability, DPS, or healing.
- All class trainers are located in St. Revere, the main starting city hub.
- Trainers are positioned north of the main trading square, often marked with a glowing class-specific icon or a unique NPC model.
- Each class has a separate trainer for Paladin, Mage, Ranger, and Cleric, ensuring only relevant skills are available.
4.2 How to Use the Class Trainer
- Approach your class trainer NPC in St. Revere.
- Open the interaction menu and select “Browse Skills & Spells” or the equivalent option.
- Purchase the ability and spell books appropriate for your current level. Costs may include gold, crafting resources, or quest completion requirements.
- Learn new skills directly from the trainer, which automatically updates your Skill Tree.
- As you level, revisit the trainer to unlock higher-tier abilities, new utility spells, and advanced class rotations.
4.3 Tips for Efficient Training
- Plan your skill purchases according to your desired PvE or PvP role. Some abilities are better suited for dungeons, while others shine in player combat.
- Check trainers after leveling up, as new skills often unlock immediately upon reaching specific level thresholds.
- Stock up on gold in advance to avoid multiple trips or being unable to afford essential abilities.
- Trainers occasionally offer limited-time or event-specific skills, so keep an eye on seasonal or special updates.
By staying consistent with your class trainer visits, you ensure your character always has access to the most effective spells, rotations, and abilities, providing a strong foundation for both solo and group content in Dreadmyst.
5. Skill Tree System
Skills Dreadmyst
The Skill Tree System in Dreadmyst is a core progression mechanic that lets you unlock and improve abilities, customize your playstyle, and strengthen your character as you gain experience. Rather than automatically learning new powers, you actively invest earned skill points into class‑specific skill trees to unlock spells, passive bonuses, and advanced combat tools.
These skill trees, combined with gear enhancements and socketed gems, provide depth to builds and meaningful choices about how your character develops from level 1 to max level.
5.1 How Skill Trees Work
As you level up by completing quests, defeating enemies, and running dungeons, you earn skill points that are spent in your class’s skill tree to unlock new abilities or improve existing ones. Investing skill points lets you choose paths that support focused builds (e.g., burst damage, tank survivability, support utility) or hybrid options tailored to your playstyle.
Skill progression is not automatic—you must decide how to allocate points strategically to unlock higher‑tier abilities.
- Assign skill points into your tree to unlock new spells and abilities as you level.
- Early skill choices define your core role; later nodes refine specialization.
- High‑tier abilities often require prerequisites, encouraging meaningful build paths.
- Skill points are earned primarily from leveling up and completing major content.
5.2 Enhancing Builds with Gem Sockets
Equipment socketing adds another layer of customization to your skill‑based progression. Weapons and armor can include gem slots, and placing gems into these slots enhances your core attributes and ability effectiveness.
Gems come in multiple tiers—Low, Mid, and High—and each provides bonuses to key stats such as Strength, Agility, Willpower, Intelligence, or Courage. Higher‑tier gems provide stronger bonuses, but socketing carries an element of failure and strategic choice.
- Gems provide stat bonuses when socketed into gear.
- Higher‑tier gems (e.g., Refined) give larger attribute increases.
- Socketing is not always guaranteed to succeed.
- Removing gems requires a Shatter Gems item obtained from PvP quests.
- Sockets let you tailor gear to support your skill tree build (e.g., mana regen for casters, strength for melee, and agility for evasion).
5.3 How to Use the Orb Extractor and Crafting Materials
Dreadmyst also includes an Orb Extractor tool that turns unwanted gear into crafting materials known as Orbs. These crafted orbs serve multiple purposes, such as upgrading item tiers or refining stats, and provide a way to recycle duplicates or low‑tier loot into something useful.
The Orb Extractor system rewards players who engage with challenging content like PvP quests and Arenas to earn extractors for serious endgame progression.
5.4 Respec System (Rebuild Your Skill Points)
Once you reach level 25, the game unlocks a respec system that allows you to reset and reassign your skill points. This gives you the freedom to experiment with different builds or correct early mistakes in allocation as you learn more about your class and preferred playstyle.
- Speak to the Respec Merchant in St. Revere, typically located north of the main trading square near the class trainers.
- Performing a respec costs 500,000 gold for a full rebuild, so plan ahead to avoid unnecessary expenses.
- Respecing is useful for experimenting with new builds, adapting to PvE or PvP roles, or optimizing stats and abilities.
6. Manage Equipment While Progressing
Inventory Management
In Dreadmyst, all equipment—including weapons, armor, and accessories—has durability that decreases as you engage in combat. Ignoring durability can lead to weaker attacks, failed defenses, and even broken gear that cannot be used until repaired. Properly managing and repairing your equipment is essential for smooth progression in dungeons, world zones, and PvP encounters.
6.1 How to Repair Gear
- Locate a Merchant NPC: Merchants are found in towns and major hubs like St. Revere. Look for vendors with a “shop” icon above their heads.
- Initiate Trade: Approach the merchant and select “I’d like to browse your goods” to open the trade menu.
- Select Gear to Repair: Hover over your equipped items to check durability. Any weapon, armor, or accessory can be repaired here.
- Repair the Item: Click the “Repair” button at the bottom of the trade menu. If you have sufficient gold, the item’s durability is restored to 100%.
- Repeat as Needed: Keep an eye on durability during long dungeon runs or PvP sessions, as frequent repairs ensure optimal performance.
6.2 Tips For Gear Management
- Prioritize repairs for weapons and armor with high stat requirements, as broken gear reduces your combat effectiveness.
- Save gold to cover repairs, especially after extended dungeon runs or PvP battles.
- Upgrade Gear: Some merchants also offer gear upgrades or enhancements, which can extend durability and improve stats.
- Plan Ahead: Before entering challenging dungeons, repair all gear to avoid mid-combat failures.
7. Purchase Weapons and Armor
Weapons and Armor
As you progress through Dreadmyst, enemies grow tougher, and encounters become more challenging. Using powerful weapons and high-quality armor is crucial to survive dungeons, world zones, and PvP battles.
- Stronger weapons allow you to eliminate enemies faster, reducing incoming damage.
- High-tier armor increases defense, resistances, and survivability, which is especially important in group dungeons or elite world zones.
- Investing in quality gear early saves time and resources compared to relying on loot drops alone.
7.1 Where to Buy Weapons and Armor
- Vendors in St. Revere are the main source of purchasable equipment.
- Look for Blue-quality items, which are rare and provide significant stat bonuses over common gear.
- Weapons include swords, axes, bows, staves, and daggers, depending on your class.
- Armor pieces include helmets, chestplates, gloves, boots, and shields for classes like Paladin or Cleric.
7.2 Tips for Purchasing Weapons and Armor
- Save Gold Early: Accumulate gold from quests, dungeon runs, and mob farming to afford high-quality equipment.
- Prioritize Key Items: Buy weapons first to maximize damage output, then upgrade defensive armor for survivability.
- Check Class Requirements: Some equipment requires minimum stats (Strength, Agility, Intelligence, etc.)—ensure your character meets these before purchasing.
- Inspect Stats and Bonuses: Rare gear may include additional effects, such as increased critical damage, elemental resistances, or faster mana regeneration.
8. Loot Everything You Find
Inventory
Looting in Dreadmyst is a core mechanic of dungeon crawling and killing mobs. This is done by engaging in PvE combat. Items are acquired as drops from defeated enemies and boss encounters.
- Defeating Enemies: The primary way to acquire items is by killing enemies—both mobs and bosses—in dungeons or open-world areas.
- Item Drops: Enemies have a chance to drop various items, including weapons, armor, crafting materials, consumables, and currency.
- Rarity Matters: Higher-level or challenging dungeons often yield rare (blue) or epic (purple) drops, which provide significant advantages.
8.1 Loot Containers
Loot containers such as chests, drawers, and supply crates are scattered throughout dungeons, world zones, and special event areas, offering valuable weapons, armor, consumables, and crafting materials.
- Chests and Drawers: Many dungeons and world zones feature loot containers, including treasure chests, drawers, and supply crates.
- Respawn Rate: Containers and defeated enemies generally respawn after ~60 seconds, allowing repeated farming in active zones.
8.2 Inventory Management
Knowing how to prioritize gear, use the broker system, and link items for your party helps you maximize your gains while minimizing clutter. Mastering both looting and inventory management helps in both exploring dungeons solo and running coordinated group missions.
- Broker System: Send unwanted or excess items to a broker NPC to free up inventory space.
- Linking Items: Shift-click an item in your inventory or loot window to link it in chat, so your group members can see your finds.
- Organize Gear: Prioritize rare and useful items in your inventory to avoid accidentally discarding valuable loot during dungeon runs.
8.3 Tips for Efficient Looting
- Focus on Elite Enemies: Elite or named mobs often drop higher-quality gear and crafting materials.
- Use Loot Boosters: Some consumables or buffs can increase drop rates or item rarity.
- Coordinate with Group: In group runs, communicate to ensure everyone gets valuable loot without conflicts.
- Time Your Runs: Be aware of respawn timers to optimize farming routes in dungeons or open-world zones.
9. Finding Quests
Quests
You get the quests from the NPCs scattered around the towns or specific locations like starting areas or major hubs. Initiate quests to learn your skills, gain XP, gear and gold.
- Visual Indicators: Look for gold exclamation marks above NPC heads; this signals an available quest.
- Map Awareness: Quest icons appear on both the mini-map and main map, helping you navigate to objectives quickly.
- Starting Areas: Early zones like Kandorys Forecourt are key locations for your initial quests, where you’ll learn basic movement, combat, and class abilities.
9.1 Mid-Game and Dungeon Quests
Quests are scattered throughout the world and appear on your map and mini‑map with icons when they are available.
- As you level up, new quests unlock that send you to dungeon entrances or advise finding keys to enter certain instances.
- Some quests require special keys, which are obtained by defeating specific enemies or completing other quests — for example, the Keys to the Barracks drop from Minotaurs near the Abandoned Barracks entrance and are required to enter that dungeon.
- Higher‑level quests (around level 25) often point you toward mid‑game dungeon content like Abandoned Barracks, Kandory’s Undercourse, Garrison, and Decrepit Tower, each with unique entry requirements and boss fights.
10. Key Stats to Prioritize
Combat and Skills
In Dreadmyst, prioritizing the right upgrades is essential for surviving early combat and progressing efficiently. Health, Mana, and core abilities directly affect your ability to withstand damage, maintain offense, and execute class-specific skills.
- Health (HP)
- Increasing Health allows you to survive longer in combat, absorb damage from enemies, and reduce the risk of death in dungeon encounters.
- Tanks like Paladins benefit the most from high Health to soak damage for the group.
- Mana (MP)
- Mana governs your ability to cast spells and use abilities. Low Mana can leave you unable to execute critical skills in dungeons or PvP.
- Casters like Mages and Clerics should invest in Mana early to sustain rotations and healing.
- Abilities and Combat Stats
- Strength, Agility, Willpower, and Intelligence enhance your damage output, attack speed, critical hit chance, and spell power.
- Investing in abilities improves both offensive and defensive capabilities, making encounters more manageable.
Stats Upgrade Strategy
- Early Game: Focus on Health and Mana first to survive initial mobs and dungeon bosses.
- Mid Game: Gradually invest in primary combat stats relevant to your class—Strength for Paladins, Agility for Rangers, Intelligence/Willpower for Mages and Clerics.
- Skill Enhancement: Upgrade abilities that improve crowd control, healing, or burst damage depending on your role.
- EXP Allocation: Plan your upgrades while leveling to avoid inefficient stat point distribution. Use experience gained in dungeons, quests, and arenas to enhance priority stats.
11. Best Tips and Tricks For Dreadmyst
Dreadmyst map
Below are the best tips and tricks for the Dreadmyst to dominate the enemies during combat.
- Build balanced dungeon parties: 1 Paladin (tank), 1 Cleric (healer/support), 2 DPS.
- Prioritize your class’s primary stats: Int/Willpower for casters, Agility for Rangers, Strength/Courage for tanks.
- Plan attribute allocation to meet gear requirements without overspending.
- Respec is available after level 25, so early mistakes aren’t permanent.
- Tanks and healers are essential in dungeons due to boss patterns and survival mechanics.
- Learn spell timing, positioning, and crowd control to maximize effectiveness.
- Study boss attack patterns and coordinate with teammates during dungeon runs.
- Hover over skills before investing points; tooltips show which stats boost abilities.
- Customize your build through skill trees, experimenting with DPS rotations, utility, and CC spells.
- Bind targeting keys early—they’re not set by default and improve combat efficiency.
- Spend time learning your class’s core rotation and invest stats smartly.
- Use the last icon on the action bar to view all abilities and drag key skills for easy access.
- Keep learning new skills from trainers, quests, and dungeon drops to stay versatile.
- Adapt your build based on content: PvE focuses on survivability and CC, PvP on burst damage and positioning.
