New Player Bishop Help

JrA · May 5, 2019

Shiyui said: ↑

This is my master post for everyone new to Royals ever.

Welcome to Royals!! I’m going to be giving you a ton of information, but it’s more or less everything you need to know about starting out on this game. Bear with me haha!

First of all, make sure you vote every 24 hours. The first thing you want to buy is your pet and all the pet accessories. Then make a second account, not a second character, and vote on that account once. On your mule account, buy a store. A permit shop is your best option as a new player. It lasts you 90 days and only costs 2000 NX! Your mule has to be online the entire time you have your store open. Your store is how you’ll be making income while you’re being productive on your main character with grinding and leveling up.

With your spare NX, when you hit level 50, buy AP Resets from the cash shop and sell them to people who smega B>AP Resets, 15m each. Alternatively, at level 50, you'll be able to gach! Only buy Gachapon Tickets in stacks of 35 for 30k NX. Here's the thread for our price guides! Put the items you don’t need in your mule’s shop for these prices. Location of your shop somewhat matters. When the server is offline for a server check, all shops in FM close and all spots are free for the taking! You can try sniping a channel 1 FM 1 spot, but it's quite difficult as a new player. If you DO get a spot here, you can easily sell it for 50m! But otherwise, setting your shop in any FM room in channel 1 will be just fine. If channel 1 is all filled up, set your store in FM room 1, any channel! Lower channels are better and the closer you are to the portal (called a door spot by the players), the better your shop location! Be aware that if all the items in your permit store shop are bought out, your shop automatically closes and your spot is free for someone else to take. To prevent this, put a junk item in your store for 1b or so. This keeps your shop open and saves your spot and if someone DOES buy it, you got a free 1b haha! Hired merchant stores will close exactly 24 hours after you open them, so before time runs out, manually close and reopen your store to refresh your time! Hired merchant stores will never close when sold out of items though! Also, try gaching at Mushroom Shrine so that you always get a return on your NX. While AP Reset selling is guaranteed stable income, Mushroom Shrine is the best gach place for still getting a meso return on your NX even if you're not that lucky. And here's a guide on what items are in what gachapon! If you vote every day, you can gach 35 tickets every four days!

I highly recommend your first character is a priest. It is the easiest to level and extremely useful for HS when bossing on your true main character! After you become a cleric, you'll be training at in order of ascending difficulty, Teddies, Jr. Wraiths, Platoon Chronos, Master Chronos, Wraiths, GS1, GS5, and GS2. Once you are able to grind at GS2, you'll be staying there until level 7?????????????

At GS2, GS5, and GS1, you can stay in the middle platform of the stairs and spam heal, hitting both platforms' mobs without being hit yourself. Once you hit level 75, you'll be going to WS. Get a map and smega R>attacks for WS party. You'll be staying at the top, HSing the attackers as they stop by. At level 85, you'll be going to ulu 2 and at level 105, you'll be going to petris, exchanging HS for free leech from AMs. Every now and then, AMs smega looking for HS in exchange for free leech, but you can also cc through the map you're looking to be leeched at, letting people know that you're exchanging HS for free leech. You'll be staying at petris until level 120 which is when you become a bishop and get Genesis. If you want to work for your levels, stay at GS2 and go duo himes with a CB using Meso Explosion whenever you find a CB partner who is 5 levels within your level. You don't have to worry about the level difference once you hit level 95. You'll be grinding at himes until level 120.

Important note! You need to kill Manon in your Genesis questline. However, you only need to hit Manon once and stay in the map when it dies. So you can have someone else kill it for you and you’ll get the Manon kill you need for your quest. You don’t need Manon to drop a quest item for you at all.

For gear, you’re going to want to aim for the following in roughly this order:
20+ int Zakum Helmet
170+ TMA Elemental Wand 5, 6, 7, or 8
25+ Bathrobe for Men or White Doros Robe (Male)
25+ TMA earrings
6+ int Blue Jewelry Shoes
5+ int Silver Deputy Star
15+ TMA Purple Gaia Cape or Yellow Adventurer Cape
25+ TMA Maple Shield or Maple Magician Shield
20+ TMA Work Gloves or Yellow Work Gloves or Red Marker or Brown Work Gloves or Dark Noel
8+ int Raccoon Mask or White Raccoon Mask

Until you get to level 130 to equip your endgame Elemental Wand, your weapon upgrades will be Maple Staff (level 35), Maple Lama Staff (level 43), Maple Shine Wand/Maple Wisdom Staff (level 64), Elemental Wand 1/Elemental Wand 2 (level 70), Maple Pyrope Wand/Maple Pyrope Staff (level 77), Elemental Wand 5/Elemental Wand 6 (level 130). Look up where the item drops from here: https://royals.ms/library/?page=items&search=elemental wand. Type in the item name in the search bar and press enter. You can either buy items in FM or grind mobs that drop that item to farm your own.

I'm not one to P/C things much, but if you use the search function while on the selling forum for terms like "20 int robe," you'll find threads where people sold those items. So P/Cing takes time and effort, but you'll get a good idea of what prices are. Just as a very general estimate, I’d say... 3b total? I'll look around later to give a better estimate but I wanted to get this posted.

And don’t go luk! Lukless mages will always be stronger than luk mages. Lukless mages endgame weapon is the Elemental Wand series and even with the added magic of the Elemental Staffs and luk-requiring mage gear, with perfect lukless and perfect luk equips, lukless mages are stronger by 4 magic since luk mages will need additional base luk to equip the ele staff.

Also, I wouldn't buy a Zhelm if I were you. Once you become a bishop and have res (preferably max), you'll be able to join Zak runs and reloot Zhelms for free, assuming there were no buyers. If a valuable item like Gen 20 drops from Zak, everyone who contributed to killing the boss in the run gets an equal share of whatever the valuable item later sells at. So if Gen 20 sold for 900m and there was a bishop, BM, and NL in the Zak party, they each get 300m. Everyone who contributed to killing the boss in the run also gets an equal share of the money from Zhelm buyers. So Zak is a great way to get early funding!

You'll also want to complete Krex prequests and go on Krex runs. Krex runners sometimes smega for a bishop to serve as an HS mule. You don't get exp, but you are entitled to looting the ring that drops. There are three other rings in the game, but they're event only. One ring is for people who made a character in the first few days following the wipe a few years ago, another is for Valentine's Day, another is for Halloween, and the last is for Thanksgiving! The obtainable event rings are the 2 Carat Lovebirds Wedding Ring (+3 all stats, +1 attack and magic, 4 TMA), Zombie Army Ring (+1 all stats), and Pumpkin Pie Ring (+1 all stats).

Returning to funding though, you'll want to sell low level bishop leech once you get Genesis. You'll be paid about 75m to 80m an hour. Look below for the leech mobs and map locations! Save your money to buy and pass Gen 20 (about 1.5b). Now focus on gearing up so you have 1280 magic. This is the magic you need to 1 hit ulu 2 with Gen 20. Focus on selling leech at ulu 2, and you'll be leveling along the way. Per hour, solo leech (one leecher) sells for 50m-60m and split leech (two leechers) sells for 40m-50m per person (80m-100m total). Selling split leech means half the exp for you, however, compared to the exp you would've received having a solo leecher. The exp and money tradeoff is up to you! Ulu 2 is also very, very good for equip drops and therefore NPCing income. NPCing all the drops you get at ulu 2 per hour is 60m in additional income. Check every single Red Craven you get!! 55 att and 56 att clean Red Cravens are worth hundreds of million! Once you pass Gen 20, gear up to 1295 magic. Only then would you want to buy MW 20 and Gen 30 for 1 hitting skeles. At 1 hit skeles, you'll be able to sell 1 hit skele leech for 80m to 100m an hour. This will probably be your endgame leveling and funding method. You'll need 1295 magic to 1 hit skeles 100% of the time with Gen 30, and since HT is currently unavailable, there are no Gen 30 mastery books that exist in the market. Just focus on leveling and getting your funding at ulu 2 until HT is released. I personally tested the exp at ulu 2 compared to old skeles and ulu 2 is exactly half the exp of skele which makes it suboptimal for leveling but still viable!

For your skills, get Gen 10, MW 10, Gen 20, Res 10, Bahamut 30, Holy Shield 30, then Angel Ray 30. Get Hero’s Will whenever HT is released. Gen 30 and MW 20 are only when you’re well established and can afford to spend billions. The point of this skill build order is that you want to be able to level quickly by getting your Gen and MW early on. You want to get Gen 20 as soon as possible, so save 10 more SP after your Gen 10 and MW 10 are done, and spend the extra SP on Res. This is for you to be desirable on bossing runs like Zak and Krex. Then you max Bahamut to 30 so you can summon farm, detailed two paragraphs down. Holy Shield 30 for being more helpful on boss runs like Zak and HT, then Angel Ray 30 for your own DPSing if you want to kill things 1v1.

For gearing a bishop, your endgame goal is pretty much getting to 100% 1 hitting skeles. With Gen 20, you need 1355 magic for this and with Gen 30, you need 1295 magic. You can buy Wizard Elixirs at NLC that last 8 minutes and give you 20 magic and they only cost 5k each. Also, remember that even MW 10 multiplies your base int by 5%. So if you have 1000 base int, when you cast MW 10, you now have 1050 int. So MW 10 gives you a significant boost to your end magic.

There's also summon farming for Heartstoppers, Lucky Charms, and Soiled Rags, but you'll want to get max Summon Dragon for Lucky Charm farming, and max Bahamut for Heartstoppers and Soiled Rags. Stopper farming is fairly involved, having to teleport back to the middle of the map every minute or so, but it's 28m an hour. You shouldn't die at Heartstoppers if you have a pet with autopot. Lucky Charms has minimal involvement since you get knocked out of your position every 15 minutes or so, but it's 20m an hour. Every now and then, Headless Horseman will spawn and may kill you. Soiled Rags is a true afk and farm map with 10m an hour profit, but Elderwraiths hit you for a LOT of damage and it burns pots. Also, both Headless Horseman and Bigfoot will spawn on you eventually, and Bigfoot will kill you instantly until you get enough HP and MP to tank being run over.

Now HT. HTing as bishop requires experience. I wrote up everything I know in my thoughtdump here: https://royals.ms/forum/threads/ht-for-bishops.58735/. HT is what most people rely on for income, but it's always a back and forth between boom and bust. Sometimes you'll get hundreds of millions from a run in splits, and sometimes you get absolutely nothing. But it's fun, if nothing else. At least I think so.

Furthermore, if you’re going to be funding yourself to main an attacker class in the future, with a bishop, you can leech yourself, but I recommend buying low level bishop leech if you're at or above level 150. In my experience, it was easy finding a new bishop who would leech me wherever I requested when I offered 80m per hour. I'd buy leech up to level 105 for petris. You can leech yourself at skeles, but petri leech is faster in general.

Also, disclaimer! If you're okay with getting your funding through leech selling and more limited farming, you can make an IL or FP since AMs have cheaper skillbooks than bishops, but this route requires you to make an HS mule and dual client. However, I suggest making a bishop over an AM because bishops have the greatest profitability and utility with their bossing support role.

On the bossing note, the DPS rankings as far as I am aware are NL, sair, DrK, hero, BM, MM, shadower, paladin. At endgame, most people don’t need HB. So HP wash the following classes: NL, BM, sair, and MM to 9.8k HP clean, hero to 20k HP clean, and DrK to 18,750 HP clean. This lets you HT without HB for NL and sair and allows you to HT as sed mule for hero and to Zerk at HT comfortably for DrK. Pink Bean is not released at the moment on this server but it may in the future, so if you want to plan for that contingency, 11.5k HP is required for ranged characters (NLs, sairs, BMs, MMs) with HB, and 18.4k HP without HB. For warriors (heroes, DrKs, paladins), wash to 18.750k HP before HB, and, if a hero or paladin, preferably wash to 30k HP clean. Shadowers at PB apparently only require 6k HP with HB, and 9.6k HP without HB. If PB is ever released on this server, it is highly likely that PB runs will include HB at the beginning, making it a standard to organize parties so everyone has HB. But like HT, as the game progresses and people wash more and more, DrKs are phased out of runs and having HB becomes less and less common. So if you want to plan for the very, very far future, wash your attacker's HP to the level that does not require HB.

HP washing is a game mechanism by which you purposely get extra MP by leveling up while having large amounts of int (either base in or int on gear, referred to int gear) in order to get extra HP. AP Resets allow you to put one AP in HP and take the same AP from MP to put back in your actual stat. So you still end up with the AP in the stat you want, but you have more HP in exchange for less MP. To learn more about HP washing, see here: https://royals.ms/forum/threads/fully-revised-hp-washing-guide.8286/.

Now we can discuss the classes themselves. Anyone at or above level 135 can join Krex and Zak runs and anyone at or above level 155 can (technically) join HT runs, so I'm assuming that you're thinking of late game in terms of late game funding. Having a perfect weapon, 22+ att glove, 15+ att cape, 10+ att shoe, HP washed, and so on. I'm terming this late game, having about 50 att in cape, glove, and shoe. But there's also very late game funding, where people have 60 or more att in cape, glove and shoe. Do make note that I only play bishop. I do not have an attacker myself. My knowledge comes from playing the bishop role in various boss runs and also just talking to friends and acquaintances. But, with that said, here are my thoughts.

Solo gameplay classes are IL AMs, FP AMs, shadowers, and paladins. You will not be taken on a boss run unless friends want to take you just to have fun together. These classes are not viable bossing characters. It's possible you may get taken on Krex and Zak runs, but you will virtually never be taken on a HT run. IL AMs and FP AMs are classes you play and grind alone and farm and sell leech. They’re not rare per se, but they’re unusual to main. Shadowers and paladins are classes you play and grind alone or with a few friends, but rarely. They're rare and unique, so if you like to be different and don't mind being left out of bossing content, you might want to play them.

For all bosses, the most needed class is bishop. HS is always needed. But many people at late game have HS mules or their own bishops they can dual client to fulfill the bishop role. The people I know never ask for a bishop for their Krex and Zak runs. They or their bossing partner(s) have HS mules or bishops to bring with them. I have only been asked to come to Krex to loot the ring by my friends, and I have never been asked to come to Zak. As far as HT, bishop is an essential role. It's very unlikely you will go to HT as a bishop unless you're experienced and you learn how to do it well. You must keep the sed mule alive, HS all party members when body parts are about to die (VERY hard now without ~bosshp I imagine), and that's only at the bare minimum. You can connect with people by getting involved in bossing as a bishop, but there's a certain elitism that comes with bishoping at HT, not so much Zak. You'll need experience before you're taken, but if you're willing to dedicate time and money on a bishop, HT is about 50m more profitable since you don't have to use stoppers or apples.

BMs are the attacker class you want to make if you want to network with bossing people easily and be taken on many boss runs. It's always a struggle to find SE, and even though BMs have higher DPS than MMs, SE is so important and difficult to find sometimes that MMs can be regular bossers as well. People always need SE, so if you want to boss often and make fast connections with the bossing community, make a BM or MM. There's a slight preference towards BM, but essentially, SE is the only thing that matters. Attacker slots on boss runs, at least HT, are competitive. But no one cares too much about the SE's range. You just have to be a reliable SE mule with 9.8k HP and spam hurricane as a BM or strafe and snipe as an MM.

NLs are expensive, but the most preferred attacker class on boss runs since they are the highest DPS class. However, boss run organizers are also highly discriminatory in selecting NLs for runs. The strongest will always be preferred and it's not uncommon to be asked about your damage range. It's a highly competitive class and thus the most difficult to fund.

Sairs actually have higher DPS than NLs with SE and SI against a brick wall. But they fall to the second highest DPS ranking when up against actual bosses due to their low avoidability and low mobility. Sairs are quite rare and require concentration and skill to maximize DPS by managing the mount and dismount on their ship. There are very few good sairs around, and they're rarely asked for for that reason. But sairs are just fine in place of NLs. They do have lower DPS than NLs because of their hit rate, but they are comparable. You should know how to manage your ship effectively, dismounting before you get hit by an attack.

Next are heroes. Heroes are easy to play, a melee class that can tank hits and relatively easy to fund since Stonetooth Swords, the most common endgame weapon, are quite common. Having the multiple target hits with Brandish help significantly at Zak during the Zak arms and at HT during wings. In fact, the ideal HT party has one hero (assuming the hero is the sed mule) to DPS at main body. Heroes are also preferred over DrKs at HT because heroes have Power Guard which reduces incoming damage, including 1/1s, and can therefore be sed mules with far more effectiveness.

DrKs also take experience to play well, by managing your HP to keep it below Zerk levels. DrKs also have multiple target hits for Zak arms and HT wings, but they're far less effective sed mules at HT. In general, DrKs are less desirable than heroes at HT runs, but DrKs have higher DPS than heroes, as explained in my post here: https://royals.ms/forum/threads/hero-vs-drk.93473/#post-504302. HB is desirable but not strictly necessary for bossing runs. It's also very rare to find a good DrK. A DrK comparable to a good hero would have a perfect Sky Ski (with some variance because perfect Sky Skis are just so rare), and know how to manage their Zerking HP, which means if you play a DrK, you really, really should wash to 18.750k HP so you have 30k HP with HB.

Finally, we have buccs. A slow but heavy hitting class whose selling point is SI. Sairs, heroes, and DrKs have much higher DPS with SI, but buccs themselves aren't much desired for their own damage output. You will be expected to apple when other attackers apple even though your role is unfortunately more akin to that of a mule. You are still an attacker though, and you still count! Buccs aren't wanted much on boss runs though. The standard for their att gear is higher than other classes, because of their inherently lower damage output. Even so, their gameplay is unique and fun to the ones I know, so it's worth consideration for maining.

Now it's important to note that people can and do multiclient SE and SI like they do for HS. People having party buff mules becomes more and more common with later and later gameplay. And the criteria for organizing boss runs becomes who has the highest damage, who can multiclient on needed roles. By the end of last year, the very strongest players were trio HTing. Three people DPSing on three NLs, with multiclienting bishop, SE, hero for the sed mule, and even HB. And on my buddy list, I just see people asking if people want to Krex and Zak without much regard at all for what classes people want to play on the run since roles can be multicliented without any problem. The point is that it's not really about what class you play at late game bossing. It's about what you contribute to the boss run in terms of DPS and multiclienting needed roles, but, above all, who you know. To boss and have fun in this game in general, you need friends. To me and I venture to say to many if not most of the people I know, at this stage in the game, it's more about having fun with people we enjoy spending time with since we can all carry our own weight just fine. It's genuinely more fun to carry a noob friend in a boss run and help them out rather than take a random pro. So, in conclusion, what is always needed at late game for boss runs is just... friends. Sounds cheesy, but it's very true. That is the most valuable information I could have given you.

So on this note, mules! A mule is a character you have on a separate account. These characters have many purposes. Storage mules are used as extra inventory space for things like scrolls or ores. Meso mules are used to hold extra meso either in inventory or in storage or in Frederick. Shop mules are used to set up extra shops and/or positioned in FM rooms to snipe good FM spots after server checks. Buff mules (HS, SE, SI, Echo, HB, Haste, Meso Up are most common). Function mules (sed mules in HT). If you’re going to make a mule for its buff utility, I recommend making an HS mule, an SE mule if you main a NL, and SI mule if you main a warrior class or want to farm gobies on a mage. If you hit 200, strongly consider getting that SI mule TL as well. You shouldn’t need meso mules since you can just buy White Scrolls and Chaos Scrolls at 500m each when you need to store excess meso. These two items are liquid, so you can sell the and get pure meso very easily. Shop mules are useful for getting good FM spots, but they’re not necessary. Function mules aren’t necessary, but they can be helpful.

Now onto leeching your future characters!

From levels 10 to 30, you're going to want 36,400 Zombie's Lost Teeth for the Orbis Exchange Quest. This is 182 stacks of 200. Assuming 2m per stack, this will cost you 364m.

From levels 25 to 30, assume two hours of leech at Ludibrium: Terrace Hall.

From levels 30 to 36, assume two hours of leech at Jr. Wraiths, Kerning City Subway: Line 1 <Area 2>.

From levels 36 to 41, assume two hours of leech at Platoon Chronos, Ludibrium: The Path of Time <1>.

From levels 41 to 50, assume five hours of leech at Master Chronos, Ludibrium: The Path of Time <4>.

From levels 50 to 53, assume two hours of leech at Book Ghosts, Mu Lung: Foggy Forest.

From levels 53 to 58, assume two hours of leech at Roids, Alcadno Research Institute: Lab - Area C-3.

From levels 58 to 61, assume two hours of leech at GS2.

From levels 61 to 65, assume two hours of leech at Sage Cats, Mu Lung: Goblin Forest 2.

From levels 65 to 75, assume five hours of leech at WR.

From levels 75 to 78, assume two hours of leech at SB.

From levels 78 to 85, assume four hours of leech at Harps.

From levels 85 to 90, assume two hours of leech at ulu 1.

From levels 90 to 105, assume six hours of leech at ulu 2.

From levels 105 to 108, assume one hour of leech at petris.

And once you hit 108, leech yourself at skeles for eternity.

Or just keep buying leech at petris for eternity.

All exp per hour data was gathered from my experience leeching my bloodwashed SI/TL mule and the Percent/Hour Thread in combination with Before Big Bang Hidden Street's exp to next level table. (Orbis Exchange Quest was calculated in terms of how much exp was rewarded per quest completion according to Before Big Bang Hidden Street in combination with the exp tabel noted above. In sum, it adds up to 39 hours of leech, 3.424b if all leech and all Zombie's Lost Teeth (36,400, or 182 stacks) is bought, assuming 80m per hour for all areas except petris (120m per hour). Leeching beyond level 108 not included!

With all that out of the way, here are my side notes.

As a bishop who one hits both petris and skeles, I confirmed that one hit petri leech is faster than one hit skele leech, assuming both with HS. If you buy leech, go with petris over skeles.

I also didn't factor in PQs. This is due to the fact that PQs require the participation of other people, which can be difficult to organize and the fact that I don't have exp data on PQs.

Also, for low level leech, meaning everything before SB, you'll want to consider buying leech from low level bishops (below level 125). The exp formula works such that the leecher gets more exp if the mage is lower level. A level 125 bishop gives 91% as much exp as a level 120 bishop. So with higher and higher level bishops, you lose more and more exp.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to PM me on forums or contact me in game! I’m always happy to help out.
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@Shiyui Just read this guide and you have no idea how much it helps me! You basically taught me how to play Royals in general. Thank you so much!! I wished you posted this back in 2015 when I played! Back in 2015 I quit because I was stuck at lvl 97 priest and I felt lost in terms of progression and goals for a bishop, and also because I had to serve my national service but yes, mainly because I felt lost with my priest. After reading your guide I'm soooo tempted to come back to Royals and finally progress enough to get to play the end game content! However now I'm not sure if I have the time to play. Thank you anyways! )) 4830 words omg you're insane.

Also I was wondering, are you by any chance still playing Royals?

Shiyui · May 8, 2019

JrA said: ↑

@Shiyui Just read this guide and you have no idea how much it helps me! You basically taught me how to play Royals in general. Thank you so much!! I wished you posted this back in 2015 when I played! Back in 2015 I quit because I was stuck at lvl 97 priest and I felt lost in terms of progression and goals for a bishop, and also because I had to serve my national service but yes, mainly because I felt lost with my priest. After reading your guide I'm soooo tempted to come back to Royals and finally progress enough to get to play the end game content! However now I'm not sure if I have the time to play. Thank you anyways! )) 4830 words omg you're insane.

Also I was wondering, are you by any chance still playing Royals?
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You caught my guide right in the middle of when I was editing it and updating it hahaha! I just finished putting in my rewrites, just have to insert some links and do a few magic calcs when I get home!

I actually am playing again after a year on break!! Wish I was there back in 2015 haha. I was a relative latecomer, joining only January 2016. We have new content like Mu Lung Dojo, Scarlion, Targa, and Shaolin bosses too that you didn’t read in my guide since I hadn’t inserted them in yet! So yeah, I would say now is a fantastic time to come back to Royals especially with its population recovery after the new source reckoning and the new content like CWKPQ!!

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