Gameplay / Guides
Guides
Guides for skills, crafting and combat in Winds of Valen. The tables in each guide stay up to date after each patch.
User Interface
This new player guide tours the hotbar, inventory, equipment, bank, skills and Training Stance screens, and explains how to deposit items, switch stance and turn Auto Retaliate on or off.
Mithril Armor
This guide gives the full gathering list and step-by-step breakdown for the Mithril armour set, including where to get every material.
Elven Gold Armor
This guide gives the full gathering list and step-by-step breakdown for the Elven Gold armour set, including where to get every material and the schematics.
DuskKnight Armor
This guide gives the full gathering list and step-by-step breakdown for the DuskKnight armour set, including where to get every material and the schematics.
Ore Crate
This guide gives the full gathering list and step-by-step breakdown for making the Ore Crate, a back item that holds 500 ore.
Volcanic Ward
This guide gives the full gathering list and step-by-step breakdown for making the Volcanic Ward, a shield for fighting fire, including where to get every material.
Shield of Eadmund
This guide gives the full gathering list and step-by-step breakdown for making the Shield of Eadmund, an enchanted ebony shield, including where to get every material.
Dwarven Furnace
This guide covers mastering the heat-based Dwarven Furnace, managing temperatures, saving ore when making Steel and Mithril bars, and forging Ebony Bars.
Gear Planner
This tool shows the best gear, fallbacks, and future equipment goals for your level against specific monsters, covering weapons, shields, and defense styles with item source details.
Potion Making
This guide explains how to turn raw materials into stat-boosting brews, covering cauldron mechanics, ingredient preparation, and vial sizes for healing and combat buffs.
Fishing
This guide covers catching every fish, choosing the right rod and bait, and how your level and fishing power raise your catch chance.
Mining
This guide covers every rock, the best pickaxes and mining gear, the gems and keys you can find, and which bars each ore smelts into.
The Ebony Caves
This guide maps every room of the Ebony Caves, with the rocks, Ebony Dust and Crimson Weavers in each one and which blocked passages lead where.
Smithing
This guide covers smelting bars, forging plates and rods, and assembling weapons, armour and the schematic armour sets, with the level and XP for every recipe.
Bosses
This guide covers every boss, with their health, armour weaknesses, phases, enrage points and rare drops.
Cavern Goblin Hunter
This guide covers the Cavern Goblin Hunter boss fight, with the triangle arena, his jumps, the red and green arrow shield swaps, and the best shields and armour to bring.
Fire Lich
This guide covers the Fire Lich boss fight, with the four phases, the fire bombs and fire lines to dodge, and the best bows, trinkets and armour to bring.
Combat Gear
This guide lists every melee weapon, bow, wand, armour piece, shield and ring by level, with their damage, armour and where to get each one.
Combat Training Guide
This guide shows the weapon, shield and monsters to use when training Attack, Defence, Archery, Evasion, Magic or Warding at your level, with Darklands and boss options marked separately.
Levelling
This guide explains how XP works, how much XP each level needs, how to train every skill, and how much combat XP each creature gives.
Stats
This guide lists every gear stat, such as Agility, Melee Power and Block Power, with its icon and what the game says it does.