Runes of Magic: A Guide to Gathering Resources Level 1-20

Runes of Magic, one of the newest MMORPGs, is a free-to-play, pay-for-perks game published by the Denmark company Frogster. While the gameplay is not overly complicated, players have much to do and a relatively sizeable world to explore. One of the overarching themes of the game involves resource gathering for crafting purposes as well as for purchasing epic powers. In a rather unique twist, players are able to obtain all resource gathering skills and learn all crafting skills, but they will pick which skills to master at a later date. The ranks for skills are as follow:

• Apprentice: Level 1-20
• Craftsman: Level 20-40
• Adept: Level 40-60
• Master: Level 60-80

Players may be apprentices in any of the skills, but they may only pick six skills to raise to Craftsman level. Only three skills may be taken to the Adept level, and players may only choose to Master one skill.

You may obtain three gathering skills that allow them to mine ore, pick herbs, or chop wood. Each of these skills may be leveled from 1 to 20, allowing you to gather a total of 15 types of resources before making choices about specialization. As soon as you finish the tutorial, you start your adventuring life in Pioneer’s Colony. You may immediately obtain your resource gathering skills from key NPCs in the quest hub known as Pioneer’s Colony.

• Woody Wood – Woodcutting Instructor (27.6, 72.8)
• Alice - Herbalism Instructor (26.2, 71.7)
• Hansen - Mining Instructor (22.9, 69.6)

Before adventuring out to even do one quest, pick up all three skills and the quests offered by these instructors. Now you are ready to start your adventuring life.

Woodcutting occurs when you find a stump giving off pretty little sparkles, right clicking it, and watching your character swing away with a hefty axe that she pulls out of her backpack. (I am assuming she pulls it out of her backpack. There is no telling where she actually keeps it.) Prepare to have a few failures when you first start trying your hand at chopping wood. Your character is not very good at it yet. The following wood types are available to you from levels 1 to 20 as an Apprentice Woodcutter:

• Ash – Requires Level 1
• Chime – Requires level 1
• Willow – Requires Level 8
• Stone Rotan – Requires Level 11
• Maple – Level 14

Chime and Stone Rotan wood are rare spawns, and they will not begin showing up until the second halves of the first two zones.

Once the resources are gathered, they can be refined. Recipes can be bought from any woodcutter. There are woodcutters in Pioneer’s Colony and in Varanas, the main city in the second zone. The recipes go up in cost as you go up in level, and for the higher tier resources, the resources can be additionally refined.

Save 70 of the ash and willow that you gather and refine them all the way to lumber. You will need three of these in order to obtain your level 15/15 and 20/20 epic powers.