RavenQuest is a free-to-play, web3 play-to-earn, top-down MMORPG that redefines the genre with its focus on dynamic world-building, community-driven gameplay, deep character customisation, and a player-driven economy. This game stands out by prioritising player freedom and community, creating a rich and immersive world where your choices truly matter. Unlike many other web3 games, RavenQuest sets itself apart by developing a robust game first, drawing on the success of its web2 predecessor, Ravendawn, and thoughtfully integrating web3 elements to enhance the experience.

• Getting Started
  To start your adventure in RavenQuest, head to the RavenQuest website and create an account. Be sure to use my Referral Link during registration to unlock exclusive in-game benefits! Even if you’ve already joined recently, you can still benefit from using the referral link to enhance your experience. Once your account is set up, you can download the game client directly from your account page. RavenQuest is currently available in English and Portuguese, with plans for additional language support in the future.
• Platforms
  At the moment, RavenQuest is available on Windows. The developers have hinted during official live streams that the game may also launch on platforms like the Epic Games Store, Steam, and potentially on mobile devices in the future. Keep an eye out for updates on these platforms!
• Monetisation
  RavenQuest is free to play, but it offers an optional subscription service known as Patron. Becoming a Patron gives players access to various perks, including: Custom chat badges and colours. Faster login during peak times. Reduced marketplace fees to make trading more efficient. Free fast travel across the game world. Additional North Star quest rewards and rested experience. The Patron system is entirely optional, designed to enhance your experience without affecting game balance or giving players a huge advantage.
• $QUEST
  As a web3 game, RavenQuest utilises an on-chain premium currency called $QUEST. This currency can be used to purchase Patron, cosmetics, companions, effort points, and to trade Silver—the primary in-game currency. Players can earn Silver through various in-game activities, such as completing tradepacks, defeating enemies, completing quests, and trading on the market. $QUEST allows players to trade Silver between each other, creating a player-driven economy where both casual and competitive players can benefit from their in-game efforts.

• Character Creation
  Once you’ve downloaded and installed RavenQuest, launch the game and log in to begin creating your character.
• Appearance (X)
  When creating your character, you can choose between Male or Female. While initial appearance options are limited, in-game customisation allows you to change your outfit and customise its colours, as well as your character’s hair. To modify your character’s appearance later, press X to open the Character Menu, then select Customisation to update your look.
• Classes & Archetypes
  In RavenQuest, there is no fixed class system, giving players the freedom to fully customise their playstyle. The game’s multi-archetype system allows you to choose and combine 3 archetypes at any time, each with its own unique abilities and passives. This creates endless possibilities for customisation, letting you build a character that fits your perfect playstyle. Here’s a quick overview of the 8 Archetypes available at launch:
  • Holy: The primary healing archetype, using holy magic to heal and protect allies while smiting enemies with holy power.
  • Spiritual: Supports allies with wind magic, creating barriers, speeding up movement, and refreshing mana.
  • Witchcraft: Specialises in curses and debuffs, exploiting enemy weaknesses with occult magic and control effects.
  • Warfare: A brutal melee archetype that excels in self-healing and mobility, gaining strength as they take damage.
  • Shadow: Masters of stealth and deception, using toxins and quick strikes to defeat enemies without being seen.
  • Protection: The tank archetype, defending allies, mitigating damage, and buffing the party with morale-boosting abilities.
  • Archery: A ranged damage dealer, focused on outpacing enemies with speed and keeping them at a distance with control effects.
  • Wizardry: Harnesses elemental magic, using fire and ice for devastating AoE attacks and crowd control.

  As you progress, you’ll unlock additional archetype slots at Level 7 and Level 15, allowing you to combine up to 3 archetypes. The combination of archetypes determines your character’s class, giving access to 56 possible class combinations. This dynamic system ensures every player can create a build that suits their playstyle.

• Changing Archetype
  Once you reach Level 15, you can change your archetypes freely. To do so, open the skill menu with K, select a different archetype, and confirm which archetype you want to replace. This flexible system allows you to adapt your character to new challenges or playstyles whenever needed.
• Starting The Game
  After creating your character, your journey in RavenQuest begins. You’ll start in a story-driven tutorial set in your parents’ house on an island. Complete the tutorial to reach the main continent and begin your adventures in the world of RavenQuest.
• Movement & Controls
  Movement in RavenQuest is controlled via the WASD keys:
  • Move diagonally by pressing two keys simultaneously (e.g., WA for diagonal southwest movement).Alternatively, you can click on the minimap or ground to move your character. This option can be enabled in your settings by pressing O > Misc > Point & Click On.
  • The game uses a fixed top-down view, so there are no camera controls.
  • To engage enemies, right-click on them or select them from the battle list to begin auto-attacking. You can also use abilities by pressing their respective hotkeys on your action bar.

1. User Interface (UI)
   RavenQuest provides a lot of important information through its User Interface (UI), and here’s a breakdown of the key elements:
   • Chat Window: Located in the bottom left corner, the chat box allows you to communicate with other players. You can switch between different chat channels (e.g., local, guild, party) and even customise the window to display only the messages you want to see.
   • Health and Mana Bars: In the top left, you’ll see your health and mana bars. You can also monitor these directly above your character’s head during combat for quick reference.
   • Enemy List: The Enemy List appears on the middle left side of the screen when you encounter enemies. You can customise which enemies are displayed and in what order—whether by type, distance, health, name, or level—by adjusting the settings via the icon at the top of the list.
   • Legacy Level and Experience Bar: Your Legacy Level and experience bar are located just below your ability bar, allowing you to track your progress at a glance.
2. Enemy List
   The Enemy List is located in the middle left of the screen and becomes more visible when you’re near enemies. You can customise it to:
   • Display specific types of enemies or players.
   • Arrange enemies by type, distance, health, name, or level.
3. Menus
   In the bottom right corner of the screen, you’ll find the Menus and utilities. Clicking on the RavenQuest symbol opens and closes the menu, giving you access to various options including the Character Screen, Inventory, Infusions, Ravencards, Archetypes, Professions, Reputation, Aether Rifts, Transport, World Map, Quests, Adventurer’s Board, Rangers Company, Trade Pack List, Journal, Guild, Social List, Tutorial, RavenStore, and Settings.
4. Mini Map
   The Mini Map is located in the top right corner and includes several useful features:
   • Zoom in/out using the middle mouse button.
   • Displays the current zone and in-game time.
   • PvP mode toggle, house mode for land/farm management, battle list toggle, quest tracker, and the zoom function are accessible here as well.
5. PvP Mode
   From the mini map, you can toggle PvP Mode. This allows you to choose between offensive or peaceful PvP settings, though you can only attack or be attacked in zones that are under conflict or designated warzones.
6. Fast Teleport
   The Teleport to Raven Crest feature allows instant teleportation to the main city with a 4-hour cooldown, as long as you’re not in combat.
7. Server Channel
   Server Channels help manage the game’s population by splitting players into multiple instances. To change your channel, open the Channel Selector next to the mini map, select Switch Channel, and press Change Channels. This feature is especially useful if the area you’re in becomes too crowded. Keep in mind there is a 15-minute cooldown between channel switches. Note: You can only switch channels while in protection areas, such as the main city of Ravencrest. Additionally, you can use this system to switch to War Mode or Plunder Mode channels.
8. Hotkeys & Editing Them
   At the centre of the screen, you’ll see your abilities, quick slots, and Aether Meter. To add a skill to your hotbar, Open the Skill Menu (K). Click on a skill to learn it, then double-click it to add it to your hotbar. Once a skill is on your hotbar, you can drag it to a new position by holding the left mouse button. To customise your hotkeys, press ESC and select the Hotkey Menu to reassign inputs for each skill.

• Character & Progressions
  There are multiple level systems in RavenQuest that impact your character’s growth:
  • Legacy Level: This is the combined experience from all archetypes and determines what gear you can equip and what quests you unlock. It’s displayed in the main UI.
  • Archetype Level: Each archetype has its own level, which increases individually. Levelling up archetypes rewards you with extra skill points and attributes, so it’s beneficial to switch archetypes regularly to gain additional benefits. This can be viewed on the skill screen.
  • Effective Level: Your current character level, based on the combined levels of your active archetypes. This level determines your overall strength and helps you target enemies that match your power. You can see this on the skill screen next to your class.
• Inventory (I)
  Your inventory holds all the items you’ve collected from quests, gathering, and defeating enemies. You can purchase additional inventory slots at the bottom of your inventory window, and also access a Quest Tab, where quest-specific items such as keys, documents, tradepack certificates, Ravencrest Emblems, and Aether Essence Traps are stored. You can further upgrade your inventory by purchasing extra tabs, allowing better organisation.
• Equipment (X)
  Your equipment tab is found on the character screen. You can equip gear either by clicking it from your inventory or dragging it onto the corresponding equipment slot.

• Armor Types
  Armor comes in three types: plate, leather, and cloth. Equipping 2 or 4 pieces of the same type grants special bonuses. Plate gives you increased health, healing received and weapon defense. Leather increases crit chance and reduces crowd control effect duration on you, Cloth increases attack speed, spell defense and reduces casting time. For PvE content Plate is the most commonly used, with Cloth a bigger preference for PvP.
• Gear Tiers & Grades
  Gear in RavenQuest has no level caps, but wearing gear that exceeds your level results in a temporary reduction in stat benefits.
  • Gear is divided into 7 tiers. Tier 1 is basic gear with no attributes and tier 7 is top-tier gear with multiple primary and secondary attributes to enhance your character. All gear can be crafted by players.
  • Gear is also graded from 1 to 11, indicated by the border around the item. Higher-grade items provide better stats such as attack power, defense power, attributes, and sub-stats. Gear can be upgraded through infusion.
• Jewellery (Rings/Necklace)
  You can equip one necklace and two rings. These items provide significant stat boosts. Jewellery can be obtained through quests or by increasing your reputation with the Rangers Company, which gives access to stronger items from the Munk Quartermaster located near bounty boards.
• Trinkets
  You can equip one trinket, which can be obtained through quests or the Rangers Company shop. Trinkets offer unique benefits such as summoning battle creatures, providing stat boosts, healing, or other niche effects. Explore the various trinket options to find the one that best suits your playstyle.
• Character Stats (X)
  Upon levelling up, you’ll receive 2 stat points to distribute among vitality, might, intelligence, dexterity, and wisdom. It’s best to match your stat allocation to your chosen weapon and abilities. Early on, you’ll focus primarily on one stat, but later on, you can diversify as you gain more attributes from levelling up and equipment.
• Attributes (X)
  Your attributes tab, found alongside your stats, shows a detailed breakdown of how your stats, gear, trinkets, and other elements affect your overall character performance. This includes your spell power, weapon power, defense, and more.
• Attack Power
  This value represents your total damage output. It’s a crucial stat that determines how much damage your attacks deal.
• Defense Points
  Your defense points determine your ability to mitigate incoming damage. A higher DP means more effective damage reduction.
• Mana
  Mana, represented by the blue bar above your character’s head and in the top left of the screen, is used to cast magic abilities.
• Health
  Your health is represented by the red bar above your character’s head and in the top left of the screen. Some abilities may also require a portion of your health to be used.
• Gaining Experience & Levelling Up
  Experience is earned in a variety of ways, including killing enemies, completing quests, crafting, and gathering. Legacy level has a soft cap of 75, after which the amount of experience required to level up increases significantly. While there is no hard cap, further progression provides diminishing returns. Archetype levels follow a similar system, with each archetype also soft capping at level 75, after which it becomes more difficult to level them up.
• Reputation (H)
  When interacting with NPCs and completing quests, you’ll sometimes encounter dialogue options that affect your reputation as order, mercenary, or criminal. Your reputation unlocks various options, including different quest rewards and access to special NPC dialogue.
  You also earn general reputation points, which can be spent in the reputation menu to unlock buffs affecting combat, economy, movement, and crafting. To progress through the reputation system, you must purchase perks from each line before unlocking the next. Reputation can be reset using Dawn Essence, but the cost increases with the more perks you’ve spent.
• Artifacts (J)
  Artifacts are collectible items and tasks obtained through story quests, events, exploration, NPC interactions, and rare creature drops. You’ll find them in your journal menu. Collecting artifacts provides various benefits, such as unlocking docks, shops, respawn shrines, workshops, secret dungeons, and hidden locations. One of the most valuable artifact rewards is access to rune enchantments.

1. Combat
   In RavenQuest, combat uses a tab-target tile system. To engage in combat, you need to right-click on enemies to begin auto-attacking or press tab to target a nearby enemy. From there, you can use abilities to deal additional damage, protect yourself, heal, or apply crowd control effects to enemies. For faster targeting, you can enable Quick Targeting in the Settings menu (O), which helps you automatically target enemies that are attacking you.
2. Melee Combat
   Melee combat involves using close-range weapons and abilities to deal damage or defend against enemies. Positioning is key, and many melee abilities will have area-of-effect (AoE) components or buffs that enhance your survivability.
   
3. Magic and Ranged Combat
   Magic and ranged combat allow you to attack from a distance, using spells or ranged weapons to damage enemies before they get close. Magic users can harness elemental forces, while ranged combatants, such as archers, can keep enemies at bay using disengage abilities and snares.
   
4. Skills and Abilities (K)
   With RavenQuest’s multi-archetype system, you can choose from a variety of skills and passives to create your ideal playstyle. As you level up each archetype, you’ll earn skill points that can be used to unlock abilities. Stronger skills require more skill points to unlock, so managing your points is key to unlocking powerful abilities.
5. Choosing Abilities
   The choice of abilities is entirely up to you, and you can unlock them in any order that suits your build. To maximise your effectiveness, focus on abilities that synergise with your weapon and character playstyle.
6. Hotbar Abilities
   Once you unlock an ability, it needs to be placed on your hotbar to use it in combat. If you have more abilities than can fit on one bar, you can add additional hotbars by going to Settings (O) > Windows and Ability Bars and selecting more bars for better organisation.
7. Passives
   For every 5 skill points spent in a single archetype, you can unlock passive abilities, which cost 3 skill points each. Passives offer permanent or conditional bonuses that activate automatically, such as increased damage, reduced cooldowns, or defensive buffs.
8. Blocking/Dodging
   In RavenQuest, there is no active blocking mechanic. Instead, you must rely on abilities, buffs, and passives that reduce incoming damage or absorb it. Dodging is not a general mechanic either, but it can be done through specific abilities, such as the Illusive ability available to the Shadow Archetype.
9. Interrupting & Crowd Control
   Some skills can interrupt enemies while they are casting, allowing you to disrupt their attacks. Additionally, many abilities offer crowd control options like slows, snares, or even stuns. These are essential when dealing with groups of enemies. Certain crowd control effects can also be enhanced by equipping specific RavenCards.
10. Looting
    Looting is automatic in RavenQuest, so you don’t need to manually collect items. Everything you loot from enemies or events will automatically be added to your inventory (I).
11. Death
    When you die in RavenQuest, you incur an experience debt. A portion of your experience is lost, and you must earn back this experience before you can start gaining new experience. You also have the option to pay silver to clear your experience debt. The amount of debt and the cost to clear it increases with your character level.

• Quests (L)
  Quests play a critical role in RavenQuest, not only for the rewards but also for gaining experience, silver, reputation, and infusions. Some quests are legacy level-locked, meaning you must reach a certain legacy level before you can access them.
• Finding a Quest
  You can find available quests by looking at your World Map (M), where quests are marked with an orange exclamation mark. This symbol indicates quests that are currently available for your level.
• Interacting with NPCs
  To interact with an NPC, approach them and press F. NPCs will offer you quests or give important information needed to progress.
• Starting a Quest
  Speak to the NPC and follow the dialogue options to receive your quest or mission. Pay attention to the task, as you’ll need to complete it to earn rewards.
• Jensens Key
  In one of the early quests, Jensen loses his key. You can find the key by interacting with the bush nearby, which will allow you to continue with the quest.
• Completing a Quest (L)
  When completing a quest, it’s important to pay attention to your surroundings. The quest icon will mark the destination, but the task may require you to travel through underground passages, higher ground, or tunnels. Always read the Quest log (L) for detailed instructions on how to complete the quest. After finishing the task, return to the NPC to hand it in and claim your reward. Be mindful of the dialogue at the end of quests, as your choices may affect the rewards you receive.
• Rangers Company (B)
  The Rangers Company becomes available at level 15. After completing the introductory quest, you gain access to the Rangers Company mission boards. These boards are found at outposts scattered around the world, offering three region-based enemy hunting tasks. To complete these tasks, you’ll need to kill enemies in the relevant area and gather experience.
  Completing missions earns you prestige points, which increase your rank within the Rangers Company, and bounty marks. Higher ranks unlock more powerful items in the Rangers Company store, while bounty marks can be used to purchase these items.
  Additionally, you gain creature expertise, which provides various benefits such as increased damage or defense against certain creature types. These benefits can be viewed on the Rangers Company menu by pressing the B shortcut, where you’ll also see your current Ranger Company rank and a weekly leaderboard.
• North Star Quests
  North Star Quests are automatically triggered legacy level objectives. You’ll be tasked with reaching certain level goals, and upon completion, you will receive rewards such as silver, infusions, and dawn essence.
• Dynamic Events
  One of the highlights of RavenQuest is its dynamic world events. These events occur randomly across the world and require players to work together to complete objectives. Regardless of whether you are above or below the suggested level for an event, you can scale to the event’s level by pressing the green arrow and earn rewards. Your contribution is tracked with a green bar, while the contributions of other players are shown by a purple bar
• Selling & Buying from NPC’s and Shops
  You can sell junk items for silver. Look for NPC Xeniad in Ravencrest, near the gate to the Slums. They will buy junk creature products that currently don’t have any other use in the game. Additionally, you can sell junk items to any Munk Quartermaster NPC, found near Rangers Company bounty boards across the world.
• Buying & Selling Jewellery & Trinkets
  Jewellery or trinkets obtained from quests or purchased from the Rangers Company shop can be sold to NPC Mercier at Glademire Fort for bounty marks. This is useful for offloading items you no longer need. You can also buy items from Mercier using silver and bounty marks, which is particularly helpful if you lose an item or need to obtain an item from a quest where you had to choose between multiple rewards.

• Travel & Transport (Y)
  Travelling around Ravendawn can be done in a range of ways. One method is using Respawn Shrines to fast travel, you need to stand on a Waypoint and press F to bring up the Waypoint menu, press on a waypoint and then you will travel to that location. Some Waypoints are locked until you reach the correct legacy level or complete the artifact journal in order to use them. On your Mini Map you can also press the button to travel to Ravencrest but this comes with a 4 hour cooldown.
• Mounts
  The only mounts in Ravendawn are Moas and these are obtained via the Mortal Enemies Quest you’ll get early into the game. You can only have 1 active mount at a time, they cannot be used in combat and you are able to breed Moas to gain rare and higher tier mounts. You can equip your moa with equipment and it will also have useful abilities and various beneficial stats such as speed and strength.
• Wagons
  These are used to transport multiple tradepacks around Ravendawn to trade posts to gain silver. You will obtain wagon parts early in the game by completing quests, then go to the Wagoncrafter NPC in Ravencrest near the docks and create your first Wagon. Your wagon has a certain amount of health and can be used to carry a limited number of tradepacks.
• Ships
  You can also build and customise your own ship, useful for also carrying tradepacks but could be used for exploring new areas, ocean fishing and naval combat.

1. Professions – Gathering and Crafting
   Ravendawn has a range of useful professions including fishing, carpentry, weaving, cooking, breeding, mining, woodcutting, farming, blacksmithing and husbandry.
2. Crafting Skill lines
   The crafting skills are carpentry, weaving, cooking, blacksmithing and breeding. Weaving allows you to create cloth and leather gear, blacksmithing allows for the creation of weapons and plate armor, carpentry is used for crafting furniture and weapons, cooking is for making useful meals and buff food and breeding lets you breed Moa mounts.
3. Finding Materials
   Materials can be found all over the world. One place you’ll find early materials easily is on your community farm, but when exploring the world you’ll find ore, trees, you can go fishing
4. Refining raw materials
5. Creating new Items
6. Deconstructing Items
7. Infusions (U)
   You will often loot infusions which are items dropped by enemies in the game, these can be used along with silver to improve the grade of your gear. Go to the infusions menu and select the item you want to infuse, then you’ll choose any infusions you have to level up the grade of your weapon or you can use old gear and weapons to improve your new ones too.
8. Enchantment
   Enchantments are powerful runes that improve your gear and weapons which can be exchanged with certain NPCs. Only 1 enchantment can be used per piece of equipment. You cannot remove enchantments but you can replace them by using another enchantment on a piece of gear that already has one. Rune have a range of different types and tiers.
9. Community Land *Top Tip*
   There’s no map marker for the community farm which is a great place for players without a home do work on their farming and husbandry. It’s found in Ravencrest to the right side of the city, look for the brown square of land on your map to locate it.
10. Housing Mode & Editing
    When you are at your community farm or other land – To place new items in your farm, go to the compass/mini map in the top right of the screen and look for the little “Toggle house mode” button which opens a menu allowing you to buy crops, animals and trees and place them in your farm.
11. Farming
    Farming provides a range of potential resources that can be used for crafting. For example you can practice husbandary and use the meat gained from that to produce meals and improve your cooking profession. Farming allows you to grow crops, plant trees and breed animals and these are all done on different timers. You’ll have to plant and place things into your farm, water and feed them, and return when they are fully grown to harvest them. Press F to interact with farm items, you’ll then have to choose what to do with an item, pressing F1 on potatoes will harvest them, next a mini game appears where you have to press F to stop the moving bar in the green section, missing or not doing this only means it takes longer to harvest.
12. Effort Points
    To complete land activities you need effort points which are earned by killing enemies and completing quests, these can then be used for farming. Every 100xp earned = 1 effort point.
13. Estates
    Building your own estate in the open world of Ravendawn is an interesting feature in the game. You can find available land on your map by turning on housing viewer and searching for the estate type you’re interested in. Estates can be Small, Medium or Large and come with a hefty fee to buy land 10k for small, 500k for medium and 5m for large. You need a land deed to claim an estate and you gain these from North Star quests, the first land deed will be a small land deed you gain at level 25. Once you buy land you have to pay silver and a weekly tax to keep your estate. You’re able to plant crops, trees, breed animals and place a house on your land.
14. Trophies
    These are very rare items looted from enemies which can be placed in your house to provide you will additional buffs to your characters stats.