TherianSaga Journal

Attack and defense stat is the most difficult skill to level up compared to the trading skills (i.e. wood, stone, fashioning, etc). So, I would like to create a guide to help newbies to overcome this problem.

At the very beginning, you do not need to be worried about your attack and defense stat because both offense and defense will raise when you are doing your quests. For example, once you left the Hope Island, you can train you offense/defense at the military district of Hawkoria City, and then you offense/defense stat will raise while you are on the way getting Yraen (Companion) and the Lanfar access. So, do the quests first to obtain Yraen, and then get access to Lanfar.

When you are able to access to Lanfar your hero offense and defense stat may be around 14 or higher.  Bring along any strong combat companions with you. You will at least have a Soldier/Captain, 2 bears, and Yraen. Also, a better equipment could help you to reduce the damage received from monsters and increasing the dodge rate. You will need healing potion; it helps to make the training progress faster. It is fine if you do not have healing potion. Go to rest or continue doing tasks after your hero is injured.

If you want to raise your hero offense, kill a mob that has higher defense than your hero, and vice versa. *One thing you should note for offense and defense training is that the mobs that you kill must be within 15 levels of your stat. Anything higher than 15, your offense and defense will not raise. Here is the figure to show detailed information.

The mob's piercing defense must be within 15 levels of your hero piercing offense. Hero in the picture has 14.5 piecing offense, so the mob's piercing defense must be lower than 29.5.

If the hero's offense and defense are around 14 +/- 1, you can take your hero to the Gorrun'gol Cave. There are a few mobs that are about as strong as you, but be careful sometimes there will be 4 mobs popping out together. There is a mini boss as well in Gorrun'gol Cave, however, the presence % is low. If you meet him, escape from the battle.

Gorrun'gol Cave located at Hawkoria, Silver Mountains  (around 100, 211).


The picture below is how the Gorrun'gol cave look like. Move your hero to the area that is in the red circle. That region in the circle is where the mobs are as strong as you.The mobs offense range is 16~18 and defense is 10~17. The mobs in the brown region have 19~23 offense and 16~20 defense.

Train your hero there until it reaches 20 or 21 +/- 1 for both offense and defense.

When both the offense and defense stat of hero is 19/20, you can proceed to Lanfar. *Always carry bear that has high forest (land skill) with you. So, you can train both your hero and bear offense/defense, and forest (landskill) in Lanfar, HuntingWood. Here is the tips for quickly encountering mobs in HuntingWood: Create many flags and the distance between each flag is small. Here is the picture,

Creating many flags with short distance between each flag. You will encounter wolf, bear, and behiran in no time.

When the hero defenses (blunt, piercing, and slashing) are 23, 27, and 22, respectively, you may take your hero to the Landel island for training. Start from here, you should at least have T3 fighters which are Squire and Sister in Arm. You can get them by building an inn in Lanfar. Please visit this for detail information about inn.

The recommended companions for training in Landel island are: Yraen, 2x Squire, and a bear. If you have high authority (leadership), you may bring Yraen, 2x Squire, and Sister in Arm. Also, if possible get a bronze plate armor sets for your hero to reduce the damage received from mobs.

Bronze armor sets:




For defense training in Landel island: Slashing defense can be trained in Wolvera Park ,and Blunt and Piercing defense are in Beryl Park. For the blunt defense training, you can only increase it by killing the Eliandel Eater (mini boss) in Beryl Park. Raise your slashing/piercing defense to 30 +/- 1 and blunt defense 28 +/-1. After that you may start doing the Cerrydwen quest. You will raise your defense in the process of obtaining her. Cerrydwen Cahern is a very useful companion! You will like her as much as Yraen! To reduce the difficulty of the quest, you should at least go with iron plated mail or better. Also, ask your guildmates to make the blunt weapon (+43) or buy it in the market. With good blunt weapon, you can kill the Queen spider quickly!

[Tips for killing the Araknidras: Choose 3 high blunt offense companions to kill the Araknidras (Spider Queen) and use your hero to protect the companion that has the lowest blunt defense. If not your companion with the lowest blunt defense would be killed by the spider first.]

After obtaining the Cerrydwen, the hero offense/defense stat would be about 33 +/- 1. Then, you may start your training in Town Square. The recommended companions are Yraen, Squire, Cerrydwen, and Sister in Arm. Also, the recommended equipment is the iron plated mail or above. In town square, the good training spots would be the "monster's den" and the "hut". So, click between those two spots training your hero and farming for golds and materials! **Beware: There is a mini boss (Intruder) in those two spots.

[Tips for killing the Intruder: Choose 3 companions (1st: Yraen, the rest your choice) with high slashing offense to kill the Intruder, and use your hero to protect the Yraen (or using your hero to protect a companion that has the highest slashing offense)! He would die without your protection.]

When your hero defense stops increasing in Town Square, it is time for you to move to Elisime Ruin. However, you do need to upgrade your armor to bronze/steel Harnois set. You can level the hero all three defenses to around 54. Elisime Ruin is a very good place to earn golds. While doing training in Elisime Ruin, please beware of the Ruiner. You can only kill it when you have a boarserker with you. So, run away when you met boss.

Here is the excel file for you to take a look at the mobs that you will encounter in different places. I'll post a notice if there is an update for the monster lists.xls

TherianSaga Journal: Monsters List [Update on April 05, 2015]
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TETzKcB1Jzs3Jg1VYyogU7D8Xl7fZ9Z54FNFkTMK5R8&authuser=0 

TherianSaga Journal: Monsters List ver 1 [Update on April 23, 2015]
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2ToiVWE-oJackhaYXVzd001cUk&authuser=0