Filling Out a Map

One of the persnoal challenges people like to do on Realm of the Mad God (ROTMG) is filling out the realm map. The realm is quite large and when the game and it takes a while to visit all the places. Here is one of my most successful attempts.

There are 13 confirmed maps for the realm and allegedly a 14th lost world either rarely seen or retired. Back when RTOMG was less popular playing late night was the best way to fill out a map since few players were around and most did not hack so it took a long time for the realm to close. Unfortunately hacker, overpowered noobs, and a large population has sped up realm closing.

Here are the best ways to fill out the realm map:

• Circle the coast first - with no monster threat and speed it can be done quickly.
• Next to the roads -following the first two roads is pretty simple.

• Ignore quest, dungeons, and most enemies.
• Leave Godlands for last even the strongest player can die there.
• Don't start at one point and work from there it takes too long.
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• Try empty realms and late at night after midnight on school days since most players are kids. 
• Teleport to players in black space rather than walking.
• Keep mini-map partially zoomed in to see the best way to uncover pixels without overlapping.

There is no prize or achievements gained for filling out a map but it is something fun when game play gets old.

How to Handle Death in ROTMG

Badly, judging by the community it is never a fair death. A while back my knight died he was a powerhouse. My knight was on the verge of having all 8 stats maxed and then died fighting Oryx 2. I missed a stun and then Oryx 2 killed me.

I have not been able to max another knight, mostly because I am playing the other characters. When my knight died I was shocked but not angry.

The 5 Stages of Loss and Grief (7 stages is too much for a game)

1. Denial and Isolation - We yell "No, no, no, no..." about a hundred times because we cannot understand what happened. Then we sit back looking around to see if this is real. If anyone ask what is wrong you cannot get the right words out because they will not understand that your best character just died.

2. Anger - You lash out at everyone. Those players for not helping you. The computer for being slightly lagging. Kabam because it is always good to blame them. People around you for saying "What is wrong with you, it's just a game."

3. Bargaining - Trying to get control over what just happened

• If only I moved back a bit faster…
• If only the other guy would have stunned him first…
• If only my computer was better…

We may even ask God to do something, but of course he just laughs at you calling you a noob. Occasionally we even may beg Kabam to resurrect the character but that never works.

4. Depression - Knowing nothing can be done we sulk and whine on the forums. We get mad and threaten to quit. We swear we are done with this game and life in general.

5. Acceptance -Finally we realize that this loss is permanent and just accept it. We go on and play a new guy knowing this time it will not die so stupidly. You know it is just a game and you can can start again.

All this happens within 2 minutes on average.

White Bag: Double Demon Blade

When playing with the knight it is surprisingly easy to find the demon blade. Unfortunately it is a pretty weak blade compared to the other UT blades.

Found this one in the treasure room in the Abyss of Demons. Now you find up to 3 treasure rooms in Abyss so it is possible to find multiple white bags. I said previously that I do not like the Dblade because of its short range.

For weaker enemies the Dblade is great but for any real tough boss I always go for Ancient Stone Sword.

Free Gold for ROTMG

There are a few ways to get free gold for Realm of the Mad God and I discussed how Kabam Rewards work. A better way is to avoid Kabam and go through Kongregate and earn kreds. Kreds are the currency for Kongregate and can be used in hundreds of games that have in game purchases. While you can buy kreds you can also earn them.

Every kred you earn is well documented and support is great if there is a problem. You start by clicking on the Buy Kreds button.

It shows you all your options to buy kreds. I chose the EARN FREE KREDS option in the middle row, the second one with the K tokens pictures.

That takes you to the Earn Kreds section. Most are offers that you must buy with real money. The other majority are downloads of things that sound creepy. The best are the videos they only give you +1 kred but they are the least invasive.

When you finally earned enough kreds you go the nexus and go to buy gold and you are presented with the above options. 

I had no plans to ever buy in game stuff so I never bothered unitl ROTMG. I finally decided on June 1, 2013 to earn enough kreds to buy a extra chest and character slot. In less than 2 months by July 18, 2013 I already had enough to buy them. 111 kreds i used to get 1200 gold for free.

I did one +10 survey but found it was too long so instead i just watched videos. Luvkily this was before the 4th of July. During this time period Samsung and Jay-z were pushing his new album and they had the commercial about it up. Everyday you could play the video ad about 20 times. After 5 days I earned almost +100 kreds for these +1 videos.

Samsung and Jay-Z got into a little trouble for overly promoting and having an app that was a bit suspicious.  Those news stories you hear about Jay-Z earning millions of clicks on youtube are parially based on his promoters buying the clicks. They paid Kongregate to host the ads and gave away free kreds if you watched it. Most companies can only afford one video per customer, Samsung gave each customer at least 100 chances.

Currently there are very few videos so I will wait until another album drops and hopefully they need to boost there social media numbers too.

White Bag: EP

On the weekend of July 27-29, 2013 the UT items will be un-soulbound and available to trade. So time to hit those dungeons and pick up a few thing like the Staff of Extreme Prejudice (EP) for trade.

Sprite world is a relatively easy dungeon and it drops a fair amount of white bags. EP is less common but it is still seen enough to be worth your while even if you already maxed dex.

It shoots 10 shots in a circle at close range. While useful when hugging an enemy the risk of death is not worth it. It is also has 40% the speed of a normal staff making it slow. I prefer to use any T8 or higher staff as the speed makes up for the lack of power.

This is a pet food weapon at 600 feed power.

Expo Ring

Experimental Ring or Expo for short is the second best ring in all the realm. Sure exalted Def and HP are also great but this one is more even. Pyra ring is slightly better but tougher to find. That is another reason why expo is better. it drops from a blue bag in Mad Lab and you have two chances of finding one if you defeat both bosses.

The ring is fairly common and drops with a wis pot. Pictured above was the ring and wis pot that I switched out with two extra HP pots I was carrying. A T4 trap was also dropped but I did not need it.

The myth of not destroying any tables in Mad Lab is just that. You can destroy as many tables as you want and you may still get an Expo ring or two. The Random Number Generator (RNG) does not get influenced by the tables destruction.

Kabam Rewards (Updated)

Kabam is the owner of Realm of the Mad God and several other games. They recently started a way to buy in game merchandise for most of their games for free. Kabam Rewards does exactly that it gives you rewards points for to get in game currency.

Program Overview for ROTMG

• 50 points for signing up
• 550 points on top of that for the first 5-day in a row play
• 5 points a day on top of that for playing everyday
• 50 points for playing 10 days in row every 20 days
• 10 points for every $1 spent
• Double Points for every purchase over $49 
• Double Points on your first purchase

Program Rewards

10 Gold  =	500 points
500 Gold  =	5000 points
1200 Gold =	10000 points
2600 Gold =	20000 points
7000 Gold =	50000 points
16000 Gold =	100000 points

At the beginning 500 points got you 20 Realm gold but they dropped it to 5 Realm gold, now it is 10 Realm Gold which is still low compared to the rest of the rewards list.

My Progress

I started on June 12, 2012 with the 50 sign in points. Today, July 13, 2013 I have 910 points. According to my calculations I will get 5000 points on August 25, 2014.

If you want free realm gold your best bet is Kongregate Kred over the same time period I got 1200 Realm Gold.

Update: They added 250 Gold = 2500 points.