Gameplay guides
Lord of Mysteries Guides
Guides to the systems Lord of Mysteries actually opens up in China Open Beta. Tested system guides and clearly labelled community gameplay guides are kept together here.
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Community
Which Pathway Should You Choose?
A beginner's comparison of six starting Pathways, with Acting and SAN advice, corrected Sequence references, and a dated reward checklist.
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Community
Raise Connection Affinity with Dance
How to complete the Dance interaction without uploading a video, invite several Connections to one performance, and raise their Affinity as part of the daily routine.
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System
Marionette System Guide
How the Marionette system unlocks, how the Golden Thread draw and its pity and wish mechanics really work, what marionettes give your character, and which to prioritise for each role. Includes all 28 marionettes with skills, cooldowns and stats.
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System
Sealed Artifacts Guide
Every Day 1 Sealed Artifact: its Beyonder power, the drawback that comes with it, and how to unlock it. Plus offensive and defensive picks per role, and how Beyonder Knowledge, substance embedding and fusion stack on top.
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System
SAN (Sanity) Guide
SAN runs 0-100 next to your health bar and moves you through eight named states, each with its own buffs and penalties. What raises it, what drains it, where the vendors and Requiem NPCs are, and what the game actually does to your character at zero.
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System
Connections Guide
Connections project figures out of history to lend you their skills. Draw and pity rules, what maxing a skill actually costs, the bond groups worth chasing, all thirteen Connections with every rank of their skill, and the daily affinity routine.
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System
Beyonder Substances Guide
Fusing substances is how you build the affixes your Sealed Artifacts actually want. Star odds, affix grades, the high-star gating rule, every mutated affix including the Fool — which switches off an artifact's drawback — and the fusion routes for chasing them. Includes the one button not to press.
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System
Week One DPS Guide
The raid is open and everyone is measuring their damage. The one marionette affix that decides it, which Sealed Artifact belongs in each of the three slots, where Connection resources should go, and the weekly routine that closes the rest of the gap.
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System
Pathway Tier List
Which of the six open Pathways is worth your resources right now. Mystery Pryer and Warrior lead; where Bard, Seer, Apprentice and Spectator actually sit, what each one is best at, and the weakness that keeps it off the top.
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Community
Six Open Pathways Beginner Guide
Which first potion should you drink? A breakdown of the six Pathways open at launch — Warrior, Spectator, Seer, Mystery Pryer, Apprentice and Bard — in MMO terms: who tanks, who heals, who does the damage, and what each plays like.
About These Guides
Every guide tagged “System” is written from play sessions on the live China service. Chinese in-game wording is kept in brackets throughout, so you can match each term against a client that has no English interface.
Guides tagged “Community” are sourced player guides. They are labelled separately from our tested-build guides, and each page links to its original source.
Terminology is a guide translation, not official. No global client has shipped, so English names for game-only systems and items are our renderings of the Chinese ones. Established novel terms — Beyonder, Pathway, Sequence, Potion, Sealed Artifact — follow the English novel.
Numbers age quickly. Everything here reflects the opening days of Open Beta and is subject to balance patches. Where a value or ranking is an assessment rather than a confirmed figure, the page says so rather than presenting it as settled.
More episodes are planned. For launch-day essentials in the meantime, see the download guide, the redeem codes tracker, and the full 22-Pathway reference.