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11 Drakantos blends a shared MMORPG open world with a dungeon-crawler mission layer run through the Adventurer's Guild. The open world is where players explore, gather, and progress the story together, while the Guild is where they queue into instanced missions for focused combat. This page covers both halves of the PvE experience and how progression carries across them.
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34 The Adventurer's Guild
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56 The Adventurer's Guild is the game's dungeon-crawler layer. In the story, it was founded long ago by a group of adventurers who saw the need for a reliable organization to handle the many problems faced by the people of the Empire, and it is known for the skilled fighters, heroes, and mercenaries it sends to lands and villages that local authorities cannot protect on their own. In play, every major city and village has a Guild where players open a world map and pick from a list of available missions. Those missions change periodically, rotating both the maps used and their main objectives, so the content stays varied.
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78 Mission objectives range widely: clearing every enemy, collecting specific items, finding a unique object, escorting merchants, rescuing kidnapped villagers, hunting a wanted boss, defending villages from invaders, or stepping into conflicts between factions. Because the objective varies even when a familiar map comes up, the same map can play very differently from one run to the next. Many missions also carry bounty bosses (see Bosses and Enemies).
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910 Guild Ranks
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1112 Guild progression runs through ranks. The full game is planned to reach Rank 14, with content and enemies scaling up as the rank rises and each rank introducing new challenges. Rank is tied to a player's overall power level from their equipment, so raising power unlocks higher ranks. The closed beta only opened the first region and reached Rank 5, so Rank 14 reflects the full-game plan rather than what was played in beta. Players can also choose to push higher ranks at the minimum power requirement for faster growth, or stay at a lower rank for an easier pace, including running lower-rank missions to help friends.
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1314 Mission Maps
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1516 The Guild draws on 120 different handcrafted mission maps spanning a variety of biomes, all of which function like dungeons. There is no procedural generation; every map was built by hand so it has a unique feel rather than a generic one. The map count grew over development, with an earlier devlog citing over 100 before it settled at 120 as of a June 2024 update.
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1718 Party Size and Matchmaking
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1920 Guild missions are sized for 1 to 4 players. When a mission is chosen it starts automatically after a few seconds, joining any other players queuing for the same mission, or starting solo otherwise. The standard matchmaking queue is for 3 players, and additional players can join an in-progress mission as reinforcements a few minutes after it starts. Premade groups can run with up to 4 friends. Enemy difficulty scales with the number of players, adjusting again if someone quits or disconnects, so the challenge stays consistent. The 1 to 4 cap applies to regular Guild missions; other PvE and PvP content is designed for larger groups.
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2122 AspectDetailParty size1 to 4 playersStandard queueMatchmaking groups of 3Premade groupUp to 4 friendsDifficultyEnemy difficulty scales with the number of playersGuild rank range1 to 14 in the full game (closed beta reached Rank 5)
2223 The Shared Open World
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2425 Outside of missions, the open world is a shared MMORPG space where players meet everyone else on their server. It focuses on exploration, facing enemies, finding hidden chests and secrets, solving puzzles, gathering resources such as ores and wood, hunting for pets, story progression, and side quests. Maps in both the open world and the Adventures are covered by a fog of war that reveals as players explore, and a day and night cycle runs throughout, affecting the enemies encountered (see Bosses and Enemies). The cities and regions that anchor the world are detailed under Cities and Locations, and lifestyle activities such as fishing and trading sit in Lifestyle and Economy.
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2627 Quests in the open world are built to have a real purpose rather than being linear filler. Their rewards go beyond gold and experience to unlock systems, shops, artifacts, and exploration tools such as a climbing hook that opens up new locations. Some side quests are tied to specific characters or require particular knowledge, so certain missions can only be completed by the right kind of hero.
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2829 Cross-Progression
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3031 Progression is heavily account-wide. Heroes are unlocked account-wide rather than per character, and players freely swap between them. While a hero's level and gear do not carry between heroes, artifacts, trophies, their upgrades, and cosmetics such as mounts and pets are all shared across the account. Quests give horizontal progression, meaning completing a mission on one hero counts for the entire account. Once a hero reaches a certain level and power, endgame accessories become shared too, so players do not have to re-farm endgame gear for every hero. The build pieces themselves are covered in Orbs, Artifacts, and Trophies, and the full roster in Heroes.
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3233 Guild Credits and Tickets
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3435 The Guild has its own reward economy. An Adventurers Guild credits shop refreshes monthly and offers a range of rewards in exchange for credits, which are earned only by completing Guild missions. That makes regular mission participation the path to the shop's rewards. A separate Ticket system feeds into this loop: Tickets can be exchanged for Guild credits, and they can also be used during missions to activate temporary effects.
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3637 TicketEffectGrowth TicketBoosts experience gains during a mission.Soulbound TicketSignificantly increases drop rates, but locks the dropped items to your account.
3738 Rare involuntary PvP can occasionally break into Guild missions, and certain open-world chests carry their own PvE or PvP rewards; both are covered in PvP Modes. The collectible rewards earned across the open world and Adventures, including pets and mounts dropped by endgame bosses, are detailed in Pets, Mounts, and Collectibles.