Getting Started on Olympus

Installing the client#

Olympus ships as a small launcher that downloads the game client and the cache for you, and keeps both up to date. The launcher goes up on launch day - until then, pre-register to claim your name: that account becomes your game login.

Olympia Nova - the home island#

You arrive on Olympia Nova, a Greek island built into the slopes of the mountain. Everything a new hero needs is within a minute's walk of the arrival plaza:

Every skill in the Skills tab is clickable - clicking a skill teleports you straight to where it is trained. That is the fastest way to move between districts.

Map of Olympia Nova#

Hover or tap a number to see where everything is. North is up; the map is rendered straight from the game's own map data.

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1. 1
   Bank plazaThe heart of the island. Bank counters on the podium, ::home lands just south of them. Plutus the bankers, Aphrodite (Make-over) nearby.
2. 2
   Great Temple of ZeusThe acropolis at the top of the grand stair - the island's landmark.
3. 3
   Stoa of Shops (east temple)Every shop keeper: Athena (Skilling Shop), Zeus (Vote Rewards), Hebe (Starter Store), Apollo, Nike, Hermes, Hera.
4. 4
   Hall of Crafts (west temple)Daedalus (Crafting), Prometheus (Firemaking), Tyche and Asclepius. Crafting teleport lands here.
5. 5
   Temple of the Hunt (south temple)All the slayer masters - Vannaka, Duradel, Kuradel, Sumona and the boss-slayer Eurystheus. See the Slayer guide.
6. 6
   Quarry of HephaestusEvery ore vein from copper to runite, plus the Orichalcum and Aetherium veins. Hephaestus (Mining) and Atlas stand here. Mining teleport.
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   Forge & Summoning plazaThe Hephaestus furnace and anvils (Smithing teleport), and Pikkupstix with the summoning obelisk beside them.
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   The farmEighteen Olympian beds, compost bins, Demeter (Farming) at the gate. Farming and Herblore teleports. Hestia (Cook) keeps her range just west.
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   CookingHestia (Cook) and the ranges. Cooking teleport.
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    Artemis' ReachThe hunting meadow. Artemis on the terrace sells traps, nets and gloves; every creature from crimson swifts to the Nemean lion cub lives on this slope. Hunter teleport.
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    Hercules Training CourseThe level-99 agility loop - start at the Laurel arch on the south side. Agility teleport.
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    Woodcutting groveWillow, maple, yew and magic trees around Pan (Woodsman); the four grand Olympian trees stand along the south-east shore.
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    Market stallsCrafting, food, general, magic and scimitar stalls. Thieving teleport.
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    Energy wispsThe energy fragment wisps.
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    Fishing spotsOff the south shore: every stock spot and the three Olympian ones (Leviathan, Serpentfish, Moonray) with the Master fisher. Fishing teleport.
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    The docksThree moored triremes on the west shore.

Commands you will use every day#

Pick a class#

Every account picks one of six classes with ::classselect. Each class has a signature resource that fills as you fight and unleashes automatically:

• Warrior - Guard builds from hits dealt and taken and pops a Bulwark shield plus a slam.
• Berserker - Rage builds from every hit and crit and starts an 8-second Frenzy of double-speed echo strikes.
• Mage - Mana builds from damage dealt and surges into Arcane Nova at full.
• Ranger - Focus starts full and is spent on empowered shots, refilling over time and on kills.
• Necromancer - summons that fight beside you, team heals and a bone shield.
• Templar - Holy Power builds five charges and casts Word of Glory, healing you and the most wounded ally.

Your class levels to 50 from the damage you deal, and every level is a point for its three talent trees - tank, heal or deal damage, with an ultimate at the bottom of each. Everything is in the Classes guide.

Where the money comes from#

The coin of the realm is Dracma. You earn it three ways:

1. Killing things. Every monster pays Dracma on a ladder that runs from a few thousand per kill in the starter zone to millions per kill at the top raids.
2. Skilling. Every gathering or production action pays Dracma scaled to the resource's level - a level-99 gather pays about 3,000, a level-99 craft about 4,500. That works out at roughly 3-4.5M an hour. See Skilling overview.
3. Trading. Sell to other players on the Agora (::ge); a 2% tithe is taken from the seller's proceeds. Shops buy at item value, and the Forge's salvage crucible turns unwanted gear into Forgemark.

Skilling also pays Skilling Points (spent at Athena (Skilling Shop) at home) and rolls for Olympian Bonds and mystery boxes on every action.

Server-wide boosts#

Two kinds of boost are on for everyone online at once. You don't need to claim them, and they stack with each other and with everything you have of your own.

Daily Bonuses#

Every day of the week has its own bonus, all day from 00:00 server time. Friday to Sunday stack two or three.

You're told today's bonus when you log in. ::dailybonus shows the whole week.

The Well of Goodwill#

The well (::wog) has seven pots, and every player can chip Dracma into any of them. When a pot fills, its boost goes live for one hour for the whole server:

Filling a pot again while it's live adds another hour, up to six hours queued. Prices follow demand: a pot that fills fast costs more next time, and one nobody fills slowly gets cheaper. The panel shows each pot's progress and a feed of the latest donations.

Your first goals#

1. 1
   Speak to Hebe (Starter Store) at the plaza for a starter kit, then kill your way up the starter zone ladder - Minotaur, Scorpion, Naiad, Cyclops, Lesser Titan, Talos. Each unlocks the next.
2. 2
   Get a gathering skill to 99. At 99 every skill opens an Olympian tier that runs to 150 and needs a tool from the Skilling Point Store. Woodcutting is the friendliest first climb.
3. 3
   Claim your daily login and vote rewards (::vote), and link your Discord (::linkdiscord) - the OLYP server tag, boosting and streaming all add damage and drop rate in game. See Discord Link and Perks.
4. 4
   Complete achievements. They pay Olympian Talent Sigil, which are the main source of talent points.
5. 5
   Open ::talents and put your first points into Harvest (skilling) or Onslaught (combat).