Welcome to the Rise & Ruin tutorial! This series of pages will get you going on the basics of the game client. Click and each of the links until you reach the end. Have fun!

This section of the site will help you understand how to play Rise & Ruin for the first time.

The first thing you do when you connect to the game is create your character. Choose from the jix’Su or the Ralak, give your character a name, choose its colours, and then enter the game.

After Character Creation, you’ll be taken to the Main Lobby. This is where you can access Character Management, Character Selection, and the Battle Chat Rooms.

Character Management

Card Purchasing

Go to Character Management and you’ll see the page where you can buy credits and acquire new cards. Use the drop-down menu at the top left to navigate to the Skills & Attributes page.

Skills & Attributes

This page lets you train your skills. Skills affect the total value you can get out of your cards during battle. Spend your skill points as you see fit. Also click around on the various skills to see a description of what they do.

Card Inventory

Use the main drop-down menu to go to the Card Inventory page.

Here you can see the cards that we’ve assigned to your account for free. We have put all of your cards into a Starter Deck, which is why they appear grayed-out (cards that are in the active deck are grayed-out).

Create a new deck and drag cards from your main inventory to populate the deck with cards. Which cards to choose is a skill you’ll have to master as you get better at the game. Once you’ve built your deck, save your changes return to the Main Lobby.

From the main lobby, select a chat room and click ‘Join’. Once you’re in the chat room you can chat with, challenge, or trade with other players.

Within the chat room, select a player you want to battle and click ‘Challenge’. If the player accepts the challenge you’ll be taken to the Locker Room where you can use the drop-down menu at the top right to choose the deck you want to use. Once you’re ready, click ‘Ready’ and the battle will start to load.

Once you’re in battle, the player who accepted the challenge gets to go first. Choose a card from your hand and drag it (or use the hot keys) to the Action slot, then click ‘Attack’.

You’ll see your character do the first part of the card’s action sequence. Then the opposing player gets a chance to play a defense card. If you don’t have a card to play click ‘Defend’ to pass your turn. (You can also pass attack turns.) The action sequence will play out and then the turns will switch.

Other things to note:

* You can discard cards at any turn by dragging a card to the big red X on the left before you click ‘Attack’ or ‘Defend’.
* Cards that are red can’t be played on that turn (attack on defense, defense on attack).
* If you don’t have enough mana to play a specific card it will apppear blue.
* You can play modifier cards with attack cards by dragging the modifier cards to the Modifier slot before you click ‘Attack’.
* You can store defense and modifier cards for future turns by dragging them down to the storage row.
* The faster you play a card, the more of the bonus timer you’ll get.
* If you don’t have a card to play, be nice to your opponent and speed up the game by clicking ‘Attack’ or ‘Defend’ to pass your turn quickly.

The Cards:

Each card displays the information you’ll need to know how to use it in battle. For example, each element of this card gives you a clue on how best it can be used to defeat your oppoennt.

Quake of the Dyaleen

The title of the card.

Sword Icon

This icon tells you the base skill of the card. In this case, the sword icon means the card is based on the Handheld skill. If you want to get more damage out of this card that’s the skill you’ll have to train. The other skill icons can be seen on the Skills & Attributes page of Character Management.

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This is how much damage can be done by this card. Note that you won’t get anywhere near this much damage from the card until you train up your skills.

Blue Mana Circles

The mana icons indicate how many mana points it will cost you to play the card. Note that mana is dynamic and changes according to your skill level.

Crossed Swords Icon

This icon indicates the card type, in this case an Attack card. A defense card is represented by a Shield icon and a modifier card has a vortex-like swirl. The card type tells you when and how you can play the card.

That’s it! Of course the game gets a lot more complex as you learn the intricacies, strategy, etc., but this is enough to get you started.

See you in battle!