Pragmatic Daopilled How to Survive MuhRO Guide by Sophie/Joan

Enlightenment before Understanding
Understanding before Enlightenment

Introduction

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Hello I'm Sophie/Joan (Guide Date: 7/Sep/2025). You would see me often AFK in the center of Prontera/Gonryun/Garden of Time with my Soul Ascetic (SA) char R.ClickToRename254519 or other characters. This guide is merely what I experienced in MuhRO and what I understand after playing for a mere 1 year's time as of when this guide is written. I do not claim my method to be the best nor the insight or knowledge to be the most accurate; not even close, in fact there are many other players, who are simply technically and knowledge-wise better, who is growing stronger faster and more efficiently, who make more friends, and who contributed more for MuhRO community (also feel free to dm me on discord/In-game for whatever reason I'll talk to you whenever my time/energy allows it). I just simply tried to write it out, because frequently I saw that there are people who simply wants to know what's others are doing and/or simply wants to know what's the benchmark, people who get into trouble and don't know what part they're doing wrong, or someone's who is feeling that they are not progressing, etc. While it is hard to give convincing or objective opinion on these issues without offending or sounding like a gossiper or condescending because, frankly, it is simply hard to explain things without a standardized unified perception of reality or an official authority. To be honest, I am not that sure that discussion demands regarding these matters from either new or old players are high even (as of 7/Sep/2025) because I think most people are casual about these matters. Though I think it will be somehow beneficial in the very long run for specific type of people with unique fate who is destined to read this compendium insights and stratagems of mine, and also for other people that randomly came across this writing and read it while they are bored and too tired to actively do anything meaningful in-game but still want to feel as if they are progressing the game somehow.

Lastly and most importantly, I have to state here: there's no Guide of Guide, for a Guide that can be written is not the True Guide, so much so that that you should always strive to find and create the better routine/pattern of action and decision making, and to endlessly experiment about and to try to know more about how the little world of this MuhRO server truly works. This Daoist Guide of subjective reality is just here to help you to craft your own unique cosmology/world view, that in the end you are able to be the living guide for yourself and manifest the best version of your self. All in all, after reading this guide it is my greatest wish that people would be inspired somehow and hopefully with their own strength could escape their own individual prisoner's dilemma (classic scenario in game theory that shows why two rational individuals might not cooperate, even if cooperation would benefit them both) and by so eventually and by compounding create a nicer time for everyone in the MuhRO community.

Scope/For whom this guide is intended for

Early, mid, to end game decision-making guide or a manual of some sort of eliminating not nice to be around people and not beneficial to do things for those players whom have reached the beginning of realization that this server is a marathon game not a sprint, that this server is here to stay and will outlast many if most official servers out there, and that the server is the best. And because of all these things, you realized that being good and smart by aligning yourself with the raison d'etre of this server will have better payoff than short term predatory behaviors and cheap thrills. As Sun Tzu once said, "Those who plan extensively before a battle are likely to win; those who plan only a little are likely to lose." and such I hope with this guide it would be easier to sort out what behaviors and what kind of people that you interact with will or will not help you reaching your long term goals and to avoid the trap of: Everyone else is doing it = Good. It is simply not, because everyone has different goals in mind and most of the top affluent people of the server hides what exactly their cashflow producing methods are. What matters the most is your own situational awareness, adaptability, and integrated understanding about all these to plan ahead and ultimately benefits just by positional advantage and having the correct latent capability.

Utilizing the major principles of plausible deniability, this guide is purposely made to be vague, intuitive/generalizing, and not-offending-as-possible as I do not provide exact namedrop and detailed plans/routine/action/judgment of which why some people or decision might or might not work as well for mine or your in-game goals and interests may it be socially, financially, or of any other aspects, and for that case you should not find me or anyone else to gossip about the types of people mentioned within this guide, and there is no exception to this; just keep things to yourself and be non-toxic and introspective as possible and think of these all as educational and of self improvement focused. You are to be conditioned into a state akin to freely swimming in the blue ocean, and is not trapped as a turtle in a well. For this guide to work, you are assumed to have already know and/or at some point at least once have a quality interaction with everyone that often shows up on #trade channel, every GM except Muh (because he is busy don't disturb him), every EM and Mods, every major Guild Leaders, top 20 zeny rankers, top contributors and build/item testers, and guide writers of the past, present, and the future. If you cannot do those all yet because you are very new or having shy personality like me, at least try to be familiar with their names and roughly try to remember or record what they said to understand them better even without so much active interactions from your side. Other important thing is that you have traded quite often (around 20 trades a week with different people or 50 buyings from vending and/or successful vending sells) of important commodities/current meta related items and interacted with people on #global, #trade, and various jobs #channels in MuhRO discord, and at one point have checked prices of commodities and valuable end game equips and MVP cards on your handphone when you were away touching grass far from your computer (because those crazy good deals could just pop out of nowhere amirite).

While hopefully able to simplify and covers the most basics of basics of strategic planning, one thing to state about the scope of this Pragmatic Guide is its limitation: that we are not putting fun any weight as factor in our decision making and so this guide will disregard those funsies in the planning, because it will require far more complex calculations and considerations, of which I think is pointless to ponder upon (just do it when u want to have fun and break the plans). Also lastly you are required to have the drive and tenacity to farm/grind and work hard and honest, and not making predatory behavior your main modus operandi (this is a warning).

Long-term Planning optimization problem is that for some people strategically, some behaviour/routine suit them better as it simply matching their personal energy-mental balance and currently owned assets (e.g. you will like to farm instances more as crit DK and/or that you kinda hate field farming), so we will not assume a narrow-minded stance on this issue and would tolerate a bit lesser realized/unrealized zeny per hour potentials ratios and whatnots as long as things work well.

Earth (地/Dì)

It's all about you

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Men (人, Rén)

It's about you and fellow players whom you interact with

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Heaven (天, Tiān)

It's about things that you and any other other players can't control

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Acknowledgements

• Special Thanks to Tmisn for editing and proofreading.
• Special Thanks to whoever wrote Dao De Jing (道德經) and I Ching (易經) among any other books.
• Hurt Locker's Wind Hawk Guide character picture format was used for picture formatting of this guide.