Sword of Justice Beginner Guide: Early-Game Tips, Tricks & Progression Path

Sword of Justice is a massive open-world martial arts MMORPG packed with puzzles, exploration, life skills, and fast-paced combat, but the early game can feel overwhelming, with dozens of systems unlocking at once. This beginner guide is here to smooth out your first-day experience, help you avoid common mistakes, and show you exactly what to focus on as you start your journey.

 

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Pick Your Sword of Justice Class

All the classes in Sword of Justice are fully viable in both early and late game. You can’t make a “wrong” choice here. What matters most is your preferred playstyle, not chasing the meta, especially as a Sword of Justice beginner. Here’s a quick, honest overview to help you pick a class you’ll enjoy.

 

• Ironclad: High survivability, straightforward gameplay, and always welcome in dungeons. Great if you prefer durability and simple, reliable combat.

• Sylph: The only healer in the game and essential for every party. Easy to start, harder to master because your team relies on you. Excellent for free-to-play players thanks to low resource demands.

• Numina: A balanced, forgiving class that summons Acolytes for damage and crowd control. Works well in both PvE and PvP and is ideal if you like hybrid or pet-assisted gameplay.

• Celestune: A smooth, flashy elemental caster with strong burst and crowd control. Fun for players who enjoy managing spell rotations and timing abilities correctly.

• Nightwaker: Fast, stylish, and high-burst, but fragile. Great in PvP and mobility-heavy fights, but punishes mistakes. Best for players who enjoy high-risk, high-reward gameplay.

• Bloodstrom: A melee bruiser with great sustain, control, and utility. Extremely strong in most content but requires good reaction timing to shine.

Sword of Justice Early-Game Roadmap 

The early game in Sword of Justice moves fast, but it also unlocks systems in a very specific order. Following this roadmap will keep your progression smooth and ensure you never miss important features the game doesn’t explain twice.

Prioritize the Main Story 

Doing the main story unlocks almost everything you need in the early game, including your first ultimate skills, martial World access, life skills, travel and offline expeditions.

You can skip cutscenes if you want, but never skip the missions themselves, or you’ll miss entire mechanics the game never reintroduces.

Do Side Stories When They Appear

Side stories (yellow/blue quests) look optional, but they’re packed with early-game progression. They introduce or unlock:

 

• Cooking and food buffs

• Alchemy basics

• Identity tutorials

• Region-specific mechanics

• Social or exploration features

They’re quick, give great EXP, and help keep you above the server level when the main story slows down.

Explore Every New Region You Enter

Exploration is secretly one of the strongest systems in the entire game. Whenever you enter a new map, you collect a lot of resources like EXP orbs, chests, passive buffs and martial World skills.

 

These give huge bursts of EXP, often more than quests. If you ever fall behind the server cap, exploration is the fastest catch-up method.

Run Dungeons Daily 

Dungeons are worth doing, just not for EXP. Instead, they reward enhancement stones, crafting materials and windstorm tokens.

 

Do at least one with a real team (better rewards than AI partners), but treat dungeons as gear progression, not a leveling method.

Watch the Server Level Cap 

Sword of Justice uses a global server level, which limits how far ahead players can go. When you hit the cap and EXP stops, shift your focus to productive growth:

 

• Explore regions

• Complete Martial Adventure milestones

• Upgrade identities and life skills

• Work on your willpower setup

• Finish hidden quests and rumors

You’ll continue strengthening your account even when leveling is paused.

Don’t Miss the Exploration Skills

Exploration in Sword of Justice is more than grabbing chests. Each region has its own set of Exploration Skills, and these abilities unlock shortcuts, puzzles, hidden quests, and even story steps you cannot complete without them. Many beginners get stuck simply because they didn’t unlock the local exploration skills first. Examples include:

 

• Firefly Light:  illuminates dark areas needed for quests

• Dragon Afloat: ride upward wind currents for traversal

• Wild Wind / Blossom Dream: used for puzzles and hidden nodes

• Passive bonuses that make exploration faster and easier

Use Track with auto-path to find them. These are not combat abilities, they’re tools for opening new paths, solving puzzles, and progressing regional content.

 

Willpower Basics - Avoid These Early Mistakes

Willpower is one of the most important late-game systems in Sword of Justice, but it’s also the easiest place for beginners to waste valuable resources. Every Willpower acts like a passive gem that boosts your damage, healing, defense, or utility. The system expands heavily later, so the goal early on is simple: start saving from the start.

 

As a Sword of Justice beginner you should always keep this in mind “Don’t Upgrade Low-Rarity Willpower”.  This is the #1 mistake new players make. You’ll quickly start receiving higher-rarity pieces (Purple → Gold → Red). If you invest heavily into early Willpower:

• You get terrible XP return when you feed them into higher tiers

• You burn materials that become harder to farm later

• You slow down your ability to build strong late-game sets

Treat early Willpower as temporary placeholders and you should focus on Element Sets, Not Levels,  Every Willpower belongs to an element, such as:

• Fire - offensive damage increase

• Water - healing and sustain bonuses

Set bonuses activate at 2-piece and 4-piece combinations and matter far more than early upgrades. A clean, matching set is worth more than leveling random pieces.

Save Your Willpower XP Items 

Willpower XP materials you get from Windstorm Shop, Battle Pass, Weekly rewards are extremely valuable.  Only spend them when you have:

• A stable build

• A higher-rarity piece you plan to keep

• Matching elements for your class role

Most beginners will upgrade everything and then regret it 24 hours later.

Early Gear & Resource Management 

Gear drops fast in the early levels of Sword of Justice, but upgrading it too quickly is one of the easiest ways to waste rare materials. Efficient resource management during your first few days will save you a huge amount of farming later on.

 

This is mostly because you’ll outlevel early gear extremely quickly, sometimes within an hour. Avoid spending valuable items on gear you won’t keep. 

So make sure to keep your high-tier enhancement stones, rare crafting materials and expensive upgrade items.Save these for when you hit level 50–60+, where gear lasts much longer and upgrades matter.

Weekly Shop Priorities

Certain shop items reset weekly, and missing them slows long-term progression. Always buy:

 

Windstorm Shop (PvP currency):

• Willpower XP items (top priority)

• Hero invites (useful for hero skills)

• Combat Token (boosted dungeon rewards)

Identity Shop:

• Pathfinder Compass

• Pathfinder Scroll

• A few Boat Tickets (for faster map travel)

These items drastically improve exploration and overall efficiency.

Don’t Buy Low-Level Gear Boxes 

Gear boxes scale with your current level but become outdated almost immediately. Save your currencies for:

• Endgame crafting

• Hero summons

• Willpower development

• Utility consumables

Early gear boxes are a trap, skipping them is the best option. 

Hero Skills Provide More Value Than Early Gear

Heroes affect your combat more than early weapons or armor, especially support or buff heroes. Hero summon heros, upgrades skills and unlock the passive skills to get more power.

 

Hidden & Missable Content New Players Overlook 

Sword of Justice rewards curiosity more than almost any other early-game system. Many players rush the story and accidentally skip quests, hints, and rewards that never appear in the main quest log. Knowing what to look for makes exploration smoother and gives you consistent EXP, items, and achievements.

 

Rumor NPCs 

Any time a teleport NPC or merchant has extra dialogue options, talk to them. Rumors often unlock

• Small quest chains

• Martial skills

• Exploration hints

These do not appear unless you manually check NPC dialogue.

Bubble-Dialogue NPCs

If you see an NPC with a speech bubble above their head, interact immediately. These can like trigger follow-up quests, unlock achievements and reveal hidden rewards. Some only appear once, so don’t ignore them.

 

Hidden Book Quests 

Book icons on the map mark extended lore quests with solid rewards. They take longer, so clear them when you reach the server level cap or want a break from combat.

Object Interaction Quests 

Many puzzles and even quests start from interacting with random objects such as drums, wind bells, fans, lanterns and environmental tools. These often lead to hidden storylines, achievements, or exploration progress.

 

Blue Map Indicators 

A small blue glow on your minimap means a collectible or important item is nearby. Finding these helps complete:

• Regional exploration

• Martial World achievements

• EXP farming routes

• Hidden collectible sets

Even picking up a few each time adds up quickly.

Conclusion 

Sword of Justice can look complex at first, but once you understand where to focus, the entire experience becomes smooth, rewarding, and surprisingly beginner-friendly. And if you want to keep progressing without staying tied to your desk, OSLink lets your PC handle the heavy gameplay while you continue exploring, questing, or managing builds directly from your phone. It’s a seamless way to stay connected to your adventure anywhere, without losing performance or momentum.