MM7 Building Strength – For Blood and Honor

MM7 Building Strength is provided to help you develop your party with boosts, gear, and skill progression. If you want help building a party check out the Party Planning.

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Quest or Grind

There is no need to grind experience in MM7, in fact, there are finite foes and unless you want to spend years in-game waiting for zones to respawn you will need to find other ways to build your strength. Check Guide for detailed lists of the Main and Side Quests.

Class Progression

Characters will get stronger by questing to promote to new classes which will allow training higher skill expertise.

1st Promotions

The second promotions can only be achieved after you choose the Light or Dark path. If you follow the History book this occurs after War! and during Truce.

Light Path – 2nd Promotions
Dark Path – 2nd Promotions

Skills

Characters will get stronger by raising expertise in skills. How skills are affected by elevated expertise is specific to the skill. Achieving higher expertise is limited by Class. Refer back to Party Planning to see the skill limits by class.

Resource: Skills Database

Resource: Novice Skill Vendor List

Resource: Teachers List

Spells

Your characters will get stronger by casting spells at higher expertise. How spells are affected by elevated expertise is specific to the spell. Some spells can only be learned if your character has a minimum expertise.

Resource: Spell Database

Resource: Spell Vendor List

Boosts

Permanent and Temporary Boosts are a sure way to get stronger by elevating your Statistic values to reach new bonus breakpoints. Learn more specifics about each type of boost on the following pages.

Resource: Permanent Boost List

Resource: Temporary Boosts List

Resource: Statistic Breakpoints

Alchemy

Resource: Alchemy Recipe List

Genie Lamps

Resource: Genie Lamps Spoiler

Hirelings

Resource: Hireling List with locations

Gear

Resource: MM7 Gear Database

Crafting

You will find Ores laying on the ground in Enroth and you may find minable nodes in Caves which will provide Ores. Be sure to save it before mining a wall as it may collapse and damage the party. Once you have Ores in your inventory you can visit the Crafters in Erathia and they will turn your Ores into Gear. The Gear is random and so it is helpful to Save before crafting so you can restore and try again if you don’t like the result. There are 3 different crafters for Weapons, Armor, and Items. They are all right next to each other in 3 shacks N of the Town Hall.

Enchanting

Reference: Enchanting Spoilers

Attribution

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Official manual is here.

How to obtain a copy of this game

eBay link – PC version (1999)
GOG link – Digital PC Version