Odin Valhalla Rising F2P Guide: Best Weapon to Craft First

Choosing the right weapon early in Odin: Valhalla Rising can define your entire progression, especially if you're playing free-to-play. With limited resources, slow access to rare materials, and a competitive marketplace, crafting the wrong item too early can hold your account back for weeks. That's why one specific early-game weapon choice stands out as the smartest option for F2P players-and it's not the flashy blue-tier gear most new players rush toward.

This guide explains why starting with a high-damage green weapon is the optimal long-term strategy, how crafting and enhancement really work, and how to stretch your resources further than most players.

Understanding Gear Tiers and Crafting Basics

Before deciding what to craft, it's important to understand how gear progression works in Odin: Valhalla Rising. Weapons and armor are divided into tiers based on color:

White (Basic)

Green

Blue

Purple

Gold

Red (Highest Tier)

Each tier offers higher base stats but also requires increasingly rare materials. Crafting itself is straightforward: select an item, gather the listed materials, and craft it. If you're unsure where materials come from, you can click any item and view its Source tab, which shows whether it drops from monsters, quests, or specific activities.

For new players, the real challenge isn't crafting-it's deciding what's worth crafting early.

Why You Should Start With a Green Weapon

At first glance, blue weapons seem like the obvious upgrade. They have higher base attack and better scaling potential. However, early in the game, blue-tier materials are extremely hard to farm and highly valuable on the marketplace.

Instead of rushing blue gear, F2P players should craft the green weapon with the highest base damage and invest in enhancing it.

Here's why this works so well:

Green weapon materials are easy to obtain

You can craft multiple copies without stress

Enhancing green weapons is far safer and cheaper

Overlapping (feeding copies into one weapon) lets you push stats much higher

A properly enhanced green weapon-realistically around +7 or +8-can reach stats that are surprisingly close to a +5 blue weapon, which is the safest enhancement level for blue gear.

Enhancement Risk vs. Long-Term Power

Weapon enhancement in Odin comes with risk. Enhancing past +5 significantly increases the chance of failure, and at higher levels, a failed attempt can destroy the weapon entirely.

This is where green weapons shine. Because they're cheap to craft, you can safely enhance and overlap them without fear of losing weeks of progress. Blue weapons, on the other hand, are far more punishing to lose early on.

By sticking with a well-enhanced green weapon, you gain:

Comparable damage to early blue weapons

Higher accuracy in many cases

The ability to farm more efficiently for longer

This lets you delay crafting blue gear until materials are cheaper and more abundant.

Smart Market Strategy for F2P Players

One of the biggest advantages of this approach is economic. Early in a server's life, blue-tier materials are in extremely high demand. Instead of using them immediately, F2P players should consider selling these materials at premium prices on the marketplace.

This strategy lets you:

Build up Odin Diamonds early

Take advantage of market hype

Rebuy materials later when prices drop

Think of it like technology in real life. Buying last year's flagship phone during the launch of a new model is always cheaper. Odin's economy works the same way-early patience is rewarded.

That said, server conditions vary. If your server has an oversupply of materials and low demand, prices may drop quickly. The key takeaway isn't copying one exact method, but understanding how supply, demand, and timing affect progression.

Why Overlapping Is Safer Than Rushing Tiers

Overlapping requires crafting multiple copies of the same weapon and feeding them into one another. While it takes time, it's significantly safer than pushing risky enhancements on rare gear.

Failing an overlap attempt without backup weapons can leave you stuck using NPC gear, which kills farming efficiency. Always craft multiple copies before attempting major upgrades.

For F2P players, overlapping green weapons provides:

Stable progression

Minimal risk

Consistent farming power

This stability is crucial in the early game.

Don't Ignore Sub-Stats Like MP Regen

Raw damage isn't everything. Odin: Valhalla Rising doesn't use traditional MP potions, which makes MP regeneration one of the most important stats in the game.

If your MP regeneration is too low, you'll constantly stop attacking to recover mana, negating any damage advantage you have.

To manage this:

Check your average MP usage in the Skill Book

Compare it to your MP regen stat in Character Details

Adjust skill loadouts or gear accordingly

Sometimes, a weapon with slightly lower damage but better MP regen will outperform a higher-damage option simply because it allows continuous skill usage.

The Real Lesson for F2P Players

The goal isn't to tell you exactly what to craft-it's to help you understand the principles behind efficient progression. Early success in Odin: Valhalla Rising comes from patience, market awareness, and minimizing risk.

For most F2P players, starting with a high-damage green weapon, enhancing it wisely, and selling rare materials early creates the smoothest path forward. From there, you'll be in a much stronger position to transition into blue and higher-tier gear when the time is right.

Play smart, not rushed-and your account will thank you for it.

MMOexp Odin Valhalla Rising Team