Next Highway is one of the biggest events for DNF Mobile's 4th anniversary. You can create a character, reach the level cap of 85, and start running farming dungeons in just 30 minutes. This guide walks through the process in detail, including steps new players might miss.

Creating a Character and Preparing Your Setup

First, create a DNF Mobile character.

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Glacial Master, Female Mechanic, Spectre, and Male Spitfire are currently considered some of the strongest classes. For beginners, I recommend Glacial Master and Female Mechanic. Both are relatively easy to play, and as Intelligence-based characters, they use inexpensive enchantment cards.

The 4th Anniversary Gift Box includes one Class Change Ticket, so you can choose whichever class appeals to you now and switch later.

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Keep in mind, though, that switching from an Intelligence-based character to a Strength-based character means you will need to redo your magic seals and enchantments.

When you enter the game, you will start in Lorien (the tutorial dungeon). You can skip it by pressing ESC.

Once you reach Seria's Room, use the Next Highway Designation Ticket and choose your advanced class.

You can play through the quests if you are interested in the story, or skip them by clicking the Clear Previous Quests button in the upper right.

Then click the scroll icon on the left side of the screen​.

Select the last episode and request quests, then click Clear Previous Quests.

Before you start setting up your character, open the Growth menu at the top and go to the Growth Comparison tab.

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Set the Exorcism range to around 170,000–180,000 to see the equipment and setups most commonly used by players with standard, complete builds.

From here, click View Details in the Runes section at the very bottom.

Check which runes are most commonly used under Rune Equipment and Rune Engraving.

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For Swift Master, Awakening 45 is the most common choice.

Growth Missions

Now open the Events menu, select Growth Missions under the Next Highway tab, and claim the first gift.

From the Brilliant Skill Rune Selection Box, choose the rune you identified earlier (Awakening 45 for Swift Master). Claim the Battle Preparation Skill Rune Engraving Box and engrave your runes right away.

You should now have a full set of Rare equipment and one Unique armor piece.

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Transfer your upgrades to the Unique armor piece, and repeat this process when you get Epic or Exceed equipment later.

Sell any unused Uncommon equipment and disassemble the rest.

To advance the mission, reinforce any item once.

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Go to Growth Missions and claim the +15 weapon.​

Click Magic Seal Conversion once.

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You will need to repeat this when you switch to Epic equipment, so one attempt is enough for now.

Open Emblems and combine two level 5 emblems.

The completion reward is a full set of level 6 emblems, so it does not matter if the attempt fails.

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Equip the entire set of level 6 emblems.

For the enchantment step, use any card for now.

As before, use all the beads you receive as completion rewards.

You can choose any weapon element, but Water and Shadow tend to cost less when building up elemental damage.

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Some classes have an innate element, such as Enchantress, who needs Shadow. Open your skill window to check before choosing.

For all 4 Elemental Platinum Emblems, choose the same element you selected for your weapon.

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Choose Fire Explosion for Fire, Ice Needle for Water, Thunderbolt for Light, and Dark Explosion for Shadow. I personally do not recommend All Elements.

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You may only see 3 slots for elemental emblems, but you can equip all 4 once you receive a title later.

From the 20 Brilliant Skill Rune Boxes, choose Awakening Runes for the specific level you checked earlier.

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From the 5 Enchanting Skill Rune Selection Boxes, choose 2 Protection, 2 Wisdom, and 1 Distortion.

To complete the equipment conversion (creation) mission in the Armory, create the Rare armor you disassembled earlier, then disassemble it again.

Next, open the Training Journal from the menu and activate all 4 options shown.

For the Seal of the Holy Eye, Strength/Intelligence is a solid choice. If movement feels sluggish, you can choose Attack Speed, Casting Speed, and Movement Speed instead.

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You can change this freely at any time.

For the Identification Tag, select stage 3 and unlock it to unlock stages 1–3 all at once.

For Breakthrough, select stage 10 and unlock it in the same way to unlock stages 1–10 all at once.

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This costs 30,000,000 Gold, but you receive Gold for this purpose, so there is no need to hold off because of the cost.

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You can also receive a weapon appearance avatar as a reward.

Complete the final mission, Attempt Grade Conversion, after you get Epic equipment.

Now open the Rankings menu to allocate your skill points.

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Under the Exorcism tab, select the tab for your class.

Click any player and open Character Info.

You can also use their equipment and rune setup as a reference. Open Copy Skill Build in the lower left.

Then click ​the Apply button.

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Try out the copied build first, then gradually adjust it to suit your preferences.

Next, open Achievements and click Claim All.

Open all the boxes, then sell the Uncommon and Unique items for Gold and disassemble the rest.

Next, open Adventure Rewards and claim everything except Castle of the Dead​.

Again, disassemble the reinforced Rare equipment for Ryan Cokes, and sell the level 65 Unique equipment for Gold.

Open the 4th ANNIVERSARY DM tab under Events and claim the gifts.

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If you plan to spend money on a best-in-slot build, store the gifts in your Explorer Club Vault and give them to an alternate character later. If you plan to play with little or no spending, use them all on your current character.

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The gifts provide a near-best-in-slot setup that meets the entry requirements for content up through the Sirocco Raid without any issues.

Learning Missions

Now work on the Learning Missions in Next Highway.

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The daily task requires one farming dungeon run each day. You also need to work on the 헬스파이어 clear missions alongside it.

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To cover both, run a farming dungeon once each day (20 Fatigue), then spend your remaining Fatigue on 헬스파이어.

Starting at level 80, one day of this will take you to the level cap of 85.

If you want to run more dungeons, enter Secret Operation: Imperial Laboratory stage 4 and use all your invitations.

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You can gather more Ryan Cokes here.

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Remember, do not spend Fatigue here; use invitations only.

Save the Epic Equipment Selection Box you receive for clearing 헬스파이어 200 times until you have collected 4 of the 5 armor pieces from the same set, then use it to get the remaining piece.

I recommend the Giant armor set, which drops somewhat more often in the farming dungeon 루크 린제. It provides permanent Super Armor, preventing staggers and knockdowns during boss fights and making them less frustrating.

Synergy characters (Crusader, Enchantress, Nen Master, Dark Templar, Witch, Soul Bender, and Shaman) need to collect the Guardian or Sticky set.

Weekly dungeon entries reset on Thursday, so raise your Exorcism as much as possible by Wednesday (up to 160,000), then run the highest weekly dungeon you can enter.

For Disaster Dungeons, entering and immediately leaving does not use up an entry, so you can simply collect the rewards for now.

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These also have their entries reset on Thursday, so make sure to attempt them by Wednesday.

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If you have only just finished Highway, 마고스 or 칼릭스 should be manageable choices. You can also try fighting them in Practice Mode.

Wrapping Up

That concludes this beginner's guide to DNF Mobile's 4th Anniversary Next Highway event.

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With Epic equipment in every slot, your Exorcism will be around 150,000–160,000. Equipping Light-Infused Epic and Exceed equipment will raise it dramatically, allowing you to enter Elite Dungeons and the Sirocco Raid.

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Once you have saved up catalysts, try reinforcing your weapon to +16. Then use your remaining Ryan Cokes to reinforce your armor and strengthen the rest of your build.