Cube farming?
I now have most of my end gear equips with no good potentials on them. How should I go about getting cubes to upgrade my gear. What is the fastest way. Specifics really help, thank you. Also I would not like to spend almost any nx if possible.
November 2, 2015
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I've seen that cubes that I get from a weeks worth of bossing work very well. In the past 3 weeks of farming cubes and cubing gear, I had my sw tat: epic > legendary (1 week, 9 mc cubes, 2 meist, 5 rewards red cubes), sw glasses: epic > legendary (1 week, 4/5 mc cubes, 4/5 meist), and my cra helm: epic > unique (3 days, 2 mc cubes, 4 meist). With the hat, it actually tiered up after just 2 mc cubes, but I used the meister cubes to try and go for legendary.
Elite farming, daily bosses (have chance to drop cube & can save reward points to buy from Maple Rewards shop), daily commerci, farm mysterious veins/herbs.
Cubes, both craftsman and meister, drop from bosses (including Commerci), Mysterious Herbs and Veins (those giant herbs and crystals that randomly appear on the maps your training) and Elite bosses' purple boxes. Cubes are movable wihtin account, so do as many bosses and Commerci runs you on all your characters with any drop multipliers you have (I would recommend at least a Big Spider familiar) and hope for the best. There is no real secret to this method, the more bosses you kill, the better (and bosses such as Ranmaru, Hilla and Zakum are not hard to kill on secondary characters).
Doing bosses, as well as Star Planet mini games, will earn you Reward Points that you can use to purchase (as well as other goodies) up to 5 Red and Black cubes per month, and with enough red/black cubes fragments, you can exchange them for potential stamps (so if you have any 2 lined equipment, you can fix that).
Finally, you can craft your own cubes with the smithing profession level 11/12. Elite mobs and Commerci bosses drop the (chaos), the most expensive ingredients, and you can get the other two by doing bosses (they drop cube fragments and you can extract their equipment for the item crystal), but you'll end needing far more materials than you can farm yourself, so this is the closest you can get to actually buying cubes with meso (actually, cubes used to be fully tradable until recently, but that's besides the point)
Alternatively, you can farm (or buy from the FM) 50% Epic Potential Scrolls from Elite Bosses. Obviously doesn't help if your equips are already Epic+, but it saves cubes (and money) trying to tier up from Rare.
Skip sus cube and farm epic scrolls...