General

Hero

Looking for advice on equips and upgrading

I'm currently level 211 with around 900k buffed range. Basically all of my equips still need upgrading, or straight up replacing in some cases. My issue is I feel like I'm getting to the point where figuring out the most efficient upgrades to make at a given point, in order to get the most return for my time and resources is no longer very obvious anymore.

So I'm hoping to get some advice from the heroes on here who have already been down this road. I've created an imgur album with every single piece of my equips, as well as my buffed and clean stats. What items should i prioritize? In what order? what stats should I aim for on the equip before moving on to next one? Those are the kind of questions I'm hoping to get some advice on. Thanks for any help.

equips: http://i.imgur.com/E2SqhR4.png
range(unbuffed): http://i.imgur.com/Zh4KIMq.png
range(buffed): http://i.imgur.com/eDLn4vR.png

Edit: forgot to add; I was away from the game for over a year. Just started up again a few weeks ago and i have 2 friends who i'm doing regular hard magnus runs with so im slowly getting coins, working towards my tyrant boots and belt.

Edit2: updated equips link to a compilation pic instead of a gallery

January 30, 2016

11 Comments • Newest first

Bryan500

@rexaar: thanks for the clarification, thats good to know

Reply February 8, 2016
Rexaar

@bryan500:
Only for weapon.
Enhancing armor will always give a fixed amount of stats.

Reply February 7, 2016
Bryan500

@stevenman76: wow thanks a lot for the very detailed breakdown. Really appreciate you taking the time to make this post, really helps paint a clear picture of what i need to work on and when.

Didnt know about the stats from weapon enhancement being dependent on the amount of attack it already has. Is this the same for all types of equipment or just weapons? Or does it not matter for non-weapon equips since they dont usually have any one stat going into triple digits like weapons have?

Reply February 7, 2016
stevenman76

I'll try to put these in a general order, but you can do these in any order tbh
1) Finish up your gollux. This should give you a pretty good amount of range.
2) Get your tyrant cape to 5-7 stars
3) Cube your main three equips' potentials. None of them are really that great. I'd start with your emblem. Try rank them up and land two lines of %attack or %pdr on it.(Or one of each, which would probably be the best since you're already at 90% pdr) Then I'd move to your weapon and go for 2 lines of boss/attack, or a mix of them. Same with your secondary.
4) Cube your main three equips' bpots. None of them are too good, but the emblem is decent. Try to rank them up and get a line of 9-12% attack on each of them. If you have a lot of money to spend, go for 21%, but that takes a ton of cubes.
5) Rescroll your weapon. That extra 2-5 attack per scroll will help big time once you get more %attack. Also, make sure you finish your weapon when you do this. Also, don't ever enhance a weapon before finishing all slots. On weapons, you get more attack per star for every 50 attack you have on the weapon. When you enhance before the weapon is complete, you could be missing anywhere from 1-3 attack per star. Also, when you finish scrolling, enhance it to 15 stars. Even if it booms, the weapon is fairly cheap, so you could get a clean version for the fragment easily.
6) Get two 20/25% boss nebs for your weapon and secondary.
7) Cube your top. Its really a waste to have a legendary equip sitting at 9% stat. Try to get 18%+ str on it(two lines)
8) Cube your 6-9% stat unique equips. It's not that hard to get double line unique equips, and you're missing out on a lot of %str by not having them at double line. You're missing anywhere from 34%-63% str from this.
9) Get your epic equips to unique double line
10) Rescroll your heart.
11) Finish scrolling your RA (just 70% spell trace them tbh)
I would put to pick up tyrant shoes in here(Probably towards the top, maybe after #3), but you said you're already farming coins. I'm also not gonna talk about your nova shoes because of this. I wouldn't farm coins for a belt, as its inefficient. You'd be better off buying boots with coins, selling them, and buying a belt. Just buy a belt with mesos. It's not that necessary that you get one, but if you want to I'd probably do it around #7-9.

At this point you'll have full unique 12-15% gear. From here on, you have a couple things to work on, in any order that you want really.
1) Get triple line potentials on your weapon, secondary, and emblem
2) Get double line(or triple line if youre filthy rich irl) bpots on your weapon, secondary, and emblem
3) Rank up all of your gear to legendary and get them to double/triple line
4) Rank up all of your bpots to epic or higher, and get some %str/2 lines of attack/+2 str per 10 levels on them.
5) Get 4% nebs for all of your equips
6) Inno your RA/SW/Solid ring and prime them.

Reply February 5, 2016 - edited
TheBadLemon

Status resist is good for empress and dojo you need around 70% so that have 100% with a resistance potion

Reply February 1, 2016 - edited
Bryan500

@thebadlemon: haha, didnt realize u were also from MYBCKN =D. Thanks for the correction there regarding the fever time % increase, guess i didnt read the thing properly lol. I think 39% should still be doable (crosses fingers)

I'm aware of the huge difference in resale value between 2H sword and axe but its not really a big deal for me, I have no interest in maining any other class, I started playing the game on and off from back in like 2006 I think and i've never once changed mains from this guy which is literally the first character i created.

Regarding link skills I think i have all the important ones already: http://i.imgur.com/r5gvjaV.png
Need to work on cygnus knights tho for that status resist boost.

Reply February 1, 2016 - edited
TheBadLemon

@bryan500 I saw you craft a meister cube today LOL. The spell trace fever doesnt add 25% it becomes 25%. So with dilligence and guild you get 39% which is not bad. I think 2h sword is better than 2h axe cause of resale value but that is up to your preference. Also you should work on link skills if haven't already. Other than that your set my friend.

Reply February 1, 2016 - edited
Bryan500

@pancakesman: @thebadlemon: @generalstore:

Thanks for the responses guys. I dont know how i forgot to mention, my sw tattoo is what im working on right now hoping to get a tier up to unique at least and trying to get a decent pot on it. I already do commerci every day and I have dreadnought class vessel so i get denaros quite fast. I also do star planet and basically every solo-able boss almost every day, I actually maxed out my reward points for the month like a week ago lol.
So based on your suggestions heres what im planning to do:

1. Found a clean battle cleaver in fm today that already had unique pot on it. In roughly 3 weeks theres going to be another spell trace fever time during which i'm going to try and get it perfect scrolled with 15%s. I have terrible, terrible luck with 10% css so what im gonna do is try and stock up on at least 50-60k nx for safety scrolls by then which hopefully will be enough. I have max diligence so if im not mistaken I should be getting 15 + 10 + 25 = 50% chance of success per scroll during fever time. If I can afford to, i'll try and finish up at least some of my gollux as well.

2. In the meantime, after I get a decent pot on my sw tattoo i'll work on recubing my emblem for at least 18% atk and try to get at least a line of boss and atk on secondary. After I finish scrolling my new weap ill go for at least a line of boss and atk on that too.

3. Next is perfecting all gollux stuff (except belt since this is gonna be replaced).

4. By this point I should have gotten tyrant boots/ belt. So i'll focus on getting all 3 tyrants to around 4-5 stars.

That should keep me busy for quite a while. What do you guys think?

Reply February 1, 2016 - edited
GeneralStore

What is the amount of mesos/nx you're working with? And how far do you wish to fund your hero?

some simple upgrades you can make:
-Replace SW tat with a % str one. Run commerci daily and obtain your own if you wish to save a few mil. Don't forget to upgrade your ship if you can.
-Starforce your tyrant cape to at least 4 stars.
-Starforce your nova shoes. You will eventually replace with with tyrant, but unless you have a large amount of resources available to upgrade immediately, you will be stuck with the nova for a while.

Cubing Order usually goes: main wep potential (wep, 2ndary, emblem) > bonus wep pot > main glove pot > main acc pot > main armor pot > rest of bonus pot

Endgame equipment guide: Fafnir set 1h sword or axe, Superior gollux set with reinforced and solid gollux rings, SW eye and face (interchangeable with SoKable/tradeable equips if you wish to go that path) and all tyrant equips.

There is also the terminus shield, LGR, black tinker or absolabs shoulder (not sure which is better), and battle roid android and heart if you wish to go all out.

Rifle bullet, dark doom totems, beater medal for event accs.

Reply January 31, 2016 - edited
TheBadLemon

You are on the right track. Replacing your belt with tyrant belt is needed since you have double pendant. Tyrant boots as well. Your SW tattoo is doing nothing for you recube when you can. Now you might surprised but the biggest range upgrade is going to come from youre emblem, you want at least 18% att on main pot. At the same time you want more %boss at least 1 line and 1 line %att on weap and secondary. Why go with %DMG when its the same %boss but less and also it inflates your range. I would prioritize a better weap you need one perf scrolled with primes or 15% spell trace. After that you want to perf scroll your gollux the +4 att per scroll per item slot adds up very fast. Dont focus on your gloves as the previous post mentions, those are great until you can get tyrant gloves later down the line. I have about 4k more str than you but more than double your range at 1.8mill. Feel free to ask more questions if you have any.

Reply January 31, 2016 - edited
PancakesMan

Do star world and daily bosses for reward points. Then focus on hammering your gollux equips and getting protection scrolls to get more stars on your tyrants. Get a new high quality dimension glove and pass more 30% att traces on it. use safeties so you don't lose any slots. If you have money it will make this process quicker. Your weapon is legendary you could easily get a better %att potential on it, same as the medallion. Try to get a %att on the emblem instead of %damage. Those are the things that pop into my head.

Reply January 31, 2016 - edited