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How do I get the empress set? 1

Save for empress set and spell trace an empress claw. do dipq and level alchemy to 5 and extract the dipq drops for superior crystals. f

I'm in Bera though. Do you have a char in Bera?
Do you guys know what monsters drop the Fafnir claw?

I can get you started on a few items, add me as a friend, I do gollux everyday and I'll give you any reinforced gear that drops.

You have a lot to improve on. First things first, you should probably start off by getting a decent lvl 140 or 150 (preferably fafnir) claw and scrolling it with spell traces so you at least have a claw that's better than 75 atk. The same can be done with a half-decent glove, like the Dimension Invade glove, which starts at 8 atk (unless you get the High Quality one) and has 7 slots unhammered. Spell Traces work the same as your glove atk scrolls except the +2 atk ones have a 70% chance of working, so they're usually better. You can easily get a half decent claw and ~20 atk glove this way.
InTheReal explained it quite a bit better than I can. I suggest buying a bunch of them and using them on your stuff. Ch9 fm19, at the time of typing this, has someone selling Spell Traces for 1,877 mesos each, so less than 10m mesos for a stack of 5k.

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Welcome back to Maple!

Considering you're a bit short on mesos, I would highly recommend farming elite bosses for good drops which you can then sell for a decent chunk of mesos. This should be your first priority!

Once you've made some more mesos (make sure you're continuing to train your way up to level 150), you should be able to purchase a clean chaos root abyss (CRA) set - that is, the royal assassin bonnet (hat), eagle eye assassin shirt (top) and trixter assassin pants. In case you didn't know, some equips have set effects (if you equip a combination of certain items, you will receive bonus stats) and the CRA set is one of them. When you equip these three CRA equips, you will unlock +50 attack.

Another option is to use your mesos to purchase an empress set (level 140 set). It is a cheaper alternative and it will let you focus on upgrading your other equipment. I would recommend you to have a look at both sets (CRA and empress) and decide which will be the cheaper alternative, especially in the long run.

I see that you have the silver maple leaf emblem. I would recommend you to finish the explorer book and get the gold maple leaf emblem. It's a minor boost to your range, but it's free! Also, you can cube this emblem further down the track for %ATT and %BOSS - it's one of the three equips that you can cube for attack and boss potentials. The other two are your weapon (obviously) and your secondary weapon (your death sender charm). These three equips have the potential to increase your range immensely once you cube them! As for your other equips, your aim for now is to get around 3-6% LUK on each of them.

It's also worthwhile to finish the long gollux quest line (if you haven't already) so you can start killing easy gollux once you're able to (I'm not sure if your current range is good enough - maybe try to get around 30k first). I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. The good thing about gollux is you can collect the green coins and purchase a superior gollux ring and earrings down the track, and this will help to increase your range a lot!

Apart from these tips, I would highly recommend to also take advantage of events, especially ones with coin shops as you can purchase great stuff as well as maybe even selling coin services (where you sell the coins you've collected to other Maplers for 'x' amount of mesos).

Good luck and make sure you're having fun! After all, it's just a game!

Do daily easy zak/zak for pots which you can sell for like 500k-1.5m cash. Get cracked gollux necklace and belt for like 1m a piece. Get empress claw and use things called spell traces and select 70% option.