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[quote=Satoshi1234]Judging from what browsing in the FM showed me, I'd say that the weapon is the biggest concern of them all. XD[/quote]
Hardly the problem. The only cape that is cheap is the Thief cape because it drops from the instructors, whereas all other capes are dropped (as a recipe) by Empress. Axes and Blunt Weapons are among the cheaper Empress weapons.

@SombraManx
lol those came out with the introduction of magnus.
magnus came out after 150 gears, after angelic burster, after hyperskills, after kaiser, after luminous... thats a long time to come.

and how is my argument invalid?
be realistic. re-read his post.
if he's rolling in those gears now, and getting a 140 cape is as difficult as he makes it sound to be, then getting [i]another[/i] exclusive cygnus drop only, isnt' going to be anywhere close to easy for him.
its not like just anyone can waltz in there and kill empress.
you're relying on a small population of hackers who are able to go solo it (who will attempt to monopolize prices for self profit), an even smaller population of people who is able to kill it legitimately (who will be focused on getting the shoulderpads for themselves and runners).
you won't be seeing any exclusive cygnus only drops popping up in fm as often as you did before now that her KB has been modified. no more phantoms just randomly soloing it whenever they feel like it. heck, even the 140 gears itself will be seeing a smaller quantity of them because v2's are going to be that much more difficult to deal with due to the inability to KB the mage and i thikn one other.

if you feel that grabbing that stuff is still a easy task for him, then oh why stop there, just suggest everyone to replace 140 set items with the 150 gears. o_O

[quote=chickenpoodl]if i were you, i'd focus my efforts on finishing ranked dojo. if you can complete it, you can screw the whole 140 set bonus restriction.
you wont' have to bother with a rediculously expensive cape, you wouldn't have to bother with making a glove...
all that money saved can go towards your other gears, such as a really nice weapon.
that overall is a good place to start however, but you have to think, if you no longer need to go for full 140 set, is an overall better than top/bottom combination?
thers a lot of things to think about for your upgrades. and work from the top down, meaning most important things first, which is obviously that weapon.
see what you can make of ranked dojo runs, and decide after that.[/quote]

invalid argument, soon in one of those tempest patch parts, empress set will change to a 7 parts set (adding a shoulder decoration) you can wear the shoulder and still having the 30% boss dmg bonus and also wear dojo gloves for extra dmg

TS, I suggest you to do it,

if i were you, i'd focus my efforts on finishing ranked dojo. if you can complete it, you can screw the whole 140 set bonus restriction.
you wont' have to bother with a rediculously expensive cape, you wouldn't have to bother with making a glove...
all that money saved can go towards your other gears, such as a really nice weapon.
that overall is a good place to start however, but you have to think, if you no longer need to go for full 140 set, is an overall better than top/bottom combination?
thers a lot of things to think about for your upgrades. and work from the top down, meaning most important things first, which is obviously that weapon.
see what you can make of ranked dojo runs, and decide after that.

10% Str empress overall is worth 800m. It's not that easy making one you know?

kk havent been on in a while so the prices are all new to me, but ill keep searching, but the thing i need the most would be that dam lionheart cape T_T, but i would not mind cubing for my own stats, but its better to buy it already with nice potentials.

[quote=nguyen100092]imma get potential empress sets so i can cube them when i can, and to me the weapon is easier to get than the cape sicne the cape is like 1.2-1.6b while my weapon is around 750-800m depending on the stats. Btw there is this empress overall for 800m it has 8atk 10%str is it worth is or less?[/quote]

i'd buy that for 600 if i were u

imma get potential empress sets so i can cube them when i can, and to me the weapon is easier to get than the cape sicne the cape is like 1.2-1.6b while my weapon is around 750-800m depending on the stats. Btw there is this empress overall for 800m it has 8atk 10%str is it worth is or less?

get empress set, scroll everything with chaos, cube it to at least 6-9% str per item (since you are not that rich)

profit (?)

[quote=sumyounguy]Go for emp set. Your gear isn't that great and a clean emp set adds tons of str and attack. Assuming you can afford the emp set. Cape is still pricey.[/quote]

Judging from what browsing in the FM showed me, I'd say that the weapon is the biggest concern of them all. XD

Go for emp set. Your gear isn't that great and a clean emp set adds tons of str and attack. Assuming you can afford the emp set. Cape is still pricey.

I'd upgrade. This set has 20% str and 15att (excluding accessories), while a clean Empress set has 30% bossing damage and 40-ish att, along with a bunch of other goodies (e.g. +2 to all skill levels). I think it might be cheaper to upgrade to a clean Emp set, as well.
You might lose out a bit on damage against regular mobs, but your bossing damage will improve like crazy. (This is assuming a clean, average Emp. set.)