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Not terribly a lot, I put about 25ish Bil into my bishop including this reinforced set I have worked on and once I equip that I'll have about 300k self buffed. Doing daily follicle and links help a long way

[quote=Starrmanderz]How would you fund a bishop if you had 10-15bill. Would that be anywhere
Close to 500K per AR line?[/quote]

I gurantee you will.

[quote=Starrmanderz]How would you fund a bishop if you had 10-15bill. Would that be anywhere
Close to 500K per AR line?[/quote]

It's possible, but you just want to keep in mind that when you use the hyper Righteously Indignant that AR becomes a 1v1 move, damage decreases, and the number of lines increases. Maybe somewhere between 150-200k range will get you 500k per line of AR.

Anyways if you had 10-15bil what you want to do is get a full CRA set which consist of a [url=http://www.basilmarket.com/MapleStory-item-Highness-Dunwitch-Hat-11836.html]hat[/url], [url=http://www.basilmarket.com/MapleStory-item-Eagle-Eye-Dunwitch-Robe-11842.html]top[/url], [url=http://www.basilmarket.com/MapleStory-item-Trixter-Dunwitch-Pants-11847.html]bottom[/url], and a [url=http://www.basilmarket.com/MapleStory-item-Fafnir-Mana-Crown-11872.html]staff[/url] or [url=http://www.basilmarket.com/MapleStory-item-Fafnir-Mana-Taker-11871.html]wand[/url]. The full set should cost no more than 2bil clean (at least in Khaini it shouldn't). The only expensive things will be the pants and weapon (wands are cheaper if you don't mind a few less magic attack and never plan on playing a BaM). Wait for the nut shop thing that is coming out and chaos of goodness everything besides the weapon. I'm not sure how the new spell traces work, but I think one of the options is like 40% success for +7 wep/mag atk. If it's that, use spell traces on the weapon. Cube for %int on everything besides your weapon which you'll instead cube for %magic attack or %boss. Those items, scrolled and cubed of course, and link skills should be enough to get you the damage you desire. Anyways, for the rest of the mesos you can get all the tyrants clean now considering how much their prices have dropped and maybe a clean, but cubed 140 Gollux set if you don't want to farm coins yourself to get them.

How would you fund a bishop if you had 10-15bill. Would that be anywhere
Close to 500K per AR line?

Are u asking about funds to hit 500k-max RANGE (which is capped at 2 mil) or DAMAGE (assuming per line of AR which is capped at 50 mil but can be surpassed with certain skills and potentials).

Max damage is now 50m
For bishop it goes by extra 5m for VoA, and another extra 5m for the Epic Adventure (capping at 60m).

How much range would that be?
I can confifently claim having 2m~2m range wouldn't nesseccerily mean you hit max damage - which means you don't have a set range, you'd need much more.
How much funding?
Goos question, bishops have it harder than most classes.
I can tell you that I'm hitting up to 20m lines without infinity in dojo, and the amount of money I spent on the game is more than I'd like to admit.
In short - a lot.

hitting 500k-damage cap is quite a large difference if funds. You must be thinking of when the damage cap was at 1m.
I think it's now up to 50-60m for cap, but you can go above that with certain skills (ie, epic adventure).

As mentioned in the above posts, link skills will help you out a lot. It's best to get the characters to 120 for level 2 of the link skill, although level 70 is how you obtain level 1.

I have 513k range at the moment, and I'm hitting around 6m per line on regular mobs, it's lower for bosses but I can't recall what I hit on them (it also depends on the boss). I'll go check once the game is up. I'll also post my total matk/boss/%int, and the link skill mules I use.

@Finalily: Well now thats just badly worded because it reads "Permanently increases STR by 25, DEX by 25, INT by 25, LUK by 25, Max HP by 10%, and Max MP by 10%." for the lvl 2 link o.o And it doesn't actually shock me in the least that Scania has a few but not all of us play there, making ti a little harder to find resources on how end game bishops operate from several perspectives (Bossing tactics, what ranges have you doing what kind of damage with which skills and where that would cap etc)

@0o0Abbadon0o0: I don't play in gazed, SCANIA has quite a few (sonicteam4, shyally, and some others)

and the second point DOESNT add to base, I've checked myself.

[quote=Finalily]first of all, kanna and da don't add 10% range, they add 10% total damage
second, cannoneer link skill does not add stats to the base, it adds on top of the base. % stat is taken from the base and not the total.
third, I know quite a few funded bishops, so I wouldn't go to the extent of saying "a lot."[/quote]

First point is right, it is 10% total damage so thats my bad. Second point, I know it adds to base not the % stat its just a meh link unless you have the % stat to make it add a bit more than just 25 INT and 25 LUK, maybe I wasn't quite clear on that. Third, please show me them then, I feel lonely here in GAZED XD

[quote=Saiire]Okay, let me start off by saying I am a link noob.
Each of those characters have to be lvl 120? Or the main acc that you're linking to? o__o[/quote]

Links have to be on the same account and same world of the character that you want to link to. No links do not need to be level 120 to link, they only have to be level 70 to link. Level 70 is level 1 link, level 120 is level 2 link, and level 210 is level 3 link. Keep in mind that some link skill characters only have up to level 1 or level 2 link skills and that you can only have 12 links attached to a single character at a time. The time limit to move a link from one character to another resets at midnight PST.

[quote=0o0Abbadon0o0]@HealAllFear: Start with the obvious: Link Skills. Kanna and DA(?) add 10% range EACH at level 120 once linked, Xenon adds 10% all stat at level 120 and BT adds some %hp. %mp, %dmg, and %boss that i cant recall the numbers for. I also would recommend doing Lumi (adds %pdr) Phantom (%crit rate) DS (%boss damage) Mercedes if you want help grinding, and Maybe cannoner if you have some decent % INT since he adds +25 all stats. After doing those I would check back at your range and see where you are.
I'm working backwards and most of my range is actually from the scrolled out equips and potentials so far since this last event made scrolling up godly items a little easier than normal.

EDIT: Since I know a lot of people don't tend to fund a bishop you all are welcome to PM me to talk advice on gear and the like [/quote]

first of all, kanna and da don't add 10% range, they add 10% total damage
second, cannoneer link skill does not add stats to the base, it adds on top of the base. % stat is taken from the base and not the total.
third, I know quite a few funded bishops, so I wouldn't go to the extent of saying "a lot."

@HealAllFear: Start with the obvious: Link Skills. Kanna and DA(?) add 10% range EACH at level 120 once linked, Xenon adds 10% all stat at level 120 and BT adds some %hp. %mp, %dmg, and %boss that i cant recall the numbers for. I also would recommend doing Lumi (adds %pdr) Phantom (%crit rate) DS (%boss damage) Mercedes if you want help grinding, and Maybe cannoner if you have some decent % INT since he adds +25 all stats. After doing those I would check back at your range and see where you are.
I'm working backwards and most of my range is actually from the scrolled out equips and potentials so far since this last event made scrolling up godly items a little easier than normal.

EDIT: Since I know a lot of people don't tend to fund a bishop you all are welcome to PM me to talk advice on gear and the like

[quote=0o0Abbadon0o0]YES someone else funding a bishop <3! So, I've dropped a fair amount so far into mine (maybe 30-40bil) to iCoG perfect my RA set, +10 matk perfect my staff, 12 star said staff, reinforced gollux set and the other 3 rings, all three of my tyrants. This with most lvl 1 links (Kanna, Lumi, BT, Cannoner, couple others I can't remember) and lvl 2 Xenon link I self buff to about 490k~ BEFORE Arcane Aim kicks in which takes me closer to 600k~. I'm dropping 3-4m lines on Hard Gollux so far (246% Boss and 71% w/o lvl150 hyper activated and 79% with it on).

*Not including what I've spent on cubes so far*[/quote]

I've started attempting to fund my bishop, but I've only gotten up to 121k~129k with all buffs and Arcane Aim. Getting good equipment is pretty pricy, and I would try to do it myself, but I don't really know how. I would really like to at least hit 300k. Any recommendations?

YES someone else funding a bishop <3! So, I've dropped a fair amount so far into mine (maybe 30-40bil) to iCoG perfect my RA set, +10 matk perfect my staff, 12 star said staff, reinforced gollux set and the other 3 rings, all three of my tyrants. This with most lvl 1 links (Kanna, Lumi, BT, Cannoner, couple others I can't remember) and lvl 2 Xenon link I self buff to about 490k~ BEFORE Arcane Aim kicks in which takes me closer to 600k~. I'm dropping 3-4m lines on Hard Gollux so far (246% Boss and 71% w/o lvl150 hyper activated and 79% with it on).

*Not including what I've spent on cubes so far*