phantom: where 2 go with it
ok hi.. i've just hit 145 with my phantom and i was wondering what i should do next. it's my main (although ive gotten to 150 before with an xenon) and my second highest level character ever lol. im not sure what i should do next.
my range is 35-37k buffed, and im using all basic phantom links + hyper body + cross surge.
for bossing i use milles + final cut, as it seems to do more damage than rapid fire (and i hate the rapid fire animation lmao)
equips: im rocking a pensalir set currently, with veteran crusader pendant/belt/shoulder and a frozen carte. ive got a clean faf set + cane for when i hit 150, im planning on spell tracing 70% and starforcing each part to like.. 10 stars, as well as starforcing/scrolling the pensalir cape/boots/gloves to 5 stars. this isnt endgame, ofc, but im thinking itll be enough to carry me for a little while (im thinking til level like.. 180 or so??) if not, if theres a better thing to do, what is it?
for mesos im currently elite hunting and selling drops + cubic blades from elite monsters. idk what else i should do to make money tbh
training wise im soloing normal zak and easy horntail - normal zak usually gives about 25% exp while horntail usually gives about 12% altogether. i also do all five DI runs, which nets one or two levels per run.
so yeah.. what other bosses can i kill and what should i do to increase my range? keep in mind i dont have a lot of money (although as im getting a job soon, i may be able to get some nx lmao)
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lmk if you need clean cra thief things
About the stolen skills: I can't see why use Hyper Body over Rage, Rage increases your weapon attack as well as giving some damage absorbtion, so it isn't bad for your survivability either. Cross Surge increases your range based on your HP ratio, not how much HP you actually have (so a Phantom with full HP with get the same boost as a Dark Knight with full HP, even if the DrK has far more HP), so there is no need to pair it with Hyper Body. For bossing... I really should do the math and figure which combination is the best, but Final Cut + Milles should work just fine.
About the equipment: It would be wonderful if Nexon would announce a Spell Trace Fever so you could 70% your CRA gear and not worrying about failed slots too much (specially on the cane - the higher the attack on weapons, the more Star Force increases it), but unless you get unlucky on something, don't worry about it too much (but if you need to, you can spend some RP to buy a Perfect Innocence Scroll and start again), and I'd recommend Star Forcing up to 10 stars if you have the money (it's not terribly expensive to 10 star an item, but keeping it at 6~7 stars isn't bad either).
For the gloves, use the DiPQ Dimension Gloves instead of Pensalir, which you should be able to get yourself with some luck (the boxes can be huge trolls and give your all pieces except the one you really need). For the cape, you can get Nova capes from easy Magnus I believe, but until you can actually solo him (not too hard, but you don't have enough range yet), I'd say the pensalir cape is in fact your best option, although I wouldn't bother going past 6~7 stars unless you have some extra cash lying around. For shoes, you can get Nova boots from easy Magnus as well, but a better option would be to do Root Abyss with a friend (or group of friends, whatever you need to kill the bosses), you can't fight the bosses alone anyways; use the coins you get to buy '[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh0JAZgFL7Q]Sealed Boxes (Shoes, Gloves)[/url]' and hope you get an 'always tiers up when cubed' pair of shoes, use the cubes from the Reward Points shop to hopefully get 9%+ LUK (the shoes will be legendary after the 3rd cube, after all) on it.
Finally, for the accessories... You probably already have a few pieces of the 'boss set' acessories from doing Zakum and Horntail (e.g. Condensed Power Crystal, Aquatic Letter) and hopefully one with 3%+ LUK on it, but what you really want is the SW (Sweet Water) accesories (Glasses and Tatoo) and a Gollux set, which you can farm yourself by doing Commerci trade runs and farming Gollux coins... I hope you enjoy long questlines, the prequests are known to take quite a while in terms of both time and patience. For the SW Glasses and Tatoo, it takes a while to actually farm enough Denaros (the currency in Commerci) to buy either of them, but they begin at Epic potential already and are level 160 (4th tier of potential, so 7% LUK epic lines instead of 6%, for example), use the cubes from the Reward Shop to get the right %stat or sell it if you get the wrong stat.
For Gollux, you have two options: The cheapest and quickest way is to use the Cracked (lowest tier) accesories, which you can farm yourself (the ring and earrings are bought with coins, the belt and pendant are drops) or the Reinforced set, which is the second best and very cost efficient (15m~20m for the belt or the pendant, compared to 400m for the Superior Gollux belt or 1b for the Pendant), but you can't get the belt or pendant yourself. I personally recommend the Reinforced set. I apologize for not explaning neither Gollux nor Commerci properly, but you should be able to find everything you need on YouTube or Google, anyways.
About the bosses: I'm not quite sure how powerful each boss really is, but you should at least try Easy Von Leon (and Prison Guard Ani), Ranmaru, Normal Hilla and, of course, easy Gollux. Normal Horntail, Chaos Zakum and maybe Easy Magnus should be the next steps once you get some better equipment (which shouldn't take too long).
Start doing Commerci and Gollux prequests, both require you to do Crimson Heart Castle prequest first. Commerci is where you will be farming cubic blades and cubes (along with SW Glasses and SW Tattoo) from, while Gollux is where you will be getting your Gollux equips.