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0:00Hey, welcome back. The release event has
0:02concluded and we are closing in on the
0:04fourth week of the game. Before the game
0:05came out, I released a road map video
0:07providing a play-by-play of my plans for
0:09the first two week of the game on my way
0:11to 2800 item level. Having now reached
0:13the end of that plan, I thought I would
0:14go back and explain the exact
0:16step-by-step of each item level bracket
0:18of what I did as well as why I did it.
0:20This video will be split in two
0:21segments. The first one will explain
0:23each item level bracket as I just said,
0:25going over what I did with the potential
0:27plan B's. And the second part of the
0:28video will provide the reasoning as to
0:30why I went for certain pieces of gear in
0:31certain slots instead of others. So,
0:33just to preface before we begin, this is
0:35my current gear. As indicated in the
0:36title, I only pay for the sub as well as
0:38the battle pass. And linked in the
0:40description below will be the link to my
0:41character page if you want to look at
0:42things a bit more in detail. Now, with
0:44that out of the way, let's get into the
0:46journey. First is the bracket between 0
0:47and 1400. You're pretty much just
0:49following the yellow MSU quest all the
0:51way to 45. And once at 45, you go back
0:53and do all of the expansion content on
0:55the map, including all sealed dungeons,
0:57strongholds, as well as feathers,
0:58including in the abyss area. And the
1:01reason why you want to do the one in the
1:02abyss is because the monolith in the
1:04abyss provide aspect bolts, which while
1:06they do not provide any PE stats,
1:08provide item level, 36 of them to all of
1:11your characters. Once done, it's time to
1:12get into some side content. First is
1:14Shugo Festival. This pops at the top of
1:16every hour and you will be given three
1:18allowances per day per server, as well
1:20as some extra allowances within duty
1:21quests. These will be pretty important
1:23early on because they will provide
1:24century road tokens that can be spent in
1:27the festival shop. Early on, this can be
1:29used to buy Daevanion crystal, which
1:30each provide one item level. And there
1:32is a lot to collect here. Now, you will
1:33want to start doing this once you're 45
1:35as the rewards from Shugo scale from
1:37level. But as soon as you're 45, you're
1:39doing this every hour to start
1:40collecting these. Another piece of
1:41content that unlocks at 45 is nightmare.
1:43This one just requires to kill a couple
1:44of bosses and each boss has 10 level of
1:46difficulty that you will have to do
1:48successively. Clearing these nightmare
1:49fights will provide phantasmal fragments
1:51that can once again be spent in the
1:53trade shop in order to buy more
1:55Daevanion crystals, which will once
1:56again provide iLvl. Additionally, all of
1:58the equipment obtained through the MSQ
2:00will need to be tapped up to +3 and need
2:02to be embedded with lesser mana stones.
2:04And once you've done all of this, you
2:05will be 1400 iLvl. Now, the reason why
2:071400 is important is because 1400 is the
2:10threshold in order to start doing
2:12two-star dungeons. Means that without
2:13having spent any dungeon energy, you
2:15will have skipped to the first tier of
2:16dungeons straight into the second one.
2:18Now, from there, we enter the second
2:19bracket, which is 1400 to 1600. Now,
2:22this one is pretty straightforward. The
2:23TLDR is that each pieces of 70 pieces of
2:27equipment that we get will give us 50
2:29iLvl over the piece of MSQ equipment we
2:31have. Now, it doesn't matter where you
2:33get that equipment, whether it's from
2:34dungeons, crafting, or doing the world
2:37boss Gatura that spawns twice a day. In
2:39my case, what I focused early on because
2:41I didn't start crafting until a bit
2:42later and I didn't get very lucky with
2:44world bosses, is this. First, I went
2:46into the exploration mode of Vakron.
2:48Now, what's neat about the exploration
2:49modes is that, while they have pretty
2:51shitty loot tables that has bountiful
2:53and no crafting ingredients, they have a
2:55very quick fitting pity. And if you
2:57claim the end chest three [music] times,
2:58which means doing two runs with one run
3:00double claiming the chest and the second
3:02one only claiming it once, you will be
3:04able to pick a piece of loot. Now, what
3:06you want to do is you do want to run
3:07that triple claim, but you do not want
3:09to claim the exploration piece. And this
3:11is something that will come back later.
3:13The reason why you don't want to claim
3:14it is because after doing this, we are
3:16moving on to the conquest version of
3:18Vakron, which has the regular pity that
3:19requires you to run the dungeon 11
3:21times, as well as the regular loot
3:22table. And we're going to do one round
3:25of pity for this. So, exactly [music] 11
3:27runs in order to get one piece of
3:29guaranteed loot. Now, statistically
3:30speaking, doing one round should have
3:33you drop at least one piece of equipment
3:35throughout plus the pity game, which
3:36will be two pieces of equipment. After
3:38this is said and done, you can go back
3:40to the exploration page and claim the
3:41pity for a piece of gear that you
3:43haven't obtained from the dungeon. And
3:44at the bare minimum, you should have
3:45three pieces of equipment. Now, this
3:47combined with the continued farm of the
3:49Divine Crystals from the Sugar Games as
3:51well as the Nightmare will push you well
3:52past 1,600. Do know that after you've
3:55claimed everything from conquest, as
3:56well as the X-portion mode, it is safe
3:58to enhance all of them to plus 10 and
3:59[music] tap intermediate mana stones,
4:01which you will have obtained from the
4:02MSQ and later from Ascension trial. That
4:04once done, you will be past 1,600, which
4:06will allow you to enter transcendent
4:08dungeon. These provide Arcana cards and
4:10are divided into dungeons, Arcanas and
4:12Deuce. Each of those have their own pool
4:14of cards and there [music] is five cards
4:16total to farm. Deuce provides the
4:17compass and the bell and Arcanas
4:19provides the parchment and the mirror,
4:21with both of them having a chance to
4:22drop a chalice as well. Now, what you're
4:24going to want to do with these is you're
4:25going to want to do each of them until
4:27you get their respective card slots as
4:29well as drop a chalice from them. Now,
4:31again, on average, this should take
4:32about two runs of each in order to fill
4:35all slots and each white card will
4:36provide 20 item for a total of 100 item.
4:39Now, from there, assuming you have
4:41exactly three pieces of equipment plus
4:43the white Arcana cards with the plus 10
4:45background with intermediate should be
4:46between 1820 to 1850. The next step to
4:50reach is 1,900 in order to reach
4:52transcendent stage two. Now, from here,
4:53there's a couple of things to consider.
4:55Now, what I did personally to finish
4:56pushing to 1,900 is that I crafted. Now,
4:59from the get-go, I made my main
5:01characters and I made three alts total.
5:03And while doing the background step that
5:04I just talked about, I also started
5:06farming dungeons on my alts in order to
5:08farm [music] kinah and crafting
5:09materials in order to feed to my main.
5:11Additionally, I was doing my daily kinah
5:12cap on my main, which basically involves
5:14just finding a monster dense area
5:16anywhere in the world and just going to
5:18town until you reach 1 million kinah
5:20farm, which additionally provides you
5:21with gold items as well as artisan
5:23stones that can be sold on the auction
5:24house for additional kinah, which then
5:25allowed me to start crafting rings. So,
5:27this is what I did and this is what I
5:29recommend doing. And the reason why is
5:31because the entire goal here is to spend
5:33as little energy on the main as possible
5:35before reaching end game to maximize the
5:37chances to make it to the later item
5:39bracket with as much energy as possible.
5:42So, it did take a few days of me not
5:44running any content on on main and
5:45instead just farming on the overworld,
5:47doing dungeons on my alts, feeding
5:49Keena, developing my crafts, and making
5:51a couple of crafted items. Now, do keep
5:52in mind, obviously, that if you do get
5:54lucky with the world bosses,
5:55>> [music]
5:55>> it will be much easier to skip those
5:57steps. Now, the other option, obviously,
5:59is just to go back into background and
6:00to do another round of pity to get at
6:02least one or two pieces of gear on your
6:04way there. But, additionally, there is
6:05also the chance that you may have gotten
6:07lucky with your previous background run
6:08and you have more pieces of gear than
6:09anticipated. The number that you need to
6:11keep in mind is that in order to make it
6:13to 1900, we'll need six pieces of item
6:16level 70 gear
6:17>> [music]
6:18>> to plus 10 with intermediates alongside
6:20your white cards. Once at 1900, the next
6:22step is quite simple. Just go back to
6:24transcendents and do the same thing you
6:25did at stage one in stage two. This
6:27time, the aim is to get every card slot
6:30green with ideally one or two blue card
6:32drops, although these are a bit random.
6:34If you are trying to get two blue card
6:36drops, what I would personally recommend
6:37is that as soon as you get one blue card
6:39drop from either Arcanist or Deuce, you
6:41switch to doing the other one to avoid
6:43getting a duplicate of what you already
6:44have because that would be the worst.
6:46And raising the card levels to green
6:47will once again increase the total item
6:49level across every card by 100 up to
6:512000 with each blues providing 20 item
6:54level additional. And once again, if you
6:56keep crafting or keep getting items from
6:58world bosses, you will be getting
6:59additional item level that will allow
7:00you to skip the blue card if need be.
7:02Now, after the item level 2000 has been
7:04crossed, this opens up the door to
7:06something very specific, which is
7:07Ascension Trial hard mode at item level
7:092000. Now, the reason why this is
7:11important is because there is a seasonal
7:13mission that is tied to that item level
7:15of Ascension Trial. If you go into
7:17challenge season and Tower of Trial, the
7:19Tower of Trial six achievement
7:21specifically, which requires you to
7:22obtain a final score of 4000 in
7:24Ascension Trial, which is reachable in
7:26the 2000 item level version, will
7:28provide you with three mysterious
7:30crystals. Now, as an additional note, if
7:31you are struggling to reach a score of
7:334000, which some classes may, do keep in
7:35mind that speed is king in order to
7:38increase your score. So, if you are
7:39struggling to get there, just feel free
7:40to pop battle scrolls, use food, use
7:43better quality power shards, you fully
7:45spec into DPS to try to respect up the
7:47mobs in the room in order to clear them
7:48as fast as possible. The faster you
7:50clear the dungeon, the easier it's going
7:51to be to reach 4,000. Now, with that
7:53done, you will have three mysterious
7:55crystals. Now, you may be wondering, why
7:57does crystals I important? If you go
7:58into the Arcana menu and you go into
8:00transmute, you will find a menu that
8:02allows you to craft the gold Arcana
8:04cards. And those gold Arcana cards
8:06provide 80 item level. Now,
8:08specifically, the Arcana cards that
8:09interest us here is the Chalice of
8:11Vigor, not Magic, Vigor. And the reason
8:14why we want the Vigor one is because the
8:15Vigor one gives us time, which is combat
8:17speed, whereas the Magic one gives
8:19space, which is movement speed. And in
8:21order to craft that card, you will need
8:23five of those mysterious crystals as
8:25well as 2 million Keena. Now, you may be
8:27cracked at math and you may notice the
8:29fact that we only have three crystals
8:30and not five, so we are short two. And
8:32that is true. The question is, how do
8:33you get those final two crystals? Well,
8:35the first option is in the extract menu
8:38of the Arcana menu, you can actually
8:39sacrifice cards in order to craft an
8:41additional crystal. Now, depending on
8:43how many time you've done transcendence
8:44two in order to get your card, you may
8:46have enough filler cards in order to
8:48craft one crystal. If that's the case,
8:50great. But even if that's the case, you
8:51will be short. And the area where you
8:53want to get your other crystal, or the
8:55area where you want to get both crystals
8:57you don't have enough Arcana cards to
8:58sacrifice, is the season shop in the
9:00growth menu. Now, here you will be able
9:01to buy mysterious crystals for 25,000
9:04season coins, which if you've played the
9:05game up to this point, you will have
9:06more than enough. So, from here, you
9:08either buy one or two, depending on how
9:10many you need. And yes, don't worry, you
9:12will have enough coins to buy the wings
9:13at the end of the season, even if you
9:14buy that, it's completely okay. You get
9:16them, you go back into the Arcana menu,
9:18and you transmute your chalice. Now, you
9:19will be prompted to choose one skill
9:21when crafting your chalice. My
9:23recommendation for the skill to pick is
9:24pick your main bread and butter skill
9:26for your class in order to reach level
9:2816 on a combined with your wide or green
9:30arcanas. On Templar, that's judgment. On
9:32Gladiator, that's Overhead Slam. On
9:34Ranger, that's Deadshot. On Assassin,
9:36that's Hard Goal. On Soul Lord, that's
9:38Wish of Concentration. On Spirit Master,
9:40that's elemental fusion, on chanter
9:41that's star crush, and cleric is the one
9:43where I would actually provide a bit of
9:45a hot take when it comes to which one to
9:46make. But for that, let's go on my
9:48cleric real quick just to explain. So,
9:49some people may advise to get
9:51condemnation to get condemnation to 16
9:52for the guaranteed multi-hit. The thing
9:54is, in order to equip that multi-hit,
9:56you will have to remove the 12% damage
9:59on bosses. The thing is multi-hit is a
10:00proc that adds about 10 to 12% damage to
10:03the skill. So, you're really you're
10:05removing a 12% damage node to add
10:07another 12 damage node. It doesn't make
10:09much sense. Now, once you get
10:10condemnation to 20, having both of these
10:12combined is great. But rushing
10:13condemnation 16 isn't that big of a
10:15deal. Condemnation 14 is enough. [music]
10:17Now, the other DPS skill where it
10:19actually makes sense to be level 16 is
10:20judgment thunder because level 16 quite
10:23literally double the damage from it.
10:24Now, the thing is, as you get more
10:26combat speed and more CDR and you keep
10:28increasing the level of earth
10:29punishment, you're actually dropping
10:31judgment thunder from your rotation
10:33instead only doing LMB with condemnation
10:35and your dots. As a result, judgment
10:36thunder really only helps you when
10:38you're farming trash packs, which can be
10:40valuable, but would not [music]
10:41necessarily be my choice when it comes
10:43to a skill to pick going into end game
10:45to help you make end game more
10:47comfortable. Now, the recommendation I
10:49would have for a cleric going into end
10:51game and crafting that gold arcanas just
10:52for the sake to get eye level and
10:54pushing one skill to 16 is actually
10:55radiant recovery. And the reason why
10:57that is is because the level 16 node on
10:59radiant recovery is plus 5% HP restored.
11:02Now, the way that works is basically it
11:04adds an additional proc to radiant
11:06recovery that heals HP equivalent to the
11:08value of 5% of the HP of the target hit.
11:11So, it scales differently based on the
11:12target hit, right? So, if you're hitting
11:13a tank that has more HP, they will
11:15actually get healed more on top of the
11:16basic value. And I think that's
11:18interesting with that node is that it
11:19also scales with your attack and your
11:20healing boost, which means that this is
11:22actually quite massive. It more than
11:23triples your healing output with the
11:25radiant recovery, which going into the
11:27end game, going to dungeons like
11:29ferocious worm den or transcendent's
11:31four, you're going to be happy to have
11:33these nodes, especially if you're
11:34pugging. Oh yeah, for cleric
11:35specifically, I would recommend picking
11:37the chalice of vigor with radiant
11:38recovery and then picking the 5% HP as
11:41well as the one consuming debuffs node
11:42in order to make it a bit easier to
11:44transition into end game. Now, with that
11:45tangent done and your gold chalice
11:47crafted, you should be to 2100 item
11:49level or at least very, very close to
11:51it. If you're just shy of 2100, don't
11:53hesitate to tap some of your blue
11:55equipment a few levels. [music] Don't
11:56forget to socket intermediate materials
11:58to all of your new gold acquired. You
12:00also have the option to enhance your
12:01arcanas a bit with each level providing
12:04you with one item level. And if you get
12:05real desperate, you can spend some AP
12:08into the growth category of the abyss
12:09shop to buy some effort tile. Like as
12:11you can see, I actually bought four
12:12tiles to push to 2100 originally. And
12:15once I'm 2100, it's time for the Honden
12:17gulag. Now, some people may advise you
12:19to do five temple. I would absolutely
12:21not do that and I will get into why in a
12:23little bit. I would personally go into
12:25Frost Honden and [music] we are once
12:26again doing exactly what we did with
12:28Viperon, which is the mission mode first
12:30and the end chest three times. [music]
12:31Do not pick up the piece and then enter
12:33Frost Honden conquest. Except this time,
12:36instead of doing one round of PD, we are
12:38doing at least three. And at the end of
12:40each PD, we are picking the ticket. And
12:42the reason why is because once we reach
12:44three tickets, we will be able to craft
12:46the new Acorn God, which will be our end
12:48game God for a pretty long time. Now,
12:50the goal with Frost Honden is to pick up
12:52the entirety of the set before moving on
12:54to anything else. [music] And the reason
12:56why that is is because we will pretty
12:57much not be upgrading to anything else
13:00until either the very end of the season
13:01or season two in general. But more on
13:03that in just a bit. So, basically
13:04running at least three PD of this,
13:06ideally within odds, you should have the
13:09full set by the end of it. If you reach
13:10the end of the PD and you and you hit
13:12your third ticket and you're missing one
13:14piece of gear, then you can go back to
13:15the exploration and pick the piece that
13:17you're missing. If you are missing more
13:18than one piece, however, what I would
13:20recommend is actually go for a fourth PD
13:22without crafting the god and just
13:24holding onto your tickets. This way, if
13:26[music] you happen to drop a guard, you
13:27can then use these tickets to craft an
13:29armor box to pick up the piece of gear
13:31that you're actually missing. But, the
13:32end goal is that with the mix of the
13:34tickets, the LPD, and the expiration,
13:36you will want to exit ferocious homeland
13:37with the entire set. Now, another small
13:40piece of advice I would provide is all
13:42the way throughout all of this, whenever
13:43you get a new piece of ferocious
13:45homeland, do not enhance it all the way.
13:46Just tap it to plus three, maybe plus
13:48five. Like, don't put big mana stones
13:50inside of it because if you happen to
13:52drop a duplicate of the piece that has
13:54much better soul binds, then you will
13:56rather want to transition to that. So,
13:57don't hard commit into every single
13:59piece that you drop immediately until
14:01you're done with the dungeon entirely.
14:03Now, alongside those ferocious homeland
14:04runs, you will be getting a lot of kina
14:06and a lot of crafting ingredients. And,
14:08alongside running a couple of alts, as
14:10well as doing the daily kina cap still,
14:12you will have accumulated enough wealth
14:14to continue crafting. Now, whether
14:15you've made more accessories or you
14:17actually bit the bullet and made a
14:18weapon, once you're done farming all of
14:20the armor as well as the guard and have
14:21crafted [music] at least three pieces of
14:23crafted gear to item level 70, you will
14:25want to have tapped all of the homeland
14:27equipment to plus 10, pushed at least
14:29three pieces to amplification level one,
14:31and tapped superior mana stones into all
14:33of the pieces of homeland equipment.
14:34Now, if superior mana stones are too
14:36expensive on the auction house and you
14:37don't know where to get them, you can
14:38actually get a bunch of them through
14:40easy-to-do achievements on all your
14:41characters. If you go into achievement,
14:43expiration, and strongholds, simply
14:45completing strongholds will have given
14:47you 10 superior mana [music] stones.
14:49And, if you go into progress, as well as
14:50complete, these two achievements right
14:52there that involve the Byzel and Daniel,
14:55David and Bold, can be completed on
14:57every characters and will provide you
14:58with superior soul stones, as well as
15:00superior mana stones. And, in order to
15:01complete these, it's pretty simple. You
15:03just unspect the full two bolts
15:05completely and you fully spec these and
15:07you will get a bunch of the superior
15:09mana stones for each character you have.
15:10Once you have them, you don't even need
15:11to like necessarily look at the stats
15:13you're getting. You just want to tap
15:14them once per piece of gear just to get
15:16the item level from the mana stone. And,
15:17once you've done all of that, you will
15:18be 2,500 item level. And, from there,
15:20assuming you've finished all of your
15:22hold and gear, once again, you pivot
15:23into doing transcendent full dungeons,
15:25as well as going back and doing all of
15:26the horizontal content that you may have
15:28skipped on the way there, including
15:29pets, genius insights, running your soul
15:31binds better, etc., etc., in order to
15:33increase your combat power. Now, the
15:35goal at 2,500 will obviously be to fill
15:37all of your card slots with gold, but
15:39also to start working on your actual end
15:41game build, and go for the right cards
15:42with the right skills in order to reach
15:44your level 20s and 60s. But, that is the
15:46topic for another video. And while
15:47you're doing this and you're continuing
15:48to make gains on the keen inside, we'll
15:50want to finish crafting all of your
15:51accessories, as well as your weapon, and
15:53start pushing them into the next step,
15:55[music] as well as amplification levels.
15:57And with all of them crafted and at
15:58least three of them upgraded to dark
16:00dragon, you will be reaching 2,800 and
16:02be luder ready. Now, this is the end of
16:04the path for the climb to 2,800, but I
16:06already know you may be having
16:07questions, or you may already have left
16:09some angry comments in the video. "Oh my
16:11god, you're full of Oh my god,
16:12crafting is only for whales. Oh my god,
16:14just do find apple."
16:16I'm I'm about to go in there to actually
16:17explain the logic behind all all of what
16:19I'm doing, as well as why find apple is
16:21a trap and why crafting is not as
16:23inaccessible as people make it to be.
16:25So, first, let's take a look at the
16:27reason why I am avoiding accessory and
16:30weapon dungeons entirely. Now, something
16:32that you need to understand is that your
16:33main's energy is by far the most
16:35precious resource that you have, because
16:37energy on your main directly correlate
16:39to getting drops that are important to
16:41your progression. Once you're out of
16:42energy, you're out of runs. And once
16:44you're out of runs, you can't make gains
16:45anymore, which is why the route I took
16:47was so hell-bent on spend on spending as
16:49little energy as possible on unneeded
16:52content. You may have noticed that I
16:53skipped transcendence level three, and I
16:55will come back on that. But, anyways,
16:57first,
16:57>> [music]
16:57>> here's the reason why I'm skipping the
16:59weapon and accessory dungeon. When you
17:00run a dungeon and you open the end
17:01chest, this is the loot pool you're
17:03looking at. You have a 7.5% chance to
17:05claim a gold piece of equipment from
17:07that dungeon, which is pretty abysmal.
17:09Like, you're basically looking at one
17:10piece of gear every 12 to 15 run on
17:12average. It's pretty bad, right? Which
17:14amounts to 800 to 1,000 energy in order
17:17to guarantee a piece of equipment. Now,
17:18the funny part about the accessory and
17:20weapon dungeons is if you get lucky
17:21enough to hit that 7.5% or one of the
17:243.7% of the mini bosses, you have a 40%
17:27chance to get a piece of loot that you
17:29cannot use because yes, you can drop
17:31weapons from other classes. And if you
17:32happen to hit an accessory, it is very,
17:34very likely that you will hit a
17:36duplicate due to there only being three
17:38with a huge skew towards rings
17:40>> [music]
17:40>> and with necklace only having a single
17:41slot. And additionally, the pity ticket
17:43actually functions the same as the guard
17:45dungeon, which is kind of asinine in
17:47that you need three tickets, 2 million
17:49kina, but you also need to have dropped
17:51a weapon prior in order to convert it
17:53into your own weapon. Whereas for the
17:54guard, you just need three tickets and
17:56bam, you can just craft the guard. So,
17:57not only are the odds stacked against
17:59you in the sense that you may be
18:01running, for example, 20, 30, 40, 80
18:04times and only drop weapons that are not
18:06for your class and nothing else. When
18:08you hit the pity, you will still have to
18:09pay the same amount as you're simply
18:11crafting the guard from the armor
18:13dungeon. Odds are absolutely horrendous.
18:15If you've had the misfortune of farming
18:17fire temple, you will probably look back
18:19at the amount of chests you've opened,
18:21at the amount of weapons that you've
18:22obtained that are not from the class,
18:24and you will probably only have to agree
18:25with me. This is not an efficient use of
18:28your energy. Even when looking at these
18:29in a vacuum as actual valuable upgrades,
18:31which these are not, by the way. Now, on
18:33the flip side, if you do ferocious on
18:35then, you're looking at a pool that has
18:37a total of eight items and all eight of
18:40these items, if you hit them, if you
18:42drop them, will be upgrades for you. If
18:44you happen to hit the 5% for the guard,
18:46then all of a sudden you can use the
18:47tickets to craft any remaining pieces of
18:49equipment. And additionally, ferocious
18:51on then has an exploration mode that can
18:54be used to get a piece of guaranteed
18:55gear after you're done farming to
18:57complete your set, which fire temple
18:58does not. Which means that within a pity
19:00of ferocious on then, you are guaranteed
19:03to make it out with multiple upgrades.
19:05Which means that within a single pity
19:07run of ferocious on then, which is 14
19:09runs, if If hit the reward pool at least
19:11one time, you are guaranteed to make it
19:14out with multiple upgrades within a
19:16single penny. Whereas fine temple, doing
19:18the same thing, does not guarantee it.
19:19You are actually more likely to make it
19:21out with a bunch of trash weapons you
19:23can't use with each video run. So,
19:25purely statistically speaking, purchase
19:27home then is significantly more
19:29efficient to farm at end game to get
19:31gear. And that is just in a vacuum
19:33without looking at the actual gear that
19:35you're dropping. Now, something that you
19:36need to understand with fine temple is
19:37that the weapon that drops from it is
19:39absolutely horrendous. And the reason
19:41why is because it has extendability.
19:44Now, in a vacuum, that may sound nice.
19:46But, the thing is extendability in this
19:47game kind of doesn't do jack It's
19:49honestly just a bait. In PvE, it doesn't
19:51achieve anything. And in PvP, which is
19:53the quote-unquote strongest argument for
19:55extendability, if you're range, you
19:57can't kite people anyways in this game.
19:59Melees have permanent gap closers and
20:01your moving speed is slowed down in
20:02combat. The extendability gets you
20:04absolutely nothing. And if you are a
20:05melee, especially in this current state
20:07of the game where no one has status
20:09effect resist, you're just stunning the
20:10target. You're constantly on top of
20:12them. The extendability provides you
20:13with absolutely nothing. But, what you
20:14are sacrificing for this extendability
20:16are soul binds because you are only able
20:19to get three soul bind on extendable
20:21chromite weapons, which is absolutely
20:23tragic because the weapon soul binds are
20:25by far the most important one of your
20:27entire set, having the highest value and
20:29the best overall soul bind spread for
20:31offense, which is the most important
20:33thing in this game. Additionally,
20:34chromite weapons are item level 86,
20:36which is 16 eye level lower than the
20:39equivalent tier of crafted gear, which
20:41is item level 102. And this come at the
20:43expense of the soul bind range. So, you
20:45are getting lower overall soul bind
20:47stats, but also it comes at the expense
20:49of the attack rate. So, this range goes
20:51up to 525, whereas this range is 442.
20:55This is an 80 attack difference from the
20:57base range on top of the two sacrificed
20:59soul binds and the lower soul bind rate.
21:01The DPS difference between a chromite
21:03weapon and an ebony weapon is incredibly
21:06high. Not to mention the amount of
21:08combat power you are losing, which if
21:09you've ever pugged anything in this
21:11game, you will know that combat power is
21:13what gets you gate kept. And losing 10
21:14to 15,000 combat power just because you
21:16decided to go with a Karabin weapon will
21:18not result in good things when trying to
21:20pug content, especially in the late game
21:22or early season 2. Now, looking at this,
21:24you may be like, "That's fine. I will
21:26just get my Karabin weapon and then
21:27upgrade into crafted when I can."
21:29Problem is, the way the transfer system
21:30works in global is tier-based, which
21:32[music] means that you can only transfer
21:34a piece of equipment to a tier
21:36equivalent or higher to your weapon.
21:37Problem is, Karabin weapons are the
21:39highest tier, which is tier three, and
21:41the equivalent tier within crafted as as
21:44we just saw is the Ebon [music] Wing
21:45tier, which means that you will have to
21:47craft a weapon all the way to the max
21:49without being able to use it before you
21:51can transfer your Karabin weapon into
21:52it. And again, because you only have
21:53three soul binds, you will still have to
21:55redo soul binds on that new weapon
21:57afterwards, because you will have two
21:58vacant soul binds. Now, that is for the
22:00weapon, which is already bad enough.
22:01Now, let's have a look at the
22:02accessories. Now, while these may look
22:05like nice eye-level batteries and
22:07overall less bad than the weapon, it's
22:09still pretty bad. Crafted accessories
22:10only have five slots, and these overall
22:13have the lowest barrier of entry when it
22:15comes to crafting them. The amount of
22:16materials you need in order to craft a
22:18ring is honestly pitiful. You can pretty
22:19much just craft both of your Splendid
22:21rings by just buying rifle mines on the
22:23season shop.
22:24>> [music]
22:24>> It will not cost you much of anything. A
22:26couple of dungeon runs will already
22:27found two Splendid Star Dragon Old
22:29Rings. Even if you don't want to risk
22:30breaking the craft, if you go on the
22:32auction house, can straight up just buy
22:33the finished product for around 20 Nyan
22:35Kina, which is honestly nothing in the
22:37grand scheme of things. And then pushing
22:38these to the grade of Karabin once again
22:40doesn't require much crafting
22:41ingredients in order to reach level
22:43eye-level 86. And the thing is is that
22:44once again, these have additional soul
22:46binds compared to dungeon equipment,
22:48which is particularly important on rings
22:50because these involve your active
22:51skills, which will need to be rolled in
22:53order to get your level 16s and 20s in
22:55the mid to long term in order for your
22:57cast to come online. And this is just
22:58the rings. If you look at earrings,
23:00these roll important stats like movement
23:01speed and combat speed. You straight up
23:03don't have enough slots on the dungeon
23:05variants of these in order to roll these
23:07stats, might precision, plus your
23:09important skills and passives. And
23:10ultimately, when it comes to pushing the
23:12final tier, just like for the weapon,
23:14you are losing a bunch of attack, which
23:15is pretty important both to your
23:16performance and your combat power. These
23:18earrings have 111 attack, these have
23:20131. Now, you multiply this by five and
23:22you have the same attack discrepancy as
23:24with the weapon on top of the soul
23:26lines. Now, there is a bit of a weird
23:27narrative going around in the game right
23:30now that crafting is a whale exclusive
23:32thing that is absolutely impossible to
23:34access for a regular player, but
23:35genuinely riddle me this. You are
23:37getting a bunch of kinah and ingredients
23:39by just running dungeons, right? If you
23:42are running alts on top of that, if you
23:43are doing doing your daily kinah cap on
23:45top of that, which maybe you're not
23:47doing it, maybe you're playing a bit
23:48slower, but the end result is the same,
23:50right? Where is your kinah going if not
23:53into crafting? Where is it going? Once
23:55again, I'm sub only. The game has been
23:57out for 2 and 1/2 weeks. I've been able
23:58to make a dragon soul, earrings, neck,
24:00and [music] ring, and everything has
24:02been amplified. Where is your kinah
24:03going? Regardless of what other content
24:05creator may be telling you, regardless
24:07of what you may be thinking, you will
24:09not escape crafting in this game,
24:11especially when it comes to the
24:12offensive side of your items, because
24:15crafted equipment is ultimately and will
24:17remain the most powerful equipment in
24:19the game and is inherently the easiest
24:22path of progression to follow, because
24:24while the initial setup may be a bit
24:25rough, once you're done crafting for the
24:27season, if a new season comes out and a
24:29new dungeon comes out, a new ingredient
24:31come out, and you just go out, you farm
24:33that one ingredient, you transfer craft
24:34into the new piece of equipment, and
24:35you're done. You're already best in slot
24:37for the rest of the season, as opposed
24:38to having to go back into the new
24:39dungeon every time, having to go through
24:41PDs [music] after PDs after bad RNG over
24:44and over and over to slowly transfer
24:47into the new piece, having to sacrifice
24:49pieces of gold that get incrementally
24:51higher and higher for each tier that
24:53they release, like the two-star dungeons
24:55will probably require you to sacrifice
24:57three gold pieces to transfer into them,
24:59the way they have been going about the
25:00transfer system, right? This is just not
25:02the way to go. My personal opinion in
25:03terms of the path that the average
25:05player will follow at the end of the
25:07day, by the end of season 1, going into
25:09season 2, and moving forward into the
25:11game, will be a very similar path that
25:14we ended up taking in Taiwan and Korea
25:16when they pivoted to this style of
25:17crafting, which is that the majority of
25:19the player base will end up crafting the
25:21weapon, guard, and accessories while
25:23running dungeon armor. And the reason
25:25why that is is because that basically
25:26allows you to simply spam the new
25:28dungeon armor in order to obtain the new
25:30armor, which again, as we've seen with
25:32the whole then breakdown, is honestly
25:34pretty easy to get statistically both
25:35because of the exploration pity as well
25:37as how the loot overall works while
25:39using the Keena and material obtained by
25:41spamming that dungeon to upgrade the
25:42rest of their equipment. As this is
25:44basically how gearing up has functioned
25:47from season 3 onward in Korea and Taiwan
25:49[music] ever since they pivoted to the
25:50transfer crafting method. Additionally,
25:52with the way PvP gear function in this
25:54game, if you actually care about PvP,
25:56something that you may have noticed is
25:58that we will have to basically make
26:00multiple sets of PvE equipment with
26:02[music] different soul binds for both
26:03PvE and PvP. Now, the thing is, you can
26:06get away with [music] using the same
26:08weapon, guard, and accessories in both
26:10PvE and PvP because the overall soul
26:12binds don't change all that much. The
26:13main difference in the weaponry is that
26:15you may want to sacrifice
26:16>> [music]
26:16>> one offensive line or status effect
26:18chance on certain classes in order to be
26:19able to utilize it in both PvE and PvP,
26:22which is not the end of the world, but
26:23ultimately doesn't have that big of an
26:25impact, whereas the armor, on the other
26:26hand, has a completely different focus
26:28when it comes to soul binds in PvP,
26:31having a heavy focus on stuff like
26:32status effect resist, specific
26:34penetrations, endurance for some certain
26:36classes, like stuff that you would never
26:38roll in a million year on PvE gear,
26:40which means that if you go the crafted
26:41weaponry and accessory route, you will
26:43be able to just keep these for both, not
26:45having to remake them. But then, if you
26:46just spam the dungeon armor, you will be
26:48able to just continuously collect two
26:50sets of these by just continuously
26:51spamming it while upgrading the rest of
26:53your crafted equipment with the gains
26:54that you make and then utilize two
26:56copies of the same set for both PvE and
26:58PvP. So, with that said, given this is
27:01the end game, this is your end game. You
27:03will not escape it. You will not be able
27:04to go all the way throughout the game
27:07doing the hard modes, doing the raids,
27:09etc., etc. Not crafting your weapon,
27:11gear, and accessories. Trust me,
27:13don't even try. You will not be able to
27:15do that. This will not be sustainable
27:17long run and you will suffer gatekeeping
27:19because people will just glance at your
27:21equipment, see that dog and be
27:23like, "I'm just going to take the other
27:24guy that actually has a crafted weapon."
27:26So, you might as well get started now.
27:28Yes, the prices are pretty steep right
27:29now, but you have to understand that the
27:31economy is the way it is because this is
27:33a sold game. People are making alts.
27:36People are doing their daily kinah caps.
27:38People know how to play the market and
27:39we don't have the world market yet. The
27:41state of the auction house is not an
27:43unaccessible state of the market that
27:45can only be accessed by whales. This is
27:47just [music] the amount of kinah that
27:48you're expected to farm in order to make
27:50your best in slot end game equipment.
27:53This is pretty much how it is. If you
27:54just look at the weapons, for example,
27:56so let's say this artisan weapon is 20
27:58million, right? In order to make a dull
28:00dragon weapon, which is the equivalent
28:02eye level to a chromede weapon, you need
28:04two of them. That's 40 million. Now,
28:06let's look at the other ingredients. The
28:07base dull dragon requires 10 minds,
28:09which again, you could get through the
28:10season shop. You're probably going to
28:11drop a few. You're probably going to
28:13drop a couple, but just for the sake of
28:14the argument, let's just assume that
28:16you're just buying absolutely everything
28:17off the auction house, right? So, you're
28:19buying 10 minds. Right now, the minds
28:20are 2.2 million. That's 22 million
28:22extra. We add the original ordeal, which
28:24is 400k. That's an additional 2 million.
28:26The recalcitrant, which is 400k as well.
28:29That's an additional 3.5 million. We are
28:31looking at about 70 million and then we
28:34we look at the cost of transfer crafting
28:35with an additional three minds. That's
28:3780 million. The wheels. That's an
28:40additional [music] 7 million at the
28:41current price. They're cheaper on other
28:43servers, but let's assume the worst,
28:44right? The additional ordeal and then
28:46let's assume you don't proc the craft so
28:47you have to go through the transfer
28:48crafting process. We are looking at
28:50between 90 to 100 million kinah in order
28:53to make your best in slot weapon that is
28:55already significantly better than a five
28:57apple chromite weapon without even
28:59having to spend any additional energy or
29:01PD in order to in order to be able to
29:03make it. Let's assume 100 million,
29:04right? Your main character per week is
29:07making 2400 energy from the substance
29:10morph, the subscriber shop as well as
29:12the natural energy regen. We are not
29:14assuming any events even though there's
29:16a there has been events, we're not
29:17assuming any daily energy, we're not
29:19assuming any of that, right? Now let's
29:21say you're running a three star dungeon
29:22in this case for sure it's on then which
29:24gives you 800,000 kinah per run. One run
29:27is 80 energy which averages out to about
29:3030 run per week with just the basic
29:32energy that you're getting. That is 24
29:34million kinah just raw kinah obtained
29:37from the chest every week by just
29:38running the dungeons given to you by the
29:40game. Now we take away the 3 million
29:42kinah from the crafting cost of the
29:43energy. That is 21 million kinah from
29:46[music] the chest. Not assuming any loot
29:48obtained, not assuming any crafting
29:50material obtained, not assuming anything
29:52[music] else. Now we go back, that's
29:54seven days, right? We are looking at
29:56seven days here. Now we go back, we look
29:57at the daily kinah cap. Now this daily
29:59kinah cap is 1 million. It takes about
30:01an hour to do to do every day. Not
30:03everyone may want to do it. I would
30:05personally prioritize doing this every
30:06day rather than spending all of your
30:07energy all at once, but you know, now
30:09while you're doing this daily kinah cap,
30:11you will be dropping gold, you will be
30:13dropping artisan stones, you will be
30:14dropping materials that you will be able
30:15to use and sell. It averages more
30:17towards three to four million kinah a
30:19day when you farm this, but let's assume
30:21the worst. Let's say you are getting 1
30:23million kinah per day. But now we are up
30:25to 28 million kinah on just your main
30:27character. Let's look at your alts,
30:29right? Let's look at minimum investment
30:31alts. Alts that you didn't even do any
30:33setup on them, you just level them up in
30:34like four to five hours, you got them to
30:36maybe 1,000 audible, you're not doing
30:39anything on them whatsoever. It's like
30:40the bottom of the barrel alts.
30:42Obviously, this is not what I recommend.
30:43>> [music]
30:44>> My recommendation is to push alts all
30:45the way to 1,400 in order to make it to
30:48two-star dungeons, which is overall more
30:50gains on average. But, sure. Let's
30:52assume that you have three alts at to
30:53item level 1,000 on which you're doing
30:565-minute runs of Drop Na Cave with the
30:58allotted about 1,400 energy that they
31:00get a week by just existing and buying
31:03the and buying the energy in the shop,
31:05right? 1,400 * 3 is 4.2k energy. Drop Na
31:09Cave or Crow Cave or whatever you
31:10prefer, right? Will give you 400k raw
31:13kinah per 80 energy, right? Which is
31:15about 50-ish runs on the low end. But,
31:18these 50 runs will give you an
31:20additional 20 million kinah, right?
31:22Again, we're not going to assume that
31:23you're dropping any mines or paintings
31:25or wings or [music] what have you. Now,
31:27we are already looking at 50 million raw
31:29kinah assuming that you are the most
31:31unluckiest player of all time. You are
31:33not dropping anything. You are not
31:35dropping anything whatsoever from both
31:37your daily kinah caps as well as your as
31:39well dungeon run. We're looking at 50
31:42million kinah per week, which again is
31:43completely unrealistic. You're looking
31:44at way more, right? But, now we go back
31:46to the weapon craft that we were talking
31:47about earlier. In order to reach your
31:49current best-in-slot weapon, it means
31:51that as the unluckiest player ever, just
31:54doing some very bare-bone alts, just
31:56doing your daily kinah cap, not doing
31:58any other activities, being the most
31:59unlucky unlucky player of all time, you
32:02will be able to get your best-in-slot
32:03weapon in 2 weeks. You will probably not
32:06even be able to PD your Cruede weapon in
32:09that amount of time. So, again, we are
32:11talking about a Korean MMO, right? Which
32:13are known for their unhealthy grinds,
32:15etc. etc. We are talking about a Korean
32:17MMO where even if you are the unluckiest
32:20player of all time with the [music]
32:22{quote}
32:23impossible
32:24economy that we have right now that is
32:26only accessible to whales, of course,
32:27because that is what people are saying.
32:29We are looking at like a very bare-bone
32:31style of play, which is again just very
32:33small alting. We are talking about 2
32:35hours worth of worth of time across the
32:36entire week being your alts in dungeons,
32:38as well as just doing your barebones
32:39dungeons on your main, and doing your
32:41daily kinna cap, which will ultimately
32:42barely amounts to 20 to 25 hours per
32:44week, right? And you're looking at 2
32:46weeks to get your best in slot weapon.
32:48And people are going around and saying
32:49that this is completely unaccessible.
32:51Well, now we can look at a realistic
32:52look on things where you're actually
32:54pushing your alts a little bit further,
32:55you're actually not the most unlucky
32:57person of all time, and I've been able
32:58to grind this, as well as these three,
33:01as well as these two. Now, I have played
33:02the game a lot those last 2 weeks,
33:04obviously. Not everyone will be able to
33:05do that. But even if But even if you
33:07don't do that, that energy is not going
33:08anywhere. That dungeon energy is not
33:10going anywhere. Even if you extend that
33:13to 3 weeks instead of 2 weeks, or even 4
33:15weeks, even a month, right? The end game
33:17raid is not even out. Probably by the
33:19beginning of next week, I will be full
33:20Dark Dragon Splendor and full amplified.
33:22I'm going to be 3K ilevel. I'm going to
33:24be 200K combat power by doing crafting.
33:27This is not as inaccessible as people
33:29are saying. And trying to burn these
33:30steps by doing dungeons like Fire Temple
33:32that just drain your energy without
33:34giving you anything in return is only
33:36going to make things worse for you. By
33:37the mid of the season, by the time hard
33:39mode Lutra comes out, by the time the
33:41hard mode versions of these dungeons
33:42comes out, by the time season 2 comes
33:45out, people that will have gone for
33:46crafted early will be able to push their
33:48progression much further because it
33:50pushes higher ilevel and much higher
33:52combat power. Whereas as people who are
33:54really trying hard to go full dungeon
33:56have hit a glass ceiling on ilevel and
33:58power because of the catastrophic
34:00returns of the Fire Temple accessories
34:02and weapons will be at a much lower
34:04ilevel and will be getting gate capped.
34:06The reason why I'm pushing so hard for
34:08[music] crafted is not because of
34:09elitism, it's not because I'm trying to
34:11push a narrative or trying to drive the
34:12economy or something. I just have the
34:14best interest of people who actually
34:16want to play [music] this game long term
34:18in mind. And that includes you not
34:19getting gate capped a month and a half
34:21into the game's lifespan, 2 months, one
34:23season into the game's lifespan, not
34:25getting declined from dungeons because
34:27you're carrying over dog because
34:29some content creator told you that it
34:31was okay to do Fire temple because let
34:33me tell you it is not okay. This gear is
34:35not okay. This gear is pure dog. It's
34:38awful. When hard mode Ludicrous comes
34:40out and people are making pick up groups
34:42to go clear it, you will not get
34:44accepted into groups. When season 2
34:45comes out and Dramata as well as cradle
34:48of the guilty comes out, you will not be
34:49you will not be getting accepted into
34:51the hard mode groups. Why? Because the
34:52people who will have gone the long term
34:54route with with making crafted will be
34:56way ahead of you and I don't want that.
34:58I don't want you to be gate kept long
34:59term. So yeah, this is ultimately why I
35:01took the route that I'm taking and this
35:03is what I'm recommending to everyone
35:05that watches me to take this route
35:07specifically and trust me, everyone that
35:09has just been taking this route even
35:10though they were convinced that crafted
35:12was inaccessible even though they were
35:14convinced I was full of Pretty
35:16much everyone who has listened to
35:17[music] me and has started crafting and
35:19has started going this route, now they
35:21have their crafted gear. Now they're
35:22past 2500. Now they're not getting gate
35:24kept in groups anymore. And now from
35:26there the next step for me is is going
35:27to finish upgrading everything to dark
35:29dragon gear and eventually make my ebony
35:31weapon and ebony accessories. Once I'm
35:33done with that in about the mid season
35:34probably a bit after Ludicrous, I will
35:36go back and craft the ebony guard to
35:37replace this. And then from there I will
35:39decide whether I actually want to push
35:41crafted armor or not depending on how
35:42late within the season it is as well as
35:44the state of the economy so on and so
35:46forth. But that's pretty much the
35:47baseline of my progression. As always if
35:49you like this video make sure to leave a
35:50like and subscribe. I stream this game
35:52several times a week on both Twitch and
35:53YouTube so make sure to swing by and say
35:54hi. Until next time, take care.

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