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====== Beginner Guide ====== | ====== Beginner Guide ====== | ||
- | This guide assumes that you have read the [[new_player_guide|New Player Guide]] and looking for how to progress beyond the beginning of the game. This guide will focus on when to upgrade, how to upgrade, how much to upgrade, which quest lines to rush (and when to rush), leveling strategy, along with a long term planning ideas. It's followed by [[intermediate_guide|Intermediate Guide]] and eventually by the Advanced | + | This guide assumes that you have read the [[new_player_guide|New Player Guide]] and looking for how to progress beyond the beginning of the game. This guide will focus on when to upgrade, how to upgrade, how much to upgrade, which quest lines to rush (and when to rush), leveling strategy, along with a long term planning ideas. It's followed by [[intermediate_guide|Intermediate |
- | ====== Mastery Plan ====== | + | ===== Mastery Plan ===== |
Early on, there is only one mastery that truly matters: **Pack Hunter**. There is also another mastery that helps with leveling: **Skilled Weaponry**. Both will take about 3 days each to get to level 3 mastery each. Since the general plan is rushing leveling many tier level requirements, | Early on, there is only one mastery that truly matters: **Pack Hunter**. There is also another mastery that helps with leveling: **Skilled Weaponry**. Both will take about 3 days each to get to level 3 mastery each. Since the general plan is rushing leveling many tier level requirements, | ||
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If you choose Orthoclase or Anorthite ores for investing in mining lasers (they are much cheaper after all), I would recommend getting some early levels in their specializations, | If you choose Orthoclase or Anorthite ores for investing in mining lasers (they are much cheaper after all), I would recommend getting some early levels in their specializations, | ||
- | ====== The Equipment Conundrum====== | + | |
+ | ===== The Equipment Conundrum===== | ||
Your equipment doesn' | Your equipment doesn' | ||
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There is a very simple principle about empowerments: | There is a very simple principle about empowerments: | ||
- | ====== Mining Laser? | + | ===== Mining Laser? ===== |
- | I recommend | + | While I recommend |
- | ====== The Beginner Times====== | + | - You echew the multikill masteries and focus directly on mining masteries. This just about slows all outlined plans in he following guides to 3x the duration needed, but you will have good income. Pick an ore type and buy the base ore, purity and double ore mining lasers in order. Also, level up Prospector first when the companion hits the level cap. |
+ | - You choose to wait until mining level 100, pick Flat Orthoclase, then Flat Anorthite mining lasers and level them up when you have some spare gold. These 2 are the cheapest and grant their return back quickly, they are always worth it even if you aren't selling the ores on the market to make the gold back. Lots of quests, crafted items and empowers use these, so they never fall out of the meta. | ||
+ | - You mix and match the above 2 options and wait until your core multikill masteries are done, while picking the flat Ortho laser. Then, at lvl 80, you choose an ore to specialize, then pick the ore specific mining lasers as before (base, purity, double). | ||
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+ | My personal recommendation is the 2nd option. I'm a player that pushes hard on games to achieve critical objectives asap rather than to idle on while also optimizing your passive income by just a bit more. If you want a more relaxed time, pick the 3rd option. | ||
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+ | ===== The Beginner Times===== | ||
Your first goal should be to __have all your T1 gear fully upgraded__, you should have no trouble clearing the questline up until the abyss monsters. A good T1 base will last you until the beginning of //Enter the Abyss// questline. | Your first goal should be to __have all your T1 gear fully upgraded__, you should have no trouble clearing the questline up until the abyss monsters. A good T1 base will last you until the beginning of //Enter the Abyss// questline. | ||
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To help your purposes of clearing the required monsters easier, complete the 2nd quest in the //Sidearm Instructor// | To help your purposes of clearing the required monsters easier, complete the 2nd quest in the //Sidearm Instructor// | ||
- | ====== The 1M gate ====== | + | ===== The 1M gate ===== |
The last quest of //Enter the Abyss// questline is the first big limiter on your progression: | The last quest of //Enter the Abyss// questline is the first big limiter on your progression: | ||
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By this point, you should be really close or arrived at level 50 and thus can switch out to T3 items (after the 1M quest). Remember to follow the equipment guideline I've wrote here. However, T1 items are definitely not enough for the next phase. | By this point, you should be really close or arrived at level 50 and thus can switch out to T3 items (after the 1M quest). Remember to follow the equipment guideline I've wrote here. However, T1 items are definitely not enough for the next phase. | ||
- | ====== The Great Abyss Difficulty Jump ====== | + | ===== The Great Abyss Difficulty Jump ===== |
The jump from killing monsters in Wastelands and in Abyss is extremely high: you might not even kill a single Mammoth Bat when you were able to kill 5 Warped Tormenters (the last monster in Wasteland). They are that hard to kill. The solution is T3 gear. At this point, your goal should be to __get T3 equipment and upgrade them until you can kill 2 bats__. 4 fully upgraded T3 equipment will be enough. The reason for this goal is another goal: __Unlocking the Death of Darkness dungeon, the 2nd dungeon__. The daily mission that gives 1 run of this dungeon is also unlocked with the same //The Finished Map// quest. | The jump from killing monsters in Wastelands and in Abyss is extremely high: you might not even kill a single Mammoth Bat when you were able to kill 5 Warped Tormenters (the last monster in Wasteland). They are that hard to kill. The solution is T3 gear. At this point, your goal should be to __get T3 equipment and upgrade them until you can kill 2 bats__. 4 fully upgraded T3 equipment will be enough. The reason for this goal is another goal: __Unlocking the Death of Darkness dungeon, the 2nd dungeon__. The daily mission that gives 1 run of this dungeon is also unlocked with the same //The Finished Map// quest. | ||
- | Now to the hard part: you will grind, very slowly, through the //Taming the Abyss// questline. It will slow your progression, | + | Now to the hard part: you will grind, very slowly, through the //Taming the Abyss// questline. It will slow your progression, |
Following this rush strategy, I've achieved finishing the map in 8 days of playtime. | Following this rush strategy, I've achieved finishing the map in 8 days of playtime. | ||
- | ====== Dungeons | + | ===== Dungeons ===== |
Dungeons give great exp rewards, and should always be completed with experience injectors. The fact that you can save attempts is why we rushed all the quests to unlock the dungeons in the first place. Save your runs and do them all under a lvl3 or higher experience injection for maximum benefit. They are relatively cheap in the market. | Dungeons give great exp rewards, and should always be completed with experience injectors. The fact that you can save attempts is why we rushed all the quests to unlock the dungeons in the first place. Save your runs and do them all under a lvl3 or higher experience injection for maximum benefit. They are relatively cheap in the market. | ||
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The 1st dungeon is relatively easy and doesn' | The 1st dungeon is relatively easy and doesn' | ||
- | The 2nd dungeon is hard: I recommend waiting until level 70 and crafting an earring before trying out the dungeon. If stuck, the 2nd dungeon can be completed | + | The 2nd dungeon is hard: I recommend waiting until level 70 and crafting an earring before trying out the dungeon. If stuck, the 2nd dungeon can be completed with brutality |
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+ | ===== Companions===== | ||
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+ | So far, we have ignored a new addition that is quickly shaking the market completely and pushing Elethor into an age of scarcity: the production of Platinum. At this stage, only produce 1 Plat per day and no more: the scaling costs are not something we cannot afford yet. For the same reason, don't level up Recyclobot. | ||
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+ | As we start max killing higher levels of monsters and can clear the 2nd dungeon, we will start making a good amount of monster drops and gold, and we are strong enough to stop pushing for gear for now. | ||
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+ | Every plat you make should go towards upgrading the level of your companions. We definitely don't have the funds to go after the companion abilities; they are also very weak for now, as their max level can only be the current level of your companions. This is the reason we will increase the level cap of the companions: we can upgrade the abilities later, but our companions weren' | ||
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+ | Once you have slowly leveled the companions' | ||
- | ====== What now? ====== | + | ===== What now? ===== |
The previous questline was the last important quest to rush, as the next main questline gives abyssal T6 (level 100) augments. Since the strategy was to rush unlocking the 2nd dungeon, we will need to wait quite a while to arrive to that level. For now, your goal should be __switching back to killing Warped Tormenters, the last enemy in Wastelands, or Karth Drakes for compendium, to farm experience to level up until level 80__. This is the point where we can transition into T5 equipment and skip T4. T4 and T5 share the same upgrade materials, so waiting until level 80 would save us resources. | The previous questline was the last important quest to rush, as the next main questline gives abyssal T6 (level 100) augments. Since the strategy was to rush unlocking the 2nd dungeon, we will need to wait quite a while to arrive to that level. For now, your goal should be __switching back to killing Warped Tormenters, the last enemy in Wastelands, or Karth Drakes for compendium, to farm experience to level up until level 80__. This is the point where we can transition into T5 equipment and skip T4. T4 and T5 share the same upgrade materials, so waiting until level 80 would save us resources. |