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     As you see, progressing through Compendium isn't as simple as it is. Even while doing abyss Compendium immediately, it may be better to get 1 rank (200k kills) in all monsters before going for the rank 3 (1M kills) for them. We need to delve into the topic of Compendium more. As you see, progressing through Compendium isn't as simple as it is. Even while doing abyss Compendium immediately, it may be better to get 1 rank (200k kills) in all monsters before going for the rank 3 (1M kills) for them. We need to delve into the topic of Compendium more.
      
    -==== Compendium ====+===== Compendium =====
     Compendium is simple: you kill a certain amount of any monster and get their listed bonuses. There are 3 bonuses that are granted at 200k, 500k and 1M kills. The 500k bonus replaces the 200k bonus and so on. At 1M kills, you get another bonus: multikill bonus. This is explained more in the Multikill page. A summary of it is that it reduces the speed monsters become more powerful, so for killing a lot of monsters, it's quite useful, especially towards endgame where we'll be killing 50+ monsters. This is why people go back and grind wastelands compendium: the multikill bonus. Compendium is simple: you kill a certain amount of any monster and get their listed bonuses. There are 3 bonuses that are granted at 200k, 500k and 1M kills. The 500k bonus replaces the 200k bonus and so on. At 1M kills, you get another bonus: multikill bonus. This is explained more in the Multikill page. A summary of it is that it reduces the speed monsters become more powerful, so for killing a lot of monsters, it's quite useful, especially towards endgame where we'll be killing 50+ monsters. This is why people go back and grind wastelands compendium: the multikill bonus.
     Additionally, for every 10 Compendium ranks you gain 3% damage bonus (base 2%, multiplied by 1.5 from Corp skill). Additionally, for every 10 Compendium ranks you gain 3% damage bonus (base 2%, multiplied by 1.5 from Corp skill).
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     Keep in mind that if you want to progress a lot faster and want to support the game, buy a VIP pack and you'll get 10 more max kills from VIP alone. Since currently credit prices are insanely high, I don't recommend buying VIP until you at least reach lvl 130 combat and unlock T8. You'll definitely need VIP when you arrive at t9 and start getting your t9 augments. Keep in mind that if you want to progress a lot faster and want to support the game, buy a VIP pack and you'll get 10 more max kills from VIP alone. Since currently credit prices are insanely high, I don't recommend buying VIP until you at least reach lvl 130 combat and unlock T8. You'll definitely need VIP when you arrive at t9 and start getting your t9 augments.
      
    -=== The Slayer Mastery ===+==== The Slayer Mastery ====
      
     Slayer mastery is the ultimate max kill increase method, designed to increase your max kill over time as you progress through the game. Just about every player above 3 months of playtime is rushing this mastery. However, since we have been playing for close to 2 months of playtime, our total kill count should be around 7-8M kills. This complicates things: Slayer mastery is the ultimate max kill increase method, designed to increase your max kill over time as you progress through the game. Just about every player above 3 months of playtime is rushing this mastery. However, since we have been playing for close to 2 months of playtime, our total kill count should be around 7-8M kills. This complicates things:
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     You can see how many monsters you've killed on the Compendium page, under "Total kills". You can see how many monsters you've killed on the Compendium page, under "Total kills".
      
    -=== The Wastelands Dilemma ===+==== The Wastelands Dilemma ====
      
     If you want to go all the way towards the endgame and be a top player, you'll need to eventually do all Wastelands Compendium. The only question is when? You can immediately start working on Wastelands compendium after UH compendium, or at any time really. Due to it's simplicity, you can mix and match with Wastelands compendium at any moment, insert it into your grand plans whenever there's a roadblock. If you want to go all the way towards the endgame and be a top player, you'll need to eventually do all Wastelands Compendium. The only question is when? You can immediately start working on Wastelands compendium after UH compendium, or at any time really. Due to it's simplicity, you can mix and match with Wastelands compendium at any moment, insert it into your grand plans whenever there's a roadblock.
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     If you wait until you have all of the Wastelands compendium done, it'll take long enough that you'll be combat level 145, enough to get t9. This'll be covered in the advanced guide. For comparison, doing at most 5 R3 compendium for abyss monsters and getting most of them to R1 compendium will be enough to get to level 145. If you wait until you have all of the Wastelands compendium done, it'll take long enough that you'll be combat level 145, enough to get t9. This'll be covered in the advanced guide. For comparison, doing at most 5 R3 compendium for abyss monsters and getting most of them to R1 compendium will be enough to get to level 145.
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    -== How do we get that much ore??? == 
    - 
    -Check the market. Generally after corporation donation event runs out, the prices drop by quite a lot. 2-3 days after the event end is the best time to buy the ores. Make buy orders for it and be patient. However, you have until level 100 to hoard all your ores. After all, we want to switch to better abyss monsters and be able to actually contribute on corporation incursions (level 4 is the best for now). Remember that this investment will stay until the game gets updated and T8 or higher augments are in place. For now, it's a permanent upgrade that will stay there forever: think about that when you are shaking your head at the colossal amount of gold you have spent. It **will** be worth it! 
      
     ===== Trading for power ===== ===== Trading for power =====
      
    -As t10 is the highest current tier, buying equipment from other players for t8 and below (2 tiers below max and below) needs only 1 redeeming coin. Therefore, buying a max empowered t8 equipment from other players is currently quite economical. And to buy equipment from others, you need to complete the quest that opens trading: Reclamation.+As t10 is the highest current tier, buying equipment from other players for t8 and below (2 tiers below max and below) needs only 1 redeeming coin. Therefore, buying a max empowered t8 equipment from other players is currently quite economical. And to buy equipment from others, you need to complete the quest that opens trading: Reclamation. Just inject some brutality and juggernaut injections and clear quests until you complete that one. There isn't anything critical in the missions themselves like the previous sidearms, so the main questline isn't as important as before.
      
     Even though it's early to ask the question of "Do I stay on Filchers?" again, it's important to determine if you need just the combat power and compendium progress to max kill Filchers. You can do it several ways, but the most used and recommended way is Abyss 200k compendiums, waiting for t9 and buying several pieces of max empowered t9 from other players. Even though it's early to ask the question of "Do I stay on Filchers?" again, it's important to determine if you need just the combat power and compendium progress to max kill Filchers. You can do it several ways, but the most used and recommended way is Abyss 200k compendiums, waiting for t9 and buying several pieces of max empowered t9 from other players.
      
    -===== The T7 gear acquirement =====+===== Max killing Filchers =====
      
    -T7 gear is the gateholder equipment for the end-game gear. They are much more abundant than any gear in the game as they are the most commonly used gear, even by the late game players. The reason is simple: T8 equipment is, comparatively to T7, hideously expensive. A single T8 piece requires around 500-600 Mechanoid Reinforcement to fully reinforce, and the empower items are also expensive. The lowest T8 piece can cost around 200M gold to fully upgrade. Some pieces, such as mainhand weapons, require 8.5 reactor cores which are just ridiculous to craft, costing over 600M gold to craft it. However, this opens up a neat opportunity for us that wasn't very profitable to do before: trading gear via redeeming coins. The T8 helm and T8 boots require the lowest reactor cores of 8.1, which means people will substitute that gear the quickest, meaning they will get rid of their T7 ones and try to make a profit off of them by selling them.+After level 100, it takes roughly 20 days to reach level 130 (t8). After t8, it takes roughly 25 days to reach level 145 (t9). These numbers are for killing early-mid abyss monsters without rushing equipment and will change depending on which way you chose (wasteland, early abyss or late abyss). In that time, pick one of the plans outlined above in Compendium and level up your companions up to max uncapped level instead of focusing on any combat abilities (Cache Finder is the only exception).
      
    -Here are the T8 gear requirement rankings, entirely determined by their reactor core models, from most valuable to least valuable: +The easy metric to calculate how close you are to max killing Filchers is the fastest Attack Speed possible: 10 AS. When you have enough empowers, allstat, compendium and companions to get 10 AS, you're most likely powerful enough to kill 20 Filchers or more.
    -  - Rifle (8.5 core) (most valuable) +
    -  - Sidearm (8.5 core) +
    -  - Chestpiece (8.4 core) +
    -  - Leggings (8.4 core) +
    -  - Boots (8.3 core) +
    -  - Earring (8.3 core) +
    -  - Shoulder (8.2 core) +
    -  - Gloves (8.2 core) +
    -  - Belt (8.1 core) +
    -  - Helm (8.1 core) (least valuable)+
      
    -Therefore, when you are looking at the trade channel for T7 gear, you should look at that order, as we will be crafting the T8 by ourselves. Since T9 came out, everyone is quickly swapping out their T8 equipment, so buying T8 from the market in the future is a very profitable endeavor. I would recommend crafting T7 and buying T8 items from other players at this moment, as they are in high supply at the moment, making their prices low.+===== The 10 AS milestone =====
      
    -When looking for gear, prioritize these things, in order: +10 Attack Speed is the highest Attack Speed (denoted AS) a player can achieve without injections (lightning injection lets you get down to 9 AS). As you get lower AS, you will hit enemies way more often progressively more. If an enemy has 20 AS while you have 10 AS and you can 2-shot that enemy, you won't take any damage in that round. Similarly, if you can hit an enemy twice before they hit you once, you can proc incapacitate Drake ability much more likely and get more free damage in. It's generally very useful and a must at late game.
    -  * The rifle must have puncture 4. +
    -  * The T7 item should be at least E13. The coin cost, now that credit prices are rising, is high. Therefore, you should always look for E13 and above when buying an item to be worth it. +
    -  * If you are buying leggings or boots, they must all have 15% speed energizement. You might spend a couple million on rerolling the energizements otherwise. +
    -  * The chestpiece should have +4 armor per 10 levels in all cases, even if you're not doing a full armor build. +
    -  * The sidearm and rifle should have either IDR or damage% energizements. +
    -  * The speed stat of the item should be average or above average.  +
    -  * If your IDR is below 60%, bolster it with IDR energizements on glove until it's above 60%. +
    -===== What now? =====+
      
    -Keep at acquiring the T7 gear as much as you can (preferably E11 or above for the future), focus on acquiring the T7 sidearm and get it to E9 empower, and keep at it.+To get a good idea of how to get to 10 AS (1419 speed), we need to do some math. I'll make some assumptions below for this: 
     +  * We leveled our drone up so that we have more than 200 levels in it. Let's assume 240 levels. 
     +  * We have some speed compendium, assumed 18 total. 
     +  * We have T6 E9 exo gear. 
     +  * We have T7 gear as base and we build up from this. 
     +  * When we buy gear, we buy it as E25. 
     +  * We either buy T8 or T9 gear. 
     +  * When we craft T9+ gear, we get it to E10. 
     +  * We have all speed energizements in boots and leggings. 
     +  
     +Now here are the numbers: 
     +  * T7 gear generally has an average of 5 speed. 
     +  * T8 gear generally has an average of 10 speed, 17% speed energizements 
     +  * T9 gear generally has an average of 18 speed, 19% speed energizements 
     +  * E10 always adds 10 speed. 
     +  * E25 gives 16% allstat. 
     +  * 2 levels of Drone gives 1 speed.
      
    -The general goal is to have decent T7 gear (with speed being average or above average on the equipment, the most important) all around, with maybe the exception of a T6 shoulder if you invested to E10 it.+Now let's add all of this and craft several plans. There will be 2 main plans: T7/T8 and T9 
     + 
     +==== Passives ==== 
     + 
     +As per our assumptions, in all scenarios, we will passively have: 
     +  * Level 240 Drone gives 120 speed. 
     +  * Compendium gives 18 speed. 
     +  * Our T6 E9 augments give 29+28+10+10 = 77 speed. 
     +  * **Passive Sub total: 215 speed** 
     + 
     +====T7/T8 plan ==== 
     +  
     +If we're using 2x T8 with T7: 
     +  *We really need the boots and leggings at T8 to get the best speed energizements. These give 39 total speed at E25, 102% speed and 32% allstat. 
     +  *If all of the rest were T7 E9, we get 8x(5+10) = 120 speed. 
     +  ***Item Sub total: 159 speed, 102% speed and 32% allstat** 
     +  
     +2x T8 piece total: (215+159) * 2.02 * 1.32 = __997. Not enough.__ 
     +  
     +If we're using 5x T8 with T7: 
     +  * 4x T8 pieces would give (10+10) * 5 = 100 speed, 102% speed and 80% allstat. 
     +  * The rest of the 5x T7 pieces would give (5+10) * 5 = 75 speed. 
     +  * Item Sub total: **175 speed, 102% speed and 80% allstat** 
     +  
     +5x T8 piece total: (215+175) * 2.02 * 1.80 = __1418 speed. Barely enough.__ 
     +  
     +So, with using E9 T7 and E25 T8, **we need to buy 5x max empowered T8 gear to barely get to 10 AS**. 
     + 
     +====T9 plan ==== 
     + 
     +If we're using T9 gear, we don't have to E9 every single T7 gear we have and just cheaply craft T9 gear instead. Since there's more than 10 speed difference between E9 T7 and base T9, it's better to just craft a T9 instead of using E9 T7. 
     +If we have 10x T9 all at E9: 
     +  * 10x E9 T9 pieces would give (18+10) * 10 = 280 speed, 114% speed. 
     +  * **Item Sub total: 280 speed, 114% speed** 
     + 
     +10x E9 T9 piece total: (215+280) * 2.14 = __1059 speed. Not enough__, we need some allstat. 1418/1059 = 1.338, therefore we need 34% allstat. That's 2 pieces of E25 and 2% more allstat. Therefore, __we need to purchase 2x max empowered T9 gear to get to 10 AS__. 
     + 
     +===== What now? =====
      
    -The next guide covers the road to the ultimate T8 gear combat level of 130, and the one after that covers the push for daily 4th dungeon unlock: [[advanced_guide|Advanced Guide]] and [[end_game_guide|End-game Guide]].+Now that we have 10 AS, we should easily be able to max kill Filchers. The next [[advanced_guide|Advanced Guide]] will feature what to do after reaching that point, including getting all T9 augments. The true question that will be asked in the next chapter is: "Do I stay at Filchers forever?" 
     +When we can max kill Dreadghouls, we will enter the [[end_game_guide|End Game Guide]]
      
     Thank you for reading my guides, Thank you for reading my guides,
      
     Determinor Determinor
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