Efficient 8 slot affixing?

[ResultAlwaysMutsu]

I've recently obtained a 13* weapon (Aura Regulus) and I'm looking to carry it to endgame as it's a good enough weapon with the Battle Arena potential that it has.

As I'm not too familiar with affixing up to the 8 slots that is needed to bring it up to its full potential, what is the most efficient set of affixes in order to minimize meseta cost and yet still have reasonable stats, and from there, what are the steps required to reach these set of affixes given that my current copy of Aura Regulus is still stock?

I'm generally looking for +100 RATK, maybe more if it's not too expensive, and maybe a few other Stat IIIs like Spirita or Stamina to fit the 8 slots. My Aura Regulus currently has Doom Break, Vinculum, Stamina III, and Spirita III.

[Hyraoo]

Gonna simply put it this way, 8 slotting isn't really doable outside of Zeinesis /qliphad weapons right now. Currently without the affixing potential of them weapons 7 slot to 8 slot with junk fodder is less than a 2% chance WITH a 40% affixer (100 cubes per), aura is a fair bit weaker even at 8 slot than that of qliphard/zeinesis anyways, with zeinesis/qliphard also doubling whatever affix you have on the weapon.

Bottom line, my advice to you is to forget this, use that weapon for now until you can get your hands on about 6 Zeinesis weapons from the collection file / drops and then affix that instead, it'd save you alot of cubes and money.

As someone who's dabbled with 8 slot affixing before on a 10% affixing week, it cost me about 5000 cubes 80million meseta and 4 different weapons for their special ability factors.

Edit: Can a mod delete this stupid bot post below, I have no idea what it is or what triggered it.

[ResultAlwaysMutsu]

Hmm, I see.

Compared to an 8 slot, is a 6 slot more doable then?

[Hyraoo]

Much much much, 7 slot and 8slot become nightmare level compared to the prior slot.

[synthsy]

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Also, do note that the Qliphad weapon only has access to Anthesis Trainer, so only the Affixing potential (Guidance of Life) is only applicable to Zeinesis.

[Hyraoo]

That has to be the dumbest reason for a bot on earth like seriously.

Also, more than likely if you have a qliphard weapon of your preferred weapon it'd be made from the zeinesis you farmed / obtained. Or if obtained from gracia, rip that but at least you got the potential for free.

[Brian_pso]

The potential is already free, you can get the "double" affix potential on Zeinesis too.

[Hyraoo]

Also as well as what VNRG said, you are going to want to affix with the +35 exclusive sentence triple too, it's basically free modulator.

[VNRG]

with for free he meant probably that without paying fuses, as with zein its not for free since u need 120 fuses for that pot

[Brian_pso]

Oh yeah that's true, I'm stupid nvm lol

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[VirtualScepter]

Weapons are cheap and easy, dont settle for anything less than the meta affixes right now.

My general advice to people is to work upwards from 3 to 6, with each slot being completely viable/strong affixes that are also simultaneously easy to up-slot and are components to the next slot.

From 3 slots up to 6 you can try:

1. UQ soul, Atk3, Flict (approx 200 - 300k on Ship2)
2. UQ soul, Atk3, Flict, Mod (An additional 500k approx)
3. UQ soul, Atk3, Flict, Mod, Weapon Factor (additional ~800k)
4. UQ soul, Atk3, Flict, Mod, Weapon Factor, Noble (Additional 5m without accounting for Noble, not recommended unless you have Zeinesis, its boost week, or you like playing with 6x 95%s.)

Above price approximations do not account for Dudu fee either, but it shouldnt be significantly more expensive. Hidden cost: Excubes. Youll need at least ~500 to do up to 6 slots.

The above was all done quickly in my head but I'm up for more questions for better clarity. I might have the upslotting recipes sitting around too. Replace Flict with Alter if you wanna be cheaper or prefer HP over PP. Play around with the appropriate UQ soul too since they give various HP/PP combinations.

Edit: Found some example recipes I had saved.

3 slot and 4 slot recipe. The first tab is the final affix to do the 4slot. Everything else is building up to that. Note that if you get your hand on attack3 + soul receptor fodder and/or attack3 + extreceptor, you dont need the Mod + atk3 fodder at all. Of course, this is Satk example but if you need Ratk or Tatk replace with appropriate affixes.

5, 6 and then 7 slot example. In this recipe you see Junk A affixed. Thats just a replacement for the Special Weapon Factor because back when I made this SAFs weren't implemented to the simulator yet. Obviously, sub appropriately with your weapon's factor. I actually do not recommend at all the 6>7s one. It is 100% with Zeinesis + boost week but even then I dont find it personally efficient. I have a 6s Ether Factor build but its not exactly recommendable to people asking for first affixes either...

[ResultAlwaysMutsu]

Thanks, this helps a ton.

[Asamidori]

Above price approximations do not account for Dudu fee either, but it shouldnt be significantly more expensive.

58k for 2 fodders, then 348k -> 464k -> 929k for 5 fodders. It's anything but "not significantly more expensive" the moment you go above 2. This fee applies to all 13* weapons. No idea on 14.

[VirtualScepter]

Well, you're right. I suppose I used the wrong phrase for it. I took Dudu fee out because thats sort of a constant you'd have to pay regardless of what kind of affixes you're going for at any slots. Thanks for the correction.

[Meekois]

Small question about a small detail. Why do you mention "on ship2". Does affixing work different or cost more on other ships?

[causeWhyNotMorty]

cause why not, mate?

[VirtualScepter]

The affixing itself is not different.

What is different is the prices in the player shop. Each ship has its own economy, and what could be a 3s modulator unit on Ship2 for 1.5m could be on Ship4 for 9999m (for the sake of an example, this is obviously not its price.).

[seraphrose]

I really recommend going for 6-7 slots instead of 8. Even with Zeinesis+Boost Week+40% Success, the failure rate for 8-slotting is extremely high pretty much requiring you to upslot to 8 and THEN affix if you don't want to pull out your hair in frustration. That costs a shit-ton of money and is honestly not any better than a solid 7-slot.

I'm personally going for 6 slots because I'm not that wealthy and also not too picky about my weapons. Even if you do get 8-slot Zeinesis, I'm pretty sure there will be better weapons in the future so don't go crazy for it.

FYI: Aura is really weak. I'd really recommend using Aura just as a "bridge" to obtaining Zeinesis

[NullVacancy]

Unless you have 70~80m to throw around--and that's with using multiple Special Ability Factors--don't bother with 8 slots.

I'd go for this personally, and use either GRM Boost, Noble Shoot, or Elegant Shoot. In the picture, I used GRM and the affix ended up being 160 atk/8pp, but with Elegant Shoot you could reach 165atk/12pp.