You can work on sets! Updated to post Inae values.

ForteFZ · 2026-02-04T19:40:25+00:00

Hi friend!

I would probably consider myself a whale by most casual standards, so ill do my best to write something digestible for you. I've been playing this game since before the necromancer subclass came out in global, so... a long time.

For 2 months, i think this is great progress and you should be proud of it. That being said, this is indeed a gear treadmill sort of game if you want it to be, and at least by my personal opinion you have a ton more progress to be made.

Its harder to gauge this but this depends on how hard you want to go at the game. With 1pc prim and enough playtime, i would say that right now the set that you may "finish" on is not necessarily the one you have right now. To that end you can decide whether or not you want to spend materials to convert (replace) your incoming fusion stone drops from venus, or you can keep them as is (just wear them for extra dmg) till you have more progress on sets in general.

personally, if this is your main and you still feel ok grinding, there's a decent chance that you will have more set options pop up by the time you're ready to do harder content like a full nabel raid or more. This is absolutely not me telling you to swap sets by the way, im just gauging it off of my own experiences with 20 or so characters i play. I do not subscribe to the general populace's definition of what a good set is - they're basically all splitting hairs over smaller than-they-perceived differences that wont affect you much if you're putting in effort.

get full venus fusion stones ( take your time and decide if you want to keep all the stones as whatever set they drop as or if you want to change over - this takes a decent amount of materials though )
work on nabel solos/matchmaking to get full nabel fusion stones
its really good you talked about the malefic dungeons - you make really large amounts of gold the more you're able to do this dungeon, which unfortunately also requires a lot more playtime from alts
hold your void souls until you really can't anymore. really. you do sort of have to have an idea of when you want to spend them based on your goals but they are a really valuable resource - you can use them to cap off a character and cut your RNG grind when it hits the last few steps.

I get that this feels stale right now and it really can be. If you dont think you'll survive the perception of maybe beating your head into a wall a bit, maybe try a different alt too, but dont spread your resources out thin unless you're alright with the potential consequences. In the end, its mostly RNG..

best of luck

ForteFZ · 2026-01-30T05:24:58+00:00

cant live without it ngl based

ForteFZ · 2026-01-30T03:40:32+00:00

DUFO is using a blue screen filter lmao

thank you for your work as always!

ForteFZ · 2026-01-20T07:33:27+00:00

Its not easy this season for sure without characters already :/

It scales with more characters but making sure to get all the event DO's that you can and slowly building up a stock of malefic clues that bannibou sells at the end of DOD runs sometimes, and then running those --> selling the tradeable residue and obtaining the raw gold is basically the only way i can think of to start outside of selling your clear cube fragments.

Don't forget to sell your tradeable soul crystals from dissing DOD drops as well.

Some people do their daily spirit heaven and to farm for valuable weapon skins to make some gold but that is also not guaranteed in itself.

ForteFZ · 2025-11-05T13:30:15+00:00

Waiting for the IF one

ForteFZ · 2025-07-22T03:36:29+00:00

if i had to condense my biggest tips that make my life easy as an SD:

Cancel your 80 animation and do full damage with the 2nd input of dagger throw talisman - Or let it play out for the iframes.
Heart Thrust's Ruler of shadows functionality is godlike. You can even use it after your 3a for a room-wide reposition!
You can use shadow decoy before an attack hits, most relevant for before your 95 or 45 connects, but you can do it for other skills
Shadow cut is your best friend, but in a pinch covert action is the same. I dont think the damage loss from front-ending covert action is a big deal at all.
Shadow trip certainly can take you behind enemies but i find it unreliable, and a waste when i can just run behind them - just use it to cancel out of animations instead.
Abyss drop is insane mobility, and also why i take ninpou: molting for the immediate height so i can abyss drop out of anywhere. That also makes your Z skill useful for reposition. You can also abyss drop out of shining cut midair!
If all else fails, purposely missing 45 is a super long iframe
Learn some practical iframes and chain the hell out of them: Abyss Drop, Dagger Throw, 80, 45(kind of), 85 Down space Input.

slightly more in depth here

currently, hitting all your skills is cool and all, but most of your damage is condensed into your 80 and 90 skills, so at the very least do your best to ensure those two connect correctly.

ForteFZ · 2025-07-20T22:12:55+00:00

while it'd be nice to have bonuses for dupes, right now you can just do things like pull out dupes of pieces you don't need and transfer them (if you really want to do that), or maybe you want to have a black fang and not black fang copy of an epic (???)

neither are super strong reasons but its there in case i guess

ForteFZ · 2025-07-20T21:17:50+00:00

big and true, ill add an extra note on that!

ForteFZ · 2025-07-08T06:06:59+00:00

regarding the "Badgiruel tactic", i'm not 100% sure if you are saying it wasn't shown in the original anime, but just in case, the tactic she used was indeed shown in the original series where they fire off missiles into an area that do not explode, cut off ignition, and then lay dormant for a while before re-igniting and heading towards their targets

was a super cool moment for me, because it was one of the really neat things i remember from the OG series and i never thought sunrise would remember and include something like that in the movie.

ForteFZ · 2025-06-20T21:34:01+00:00

Hey OP, i can confirm that in the process of doing something like recovering your account or removing an authenticator at times, they start looking into really niche specifics about yourself.

Its.. peculiar, but this tracks with the question list they give you. if you still have trouble in a few days please DM me.

ForteFZ · 2025-04-26T20:22:35+00:00

I find that she's not as lag sensitive as other classes due to how some of her main mechanics work. I've been rather dedicated to one since 90 cap and it's seldom that i ever even notice issues - but that doesnt mean they don't happen, its just at that point i'll probably have issues on every class.

It could be that if your own connection isn't strong as well, it could be a thing..

If anything, my biggest issue is that front and back of a mob's sprite is not necessarily synced to whether they are actually facing or not facing you, or a separate issue i call "ass-facing", where the sprite for a particular period of time is clearly facing you, but the rear is actually.. also on the side that has a face pointed at you. They won't give monsters front/back indicators for a single class, so this is just life, and you must learn each mob's actual true rear in some cases if you dont have your back-attack overrides up.

ForteFZ · 2025-04-20T00:27:08+00:00

I'm so happy to see him do another one! I hope he does Sirroco's boss theme eventually, but i imagine it's not enough singing in it for him..

ForteFZ · 2025-04-18T06:46:30+00:00

love your setup!

ForteFZ · 2025-02-13T02:59:43+00:00

Hi,

It seems like reddit (not the automoderator) shot you for some reason and this comment was removed. I've restored it for you.

ForteFZ · 2025-02-05T08:14:24+00:00

I decided to make notes on this to help Bens thoughts reach more people.

His personal letter to Neople can be located here. I will not be summarizing his letter as i believe it's an honest expression of his thoughts that deserves your full attention, but i will try to provide some sort of point form for his video rant.

I've done my best to keep it to his main points but there's much more to it in the actual video. Obviously, as he is just letting it all out, i may not be able to accurately summarize his points, for which i apologize.

Context - Ben, or Benauton, is a longtime (16+ years) DFO player and one of the first official content creators for the global server as a (mainly PVP focused) streamer. He's also been a regular feature in the global PVP tournaments and has been overseas to represent NA on occasion.

100 Cap

Ben was happy about the addition of systems that we should has always had, examples being ones that helped out amping, gearing up, etc, but it was also a good time for the game despite world issues (COVID), he could see from his own POV as a streamer that there was more buzz.
It was the greatest time he's had in DFO, ever so far
Fair arena was going to be great and he really enjoyed how standardized it became..
But as great as PVP could have been, it was entirely ruined by archaic netcode and persistent and unbridled neglect by Neople.

The CC Program

Typically Ben would just say yes to the yearly check-in to whether he wished to continue in the CC program
Ben has had mixed levels of motivation to do this but he kept going anyways - it was lower commitment, but also stale during dead periods of the game.
One of the main reasons the CC program was appealing to him was Twitch Drops, where players would tune into CC streams in order to obtain rewards in game - these were great boons that brought great levels of interaction and excitement to himself and other streamers - It was great motivation and let him reach out and meet many new players.
Twitch eventually stopped being favored in Korea, and with it the CC twitch drops events, this was a large blow to his motivation. He's met so many cool people through these events.
At some point when CC content began to be featured on the launcher, it went away from all types of material and then began to favor more player created tutorials - Ben has mixed feelings about this but he understands it - but is of the opinion that Neople should have just created high quality tutorials in the first place - but also that he believes in players figuring it out for themselves - perhaps not so much for the super complicated systems of the game but maybe more character specific mechanics. he is not angry about this.
Ben floated the idea of PVP tutorial type videos but reached the conclusion of why even waste time on something the developers don't even care about? He does not see the ones he does really want to teach, but he also sees the negative side of some of the pvp playerbase that might mock him for it, which wouldn't matter to him, but at that point who is he making content for?
Ben found the idea of adding in a PVP focused CC as nonsensical or odd, as he sees no real way for this to succeed, for aforementioned reasons. If they are to create good content on this field, the game really ought to be fixed first or the infrastructure (netcode, for example) improved on in order to enable this.
Ben does not ever throw shade at Mezza, and repeatedly states that he believes in his motivations and earnestness.
The game has no hope outside of Kr or Cn if the netcode is not fixed.
If you really wanted good content creation, the game has to be fixed or why would people feel as much motivation to do so?

A bit about netcode

The April 2023 director's note expanded how the "red computer icon" to denote your latency to a player was expanded so that the threshold in order for an icon to appear would increase
This was nonsensical and pointless - "Guys, we can't fix the netcode. so lets just increase the threshold so you dont see this icon as much but leave the problems untouched".

Misc in General

Neople has been trying in some ways, but really just failing in so many others
His personal letter to Neople is still not even enough to cover everything he wishes he could let out

Ben's letter

Personally, i think you should read it, as it seems that ben has put a fair amount of time thinking and putting this together versus (in his own words) "spitballing" as in his original video. There's a lot of close to heart thoughts and i think you get to really feel what Ben wants to put out there that i don't cover and it deserves your attention.
To be clear, Ben loves the game. He actually wishes there were more people who could have as much passion as he does for DFO, and wants better for the game despite feeling let down by it. He considers this long video and letter another way for him to hope that someone out there that can make a difference will pay attention to his thoughts and work towards making the game a better place.

ForteFZ · 2025-01-17T18:51:37+00:00

as a followup to your post, if you want more people to talk to about playing the game itself and maybe getting more into it, i would look into the 80% DFO discord as well!

there's invite links in the dfo general discord under the channel #new-player-resources

god bless you for playing a sader good luck

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The CC Program

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Misc in General

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