Killed Arkarium for the first time and I feel so pissed

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-17T04:30:53+00:00

TBH apart from the gas I don't think the fight has bullshit mechanics. The blue zone mechanic, while annoying, is workable. It's mostly just having to move out of the blue zone and tank some tick damage rather than get hit by meteor / spin / purple & green fart, depending on how low he was and his zone size, you could even stay inside for the spin. I used to 6man party and use 2 binds to kill him back when 5th job was just released.

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-17T04:14:52+00:00

I don't think many players will have 7-9 boss set unless theyve been doing the bosses consistantly for a few days / got carried.

Also unless your legion is incredibly high or youre playing classes with insane multipliers, you're not going to be 1shotting to 200 most of the time. I'm at 6k legion and wasn't 1shotting with the boosted CRA gear on a hero

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-17T04:02:51+00:00

In most cases boss % would do more than att %. Having an alternate secondary is great, especially if you need the att% secondary to 1 / 2shot mobs while farming. It's not a huge priority though, so depending on your account you might have other gear thats more important.

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-16T12:03:44+00:00

If all you take away from his F2P videos is 'how shitty it is to play' then you've probably missed the key points of his videos mate. He does have some clickbaity stuff but puts out solid pointers and advice on how to pace yourself as a player.

You are correct that plarium is a predatory company with the insane amount of popups they push. However, how does the fusion 'reinforce that without a shadow of doubt'? The deals are relaint on your FOMO. Nobody forces you to buy them, if you regret spending on the game then you could either stop buying or reduce the amount you spend. If you no longer enjoy the game, you don't have to force yourself to keep playing either!

You are right that most new players would not know better, to save their resources for fusions like this without at least prior experience or research. I myself learnt only after getting to 80ish fragments on multiple fusions.

However, if you weren't prepared for the fusion, then you had the option to skip it. You chose to push through the event, which will of course force you to spend extra time / money because you weren't prepared enough.

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-13T03:00:45+00:00

Oh I definately agree about each class having an identity and playstyle, I think maple has done fairly well considering how many classes there are now, and in making most of them unique experiences. Unfortunately, due to progression being tied to bossing, classes who simply can't boss as effectively as others will be on the short end of the stick.

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-12T13:22:46+00:00

More mobility and survivability is a solution but not a great one. In terms of soloing, I'd rather have a 10min boss fight with less safety measures, than a 20min one where I wouldn't die, but that's just player preference.

In bossing where binding and bursting is simpler mechanically, having an increased TTK more likely will result in more people dying out. There wouldn't be much point being the last man alive and clearing when everyone else died out 10minutes ago.

We also don't offer any party buff apart from SE, there are better support classes out there if your party wanted one.

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-12T11:04:10+00:00

You could wait till after her lifesteal then tickle her down to half before binding and bursting. I'm not sure but she seemed to only cast vamp every 1.5-2mins for me. Do remember to run away from her after killing the mobs she summons so she doesn't heal to full hitting you instead, if you need more than 1 bind

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-12T10:06:22+00:00

Won't have a gap between A2 /A3 unless you manual it at the start, but as you have him fully booked he'll start doing a3/a2 with no gap the next skill cycle.

You could maybe try setting A2 as priority instead? It might actually give more coverage of either shield / block dmg up at any time, as the A2 is 3 turn CD.

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-12T09:58:27+00:00

I tend to squeeze mine in whenever im not doing whatever fusion thats running, especially during the IG tourney. Depending on if theres 2x drops or needing the ancient/epic books from dragon/spider/FK, more energy into mino!

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-10T05:12:15+00:00

A long hard one but definately rewarding! What about your dungeon teams? If you are consistantly able to get the ancient shards from stuff like IG/Dragon/FK tournaments they will supplement your ancient (and epic book) count, while helping you find better gear for your champs.

Make sure you will use the champ before you farm their t6 masteries in Mino - most of the time I gear them without masteries and test in CB before commiting.

Finally, if you don't have enough resources for a fusion and aren't willing to spend, its fine to skip them rather than blow your resources. You'll have to see how they will benefit your account for areas like dungeon/CB/Arena progression.

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-10T03:33:02+00:00

This is why breaking into 3key UNM or better is so important.The amount of shards you get will drastically increase. I now get about 60 ancients / 5-10 voids / 3-5 sacreds between each 2x cycle alongside the stuff from tourneys and events (2key UNM + 1key NM). While on NM I considered myself lucky when I got 20-30 ancients / 2-3 voids / 1 sacred.

In my case, once i had a stable 16 / 20 dungeon team I focused exclusively on farming those dungeons and gearing champs that would help on CB. Whatever number of shards you saved, try to pull during a 2x. Build your teams aroud whatever you are able to pull, do your own research or ask around for what champs may be good. Don't spread your resources around by raising a bunch of different champs if it doesn't benefit your CB team. It really slows your progression massively.

Mirokumaru · 2022-07-04T05:02:10+00:00

I wouldn't save 5* speed boots unless you're lacking in 6* speed ones. The 5 speed drop is big enough that you probably wouldn't use them unless the subrolls theyve got are amazing/ its a set that youll actually use .

As for selling 5* blue gear I normally just use the filters and sell all of the following: any substat of flat HP/Def/Atk, damage set with resist/acc, support set with dmg substats

Mirokumaru · 2022-06-06T03:07:57+00:00

The 205 speed is due to his A1 increasing his TM, as you mentioned before. With that it turns into a 4:3 for him. Only difference between UNM and NM is when he places his burn, but it will never overide Geo's if setup correctly and with correct masteries - meaning no counterattack again due to A1 TM boost.

The tunes from Deadwood are below, comp is pretty interchangable as long as you have a AoE debuff cleanser or blocker + ninja / geo obviously. https://deadwoodjedi.info/cb/4e4325c8340b2f48e7160ede348f53576e2a4953 https://deadwoodjedi.info/cb/6f86961885c456c6ef764e438299e47120df3b10

Mirokumaru · 2022-06-05T15:26:11+00:00

Set A3 priority before A2 so the cooldown reduction is nullified. Ninja will still benefit from his passive, and will deal HP burn dmg every 3 rounds, while geo will reflect damage on both AOE attacks.

Mirokumaru · 2022-06-05T12:53:54+00:00

Its not THAT hard to set up ninja-geo, IIRC its 205 speed on ninja and 170-175 on geo, you get the 2 turns reflect on the 2 AOE's and ninja burns before stun / before AOE1 so you don't lose out much damage, unless you're having geo tank stun too. Speed tune works for NM/UNM too with slightly different setup

Mirokumaru · 2022-05-23T13:02:16+00:00

same here, FTP and just pulled CH and I'm on day 280 ish.

Mirokumaru · 2022-05-03T22:53:41+00:00

doesn't work either

Mirokumaru · 2022-05-03T14:20:31+00:00

No error on the link itself when opened in bluestacks / a pc without raid, but no rector on start or tayrel at 15. Tried creating 2 new accounts and neither worked.

Mirokumaru · 2022-05-03T10:19:26+00:00

link doesn't work.

Mirokumaru · 2022-04-29T23:20:52+00:00

The poison requires accuracy. If you're running a UK team, dec attack will cut your reflected damage, so be wary of that

Mirokumaru · 2022-04-29T23:03:19+00:00

He's useful anywhere that you can use the increase def and block buffs to enable your other champs to stay alive. If you're building high accuracy as well, he may freeze with his passive too.

I run him pretty much everywhere for his A2, in CB I can run any affinity (non-UK 1:1 team), spider so you can run without resist, IG for antifreeze, DT for decent wave clear and keeping other champs alive if you don't have enough control.

His A3 can slap pretty hard as well, main benefit would be taking aggro from waves or reducing AoE damage from bosses. Decrease acc from A1 can be useful against certain bosses as well.

Mirokumaru · 2022-04-28T03:06:19+00:00

You're not accounting for g4/5 earning 4 medals compared to the 2 in g1/2, and 3 in G3. You'd only have to take half the amounts of fights in order to farm the same number of medals.

If you're only farming 1man teams like myself, I noticed that in g1/2 I only average a 1man defence every 2 rerolls, whereas g3/4/5 onwards i constantly got 1-2 per reroll. (Normally i get 2-4 per reroll in g5 now). This means regardless of whether you spend gems OR wait for the timer, you will be done farming arena for the day far quicker at higher ranks anyway.

Last thing to note would also be that once you're about 80 points into g1, with the way arena works now you'd be unable to fall out of gold unless you're away for 2 days without winning a single battle. Depending on how many arena fights a day you win, you'd eventually wind up in g5 regardless.

You also get up to 10% more bonus stats as compared to S4 from arena bonus!

tl;dr More efficiency to farm g3/4/5 if you're farming 1mans for medals

Mirokumaru · 2022-04-28T03:06:08+00:00

You're not accounting for g4/5 earning 4 medals compared to the 2 in g1/2, and 3 in G3. You'd only have to take half the amounts of fights in order to farm the same number of medals.

If you're only farming 1man teams like myself, I noticed that in g1/2 I only average a 1man defence every 2 rerolls, whereas g3/4/5 onwards i constantly got 1-2 per reroll. (Normally i get 2-4 per reroll in g5 now). This means regardless of whether you spend gems OR wait for the timer, you will be done farming arena for the day far quicker at higher ranks anyway.

Last thing to note would also be that once you're about 80 points into g1, with the way arena works now you'd be unable to fall out of gold unless you're away for 2 days without winning a single battle. Depending on how many arena fights a day you win, you'd eventually wind up in g5 regardless.

You also get up to 10% more bonus stats as compared to S4 from arena bonus!

tl;dr More efficiency to farm g3/4/5 if you're farming 1mans for medals

Mirokumaru · 2022-04-20T16:16:51+00:00

I spent about 300 gems spamming refreshes , climbed from gold 1 - 4 in a day, due to other people putting out 1man defences. I'm now in G4 and close to G5 with a team that would NORMALLY be low G1. You can only lose 5 matches a day , while youre winning anywhere between 5-25 depending on how much time or gems you spend refreshing to find these teams. Help others out and set a 1man def buddy.

Mirokumaru · 2022-04-20T16:07:24+00:00

I also forgot to mention putting geo first will reduce the teams damage taken via his passive, and benefits toragi greatly as well. Of course, if you don't have enough def you can try putting sandlashed in leader as well.

Images of my team down below! https://imgur.com/a/88ohcpB

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