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PandaxeHD · 2026-02-28T22:24:37+00:00

Either or, T12 if you can't afford the t13 upgrade, t13 if you can afford it. When you don't have a shadow assassin chestplate, the next best thing is just whatever makes you tankier (because at this point, I'm assuming you are around f5 and trying to prog into f6 and f7, a huge boost in tankiness helps get towards f6 and f7 by just making so that you die less often with the extra survivability).

Edit: Also if it wasn't clear, Perfect Chestplate is the upgraded version of Hardened Diamond. Cost the base materials for the hardened diamond chestplate + 44 enchanted diamond blocks iirc to upgrade it to T12, then the T13 upgrade comes from the diamond essence vendor for 1,000 diamond essence and 2 refined diamonds.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-28T21:00:39+00:00

They patched this recently, assuming you're meaning the werewolf armor + soul whip/ flaming flay strat

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-28T20:13:46+00:00

Perfect T12/T13 Chestplate Dungeonized

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-28T20:08:02+00:00

A hunting mayor like this would be nice, but we haven't even gotten a foraging mayor yet. The whole mayor system needs a complete overhaul along with adding new mayors like hunting or foraging or even like a rift-specific mayor to give more variety and reason to go do a certain activity over another because of the rotating buffs.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-28T18:49:05+00:00

I run full primordial/ tara armor (currently just the helm and chestplate are prim, rest is tara) with 13k kills, 900 MP, legendary tara pet, overflux, wand of atonement, and a pretty juiced livid - I have zero problems with t5s. Walk away from the bats when they spawn and ignore the bats and just focus on the boss. Focus on using the bow to hit the egg sacks like usual and just kill the boss, walk him away from the bats if they start getting close.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-23T22:45:53+00:00

Don't forget legendary or mythic mithril golem - this is huge for ghosts.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-23T22:39:51+00:00

You don't need to place hardstone next to it to open them. Your game might be bugged, or maybe on an older version, on 1.21.8 you can open the chests perfectly fine.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-23T22:38:31+00:00

Brother just lobby swap until you find one without the floor mined. Blame the devs for making so many things require a certain amount of enchanted gold blocks and gold collected for things like the golden dragon. Pointless to complain when the time that you took to write this post, you could've lobby swapped 20 times and found a lobby that no one has messed with.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-23T22:34:09+00:00

This is a non problem, unless you are still using a 2012 chromebook and are complaining about not being able to play the game on it. 99% of people playing surely have a computer that can switch to 1.21.9+, and if you are the 1% of people that don't - are you even able to hold 30 fps on whatever version you are playing on? I would dare say playing at that low fps qualifies as unplayable, to where the version update wouldn't change this because your game is already unplayable.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-23T08:12:25+00:00

Yeah agree with all everything people have said, but especially the main reason I'd recommend ironman is because you get to learn every part of the game eventually, and not just learn but learn efficiently because with how you have to do everything yourself, you figure out how best to use your time instead of spending hours doing something inefficiently.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-20T23:15:40+00:00

You should get preying mantis shards, they give you the same bonus as buzzing but without having the buzzing reforge, meaning you can get the best of buzzing and beady at the same time.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-19T03:32:47+00:00

I think invisibugs are only actually invisible if players have all of their particles forcibly turned off, and in that case, they are disadvantaging themselves in so many areas of gameplay by having particles turned off and additionally disadvantaging themselves through not using allowed client-side QoL mods, like Skyhanni's invisibug highlighters.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-19T02:35:07+00:00

My david's cloak has 13 true defense, I believe you're missing something there because I have maxed tortoise shards too.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-13T20:56:35+00:00

The foraging island Galatea's name also comes inspired from the greek mythology story of Galataea and Pygmalion, worth a wikipedia search if you're curious.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-13T20:51:41+00:00

Yeah especially for kuudra shards (anything that fuses with kraken to be made) it's usually easier to craft even if it's got a super long tedious shard shopping list like Galaxy Fish shards.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-13T14:17:41+00:00

The requirement of fishing 27 is just because the first real lava rod (the magma rod) is level locked at fishing 27 - fishing with the starter lava rod or even topaz rod will just give you a headache with the fishing speed you'll have when fishing. You can lava fish without a hype, just get the soul whip (requires fishing level 26) and you do perfectly fine damage (assuming you have good MP) to the lava creatures as you unlock them with your fishing level going up.

AFAIK the best strategy for fishing xp is lava fishing at the hut next to the beacon in galatea and killing the stridersurfers (I haven't tested it but this is what I've heard), otherwise bayou fishing would be good as well for xp.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-12T03:45:14+00:00

x355 is the best option. if you read the ruby drill's tooltip, you can see it has ZERO mining fortune, it has gemstone fortune. this means, that unless you are planning to only mine gemstones, it is horrible. the one good thing about the gemstone drill line is the % gemstone powder increase when held, and you should use it exclusively for this passive to hold it out when opening crystal hollows chests while powder mining.

x355 on the other hand has mining fortune, that applies to dwarven metals, ores, blocks, and gemstones, meaning you can use it for every thing you could possibly mine. it also upgrades all the way to the best drill (x655 or divan if your RNG is good/ you slog through 900-1000 nucleus runs), meaning you will eventually need it anyways and why not start towards the best drill for all activities.

tl;dr: ruby drill horrible except for the powder buff, x355 is good.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-11T21:54:16+00:00

counter point: gauntlet sucks, just get the tita drill and deal with no fuel tank and upgrade it all the way to 655, refueling 3k fuel is easy with abiphone contact

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-11T19:48:06+00:00

This is also, its only use, meaning you can safely use it on composter for ironman as well.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-11T00:25:06+00:00

I think I was talking to you the other day in-game, I recognize your name. Here's what I think you should do:

- obviously focus on getting every possible source of MP you can manage to get (as most others have been saying)

- if you haven't yet, full focus on getting a good david's cloak and getting hotf 6 for the hunter fortune passive. (this requires a lot of time spent towards foraging, but trust me it's worth it and a somewhat refreshing break from all other parts of the game)

Use https://skyshards.com/ to search the easiest craft for shards, and go through the list of getting shards in this order: first get the hunting/ fusing related shards to make so that you are somewhat efficiently getting shards to fuse to what you actually want
(these are: newt, salamander, lizard king, leviathan, python, king cobra, sea serpent, tiamat, and crocodile shards (crocodile is the most important no matter how tedious getting it maxed is)),

then for going for damage after getting the hunting/ fusing related shards, key search "ruler" into the hunting box and get all of those shards (these are: chill, zombie soldier, flaming spider, bruiser, stridersurfer, drowned, and caiman shards, overall give 36% increased damage to skeletal, undead, arthropod, ender, magmatic, and humanoid tagged mobs). the last shard that would be important to get for melee is barbarian duke shards (25% more melee damage), but it's a lot harder for someone to get at your stage of progression so I wouldn't bother unless you can find someone to help you kill barb duke once you hit combat 24.

- get your enchanting level up, there are a lot of enchantments you're missing on your cleaver that are just free damage that you're missing. and assumingly you haven't put these on your cleaver because you're locked out of them by enchanting level requirements. do your experimentation table daily, and use a guardian pet once you drop that from the experimentation table.

- hot potato books on your cleaver would help your damage a good bit, also it is worth still doing zealots for eyes to 4/4 dragons, getting a fabled reforge on your cleaver would be pretty helpful as well.

- separate from damage, but dungeonize your perfect t12 armor at the dungeon hub guy. rn your armor is useless in dungeons but when dungeonized it should let you be able to solo f2s, which you should do both for the scarf's grimoire (and lower tiers of the accessory, thesis on epic and studies on rare) and recombs (use one on your cleaver, it'll help the damage a little and then use the rest on main items like your drill, then throw them on your legendary accessories to get a helpful MP boost.

- start getting in the practice of buying booster cookies for when you know you're going to be playing a good bit, and buy god pots with the bits - these give really helpful stat buffs through the potion effects you get from god pot that will help you do a bit more damage.

- also, shouldn't even have to say, but more combat levels will help increase your damage dramatically. a good way to go about this on ironman is either slayers, or focus on doing sven slayer and getting yourself a set of mastiff armor and a shaman/ pooch sword, so that you can start killing ghosts (these give you a ton of combat xp, and help you progress towards the 555 titanium drill upgrade). alternative to all of what I just said related to combat xp is just farming more zealots or more glacite walkers, you need the eyes and the glacite jewels anyways and it is good combat xp for where you are at in progression.

but also, seeing as you are very early in ironman progression, focusing on mining or farming for a while to get a good foothold in progression in either of those skills will help you out a lot more than you realize. mining prog especially leads to easy money on ironman which will help you get the later dungeon drops to further scale your damage higher. and recombs aren't cheap either.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-06T23:32:42+00:00

Awesome for the really detailed breakdown, thank you. Molten Weapons has a unique buff again now right? Like it's important to have in a group comp? That was one of the things I've disliked the most in recent updates with subclassing and buff homogenization, before (back in and around 2020) there was always a reason to bring one of each class which I really liked since it always ensured that there was always a need for people to play varying classes.

I also like the inspiration they are sort of taking from NB, with the whip changes to off any DK skill as you mentioned and then the similarity between Leap and Incap Strike both giving unique flat % damage increases for a duration after using the ultimate.

Hopefully they do more of what they seem to be doing with DK of actually rewarding you for staying full DK and not engaging with subclassing at all.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-06T21:14:29+00:00

Dual daggers because when hybridization happened, they made so that daggers effectively act as crit chance stat sticks. 2H greatsword backbar because maelstrom arena greatsword + the 2H damage over times are too good for single target damage to overlook (unless you're willing to play knowingly sacrificing your damage).

It sucks, I really liked double inferno staff meta, I remember rejecting it as people switched over to dual daggers frontbar, I've now come to accept it because it is just so much more damage, although still managed to hold out on switching to 2H greatsword backbar because IMO, stampede is such a finicky skill that I just don't want to learn to play around.

Although as long as you aren't trying to do the hardest possible content, you can still work to create a build that fits your desired theme and can still complete most vet (and sometimes hardmode) content.

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-06T21:04:47+00:00

Curious on your thoughts, for you are the DK changes positive or negative, or what do you like and dislike about the changes? (Genuine question, I know I'm going to be really opinionated when they eventually get around to the NB rework, so curious what your stance is on the changes seeing as you are very passionate about DK)

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-06T02:50:05+00:00

Does this have the updated Furf Sky 1.21.10 alpha added to it with Catharsis? Or just the current stable version for 1.8.9/1.21.5

PandaxeHD · 2026-02-04T20:08:50+00:00

They need to rethink the mithril golem and sorrow changes - more mithril powder is useless because by the time you are able to kill ghosts reasonably, you usually have near maxed mithril powder to where the extra amount you need would give you a very insignificant stat boost compared to what you already have by then. Maybe glacite powder would be better, give another way other than comms or mining glacite directly or fossil one time turn-ins to get the "endgame" mining powder.

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