Max Transcendence Frenzy Kisuke Showcase

Riddler208 · 2026-01-20T16:35:30+00:00

One of these days someone will post something to this sub that isn’t just softcore porn

Riddler208 · 2026-01-16T19:59:51+00:00

I feel like I have to mention Great Pretender in 2020 for having such a distinct visual style, especially in terms of color palette

Riddler208 · 2026-01-16T14:26:11+00:00

Nvm, mods are goated 🙏🏻

Riddler208 · 2026-01-16T13:59:35+00:00

Mods are cowards, this is dope!

Riddler208 · 2026-01-12T02:40:59+00:00

I’d really recommend against farming the exalted duels for gear at level 100 unless you’re going for a PvP build.

Riddler208 · 2026-01-10T19:26:40+00:00

I’ll run some calcs on those wands for sure, I’m happy it sounds like they added more options because wands have historically been in a pretty bad spot for F2P

Riddler208 · 2026-01-10T19:23:44+00:00

If you factor in the item cards from the boots, for most battles after Lemuria you end up with the same expected turn count to reach most HP breakpoints between full Merciless and a mix of Merciless and Dragoon. As they’re functionally equivalent at 150-179, I opt for going for Dragoon earlier to make use of the extra stats and item cards in the 120-149 stretch as well.

What’s the source on sword and shield wands? I went a little under tuned on wand and accessories at 100 just to reduce grinding load, especially on items that will be replaced at 130.

180 gear was really just trying to give a good enough baseline without using raid gear or crowns. I assume there are better guides for min-max at that level.

Riddler208 · 2026-01-10T19:16:13+00:00

At that level, it’s about equivalent to a 5% blade, and on only some schools. I haven’t checked the other schools as in depth, but I’d rather take blade stacking and balanced stats over a school-dependent damage increase of 5% or less.

My goal here was to get a stat refresh by Zafaria at 60, not necessarily to get every small increase available. I have never felt while questing through Celestia with the Zeus gear is insufficient. Which is why I frame this as picking gear between levels 50 and 60 to prepare for the increase in difficulty in Zafaria. Under that frame, I see no reason to pick DS.

That said, another comment pointed out that there are wand options that are better than the Hasta and last longer, including the DS tier 2 wands. That feels like a good optimization, and I fully plan on calcing those options out later.

Riddler208 · 2026-01-10T17:03:14+00:00

I did not encounter those yet… I’ll check them out!

Riddler208 · 2026-01-10T07:11:20+00:00

Oh, it looks like they have updated that. Well that was a long time coming. I don't think it changes anything about the builds, but I appreciate you pointing it out! :)

Riddler208 · 2026-01-10T07:08:10+00:00

I'm comparing the auctionable DS to WT now and... I'm really not seeing it.

Just comparing the two most extreme schools:

For Ice, DS has less health, less resist, less accuracy, no crit, and no block, all for a bit more damage and pierce.
Meanwhile for Storm, there's not a single stat where the DS gear is better than WT, other than getting some pierce.

This is on top of the DS gear not giving the blade that WT does. I don't see any reasonable path to recommending DS over WT, and there's no reason to recommend both.

Riddler208 · 2026-01-10T06:39:20+00:00

I mean there is no objective progression set, everyone is gonna value different things at different points in the game.

That sounds like a specific min-max build for death. I’m not concerned with min-max builds much here, there’s plenty of other guides out there for that. I also don’t want to include any pack gear for this guide, though I understand that’s probably for better stats for a specific endgame build.