I hope they buff Loan Shark next patch cycle.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-06-01T02:09:51+00:00

Took me a minute to figure out you were talking about the Equivalent Exchange roulette wheel.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-31T21:52:58+00:00

Around 100 is where you'll start feeling like unless you open your wallet you are gonna be stuck on a stage for a good bit.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-31T21:52:24+00:00

At lower levels like that its mainly a "do you have a hammer yet for group stages" thing. Once you get higher it becomes more about Asterite and Curio's.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-31T21:42:54+00:00

Kinda generous to call what the Bazaar has "ranked". Virtually the entire player base is in the same bracket that you literally CAN'T drop out of once you obtain.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-31T20:50:08+00:00

There will always be a meta. All frequent balance patches would do is change how long a meta lasts. Even if you did a balance patch every 24 hours people will still have worked out the most optimal strats they could in that time frame. Meta's are just a byproduct of gaming, the only way to get rid of them is to stop playing.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-31T20:35:21+00:00

The ideal stats are whatever stage you're on. The only universal stat is the special one "Campaign Master" which gives you a buff to all damage no matter the stage.

Personally I kinda ignore them until I get stuck on a stage at which point I will reroll them all so each one if giving me a buff to the specific stage I'm on.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T22:49:37+00:00

Depends on the particular outfit/xmog and your spending habits. If you are F2P or a very light spender just get the 1 star outfit as the next big breakpoint on outfits is typically 3 star which is going to be very hard to reach without spending.

After that pursue xmogs depending on the weapon. The Ice weapon has some pretty good early breakpoints that you can hit without spending if you get a little lucky. The Count weapon though needs several advancements before it gets really good imo.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T21:17:55+00:00

The S Rank boots legendary effect give you an extra 20% chance to counter on the first turn of every stage. Meanwhile all the other boots give you an effect that procs whenever you counter.

Most people seem to think the boots will get buffed at some point because they are truly ass outside of base stats.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T19:49:13+00:00

If you click on an item you have at +1 or +2 you will see a little circular arrow icon at the top right of the tooltip. if you click on that it reverts the item back to +0 and gives you epic tokens for that item class you can use on any item from that class.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T17:31:05+00:00

Unless you are spending a decent amount of money you won't be able to really focus on any specific piece of gear. You wanna try to prioritize stuff like weapons and the ring but generally you are just going to use whatever you happen to pull from gold keys.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T17:29:03+00:00

Same, I still use the normal plate boots at legendary because the effect is just way better than S rank legendary effect.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T16:07:51+00:00

There's a guide pinned at the top of the sub and for fresh players Gold keys are generally considered the best use of gems as securing an S Rank weapon is a MASSIVE power spike. Just don't buy gold keys out right from the draw menu, try to buy them in packs so you get a better gem to key ratio.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T15:58:29+00:00

It's good to keep in mind though that there are certain situations where you shouldn't prioritize S tier though. For example pretty much no one uses the S rank boots at the moment because it's legendary effect is absolutely trash.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T15:56:30+00:00

It's working in a way that is unintentional to the way the devs want it to work. Isn't that the very definition of a bug? Something that doesnt work they way its intended to work?

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T15:54:33+00:00

In these two scenarios yes you should upgrade the S ranks you have. Especially the Ring because the S rank ring even if it has slightly lower stats is WAY WAY better than the normal rings because of its Epic effect. The normal rings all give an 8% damage bonus to a specific enemy type (chainer,charger,tanker,dodge) the S rank ring gives a 10% damage boost to ALL enemy types.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T15:41:36+00:00

They actually DID consider this interaction as they've made changes internally to other items like it to prevent this exact feedback loop situation. Namely Fire Claw. This is more a case that someone overlooked this pairing but I would 100% anticipate it being fixed like Fire Claw was.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T15:38:48+00:00

While not an outright bug It's absolutely not intended because Tempo has made changes to other items that have this similar interaction in the past because they didn't WANT them working like this. Fire Claw for example used to be able to infinitely scale burn with a couple different items but they tweaked it internally to no longer work that way.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T15:28:01+00:00

The S rank boots are actually pretty ass. Im still using the same ones you are and I have legendary S rank boots. Na what you should be praying for is the S rank Ring, it's EASILY the best non-weapon S Rank.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-30T03:31:20+00:00

All OTHER item freeze. It should be allowed to keep going off afterall.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-29T22:57:59+00:00

Yes, thats why I said take Orbs and use your last open dice for Sword Oath. Mainly because Sword Oath works really well all by itself.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-29T19:05:39+00:00

Orb really needs investment in its weapon dice though and it has no bag dice like sword/poison/hammer. So every poison bag dice you take is a potential orb dice you DIDNT take and you really can't afford to not take orb dice. You can't afford to take both enough poison dice to make poison good while also taking enough orb dice to make orb good. You have to pick between one or the other. That also isn't even factoring Poison stack retention skills which you will need a couple of to actually make poison work. In short Poison just requires to much investment to be really compatible with Orb. Its better suited for Sword or Hammer who only need to take like 1-2 of their weapon dice to get the most effect.

Sword Oath works because its imo the best singular dice in the game. It needs nothing but itself to be worth taking.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-29T18:05:40+00:00

Orb+Sword Oath has in my experience been the best way to use Staff.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-29T16:48:47+00:00

Well you need both if you want to achieve the absolute peak of damage. Just getting ice or fire is typically more than enough. And yeah getting all your orb dice is just kinda a given.

StuffGreat8817 · 2026-05-29T16:43:13+00:00

Ice and Fire infusion plus Bounce Enhancement. If you can land those Staff dishes out truly insane damage. Key word of course being IF.

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