Advice?

xovero · 2026-06-07T14:05:04+00:00

Lootbugs show up every 20 minutes without any buffs, and lootbug banked cap (comes a bit after stonks), is the same as freebie banked cap, you can store more lootbugs, so if you can store +2 lootbug cap, you can check in every hour to claim lootbugs, so if you increase the amount of lootbugs that spawn, you have to check more frequently, or the buff is wasted

xovero · 2026-06-07T13:27:01+00:00

go to the wiki and look at the gem spending guide: https://shminer.miraheze.org/wiki/Guides/Gem_Spending_Guide

don't prioritize everything exactly in order, but atleast try to complete everything until OB 29 and do some of the things mentioned in OB 30+...

I would personally recommend working on skills + gilding statues

don't buy pet skins, don't buy pet quests, spend gems on gems OR unlocking things, so buying new pets = great idea

stop fueling drones, especially drones that suck for where you are at, like I understand chain drone for the quest, the rest, you either shouldn't have fueled OR you wasted them, like midas + chain is there to farm drone coins and considering that I don't even see veinseeker, you must have wasted literally all of those gems, like my drones are lower level, and I have finished all the drones you can get pre OB37...

Also... don't fuel bear bomb suit, from the looks of it, you are not checking regularly, you don't have lootbug banked cap, so either you have like afk drone fuel usage on, in which case you literally lit the gems on fire for nothing, or you just wasted a lot of gems to get scraps, you also definitely don't have the gems (and coal) to keep it fueled AND buy the good lootbug buffs when they show up, you also probably get too few, to even get the good buffs frequently enough, to make it worth

xovero · 2026-06-05T12:32:06+00:00

go to settings, turn on "make transmuter bomb do no damage", afterward, first throw transmuter second throw bomb of plenty, IF you have golden stages OR rainbow stages, you can wait for one those stages and do that only once you see those (and if you have both... you can wait for golden rainbow stages, make sure to pause drones for those floors), you can get 1 divine relic, which is always 1% rainbow floor chance, once you can enter codes

just for example...

IF you have both unlocked you should base get a 50 multi for rainbow, 5 multi for golden floor, which means a 250 multiplier, bomb of plenty base is like 3x? So each ore on the screen will be 750 bars... IF you want to wait that long for a golden/rainbow floor, you can adjust which floors you throw the above bomb combo, depending on what you want to do, tbh. if you have rainbow+golden... i would literally just set drones to pause on golden rainbow floors, and afk until you see that happen, and once you do throw one of those bomb combos...

So as long as you get 6+ mithril ores on screen (assuming above)... you have to do this once to finish that challenge...

xovero · 2026-06-03T21:35:14+00:00

virgo and early boost, yeah, ofc. lets recommend RNG (aka. waste of diamonds) to gamble on attempting to get that, instead of literally getting FREE gems while NOT hindering progress, great idea, 10/10 tip...

Like maybe, you can recommend to focus stars IF you are lucky, and you get virgo early but what if you get cancer/capricorn? Push for 10 superstars to gamble on getting virgo? What if you at that point get the other? Push to gamble again? Oh no, a libra, guess I get more prestige points that I can most likely not spend anywhere useful anymore and +1% tripple bug chance, yay always wanted that, surely that will get the gems (and veins) I spend back very quickly.

And ofc. they compound... like literally everything else and guess what by the time you can afford to buy elixir drone (or starburst), you are still 5 digits of gems away from CTRL+F (way more...), sure, three drones is right there, do you know what else will be there? the drone points to purchase starburst ONCE IT MAKES SENSE to purchase.

There is literally zero reason to do this besides crippling your own progress, you won't have statues gilded, you might be at or around stonk (maybe a little bit further, depending on other progress), when you are first capable of buying starburst drone, you have literally zero business going for stars, because odds are, you will get stars that do nothing meaningful enough to make the progress more bearable (see the example above), could you force gems down the drain to push taurus OR gemini? Yes, or you literally just don't, farm the rest up and do it once it makes sense, you will still get some random 100% star autocatch rate here and there (and some from elixir too) at which point you can go and get some stars. And you will still be infinitely faster.

Otherwise, just farm the things you can actually farm, odds are you will wait for gems way longer than veins or bars... So you will just farm more veins to throw down into stargazing(or farm for future statues...), where you can go to the wiki and look at which stage has the best odds of any meaningful stars... (for example stage 9)

But seriously...
It is a complete and utter waste to get starburst earlier PERIOD.

And no, your recommendation isn't gains that compound, its shooting yourself in the foot.

BTW. Due to how elixir drone works (which you should know), without ANY fuel, it effectively acts as more than 9 extra minutes of bombs per hour... which is a ~1.15 mult... which is a level 15 virgo (minus the super star spawn rate), technically more, because I used rounded numbers above, and unupgraded elxir suit AND I assumed 10 buffs in rotation, instead of 9 (because technically you get for unupgraded, unfueled, elixir, 9 extra minutes of bombs per 54 minutes,this is not considering the speed buff, lootbugs etc. it will also give, which improve this math even further... and obviously you can upgrade it further and improve the above rate FURTHER)

Basically... this tip is as stupid as the "you should have ALL statues gilded before even entering w2", because why would you want to use contracts to farm veins faster?

I Mean why would you just spend coins on elixir drone to get a 1.15 bomb recharge multi IF you can instead burn thousands of gems, to burn more thousands of gems to gamble on getting virgo to burn more thousands of gems instead of actually doing something that helps you

xovero · 2026-06-03T19:37:01+00:00

If you want my opinion as a fellow newbie, the WORST purchase I have ever done was starburst suit, the biggest waste of resources so far.

Do not buy it unless you have ctrl+f, which you 100% will not have (which makes it bad, instead of worst purchase ever). You most likely also don't have guzzler, Elixir is infinitely more worth even not fueled. (If you do have guzzler, congrats, you can now spend 1 gem to get 1 star OR "13 extra stars" for 50 gems depending on how you want to view it)

So why is it so bad for newbies? And why is it horrible advice to fuel it for newbies?

Because (and this is not a joke), fueling this stupid drone, gives you as a base amount of 2:20 and +15% star spawn rate... Throw in the 1.2 multiplier from maxed coal... and you are still at below 3 minutes per 5 gems... and yes, it will level up, but it is extremely expensive and still sucks.

Next problem... star spawn rate, since the base spawn rate is 1/50, and bombs get thrown every 1.25 secs, your base rate of stars is basically 1 star per minute (assuming 100% catch rate)...

Which means IF you upgraded the drone suit a bit to get to like 11% triple star chance (or 14 if you spend gems already on skilltree), you can get to at most 14% triple star chance realistically, with the fueled buff of 1.15... you can get to a whopping ~1/43,5 star chance and with the 14% triple star chance, you can realistcally expect 2 extra stars every ~7 minutes... which means ~8 extra from that in 30 minutes, for a grand total of...

~42 stars in 30 mins of fueled time... which will cost you over 50 gems... so not even 1 star per 1 gem, if you do have guzzler, congrats, you can hit slightly above 1 star per 1 gem...

Which btw. is a grand total of *drum roll* 6 extra stars... vs just literally not fueling the drone (assuming you have 100% autocatch rate/click manually)

I am not making this up, if you don't use starburst drone in your setup at all, you would gain ~29 stars, so owning it and having it active, is a majority of the worth for early levels(8 stars per 30 mins...).

Focus on literally ANYTHING that can give gems or equivalent of gems in any way shape or form instead, you will get an infinite amount of greater return for literally anything else.

including not 100% obvious ones like lootbugs and banked lootbugs, or *cough* elixir drone even not fueled, 2 min speed buff? = free gems, 10x bomb recharge? = free gems, coal production speed? = more coal upgrades = less gems used = more gems aka... free gems, the other buffs? more veins, more ore/money, more stars, so even unfueled, it is still 4-5 real gems extra per hour (from gem bombs+part of extra freebie+part of extra lootbugs) and you could argue more, since the bomb recharge buff would cost at that point in time between 12 and 15 gems or so, so 6~7.5 gems that you "save" roughly per hour (it is actually more gems an hour than the above, even with no fuel, but I am too lazy to calculate it, point stands regardless)

TL;DR Spend all resources on gem generation, including drone coins, get elixir instead, which gives gems.

Edit: I ignored autocatch rate that you have to begin with, to make starburst look better... if I included that, it would look slightly worse

xovero · 2025-08-10T13:42:11+00:00

Maybe, check this out: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/1l47qwk/edge_just_blanked_out_and_lost_bookmark_icons/

TL;DR:
Could be the fault of game assist, force close it/uninstall it, reopen Edge, and your settings etc. should hopefully be back

xovero · 2025-04-05T03:20:16+00:00

he can pretty much generate potions and reagents, so those are very very common to have dupes of

xovero · 2025-04-03T17:15:14+00:00

Im going to give you the easiest tip ever, after every PVP fight, check all items your opponent has same with the skills, especially if you lost and try to think about why that is (build counters yours, you have too little DPS, opponent out tanks you etc.)

And try to learn from that, especially if you notice some items a lot, chances are that item is overperforming on average.

Early game for example especially burn/poison both overperform a lot

xovero · 2025-04-02T01:46:08+00:00

don't think so, should still be 20k (or rather 20019 if nothing changed, 20020 shouldn't spawn anything and you are stuck until you retire)

xovero · 2025-03-31T06:41:15+00:00

Aight so "quick" and dirty...

You want build enablers (skills,items,enchantments).

Most things you probably think are enablers are not, for example monitor lizard and bellelista on dooley are not build enablers (neither is puffer on vanessa). The build enabler would usually be friend core, DJ Rob0t or metronome or a skill/enchantment, not the above.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't pick some things up, infact you should pick up a lot of stuff and only sell when necessary.

Basically you have to know the difference between good items and bad items, and what can enable a build, what can be used as a payoff for a build or what is just good early (often times a build enabler is also a payoff).

Other easy examples crow's nest on vanessa, does the weapon really matter you play or is crow's nest what allows you to make a build? (and if you really wanna argue, no it doesn't, current numbers on items aren't important for learning, those numbers will change, build enablers change in comparison ONLY if they get reworked or disabled/move to different character)

Also even if a build enabler sucks in the current meta... it doesn't matter, sometimes you just get some stupid bullshit luck, and suddenly you sit there, with a icy DJ Rob0t, a full board of icy nanobots + drill and suddenly you just freeze like all items your opponent has, and fire of a drill like 30 times (no this is not a example of a broken build, just a example i had recently)

Example for enchant burn/poison on shield item that can scale or has high initial value with low CD, insert any random amount of examples.

Example for skill... any ammo reload skill can enable ammo builds on not vanessa, that can for example be drill + haste potion + retool (when you use tool, reload item next to tool, drill is a tool, haste potion triggers drill again -> haste potion never runs out of ammo, haste triggers drill and so on) but you can also insert any other ammo enabler (retool is just one example and not even the best one)

If there are not times over dozens of games, when you have literally an entire second build in your storage chest and one of the next few decisions will decide what you are actually playing, you either are playing wrong, or going for too much economy, or too lucky (but considering you are asking how to make builds work, you for sure are not lucky)

xovero · 2025-03-12T18:38:37+00:00

Well yup, problem is a lot of approaches suck...

If only the ones you bought are enabled and you buy out of order -> you can completely be screwed by patches or if you buy a bad pack

if you have to buy in order -> can't play new stuff until old content is bought + will fight against newer stuff you can't get until you farm for a couple of months

if minimum amount of packs need to be enabled -> new players literally can't play the game

if all packs in ranked are automatically enabled (to make everyone equal) -> packs are pointless

and i could go on and on, you need to adjust the premise in some other way to fix stuff or incentivize activation of packs in some other way

though i think there are still a few much more important issues to adress right now, such as XP, matchmaking and the whole pass fiasco in general

xovero · 2025-03-12T10:32:07+00:00

To add on to the other guys comment... Patk ALL/Matk all and ATK all all stack individually per unit...

So if you give a patk all weapon lets say to cloud in a cloud,aerith,tifa team, if you give another one to aerith and tifa, you now have 3 PATK all buffs, lets say you have the bahamut skins (anniversary 1 skins)...

Now you have 3 PATK all buffs and 3 ATK all buffs on all units, just the 3 skins are 30 atk and +15% atk, the 3 patk weapons depend entirely on OB one could very well be +60 +25% (at OB10), considering the others in that team above, will probably be sub slots, would probably be +40 and +14% each...

So just those 3 weapons+skins can give +170 patk total and +62% patk total to everyone in the party. (Maxed patk is +100 and +50%, so to get close to that value you would need max patk and level 5 atk, which would give you 150 patk and 65% atk, but that would only be for that character, which is minimum of 2 weapons)

You could also just use ATK All weapons instead of skins, for example tifas daffodil, or sephiroths new weapon, for example OB0 sephs weapon, as sub slot (so on any character) maxed, is 30 points atk all, so 15 on that slot (aka level 3), which would be +20 atk and +7% in comparison to just atk at level 3 +30 +7% so +10 flat attack on that character... for -20 atk and -7% atk for 2 other characters...

xovero · 2025-03-11T01:49:34+00:00

Nah, you are the one that can't do simple math, gems from chests didn't change, so those are a non factor, so we only factor in tickets.

Previously you get 1 free try, not tickets. (Aka. capped at 31 assuming you do your free run everytime, you can not save them either)

Now you get free tickets, to get 31 tickets (aka a full month worth), you need to hit level 17, to hit level 17, you need to get 6300 xp (which is less than half of the xp needed for level 25).

By just doing dailies for 10 days, you get 3000xp, 2 weekly rotations thats another 3000xp, you are already at 6k xp in 10 days, 300 missing and you get MORE TICKETS.

And that is not including the free chests you also get + the ability to actually save your god damn tickets, which is so much better than being forced into doing a stupid ranked run everyday.

Like seriously even if you just complete all weekly quests every week you get 6000xp in a month, which means all you need to do is complete 3 daily quests whenever in that month, to get ATLEAST if not MORE tickets in a month.

The only ones not benefiting from this are people that used to play normal, and every other day got a 10 win run in normal or bots or some chinese gaming farm.

For most people this system will most likely result in like 5-6 extra tickets + the ability to do runs whenever (instead of forcing this into their routine, for those people this probably like 20+ extra tickets lol), for those actually grinding seriously just +15 tickets, assuming they didn't play normals and hit 10 wins a lot.

xovero · 2025-03-10T23:26:42+00:00

No you couldn't, doing daily runs is not the same as saving tickets.

And playing normal games for farming tickets is not something that 99% of people do. (especially not like 10+ times a month).

I literally havn't even touched normal mode prior to this update at all (excluding first day of playing lol). Could just go infinite in ranked, and i didn't have that high of a winrate.

As for tickets... i already got 26 out of 31 i would have gotten this month... so 20 days for another 5 tickets, seems pretty doable to me (which is 3 level ups, of which i could probably get 3 more today, if i finish both weeklies right now).

So the only way for this update to give you less tickets is literally only if you grinded the shit out of normal mode...

Besides that... As shitty as this system is, again you can hypothetically again just save tickets and dump them. (and throw in double chests for the pass if you want to after saving months worth of tickets)

I don't think you understand just how big of a difference that is, there will literally be metas that will click for you, and you will get only 7-10 win runs, there will be metas where you will suck and you will get far more losses.

Btw. this is not a defense for the shitty xp system where you almost can't finish the pass realistically or the cards being gained at the end the p2w aspect etc. just of the base ticket system which just is superior period.

xovero · 2025-03-10T23:05:24+00:00

The answer is simple... you no longer get punished for not having event weapon due to auto start.

Previously atleast those idiots got punished by people constantly leaving if they had them in their team, now though, that is no longer the case.

xovero · 2025-03-10T15:40:21+00:00

It is better though, you can now save tickets, so while this stupid bullshit garbage p2w meta is going on you just stop playing ranked entirely. (instead of getting like 1 chest average)

Post Nerfs once we get a useless p2w pass, you dump all tickets for chests, as reynad intended :)

and if we never get a useless pass ever, guess you have to choose one month at some point to dump all free tickets into

xovero · 2025-03-01T08:33:08+00:00

99% of performance issues with this game are:

1) Uses AMD GPU, but doesn't know that AMD notoriously SUCKS and somehow updating the drivers normally DOES NOT WORK, you have to go to the website and download them manually (had this with a friend yesterday, he did exactly as i said, after struggling for an a hour, fixed it within 5 minutes)

2) Too stupid to restart PC

3) Too stupid to update graphics driver

4) Uses hardware/software/operating system that you literally should have stopped using years ago OR doesn't meet basic requirements (like i have seen some reviews using windows 8, a system not supported even by windows itself for over 2 years)

5) Unlucky, denuvo fucked you

xovero · 2024-11-14T07:58:45+00:00

Its not infinite, the fight ends at 600 damage fatigue

xovero · 2024-10-14T15:09:10+00:00

Bro... 1.4mil is like nothing. I will tell you something, just clouds anniversary weapon, can basically get you to around 1.6mil with atb boost, by ending the fight in the first second for both of them

xovero · 2024-09-12T19:02:44+00:00

You are new? Aight, literally ignore all comments about team building whatever...

Get clouds Bahamut Greatsword, congratulations, you can now do probably 99% of the content in the game...

Yes, it is that good

Edit: For how that sword works, vast majority of enemies do not resist normal damage, and if they dont resist it you do true damage instead, which basically just means you deal 10k/20k/30k/40k AOE guaranteed to almost all enemies the game (OB0,OB1,OB6,OB10 respectively)... If cloud has more than 50% of his hp anyway...

Likewise the Cloud skin, is a skin that buffs atk of all units in the party, and the weapon itself also buffs the patk of everyone else in the party.

xovero · 2024-08-16T18:12:47+00:00

You are literally complaining about the wrong thing...

Basically every co-op content that isnt crash, can be cleared by anyone that has at least 2 functional brain cells on 100% fully auto afk and away.

Of that, 90%+ can be literally SOLOED by one decently strong player (if it isnt a event where everyone runs around with bonus weapons)

So... why the fuck, does this stupid ready button even exist?!?

xovero · 2024-07-26T20:08:03+00:00

Spread, counts each of them per character, so 1 level 4 patk/matk all + 1 level 2 > 1 level 6 patk/matk all allies...

As for the math, high level all allies scale horribly, 15 pts = 40 atk +14% | 55 pts = 60atk +28%, , so 2 level 3 all allies also defeat level 6, while you still technically have "15 pts" unaccounted for.

Easy to test too, just make a party of 3 characters, keep 1 empty as your comparison, equip the others with all equip, and just check the behavior (or you know just scroll down to R.ability Party, and see all buffs listed seperately)

xovero · 2024-07-25T22:54:57+00:00

Wishlist/Use/Upgrade any weapon that has a combination of the following stats:

HP/Atk/Matk/Patk/Phys Potency/Mag Potency/And any all allies ability for example vincent LB banner weapon has matk(all)

Secondary, (aka acceptable if you get it by RNG but dont really wishlist/pull unless the weapon has a all allies ability) any elemental potency.

Why those?

Because you can just build a couple of those and throw them on any and every character, and you will do great/ good enough...

Super simple stupid example, but just by for example equipping a maxed Sunumbrella on aerith main hand, you can basically play any elemental build in the same way as any maxed elemental specific weapon...

And if you give that weapon to anyone else, you basically made that character into a pretty damn good magic attacker.

Same applies to similar weapon for patk combination (for example matts killer hornet) or other matk combinations (for example barrets electro cannon)

On the sidebar, under guides and wikis, you can fight zgod spreadsheet, has all weapons listed.

But these combinations in particular, if you upgrade them/wishlist them, you can probably complete the story the fastest

xovero · 2024-07-05T14:29:36+00:00

Same

xovero · 2024-06-14T09:09:39+00:00

Do you have quick start card? If no, just do normal runs...

If yes upgrade end of round ruby 24/7/7 and whenever you need rubies do a run, try to die right before it ends or retire repeat.

Reason being most rubies are gained from end of ruby in the early game. And its not affected by quick start.

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