Hello, I'm in need of some advice to lvl up as an assassin as I'm having a hard time with it. Some things that you should know about me are:
1. I'm a lvl 206 assassin
2. I'm a poor assassin. Currently only have 10m in the bank.
3. My equipment are freesia caim for weapon; exelis and heinrich mail for armor; asura stole and sablem for additional; and dragonewt bangle for special.
4. My stats are 200 STR, 200 INT, 150 DEX, and 200 CRT.
I was advised to do nommars, however, I still can't do any significant damage to them (I can only do 25k damage). I'm planning to do some raids for a month or two to get some gears that will help me do significant damage to nommars.
I have read Ravitox's guide, but some if not all are expensive. Can you guys advise me on what to do. Should I do nommars at this level? What equipment, ALs, and crystas should I get first?
Thank you.
I have been very busy recently, so apologies for the late reply.
Yes. Almost everything I listed is expensive because the truth of the situation is: an assassin is extremely expensive.
You cannot do anything with 10m, but I have a few suggestions for how you can build from nothing (I did that):
1. Kill Dammars until you get an eventail with 180+ atk (185 max) and slotted. Freesia is not the best starter because it is not well rounded. Eventail is a good starter that you will upgrade and keep with you for the rest of time, farmable at your level, neutral element. Another alternative is to buy a slotted Uroboros. It is not fitting to use to the end, but it will get you very far, strong in both dark and light with no real weakness.
2. You can wear exelis or heinrich. It really does not matter. They are both not too great on an assassin, and your level is not high enough for there to be a real difference. Whatever makes you do more damage or feels more surviveable, wear it. Get a veltria and put it in whichever of your add gears that is slotted. For spec, get a seahorse bangle, no slot. Just take it off and sit to regen mp.
3. With stats, you should now focus on maxing INT. If you are not even to apostolia, rush mq as fast as you can to get there. INT is your new best friend. It is your MP pool, your main source of attack (INT and STR give the same atk with throws), some magical defenses, and increases your base damage for poison. After INT is maxed (at 256), max CRT. That will increase your damage greatly (yes, more so than STR). I prefer DEX at 180 or 200. With monty being great after BP, some people dropped dex to 160 or 140. You have 150, so it is up to you what you want to do with your DEX. Max STR last.
4. Why are you doing nommars? Having a single freesia weapon and basically nothing else is not going to make you capable of killing nommars. And they are hard to kill if you cannot 1 hit them. For leveling, your only source of real hope at your current level is MQ. Raids are a good way to make money, and use that money to buy gear that will get you through MQ. Examples: getting enough HP to survive a hit, skill delay to use venom attack more frequently, veltria to heal anyone that helps you through mq. If you are past APO, keep rushing. Rush all the way to the end, until you are either past Joshuca, or stuck on her.
5. Nommars are ideal if you have good water element, in upgraded weapon/xtal, and good atk and crt damage throughout your AL and gears. At 240, you can start to plan on what you need to work on to 1 hit them (because you need the sicarius 1st hit passive boost to do it). In your freesia caim, put in an Eisen. Yes, it's like 100m or more for one Eisen crysta. I shall list some priorities below.
List of priorities for Level 200-240:
1. LEVEL UP TO 240, with MQ to Ouvel or more.
2. Make 100 million
3. Get a well-rounded throwing weapon for cheap: Eventail, Uroboros, Wicktrace, Kagekiri
4. Have a full set of useful gears (but will become alternate gears): Exelis, Veltria (xtal), Seahorse Bangle, Upped Iron Armor, Some other surviveable items.
5. Figure out your preferred potions and consumables setup. Examples: Dried Seaweed (MP), coconuts (ticking mp), Revita L or XL, Red Candy Bags, Scrambled Eggs, etc.
List of priorities for Level 240-280:
1. One hitting Nommars. Building power in water element.
2. Adding damage with survival. Example: Getting a Monty, Upping your throwing weapons, collecting more elementals, getting a damage spec like Killer Seed
3. Finish more of MQ, to episode 5 and more, level up your apo levels and add stats to INT/CRT/STR, keeping in mind that both INT and STR give you stun time and damage, so you should prioritize INT.
4. Building dark power melee elementals, and starting Yarde Quest after 260.
5. Find a source of income that you can farm, alone. Examples: Gadave, Gerust, Sofys, easy bosses under level 260 with low hp and high item sales. You don't want to sit one or more minutes for each raid kill (a box that might not even give beads) if you can kill within your stun time.
Good luck. Let me know if you need further advice on anything specific.
