Earth Tower blues

[olivier-benard]

So I discovered the joy of ET recently. At first I was discouraged to see that you need 40 essences to even get the first lolopanther equipment piece, but using a token (I have a couple spare 7 days ones from past events) and rerolling the cube could get you 4 pieces a day. So after a first “practice” try with a random party which failed, I joined a strong team and started to build up my essence stack. Since the cost of rerolling is quite high, I decided to prepare for the runs by doing the daily Saalus mission and level 170 dungeon solo run (with token effect + some leftover multiplier tokens, you can get a good million silver per run). Everything went fine for the first few days, and a quick calculation showed me that I could get my first equipment piece in 13 days (7 days with token at 4 essences per day + 6 days without token at 2 essences per day).

And then… Connected an evening, no party. The next day, no party. Tried looking for invites during the time I could connect… still no party. I was always seeing “ET21-25” or deeper invites, no more lolopanther runs. That seems to be a stupid question, but do people only do ET1-20 once to unlock solmiki and then do solmiki runs only? Looking at the time you need to invest into getting the equipment pieces, that doesn’t seem so illogical to skip lolopanther gear completely and aim directly at solmiki. Or maybe I’m just too casual player to pick the ET runs when they show up…

[anon55982834]

The problem is that Lolopanther is ± equal with 315 Vienti equipment, and the set boni are quite bad.
The only thing I believe is worth getting is the medal for higher STR/INT/DEX values than max petamion.

[Goldie]

Yes. Most people just want to rush to be able to enter Solmiki. The only people who do Lolo ET are usually people who cannot get carried in Miki or aren’t strong enough to normally complete a few floors yet.
The few Lolo ET runs might only do it at specific times or have a pre-made party too…
You need to also remember that a lot of players simply ignore ET and never do it. Since the higher level weapons tend to be better and much easier/cheaper to get, they just aim for them instead of the ET gear.

[atomsk.cs]

Also the fact that solmiki 25f is easier than 11-20 makes you wanna ignore them.

[repelant112233]

Imo just skip lolo. Just get symbol from 20f. If youre a dps char for et you will need a lot of investments on your dps char while if youre a support (falc3 just get circling attrib, priest2+ or a ccsage) you wont need that much investment in armor or wep. Its a lot worth running solm than lolo but some runs (30f, 35f and 40f) will take a lot more time to finish than a single run of lolo as theres no savepoints yet like lolo.

[Neiru]

My experience on this was I grinded lolo only for boots and gloves then proceeds to unlocking miki and now I’m on my last 4days to get miki gloves
Problem with lolo is they added a random crap cube drop after 5F so its harder getting the bottom and top that is why I opt for skipping 10F and 15F.