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Mergen weapon advice

So I am new to Mergen and I would like to ask about weapons mainly…

At this point in time, should I try and make an astra bow or try and farm/buy solmiki bow?

I dont have my hands yet on anything but I like to plan ahead a lot…

Thank youuu

Don’t lose your life farming solmiki.

I’ll give you two options:
A- farm Astra (you need to farm or spend a lot, trust me)
B- Pevordimas bow/ Aufgowle[event] from the pokemon event and then when new content is getting released farm or buy better bows --> THESE

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Thanks for the suggestion! Do you personally use an Astra?

I had the same idea in mind. I think I would rather have a +16 Astra than a low enhanced solmiki.

I noticed that on enhancements, there is always 5 level gap damage between the two (somehow)

Like:

Astra +11 = miki bow +6
Astra +16 = Miki bow +11

I think miki bow still the best. However, considering that mats are cheaper than before, upcoming new gears 350, and the expensive solmiki bow I think miki the best but it ia not practical.

My thoughts. :slight_smile:

plus the fact that every 40F run takes more than 1 hour

You need 210x Grim Reaper Essences for the Solmiki Bow, this translates in roughly 100~ ET40F cubes you need to reroll in order to be almost sure to have all the essences… in average, it’s usually 2 essences out of 3 rerolls, very very arely 3 and sometimes you even get 1 or nothing.

Assuming you get away with 100 cubes, in order to reroll them you need 180m silvers (900k per reroll , so1.8m * 100 cubes), and running ET21 > ET 40 (almost 1hour per run) twice a day for 50 days.

This only theoretically tho, because you’re gonna lose a lot of runs due to disconnections, VGA errors, party mates de-sync’d from the game (and this always happens right before or during the energy floors for fuck sake).

I’m not telling you this to discourage you from trying, if you have the time and a solid group of people to bring along in this journey, feel free to do so, but honestly I don’t think it’s worth the investment right now. :slight_smile:
Even assuming R9 patch hits in 3 months (and I hope it does way sooner than that) you’re probably gonna replace it with the new weapons: yes, Solmiki Weapons still have the upper hand in raw damage, but regarding the Bow category, you will gain 2 more sockets which translated in more Crit Rate or Crit Atk depending on your build/setup, so the difference will be nothing game breaking… most of all if you consider the above mentioned investment in gametime.

If you started 3-6 months ago, I would have told you otherwise, nothing wrong in going for Solmiki weapons, but right now? Save your time, mental health and wait for the new patch… or another Halloween Event, now you understand why everyone was so pissed at the previous bullshit event.

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Thank you for this reply!!

Now I have a clearer picture of the reality of solmiki weapons. And yeah, the reasoning why the last event was totally messed up…

I dont think too that it will be worth it anymore since I will have more options im the future. I do not want to add stress in my life to farm something for 2 months! The game will not be healthy for my well being anymore! Plus I work and do other things as well so that is plain ridiculous…

I will also just wait for the miki updates I have read… chances are it will screw up the game again (maybe)

Thank you guys. I will play with an Astra bow.

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