I made a thread previously for tips for iCBT1, a lot has changed since then, and I’ve tried to generalize this one a lot more so it works even with different rates/etc. Will probably make a video in the near future, but here it is!
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Don’t skip the tutorial. The lowest level mobs you’ll encounter early on if you skip the tutorial are level 6. Don’t make the mistake of using your Klaipeda warp item in your inventory to skip the tutorial, as it boosts you all the way to ~7. Once you get to the final quest in the tutorial (the guy that also gives a blue quest to kill infrorocktors) use your Klaipeda warp stone if you don’t intend to do blue quests as it’ll help you skip the long walk into town.
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Stamina pills. It’s more helpful for swordsman classes, if you want to sprint around. Buy 10, it’ll last you a loooooong time. You won’t use it much, but it’ll come in handy for those moments that you do need one.
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Never buy gear from merchants. They’re almost infinitely cheaper in the auction house, even when the servers completely fresh and new.
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Upgrade your weapon to +5. It’s almost always worth it, start at your level 40 weapons, and then at every interval from that (40/75/120/175+). - As an added bonus, try to get gear that has AoE atk ratio early on if you’re melee to keep up with the more AoE related classes.
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ATTRIBUTES. Learn them. You can visit your class master to learn them. Skills have near 0 scaling, so always learn the 1% enhancement attributes for skills you use often to make them scale! When you’re done and going back to what you were previously doing, learn the attributes that take the longest time. - As an added bonus, you can spam click the attribute you want to level up multiple times, so the “yes or cancel” notification window pops up multiple times, making it easier to just hit yes on all of them after.
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Repair. If your gear is under 30%, you’ll get notified. REPAIR IMMEDIATELY. Gear breaks very easily and very fast, you don’t want to be stuck with broken gear on a boss fight. Your best bet is to be in map with a goddess statue (unless your with a Dievdirbys), or run to a map with a goddess statue that’s further ahead to save your teleport point. - As an added bonus, when you finish a quest that allows you to warp back to completion, don’t warp! Warp to town using your Klaipeda warp stone, restock on pots, repair, and what not, then use the free tp back to the quest npc.
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Worship every statue. Some give stats, but most give you a teleport point. If you press N, you can see a statue icon on each map that has a warp statue you might have missed, stat statues are unmarked so make sure to look around!
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Talk to every NPC in the field. They have quests, and the early grind is MUCH faster doing quests. The late game grind is your choice.
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Party up. Seriously, it’s too easy to get into a party with the a party matching system, and it makes life easy. If you’re strong enough to solo, then by all means go ahead.
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Explore the map 100%. Don’t leave out a gray area, you’ll boost your adventure journal, and it really doesn’t take time out of your grinding. Kill every mob as well as they give the most amount of points for your adventure journal
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If you see a glowing mob (assuming that it’s not in Frenzy or debuffed), KILL IT. Blue glowy mobs mean massive exp! Silver means, a higher loot drop rate, and Gold means a high amount of gold.
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Pressing F11 starts an in-game screen record. Record bugs, or anything you’d really like!
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If playing a melee class, make sure to carry around different weapon types to deal maximum damage to different types of mobs. Learn the weapon swap attribute on your 2nd rank ASAP.
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If you’re an SP heavy class, instead of carrying tons of SP potions around, carry some bonfires. They do make you sit out of combat for a while, but they recover SP VERY fast.
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Do as many blue quests as you can, some give you hidden goodies like extra stat points, and potions that will permanently increase things such as your weight (that’s right! A potion to make you fat!).
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When the game goes on for awhile, you’ll see squires/alchemists/pardoners in town. (unless of course you are one of them!). Use squires to repair your weapons and armor for a huge boost, use alchemists to roast your gems to lower negative effects before putting them into your gear. Use pardoners to gain buffs, aspersion is quite an amazing buff to have around!
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Never get rid of materials, they are almost always useful for everything. There are so many recipes out there that need all kinds of mats. If you have tons of one mat that isn’t useful for you, don’t sell it! Use it to upgrade your gems as it becomes quite expensive.
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There is an achievement NPC in town, to the very right of the Warp Statue, talk to her to receive iCoins for adventuring and completing achievements! This can be done on all your characters separately.
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Party up and do 5 man dungeons. They usually give tons of EXP though you can run each one only 5 times a day. They do drop boss cards, and talt which will later be used in a special token shop so stock up!
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When grinding, find mobs that fit these standards for optimization:
A, Your parties (or you) highest damage dealer does bonus damage to the mob.
B. There are many mobs in the location you are in.
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Buy a pet before spending a great deal of money on anything else! You can find the companion NPC in Klaipeda with the cheapest pet being ~120k. The earlier you buy it, the faster it’ll level!
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If your in need of SP at earlier levels, buy the Zalia pants recipe from the repair NPC:
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When buying a weapon, buy the highest one you can afford in your level bracket.
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YOU CAN EQUIP 2 BANGLES (although when you right click one in the
inventory, it’ll replace the first slot…), highly recommend putting
that crystal bangle (the +12 attack work for magic too btw) in the
second slot because it’s not getting replaced for a long time.
Credits to:
@WatchGintama
@Satoru
@ArecArws
@rofldat
Link to doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18KihFrEbhqezWhoeURbomsEnw9mngDitJYY6G5Xw2pg/edit?usp=sharing