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| Bloodsmelting Guide - Brief Overview; Not 100% tested. On going piece. | |
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| Sulla | Aug 18 2009, 11:19 AM Post #1 |
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The purpose of this guide is to explain how bloodsmelting works in the simplest term. I want to keep it brief. Just as a foreword, I did not yet have the time/money to fully test out these ideas. They are mostly derived from extensive reading from Chinese forum website and my own experiences with my first divined esper (a flop may I add). The focus of this guide is level 75 smelting. It is not recommended to spend much effort into a level 15 esper, unless you want to pvp at low levels. The process for smelting gambler cube is similar, except you use a different medium to specialize. To avoid wall of text, I'll do it mostly in point form: 1. What is bloodsmelting? It's a process for boosting the stats of an esper beyond what is normally possible and reconfigure its stats in ways you like. 2. Basic terms. Main - the esper you want to use. Source - the supplementary esper that is consumed when bloodsmelt onto a main. A source's effectiveness is affected by its quality (grade) and level. Medium - a supplementary item used to ensure that your main stays the same when bloodsmelting. Use treasure bowl to trade with Tonni for some. Specialization -aka orange stat. A specialized stat will be the ONLY stat that goes up and down in bloodsmelting until a cap is reached. After that, other stats will go down for the orange stat to go up. Specialization is achieved by smelting a specialized source using a special medium (best dragon skin in the case of level 75). Treasure bowl - used to trade with Tonni for mediums. Can be dug up doing metaphysicist quest. Best Dragon Skin - BDS, used to specialized for level 75 esper. 3. Basic Process 1. Level your esper, preferably as much as you can, before starting. Why? Because smelting a level 1 esper is like walking across the street blind. A max level esper will allow you to see as precisely as possible what each source is doing to your main and make adjustment as you need. Level to at least 10 before starting to bloodsmelt for sure. 2. Prepare the following: 5-10 treasure bowls; 4-6 best dragon skins; A lot of gold! How much does blood smelting cost? The more you spend, the better your esper will be. You should set your own budget before starting, or it could become a bottomless money pit. Stop when you feel like you spent enough. As a guide, 100g is a minimum. 4. The methods: First, we need to clear some misconception: What do the grades mean? An esper has three grades: precious, heavenly and divined. A lot of people put a lot of emphasis on getting to divined. This is rather misguided. The grades are merely guides for quality and it is the actual stats that matters. You can level the useless stats very high and get to divined and end up with a rather useless esper. In any case, you do not need to pay attention to the grade when smelting a max level esper, since any work you do will be reflected on the stats. STOP when you are happy with the stats of your esper, pay NO attention to your grade. a) "cheapest method" With the above said, if you still want to hit divined as your goal and not care what stats you increase, then the following method is fastest and cheapest: 1> Buy lots of trigrams; 2> Keep the heavenly and divines, dump the rest. 3> Smelt the heavenly and divines onto your main. (preferably use all your heavenly first, then divined when your stats stop increasing much using heavenly). Repeat until your main hits divined 4> If you want to go further, use level 15s as sources after you notice trigram stopped making much difference. Heavenly and divined are recommended, but you can try a precious or two in the beginning. STOP using precious if you notice any negative movement in your stats. b) the right method 1> Figure out a few stats that you deem important. (NOTE: your smelting cost increases DRAMATICALLY with more stats to specialize in) (recommendation: attack for botting, hp for pvp survival, key resistance depending on faction -> silence res for skysong for example) 2> Specialize in one stat that you want to work on using a best dragon skin as medium and any esper with the desired orange stat as source. NOTE on attack: attack specialization is either max atk or min atk. Max atk is what you want and the only way to tell is to smelt on a heavenly and see which stat changes. Rhapzody suggests to use a source with high max atk when specializing. In any case, repeat this step for atk until you get the desired result. 3> Buy lots of trigrams!! Separate out the heavenly and the divined and dump the rest 4> Smelt all the heavenly into your main. Check your main's stat after each smelt and note the difference. Stop once you notice stat increase is becoming insignificant. 5> Smelt all the divined into your main. Repeat until you hit a wall. (note, if you are not rich, this step should be where you stop) 6> At this point, you start using level 15 source. Try a precious or two (or don't use precious at all if you dont want to risk it). If the stat start to go down, stop. Start using heavenly and then divine in order of quality and depending on your cost tolerance. 7> NOTE, once your stat hit a certain barrier, other stats will start to drop for this one to increase. If you want a truly great esper, this step is essential. You want to lower the useless stats as low as possible (eg. min atk, weaken res) to maximize the useful stats. However, this tug of war is VERY expensive, so it may be wise to stop with one stat if other stats are dropping if you are on a medium to low budget. 8> Respecialize into another stat using a best dragon skin. Repeat the process above. Do this for all the stats you desire. Note that more stats you do, more likely you will hit the barrier and start dropping other stats. The stat drop is random, and very likely dropping the stats you just worked on before. Multiple tries would be needed to keep everything high, hence this is very costly. 9> For the truly wealthy, if you want to take your stats to the next level, use divine level 15 espers to enhance your stats. Do it in order of levels and use as many at each stage until you stop seeing stat increase. This will definitely drop your other stats, meaning you need to repeat this process a few times. (very costly).. level 1 divined -> level 10 divined -> level 15 divined END of this long guide. Empirical testing is ongoing. Feel free to add your own discoveries. Edited by Sulla, Aug 18 2009, 11:28 AM.
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| Sulla | Aug 18 2009, 11:27 AM Post #2 |
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RESERVED!! Special case: the botting esper! There is only one stat important for maximum efficient botting: max atk! In view of this, we can create an esper that has maximum atk and horrible stats elsewhere. The best candidate needs to have the following: 1. a straight (high) damage spell 2. low spirit cost to save pots 3. A LOT OF max atk smelting Best botting esper with the above criteria is: gambler cube. I know it's expensive, alternatively, a spirit flag for vim is pretty good too.. you can do this with your faction esper. A chi bottle is not a bad choice. Use the smelting method outlined in the last post and jack atk as high as you can/want. Pay no attention to your other stats. From what I see, you can get +1k max atk with 700g from what I heard. |
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| Sougishiki | Aug 18 2009, 10:40 PM Post #3 |
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hi sulla! thanks for posting this guide! =D but im a noob and have a few questions D= I dont quite get the quality of espers (ie. heavenly, divined, precious) what are their quality rankings and their affects when smelting. i noticed that you mentioned to smelt all the heavenly first and then divines... is there a reason or stat benefit for this smelting in this particular order? and B-6 says smelt a precious unless you dont want to take the risk, is this risk as in dropping stats? also is there a way to mimic the gambler cube using another esper? or what would be the next best one for botting? anwyay thanks and sorry for the noob questions! =D |
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| Sulla | Aug 19 2009, 12:59 AM Post #4 |
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Hi Sougi, great questions =). 1. Quality is ranked in the following order. Thank of them as grade 1, 2 and 3 as in pets: precious -> heavenly -> divine. They are a rough guide to the amount of total growth an esper has. They are only a rough guide because they don't tell you what stats are good and what stats are bad, only the aggregate. By doing heavenly first, you raise your stats as much as possible using a lower quality source. When heavenly stop being of benefit, you move onto the next grade divined. This way, you make sure you don't waste any source. Say if you smelt a heavenly on after you've smelted a few divines, your stat may have already hit the cap for heavenly source and the extra heavenly does not help (may even drop your stats in fact). 2. A precious has a smaller chance of improving your stats since it is lower quality over all. It has bigger possibility of dropping your stat. This is not as bad when you specialize but very noticable if you smelt without specialization. Some stat is bound to fall if your esper is in fairly good shape (should be after many divine trigrams). Then again precious is much cheaper, it's not a bad idea to try a precious of a higher level requirement esper (trigram -> pandora box for example level 15) and see if you see stat increase. 3. Best cheapest substitute for gambler cube right now is chi bottle in my opinion. It has a heal and costs fairly low spirit to cast, though it lacks teethe offensively. Edited by Sulla, Aug 19 2009, 01:01 AM.
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| Rhapzody | Aug 23 2009, 04:46 PM Post #5 |
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After further testing with the Chi Bottle, it may not provide the damage output of a Gambler's Cube like Sulla said, but it does deal a great deal of damage, provided your HP is above 75%; the Chi Bottle gives you even more bonus AP (15%) if you meet this requirement. With the Chi Bottle, its accessory, and its tome, you get a lvl3 Esper skill; it costs 60 SP to use (half the SP cost of the lvl75 faction Espers), and heals from 3-120 HP (on average, 61.5 HP). It's actually pretty good, especially in places where you're taking more than a few points of damage from mobs. |
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| Eldarien | Aug 24 2009, 06:41 PM Post #6 |
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HEY SOUGI!!! |
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| Sougishiki | Aug 24 2009, 11:57 PM Post #7 |
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(sorry for noob question again, but what is AP?) um... just my thoughts on the chi bottle... i definitely like it a lot as im a big botter for those who dont know... so the huge drop in hp pot needed to bot overnight is definitely a plus for my skinny wallet. since i bought my bottle, i havent bought new hp pots because i pick up about a full stack in 1 night (i even gave away 4 stacks because i kept picking up more and didnt use even 1 single pot o.o) and to clear things up, i only have +5 armor and +5 weapon, everything else are the freebies i got from tanis, so im not saying my def is crazy & on crack and i dont need pot. the health spell from the bottle is a steal for botting since i do that normally. - HI EDDY!!! where have you been? i miss throwing jokes with you. i lied, i used some pots only to kill 2 snowmen, and for the amount of time it took to kill, i used about 15 hp pots. Edited by Sougishiki, Aug 25 2009, 12:00 AM.
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| Eldarien | Aug 25 2009, 07:21 AM Post #8 |
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I'm in Montreal now. The superintendent called me Eddy too because she didn't hear my name properly. XD. What level are you now Sougi? |
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| Sougishiki | Aug 25 2009, 10:52 AM Post #9 |
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=O why are you in montreal? thats pretty funny... i guess you were just meant to be Eddy XD I was 79 last night. we can duel soon. rhap keeps dueling me to see himself OHKO haha |
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| Eldarien | Aug 25 2009, 03:16 PM Post #10 |
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I'm going to school here =P lol Don't think I can keep playing, gotta focus on school!!! |
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