Melee Abyss Chaser Guide by Satsujinhan: Difference between revisions

* '''Eden gears'''The Eden gears you can pick up for free right off the bat as a fresh thief are enough to carry you over to 99 as rogue. You can pick up a new dagger after you change your job to rogue. When you reach 99 as a stalker, make sure to get [[File:7200.webp|frameless]] Elastic Bands (from Wootan Shooters), [[File:1034.png|frameless]] Blue Hairs (from any Kobold) and [[File:7318.png|frameless]] Old Picks (from Pitmen) so you can get yourself advanced gear set once you hit lvl 100.

* '''Grace set'''This set is sold by an NPC in Cor, which requires you to complete episode 17.1 main story questline to access the town. The set you want is the one that boosts the damage of Fatal Menace. All the set parts can be bought for [[File:25669.png|frameless]] 20 Unknown Parts each. The same NPC also sells +9 refine tickets for these gears, and they cost [[File:25723.png|frameless]] 20 Cor Cores each. Easy and cheap boost to your Fatal Menace, since from this point on the mobs in higher leveling spots do sport formidable HP. More detailed info about gears can be found [https://wiki.muhro.eu/Grace_Set here].  

* '''Automatic gears'''This armor set is obtainable once you finish episode 17.2 main story questline and gain access to Varmundt’s Mansion. However, this requires a bit more work than any of the previous gears, because of the refinement requirements. First you need to buy the proper Illusion gear parts, get those to +9, and then you can transform them into their Automatic gear counterparts with a certain amount of [[File:1000103.png|frameless]] Varmeal tickets. If this is your first character, don’t feel guilty if you choose to skip this set. It’s not a necessity, just a good boost in Fatal Menace damage if you want it. More detailed info about gears can be found [https://wiki.muhro.eu/Automatic_Equipment_(17.2) here].

 

* '''Gray Wolf gears'''As soon as you’re able to, start doing the [https://wiki.muhro.eu/18_Direction_of_Prayer episode 18 main quest]. This rewards you with Amethyst fragments that you can use to purchase Grey Wolf gears with. These gears – in case you decided to skip the Automatic ones – are the first ones you can look into enchanting. The enchants offer better bonuses with higher refines, namely at +11. As these are still lvl 1 armors, you can craft refine tickets to up them in case your reputation isn’t high enough for buying the Grey Wolf refinement boxes. More detailed info about gears can be found [https://wiki.muhro.eu/Gray_Wolf_Equipment here].  

* '''Snow Flower gears'''These gears are great when you’re just starting to level your abyss chaser. Doing all [https://wiki.muhro.eu/19_Issgard_Land_of_Snow_Flowers episode 19 main quests] is highly recommended by yours truly, because they yield a good amount of Snow Flower Petals, the items you use to buy these gears with. They are also the currency you use to buy Ice Flower Magic Stones, which enchant the gears. You don’t get to pick the enchant stones, they’re completely random – but the market offers a decent source for them in case you can afford to buy the ones you want. More detailed info about gears can be found [https://wiki.muhro.eu/Issgard_Equipment here].

* '''Dim Glacier weapons'''Issgard also is the source of a first proper weapon for your brand new abyss chaser. You can opt to get a normal Glacier weapon at first, which are cheaper, easier and faster to enchant compared to their Dim counterparts. Later on, I highly recommend getting a Dim Glacier Rogue Knife [1], so you can boost your Deft Stab damage. You can start farming for the enchanting materials in Snake’s Nest (you can unlock a direct warp here on the warper by unlocking all the daily quests in Issgard region). I farmed the materials required myself, and this allowed me to save zeny from selling all the extra loot dropped by the mobs. Once you’re confident enough you can deal with Abandoned Pit floor 1, you can move your farming there instead. [https://wiki.muhro.eu/Glacier_And_Dim_Glacier_Weapons_For_Dummies Here] is a very useful info page about farming, enchanting and refining your Dim weapon.

* '''Varmundt gears'''These gears are your next big thing to work on. Reforming them and enchanting them is a time consuming task, but the finished products are well worth it. The gear set you benefit the most on your melee build is the Fire Rune set. Unlike the previous Snow Flower gears which enhanced your Deft Stab damage with their enchants, these gears boost your traits and melee physical damage. Fully enchanted, refined and graded, you will do more damage with these gears rather then the Snow Flower ones, as they only boosted your singular skill damage. Detailed information about reforming, grading and enchanting can be found [https://wiki.muhro.eu/Varmundt_Rune_Stone_Equipment here]. Varmundt gears also introduce new accessories for you as well, namely the Venom rings. The base item in crafting them drops from Temple / Soul / Venom biosphere dungeon only. Their [https://wiki.muhro.eu/Soul_Temple_Venom_Ring_Enchant enchanting process] after reforming is the most time consuming one, unless you roll around in zeny and can afford to just buy all the [[File:1001189.png|frameless]] Varmundt Venom Waters needed.

* '''Depth 1 armor'''Once you’re all set with your Fire Rune gears, you can start looking into getting yourself your [https://wiki.muhro.eu/Varmundt%27s_Biosphere_Depth Depth 1 armor]. Early on, Depth 1 can seem daunting due to mobs having high HP and damage reduction buffs, which means finding a party to do a 30 minute run is a good idea. You will need to rake up reputation here as well, in order to to craft your armor, engrave it and enchant it. Be aware that engraving makes your armor master account bound, and you need 3 500 reputation to be able to revert the engraving to make it tradeable again. Engraving the armor gives it better stats.

* '''Depth 2''' '''Dimensional gear set''' The Dimensional gear set from [https://wiki.muhro.eu/Varmundt%27s_Biosphere_Depth_2 Depth 2] is quite new on our server and seems very potent for Deft Stab builds. This is currently what I’m working towards getting and will update this guide as soon as I get my hands on these items.

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[[File:Petegg1.webp|frameless]] Little Isis

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