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=== Earlygame ===
=== Earlygame ===
This is the stuff I recommend farming after you become a Soul Ascetic, while building up your gear towards the midgame in the first 1 or 2 days.
This is the stuff I recommend farming after you become a Soul Ascetic, while building up your gear towards the midgame in the first 10 to 20 hours of gameplay.


==== Get a Grace Set ====
==== Get a Grace Set ====
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==== Get yourself a {{#item:550069}} ====
==== Get yourself a {{#item:550069}} ====
Enchant it with {{#item:311343}}, {{#item:311353}}, {{#item:311351}} and {{#item:311349}}'''.''' You won't be able to farm this yourself yet, but use the #trade channel to purchase one from players. Without upgrades, it's really cheap to make (should be around 3-4m). At +9 it will cost around 10m to 15m. This weapon will last you until the late midgame, so it's a great investment.
Enchant it with {{#item:311343}}, {{#item:311353}}, {{#item:311351}} and {{#item:311349}}'''.''' You won't be able to farm this yourself yet, but use the #trade channel to purchase one from players. Without upgrades, it's really cheap to make (should be around 3-4m). At +9 it will cost around 10m to 15m. This weapon will last you until the late midgame, so it's a great investment. Farm zeny in Gefenia or Thanatos while getting Eden Coins if you're short.


==== Complete some easy upgrades ====
==== Complete some easy upgrades ====
If you've been following what I said up until now, you should be missing a few gear pieces. To farm these, I recommend spending Eden Coins on {{#item:12264}}. As you've seen, it's not hard to get them and they'll save you a lot of time.
If you've been following what I said up until now, you should be missing a few gear pieces. To farm these, I recommend spending Eden Coins on {{#item:12264}}. As you've seen, it's not hard to get them and they'll save you a lot of time.


# At this point, it will be easy to farm Illusion of Twins as long as you use a {{#item:23204}}. Go farm those ants until you get a {{#item:460018}} and then some more. You'll probably want to farm here for a while. The idea is obtaining a few {{#item:100699}}, so you can make your new shiny shield +10 with them (tip: make it +4 with regular upgrading before you can use the box). You'll also want to keep all the {{#item:25271}} for later.
# At this point, it will be easy to farm Illusion of Twins as long as you use a {{#item:23204}}. Go farm those ants, your target is {{#item:460018}}. You'll probably want to farm here for a while. The idea is obtaining a few {{#item:100699}} along the way, so you can make your new shiny shield +10 with them (tip: make it +4 with regular upgrading before you can use the box). You'll also want to keep all the {{#item:25271}} for later.
# You'll want to do the same with a {{#item:19428}}. Farm Illusion of Labyrinth until you get it, and then a few {{#item:100423}}, so you can make it +10.
# You'll want to do the same with a {{#item:19428}}. Farm Illusion of Labyrinth until you get it, and then a few {{#item:100423}}, so you can make it +10.
# Your middle and lower headgear don't provide THAT much in terms of damage. You probably want to run Poring Village and Wave Mode instances, looking for {{#item:19117}} and {{#item:23135}} respectively. That 10% drop rate will come in handy later. For Poring Village, you can just create a bunch of characters and run it repeteadly. Don't worry too much if {{#item:19117}} doesn't drop the first day, as it is a low chance. Just keep running it. Wave Mode is also a good source of Fashion Points (by recycling the costume stones the chests drop), and you'll need those later, so don't mind dedicating 1 whole hour to running it.
# Finish your illusion items. Your {{#item:460018}} and {{#item:19428}} become much more powerful once you make them +11 and add double {{#item:29001}} to them. The cheapest way to make lv1 armors such as these into +11 is to firs make them +10 and then use {{#item:6225}} and normal refining to make them +11. You have a small risk of them breaking, but this will not destroy the item. IF they do break, you can repair them for a 5 million zeny fee. Now the cheapest way to obtain {{#item:6225}} is to acquire 4500 Muh points and buy the box of 10 from the Muh Shop, since the box will also give you back 1 {{#item:6635}}, which is pretty valuable. To get the points, either donate to the server or buy {{#item:50003}} or {{#item:50000}} from players. You can also get {{#item:50000}} from hourly events and GM sponsored events, although this will take a while. You can turn {{#item:50000}} into points using the Rich Cow NPC at Main Office.
Once you made both pieces +11, you'll want to head over to {{#navi:prontera|92|114}} to enchant them. Do random enchant twice, and if you didn't get any {{#item:29001}}, reset the item completely. Once you get one {{#item:29001}}, you'll want to use the option to only reset the bad enchant, which costs more {{#item:25271}}. This can cost thousands of {{#item:25271}} to get both items finished, so you might want to settle for just 1 {{#item:29001}} per item for now, and come back to it later.
==== Level up some more ====
Right now, one of the easiest ways to increase your performance is to get some more levels. I recommend to farm some more Illusion of Underwater 2, simply because you still need a lot of the stuff they drop there, such as {{#item:25271}}. You'll also want as many {{#item:100425}} as you can get, alongside any of the illusion armor pieces they drop here. Why? Because later on you'll need at least 2 {{#item:6994}} and this is how you get them. You can read all about how to make certificates in [[Madame Celery's Guide to MuhRO]]. Farming here to sell {{#item:6994}} to other players is also a good source of income, since they're usually in demand.
You can farm here all the way to level 250 if you want. It slows down a lot after 240, but you'll get there while farming important resources. Don't forget to deliver the daily quest everytime you finish it.
At this point, you should have maxed your SPL trait and started working on your CON trait. This will give you enough damage to do what you need to do next.


=== Midgame ===
=== Midgame ===
From here on out, the real grind starts! Have fun getting stronger bit by bit, I'll do what I can to guide you along what I think is the easiest path to power. Feel free to check other guides such as [[Choi's Soul Ascetic Guide]] for gear progression and general gameplay, but I'll take a more direct approach where I just tell you what I think is faster to get there.
==== Getting rid of that nasty FCT ====
You might have noticed by now that you take a while to cast! We need to fix this. To do that, let's follow these steps in any order you feel like:
* Do all of episode [[18 Direction of Prayer]]. If it's your first character, buying a skip ticket won't work (read the item description), so get questing. Once you finish the episode, you should have over 1000 {{#item:1000405}}. Unfortunately, you need a lot more. We'll be using  {{#item:470088}}, and you'll need around 2000 fragments to finish all enchants. After doing the whole questline, the best source of {{#item:1000405}} is farming Oz Dungeon 2, which you should be able to do just fine by now. Don't forget your {{#item:12264}}. At this point, you should be getting around 400-600 {{#item:1000405}} per 30 minutes. You'll also want to collect {{#item:25728}}, {{#item:25729}}, {{#item:25730}} and {{#item:25731}} from this dungeon. You can use the autoloot setup below.
<code>@alootid reset|+25728|+25730|+25731|+25729|+1000405</code>
<code>@al 1</code>
Your priority will be to get the {{#item:310602}} enchant for your {{#item:470088}}. Once you have a total of 1850 {{#item:1000405}} and 20m zeny (ouch) you can enchant the shoes. Apply safe enchant and choose {{#item:310594}} for the 4th slot and then safe enchant again to get {{#item:310602}} on the 3rd slot. The 2nd slot enchant is not worth the effort. Make the shoes +7 with a cheap certificate.
* Get a {{#item:490052}} and {{#item:490053}} set. This will bring your FCT down by another 0.3s. It's a bit annoying to farm in new Thanatos 12 at this point, so you might want to just buy them. If you do decide to farm there, you'll need to use {{#item:12710}} (buy from players or with Muh Points in the shop). Thanatos 12 is a great farming spot, but it's pretty crowded usually. Feel free to try, but I wouldn't dwell on it.
* Get a {{#item:25170}}. Just buy it from other players and use your Fashion Points to buy yourself a garment costume that you like from Main Office second floor. While there in the second floor of Main, you can talk to Lace La Zard at {{#navi:main_office|68|278}} to enchant your garment with the stone.
==== The next level ====
At this point, you might have noticed that if you try to do any dungeon past lv200, there's a big spike in difficulty. We'll slowly work towards being able to do this content now that you're set up.
* You'll want to get back to Oz Dungeon 2 to farm enough fragments for {{#item:450178}}. You'll need around 3800 {{#item:1000405}} and another 20m zeny to finish it. Use the random method to enchant slot 4 of the armor, since there's barely any benefit to this slot and we don't want to use the safe method for it. After that's done, use the safe method to enchant {{#item:310510}} on the 3rd slot and safe method again to enchant {{#item:310532}} on the 2nd slot. You'll need to make the armor at least +11... remember those {{#item:6994}}? It's time to use one of them. Use {{#item:6225}} to get the +11. You can also go +12 here, as that will allow you to use {{#item:300376}}. It will cost quite a bit more, though. Be it +11 or +12, it will be quite a good damage spike.


=== Endgame ===
=== Endgame ===
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