Mango's guide to leveling and farming with SA: Difference between revisions

What you want to do now is experiment what's the best farming spot for you, or alternate between them. The objective here is to accumulate around 200m and aim for a +12A {{#item:550132}}. This will be your endgame weapon, and it's pretty cheap to get. You can either opt for buying it off someone for around 200-250m zeny, but I'll explain how to make it yourself, which is usually cheaper. You can't farm most of what's required for the weapon at this point, so just focus on farming zeny, {{#item:25729}} and {{#item:25731}} if you're going to attempt this.

# Get the base weapon {{#item:550132}}. This is obtained by opening {{#item:41245}}, which you can't farm yourself for now, but it's normally available in the market if you check with @ws 41245. Buying the boxes will be cheaper than buying the base weapon directly, since every weapon that you get when opening a box can be sold back to NPC for around half the cost of the box.

# Get it to +9. To do this, combine {{#item:1000322}} with {{#item:984}} at Vurewell (@go 50) to get {{#item:1000332}}. You'll need, on average, 125 {{#item:1000332}} to get a +9. The weapon won't break when you fail, but it will lose 3 upgrades levels. Just keep trying until you get it.

# All the luck in the world to you, my friend. Each attempt with {{#item:1000328}} costs nearly 30m zeny, and this is what determines whether it would have been cheaper to buy it off someone else or not.

# Once you one shot that 40% to grade A (cough), go +9 again as usual and then use boxes to refine the weapon to +12. Yes, it goes to +12 with boxes. If you read carefully you'll notice it says the box can be used up to +11. If you use it on a +11 weapon, it becomes +12.

Farm yourself a {{#item:300455}} and buy a {{#item:27384}} to complete your weapon, equip it, and then feel good cause you just doubled your damage. You can also get a {{#item:300458}} for your shoes. The transition to endgame is one big step closer.