Melee Abyss Chaser Guide by Satsujinhan: Difference between revisions

== '''Stats''' ==

** 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.

* '''Glacier armors'''

* '''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.

** 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'''  

*'''Hall of Life + Nebula gears combo'''

**Finally, I have acquired these gears and gotten their enchant up enough so that my DPS is now better with them than the D1 armor and Varmundt gears. What you're looking at getting here is the Spring garment and Spring accessory. To go with them, Nebula Armor of Power and Stellar Power Seal. Good news is that since nobody likes spring gears, the materials from Lake of Fire are probably the cheapest ones to get. You can most likely trade any other season parts with at least 2:1 ratio. The hardest part in all of these gears is enchanting. Unless you're willing to throw billions in zeny into the mats from vends and whatnot, it will take some time to get what you need. Personally, I struggled with Stellar Power Seal enchants - that double mettle sure did not want to come easy. With the Signet of Circulation Spring, there is now option the option to pick perfect enchant for slot 3, so unless you want to gamble for fun, I suggest you go that route. It takes more mats, but at least you will get the Power Signet needed.

=== Headgears ===

You can start looking into getting costume enchant stones once you hit shadow chaser. There’s a set that boosts Fatal Menace damage and provides even the nifty bonus of absorbing a 1% of your dealt damage as SP. This has a tendency to proc quite often when you kill off mobs, essentially ensuring you don’t run out of SP and don’t need a whole lot of SP recovery items. The shadow chaser set is more about boosting your overall physical damage against everything, and I recommend switching over to it as soon as you change jobs into abyss chaser.

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=== '''Shadow gears''' ===

You can get your first shadow gear set as a rental for free in the Eden Group. This is plenty enough to carry you to abyss chaser. The first ”real” shadow gear set you can look into farming for yourself is the Master Shadow set. This set can be enchanted to boost Deft Stab damage as well as POW trait, making it a good basic set for you chaser. You can read more about this set from [[Shadow Gear | this]] page. Don't worry about getting the shadow set as soon as you change into abyss chaser though - the real need for it comes up once you're geared enough to start farming in Biospheres.  

   

Here's a TL;DR list of shadow gears that are useful:

* Infinity Shadow Weapon

* Full Penetration Shadow Accessories

== '''Useful cards''' ==

* This one can replace the Fury Hero in your mid headgear later on, due to the incredibly nice bonus it gives with the Fake Iwin Soldier Card.

== '''Picking a pet''' ==

[[File:9132.png|frameless]] Little Isis

[[File:91211.png|frameless]] Orc Hero