The Performer's Life By Conga Lyne: Difference between revisions

== Introduction ==

Hi, I'm Conga Lyne, a performer main, hopefully this guide will help you along your journey playing the performer classes!<br>

This guide will also focus on magical dps Performer, specifically the skill Metallic Fury, I will be focusing on the skill as it is spammable, has a large AoE, can be any element and has low entry requirements.<br>

With all that said, let's get into it.

== Leveling ==

== Gameplay & Skills ==  

There aren't any specific tricks to pay attention to when playing Troubadour or Trouvere, just remember to keep your buffs up.</br>

The songs you choose however, do matter.</br>

Combining New Wave Sun Glasses, Sinful Accessories and a +10 Illusion Silver Guard, you can achieve 20% ACD as a trouvere without Poem of Bragi.

Here are some other potential combinations to reach 20% ACD:

** 4% Victory Wing Ears

** Note: This will only grant 19% ACD, but you'll only be short by 0.05 seconds so it will only have a small impact on dps.

** 5% : Thanatos accessories combo

* Death Rune Manteau + Shield + Isaac Wigner

** 10% : Death Rune Manteau[A]

** 5% : +10 Illusion Silver Guard or Mad Bunny-LT[A] or Mad Bunny-LT Enchantment

** 5% : Isaac Wigner

For female performers, remember you only need to reach 20% ACD with your equipment, pick whichever combination is most convenient for you to hit 20%!

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|Upper Headgear

|[[Beginners Guide|Advanced Eden Headgear]]

|[[Various_Headgears_Reform#Wickebine's_Black_Cat_Ears|Wickebine's Black Cat Ears-LT]]

|[[Equipment_Crafting#EXP_Advisor,_Vesper_Headgear|Vesper Helm]]</br>

Additionally, I wouldn't recommend building a Vesper Helm unless you believe you absolutely need one, such as if you're doing purely solo play and need the dps to begin farming Depths mobs.<br>

Instead, I recommend trying to buy a Vesper Helm from another player if they're selling it, however, if you believe you can hold on without a Vesper Helm long enough to get a Time Dimensions Rune Crown, it'll be a lot cheaper to go for the Crown directly and skip Vesper.

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|Middle Headgear

|Armor

|[[Beginners Guide|Advanced Eden Armor]]

|[[Gray Wolf Equipment|Gray Wolf Robe]]

|[[Constellation Tower|Nebula Robe of Spell]]

[[Varmundt's Biosphere Depth|Soul Purification Rune Robes]]

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|Weapon

[[Issgard Equipment|Glacier Weapon]]

|[[Issgard Equipment|Glacier Weapon]]

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|Shield

|[[Mad Bunny|Mad Bunny - LT]]

[[Illusion of Twins Equipment|Illusion Silver Guard]] (If female or the shield has 2x rune of intellect enchants)

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|Garment

|[[Beginners Guide|Advanced Eden Garment]]

|[[Gray Wolf Equipment|Gray Wolf Robe]]

|[[Temporal Manteaus|Temporal Manteau]]

[[Convertible Wings|Convertible Magical Wing]] (Combines with Victory Wing Ears for 15% ACD)

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|Footgear

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|Accessory Right

|[[Sinful Accessories|Sinful]] or [[Brilliant Light Accessories|Brilliant Light]] accessories

|[[Sinful Accessories|Sinful]] or [[Brilliant Light Accessories|Brilliant Light]] accessories

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|Accessory Left

|[[Sinful Accessories|Sinful]] or [[Brilliant Light Accessories|Brilliant Light]] accessories

|[[Sinful Accessories|Sinful]] or [[Brilliant Light Accessories|Brilliant Light]] accessories

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|Pet Egg

|[[Shadow Gear|Full Tempest Shadow Gear]] (Accessories)

|[[Shadow Gear|Full Tempest Shadow Gear]] (Accessories)

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|Costume Enchants

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|Headgear

Additionally, {{#item:27396}} can be used to help reach 20% ACD for female performers.

|{{#item:300377}}, {{#item:4528}}

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|Armor

|{{#item:4560}}, {{#item:4652}}

|Two-Eye Dollocaris should only be used on +12 armor, as it will provide curses instead of boons otherwise.</br>

|Shield

|{{#item:27385}} or {{#item:300379}}

|Modified Senior Rgan should only be used on a +12 shield, as it will provide curses instead of boons otherwise.</br>

You will also be sacrificing a very small amount of damage using Senior Rgan by breaking the white knight/khalitzburg combo, but will gain a significant boost to your survivability in return.</br>

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|Garment

|Any 100% elemental boost card, best being Himmelmez

One Eye Dollocaris, if put on the appropriate garment, will likely be the best card to use for boosting damage output as it provides a 33% boost to selected elements over Friedrich's 24% boost on a +12 garment.</br>

While Friedrich boosts all elements over Dollocaris's select elements, Dollocaris's element pool contains the four most frequently used elements in the game as a Performer, particularly holy and shadow.

|Footgear

|{{#item:4658}}, {{#item:4381}}, {{#item:27014}} or {{#item:300292}}

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|Accessory

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|The creamy card can teleport faster than flywings as the skill has no use delay when cast, but consumes an accessory slot which could be used to improve damage.</br>

== Dungeon/Instance Progression ==

As you gain more powerful equipment you'll be able to take on more powerful dungeons and instances.</br>

!Damage Output

!Notable Drops

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|GM Events

|Varies depending on market price.</br>

As of writing, Muh Coins are valued at 80,000 zeny each.</br>

Be careful not to throw away all your coins when the slot machine appears.

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|Varies depending on market price.</br>

As of writing, 21 fragments can be consistently gained per run at Challenge 10.</br>

Additional item drops such as temporal circlet, spell fragments, temporal gemstones and NPC vendable items like {{#item:6610}} and {{#item:6609}} can also add to the zeny per run.</br>

You will need to play the easier tiers to unlock the more difficult levels of the instance with more rewards, so you may need to do a few runs before you can gain the full rewards from this instance.

|{{#item:12103}}, {{#item:25729}}, {{#item:25731}}, {{#item:1000322}}

|Varies depending on market price.</br>

Taking the raw zeny gained from killing monsters (18m) and assuming you earn 200 Zelunium sold at 85k each (17m)</br>

It isn't unreasonable to gain 65m per hour on average depending on the market rate for each item.

Note that the monsters here have a very high amount of MDEF, so you will need some source of 100% mdef pierce to properly fight the monsters here.

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|150m dps

|All Biosphere unique item drops</br>

However, this is not taking into account the various Upgrade Stones which can drop from the biospheres which can be sold for additional profit.</br>

Moreso, you'll obtain a significantly high drop rate on all items once you can begin to 1-hit kill the biosphere monsters.</b>

Be sure to check which biosphere items sell best on the market before farming.</br>

You may need a {{#item:50035}} to farm here until you gain better equipment to easily deal with mobs without the need of buff items.</br>

Note that the monsters here have a very high amount of MDEF, so you will need some source of 100% mdef pierce to properly fight the monsters here.</br>

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|Thanatos Tower Floor 12

To enter this area, you'll need to do a [[Thanatos_Tower|Short Quest]].

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** If you have a large amount of bloody branches, you can pop a HE Bubble Gum and spam bloody branches for a chance at an MVP card.

** On average, you'll usually want about 1,000 branches for 1 MVP card using this method, since while you'll have a 0.12% chance to drop a card on each MVP, not all MVPs spawned from the branch drop an MVP card.

* Cheap Reform Refines

** When reforming items, such as a {{#item:28902}} into a {{#item:460020}}, you'll usually be given an option between a cheap option for -5 refine levels and an expensive option for -1 refine level

** While it is immediately cheaper to take the cheap option, if you're interested in getting an item to +12 without concern for grading it in the future, it will ultimately be cheaper overall to purchase a Safe to +x Certificate one above your desired refine level and reform it using the expensive option.

** This won't work for most equipment as the refine level will be reset upon grading regardless, but it might happen to come in useful one day under niche circumstances where grading equipment is not a concern.