worried about 5x+

Draeyos - Lost City wrote: »

ok so im a LA wiz with 1280hp and 1500 mag def( my armor has 6 hp+20 stones in it :S) . i can't afford charms and am having trouble finding affordable gear that is decent for lv 50+.

My question is will i be able to survive these next 10-20 lvs ( by 6x or so there should be plenty of decent gear i can get) i dont want to restat for the magic mobs i will have to fight. do i even need to upgrade my gear for these few lvs ?

Learn to kite ranged mobs, it will be a pain but you'll get through it, its possible to kill them without getting hit if you only use gush and run during the cooldown, its a pain doing it that way but you wont get hit.
Melee mobs will be cake, use this combo, gush -> pyro -> gush -> phoenix -> gush -> blink backwards -> gush -> phoenix -> gush/sr/w/e, this will kite any melee mob perfectly, and gets you a TON of hits off.

P.S. I still have my lvl 29 pants and fireconjurer's robe, I got through it ok. I relied a lot on dailies though. b:shutup

First time I touched a HP charm was level... 75 or something. And I was light armor too. You don't really need them. Just buy tokens and trade those for MP pots; those will last you a long time, it's relatively really cheap. Don't use HP/MP charms, and don't use HP pots unless you -have- to (to avoid dying), stick to healing yourself with morning dew in between mobs. At your level, I had an easy time making money on the little islands south of misfortune, there's snakes there with you should be able to kill before they poison you. They drop pretty well. You can also try mobs like foxwings. Just stay away from charms, they aren't worth it.

I saw your gear earlier today, and you'd definitely need a charm in room 47 (not sure you'd make it even then). The first and second rooms you should not need charm, just click hp pot before you go in so that it's active, then run to corner and do morning dew macro (macro is "Repeat, Morning Dew").

Polyhymnia - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I saw your gear earlier today, and you'd definitely need a charm in room 47 (not sure you'd make it even then). The first and second rooms you should not need charm, just click hp pot before you go in so that it's active, then run to corner and do morning dew macro (macro is "Repeat, Morning Dew").

Thanks :-) for advice. I never finish cube yet and it **** me off.b:angry

If you're LA and worry about 5x......god save you lol. what im finding so far is that LA and Pure are pretty similar. When i duel decent pure wizzys of my level, i usually lose but i come damn close to winning. they are usually left with 5% hp or less.


Edit: why the hell did i switch to from levels to talking about Pure vs LA......O.o time for rain to go to bed.

Mumintroll - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Thanks :-) for advice. I never finish cube yet and it **** me off.b:angry

Oh, one more thing. When you go in to the earlier rooms, you'll get aggro from like 1-3 mobs. Normally I kill them with Phoenix, but you might not be able to 1-shot them with your wep. In that case, you should go for Dragon Breath and hit them all a few times with aoe (or if you aggro just one you can gush/phoenix/pyro or w/e). Then start morning dew, but you might be running low on hp even with a hp pot. A charm tick or sutra-heal would help.

You might also want to set off a dew of protection for the 3k damage absorb before you enter. It won't apply to the damage from the center mob, but it'll keep the little guys from hitting you very hard.

For room 47 you might just want to invest in tokens and bring a lot of do-all cards with you. 8 do-alls to pass is expensive, but you're guaranteed to finish cube at that point.

Tokens are really good for cube if you can get them cheap, actually. Mysterious Chips get you a good supply of dice tickets (I have a few hundred atm), you can get the good hp jiaozi (heal 3500 hp in 10 sec), and do-all cards. Set up a shop to buy tokens for 17k each and stock up for cube runs.

Do-alls also let you pass room 34, which can easily remain empty for 20 minutes otherwise. I wouldn't bother using them on room 14, though--easier and cheaper to teleport back to start and try to bypass the room.

Other problematic rooms:
In the "kill 2 in 2 minutes" rooms, start killing one mob before taking the quest. Use snare/gush/shrink/phoenix (don't get any others in aoe)/etc to damage it without letting it recover hp with drain. Then use Force of Will on it and grab the quest, then finish it off in 1-2 hits. That gives you like 1:45 to finish off the 2nd one, and you can spark for it.

I usually do snare/pyro/gush/s-key/shrink/gush/phoenix (if in good position)/gush/pyro/Force/quest/gush, or some variation, depending on how much damage I get.

For the real or fake room, you can kite the mobs perfectly with just sage gush/phoenix/gush/s-key/shrink/repeat. Watch your mana though--you can burn through 6k mp easy.

Room 38 is tricky until you get the hang of it. Make sure you have Holy Path and speed pots. My genie can holy path 2x in a row (high vit and mag), which makes things much easier. I usually take the left hand wall, there's an ant that will come in diagonally and then run from your corner to the far left corner. Follow it with holy path, avoid the hands (you can wait in the corner for a second while they explode), then head for the npc in the far corner. You should be able to make it without running into any ants, but be careful, and use a 2nd holy path/speed pots/shrink.

Room 27 has only three configurations. You'll either be safe going 2nd from left, 2nd from right, or a diagonal path (you may want to wait 10-15 min for room to switch if you're not comfortable with diagonal). Just listen and don't get close to the mobs you can hear.

Counting the apples takes practice, just count them in groups.

If you're having trouble with any other rooms, let me know which ones and I'll post how I get through them.