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mq gears are gears for the final, that can be 55 items but if anyone asks for mq gears he means the best for the endgame!




if you watch the market and see an item, the output shows its calculated to the char that is searching and watching it, cannot remember that anyone ever was able to place items on the mp from mule without placing in the market but holding it on the mule

so if a level 63 char is looking for upgrades he see what he will have if he buys!

to can stay longer for more waves in the catacomb you need more damage and the right abilities, powerstrike and multistrike for the samurai is always a good idea. if you cannot find upgrades or dont want to invest too much in the game, you can think about to start fishing or buying fishes. not single ones but stacks.
make a stack of life fishes(cook them aswell) and place them in the hotkey so you can eat them in a faster way. also think about to find some life regen gears for the town healing, that helps alot! a good amount is around 10life regen + each item. you can wear 3 of them (weap, armor, charm).

have in mind the acc. slot dont gives you any mod boosts, only the base element. means dex as mod or others are inactive! with a good heal charm with high ee and some points into int lets say around 20, you can life a bit longer in the catacombs, it depends on what it spawns.

welcome and good luck

Thank you for the clarification, that is super helpful. I'm not looking for 30k per item level gear, however I don't mind spending a few hundred per.

Check out my samurai. The dagger or something comparable can be bough for 500 to 600. The armor probably another 600 or so. I bought a 76ee 55 dagg for 200 that I used for my first climb. It worked well.

This post was edited by Killer_Stride on Nov 12 2021 07:04pm

Try using easy mode. Max 2 monster mobs.

While in game type /set easy 1

I just grabbed like a 90 error lvl 55 for 200 in the marketplace, that helped a ton. I'd certainly pay 600 for that armor, I'll have to keep my eyes out

Thanks for that clarification, I never buy off of the Market or even search for items anymore.

Still got the old 8+ year search mentality... only thing I look at is if the item is 20% EE margin.
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At OP (Original Poster). There are a ton of information that people have given (all good), hope it all helps you out.

I don't play SC, but I took a look at what you are wearing and your current level (showed me level 70 around 20 seconds ago).


Rare ultimanium dagger
Level Req: 55
Damage: 243 to 426
+85% Enhanced Effect
+1% Armor Pierce

Mystical tempered diamond plate mail
Level Req: 45
Physical Defense: 96 to 290
Magical Defense: 0 to 27
+116% Enhanced Effect
+1 to 39 Life per Kill
+4% Magical Damage Reduction

Magical wild heal VII
Level Req: 20
Heals: 7 to 73
Mana Cost: 53
+24 Dexterity

Arcane lightning II
Spell Damage: 2 to 21
Mana Cost: 13
+9 Strength
+10 Dexterity
+1 to 2 Mana per Attack
+1 to 9 Life per Kill
+1% Life Steal
+2% Parry

The Arcane Lightning in the ACC slot is doing NOTHING at all, the ONLY mod that is effective in the ACC slot = Enhanced Effect... so that means you would be better off having a Heal type charm in that slot ONLY (& ONLY) if you have the Intelligence stats to back it up... Minimum 30 while having the Salvation ability (Salvation is the best for solo'ing... not so much for groups since there should be a healer in the group, so your int stats would be wasted).

Your DAGGER... that works just fine, remember to only have like 2 Abilities that are great solo... since you are a samurai, you have 2 Melee abilities that are Blue: Two Hit Back and Multistrike (note: useless vs a single mob... so if using ability vs 1 mob... it will NOT activate, so you have to cancel that ability and attack NORMALLY) ... You are using a good level 45 Armor with Enhanced effect that is your MQ armor (note: Enhanced Effect armor reduces your chances for Two Hit Back to charge up because you receive more 0 damage, which won't charge up that ability... same with Salvation.) BUT. at higher levels and casters, you will receive damage more often charging those abilities up faster.

Your main charm with 24 Dexterity is good... just remember this fact: Each Item Tier has a MAXIMUM of +5 Stat ... so the maximum Dexterity on that charm = 35 (Tier I / II / III = 5 / 10 / 15 ... so add 15 to the Tier level from IV (5) = 20 / V (10 = 25) / VI (15 = 30) ... so, if you find or buy a cheap level 15 (Tier VI) with 30 Dexterity (max unless "OverSpawn = +5 max on top = 35"), You can use this beforehand and sell off that charm you are currently using to make back some FG (Note: Wild Heal is the best stat charm to get since it is usable on EVERY CHARACTER CLASS), so you would need to find a better Dex Wild Heal.

There are a ton of little things to take note of for YOUR style of gameplay... I also wish you the best of luck and hope you have fun while playing. (Note: I cut off my banter because it gets tedious and boring, also many others have information that they can link with you... also... I solo play only, the best enjoyment is with a group of people having fun... so hope you join up with many of them on Softcore).

EDIT: I ONLY play Hardcore and have died multiple times with better gear from my stupidity and other factors.

Forgot to add in my example of my Samurai item / stat placement vs yours:

izNaruto:
Level 59 Samurai
Core: Hardcore
Life: 5763 / 5763
Mana: 2166 / 2166
Experience: 58,007,638
Strength: 75
Dexterity: 54
Intelligence: 89
Vitality: 95
Stat Points: 2
Kills: 286,170
Deaths: 0
MQ Pass / Fail: 1 / 0
MQ Attempts: 1
Ladder Resets: 0
Last Played 10 minutes ago


Gear:

Mythical adamantium longsword
Level Req: 35
Damage: 81 to 810
+124% Enhanced Effect
+246 Max Mana
+1% Life Steal
+5% Mind Numb
+3% Critical Flux

Angelic ultimanium chain mail
Level Req: 55
Physical Defense: 53 to 133
Magical Defense: 0 to 51
+57 Intelligence
+8 Life Regen
+3% Damage Return
+7% Armor Pierce

Rare wild heal XIV
Level Req: 55
Heals: 39 to 391
Mana Cost: 109
+52% Enhanced Effect
+30 Strength

NOTE: Heavy weapons deal DBLE damage [per 1.8 sec vs normal wpn(s) 1.0 sec].

My abilities SOLO are:

Two Hit Back @ 58% (4 ability points)
Salvation @ 55% (8 ability points)

NOTE: I am a melee/heal hybrid, so I built around healing and damage. I am only pumping Strength since I completed 95 base vitality from level one(1), then worked on a minimum of 30 intelligence because my MAIN heal charm + INT armor complemented each other while using Abilities charging up on "Hits/Damage Taken" and using stat gear only.

You choose what you want to benefit your playstyle... the basic rules of this game is simple:

EE Weapon
EE Armor
EE Cast or Heal Charm

+Stat compliments all of the above EXCLUDING Vitality.

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Nov 12 2021 11:37pm

Thanks again for the information. I managed to make it to MQ, failed and am climbing again, but with a much better understanding this time.