Experienced players... anything to add?!

This came out the minute I was hopping on KZfaq to look for an equipment guide. Very serendipitous for me! You've been an amazing resource for returning to this game. Thanks a bunch for the detailed breakdowns on characters and systems.

Nice job, wish I had this video when I started. Covered extraordinarily well. The only thing missing would be talking about seals/hammers to add stats while leveling a weapon. Its not the easiest to talk about but I'll take a shot at it: When you create a weapon, it starts at level 1. You have to awaken and level it, with the cap level being 5 stars and level 50. Each time the weapon is leveled, up, it has a chance to increase the stats featured on the weapon. If the weapon say has no crit value, it can't roll crit, but if it has an accuracy value, it can roll for more accuracy. There is an upper limited noted in the crafting screen. Seals increase the likelihood that when you level a weapon it will roll additional stats of the same stat type as the seal. Thus if your leveling an armor, and add an HP seal, you are more likely add HP with a level. Once a weapon hits level 50, you can no longer add additional stats randomly. Instead you can use hammers. These will add a few stats when you use a hammer, and you use these to try to eek out any stats that didnt max out while leveling a weapon. You can only use a maximum of 10 hammers, and like seals, each is associated with a stat type (finishing hammers = crit btw). After you use 10 hammers, you cant increase the stats of the item anymore. You can reset the item back to level 1 though, removing any stat increases and try again to see if RNG is a little more kind to you. I personally haven't had to reset too many times, but had had to on occasion. Most of the time, seals and hammers will be enough to max out a piece of equipment on the first pass. Other small bits I'd add is if you have something like a +3 item and want to make a +5 or +6 via crafting, you can use the +3 in place of several recipes. I think you need only 48 recipes if you use a +3 item. Another thing for clarity sake: The Evade stat in equipment is different than the Evade big box at the bottom. The stat line can be added with other equipment (with diminishing returns), the bottom box though is will only use the highest evade stat. Really well done.

A couple additional tips: - The best equipment - such as Brigandine, Black Garb, and Alexandrite Ring - can only be farmed during limited time Raids and Raid Revivals. - Some recipes are only available in the Shop - like Main Gauche - so check the 1.25m recipes every day to see if there are some you want to pick up. - There are 7 unique equipment quests under Key Quests instead of Farplane Archives labeled "Challenge". These are much older quests that are super easy to farm if you have even a couple 120s. As a new player you should start with 3 challenge keys, and when you unlock a challenge quest it's available for 3 days so you have lots of time to farm. Within these Challenge quest are modest replacements for Raid gear, until you can farm those up. The three pieces of Challenge gear I'd advise you farm first are Silver-Rimmed Spectacles, Sage's Hat, and Gold Armor. -- Silver-Rimmed Spectacles can be built with very high Aim and are great for helping counter Evade units until you can get an Alexandrite Ring. Even after you have Alexandrite Rings, Silver-Rimmed Spectacles may still be better for Magic using accuracy builds due to Spirit Penetration. -- The Sage's Hat can be built for Evasion and is one of the best Evasion pieces you can get until you can farm Black Garb or other limited Evasion gear. The Crow Cloak is also decent with only slightly less overall evasion stats, but is an accessory. You can also build Sage's Hats for SPR defense, but the Smart Coat is better if you're going for that. -- Gold Armor is one of your best DEF armor choices until you can farm Brigandine.

amazing job good and simple guide for new players

Excellent guide Mysidia. I think this will be very useful to lots of new players.

This is amazingly helpful!

I’m a returning player and I appreciate this info. Thanks Mysidia!

I didnt realize it was really quick and efficient to farm an +5 now, I farmed swordbreaker on background repeat and it took me only 8 hours while I off the game 🤣

thanks very much

Thank you for this. While this guide is of no use to me(I figured it all out the hard way long ago), it will be useful for new players.

Great video! This is exactly what i was looking for! Quick question, what would you recommend to equip for Whisper, I'm trying to use her as tank. Thank you!!

Missing pod has been devastating to my account since... forever. Unfortunately I don't see Nier comming back. I think they would have done it by now.

It would be pretty optimistic to think that new players are staying. The "generosity" of the developer falls short at this point, and new players quickly realize the gift boosts during collaboration events are not really gifts but are required to make leveling even possible since grinding for Gil or items to craft is a horrendous grind that quickly saps any fun out of playing for sake of being efficient. That doesn't take into account t the even higher and higher level building of the units and how much it costs in time and money to level max a unit. This games existing philosophy is no longer about bringing on new players but retaining their whales by a continuous drip feed of pointless content and power creep. The best thing you can do is to step away as a new player because if you are not going to spend, you will always be so far behind the 8 ball that any progress you make is inconsequential.

Loving this game so far, about 4 weeks in. I’m building Kitone and know she wants to dodge. What equipment/quests should I seek to find the gear?

Want to ask about dark fina equipment? There is any recomendation for her?

I have farmed all 64 recipes needed for Sephiroth's masamune but how about the materials needed? the Unidentifiable Sap, Wolf Fang and Dark Cryst. What/where is the most efficient way to farm them?

hi, i have a question. How can i get the keys for the challenges in key quest tab? I want to take the silver rimmed spectacles from the typhon challenges, but i cant find the key required to open the room. How can u get some of them? thanks

For a new player, is it a good idea to craft low lv equipments to use while progressing content or just wait until I have enough material for +5?

Best video, thank you! Please, where can I ger ilusory Bell?

What is the meaning of red attribute?

Catanas 🐈 😅

Any recommendations for perrene or astrius?

where is brigandine? Is it time limited? Thx for the guide 👌

Anyone know what’s good for winged sterne ? I’m still weak so I don’t really have any limited items

Just started few days ago and able to get wing sterne's sword +3 from his key quest. How do i make that sword that already +3 to +5? When i try craft seems like it craft a new weapon, not upgrading the +3 i already have.

Can someone please HELP ME??... I try to craft any gear pass +2 and ask me for ADAMANTITE XL... I have a LOT of the S, M and L I mean... +30K of each and in the crafting screen STILL ASK ME FOR ADAMANTITE XL... Happens for any gear not only weapons.... this is slowing my progress a lot.... PLEASE HELP ME Im desperate!!!

Did they remove equipment proficiency I don’t seem to be able to see that stat that shows you the proficiency on any of my items

I got Roy but didn't farm enough recipes for +5 gloves? Do I have to wait for the next FMA collab?

Is the 1000 paid vis +3 weapon for collab units worth it?

Locking UR gears behind raids is bad...since raids are time gated and if u have a job or u can't play the game during that specific time for whatever reason u lose out on a lot .

recipes are pretty ok to farm but the materials man T_T