Mirror Dungeons, should i grind them?

[|Revenge|]

I want to get a high level on the pass so i can get enough ego shards to buy captain ishmael. But doing mirror Dungeons can take more than an hour and i dunno How much longer we have before season 4. I have 250 ego shards o Just need 150 more.

[Iggy the Unwise]

We have a month give or take. You get 9 boxes per dungeon run with upgraded pass, my advice run bleed team thru the normal version and try for a fusion bleed gift. You will get on average 2 shards per box so you will need to do the dungeon around 10-11 times to be sure (if your pass is not upgraded multiply the ammoun by 3).

[|Revenge|]

9 boxes per Dungeon with upgraded pass? Didnt know that

[Iggy the Unwise]

Originally posted by |Revenge|:

9 boxes per Dungeon with upgraded pass? Didnt know that

If you finished the 120 lvl from the pass itself.

[CarThief]

Yeah maybe you could pull it off if you buy the pass... Now I think of it, didn't they store all the extra 2 boxes per EX level-up so you can claim them retroactively upon buying the pass? If so, see if you got a nice amount stored, that might do it.
(If I misremember however, it would be a poor purchase to buy the pass so late.)

The absolute earliest the season change could occur is March 28, but knowing PM and their habit of delaying and "PM time" (plus events needing to end first and have a week-long cashout period afterwards), personally I trust it'll be April 4th or beyond.

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As for the dungeon. There's only one good way to do it. Bloody Mist. Can clear a run in like 35 minutes or less, maybe 50-60 for Hard MD (but atleast it offers rewards equal to 3 Normal MDs).

You'd need the following upgrades:
-The upgrade to select 2 Gifts on startup.
-The ability to reroll Gifts in startup screen once.
-Enhanced odds for rare Bleed Gifts in starting pool.
-The one that adds 2 Bleed Gifts to the dungeon.

Then you should setup a team of units who have all their skills cause bleed (or atleast their S1 & S2 skills). Personally, I find the optimal team to be: Cpt. Ishmael, Middle Little Sister Don, Hook Office Hong Lu, Pequod Crew Heathcliff, R-Corp Meursault, and Twinhook Gregor. But there's also other Bleed-based IDs if you lack any of them, though it may make doing Hard mode rather... hard, without a optimal team.

Once you have a team, be sure to start with "Rusted Muzzle" and "Smoke & Wires" as your two starting Gifts. If you do not recieve them, end the run before it even begins, and try again.
Then, seek a fuse station at floor 2 (normal) or before the floor 1 boss (hard).
Edit: Oh, right, and be sure to fuse those two into Bloody Mist.

And then you're set. GG. Though if you're playing Hard, I'd advice to NEVER GO INTO ELITE PIERCE NODES ON FLOOR 4 AND 5. Especially when on floor 5, always pick forking paths so if option A sucks, you can choose option B.
(And for the event's duration, consider avoiding the Event-Elite-Slash node on floors 4-5 too. It's basically suicide in floor 5, and just a pain in the ass (or near-suicidal without Bloody Mist) on floor 4.)

Otherwise, enjoy your overpowered team whose rolls range in the 16-20-24s and do +100% damage, enough to end almost any non-boss fight in 1-2 turns.

[Echo]

I grinded out 140 Meursault shards for the event because I was unlucky, it can take a few weeks but it certainly is possible even on just doing constant normal mode runs if you have the time/energy. I also don't have the battle pass so I got it 3 boxes at a time not including the boxes I got for doing my dailies/weeklies.

[Snecchi]

What level is your pass? If you don't already have the upgraded pass you could probably instantly get enough boxes depending on pass level. And yeah its almost always worth to farm mirror dungeon though you can take it at your own pace. Main thing is to get the juicy hard mode rewards with the weekly bonuses. 1 weekly hard mode is equal to ~132 shards if you have upgraded pass or 44 normal pass.

[Minh]

Yes. You should. Bloody Mist makes it bearable.