best set

[AKUMA]

at the end of the game which weapon and armor is better?

[Sonoemnevoa]

If you're willing to go through The Path of Decay and survive, the two best swords you can get out of it are "Sword of The Deceiver" and "Sword of Verrum". Deceiver is the most powerful sword, but it swings slow. Verrum is very powerful but is half as strong as the Deceiver, but it hits a hell of a lot faster, so you have to choose which one works best for your style of combat. I prefer Deceiver for moves like the tornado spin and rising heaven. But if I need to be faster and dodge, Vellum is better. Mess around with them both and see what feels better to you.

If it's going to be a while before the final area, or you're having too much trouble to get through the trial, head over to the third area of the game and buy the most powerful sword there which will take a very long time to grind up enough gold to get it depending on how far in the game you are.

For armor, the best you can find is in the final dungeon, there's a room with a bunch of ghosts who act as merchants, look around for one that only trades in mana crystals, it sells a piece of armor that sounds like a joke at first called "Bikini" with really poor stats to start. But once you enchant it to the final level, it suddenly upgrades its defense enough that it's even better than the most expensive armor you can get in the third area of the game.

One other tip, runes can really change how powerful armor/weapons are. Try to save your more powerful runs for later if you can. And farm the rifts that appear, they can be pretty amazing for mana and runes. And don't be scared to sell off old swords and armors, you'll find more pretty easily once you get the hang of replaying old levels to find more loot. If it's not as strong as what you got right now, or doesn't have an elemental ability that's actually useful for you, sell it.

[red255]

I will say if you run the boss gauntlet that gives you the sword of deception and Verrun you'll get many rank 5 runes to attach. so theres very little point saving the weaker ones if you find they might be useful.

the only question is whether you'd prefer combo attack+ or regular attack+ or maybe immunities to particular status effects.

[Z3n]

Immunities are nice, otherwise I would mainly go for crit chance, since on top of the additionnal damage you heal 1% HP and 10 rage per crit (provided you unlocked the abilities of the Force of Thunder path).

[Gonna_Fly]

the game is fairly easy even on very hard if you use the Sword of Verum (5 stars) + Bikini Armor (5 stars) and the Unicorn Horn as an accessory (immunity to most negative effect, that include poison, freezing, electricity, flame, petrify and so on).

[AKUMA]

I'm at the end of the game thank you all for the advice