Must-have weapons?

[Spar10]

I'm curious, given how hard it is to craft things in this game, I might as well make sure I'm getting the right stuff. What weapons are considered must-haves? I've heard blitz needle and the fire brandish upgrade, but what else is there?

Currently stuck at rank 5-2 with a crippling lack of alchemy orbs.

[Sebastian]

this is only my opinion and only counts for PvE, but here goes.

for guns:
blitz and its shadow variant
iron slug
at least one antigua-style gun for speedrunning
any 5* alchemer for sequence breaking

for bombs:
any vortex (plain graviton is worst though)
dark briar barrage
ash of agni
dark retribution (DLC is good value anyways)

for swords:
black thorn blade or final flourish
any elemental brandish
acheron

[Levi]

A vortex bomb comes in quite useful, for both gunners & swordsmen.

If you want an Electron Vortex, you'll need to play a bit of lockdown / blast-network.

However, you can just settle with the Graviton Vortex or Obsidian Crusher - which both work fine to combine enemies together.

The acheron is a very powerful sword, and is useful in both PvP [lock-down] and PvE.

I recommend that you craft one at some point as it's considered as over-powered and sees use in almost every level where shadow damage is effective.

As for guns, i recommend that you get a Grim Repeater, as it's just a shadow version of the blitz needle.

It allows you to kill the Royal Jelly in a few seconds (especially if you combine a flash-charge with a maskeraith).

We also use it against the roarmulus twins because the burst damage has a high DMG output - making it useful for the boss fight and against battle pods!.

Lastly, i'd personally recommend that you get a polaris, as it allows you to have mobility when dealing with construct / undead turrets—and it also interrupts them!

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

Lastly, i'd personally recommend that you get a polaris, as it allows you to have mobility when dealing with construct / undead turrets—and it also interrupts them!

the problem is, most people dont know how to properly use them in a group, meaning that they make life worse for everyone else.
if you arent planning on playing with other people, who cares, get as many pulsars as you want. but if you do want to play with other people, you gotta watch out.
also, wildfire is mostly better than polaris, as shock interrupts knockback.

[Spar10]

Also, on the topic of crafting, how the hell do I get more alchemy orbs? I don't have money to throw around getting energy, so I have to rely on the auction house/drops, which feel unreasonably rare.

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by HUGE 8ITCH 8LUH 8LUH:

Also, on the topic of crafting, how the hell do I get more alchemy orbs? I don't have money to throw around getting energy, so I have to rely on the auction house/drops, which feel unreasonably rare.

never buy orbs off the auction house, they always cost more than on the supply depot.
if you want more orbs, either grind the orbs or grind the money to buy the orbs. 2* orbs are best bought, 5* orbs are best gotten through grinding and 3* to 4* depend.

[Spar10]

I'm stuck with a drought of 3* orbs, can't do anything because I can't craft any 3* gear because of that

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by HUGE 8ITCH 8LUH 8LUH:

I'm stuck with a drought of 3* orbs, can't do anything because I can't craft any 3* gear because of that

go grind.
you got enough 3* orbs from missions to almost make a full set of 3* gear, so you are more than prepared to grind T2 bosses for crowns.

[Spar10]

The issue is the only mission I have left to do is the 3 star certification one, also where do i grind?

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by HUGE 8ITCH 8LUH 8LUH:

The issue is the only mission I have left to do is the 3 star certification one,

nothing is stopping you from doing a mission again.

Originally posted by HUGE 8ITCH 8LUH 8LUH:

also where do i grind?

https://wiki.spiralknights.com/Lancer_Knightz_(Guild)/Mission_Crowns
https://wiki.spiralknights.com/Lancer_Knightz_(Guild)/Mission_Rarities
or just go to the arcade.

[Spar10]

Well yeah I can do them again, but they don't give the rewards again, so I can't get orbs just from completing them again.

According to the rarities, I guess I'm off to Rise or Fall, since I misread the value the first time.

[Levi]

Originally posted by HUGE 8ITCH 8LUH 8LUH:

Well yeah I can do them again, but they don't give the rewards again, so I can't get orbs just from completing them again.

The mission rewards are a seperate ordeal which was not being referred to at all.

You want to open as much loot-boxes in Tier 2, in order to get orbs.

That's what the suggestion was, and i generally would just buy those orbs.

Since you're a lower rank, it was suggested that you re-play missions for the loot-boxes which have a chance of dropping orbs.

Arcade, as advised is an option too.

[Stret]

acheron

ele brandish

blitz

you can go through the game with that.

Of course there are some other things everyone definitely should go for such as :

Iron Slug

DBB

Vortexes

Alchemer

etc etc

[Spar10]

good god i'm just doing oilers in the boilers over and over for the past like 6 hours and i've gotten 1 orb these droprates suck

[Stret]

Originally posted by HUGE 8ITCH 8LUH 8LUH:

good god i'm just doing oilers in the boilers over and over for the past like 6 hours and i've gotten 1 orb these droprates suck

oilers in the boilers is not really a good level to farm orbs

[Spar10]

Originally posted by Stret:

Originally posted by HUGE 8ITCH 8LUH 8LUH:

good god i'm just doing oilers in the boilers over and over for the past like 6 hours and i've gotten 1 orb these droprates suck

oilers in the boilers is not really a good level to farm orbs

It isn't? According to the charts the guy posted above it had the highest droprate of the orbs I need, at 0.29