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Grr
Oct 28, 2006, 08:06 PM
Grind. Seriously.

Now lets look at a good reason why.

I have a GMR rifle(Blaster) +5
its stats (minus Acc which doesnt grind >.<)
are the exactly same (well , the blaster has higher ATP and less PP)as a Vullseye , unground

Vullseye cost 9250 for boards , plus materials , and with an un fed PM has a roughly 56% chance to suceed.

Blaster cost 2000 and Five bases and a grinder boad will cost you 800 (300 for board 100 each for bases) and thats assuming you havent found any. at tha rate , you can afford to fail grinding the weapon THREE TIMES (almost five if you want to buy materials) with some change. and with max luck and grinders +5-9 I was able to grind my C rank Lance (best grindable one rangers can use) to +8. I can not tell you how embarassing it is for most hunters to see a cast ranger do 180 + on both Dus daggas hits on B ranks. Speaking of which , I met a hunter who had no wepaons other than A 5 ground 2k sword and a 4ground 2k twin dagger , we were doing de ragan C in under 8 minutes duo.

And as far as luck goes , grinding to +4 is almsot garunteed with max luck (only broken one mech gun >.> )and +4 is insanely moticable.

ANyway , now for the flip side of my argument : grinding expensive weapons

I recommend you base that one how crazy you are.

I myself am buying Bgrind boards and churning them out till i get atleast +5 chance , and then grinding my vullseye to at least 4, and then selling the rest in my shop.

PLURSprout
Oct 28, 2006, 09:15 PM
You also might want to mention that if you use higher bonus grinds you also won't have to spend as much.

Randomness
Oct 28, 2006, 09:17 PM
Heh, I bought 4 bases and a board, and they came out as +10s!

Since I have Luck 3 today, I went and ground a Compadri I'm 2 ATA short of to +4. Grand total of 2700 meseta. But yeah, grinding is great. I think the bow gained like 100 ATP. I can't wait to level up and use it.

Chris28
Oct 28, 2006, 09:58 PM
i have a bunch of grinder C's, like over 10. So all i have to do is buy a board and synthesize them and grind my weapon?

Marks
Oct 30, 2006, 05:06 AM
Doh this got me too excited so I made 4 grinder B+7, and I went to synth my 4star twin daggers(8600 in shop) , so with level 3 luck(gold stars), and grinder B+7, the first 3 were good, and the last one failed, losing me everything http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

Marks
Oct 30, 2006, 05:19 AM
Now I grinded a 3 star to +5, but it is a lot worse than the 4 star I lost, even though they are the same company...



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Nani-chan
Oct 30, 2006, 05:21 AM
I find it insane that your 2k Rifle has more atp then a 12k+ one, good job. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif Grinding a Blaster to (5) gave it an extra +203 Atp over a regular Blaster? (More than +99 Atp of the 8.6k meseta Shooter.) That's insane!




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Marks
Oct 30, 2006, 06:01 AM
Yeah that is insane... how come your 3 star rifle with +5 is better than a 5 star but my 3 star dagger with +5 is worse than a 4 star... worse by a bit.

Deus-Irae
Oct 30, 2006, 09:41 AM
does luck have an effect on your chances at a succesfull grind?

Bast
Oct 30, 2006, 09:58 AM
A good reason to grind lower weapons = Great idea.

I saved up to create a 5* GRM saber (B Rank, name escapes me). PM had a 58% of creating it. Give’em the board and materials. Came back an hour later and he hands me my need shiny saber. I went to grind it (had a very high chance of success) and it blows up in my face. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

Gathered the materials again and gave them to my PM (59% chance of creating). Came back an hour later and the PM hands me a stat boosting item. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

Attempt number three is in the works. If I lose this one… I’m going to kill that PM.

Slorg
Oct 30, 2006, 10:45 AM
But, you can't grind accuracy http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif Doesn't matter how moch dmg your weap has if you're hitting for zero every time http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

Kuya
Oct 30, 2006, 10:51 AM
I had another thread on grinding and...

+6 Yohmei Brahoh
1318 PP
311 ATP
82 ATA

I guess ATA hasn't changed but this sure beats out the B ranked rifle that rangers can buy/synth stock. It's kinda nice to be able to deal damage with the Beast/Cast hunters http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif