Buy the latest items or hope for a board to drop?

[Deja]

So far I've purchased two levels of spears, the first spear I bought in curiosity, and linked a PA and loved it. Then I traveled to the other planet and bought one that I can equip when I get 5 more ATP. I'm just wondering, it seems you can't upgrade/grind/do anything with store-bought weapons. I went to a "weapons upgrade" shop and they said they can't do anything with my weapon. So is it best to play and play until a spear board drops, or continue to buy the latest and greatest?

I want to make a spear with magic linked to it, and grindable. Guess I gotta wait to synth one...

[Garnet_Moon]

People told me I wasted 8k meseta on a Rank B staff, but I beg to differ. They keep saying to synth my own of higher quality, but I don't see the boards they are talking about in the shops, nor do I see any sort of Force weapon drop, let alone Boards.

Buy from the shop for the first char when ya get the meseta, and when we figure out what drops what as far as boards and class-related weapons go, use that to help any future chars or your present one. Don't gimp your party by doing 50% of the damage you COULD be doing, if you upgraded to that B-rank weapon. I love my new staff. :3

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[RoninJoku]

I've noticed that buying the boards and materials to synth seems significantly cheaper than buying the actual weapons... However, it takes time to synth, and it can fail which is a real kick in the teeth... For the most part I'd say try synthing if you have the mats lying around.

[Deja]

Hmm, maybe you can buy boards, although I don't know where. On one of the planets? For now though I'm happy with the damage output of my first spear. My new one will increase ATP and ACC a ton, and I'll be quite the hunter at lvl 9.

I think I'll start focusing on boards/grinding/infusing elements on homemade spears later on, perhaps lvl 15. But anyone know where to buy weapon/armor boards?

[Garnet_Moon]

On 2006-10-26 22:49, Deja wrote:
But anyone know where to buy weapon/armor boards?

Everyone who has laughed at my 8k staff(price wise, not b/c of the dmg) has said to go buy a weapon board and make a better one. Not a single one has said where to do so.

I assume they mean player shops... now, as soon as I figur eout how to use that search feature... >_>

[RoninJoku]

There were some decent boards in the syntesis shop on Parum... don't know if they make weapons any better than what you have garnet.

[Garnet_Moon]

On 2006-10-26 22:53, RoninJoku wrote:
There were some decent boards in the syntesis shop on Parum... don't know if they make weapons any better than what you have garnet.

I'll have to check the list again. I didn't see anything of the sort when I was there. Maybe I was just too tired to read the list properly. Thanks for the info.

[Deja]

Okay then, my mission tomorrow is to find a decent board for a spear on Parum, then grind that sucker and perhaps fuse ice with it if I can ever figure out how (I think I will over time). I love spears, and my goal is a killer one at a low level.

Thanks everyone!

[EJ]

to buy the boards go to the PM shop which is the one with the purple logo on it to buy boards and ingredient for the item to synth.

Go to the other planets to find different boards and synth items.

[Proto-Reqium]

Either way works out... Found a stellerline(sp) armor board(cost 6k to buy 2.5k to make).
It can help alot, but the syth % can be a turn off at times.