Vortex Gaming

The structure is as follows:

1. Current stats and gear introduction

2. Actual time/price spent to acquire this

3. Total value of the character based on current Elysium auction house prices

Please note that this character is one I raised because I liked it, so it's very unsuitable for efficient bossing below Black Mage.

The final goal for this character is 60k+ Hexa stats.

Therefore, if you're simply making a character to solo bosses below Black Mage, there are many more efficient ways to gear up with this amount of money.

1. Current stats and gear introduction

These stats don't reflect the pet buffs. Since my main is also a Lef, I unintentionally weakened my stats by sharing pets.

If I move the pet, I get 5.1 in item stats and 4.5 in Hexa stats.

With these stats, I can currently clear Jin Hilla and Dusk in 40 minutes, and Chaos Pierre and Chaos Von Bon in 15-18 minutes without Noblesse.

Accordingly, I'm clearing all bosses below Black Mage in about 90 minutes each week, making it a relatively comfortable solo experience without liberation.

In my case, I have many bossing characters, and since I'm a working person, spending more than 3 Noblesse runs would take too long, so I boosted this character.

The ultimate goal is to have 6+ Hexa stats and try to clear Kalos/Skip.

2. Time and price spent to achieve these stats

1. Weapon: 22-star Double Legendary Arcane Weapon -> Purchased from the auction house for 150. This was 6 months ago.

2. Secondary: Double Legendary Boss Damage/Attack/Attack Secondary Weapon -> Purchased from the auction house for 240. This was 12 months ago.

3. Emblem: Mitra Attack/Attack/Defense / Attack/Attack -> Purchased from the auction house for 350 6 months ago.

4. Arcane Symbols: All max level -> Raised since the release of Khali, so I raised it before the symbol cost reduction. I used over 4 billion mesos, but I'll estimate it at 2.3 billion based on current prices.

5. Authentic Symbols: This also had a cost reduction in the middle, so the actual cost doesn't match, but the current levels are as follows:

1) Cernium: Level 10 -> 3.1 billion

2) Arcus: Level 7 -> 1.5 billion

3) Odium: Level 7 -> 1.7 billion

4) Do Won Kyung: Level 6 -> 1.3 billion

5) Arteria: Level 5 -> 900 million

Total: Approximately 8.6 billion / For reference, current overdue amount is 7.5 billion

6. Hat: 18-star 3-second Ethernal Hat -> 12 billion (5.4 billion for clean slate, about 6 billion used on Star Force, 600 million for 15% scrolls) / However, I used over 90 Event Flame Cubes to get it to Unique (If Flame Cubes are 3000 each, that's an additional 2.7 billion)

7. Top/Bottom: 17-star 12% Attack 10 -> All clean slate synthesis, and made with transferred items, so 0 won

8. Arcane 3 parts (excluding gloves): Average of 1.7 billion per part with Star Force, 200 million per scroll, 200 million for Superior and Master Craftsman Cubes / Meister Cubes appraisal fee (shoes were lucky with Meister Cubes) Total 6.3 billion

9. Gloves: 1.8 billion for Star Force / About 30 Event Black Cubes for tier up and Crit Damage lines, about 2.1 billion including scrolls and appraisal fees / If Black Cubes are 3000, that's 900 million

10. Black Bean Mark: 800 million for Star Force, 2 billion for options, totaling 2.8 billion

11. Dea Sidus Earring: 400 million for Star Force, 4 billion for options, totaling 4.4 billion

12. Condensed Power Crystal: Clean slate synthesis + got lucky with transferred item, so 0 won

13. Gold Clover Belt: 300 million for Star Force

14. Guardian Angel Ring: 3 billion for clean slate, 300 million for Star Force, totaling 3.3 billion

15. Heart, Grail, Badge: 0 won (All event items or no appraisal value or made with synthesis)

16. Piece value based on Elysium is 6.8 million each -> Total 21.45 billion

17. Hexa 1, 2 fully enhanced -> Total 5.45 billion

Total pure item value: 105.2 billion

Total symbols and pieces: Approximately 143 billion

The sunk cost is quite significant than I thought. It's already 37.8 billion mesos.

Time spent: 12 months since deciding to make a bossing character below Black Mage

Black Mage: Going with a guild alt party.

3. Elysium Auction House Price as of October 8, 2024 for these stats

1. Weapon: 15 billion (Only 1 item available at 16 billion. The population...)

2. Secondary: 12 billion

3. Emblem: 30 billion ~ 40 billion (What's up with the current listings...?)

4. Arcane: 2.3 billion

5. Authentic: 8.6 billion

6. Hat: 18 billion

7. Top/Bottom: 800 million each, totaling 1.6 billion

8. Arcane 3 parts: 3.6 billion ~ 4 billion each

9. Arcane Gloves Crit Damage: 8.5 billion

10. Black Bean Mark: 3.5 billion

11. Dea Sidus: 2 billion

12. Condensed: 100 million

13. Gold Clover Belt: 1.5 billion

14. Guardian Angel Ring: 7.5 billion

15. Heart, Grail, Badge: Excluded from measurement

Piece value: Same, 26.9 billion

Auction house price, item value 116.1 billion

Total symbols and pieces 153.9 billion

This is based on today's auction house search, and considering that there are no cases where the job and stats match exactly, you may have to wait for the items to be listed.

The auction house price is higher than I thought, so I don't know what to say.

Anyway, if you want to add a Double Legendary 5-line liberated weapon here, you need to add 58 billion as the expected value.

There are more than a few items that I bought at expensive times, but I somehow benefited from event luck, reducing the price...

Anyway, if you buy the secondary at the current price, and downgrade the emblem to Legendary/Epic / downgrade the weapon to 17-star Legendary/Epic, you can save 12 billion / 35 billion / 7 billion from the 105.2 billion based on self-enhancement.

Additionally, if you just used a CRA hat, you could save 10 billion on the hat as well.

In this case, the pure item value of a character that can 'possibly' solo bosses below Black Mage would be 41.2 billion based on item value.

However, please understand that this is the result of continuous Star Force / Miracle Time over nearly 2 years with some luck.

And if you downgrade to that point, it becomes a 3-4 Noblesse spec, so it's not efficient unless you have a lot of time.

Of course, since 37.8 billion of symbol/piece value goes into that, the actual value would be at least 80 billion mesos.

Anyway, if you add everything up and liberate it, it will be a character worth about 200 billion, and the bossing time below Black Mage is expected to be 70-80 minutes.

Therefore, I would recommend making this character to solo bosses below Black Mage if it's 'fun', but I would not recommend making it to 'make money'.

It costs more money than you think, and the time investment is no joke.

I hope this helps those who are considering soloing bosses below Black Mage, and I'll end this post.