Hello everybody who's obsessed with getting orbs of alchemy! This little post could be considered vital to you guys, and is just useful in general! I will be teaching you the best way to farming advanced/elite orbs of alchemy! Here it is:

• STEP 1: Get up to level 6-1! If you are not at this level and you're stuck on 5-2, I suggest creating a party to go through the Tier-2 arcade missions on ELITE mode! Elite mode will increse the amount of crowns you get by about %140, so once you get 16.5K, you can go to the Supply Depot and purchase 200 energy and use it to get Advanced orbs.
• STEP 2: Go to the mission "Axes of Evil", and start it on Elite mode. This will help your chances of getting rarities
• STEP 3: As you start on depth 14, when you exit spawn, you turn left onto a little platform of land that has 2 prize boxes. Do NOT stand close to these, for it will trigger monsters to spawn! Instead, shoot the 4 prize boxes across the gap to the left of you THEN break the 2 other prize boxes. If this didn't give you any rarities, start the mission again!

This is a pretty tedious process, but my friend who played "The Sovereign Slime" mission over and over again for an entire month (he completed it 13 times, 24 prize boxes broken each time) and only got 3 elite orbs. When he tried this, he played it for 20 minutes and got 3 elite orbs! I've played it for 2 days now and have gotton 2 sparks of life, 6 advanced orbs of alchemy, 6 elite orbs of alchemy, and even a sword(unfortunatly, it was Spur which is 2 stars D: )!!