Hello people. I wanted to present to you all an idea that I have had for a little while now. It revolves around grinding, grinding, and maybe a little insanity, and I am hoping some good fun.
Some of us have seen, been, or have knights that have 5* gear and/or high prestige, but are Knight Elites or below. The 2 things that inspired this whole idea was the guy from Arsenal Podcast (I believe, can’t recall the name), who kept his Knight at Knight Elite, as well as Skepticravern crafting every gunner armor in game. Anyways, getting to the point, there was a video where AP achieved 45k Prestige on his knight, and it got me thinking. How about I take what happened there, and copy it in modern-day SK?
Here’s my idea: I want to make a knight that is locked to Knight Elite and cannot go any farther than that. He can only get up to 4* weapons, and can go no farther than T2. I have always loved the low-level content in this game, and have had many characters where I play the T3 endgame, but now I want T2 to be my endgame. And, to make it even more interesting, I have established some high goals for the account.
1) Do 100 of the 3 T1-T2 bosses, being Snarby, JK, and IMF.
2) Build up to a consistent cr stack of 1mil. (Actually, depending on how much I spend, just the runs of the bosses will take the account to around
820kcr in raw cr, not counting if I use the boss tokens for even more money)
3) Craft every single craftable weapon in the game up to 4*.
4) And the big boy: eventually get 45k prestige on the account. (Should take anywhere from 1-2 years depending on how consistently I do it)
5) From the inevitable hundreds of Arcade runs I will do, build up a nice supply of 3*-4* rare recipes to sell off. (One of the main ways I will
complete goal #2)
There are the basics of the account. I do have some questions for you guys though, both gearing wise and tier lock wise. (Only a few, but I will probs put more as I start the account and begin to progress it)
1) What to you guys think of the shining fire crystals grind? Without doing In Cold Blood for it, the grind is actually looking to be worse than
Radiant grinding, as they only drop from boss boxes and occasionally from the end levels of T2 Arcade. It does not really matter, because the
account will obviously be quite powerful for the content I will be playing with 4* gear, but I wanted to get some opinions on this.
3) What to you think of LD? Should it be something I participate in to get the weapons and trinkets from? Or should I stay away from it as a 5*
activity? I’m terrible at LD, and would very likely get destroyed, but in the case of getting the recipes and completing the goal of every craftable
weapon, it seems like a logical thing to do.
4) Punch is an option if I want to go for things like immunities to statuses and ctr/asi on weapons, but we all know just how painful punch can be,
so I want to know if you think I should to some rolling on Punch for good stats, or only get UV’s from crafting, to keep that charm of getting a
good uv unexpectedly instead of wasting 100s of thousands of crowns for the upgrades.
There is my idea in a nutshell. Having played endgame content in SK for years, on many knights, this is something entirely from the ordinary. I don’t think I have ever heard of a concept like this before. I may have seen Defender Elite people who have the Knight prestige and only 4* gear, but I believe that the idea I have presented here is quite original. The account should be up and running in a few days, and, by my estimations, complete the first heavy grind (100 Snarby) within 1-3 months. I’ll use this thread as a kinda update page to let you guys know how I’m doing, and we will see how this goes!
Cheers
1. Wyvern Scale set does have the same resistances just less of them
https://wiki.spiralknights.com/Wyvern_Scale_Helm
uvs/trinkets might still help you pass the immunity threshold for moderate status though.
2. Might not be too bad since T2 missions are shorter (should be easier to get to the end of RJP/IMF than FSC for example) You could just "cheat" at this and have your main or other people invite you to T3 runs.
3. Servers are worse so maybe not, too bad T1/T2 LD don't happen regularly any more. You could try BN although I don't know how often it comes up.
4. Crafting sounds like the better way to go, if you are grinding prestige on a low level account then arms appropriation is easier to do and you can get some crafts in that way.