Yo guys. Im about 2 weeks new to Spiral Knights, and have a great desire to get a Snarbolax Suit and Cap, along with the Barbarous Thorn Blade and Shield.
I know you can craft these items by upgrading the previous, less powerful gear, but that seams to be immensley expensive and im not sure what the prerequisites are for the vendors to sell the recipes for the gear.
I also am thinking of playing the auction house a bit (or trying to) and earning enough crowns from selling snarble barbs (from farming Snarbolax) and buying them outright, but that seems even more expensive than crafting them and would halt progression.
If anyone could give a noob ideas, and maybe tell me the prerequisites for the recipes of the items I mentioned above, I would greatly appreciate it.
Snarbolax armor is... incredibly expensive. It's far cheaper actually to craft it.
If you want to buy the set on the AH, you will run into some problems. Off the top of my head, these are the ones I can think of:
- Its 4000 Crystal Energy to unbind a 5* item
- Someone else would have crafted it, thus when they sell it, they want a profit that outweighs the cost of crafting
- The only 5* items that are sold on the AH tend to have Unique Variants that triple or even quadruple their cost
- The Snarby Set has an even higher cost than most 5* items, because they require a Shadow Lair run, and two Nightmare Manes, which go for around 25k crowns each
Craft the Snarbolax gear. Don't even craft it as your first 5* armor set. The Wolver Armor line is incredibly good, and is worth using throughout the game. Look up the armor on the wiki to get a full list on how to get it.
In general, it's a bad idea to try to skip ahead in this game. SK rewards skill, and skipping through tiers just hurts yourself.