Alternate HLB Upgrade?

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spirit2roam wrote on 2013-10-16 07:20

So I was just following a build for the highest damage possible on the HLB. I got to 3/5 upgrade, so I went to get the Emporium Special Upgrade. As I tried to upgrade, I found out I needed a Market Place Coupon and what I saw that was required to get it....did not sound fun. So, I'm wondering what alternate last two upgrades would be good. I was thinking maybe Nerys's Special Upgrade and then Artisan, but I have no idea. Any advice would be appreciated.
Chaos' wrote on 2013-10-16 08:36

even though it isnt fun, it still highly suggest you to attempt to obtain those market place coupons for those two upgrades. [Wine making is still broken if im not mistaken]... but these two upgrade generally outclass any other upgrade so i wouldnt pass them up.

you can use coupon for upgrade 4 and artisan for upgrade 5 [could better at a roll]
spirit2roam wrote on 2013-10-16 15:23

Ah, but I was worried how much coupons would cost. Plus, I'm not sure where to start doing it with wine making and I heard it's glitched.
Chaos' wrote on 2013-10-16 17:39

Quote from spirit2roam;1159784:
Ah, but I was worried how much coupons would cost. Plus, I'm not sure where to start doing it with wine making and I heard it's glitched.

just wait until its fixed i guess. imo you can still buy coupons for ~1mil or less on alexina [although it will still take a while to obtain].

wine making isnt really that hard. you can obtain two pass in 3 days [since first day you can't change barrel]. You only need 200 points min and 49 age to get two pass. If you're always on time to change the barrel you can easily get freshness to 100 and if you speed through the mini-game at max setting that another 100 points in acidity. However, the less points you lose in Sediment removal the less age you need thus the faster you can complete the mini-game. check wiki for the total points to age require for a pass.

also, while your waiting for coupon to get fixed, you can simply make a cheap scrap bow for common usage. easiest one to make is an ele 2 llb with lizard hoodlum es on it.
nandattebayo wrote on 2013-10-16 17:51

Just save the bow until you can get the coupons. Use another bow instead like Chaos suggested. A Ring Bow has about the same damage as a HLB, but lower crit and range. Use that if you don't want to pay ducat repairs.