Time to Reach Crusader Level 225

• Darkboy132 wrote on 2014-12-21 22:00
  So it takes 1,974,080 Crusader EXP to reach level 225....
  
  

  
  
  • 100 EXP is given per daily objective for 5 objectives.
    
  • 300 EXP is given per daily clear.
    
  • Daily Total: 800 EXP per day and 5,600 per 7 days (1 week).
    
  • 300 EXP per weekly objective for 10 objectives.
    
  • 1,000 per weekly clear.
    
  • Weekly Total: 4,000 per 7 days (1 week).
    
  • Perfect Daily/Weekly: 9,600 per 7 days (1 week).
    

  
  
  The amount of perfect clear weeks to reach Level 225 would be: 1,974,080 / 9,600 = 205.63333333... weeks.
  
  Approximately 52.1775 weeks are in a year. So, 205.633 / 52.1775 = 3.94 years.
  
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  HOLY FUCK, [SIZE="7"]FOUR YEARS?![/SIZE]
  
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• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-12-21 22:07
  I'm pretty sure I mentioned this before when I first did number crunching on it zzzzz.
  
  Probably not worth it.
• Oberynn wrote on 2014-12-21 22:09
  It's probably that way so you can just focus all the points into one skill and redistribute depending on your role, rather than having everyone have everything and be able to do everything any time.
  
  Not like it matters because all you need in raids are windmill and smash anyway.
• Fabian wrote on 2014-12-21 22:09
  I think you are supposed to rank them passively rather than actively, so maybe you'll be done in 10 years? Jk, prob some event/gacha with exp pots or something will come along. owo
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2014-12-22 02:01

  Quote from Fabian;1258194:

  I think you are supposed to rank them passively rather than actively, so maybe you'll be done in 10 years? Jk, prob some event/gacha with exp pots or something will come along. owo

  
  
  No, you can upgrade each of the subskills to maxed in less than a year. (Maybe even months)
  
  It will take 4 years if you want to use all the subskills at the same time. Not that it makes much difference since they all share cooldown, and WM strategy is a more superior strategy.
• Kaeporo wrote on 2014-12-22 02:59
  Just focus on getting to level 75. That'll let you max out one skill.
• BecomeMeguca wrote on 2014-12-22 05:18
  Insane! Mabi would be dead before then :c
  
  It would take the average person till 2025 before maxing all crusader skills
• Zekkii wrote on 2014-12-22 06:08
  I think you'll be happier if you neglect it entirely.
• Fabian wrote on 2014-12-22 07:16

  Quote from EndlessDreams;1258222:

  No, you can upgrade each of the subskills to maxed in less than a year. (Maybe even months)
  
  It will take 4 years if you want to use all the subskills at the same time. Not that it makes much difference since they all share cooldown, and WM strategy is a more superior strategy.

  
  
  Oh, I see. I haven't gotten around to beating G18 and starting G19 yet (I'm just catching up at the moment). It's unusual for skills to take months~years to max though. I believe some people have maxed stuff like Blacksmithing and Tailoring in less than a month just by stacking bonuses, reforges, and a massive amount of mats. There's also the fact that I haven't seen people actively running those raids...or is it because I haven't finished G19 yet?o_0
• BecomeMeguca wrote on 2014-12-22 08:14
  I tried to find a raid, but barely anyone there
• Kaeporo wrote on 2014-12-22 08:14

  Quote from Fabian;1258247:

  Oh, I see. I haven't gotten around to beating G18 and starting G19 yet (I'm just catching up at the moment). It's unusual for skills to take months~years to max though. I believe some people have maxed stuff like Blacksmithing and Tailoring in less than a month just by stacking bonuses, reforges, and a massive amount of mats. There's also the fact that I haven't seen people actively running those raids...or is it because I haven't finished G19 yet?o_0

  
  
  A big issue with the raid is that it's not very rewarding. At best it lets you rank some potentially useful skills and grants you access to materials to craft average weapons. If it gave improved gold and experience, that would help tremendously.
  
  Unfortunately, some of the daily/weekly objectives are fucking dumb.
• Darkboy132 wrote on 2014-12-22 09:32

  Quote from Kaeporo;1258251:

  A big issue with the raid is that it's not very rewarding. At best it lets you rank some potentially useful skills and grants you access to materials to craft average weapons. If it gave improved gold and experience, that would help tremendously.
  
  Unfortunately, some of the daily/weekly objectives are fucking dumb.

  
  
  Drops are dumb too. I heard it doesn't give enchants, special upgrade stones, etc. It doesn't even give an Adventurer Seal :/
  
  Worse, it drops on the floor instead of your inventory, meaning that someone else can loot it if your inventory isn't cleared in time.
• M wrote on 2014-12-22 14:16

  Quote from Darkboy132;1258256:

  
  Worse, it drops on the floor instead of your inventory, meaning that someone else can loot it if your inventory isn't cleared in time.

  
  
  Or if you disconnect or whatever right after completion, you lose it. Such a primitive method of rewarding, I thought that the game designers would know not to do a method like this since removing it from field bosses.
• Esileruf wrote on 2014-12-22 17:17
  Well, let's see.
  SoT
  Giving Heart: Increases Shield of Trust's range.(Useful)
  Healing Hands: Using Shield of Trust will restore the user's and nearby party member's Health.(Useful)
  Magic Dampening: Increases Shield of Trust's Magic Defense.(USELESS)
  Guarded Footsteps: Using Shield of Trust will increase the user's and nearby party member's Movement Speed.(POSSIBLY)
  Recovering Touch: Using Shield of Trust will restore the user's and nearby party member's Wounds. (Useful)
  Celestial Spike
  Deepening Trust: Using Celestial Spike will restore the user's Mana.(USELESS)
  Spreading Faith: Increases Celestial Spike' range.(USELESS)
  Wounding Soul: Increases Celestial Spike' damage.(POSSIBLY)
  Weighed Conscience: Causes Celestial Spike to decrease the Movement Speed of enemies near the affected target.(USELESS)
  Sinful Thorns: Causes Celestial Spike to deal damage over time to enemies near the affected target. (POSSIBLY)
  Judgement Blade
  Stronger Power: Increases Judgment Blade's range.(POSSIBLY)
  Binding Needle: Causes Judgment Blade to stun.(USELESS)
  Breaking Lies: Increases Judgment Blade's defense reduction.(POSSIBLY)
  Christening Blades: Increases Judgment Blade's Critical damage.(Useful)
  Holy Vitality: Using Judement Blade will restore the user's Stamina. (USELESS)
  
  That's a grand total of 4 Useful, 5 Possibly, and the rest are either garbage, too situational, or don't do enough.
  
  However, there are apparently bonus effects for putting points in.
  Every 5 levels allocated into Warding increases Shield of Trust's skill range by 5cm.
  Every 7 levels allocated into Warding increases Shield of Trust's buff duration by 0.3 seconds.
  Every 10 levels allocated into Warding increases Shield of Trust's bonus Defense by 1.
  
  Every 5 levels allocated into Binding increases Celestial Spike's attack range by 5cm.
  Every 7 levels allocated into Binding increases Celesital Spike's damage by 5.
  
  Every 10 levels allocated into Smiting increases Judgment Blade's damage by 5%.
  
  So, This makes investing into Judgement blade and Shield of Trust quite worth it, but I'm still not sold on Celestial Spike. Even if the damage is Pure due to being divine, It'd have to do a sizable amount of damage at r1 with full increase to justify its use over something else. SoT obviously does, since Its damn near saved my ass several times, though the cast time and it going into CD upon failure are severe drawbacks, they're justified because its good and it means you need to know when to use it precisely. Judgement blade is meh, considering with r1 Christening blades, 70 points allocated, and r1. It has 900%(1.35%), or 1215% damage, and 400% critical modifier, Slightly higher if using a step6 weapon if they stack at all. This means with, lets say 700 max, that's 34k crits. Pretty number, but that's after a 5s loading time and about .6s execution time, so if you're looking at deeps like its meta, its about 6k/second IF it crits, otherwise its a very small 1.2k/second, easily beaten with normal gun attacks, or most quick-use skills. However, since its AoE, it can hit Multiple Targets! Sure, they'd all have to be crisis'd, frozen blasted, and Sakura Abyss would also have to be on cooldown.
  
  Assuming Shield of trust DOES NOT obtain a longer initial buff duration, the duration buff is nigh useless being a grand total of 3s(which would be godly if it does help the initial buff with advanced heavy stander), but the range isn't bad at 75, being a grand total of 525, or just outside wm/min charge range. I myself thought judgement blade MIGHT be nice, but after seeing the patch hit and everything go through, I'm stoutly with Shield of Trust being the most useful overall, taking into account you don't trash the entire game already and never need it.
  
  

  Quote from Kaeporo;1258251:

  A big issue with the raid is that it's not very rewarding. At best it lets you rank some potentially useful skills and grants you access to materials to craft average weapons. If it gave improved gold and experience, that would help tremendously.
  
  Unfortunately, some of the daily/weekly objectives are fucking dumb.

  
  That reminds me, does anybody know where the bleeding enchants/raid titles come from? Or are they not due until the 32man/Apostle Difficulty update?
• Iyasenu wrote on 2014-12-22 18:11
  Not sure what you mean by, "but I'm still not sold on Celestial Spike".
  You should be so UNsold on it!
  
  That skill is such garbage on a wet roll.
  Not sure what's so "Divine" about the damage.
  It's still affected by Girgashiy's damage reduction ON TOP OF being reduced by physical defense/protection, so it's not even useful in general combat against normal enemies.
  
  And its subskills are sooooo bad.
  
  The most useful one would have to be Deepening Trust, because at least that means you get back the MP you wasted using such a terrible skill.
  Weighed Conscience and Sinful Thorns have their effects independent of your Celestial Spike's rank, unaffected by its base effects, and last a paltry 6 seconds each, for 6 enemeis, with only 330 distance.
  Wounding Soul increases Spike's damage by 30 dmg per tick at level 15, but that's still useless since it doesn't ignore def/prot/apostle resistance.
  But, I'd still put points into Spreading Faith if I had to choose a Binding Subskill besides Deepening Trust.
  
  And that's ignoring the REALLY STUPID training of Weighed Conscience, Sinful Thorns, and Spreading Faith.
  So far I've seen 0.40 exp per use at levels 1, 2, and 3 for each of those skills in each of those levels, meaning 250 uses to uncap to the next level.
  That's like nearly 3 hours of cooldowns! Per level! And I'm willing to bet that levels 4, 5, 6, etc are the same or worse!
  
  Really, Spike's only use seems to be its ability to extend an Apostle's stun time and, in the process, make Judgment Blade hit an apostle two times, instead of once. But if that's all you want out of Spike, then you can stop at rA because that's the rank where it starts extending Girgashiy's stun. And even still, that's just if your raid party is fighting Gigi without WM-locking it, in which case he won't jump, which means you can't even do that, probably.
  
  
  Ohhhh, it just makes me a bit sad that Spike is so bad...
  
  At least Judgment Blade can do nice-ish damage.
  
  And the knockdown immunity of SoT can be nice, even if its duration is awful.
  And its subskill Guarded Footsteps stacks with other movement speed buffs and can be placed on pets.
  And it's really fun to be riding on a mount that is under the effects of both March Song AND Guarded Footsteps.
  Zoooooooooom.