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How/where do you get cubes?
So, I'm reaching the 180s on my wind archer, I got my cra set, some very basic scrolling, most gear at 10 stars; I can do a few bosses solo (up to pink bean and chaos horntail I think, not sure if anything stronger, not easy empress, that's for sure); but I'm hitting a wall. I can't really afford better scrolling right now, since clean slate scrolls are kind of expensive to me, and resetting my weapon to get it better than it is with the 70% spell traces is hard without those scroll (if not impossible). So, apart from slowly getting more mesos, what I can work on is getting better potentials, which leads to the question: what's the more efficient way to farm cubes? They don't seem to be dropping from bosses much anymore, since the drop rate nerf I guess, and even from mysterious and legendary veins and herbs I'm getting a lot less (like 10 in a day, if I'm lucky, instead of in an hour or two). I could craft them, but getting the cubic blades is even harder than the cubes themselves by gathering (or at least, I rarely see any anymore when I'm grinding).
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I just wait for events that give 'em out. If you really want cubes right now commerci bosses drop the materials and an occasional cube.
- Events: Keep an eye on the website/in-game current events for potential sources of cubes
- Boss drops: Bosses including Zakum, Horntail, Pink Bean, etc. have a chance of dropping Master and rarely Meister cubes; the drop nerf was related to how drop gear stacks, and is unrelated to the cube drop rate from bosses
- Legendary mineral veins: These have a chance of dropping master cubes
- Crafting: If you're patient enough to keep master/meister rank, you can craft your own cubes
- Reward shop: Red cubes cost 1,200 RP, and Black cubes cost 2,200; you receive 5 of each per month
- Monster Collection: Monster Collection gives lots of Occult cubes, which can tier-up to epic rank
Reward point cubes are probably the most useful, particularly if you build up your Monster Collection.Also, you can use spell traces for clean slate scrolls (2000 traces for a 5% CSS).
I have a question regarding boss drops: when Kinesis came out I was almost certain to drop at least one cube between the two daily runs of zakum alone, but now if I get a couple in a week between zakum, ranmaru, von leon, horntail, hilla, easy magnus and root abyss it's already pretty good. Was there really no drop rate nerf?
A good area to farm for legendary/mystery veins/herbs is the maze before Gollux.
Also sometimes the third pirate map near herb town is full of mysterious and legendary nodes, usually when there is a lot of bot activity. All of them can be hit and miss, you get the 10 cubes I mentioned in my first post, but you could also get 2-3 between all of them.
Do you know if drop rate gear affects herbs and veins?