- Dec 20, 2021
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I've unlocked all playable characters and only have around 300ish keys. I'm currently speed running Berserk 5 Thanatos Deus mode up to stage 7. It takes roughly 3 hours and I save right before killing Draconic Vergius so I can reload for the drops I want. I have a team with 493 treasure hunt, which gives me enough to hit ~34k points, enough to unlock all R12 gear in the drop table. I make sure to leave 2 spare divisions with the boss as you can only get 1 gear to drop per division, meaning you will have a chance to get up to 3 pieces of equipment.Fun fact: the Key of Destiny is a Rank 12 item. Like every other item in the game, if you would acquire one, but already have the maximum amount in your possession, the game will instead give you the equivalent ore. So, if you get 999 Keys of Destiny, every Key of Destiny drop afterwards will be R12 ore. This has the comical effect of allowing you to very quickly acquire all of the R12 gear by speedrunning low difficulty over and over.
I have no idea whether it would be faster to farm 999 Keys or get the R12 gear through trades and drops. Seeing as how I'm halfway there (exactly 500 and counting) and only have enough ore for maybe two pieces of R12, I'm leaning towards max Keys.
I don't think it's worth it to run stage 8 as the squads are a lot more difficult to defeat and the highest cost units are Iris and Conqueror Loki at 32 cost (as opposed to Draconic Vergius's 38 cost), meaning I will only be able to get the lower R12 gear. Stages 9 and 10 have Rainbow Iris at 43 cost but it's just not worth it due to how difficult those stages are.
I'm going to try Thanatos Berserk 0 Deus and see if stage 9 and 10 are worth clearing to farm Rainbow Iris. Otherwise, I will stick to farming Thanatos Berserk 5 Deus up to stage 7. I usually reload until I get at least 2 R12 gears from Vergius. I get a bunch of dark matter and elixir stones as drops and stage clears - probably enough to average about 5 magna gems, which is half an R12 gear.