Guides/Ultimate Gear

*Guide by **Funny Valentine***
Let's get straight to the point - once you get to level 100, you stop getting stats, so you can't rely on farming Plaguelands (or Gruu) for getting good stats anymore. The only way to get better stats is to level up your gear or make / find better quality gear, and to make it the best you can have.

This is where Ultimate equipment comes in. Whether you're needing stats or a way to farm levels on Challenge Mode, Ultimate equipment is the best you can have - with the only exceptions being the 4th Age armors and weapons (overall), and ultra boss / Forbidden Arena drops (which are usually focused on 1/2 stats). But those are hard to get without friends.

## Levelling Equipment

Ultimate items require two things - a level 10 item, and a prism (which will be discussed later in this guide). This part will talk about how to get enough item experience to make an Ultimate.

First off, you'll need to know how the Gear Chalice works. If you aren't sure what it is, it's the big golden trophy-shaped thing that appears after you enter one of the three portals to the next area. It gives you experience for your items, and is the only way to get item experience. It constantly rotates once per second in the order: Weapon -> Shield -> Helmet -> Armor -> Rings (It gives EXP for both rings, if you have two on).

The more enemies you kill (especially bosses like Urugorak and Rock Scarabs, and minibosses like the Shroom Wizard or Gruu), the more machines you interact with, and the more items you harvest - anything that would normally earn you regular EXP - will determine how much weapon EXP you get. If you do a normal run of the Desolate Canyon and kill Urugorak, this number will be around 100. However, if you do a normal run of something like the Whisperwoods and kill Moloch, the number will be in the 200s to 300s or even 400s if you completely clear the map.

Challenge Mode also greatly affects the amount of item experience the Gear Chalice gives. At Challenge Level 1, the amount of experience earned in a normal run of Desolate Canyon is around 500, while Challenge Level 2 gives around 1000, and Challenge Level 3 is around 1500. Each Challenge Level increases the amount of item experience you get by 450, so farming Challenge Level 3 Desolate Canyon is a good idea for fresh level 100s. Or anyone really, as long as you have enough health packs and / or dodging skills to make it out alive.

Note: 500 EXP is enough to instantly get a level 1 item to level 4, and levels 5 and 6 need around two more levels with similar amounts of weapon experience. The only real downsides of Challenge Mode are:

1. Higher levels can cost a lot - level 1 costs 5000 credits, and level 3 costs 15000.
2. Everything does more damage, and has more health.

## Prism Shards

As said before, you need a certain kind of prism in addition to level 10 gear in order to forge an Ultimate.

Shards - Aetherlite, Omega, and Darkened - are only gained from two sources. In order from most reliable to least reliable, the sources are:

1. Challenge mode, as random drops
2. Quests, as random rewards.

Ten of said shards will make their corresponding Prism at the Prism Forge in Mech City. Once you have ten shards, you can move on to the last step.

## Ultimate Forge

Mech City is a special area in Roguelands that can only be accessed via the ship's console. In order to get access to Mech City, you need an Ion Ticket. Ion Tickets can be found in two ways (in order of reliability from most to least):
1. Purchasing them from Kylocke in the shop, for 5000 World Fragments
2. Random gifts from Percival in the Hollow Caverns, in increments of 1 (more common) or 10 (super rare)

Either way, Ion Tickets are a rarity for newer players that should NEVER be carried into battle. They should be immediately used, so that way they are not lost. To quote the Team Fortress 2 taunt, pop it, don't drop it.

Once you have your prism and your level 10 item, you can go to Mech City and use the Ultimate Forge. To make your Ultimate item, put your item and a prism into the forge, and click the Forge button until you have your item.

As a VERY important note, make sure you are absolutely certain that you have the correct prism. There will be links at the end of the guide to the Roguelands wiki, where you can see what Ultimates can be forged and what item / prism they need to be made. You'll lose your weapon and your prism if you make the wrong one, so make sure that you have the correct prism.

The reason I put this here is because I was intending on making the Ultimate gun Atma Weapon, and used the wrong prism on a purple-quality Frost and instead got Coldsnap. Trust me on this - it sucks to lose your hard work.

Unless you have a Forgeblade equipped (Gadget Saber + Darkened Prism), which gives you an extra 8% chance to craft rare qualities, it'll be hard to get a gold or purple-quality item back. The Blacksmith Uniform makes crafting high quality items easier as well, but it's only really for utility.

Now that you've got your gear and are at the right level to fight the end-game bosses, there's only 1 thing left to do
Get the killing on!