Kritika:REBOOT – Quick and Dirty Guide to 500k CP

This guide will provide an efficient, free-to-play way to reach 500k CP, the minimum requirement to enter endgame raid content. All values provided take into cosideration you have premium service. By not having premium service, this will effectively take twice as long. PREMIUM SERVICE IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Note: You can farm gold to buy premium service from the auction house at any point in this guide

Disclaimer: This will not go through aspects of the game such as what gear is “better”, nor will it provide details on stats that do not provide CP. In addition, as the guide progresses it will be less new player friendly and shift a bit towards stat min/maxing with very little explanation. Please look for other guides to supplement this if you need to.

CP check points:

• Level 70 to 140k CP
• 140k to 260k CP
• 260k to 500k CP

About me: Hi I’m Ice. I’ve played Kritika since it released in NA when it was published under EME.
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Once you hit level 70, you should be at least 30k CP and have around 5m-10m gold from running dungeons and questing. Continue the main quest line to hit the first CP requirement – 110k.

Now is the time to familiarize yourself with the auction house. In the drop down menu, you will mainly be looking at Weapon, Armor, and Accessory.

The gear priority for the rest of this guide will be: Weapon > Accessories > Armor

Make sure every piece of gear you buy has the correct prime attribute for your class. Your prime attribute is the colored orb at the top of your inventory, to the right of the character portrait. Gear pieces will display the prime attribute on the bottom right of the gear icon.

First thing you want to buy is a Captain’s weapon. In the drop down menu, select Weapon > (your class) > first option. Buy the cheapest [Dawn] Captain’s Weapon. (Or [Dimension] weapon if you know what set you want)

Next, depending on how much gold you have, you can buy 1 or 2 accessories. Look for [Dimension] accessories and buy the cheapest piece. Don’t worry if it sucks, it’s easily replaceable. Try to stick with 1 accessory set, regardless of what set it is.

Identify and enhance all the pieces you bought to at least +5. Start with the weapon and then move to accessories. Go up to +9 on the weapon if you have remaining materials. Depending on how lucky you get, you could already be 140k CP. Using Blue Stones to buy enhancement stones is also an option.

If you are <110k CP – Farm Chaos dungeons on step 1 for gold and swap out your other gear pieces with these. Gear can drop pre-enhanced up to +12, equip the pieces that gives the most CR, regardless of prime attribute. Buy another [Dimension] accessory when you get the gold. Repeat this process until you hit at least 110k CP. Sell the rest of the gear drops to the NPC for gold.

If you are between 110k and 140k CP – Do the main story to unlock Ruined dungeons. You will also be given a quest to receive a free Catalapis and Artifact. Take any Catalapis (doesn’t matter) and an artifact with either your damage type or element. Farm Ruined dungeons on step 1 for gold. Look out for gear drops that you can use to replace your gear for more CP. Buy another [Dimension] accessory if you can, you may need all 3. Enhance the accessories to +5 if possible.

If you are >140k CP – Continue the main story, make sure to complete the Catalapis and Artifact quest then move on to the next step.

At 140k CP, you unlock access to challenge zones. To enter challenge zones, you need at least 52 Transcendence power. You should already have this from the weapon and accessories. This stat does absolutely nothing but is required for these dungeons.

Decide on what armor set you want and farm the corresponding dungeon on step 1. You can opt to choose a fast dungeon instead and just farm for gold and drops to sell. If the armor set you want is readily available and cheap on the auction house, it is more efficient to farm gold rather than farming for armor. Remember to look for the right prime attribute if you go the auction house route.

Your goal in this step is to:
1. Run the highest step possible in 10-20 seconds.
2. Farm gold and sell excess drops
3. Collect Red/Green/Blue stones and enhancement stones

• Use the enhancement stones to enhance your gear to +9.
• Blue stones can be used to purchase more enhancement stones and safeguard fuses if you choose to enhance past +9. Do not enhance past this stage without using some sort of safeguard.
• Red stones are used for reidentify and recalculation scrolls. This should not be needed until after 260k CP.
• See additional notes for uses on green stones and gold stones, this is not needed to achieve 500k CP

A full set of [Dimension] gear with some enhances should net you over 260k CP.

At 260k CP, you unlock access to the Black Market and Warehouse dungeons. Ignore these, they are useless and a waste of time. Ignore the talisman slot unlock as well, this isn’t necessary to hit 500k CP and will likely just slow you down. (You can salvage Captain’s pieces to get the material selector to finish the quest, just know that you won’t be getting stats from the talisman in this stage)

Your goal this time is to finalize your gear set and have the appropriate prime attribute. If you are swapping gear at this stage, you can enhance transfer between [Dimension] pieces to keep most of your enhancement progress.

• Complete your armor set for the 5 set effect
• Have matching accessories for the 3 set effect
• Enhance every piece to at least +9
• Enhance weapon to +13
• Buy reidentify/recalculation scrolls using red stones and use them on the weapon and accessories for CP stats (attack, critical, critical damage, damage rate, attack speed). This can significantly increase your CP, but is highly luck based and pricey

Dungeon farming priority is still the same as last time:
1. Run the highest step possible in 10-20 seconds.
2. Farm gold and sell excess drops
3. Collect Red/Green/Blue stones and enhancement stones

Repeat until 500k CP.

If at any stage you get stuck, you may want to look into the following for small CP boosts:

Emblems/Seals – Provides a small CP boost when equipped and has a collection bonus to gain more. You can get these from the auction house or using gold stones.

Enchants – Look out for enchants that can be used on armors. Head enchants will give critical, Hand enchants give attack speed, Upper and Lower body armors generally have critical damage or damage rate.

Etherforce – If you have a lot of etherforce and recalculation scrolls, you can complete the 1st and 4th orb for a decent CP increase. Do not attempt the low roll option unless you have lots of etherforce and no recalculation scrolls.

Gold stones – The free version of Mystery Keys, used to open Lilith boxes (they contain the same rewards as the cash shop Mystery Keys). Sell these or try your luck.

Green stones – These stones are very RNG in nature, however you may want to try your luck at obtaining a legendary artifact or catalapis. The catalapis will provide a lot more CP when enhanced, compared to the artifact. These are big ticket items, you can choose to either use or sell them.

Pets – Equipping a pet will give stats. I recommend having at least a rare pet as they provide the most value for cost. The rarity of the pet will also increase the amount you get out of pet gems.

Pet Gems – These can be obtained from Labyrinth of Butterfly Garden (same place as imprints), as well as from red stones. The stats they provide are random, but can give a significant amount. You can use the synthesizer tool in your inventory to combine pet gems for a new one.

Soul gems – The only soul gems to give CP are ones socketed to the Top/Bottom/Feet. Fill these in with whatever you have available.

Titles – Make sure to complete the set bonuses. Then choose a title that will give you the most CP.

Avatars and sigils provides a ton of stats but are also costly. A blue rarity costume set can be bought for a reasonable amount in the auction house. If you use a blue costume, do NOT use legendary sigils if you plan on upgrading to a rare costume in the future. A legendary sigil costs 5 wappen extract kits (cash shop item), while purple sigils only cost 1. It is worth it to use purple sigils if you get your hands on it. Higher rarity sigils have prime attributes so make sure you get the right prime.

Gear past +9 will break if you fail the enhance. ALWAYS use a safeguard when enhancing past this point. You can use an identical piece of gear as a safeguard (i.e. Captain’s Scythe can be a safeguard for a Captain’s Scythe, but not a Captain’s Sword) if it is cheaper than buying a safeguard fuse.

You can improve the prime attribute on your gear by going to the strengthening anvil and selecting “Prime Attribute Improvement”.

Dimension weapons can range between 40-70 prime while accessories and armors range between 15-40. If you notice that your gear is on the low end for prime, do some shopping on the auction house and look for high prime items. The prime does not have to match your prime, you are specifically looking for a high prime item.

At the anvil, put your gear piece in first (left), then the high prime piece to be sacrificed (right). This is a very inexpensive method to improve prime since you keep your gear.