This guide covers the optimal sequence for growing your combat power and farming equipment in the new version, based on efficient strategies discovered during gameplay.

1. Prerequisites: Collecting Acupoints

Before starting serious combat power farming, you must first collect your Acupoints. They contain crucial skills for efficiency.

• Step 1: Ensure you have at least 100 Energy Sources on hand. This allows for more frequent use of Techniques.
• Step 2: Use a fast collection method to get all Acupoints in Star River and Kaifeng within two hours.
  1. Go to the menu under Other and set the Map Information Mode to "Detailed Guidance."
  2. Once enabled, Acupoints will appear as small black dots on your minimap.
  3. Use a Great Lightness Skill to fly up, look at the minimap for the black dots, and fly toward them.
  4. Use Thousand Jin Drop to land directly on the Acupoint and collect it.
  5. Systematically scan the map from top to bottom and left to right to collect them all.

2. Essential Acupoint Skills for Farming

With your Acupoints collected, prioritize unlocking these two key skills to maximize your equipment yield per Mental Energy spent.

• For Solo Garrison Defense: Unlock Great Martial Joy 4. This increases the probability of equipment dropping in solo Garrison Defense runs.
• For Team Play (Heroic Realm/Trial Sword): Unlock Sage's Pact 3.
  • This skill increases the probability of dropping an extra piece of equipment by 20%.
  • It activates once for every 20 Mental Energy consumed. For example, consuming 180 Mental Energy could activate it up to 9 times, potentially granting 9 extra equipment pieces if you're lucky.

3. Farming Priority: Faction Sets

When farming for equipment, your primary goal should be to complete your faction's weapon set.

• Strategy: Focus your farming runs on activities that drop your desired set (e.g., fighting Lie Shiwei for the Ten Hells and Ghost Mountain sets).
• Reason: The set bonus effect is far more important than individual equipment affixes at this stage. Prioritize completing your set over hunting for perfect stats.

4. Managing Equipment Attributes & Tempering

Be strategic about upgrading your gear without wasting resources.

• Do Not Over-invest in Affixes Early: Spending excessive time trying to get perfect affixes is not efficient for your current level. Affixes, once set, cannot be changed.
• Focus on Tempering First: Tempering effects are applied to the equipment slot permanently, regardless of what weapon you equip later. It's a universal and permanent upgrade.
  • Early Game: Temper the leftmost attributes to increase attack power.
  • Level 60+: Start tempering HP and defense attributes as well, as many talents require higher HP to unlock.
• Smart Tuning (If You Do It): When using equipment as tuning material, do not use one-click add.
  1. Select materials manually and check their description.
  2. Look for materials that state "The next tuning attribute will definitely be gold." Adding this guarantees your next attribute upgrade will be a gold-tier stat.
  3. Note: A weapon's initial attribute influences the direction of future upgrades. A good initial attribute (e.g., Critical Hit Chance) increases the odds of getting good attributes later.

5. Utilizing the Armory

Do not worry about upgraded weapons becoming "transitional" or wasted.

• Upgrade Your Armory: Place equipment in each Armory slot and upgrade it to Tier 6. This provides the strongest boost: an increase to both Minimum and Maximum External Attack.
• Beyond Tier 6: If you have excess old equipment or tuning resources, upgrading past Tier 6 is not wasteful. Each additional point converted in an Armory slot increases your HP, which is valuable for many builds.
• Goal: Get every Armory slot to at least Tier 6 for a significant combat power increase.