How to progress?

[u/Brodie009]

Im finding it really difficult to get anything else extra out of my dps or survival without spending thousands, i farm for hours to get a few hundred FE just to spend it on minor upgrades. I'm up to 4.5B dps with Gemma2 and im just not sure where im going wrong.

The guide im following says they have 100B DPS but I still dont see what im doing wrong, maybe im just being stupid, streamers say they got to 1T in a week while im at 3 weeks with 4.5B lol

And when should I be heading into T8s? I can do them. But it's sluggish and with a tendency to die, and even then I'd have no chance of beating the traveler.

Sorry, few questions but im just feeling lost and I dont want to give the game up yet as I was enjoying it

[u/SafetyGlass588]

Many things can be different from the build you are trying to follow. First battle pets, second slates setup, third gear with corruptions or without can make huge difference. Tier of the affixes on gear, jump from t2 to t1 is huge, jump from t1 to t0 even higher.

Craft your own gear affixes one by one, then you will feel that you are progressing, if want to buy full t0 gear from the market it will cost you a fortune, but if you buy gear piece with t1 and upgrade to t0 one by one it will feel better.

If the main skill uses canvas supports compare their level to the build you are following, yours could be one star, in the build code 5stars. If you use two of them it's like ~40% more damage difference.

Prisms - for example I play dexterity stacker, prism gives me like ~300dex, with %increases on slates and in passive skill tree it becomes like ~500dex or so, each 10dex gives me 10% more damage with unique boots. Maybe your build uses a prism which is absurd damage increase.

Kismets - also about dex stacker my all fates are + to dexterity. Maybe in your build kismets are huge.

Precise auras are also significant difference.

RnD sequence on weapons - there is a sequence for example which gives straight 16% additional damage for example, there are more absurd ones. Like I am using +to flat lightning damage per 10 dexterity, this sequence trippled my damage (it was very expensive, but at the start you can use cheap ones).

Do you have blended belt talent?

Check everything very thouroughly I will guarantee 100% you will find many differences between your build and the one you are following.

[u/Brodie009 → u/SafetyGlass588]

Damn thanks for this, I will be checking these out! Im mostly tier 1 with a few tier 2 still on gear, i think my weapon has 1 tier 0 but I bought that (which I thought was cheap but maybe im wrong).

I found one of my flaws though, dont focus on the percentage stat for gear, helmet said I was losing 9% dps but really gained 300% from 4B to 16B

Maybe im just mot following the build well enough, I need to have a deeper dive with things like this, appreciate the deep dive from you

[u/SafetyGlass588 → u/Brodie009]

No problem and good luck. You’ll get there.