Step 1: Gear Overview and Priorities
To start, evaluate your gear. At the 3,000 CP level, you'll ideally have:
- Purple weapons: These offer significant power increases.
- Blue gear for the remaining slots: Aim for max traits where possible. The focus should be on optimizing gear that enhances CP without overinvesting if you plan to replace it with purple gear soon.
- The TL Boosting service provided by U4GM will be your best choice, it will save you a lot of time.
Step 2: Upgrade Your Skills to Purple
Skills play a crucial role in boosting CP. Follow these steps:
1. Prioritize active skills: Only the skills you place on your hotbar count toward your CP. Choose skills you actively use in PvE or PvP.
2. Upgrade priority: Start with the most impactful skills for your build. For example, as a crossbow and dagger user, you might focus on single-target DPS skills or PvP-oriented passives, such as evasion buffs.
3. Collect skill upgrade materials: You'll need a significant number of skill books and resources. Complete contract quests (Resistance Contracts) daily for materials, focusing on obtaining blue skill growth books. While the rare Marind Ore is easy to farm, rare parchment may be a bottleneck. Buy parchment with your contract tokens if you need extras.
Step 3: Obtaining and Upgrading Purple Weapons
Purple weapons are vital for CP progression. Here's how to acquire and upgrade them:
1. Start with max-trait blue weapons: Fully enhance blue weapons and transfer those traits to your purple weapons once obtained.
2. Weapon sources: For free-to-play players, co-op dungeons are a reliable source of purple weapons with powerful bonuses.
3. Blessings and traits: Obtain blessings on your purple weapons by max-traiting blue weapons first. Upgrading purple weapons will cost around 6,000 Lucent, which is can be done by obtaining TL Lucent in U4GM.
Step 4: Max-Trait Your Blue Gear
Max-traited blue gear adds valuable CP. Here's a guide on achieving this efficiently:
1. Source your blue gear: Co-op dungeons are a consistent way to acquire blue gear, or you can buy cheap items from the auction house.
2. Upgrade and transfer traits: To maximize CP, obtain duplicates of your blue gear for traits, then transfer these traits to purple gear as you progress.
3. Cost-effective strategy: If you're transitioning to purple gear soon, focus on acquiring cheap blue gear with lower-priority traits. You can later max out blue gear and transfer traits as you obtain higher-quality items.
Step 5: Specific Item Recommendations for Crossbow and Dagger Users
For crossbow and dagger players, here are some recommended items for prolonged blue-gear use:
- Belt, cloak, and arms: Since upgrading to purple versions of these items can be costly, you may want to keep blue versions with solid traits.
- Rings and accessories: These can be costly to upgrade, but focusing on traits that increase skill damage or health regeneration can help.
Step 6: Farming and Budgeting for Optimal CP
To reach 3,000 CP, efficient farming and resource management are essential:
1. Daily dungeon and quest runs: These are crucial for obtaining upgrade materials and new gear.
2. Budgeting Lucent: You'll need around 6,000 Lucent for maxing out CP on blue gear and purple weapons. Prioritize essential upgrades, like weapons and skill upgrades.
3. Trading and auction strategies: Sell excess or unused gear on the auction house, and reinvest the currency into required items.
Step 7: PvP and PvE Considerations
Throne and Liberty allows for CP progression through PvE, but PvP players can benefit from added bonuses in some PvE activities.
