So how exactly are you guys managing to get so powerful in this game? I've never been very good at combat-based games. I've put 18 hours and 43 minutes into this character (thank you character screen!) and I'm only level 11, with 18 skill in my main weapon (firearm). I've spent a lot of my time doing missions to earn money and platinum coins for training, a little bit of time fighting in the arena and pet arena, and a lot of time fighting in dungeons to try to get stronger, but I still get killed in one hit by a lion. What am I doing wrong?
Don't feel bad, I have 400 hours (some of that is idle time where the app was sitting on). It takes some serious time to build up your levels and skills. A few tips are:
-Keep your level up points to distribute to your main combat skills
-Remember that your damage multiplier is based mostly on your stats
-Resists are king for survival in the mid-late game
-Status effect resists are important, particularly sleep and paralysis (because you can't heal them once you've gotten hit)
-DV is very important, it reduces the damage from attacks
-Speed is an extremely important stat. Avoid anything that reduces it and embrace items that increase it. Riding skill may help you here for a while because riding a mount boosts your speed significantly. This will be useful up to the point that your mount dies like a dog to everything.