saving up for the next tier weapons/scrolls for my pet, any suggestions on what i should save up for, considering my current battle set? any tips in general?

pet stats: Alpha and Omega Level 172 Health 437 Strength 441 Defense 428 Speed 429

and 321 intelligence/322 books read

armory:

scrolls: cobalt eternal lucent barrier soothing current

only things that are modded: natural blessing to RR cuirass crit tear and thief baguette on malerias clawed glove(haven't seen the steal proc once yet in at least 100 battles.. questioning its effectiveness)

the hardest challengers i've beaten to date: 5th win on mama mush 7th win on daemon 3rd win on mechalag(could probably do more, it just takes forever b/c my damage is literally 50-100 per round)

Any of the godlies are worth saving for. With the cheapest being about 350m. If that's a far stretch for you a prodigy staff and malerias cursed arm bangle are pretty good advanced weapons.

I LOVE my malice. First off if you mod it with 3 singed crystals you're at 48 icons the malice and singe curse activate which will probably be first turn.. You get an additional 16 icons. This leaves you with a weapon that is basically doing 64 icons. Pretty strong.. And not too expensive.

A p staff or mcab would be a lot more helpful thought. P staff being around 70m and mcab around 200.

I think Shinwas Temple Shard would be a good addition to your set. I think it would help you against daemon, since it'll give you one extra turn. And maybe a Blackmoon Hand Blaster, though I don't really know any situations where you could use it. But it's super cheap and can be used together with the recycle blaster so you can take out two of your opponents weapons.

can't wait till i get my own trident :) yes i'm definitely looking at mcab, and malice sounds very attractive, esp only for ~40M and a lot of mod slots

50M for one round full block - so expensive :x i use recycle blaster and joker staff(not the most reliable, unfortunately). i'll try blackmoon blaster out :)

do you guys have any tips for modding? is it better to buff my set with reliable icon mods, or does the clutch 2% heals/steals/freezes make a bigger impact?

O.o I didn't know it was that expensive. I bought mine for 5 mil...

I never tried the healing/stealing crystals, they seem unreliable to me. Though I'm not exactly fighting the high end challengers. Maybe they'd be more usefull there since battles might take more turns, so there's a higher chance of them activating. For now I'm sticking to damage and defence ones.

its rarity "retired" probably has something to do with its hyperinflation XD"

ouch. a little while ago, I almost bought my DDS for ~25M b/c apparently it just retired too, but thankfully someone sold it to me for much less, just above avg price.

hah, as far as the stealing crystal goes, it hasn't activated even once in +100 battles. and 2% by itself is really low. i feel like if you're really relying on that 2%, you probably wouldn't be able to beat the challenger anyway, even in a nicely timed steal/freeze - might as well use a potion to get that last round in + a constant icon mod.

It's rediculous how battle items inflate. Especially when there's some plot going on. Everything that's remotely usefull shoots up in price :/

Some opponents have stealing disabled I think, so the crystal wouldn't really do anything against them. Actually, I have my crystals set up for specific opponents, even if those opponents haven't been in the BC since september :P I got a set which I only use against the Forj Matriarch, which has water tear crystals. I got some items I only use(d) against Jaques, they have fire defence crystals. And my default set is modded with the stuff that gives blessings to protect from being frozen, to defeat gelashell with. I kinda like those blessings, they seem to activate quite often.

Hmm, I'm afraid I can't really help you with your set. Half of it is very similar to my own set. I know that my Aemis does decent against Mechalag, I think because it blocks earth. So maybe if you can find something that blocks earth a bit, or use defence crystals, you'd at least have an easier time to survive. I haven't had mama mush as a challenger before I had 1300 in stats, nor did I try to beat daemon and mechalag before I had 600 stats, so I can't really relate to how it must be defeating them with a 400 statted pet.

it's really horrendous xD... but challenging and very satisfying when you get a win. there's a lot of reliance on recycle blaster(PLEASE blast those bear claws! or auto-lose) and a fair amount of luck.

for mama mush, i do more of a turtle strategy instead of trying to dish out as much damage as i can in the fewest rounds. i try to set up a solid, fail-proof defense in the first few rounds, and then i rely a little on luck and deal damage over time to win. the hardest part is to surviving the first 3-4 rounds, after that it's easy coasting. my battles with mama mush last at least 10 rounds. my set for mama mush is like 5 defensive items and 3 offensive (polearm + malerias claw + rapier of error), and lucent barrier every turn/cobalt. i really like malerias claw and rapier because of their curses, which allow me to go rr cuirass + another def/healing item while still dealing a fair amount of damage.

daemon it's a little different because i can't do my turtle heal strategy, which sucks big time esp since there's NO healing at all and i've only got barely 450 hp to spare :p fortunately i can freeze him... i ditch the red rreign stuff and put in the bombs, and just hope that my forj tempered shield doesn't break after 1 use xD

mechalag is def on the easier side because my rreign healing covers his attacks pretty well and i'll let the malerias claw or rapier curses keep active. mech's strength is horrible which really works to my turtle pet's advantage.

Not to mention boosts your str and def 25 each use. And doesn't have a limit to how much it'll boost.

Awesome for and upper mid level pet.