The road to 2,800 and 3,000 Item Level for Ludra

Item Level is the sum of your worn pieces plus one per enhance level, five per Amplify level, one per Daevanion point and the stone and theostone lines — our Item Level page lists every gate and the formula, exact for the fifteen characters it was checked on. The threads put numbers on each part: a gold arcana card is +80 and +1 per card level, so five of them are '400–500 from full gold' (lmaofemdm); the 416 regular Daevanion points come from Nightmare, Shugo keys and quests; the Ariel board adds 60, and 120 since 28 Oct; the PvP board gives 20–40 for 200–600k Abyss Points (Vegetable-Crew9393; one player claims 160 for the whole board, called whale-only); each diamond on a weapon is about 5 (Ok-Zone-6581). 3,000 needs every 86 piece at +17 and Amplify 2, about 200 million Kinah (dogman25z).

The reply to '2500 > 2800, HELP' (28 Oct) and the 2,800-without-crafted thread agree on the order: finish the level-86 set from Fire Temple (Kromede) and Ferocious Horn Den (Nuakum) with the cube pity, take weapon and guard to +15 first, armour to +11 and upward as Kinah allows, then Amplify to 2 where a piece has reached its plain top; buy out the Daevanion boards; fill the arcana with gold cards from Deus Research Base and Shattered Arkanis stage 3–4 or the Mysterious-Crystal Chalice; and run the four [Hard] expeditions for the Ariel points. necroneedsbuff went from 2,600 to well over 2,800 with the four [Hard] modes, five gold arcana and amplification. The planner's gear goal finds the cheapest next step for your own pieces.

Urugugu Canyon and Vakron Sky Island [Hard] opened on 28 Oct at 2,700 with their own Ariel Fragments: each [Hard] dungeon pays 30 Daevanion points per character through the fragment morphs, so with Krao Cave and Draupnir that is 120 points on offer — '60 free item levels' that lift people just above 2,700 to 2,800 for Ludra Normal and 2,900 to 3,000 for [Hard] without gambling on amplification (hohobe, apostles, SadTacoEnjoyer). If Fire Temple and Horn Den [Hard] follow, that is 152; one player doubts it before Ludra. Lobbies for the new [Hard] modes ask 160–240k combat power on day one; alts should skip them and spam Krao and Draupnir for uniques and Wrathful Minds instead (Zoeyxyx). Our Ariel section counts today's points and the clears they take.

Without crafted gear: tabspencer at 3,050 with every piece +19 or +20, four alts and ten hours a day; CyaQt and Jaymerax31 at 3,000 with 205k combat power (two alts); CalmWorry9870 at 2,956; RedExile13 past 2,800 sub-only. The sub-only players at 2,700–2,950 in the big thread all run the same set; the difference is enhance levels and how many alts feed the main. A video guide 'fresh 45 to 2,800 Ludra ready' was rejected for its AI thumbnail — players asked for a one-page text version, which this is.

Lobbies gate on combat power, not Item Level: Transcendence 4 rooms ask 150k, [Hard] Krao and Draupnir 160k+, and Clerics get in 20k under the number. A 2,150 character with 105k is called too little for its gear. Combat power moves most with stigma breakpoints (each 5/10/15/20 step 2–4k, 15 → 20 about 6–8k), then percentage stat lines, the genus boards and title (about 10k together), pets, Pantheon statues, wings and titles — 'more than half of it comes outside gear'. So the road to 2,800 runs beside a road to 150k; the class guides' Combat power gates note has the numbers.