Dark Dimension: An Analysis of Upgraded Level 100 Legendary Equipment

• With the release of this new dungeon, it can be hard to see if you want to spend your time farming it.
• Here I use the epic calculator to compare their sets to see if it would worth your time farming this new equipment.

Purpose of Dark Dimension Dungeons

Provide way to upgrade level 100 legendary obtained using  from Land of Memories and Bottomless Tunnel dungeons.

How to Upgrade Level 100 Legendary

• Tier 1
• Dimension Shock Armlet   to Dimension: Dimension Shock Armlet 
• Need 1,800  to buy 
•  can be obtained in Traces of Dark Miscreation dungeon.
•  is the account-bound version of  and can be traded in at 1:1 ratio.
• Tier 2
• Dimension: Dimension Shock Armlet  to Neo: Dimension Shock Armlet 
• Need recipe  from NPC Santorni for a RNG upgrade  to 
• Need 600  to buy ,  can be traded in using  at 20:1 ratio and dropped from Miscreation's Garden at 3  per floor.
•  can be further modified up to + 5 using NPC Kiri just like other Product of Wisdoms.

How Strong is Upgraded Legendary

• The calculator used in the analysis here.
• The Final damage % mean "how much stronger you are compared to another of the same class."

• Regular  vs. Dimension  vs. Neo 
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• Neo  vs. +5 Neo 
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• Current Male Ranger gears (Aug. 6, 2020) vs. Pre-selected Level 100 Epics vs. +5 Neo 
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• Mix and Match
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• Result
• Neo Legendary is strong and pairs with low tier level 100 epic.
• It's at least stronger than Elementalist's Accessory set.

Time Needed to Farm Each Neo Piece

• Data from 40 runs of Traces of Dark Miscreation dungeon
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• WARNING: running this dungeon will consume clear cube fragments from ALL 4 characters in the party
• Not include running Dark Miscreation's Garden
• 156 FP per day will give you 19 runs. Let's round up to 20 runs using pot for easy calculation.
• Using average 5.8  per run from data above, each day can get 116 
• So each Dimension  will takes 16 days to get.
• Each Neo  will takes 104 days to get.
• TOTAL: 104 days (3.5 months) per CHANCE of Neo  piece
• Include running Dark Miscreation's Garden
• The dungeon only open for 10 minutes every 2 hours on Friday, Saturday, an Sunday.
• Depend on how strong and how many floor can you clear in a 10 minutes window.
• My full legendary Savior can clear up to the 5th floor, yielding 15  per dungeon opening.
• With 156 FP, I can only enter 7 opening per day → 21 opening per week → 315  per week.
• If I farm Traces of Dark Miscreation dungeon during the other 4 weekdays, that give additional 23  per week .
• TOTAL: 1.7 week (~ twice per month) per CHANCE of Neo  Piece.
• Worth noting that if the DFOG community put in the effort to clear Miscreation's Garden, we can fill up the "Stop the Dark Miscreation" gauge and can get potential one  per week. 

Where Does it Fit in the Progression

• Tier 1 Dimension  should be able to clear 2+2 easy sub 2 minutes.
• +5 Tier 2 Neo  should be able to clear challenge modes comfortably.

Limitation to the Analysis

• Low sample size: only include 40 runs, the average  per run may differ with higher sample size.
• Calculator: the author does not completely know what factors are used by the calculator to generate the comparison. The final result may different in sandbag test.

Recommendation

• For those that want linear progression with no RNG
• This is a good option to gear up for endgame. 
• However you will need to +5 all three Neo pieces to see a significant increase in damage, and the cost can be very high. 
• Don't expect to get accepted to Sirocco Raid with +0 Neo pieces.
• Realistically, looking at cost vs. damage increase vs. farming time, the author can't recommend farming 3 neo pieces and +5 them. You're better off farming  from level 95 caps and run Guide of Wisdom.
• For those that like RNG
• Skip this content and keep running 2+2 and Guide of Wisdom.
• In conclusion
• Dark Dimension content does not worth the effort
• If you have trouble clearing 2+2 dungeons in a reasonable time, you could farm the tier 1 dimension  pieces to help you with your RNG journey.