Chapter 51
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Title: Analysis and Recommendations for 9 Golden Chest Artifacts. (Warning: Long post)
Author: SSS-Grade Item Power User
An item choice… The dopamine is insane, seriously.
This is so much fun for me that my hands are trembling.
I’ve only ever written Golden Carriage rotation posts, and now I get to review nine new artifacts… and every single one is Legendary grade!
Legendary-grade items are incredibly high-value for Newbie’s current build.
They appear in the Golden Carriage maybe once or twice a year, and are effectively the best rewards when the year-end gacha opens.
8.1 billion… I’m already looking forward to how much you’ll rake in during this year’s year-end gacha, but enough digression. Let’s get to the point.
The artifact descriptions are written far too briefly, but I’ll bring all the knowledge I have to analyze them one by one and point out their pros and cons.
[Sun God’s Wrath] Rating: 8.5
Causes an explosion of the sun around you just before you are hit.
It’s an offense-and-defense type, yet it doesn’t even have a cooldown.
It’s a truly ridiculous broken item.
It will display overwhelming performance on the early floors.
Starting now, Newbie might be able to push all the way to Floor 300 just by taking this and doing nothing else, with a little exaggeration.
It might sound a little funny, but it’s still good for dazzling enemies in the mid-to-late game. Against monsters with visual organs, you can consider it practically a temporary stun.
[God of Life’s Smile]
Fully recovers from all injuries every 5 seconds.
Rating: 6.
A five-second cooldown is truly legendary.
Its effect is also on par with a top-tier healing spell.
It’s an item that would make tanks drool.
But it only has meaning once you’ve actually been injured, so it’s a little ambiguous.
Since Newbie is far from being a tank, it seems a little iffy.
[Earth God’s Patience]
Constantly deploys a resistance shield against all attributes.
Rating: 7.5.
This shield is top-tier too.
It’s effectively useful up through the 600s, and its versatility is great.
It should be perfect for Newbie, who hasn’t learned a single defensive skill yet.
In terms of defensive performance, it can nearly go toe-to-toe with the highest-tier Magic Shields for each attribute.
If you want to maximize your survivability right now, this is probably the best choice.
But sometimes there are monsters with disproportionately high attack power, so it isn’t universal.
The fact that you’ll eventually be able to learn top-tier Magic Shields also makes it difficult to choose.
[Wind God’s Freedom]
Is not subject to the restrictions of inertia while moving.
Rating: 5.
It’s written so simply that you may not realize it, but this is very good too.
Not being restricted by inertia is the core of mobility techniques, including high-speed movement magic and martial arts.
Learn this one thing, and mobility techniques become basically free wins.
However, you can learn inertia immunity without this artifact, so that may be a major drawback.
[Sea God’s Lament]
Halves the Agility stat of enemies within range.
Rating: 7.
Obviously, it’s absurdly overpowered.
It’s an irreplaceable item with absurdly overpowered performance.
But in our Demon King’s Tower… the problem is that there are many stationary-defense-type monsters.
Quite a few are turret types that don’t use the Agility stat at all.
And in the later floors, there are some that nullify stat-reduction debuffs.
[Thunder God’s Tremor]
Calls down thunder on an enemy when attacking and paralyzes it for a set period.
Rating: 9!
Fucking absurdly broken.
This is a ridiculous all-purpose god-tier item.
Surprisingly, almost nothing has resistance to electrical attacks.
The paralysis effect should work through almost the late floors.
It’s a melee basic-attack on-hit effect, so its activation condition is unfortunate for now, but it will show its true value once you’ve built up enough Strength and Agility later.
[Moon God’s Serenity]
Significantly slows the magic circulation and blood flow of enemies in your field of vision.
Rating: 7.5.
It’s extremely good in one-on-one battles in the Demon King’s Tower.
That’s because there aren’t multiple enemies trying to get behind you.
It’s a comprehensive debuff skill that simultaneously reduces the opponent’s magic power, Strength, and Agility.
So its versatility is considerable.
It may be countered by split-type or illusion-type monsters, but it should be devastatingly effective against almost every monster.
But it has the same problem as the Sea God’s Lament.
There are quite a few monsters that nullify stat-reduction debuffs.
[Mist God’s Confusion]
Inflicts Confusion when the target looks at you.
Rating: 5.
This would normally be absurdly overpowered too, but it feels more suited to fighting multiple enemies.
The Demon King’s Tower is a series of one-on-one boss battles, and quite a few monsters immune to Confusion pop up, so its efficiency is low. Most mental-type abilities are like this. Pass.
And next…
[Time God’s Forgetfulness]
Stretches out time just before being hit.
Rating: 9.
I agonized over this artifact quite a bit.
This is probably the highest-grade one among the nine artifacts.
That means it’s the cream of the crop even among Legendary artifacts.
Time manipulation is connected to the dimensional attribute, so you can think of it as an Another.
For reference, one of the established users of the time-manipulation type is currently in the vanguard.
Let me explain why I hesitated.
First of all, the difference probably won’t feel that significant.
You’ll only feel as though your Sense stat rises slightly just before being hit.
And you won’t feel any difference between it and the utility spell called ‘Thought Acceleration’ that you’ll learn later.
But if you’re aiming for the truly, truly late game, you have to choose this.
That’s because no monster that nullifies time manipulation has ever been reported—not even by that established vanguard user.
In other words, this is an artifact that will definitely remain effective at least through Floor 900.
So, the recommended artifacts I narrowed it down to are…
[Sun God’s Wrath] [Thunder God’s Tremor] [Time God’s Forgetfulness]
I think these three are the ones.
But you might find it puzzling that I included [Sun God’s Wrath] after saying it was an early-game item.
Because Newbie has to be part of the vanguard.
But to do that, getting through the early game may actually be more important than you think.
In the gallery, cases of people advancing more than 100 floors beyond their starting floor are extremely rare.
There aren’t any cases of anyone making it past 200 floors at all.
Therefore, to break through this wall, choosing [Sun God’s Wrath] might actually be the better option.
Like most gallery users who are stuck on a single floor, you’ll avoid being blocked by matchup disadvantages and growth limits until at least Floor 300.
But choosing either of the other two is perfectly fine.
If it’s one of the three, none of the choices would be stupid.
Thank you for reading this long post.
I think that’s all from me.
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I read the entire post from start to finish.
I was filled with admiration.
‘This is incredible, seriously.’
It was hardly surprising that the poster knew all about these items.
It was an analysis explaining what kinds of combat techniques each artifact’s ability replaced, and what level one had to reach in those martial arts to produce comparable power.
It was even a consultation based on estimates of the types of monsters on each floor of the Demon King’s Tower and my current skill tree.
‘The Time God’s Forgetfulness or the Thunder God’s Tremor… the Sun God’s Wrath if I want things to be easy right now…’
First, I hit refresh and checked the comment section.
[Comments]
ㅇㅇ(312F) : This is practically a thesis. Damn.
ㅇㅇ(418F) : How the hell do they know all this? They’re a seriously insane item nerd;;
ㅇㅇ(249F) : Item Power User is on fire lol
ㅇㅇ(148F) : Can someone give us the one-line summary.
ㄴ SSS-Grade Item Power User (author) : I literally wrote it at the end, you idiot. Choose one of the Time God’s Forgetfulness, Thunder God’s Tremor, or Sun God’s Wrath.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(148F) : Wow, still as foulmouthed as ever lol
ㅇㅇ(431F) : What the hell, they really were fucking broken items.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(468F) : Legendary performance really is fucking incredible.
ㅇㅇ(310F) : The Sea God’s Lament’s Agility reduction is seriously amazing, but are you saying Thunder God’s is better than that?
ㄴ SSS-Grade Item Power User : That’s because there are four turret types even in the 100s. Starting in the 400s, there are also many that aren’t affected by stat reductions.
ㅇㅇ(310F) : Ohhh…
ㅇㅇ(470F) : Thunder God’s seems like the GOAT, but top-tier paralysis from an electrical attack would really be a pain to deal with.
ㄴㅇㅇ(543F) : Was it somewhere in the 440s? That guy who used the buzzing attack got shocked too lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(460F) : That’s me; Item Power User even knows my build.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(643F) : Seems like they have it all memorized. Damn.
The comment section was likewise at a loss for words.
I started typing.
ㅇㅇ(100F) : Thank you so much. Your summary made things so much easier for me. How do you know all this?
ㄴ SSS-Grade Item Power User (author) : Not at all haha. I’m the one who’s more grateful. It’s been a really long time since I wrote an analysis post that let me pour in all my expertise.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(643F) : The ass-kissing is fucking insane lol
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(430F) : Being sweet only to the newbie is making me want to puke lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ SSS-Grade Item Power User : ㅗ
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(297F) : But in the end, doesn’t this mean even they don’t know which of the final three to choose?
ㄴ SSS-Grade Item Power User : Isn’t it because you’re a fucking idiot that you think that?
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(643F) : Oh, is that so?
After a somewhat violent exchange of words.
Afterward, a discussion was underway in the gallery over what to choose.
ㅇㅇ(643F) : We’re going to climb while waiting for the instant-death skill’s cooldown anyway, so don’t we need an attack skill?
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(542F) : Seems like we should save the instant-death skill for intruders…
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(643F) : Ah, true.
ㅇㅇ(358F) : The Sun God’s is probably better than the Thunder God’s. They’re not going to use Death Mark forever, and I don’t know what good paralysis will do.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(741F) : And they’re currently learning instant-death derivatives in both their physical and magic trees, so they’ve got more than enough attack skills.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(549F) : Agreed. They should take the Sun God’s, which is a little closer to a survival skill. They should push through floors with it while training.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(243F) : The Time God’s helps with survival too. Isn’t it the best one?
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(643F) : The Time God’s is a real mixed blessing because it buffs reaction speed, but it doesn’t boost Agility, so they could still die.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(643F) : Defense is fine since they’ll learn Magic Shield-type skills anyway.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(720F) : Why are you even debating this? Isn’t the Time God’s Forgetfulness obviously the choice? They said it’s the only one that works from the beginning through the late game lol
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(643F) : Are we sure they can even make it to the late game? lol
The Sun God, the Thunder God, and the Time God.
Immediate comfort, mid-to-late-game stability, or effectiveness in the extreme late game?
I briefly took my eyes off the gallery and looked ahead.
Orbs of various colors.
‘A choice.’
A choice presupposes giving something up.
“I don’t want to give up anything…”
That thought occurred to me.
I looked up.
I could see the lid of the enormous golden chest.
It had closed the moment I touched the second orb.
“…”
Several ideas flashed through my mind.
“Could it work…?”
I turned my gaze back to the hologram window.
I typed in the comment section.
ㅇㅇ(100F): I’m going to test whether I can take several at once.
Post.
Question marks appeared before the comment had even finished uploading.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(312F) : ?
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(548F) : ??
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(249F) : What?
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(461F) : What test? What are you planning to do?
I answered.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(100F) : I thought of a way, and I think I might be able to take two out.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(364F) : Bullshit lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(730F) : Please, can’t you do something sensible for once…
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(670F) : Newbie, please use your imagination a little.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(578F) : Here they go again.
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(643F) : No, I told you it’s a choice reward lol You saw the chest close right away with your own eyes, you bastard lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ ㅇㅇ(730F) : You think they’d give you multiple Legendary items…
ㄴ Fenrir : You might get greedy and end up not getting even one…
There was an uproar, even though I hadn’t said specifically what I intended to do.
But it was definitely worth trying.
“There are nine right in front of me. Isn’t taking just one too stingy?”