Increasing my DS's Damage

And IDK about cubing. I would prefer pre-cubed stuff since my luck with cubing is pretty terrible, but all empress-prescrolled/precubed is really dam expensive =/

Well a relatively cheap alternative IMO would be to use innocence60s from the event store (if they don't have a limit, I don't know for sure sorry :T) and chaos scrolls to try get some decent w.att on your empress gear, and then cube those with some occult cubes for 3% str each. (There should be a lot of those in fm from the attendance events)

Goodluck ^^