2015-10-24, 09:41 PM
I went with Xenon since I felt it was the best choice. You can only enhance your equips and enhancements give all stats, so I figured that's a pretty big plus.
Personally, I find Toad's Hammer pretty underwhelming. It doesn't help so much with getting better gear, more like, it prevents you from having worse gear, (Well, unless you have unique or higher potentials, then, you'll just have worse gear, since it'll rank your potential back down to epic when you transfer it). The worst part is probably the fact that it doesn't transfer additional options, not that this'll be a problem in GMS, probably, so you do end up having to loot way more equips than you should need, just to get the best possible equip to transfer to, otherwise, it's really just a waste, no? Eventually, you could just transfer your good stats to a junk equip 10 levels higher so you might transfer it to another equip with good stats 10 levels higher still, but that only really works if you haven't already reached the highest leveled equips, and then all you can really do is hold on to your second best equip set until the day you finally get an equip that's good enough for you to transfer to, otherwise, it'll just be stuck on something that you'll eventually just replace. Though, that's really inevitable anyway, since you can only live on Toad's Hammer transferred stats for so long.
Not to mention, you end up losing a star every time you do the transfer, which I guess, isn't that bad, you only end up paying for 1 star at the increased price every level, if I did my math right, instead of all 5 or 8 or 10 or 12 or 15, so that's a plus, except the first time you go and enhance things, and when you break into a new enhancement tier.
It's also really useful for transferring potentials to more appropriate equip, for example, getting % INT on a thief shoe, and putting it on a mage shoe instead, and if you go Xenon, you can make use of 3 different % stats, but it's not too difficult to get % stats for any other character likewise. Well, until you finally need to cube something above epic.
Personally, I find Toad's Hammer pretty underwhelming. It doesn't help so much with getting better gear, more like, it prevents you from having worse gear, (Well, unless you have unique or higher potentials, then, you'll just have worse gear, since it'll rank your potential back down to epic when you transfer it). The worst part is probably the fact that it doesn't transfer additional options, not that this'll be a problem in GMS, probably, so you do end up having to loot way more equips than you should need, just to get the best possible equip to transfer to, otherwise, it's really just a waste, no? Eventually, you could just transfer your good stats to a junk equip 10 levels higher so you might transfer it to another equip with good stats 10 levels higher still, but that only really works if you haven't already reached the highest leveled equips, and then all you can really do is hold on to your second best equip set until the day you finally get an equip that's good enough for you to transfer to, otherwise, it'll just be stuck on something that you'll eventually just replace. Though, that's really inevitable anyway, since you can only live on Toad's Hammer transferred stats for so long.
Not to mention, you end up losing a star every time you do the transfer, which I guess, isn't that bad, you only end up paying for 1 star at the increased price every level, if I did my math right, instead of all 5 or 8 or 10 or 12 or 15, so that's a plus, except the first time you go and enhance things, and when you break into a new enhancement tier.
It's also really useful for transferring potentials to more appropriate equip, for example, getting % INT on a thief shoe, and putting it on a mage shoe instead, and if you go Xenon, you can make use of 3 different % stats, but it's not too difficult to get % stats for any other character likewise. Well, until you finally need to cube something above epic.