Empress set Preparation.

indeed, what i recommend is getting a bunch of crap +dex potential equips, nce you equip the set, you'll have +20 all stats from the set effect (5) plus around 75 dex from the equips themselves. making getting the rest a piece of cake.

So in essence I only need to get to about 100 dex with accessories and then I can swap out for the Empress equips to self support? and thank goodness the cape doesn't require dex otherwise this would be more aggravating.