Cubing troubles?

I'm at the point now where I have to get answers from other people, I want to know if people have been having some serious troubles getting items to unique. I've never had to spend a whole lot trying to get an item to unique but on my newest item I have now spent 220, yes, 220 cubes after epic trying to get it to unique. It went epic in 5 cubes but to be at 220 and still have it epic is just absurd. I've heard of people spending just as much after unique trying to get a specific stat sometimes but never have I even read of someone spending nearly this much on getting one item to unique. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

And this is how Nexon makes money- make a system that's so ridiculously necessary, but make it so that you need reallife money in order to do so. Personally i would like them to implement the cubing scroll that can be either bought and or found as drops since that wouldn't give a significant advantage to the NX community (like they said all those years ago- nX users will not have access to an unfair advantage). But that'll never happen.


Cubing is all luck. Sometimes you get it, other times you get pomegranate. That's the way it goes, especially with nexon. You win some; you lose some, and it looks like you're on the losing side of things.

I'd say stop cubing that thing for a bit and work on something else instead. may make you feel better.

Lol I'm to the point of just quitting over it, I don't play much anyhow and it's the 2nd last pieces of gear I plan the upgrade but still L>more replies.

It took me 5X cubes to get my dagger rare->epic, but I've heard of people taking a lot more than that, so I'm not too mad.

I've had this problem myself and I also know some other ppl that spent 200+ cubes trying to get something to unique. My gun took 1 cube to get to epic and then 220 more to get to unique. And this was shortly after cubes were released too. I think you're just out of luck

I was cubing a CZak a few days ago. Took about 40 from Epic to Unique so wasn't that bad, another 90 or so to get what I wanted.
I've heard a lot of stories like yours though. Bryan uploaded a video earlier today of him cubing his Von Leon Gloves and he used a ton of cubes getting it to Unique as well, so maybe they nerfed it or something so they could get more money? Seems like something Nexon would do.

I watched my friend turn a 2L rare HTP and a 3L rare belt into 3L epics (belt turned after 1 cube, and the pendant got 3rd line with one cube), so i really doubt they nerfed rates.

It took me 5X cubes to get my dagger rare->epic, but I've heard of people taking a lot more than that, so I'm not too mad.

Took me 7x cubes to get my CHTP from Rare -> Epic. Much joy was had when it happened.

All told I've used about 50-60 cubes on epic items (in search of 6% primary) and none of them have turned unique, guess I'm just unlucky.

Extreme case of bad luck. Unless this particular piece of gear is too well scrolled, I'd chuck it and get a new one to try.

Thanks for all the replies.

I was working on a bow and after 120ish cubes it was still rare so, idk. I think some items are just cursed.

Going to ask this question here since it's related to cubing. Anyone tried cubing with premium cubes to go rare -> epic -> unique? How did they do compared to cubes? I heard someone did rare -> unique with 5 premium, but that can happen with cubes too. More data would be nice.

To be honest, it is usually not worth to cube things (only if the item you have is quite rare like a 12+ atk Belt or 70 CHTP or so). I made a lot of experineces from cubing, well not as much as Tony (fleyx) but i had the same issues like you.
In total i used over 1600 cubes so far on my gear. It took 180 Cubes on my bow just turn from rare--> epic and then 20 more to unique
But it only took 5 cubes to make my Nose Unique. Now im testing something. If there is no significant change in the status of an item is stopp cubing after a package of 11 cubes. Actually im scrolling SMGs and cubing em. First 11 Cubes were real crap. alot of %avoid, %mdef % wdef and so on. I started to cube again on the next day, i also bought 11 cubes. SMG turned out EPIC after 3 cubes and 6% dex after 11 cubes. I stopped again for now ( well out of nx for moment, need to merchant first). The mainpoint why im doing it it in this way, i want to see if i can safe cubes in the long run instead of using 100 cubes in a rush with similar results. Its just a thought.

To be honest, it is usually not worth to cube things (only if the item you have is quite rare like a 12+ atk Belt or 70 CHTP or so). I made a lot of experineces from cubing, well not as much as Tony (fleyx) but i had the same issues like you.
In total i used over 1600 cubes so far on my gear. It took 180 Cubes on my bow just turn from rare--> epic and then 20 more to unique
But it only took 5 cubes to make my Nose Unique. Now im testing something. If there is no significant change in the status of an item is stopp cubing after a package of 11 cubes. Actually im scrolling SMGs and cubing em. First 11 Cubes were real crap. alot of %avoid, %mdef % wdef and so on. I started to cube again on the next day, i also bought 11 cubes. SMG turned out EPIC after 3 cubes and 6% dex after 11 cubes. I stopped again for now ( well out of nx for moment, need to merchant first). The mainpoint why im doing it it in this way, i want to see if i can safe cubes in the long run instead of using 100 cubes in a rush with similar results. Its just a thought.

So instead of doing mass cubings at once, spread it out over days? I might try this next time I cube something since I've been having horrid luck recently.
I had a shoe I was cubing before my CZak and after about 90 cubes it remained Epic, so I just sold it to cut my losses.

I watched my friend turn a 2L rare HTP and a 3L rare belt into 3L epics (belt turned after 1 cube, and the pendant got 3rd line with one cube), so i really doubt they nerfed rates.

*Blushes*
Yea I've gotten really ridiculously lucky cubing my htp, belt, and earrings lately. I did watch Steve hit a cape with 100 cubes and it didn't go unique though (took like 40 to go epic). I hate Nexon for making a system that is so money consuming and at times so rewarding.

This reminds me of my friend cubing his ele staff.
It took him,believe it or not,406 cubes to get his staff epic->unique(over the course of a few weeks). Then, on the 408th cube, he gets 30% boss 15% PDR 6% total DMG.
I recommend you do what magicsbish said, and if you get nothing decent after around 15 cubes, wait it out and try more the next day. No point in wasting money when your luck is bad/the RNG gods hate you.

I got ridiculously lucky on most of my equips, my gloves turned unique after about 7 cubes (rare to unique), my cape took about 15 or so, and my belt went from rare to epic to unique in 2 cubes.

Lately i haven't been getting so lucky though, with my items mostly staying rare/epic or getting absolutely bullshit stats, i used about 20-30 cubes on my overall hoping it would work much the same way, it stayed rare the whole time and kept throwing me STR +8, Weapon Def +110 and other crap over and over again. I got it to 3% INT and just said screw it.

Damn Nexon RNG.

So instead of doing mass cubings at once, spread it out over days? I might try this next time I cube something since I've been having horrid luck recently.
I had a shoe I was cubing before my CZak and after about 90 cubes it remained Epic, so I just sold it to cut my losses.

Its a try which does not hurt, so why not!

To be honest, it is usually not worth to cube things (only if the item you have is quite rare like a 12+ atk Belt or 70 CHTP or so). I made a lot of experineces from cubing, well not as much as Tony (fleyx) but i had the same issues like you.
In total i used over 1600 cubes so far on my gear. It took 180 Cubes on my bow just turn from rare--> epic and then 20 more to unique
But it only took 5 cubes to make my Nose Unique. Now im testing something. If there is no significant change in the status of an item is stopp cubing after a package of 11 cubes. Actually im scrolling SMGs and cubing em. First 11 Cubes were real crap. alot of %avoid, %mdef % wdef and so on. I started to cube again on the next day, i also bought 11 cubes. SMG turned out EPIC after 3 cubes and 6% dex after 11 cubes. I stopped again for now ( well out of nx for moment, need to merchant first). The mainpoint why im doing it it in this way, i want to see if i can safe cubes in the long run instead of using 100 cubes in a rush with similar results. Its just a thought.

Only problem here is I've already been cubing it on and off for the past 1 week as my items were selling.