How To Get To Tier 3 Fast In & Boost Your Gear Score | Tier 3 Beginner Guide

There's a few really great things you can do to boost your gear score in the new tier and in this guide, we are going to show you how to get to tier 3 item level fast in LSOT AK.

LSOT AK Tier 3 Beginner Guide - How To Get To Tier 3 Item Level In LSOT AK

The 600 to 1100 item level honing grind can take a while if you don't know which islands to do, and make sure to do all of your event/tickets in addition to your dailies. Hope this helps you snag lots of T2 upgrade materials and helps you hit that 1100 item level and head to Punika!

Achieve to 600 Item Level and Finish Yarn Questline

After defeating the rng boss and hitting 600 item level, you should hop into your Yarn quest line, you're going to need to finish this so that you can do the next tier of chaos dungeons, guardian raids and abyssal. However, unlike your Shushire questline, finishing yarn will not give you a full set of gear, instead once you're done, you can either run your new chaos dungeon runs for a full set or you can try and snag some of these gear pieces for cheap off the auction house. Don't start enchanting just yet, make sure you go to the honing npc and click on gear transfer. You should then transfer your old plus 15 gear onto your new gear for a free plus one enchant on all of your pieces. What you need to do is go to your stronghold and then scroll to the bottom of your researches and start researching the honing upgrades for your alt characters.

Do Islands

There are not as many islands in tier 2 as there were in tier 1. But the ones you can do give you a lot of materials so fear not. Also make sure you finish all of the purple and yellow quests on these islands as they give lots of upgrade materials. Make sure that you first pick up the quest. - The perfect getaway from Stern which starts the Alwana island quest chain. Complete the first part on pato and then go to Vern and take the ocean liner down to Luterra which is where the next set of islands are located. 

- Once you set sail in Luterra, head to Fomona island and finish all the quests there. You can do Fomona again on an alt if they are the opposite gender from your main for extra rewards. 

- You can then sail to Alwana island and complete the quests there. There is also a hidden quest on this island that you can grab by interacting with a glowing crate near the entrance of the island. From Alwana, we're going to go to Liebheim and finish all of the quests there. One of the final quests will actually ask you to go to Shushire, you can ignore that one for now since there's still other islands in the area to do first.

- Next go up to Revelry Row which continues the quest chain you picked up in Pedo. Complete all of the quests there and then head to Distorted island. 

- Do the quests on Distorted island. However, you do need a cube ticket to finish this island, don't worry if you don't have a cube ticket right now, just complete it whenever you can. 

- Then from Distorted island, go to Twilight Isle. The quest you do on this island actually ends in Luterra, so just finish that part later. From Twilight Isle, we're going to Gravis island, finish all of the quests and then head over to Hypnos’s island. 

- On Hypnos’s island, finish the quests and there is also a hidden quest that you can pick up on the first floor of calavus home just look for the glowing outline. 

- After that, go to Elzowin’s island. This is the final destination of this island route and it actually takes a bit of time to do as there are a lot of quests here to complete. All of these quests are from hidden objects and they include solving riddles, timed quests to run to locations, etc. To complete this island, you'll need the song of spring which you acquire from finishing the yellow quest on Shangra. You also need Heavenly Harmony which you get from Harmony islands event. For this island, use a map to complete it since there are so many hidden items to find. Feel free to finish up those quests that ask you to go to Shushire and Luterra and your cube dungeon.

Now you should have a hefty amount of materials which should get you to at least 1 000 item level. If you still have chaos dungeon runs left for the day and if you have time before reset, just complete phaeton which requires 960. Now that you have item level for it, this way you can do the fate and chaos dungeons for more material drops. If you don't have chaos runs left, just complete fate in before the next reset for the same reasons.

Other ways to get materials to help you with that final 100 item level to get to tier 3 in LSOT AK:

Start at 1100 item level. Like in T1, you'll want to complete your guardian raids abyss dungeons and chaos dungeons for materials both daily and weekly. This will be your primary source for upgrade materials after you finish your islands.

If you have an alt that's close to T2 as well, get them there as they can help give materials to your main. With those two upgrades researched, it'll be much easier to get your alts up to t2. You'll also want to keep up with your Una’s dailies and weeklies as these give you lots of leap stones. For dailies, pick the fastest ones that give leap stones and set bifrost points to them. 

Another daily that's good to get started on is on Anguished Isle. This is a tier 3 island but you can start doing the daily here in T2 to start accumulating keys which you'll be able to use to enter the dungeon on this island once you're in T3. This dungeon is so good because it will give you a currency which allows you to buy T3 upgrade materials, engravings, even legendary engravings, gems and a legendary overwhelm rune. This doesn't help you push your T2 gear score but it's worth it to get started on since each dungeon run consumes 1 key and you can only get 1 key a day. You should also make sure that you do chaos gates, world bosses and the weekly ghost ship, doing the ones in phaetons since they are the right ones for your item level. These drop a multitude of materials from moon's breaths to treasure maps which will help give you an edge as you push to T3. 

Enter Boss Rush

T2 is also the first tier you can start doing boss rush which like cube dungeons you enter by obtaining a ticket. This drops from chaos dungeons or the bloodstone entrance ticket chest. Also like cube dungeons, boss rush has you clear multiple floors with the best rewards gated by finishing all of the floors. Make sure that you queue for this with a full group to ensure that you can clear the entire instance. Boss rush is amazing for upgrading as it gives you a ton of leap stones, moons breaths and so many gems that you can fuse into higher level gems to keep or sell. Tier 2 cube dungeons are also great to do as they give you lots of moons breaths too. These are amazing for your plus 14 to plus 15 weapon enchants. Make sure you also queue for a full party if you snag a cube dungeon ticket.

Merchants

Onto your weekly merchants and bi-weekly, you can only buy out each material once a week. The first weekly merchant you should buy out is right at the dock and it is the merchant ship. You can go to honing materials and snag all the upgrade mats for t2 there.

Next up is the bloodstone vendor. The higher level your guild is, the more materials you can purchase here. You can also buy materials from the chaos engine vendor, using the currency you get from running chaos dungeons after your first two runs are done for the day. You can also get materials from making sure that you run the yarn and fate and story dungeons on hard mode and that's really it, make sure that you do your islands, your dailies and weeklies, events, boss rush cube dungeon runs, and buy out your weekly merchants.