Thanks! Really love that you went through and explained each weapon thoroughly. Hope to see more long form content with good explanations since you seem very knowledgeable!
1st and been also waiting for this. im so behind that its so confusing which weapons to focus now and which ones should be bought from shops. cant wait for equip tier list next.
Thanks! Yeah nowadays there's tons of weapons, and usually you can't go wrong with the newest weapons as they naturally are better than older weapons even with the slight buffs to older weapons.
Que vídeo sensacional!! Muito obrigado, me ajudou muito! Eu sempre ficava com dúvida em qual arma seria melhor, por exemplo pra persephone, se era o livro dos demonios ou as lanternas, a dúvida foi sanada! O que mantem agora é sobre os conjuntos de equipamentos hahahaha, sou iniciante para médio, e seus videos me ajuda muito, muito obrigado! Dei a sorte de conseguir o conjunto do espirito vingativo completo, também vi que o conjunto completo da bruxa é ótimo para cain, por exemplo, mas o restante eu fico um pouco em dúvida em cada um, então meu foco esta sendo nesses e também no carrasco. O aquiles eu uso uma combinação para mais ataque. Ontem consegui o abismo do desespero completo, mas nao sei se compensa focar nesse conjunto, já que no inicio preciso remir meus recursos de ouro.
Really thankful for this as a new player. Can you make a video covering the equipment good for each character and how to obtain it? I'm really lost at how to build my characters like Haru, Hades,persephone... Thank you!
Thx for the cool info 🙏. But I have a question. What's the big difference between the Arondite and Excalibur. Their unique option is basically the same.😂
Through testing, the buffs from arondite when they proc, give more attack Stat than the %atk from Excalibur. You can test this by equipping them onto a character who creates a shield. After using their active skill, you can hover over the buff icons on your character to view the total amount of shields. We saw that arondite resulted in bigger shields significantly enough that we focused our upgrades on arondite instead of Excalibur.
As a player who only really plays this game once in a blue moon this is great advice! I have a long way to go before my weapons look anything like yours, but at least I kinda of know what to look for! I've been granted insane rng on my summons so now I just need to progress on content and build them! Great video! PS: By chance is there like a rough drop rate of how likely it is for the dimension floors to drop the weapons you listed? I just pushed to adventure 1000 so i can now run Dimensional lab floor 1K for the demon sword for cain but im curious on the Drop rates :)
Unfortunately there's no data available for this. I think the drop rate for weapons is fairly low. The drop rate for a 5 star item is probably 1% so the chance for that 5 star item to be a weapon is less than that. Usually when I leave my phone farming all day, I get a weapon or 2 If lucky.
Thanks for the video bro. Which level to farm for poison blade? Is it in adventure 280 level? And is it true there is chance for totsuka (Luna wp) drop in exp dungeon?
280+ for poison blade yes. As far as the exp dungeon dropping totsuka, I have no idea. Generally the exp dungeon is not worth farming. I haven't paid attention to much to discord so if enough people on there are saying they've got it through exp dungeon, it might be worth to try it to get your 1st copy. Probably not worth to exhaust all your stamina to get copies if its too rare of a drop
@@smsmartin Since you mentioned Discord, has anything changed? When I tried to follow the link in the description to join, I got a message saying that I either don't have permission or the invitation has expired.
Time to wait again! Joking. Working on the armor guide next. Won't be out until next week at the earliest. Got some busy life stuff happening right now but good stuff!
You can read the characters active skills. All characters have normal acting skills with cooldown unless otherwise specified, such as the skill stating it is not affected by cooldown effects. For example you can read Haru's active skill and it should mention that it is not affected by cooldown. However, one of her passive skills are enhanced with having cooldown reduction stats, so evem though her active skill isn't impacted by it, it can still be beneficial to have cooldown reduction on a character.
@@smsmartinoh and also do you plan on ranking the equipment sets including the hella expensive ones in the store? i wanna grind for them but idk whats the most worth it
is there any other guides how to build a lineup in this game? i still have problems :> how to build it since the new characters have different requirements for their own skills
The "best" lineup for a level depends heavily on what the situation is. You can check the discord here to see what teams other players have used and found success with for specific levels. discord.com/invite/VmNwCQCV84 If you have trouble with a specific adventure level, search that number in the discord and usually you'll find what others have used and found success with. A lot of the best raid teams are tested from some of the top players. We try different teams and share what we found works well. If the goal is simply to kill the boss such as adventure or dark lords tower, then you can go with a variety of teams. If you can make a team that doesn't die, then it doesn't really matter if it doesn't do crazy damage. If you run out of time due to lack of damage, then you'd need to add more dps to the team or perhaps upgrade gear abit. Some characters that are flexible are persephone , haru, and aphrodite, Hades and Thetis require either fire/dark or water/mage respectively which might make it hard to maximize their toolkits. If you try to figure it out on your own, you may have difficulty, so I'd recommend taking advantage of other players past experiences and checking out the discord on what they've used. Saves you the time of research.
I posted a screenshot of my personal armor tier list in my "community tab" of my channel. Life's been very busy with work and getting a new house so I haven't gotten the chance to sit down, record a video, edit, etc. After checking the community tab, if you still have questions, feel free to ask and I can answer in a quicker manner.
Hi, do you still have your discord community link? all of the link i see on your vids were expired. but if you can't, can you please tell me what stage i should farm for equipment beside weapon?
Hello! You can find our community at discord.gg/VmNwCQCV84 You should be able to look at some of the equipment channels to see where to farm specific equipment!
@smsmartin i was going around and made things piece together with the vids u made. Help me beat some stuff i could'nt and sort through stuff i need to upgrade
On paper, it's a great weapon for any warrior, which includes Cain. You'll probably get more damage out of other warriors using this weapon than Cain though since Cain isn't a strong dps. I opt to put poison blade on Cain so he can deal a DEF debuff to enemies while my other characters do the damage.
Good morning, I don't have a 5-star healer on my account, is it worth using a 4-star healer or will he just take up space for another more useful character?
For a brand new player, there's nothing wrong with using a 4 star healer like Rachael or Johan if you need one. Another character who heals the team but isn't quite a healer is Mia. Archers like Eros can heal, and archers like Psyche can provide shields. Mages like Ymir can provide shields, so there's lots of ways you can help your team survive other than a traditional healer character.
It's fairly subjective. If you just started recently within the past couple months you're probably early relative to the existing player base. I wouldn't worry about this too much. I'd just look to try and get the higher tier weapons if you can through farming. You're at a common level where a large number of players are, and there will be additional "walls" that you hit. It's normal. Just keep playing if you enjoy the game and progression :)
There's many teams you could try. 1. All archer team with Eros and Psyche providing heals and shields, with Kana being the main DPS, helps if she has crit rate. 2. All water team, like Vivian, Ariel, airi, water Mia, or thetis. 3. All mage team - lugrant, zeus, hestia, demeter, Kalisia, etc
The easiest for the common 5 star gear is the dark dragon dungeon using the keys you occasionally get. Normally I would just farm adventure or dimensional labyrinth if you've unlocked that.
Depends. For guild territory where I'm trying to maximize their damage, I have 3 achilles/2 chaos on her. Reinforcing the gloves to +100 would be ideal since she deals more damage with accuracy but this is really min/maxing. For most players I wouldn't make that your top priority, just focus on getting those gear sets and weapons to 100 to start. Her weapon in many situations is going to be DSK, but any other high attack weapon with 3 lines of % attack and % cooldown reduction will do. She needs 60% cooldown reduction to maximize her dmge. Aphrodite just needs to survive. Her best weapon is the harp since it provides teamwide buffs. For gear, you can use anything with %damage reduction and % attack. This includes sets like the Sin Set and Executioner Set to name a few.
I personally don't have it yet, but looking at the stats, it's nothing overly impressive but the -10% damage reduction is nice. If you already have enough upgraded weapons for your team, then I don't think you need to go out of your way to get the weapon or anything. If you don't have many 5 star weapons and suddenly get this, then I would recommend upgrading it.
I haven't focused on PVP anymore since the rewards just isn't worth it for the amount of keys you get or want to spend more on to reach a higher PVP rank. My current pvp team is Kana, Mia, Haru, Ares. Generally I still think the best characters are going to either have skills that provide "teamwide blocks" in addition to characters that hit multiple enemies at once (such as Warriors). To name a few, Ares provides blocks to the team while hitting multiple enemies at once. Other characters like Joan also give teamwide blocks but she doesn't hit multiple enemies unless you give her a weapon with +monster penetration. Hard for me to test the viability of different team comps with my main account because I generally beat 99% of players with no gear even.
The new best weapon I have on her is the DSK. Previously I was using the Demon Sword on her. My DSK is refined with 3 lines of attack and cdr so I can use it on both haru and belph when needed
You can't "reset" characters in the traditional sense. You can however, rebirth a character which reverts their level back to Lv 1, but increases their reinforcement stat cap. Normally a 5 star characters reinforcement Stat cap is 200, but you can rebirth them a maximum of 300 times to increase that cap to 500. Rebirthing costs resources however,It is cheaper to rebirth when you've transcended the character multiple times, meaning you've gotten many duplicates of that character. Obviously F2P players can't afford to get too many duplicates so I would say if you can get 2-3 duplicates after getting a character, then that's where you can start efficiently rebirthing them.
The recent maintenance was to update the game with new character Alice, along with a new armor set and 2 new weapons for the most part. For full patch notes you can check out the discord server for Sword Master Story
The 100% attack buff for arondite is 100% final attack. It's not the same as most other weapons normal %attack Stat which applies to base attack. So this multiplies your final attack rather than adding a 100% multiplier base attack like Excalibur
There's the official discord server which is less to be desired. I recommend our unofficial server, see link below for discord. I don't have my own or anything but I'm one of the admins on the unofficial one. discord.com/invite/VmNwCQCV84
If you click on the "quest" bubble, it should show you a screen with your quest exp bar. That's what it's referring to. You gain experience for it by completing missions.
I don't have a 2nd account anymore. Don't have time for it, but I know many other players that do have multiple accounts. Typically given to them from guildies or friends who have quit the game
Thanks! Really love that you went through and explained each weapon thoroughly. Hope to see more long form content with good explanations since you seem very knowledgeable!
Thanks! I appreciate the kind words. Glad to be of help
1st and been also waiting for this. im so behind that its so confusing which weapons to focus now and which ones should be bought from shops. cant wait for equip tier list next.
Thanks! Yeah nowadays there's tons of weapons, and usually you can't go wrong with the newest weapons as they naturally are better than older weapons even with the slight buffs to older weapons.
This is very helpful I'm still trying to understand what to have on their weapon and thus Really helps
Glad you found it helpful Bob :)
Thanks bro ! Next video is armor tier list and who it’s best for !
Que vídeo sensacional!! Muito obrigado, me ajudou muito! Eu sempre ficava com dúvida em qual arma seria melhor, por exemplo pra persephone, se era o livro dos demonios ou as lanternas, a dúvida foi sanada! O que mantem agora é sobre os conjuntos de equipamentos hahahaha, sou iniciante para médio, e seus videos me ajuda muito, muito obrigado!
Dei a sorte de conseguir o conjunto do espirito vingativo completo, também vi que o conjunto completo da bruxa é ótimo para cain, por exemplo, mas o restante eu fico um pouco em dúvida em cada um, então meu foco esta sendo nesses e também no carrasco. O aquiles eu uso uma combinação para mais ataque. Ontem consegui o abismo do desespero completo, mas nao sei se compensa focar nesse conjunto, já que no inicio preciso remir meus recursos de ouro.
Thank you for your support to sms community.
Thank you Erica :)
Can wait for armor set tier list !!
Really thankful for this as a new player. Can you make a video covering the equipment good for each character and how to obtain it? I'm really lost at how to build my characters like Haru, Hades,persephone... Thank you!
My next list before the end of the year will be the equipment one. Stay tuned!
Thanks, man i really need video like this one. Hopefully it will still update like the game too 👍
This list should be relevant for a good amount of time. If anything major changes, I would make an updated video
Thx for the cool info 🙏. But I have a question. What's the big difference between the Arondite and Excalibur. Their unique option is basically the same.😂
Through testing, the buffs from arondite when they proc, give more attack Stat than the %atk from Excalibur.
You can test this by equipping them onto a character who creates a shield. After using their active skill, you can hover over the buff icons on your character to view the total amount of shields. We saw that arondite resulted in bigger shields significantly enough that we focused our upgrades on arondite instead of Excalibur.
@@smsmartin thx for the explain!!!🙏
As a player who only really plays this game once in a blue moon this is great advice! I have a long way to go before my weapons look anything like yours, but at least I kinda of know what to look for! I've been granted insane rng on my summons so now I just need to progress on content and build them! Great video!
PS: By chance is there like a rough drop rate of how likely it is for the dimension floors to drop the weapons you listed? I just pushed to adventure 1000 so i can now run Dimensional lab floor 1K for the demon sword for cain but im curious on the Drop rates :)
Unfortunately there's no data available for this. I think the drop rate for weapons is fairly low. The drop rate for a 5 star item is probably 1% so the chance for that 5 star item to be a weapon is less than that.
Usually when I leave my phone farming all day, I get a weapon or 2 If lucky.
fantastic video tyvm! Can you do an armour guide next?
That's what I'll be working on next. Probably won't be out until next week at the earliest
Thanks for the video bro.
Which level to farm for poison blade?
Is it in adventure 280 level?
And is it true there is chance for totsuka (Luna wp) drop in exp dungeon?
280+ for poison blade yes.
As far as the exp dungeon dropping totsuka, I have no idea. Generally the exp dungeon is not worth farming. I haven't paid attention to much to discord so if enough people on there are saying they've got it through exp dungeon, it might be worth to try it to get your 1st copy. Probably not worth to exhaust all your stamina to get copies if its too rare of a drop
@@smsmartin Since you mentioned Discord, has anything changed? When I tried to follow the link in the description to join, I got a message saying that I either don't have permission or the invitation has expired.
@@smsmartin Is upcoming x5 dungeon worth spending stamina on it ?
I’ve waited years for another tier list
Time to wait again! Joking. Working on the armor guide next. Won't be out until next week at the earliest. Got some busy life stuff happening right now but good stuff!
@@smsmartin waiting 😢
@jeffer232252 working on a new list. Hoping to edit and send it out this week!
juicy info
Juicy indeed :)
how do i know if the character has a cooldown reduction?
love your vids btw
You can read the characters active skills.
All characters have normal acting skills with cooldown unless otherwise specified, such as the skill stating it is not affected by cooldown effects. For example you can read Haru's active skill and it should mention that it is not affected by cooldown. However, one of her passive skills are enhanced with having cooldown reduction stats, so evem though her active skill isn't impacted by it, it can still be beneficial to have cooldown reduction on a character.
@@smsmartin thanks a lot!
@@smsmartinoh and also do you plan on ranking the equipment sets including the hella expensive ones in the store? i wanna grind for them but idk whats the most worth it
is there any other guides how to build a lineup in this game? i still have problems :> how to build it since the new characters have different requirements for their own skills
The "best" lineup for a level depends heavily on what the situation is. You can check the discord here to see what teams other players have used and found success with for specific levels.
discord.com/invite/VmNwCQCV84
If you have trouble with a specific adventure level, search that number in the discord and usually you'll find what others have used and found success with.
A lot of the best raid teams are tested from some of the top players. We try different teams and share what we found works well.
If the goal is simply to kill the boss such as adventure or dark lords tower, then you can go with a variety of teams. If you can make a team that doesn't die, then it doesn't really matter if it doesn't do crazy damage. If you run out of time due to lack of damage, then you'd need to add more dps to the team or perhaps upgrade gear abit.
Some characters that are flexible are persephone , haru, and aphrodite,
Hades and Thetis require either fire/dark or water/mage respectively which might make it hard to maximize their toolkits.
If you try to figure it out on your own, you may have difficulty, so I'd recommend taking advantage of other players past experiences and checking out the discord on what they've used. Saves you the time of research.
rn in my team i have Haru, Luna that transcend 2x time, Rhea, Hades that transcend 1x time is that good enough? or should i reroll again?
I answered your comment in my other video
are you planning to do video about armour tier list
I posted a screenshot of my personal armor tier list in my "community tab" of my channel. Life's been very busy with work and getting a new house so I haven't gotten the chance to sit down, record a video, edit, etc. After checking the community tab, if you still have questions, feel free to ask and I can answer in a quicker manner.
Hi, do you still have your discord community link?
all of the link i see on your vids were expired.
but if you can't, can you please tell me what stage i should farm for equipment beside weapon?
Hello!
You can find our community at
discord.gg/VmNwCQCV84
You should be able to look at some of the equipment channels to see where to farm specific equipment!
dude, would be great to do a full New Player Experience Playthrough...... will be great for new players to follow
I've been thinking about this too.. Not a bad idea :)
@smsmartin i was going around and made things piece together with the vids u made. Help me beat some stuff i could'nt and sort through stuff i need to upgrade
how about the chaos blade is it any good???
On paper, it's a great weapon for any warrior, which includes Cain. You'll probably get more damage out of other warriors using this weapon than Cain though since Cain isn't a strong dps. I opt to put poison blade on Cain so he can deal a DEF debuff to enemies while my other characters do the damage.
Do you have a discord to discuss characters and team comps?
@@LegendaryPredalien12 this is where we discuss all that.
discord.com/invite/VmNwCQCV84
Hello Martin. Can you do me a favor please. I dont know the what sets will drop in which stage. Currently im still stucked at 900+ stage.
Try checking this discord link here to see what stages drop what gear sets
Good morning, I don't have a 5-star healer on my account, is it worth using a 4-star healer or will he just take up space for another more useful character?
For a brand new player, there's nothing wrong with using a 4 star healer like Rachael or Johan if you need one. Another character who heals the team but isn't quite a healer is Mia. Archers like Eros can heal, and archers like Psyche can provide shields. Mages like Ymir can provide shields, so there's lots of ways you can help your team survive other than a traditional healer character.
How to know I'm in late game or early game. I have all A tier and most of S tier and adventure lvl is 1090???
It's fairly subjective. If you just started recently within the past couple months you're probably early relative to the existing player base. I wouldn't worry about this too much. I'd just look to try and get the higher tier weapons if you can through farming. You're at a common level where a large number of players are, and there will be additional "walls" that you hit. It's normal. Just keep playing if you enjoy the game and progression :)
Does 100% atk increase from the arondite means doing double damage? Or does it just affect shielding value
I believe it doubles both. It can be great for damage dealers but can also be great for characters creating shields like Hades/Thetis.
Bro,I Still stuck in stage 1192,I tried everything, do you have any recommendations what heroes should I use
There's many teams you could try.
1. All archer team with Eros and Psyche providing heals and shields, with Kana being the main DPS, helps if she has crit rate.
2. All water team, like Vivian, Ariel, airi, water Mia, or thetis.
3. All mage team - lugrant, zeus, hestia, demeter, Kalisia, etc
Do you have any recommendations for stage 1193,is it possible to use dark attribute heroes since the dragon has a fire immunity
@@smsmartin bro do you have recommended teams for stage 1193,it's a fire immunity and fire attribute weakness
can u make a tier list for equipment
I'm slowly working on it. It'll be one of my upcoming videos!
can i ask, where farm spot for fond *5 equipment, in story or dungeon?
The easiest for the common 5 star gear is the dark dragon dungeon using the keys you occasionally get. Normally I would just farm adventure or dimensional labyrinth if you've unlocked that.
white dragon is good for farm? or wait dark one?
What's the best build for Haru and Aphrodite?
Depends.
For guild territory where I'm trying to maximize their damage, I have 3 achilles/2 chaos on her. Reinforcing the gloves to +100 would be ideal since she deals more damage with accuracy but this is really min/maxing. For most players I wouldn't make that your top priority, just focus on getting those gear sets and weapons to 100 to start. Her weapon in many situations is going to be DSK, but any other high attack weapon with 3 lines of % attack and % cooldown reduction will do. She needs 60% cooldown reduction to maximize her dmge.
Aphrodite just needs to survive. Her best weapon is the harp since it provides teamwide buffs. For gear, you can use anything with %damage reduction and % attack. This includes sets like the Sin Set and Executioner Set to name a few.
Wow thanks. I spent hours in awakening cube dungeon and got 1 kestos himas😅
Thankss bro❤❤
You're welcome!
hi how about new weapon Rhinotoros ? that good ?
I personally don't have it yet, but looking at the stats, it's nothing overly impressive but the -10% damage reduction is nice.
If you already have enough upgraded weapons for your team, then I don't think you need to go out of your way to get the weapon or anything. If you don't have many 5 star weapons and suddenly get this, then I would recommend upgrading it.
@@smsmartin thank you so much
, i need to careful coz this game use to much gold to up grade ^^
Pls make video about the best characters for pvp.
I haven't focused on PVP anymore since the rewards just isn't worth it for the amount of keys you get or want to spend more on to reach a higher PVP rank. My current pvp team is Kana, Mia, Haru, Ares.
Generally I still think the best characters are going to either have skills that provide "teamwide blocks" in addition to characters that hit multiple enemies at once (such as Warriors). To name a few, Ares provides blocks to the team while hitting multiple enemies at once. Other characters like Joan also give teamwide blocks but she doesn't hit multiple enemies unless you give her a weapon with +monster penetration. Hard for me to test the viability of different team comps with my main account because I generally beat 99% of players with no gear even.
What is the best weapon for Belphegor?
The new best weapon I have on her is the DSK. Previously I was using the Demon Sword on her. My DSK is refined with 3 lines of attack and cdr so I can use it on both haru and belph when needed
I have a question how do you reset characters ?
You can't "reset" characters in the traditional sense. You can however, rebirth a character which reverts their level back to Lv 1, but increases their reinforcement stat cap. Normally a 5 star characters reinforcement Stat cap is 200, but you can rebirth them a maximum of 300 times to increase that cap to 500.
Rebirthing costs resources however,It is cheaper to rebirth when you've transcended the character multiple times, meaning you've gotten many duplicates of that character. Obviously F2P players can't afford to get too many duplicates so I would say if you can get 2-3 duplicates after getting a character, then that's where you can start efficiently rebirthing them.
Thx bro
No problem!
Bro what is maintenance in the game now?
The recent maintenance was to update the game with new character Alice, along with a new armor set and 2 new weapons for the most part. For full patch notes you can check out the discord server for Sword Master Story
@@smsmartin Thank you! Should i pull her?
why is Aronsite S tier with 20% chance for 100% dmg for 10sec while Excalibur is A tier while gives you just like that this 100%.
The 100% attack buff for arondite is 100% final attack. It's not the same as most other weapons normal %attack Stat which applies to base attack. So this multiplies your final attack rather than adding a 100% multiplier base attack like Excalibur
uh oh goddamit....I ignored that one and upgraded the whole time excalibur, now it makes sense, thanks ❤️
do you still have the discord server?
There's the official discord server which is less to be desired.
I recommend our unofficial server, see link below for discord. I don't have my own or anything but I'm one of the admins on the unofficial one.
discord.com/invite/VmNwCQCV84
What the quest lv.up plz
If you click on the "quest" bubble, it should show you a screen with your quest exp bar. That's what it's referring to. You gain experience for it by completing missions.
@@smsmartin thx 🙏🏾
Do you have second account at this game ?
I don't have a 2nd account anymore. Don't have time for it, but I know many other players that do have multiple accounts. Typically given to them from guildies or friends who have quit the game
is rhea meta?
Yes she is currently 1 of the meta characters. She's used often along with Hera, Aprodite, and Hades
@@smsmartinHera you mean the 3star?
I'm returning player any discord to join? just leave the game like 2 years ago
Try this link to our discord
discord.com/invite/7mX8kPJ2Np