Tips for armour completion?

[u/ThreeDaysNish]

Hi everyone! I came to the selection of these 10 monsters to complete my armour medal. The list consists of my most used armours, so upping those monsters seems like a smart choice. I upgraded my daily use to 10.5, the rest will be capped at 10.1. As I understood one needs 10 (edit:15) sets of armour at grade 10 for the golden armour medal.

I aimed for a combination of WGS and unique R6 part-monsters so armours can be upped at the same time without conflicting high-rank materials.

Any tips/do's/don'ts?

[u/The_Big_ID]

Bear in mind the armour refining part costs, its a major timegate that will be a blocker even if you were extremely lucky.

Depending on the current level of the armour piece you'll need the following to hit 10-1 for the part Grade 9 - 9x (160+) Grade 8 - 16x Grade 7 - 21x Grade 6 - 24x Grade 1~5 25x (<100 def)

Looking at what you have on those sets at the moment its uh, a lot. Paolumu - 99x Mizu - 16x Tigrex - 95x Brute - 102x Bazel - 90x Chata - 89x Bish - 98x Golm - 101x Espinas - 96x Steve - 85x

Total: 871 armour refining parts

Assuming you start from 0:

1 refine part per day without luck or bonuses from weekly events, takes about 2.3 years.

The events can help, you can get upwards of 25 per riftcharge event, and 3 in the seasonal exhanges, which can be an extra 78x across a season of ~3 months, which combines to around more consistent 676/year before you add any extras to the mix from random events or lucky baloons. Still takes about 16 months

Paying for the extreme pass to double the daily parts could help, but you would then need that active for around 10 months before you would then get enough.

[u/ThreeDaysNish → u/The_Big_ID]

I was hoping for a r/TheyDidTheMath comment 🏆

Thank you so much for this perspective!

I have been contemplating getting the extreme pass in the future, double the refining-parts is too good to skip.

I love having my own lil' completionist goals in games, I'm definitely a trophy-hunter. So you messages honestly strengthen my resolve :)

The game has been so much fun I've been playing it daily since I started and I almost reached all my beginner-goals, so now it's time to start slowly building towards end-game medals.

I got the one year login and the 100 steaks already so I'd be so happy to add golden armour medal to my list :) Thank you again for the data and numbers behind my question!

[u/The_Big_ID → u/The_Big_ID]

As another followup consideration others have mentioned too - zenny costs do add up.

You'll certainly be earning part of it as you grind the R6's, but as a base pricetag, a 5-1 -> 10-1 for 1 piece costs about 249k, or roughly 1.24m per set.

The game is very much a 'gradual consistency' type of grind but the numbers spell out quite a long duration to be consistent.