Dressing For Success

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Description

There are days where you'll want to maximize a particular stat or game mechanics ability. Perhaps it's for plumbing the depths of Fernswarthy's Basement, overpowering your opponents in PvP, farming for Meat or items, dealing with a difficult opponent, or just experimenting. At times like these, you'll want to be Dressing For Success. There's a lot more to it than just finding the right hat for the job -- you'll want to take advantage of buffs, passive skills, effects from items and more.

In recognition of the fact that most people don't have piles of Mafia Raffle Prize gear stacked up in their closet, we've organized things by accessibility. Items that are non-tradable, rare, or no longer available except through the mall are all colour coded into their respective category to show at a glance how much work you'll need to put in to obtain it.

Maximizing Your ...

Here are the links to the gear/buff combinations that will maximize a particular stat/game mechanic.

Character Base Stats

• Muscle
• Mysticality
• Moxie
• HP
• MP

Combat Abilities

• Bonus Melee Damage
• Bonus Spell Damage
• Combat Initiative
• Damage Absorption
• Damage Reduction
• Elemental Resistance

Monster Drops

• Item Drops
• Meat Drops

Other

• Rollover Adventures
• Maximizing Monster Level
• MP Regeneration
• HP Regeneration

Explanation of Methodology

Dressing for Success does not aim to list every single modifier available to the player. For those who are interested in such things, there are pages that list every single modifier. Instead, Dressing for Success aims to show what would be a reasonable set of modifiers for a player to have if they wish to maximise something, organised by equipment slot for easy reference. In addition, all modifiers are categorised to show at a glance how accessible it is to most players. The following table shows the categories that are used:

Legend
Ultra rares and Raffle House/Radio prizes	Tradable and still obtainable, but rare
Semi-rares and war hero drops
Mr. Store/KoL Con accessible derivatives	Tradable (directly or ingredients or zone access consumable), unlimited generation to those who own source, source no longer obtainable
Mr. Store/KoL Con items and inaccessible derivatives	Tradable, but no longer obtainable
Other limited time content
Clan Dungeon non-tradables	Untradable, but still obtainable
Other non-tradables
Non-tradables from past holidays and world events	Untradable, and no longer obtainable
*	Single-equip restriction, or two-handed/three-handed weapon
^	Equipment disappears at the end of the day or the equipment (or its associated enchantment) has a limited duration

Buffs are also categorised similarly, however they are classified depending on how the item that grants the effect is obtained. For example, buffs granted from astral cupcakes are classified as "Mr. Store", because although they are available in the mall, they are only produced from astral mushrooms which are only obtained from the Astral Badger, which is only available through the mall. In short, hardcore players can only obtain them if they have the appropriate Mr. Store item.

Exclusions

The Dressing for Success pages do not list everything that is available for many reasons, which are explained below:

• Bad Moon Skills and Effects

Not only do the effects require you to spend an adventure to obtain (and so are hard to stack), but they can only be obtained once per ascension, and they are often accidentally triggered during a typical ascension. As a result, they will be unavailable to most players most of the time. In addition, players cannot access permed skills in Bad Moon, making things harder to maximise. As a result, anything that is specific to Bad Moon is not included.

• Custom, unique and unavailable items

Some items such as St. Sneaky Pete's Day untradables are impossible for a new player to obtain, and are very rarely optimal for any situation. Due to the rather severe unobtainability, they are excluded from Dressing for Success. The same applies to custom items and items of which only one exists.

• Rubbish buffs

The lists of buffs tend to get rather long for many Dressing for Success pages. In order to improve clarity, some buffs that are not worth applying because they are not worth the cost will be excluded from pages that have a large number of buffs present. Although they are stackable with the other buffs and so will increase the amount of maximisation, they are rarely worth applying and so will not be considered. It is best to apply common sense when trying to determine if a buff is worth including on the list.

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