I just wanna say liked, commenting and subscribing. I have watched god knows how many affixing guides were they just ramble on without a script or skip through the steps like its common knowledge. Listening to you and watching everything step by step and just *click* I finally get it.
Thank you so much for showing a video on the process, I've been very nervous about implementing the knowledge I've learned about affixing, but with this video I'm pretty sure I can nail down some of the very basics now. I've watched a few other videos of yours about affixing as well and they're all wonderful, you're very good at explaining things slowly with great examples. Just please take care of yourself and put your health before any videos x3 Thanks again!
This guide fucking helps a lot! Always appreciate it when tutorials are more hands-on rather than some explanation, makes everything easier to understand and a lot less daunting
This is literally the only in-depth guide I've found and I can't thank you enough for it. I was completely lost on how any of this works. The game does a terrible job of letting you know. Saw your guide on getting the upgraded atlas weapon too, finally got a clear path towards getting some damn gear
Just wanted to say thanks for this. Been a long time since I played on JP and I forgot how to affix with any level of competency. Budget is perfect for my needs.
Had to come back to double comment; I said before I did not understand souls and now I managed to upslot my 13 star weapon and get an Alles D affix :) I wish I had a +40% as I ended up with 5 slots rather then the 6 I wanted but still your video was a huge huge help
This video is really helpful! I'm new to the game and have ignored augmenting since I didn't understand it at all. You explained everything so clearly, and the Hololive EN transitions are awesome. ♥
This is EXTREMELY helpful on the process. And extremely upsetting cause I just cleaned my storage and Im sure I had a ton of fodder I could have used *_*
Good video as always, very informative and easy to understand. You make augumentation understandable tbh. But i have a question: Is there any way to get you hands (with relative ease) on a 12star unit set right now? Or should i stick with my saiki set till 30 sep. Will 12 star+ units drop frequently then?
You can get the Ciruray units from the Weapon Badge Shop, but you will need weapon badge 2's. If your new to the game you may not have many of those. (But if you do have them, the Ciruray set is very good, I personally use them).
Just copied your method for affixing my Force main's Cirucurays. +90 Tec, +50 HP, +3 PP. Hopefully I won't be dying quite as much in the 80/80 UQs! On Ship One, the Soul augment prices are a bit rough right now, 1.3m was the cheapest I could find for any viable soul on a 4-slot unit. Luckily, I already had one Soul I could use already stashed.
Thank you so much again! You are a gem! I appreciate this video! I know nothing about augments and I believe I have most of the starters in my storage (I hoard units) lol I’m gonna wait until Hero comes along before I spend any Meseta!
for reference, you can farm those soul slap 2-3 run for respective soul (ex: coast explo for bal soul) n while doing dat you can also clear client order mission
Can you make video on best options for a katana, your nemesis is beast. Still need stuff to get to even come close. Still learning and this helped a lot. Enjoying the game .thanks btw
i'm barely new to this game and for a event got 13* Units and 3 15* Gunblades cuz i know there's a new class coming... i hope you could do a new video with that and how to change weapons element could help me a lot with this
Is it worth while getting all the affixes you want from getting weapons to level 35 to unlock potential and then use those (say 6) potentials and transfer across to your 6 slot best weapon? Got a nemesis and can't afford all the best affixes then having the risk of losing the weapons and also my slots for my nemesis... I have 3 already, alter tyro, precision 4 and astral soul. Still need to decide other 3. It really can drive you mad trying to pull it all together.
Hello what kind of units shoud we go now ? I'm a Hunter/Etoile i'm currently lv 92 For hu and 76 for Etoile i have a stella units for now For weapon i have the collection folder i don't know if i should try make one better weapon or have a units
Isn't the set bonus of the Brissa set better than the Saiki? Pretty sure I saw that from one of Anamana's videos, and also take a brake from time to time man don't push yourself too hard nobody want to see you in bad shape. Take care and the god of RNG bless you.
Good thing I've been hoarding Alot, I think I already have some of the souls haha but stats like might, I'll have to check. I'm using the ray unit set, so this will give me a nice boost!
So for my Ray Units, should I use melee boost affix or use the new noble affixes? anyways this guide help me figure out what to do with my ray units! thanks
@@keroppi thanks for the affix guide in general got my units done was a bit costly, went with Graceful Might, Might 3, Arks Fever, Stamina III, Allies Di Soul on my Ray/Union Units the extra pp and hp are huge
I affix a 5 slot back ray unit and alpha spirit fail at 90% I thought there was a extra 10 percent can I get my piece back if so how do I use the 5 slot item return item
it took me 10mil to get the Brissa set with that affix stats but should i upgrade to Saiki set? if so whats the fair price for the Brissa with that stats on market?
If your not struggling with any of the current content stick with the Brissa! No real need to upgrade unless things start getting too hard with your current gear.
I personally would hold off affixing anything for Hero unless you have played the JP server/ know exactly what your doing. (I have not played the JP server nor the Hero class, so I cant give any helpful advise here, sorry!)
@@keroppi no worries I'll hold off just trying to prepare is all so when hero drops I can just focus on the class and not the gear 🙂 your video was still helpful thx
Yes, you can do it on your 6 slot unit. (But if you have a 6 slot unit you may want to try 5 or 6 augments instead). It will be a lot more expensive though.
@@keroppi same here XD, but as a f2p player i want o maximise what i can achieve with my 3 characters, so I am managing like this dex mag for character 1 -> I can play braver, bouncer, phantom(phantom converts dex mag to all three sattack, tec attack and rng attack, so 200 dex means , 200 stak, 200 r atk, 200 tec atk) when it releases tec mag for character 2-> will play force/techer, hero and etoile (because both hero and etoile converts whatever in any attack to 100% in all three, eg 100% tec atk gets converted to 100% s atk, 100% r atk, 100% tec atk), i will also play hunter with subclass etoile, and also fighter with subclass etoile, as etoile is basically the best subclass for hunter/fighter rng mag for character 3-> plan on playing ranger, gunner with it, also might make a bow braver on this character So this is what i have planned, i am a completely new player, this is all i have gathered after research on the internet you might already know all of this but yeah, in case you doesnt this also sounds a good topic for a video for your channel "How to manage playing most of the classes at their best as a f2p player" XD
@@keroppi Have you tried the Gunner i have a lvl 70 gunner-fighter i get hits often with assault rifle for 100K+ x4 using satellite aim and have seen crits at 2m when ranger cast weak bullet bosses drop extremely fast. non-photon hits crit for 8k.
Kero, I get you don't trust me. But there are like 5 recipes that would do this either better, or cheaper, or both. Long story short, almost everyone is totally missing the advantages of Gryphon Soul and Mutation. Side note: The soul you couldn't find in the shop is VaRder Soul. Not Vader Soul.
I don't know why you have the assumption that I don't trust you. But putting that aside, I am more interested in these other recipes which you are talking about. Could you share with everyone what were missing? And thanks for the correction for the Varder Soul! I didn't realise I was typing it wrong.
@@keroppi The assumption is from when you put out one of your first affixing videos and I offered you some tips but you said no. Then after you had a couple of your affixing videos out I also commented that how you did it wasn't the cheapest or really recommended. And then lastly from this video because I remember someone else commenting on one of your videos giving you this suggestion to use different souls from the past video, and you took their advice and didn't mention mine. Anyway, So what I keep saying is that you can use both Mutation, and Gryphon Soul to make some cheap and strong affix's. The main reason behind this is because Beach Wars was a really strong Urgent Quest that put a TON of great units into the player shops. It's very easy/cheap to get Gryphon Soul and Mutation I together on a unit. Just having these while doing the affix, even without putting either of them on the new unit will boost your chances. More importantly, if you are building fodders, (which I mentioned is far cheaper when you use a 1 star item as the base) you won't need 3 might 3's you can just use 2 and a Gryphon Soul, which saves you a lot in the player shops(not for this specific affix you did) The Mutation II helps you put on Might IV instead of III This exact build could be done as an UP-Slot from 3 slot units to get the fodders cheaper. You could also build Might III with Might II's for cheaper. Mutation I can be used to boost the Might II to Might III conversion. I would strongly suggest using Spirit over Stamina. It would be pretty reasonable to build 5 slot units during this boost, instead of the 4 slots. By doing this you can again take advantage of the Gryphon Soul and Mutation combos, and with a little proper shopping put Mastery III on for very cheap as well (Mastery III is best applied with 1 copy of Might III 1 copy of Precision III and 1 copy of Casting III. So a similar price, stronger unit would have 1-Gryphon Soul, 2-Might IV, 3-Mutation II, 4-Mastery III, 5-Might Boost. This gives you some options as well if you do want to swap out Mastery III or Mutation II for Spirit IV. These are the main points. I don't mean any insult or disrespect to your process, because it IS VERY straight forward and does work, for a reasonable price(before these crazy prices). I just believe there are better options out there.
No, I am sorry for causing the mis-understanding. I never meant to ignore you or your comments in my previous videos. I agree that the alternative you posted above is a great alternative.
@@keroppi No worries man. I have a ton of respect for you and what you do for this community. You're out here helping a lot of people and making things so much easier to understand, and we need more of that. Affixing is a really hard and confusing topic with so much information and I recognize that I'm just some guy on the internet, I'm just trying to help anyway I can lol.
Big Yikes! I would wait a day or two, let the market stabilise a bit, or you can wait for affix week to end and use a 40% augmentation aid like what I did in the video.
@@keroppi You could actually have used deus factor for melee, those come with escarde soul as well and are really cheap. But I guess this video is for teaching and not specifically catered to for melee players.
are you accounting for the ex cube cost for the affix boosters? I value an ex cube at roughly the same price as a photon sphere (~10k) because 10 star weapons can be exchanged for either an ex-cube or photon sphere, so turning those weapons into cubes instead of spheres incurs an opportunity cost of 10k each.
It should have been cheaper to just buy saikis at 4 slot already since you're spending cubes to get it to 4 slot and also consider the affixing fee of 51k each, even from 0 slot to 1 slot, it's ~50k (Not sure how expensive 4s saikis are, but it's something to consider)
And for the expedition soul, it would have been cheaper to just go with a soul that boosts 'stat' affix rate, like Jigmol. Pay the extra 50k(?) So you can use a 30% instead of a 40%, but during boost week it doesn't matter
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I just wanna say liked, commenting and subscribing. I have watched god knows how many affixing guides were they just ramble on without a script or skip through the steps like its common knowledge. Listening to you and watching everything step by step and just *click* I finally get it.
I'm pretty sure all of us prefer your health over making a video my man, breaks are good too just like this video cheers 👍
Thanks ^^
instaBlaster.
Thank you so much for showing a video on the process, I've been very nervous about implementing the knowledge I've learned about affixing, but with this video I'm pretty sure I can nail down some of the very basics now. I've watched a few other videos of yours about affixing as well and they're all wonderful, you're very good at explaining things slowly with great examples.
Just please take care of yourself and put your health before any videos x3 Thanks again!
This guide fucking helps a lot! Always appreciate it when tutorials are more hands-on rather than some explanation, makes everything easier to understand and a lot less daunting
This is literally the only in-depth guide I've found and I can't thank you enough for it. I was completely lost on how any of this works. The game does a terrible job of letting you know. Saw your guide on getting the upgraded atlas weapon too, finally got a clear path towards getting some damn gear
Thank u very much for the vids! It's very helpful, specially for new players or players that want to learn how to affix.
"a" I see you are a man of culture.
Great guide btw
Just wanted to say thanks for this. Been a long time since I played on JP and I forgot how to affix with any level of competency. Budget is perfect for my needs.
Thank you so much. I got more out of this video than 2 hours scrolling trying to figure out how to affix augments ❤️❤️
Had to come back to double comment; I said before I did not understand souls and now I managed to upslot my 13 star weapon and get an Alles D affix :)
I wish I had a +40% as I ended up with 5 slots rather then the 6 I wanted but still your video was a huge huge help
Thank you so much for this video! I have been struggling with understanding affixing and now it makes sense.
This video is really helpful! I'm new to the game and have ignored augmenting since I didn't understand it at all. You explained everything so clearly, and the Hololive EN transitions are awesome. ♥
hehe~ glad the video helped!
Firts video i found that I actually understand, thanks man, I finally understand how to affix stuff.
This is EXTREMELY helpful on the process. And extremely upsetting cause I just cleaned my storage and Im sure I had a ton of fodder I could have used *_*
Good video as always, very informative and easy to understand.
You make augumentation understandable tbh.
But i have a question:
Is there any way to get you hands (with relative ease) on a 12star unit set right now?
Or should i stick with my saiki set till 30 sep. Will 12 star+ units drop frequently then?
You can get the Ciruray units from the Weapon Badge Shop, but you will need weapon badge 2's. If your new to the game you may not have many of those. (But if you do have them, the Ciruray set is very good, I personally use them).
Excellent guide. This helps greatly!
Just copied your method for affixing my Force main's Cirucurays. +90 Tec, +50 HP, +3 PP. Hopefully I won't be dying quite as much in the 80/80 UQs! On Ship One, the Soul augment prices are a bit rough right now, 1.3m was the cheapest I could find for any viable soul on a 4-slot unit. Luckily, I already had one Soul I could use already stashed.
Thank you so much again! You are a gem! I appreciate this video! I know nothing about augments and I believe I have most of the starters in my storage (I hoard units) lol I’m gonna wait until Hero comes along before I spend any Meseta!
for reference, you can farm those soul
slap 2-3 run for respective soul (ex: coast explo for bal soul)
n while doing dat you can also clear client order mission
This video was extremely helpful, big props my dude!
Glad the video was helpful!
Great video again. Definitely worth sharing this one.
Man, you are out here saving my life and sanity! Thank you!
Can you make video on best options for a katana, your nemesis is beast. Still need stuff to get to even come close. Still learning and this helped a lot. Enjoying the game .thanks btw
Man love the way you talk. SUBSCRIBED.
I don't care about my stats, I'm here for that puyo mag.
Video was very helpful. Thanks 👍
i'm barely new to this game and for a event got 13* Units and 3 15* Gunblades cuz i know there's a new class coming... i hope you could do a new video with that and how to change weapons element could help me a lot with this
I’ve been saving up fodder. I’m gonna do this!
Hey Keroppi I really like how you explain all this now I'm going to do this with my ranger now cool thx
Ty for this. Would you mind doing an ep 5 Budget Affixing guide too?
Maybe near in ep6, there are a few affixes not released yet which I’d like to use.
Is it worth while getting all the affixes you want from getting weapons to level 35 to unlock potential and then use those (say 6) potentials and transfer across to your 6 slot best weapon? Got a nemesis and can't afford all the best affixes then having the risk of losing the weapons and also my slots for my nemesis... I have 3 already, alter tyro, precision 4 and astral soul. Still need to decide other 3. It really can drive you mad trying to pull it all together.
Hello what kind of units shoud we go now ? I'm a Hunter/Etoile
i'm currently lv 92 For hu and 76 for Etoile
i have a stella units for now
For weapon i have the collection folder i don't know if i should try make one better weapon or have a units
Isn't the set bonus of the Brissa set better than the Saiki? Pretty sure I saw that from one of Anamana's videos, and also take a brake from time to time man don't push yourself too hard nobody want to see you in bad shape. Take care and the god of RNG bless you.
Wait end of month patch you can increase hp or pp on units significantly?! Does that apply to 12 star units as well?
kero please eat healthy and stay hydrated! take care of your health first! you are special!
Thank you for the kind words.
Is it still worth augumenting Saiki? Especially with the new 12 units coming out/already out for eps 5?
Depends on your situation. Saiki is a decent budget choice, but if you have better units (Circuray etc) then use those for sure.
Good thing I've been hoarding Alot, I think I already have some of the souls haha but stats like might, I'll have to check. I'm using the ray unit set, so this will give me a nice boost!
So for my Ray Units, should I use melee boost affix or use the new noble affixes? anyways this guide help me figure out what to do with my ray units! thanks
Depends on your budget! If you can afford it getting the more expensive noble/ elegant/ Magnificent affixes are great choices (but cost a lot more)!
@@keroppi Cool I actually have 3 Graceful Mights that I think I will use for my rays
@@keroppi thanks for the affix guide in general got my units done was a bit costly, went with Graceful Might, Might 3, Arks Fever, Stamina III, Allies Di Soul on my Ray/Union Units the extra pp and hp are huge
I affix a 5 slot back ray unit and alpha spirit fail at 90% I thought there was a extra 10 percent can I get my piece back if so how do I use the 5 slot item return item
Is the invelm set considered to be better than the saiki set?
it took me 10mil to get the Brissa set with that affix stats but should i upgrade to Saiki set? if so whats the fair price for the Brissa with that stats on market?
If your not struggling with any of the current content stick with the Brissa! No real need to upgrade unless things start getting too hard with your current gear.
How did you get to know about souls combining thing?
I read a lot of information online and tried to simplify it.
Hey thank you so much can you do a video for weapon pls?
Isn’t it “Varder Soul” (with two rs), not “Vader Soul”?
You are correct! I can’t read properly.
If we want to main hero how should we be building our units and also do these same rules apply for a budget build for 12* units? Or should we wait
I personally would hold off affixing anything for Hero unless you have played the JP server/ know exactly what your doing. (I have not played the JP server nor the Hero class, so I cant give any helpful advise here, sorry!)
@@keroppi no worries I'll hold off just trying to prepare is all so when hero drops I can just focus on the class and not the gear 🙂 your video was still helpful thx
..first of all thanks for the guide.. can i still do this in my have 6 slotted Back / Cyhacross?
Yes, you can do it on your 6 slot unit. (But if you have a 6 slot unit you may want to try 5 or 6 augments instead). It will be a lot more expensive though.
30% affix boosts are 20 excubes, which are 240000 meseta each through grinders... just saying
Ah I see! I thought the standard was based of Deo weapon prices (20,000 at the time of that recording)!
I did not understand the souls at all, I have sold off so many for cheaper then I should've :(
At least now I know!
Can you do a build with a higher slot on or it’s not worth right now
If you have the meseta 5 slot units are great. As for weapons 6 slots is the sweet spot.
I don't know why I am here. Oh, its cause I am broke. I have 5 slot units with 180Tec. Good guide.
Second braver, why? is she a bow braver as compared to your previous one?
I just really like the Braver class.
@@keroppi same here XD, but as a f2p player i want o maximise what i can achieve with my 3 characters, so I am managing like this
dex mag for character 1 -> I can play braver, bouncer, phantom(phantom converts dex mag to all three sattack, tec attack and rng attack, so 200 dex means , 200 stak, 200 r atk, 200 tec atk) when it releases
tec mag for character 2-> will play force/techer, hero and etoile (because both hero and etoile converts whatever in any attack to 100% in all three, eg 100% tec atk gets converted to 100% s atk, 100% r atk, 100% tec atk), i will also play hunter with subclass etoile, and also fighter with subclass etoile, as etoile is basically the best subclass for hunter/fighter
rng mag for character 3-> plan on playing ranger, gunner with it, also might make a bow braver on this character
So this is what i have planned, i am a completely new player, this is all i have gathered after research on the internet
you might already know all of this but yeah, in case you doesnt this also sounds a good topic for a video for your channel
"How to manage playing most of the classes at their best as a f2p player" XD
@@keroppi Have you tried the Gunner i have a lvl 70 gunner-fighter i get hits often with assault rifle for 100K+ x4 using satellite aim and have seen crits at 2m when ranger cast weak bullet bosses drop extremely fast. non-photon hits crit for 8k.
Kero, I get you don't trust me. But there are like 5 recipes that would do this either better, or cheaper, or both. Long story short, almost everyone is totally missing the advantages of Gryphon Soul and Mutation.
Side note: The soul you couldn't find in the shop is VaRder Soul. Not Vader Soul.
I don't know why you have the assumption that I don't trust you. But putting that aside, I am more interested in these other recipes which you are talking about. Could you share with everyone what were missing?
And thanks for the correction for the Varder Soul! I didn't realise I was typing it wrong.
@@keroppi The assumption is from when you put out one of your first affixing videos and I offered you some tips but you said no. Then after you had a couple of your affixing videos out I also commented that how you did it wasn't the cheapest or really recommended. And then lastly from this video because I remember someone else commenting on one of your videos giving you this suggestion to use different souls from the past video, and you took their advice and didn't mention mine.
Anyway, So what I keep saying is that you can use both Mutation, and Gryphon Soul to make some cheap and strong affix's. The main reason behind this is because Beach Wars was a really strong Urgent Quest that put a TON of great units into the player shops. It's very easy/cheap to get Gryphon Soul and Mutation I together on a unit. Just having these while doing the affix, even without putting either of them on the new unit will boost your chances. More importantly, if you are building fodders, (which I mentioned is far cheaper when you use a 1 star item as the base) you won't need 3 might 3's you can just use 2 and a Gryphon Soul, which saves you a lot in the player shops(not for this specific affix you did) The Mutation II helps you put on Might IV instead of III
This exact build could be done as an UP-Slot from 3 slot units to get the fodders cheaper.
You could also build Might III with Might II's for cheaper. Mutation I can be used to boost the Might II to Might III conversion.
I would strongly suggest using Spirit over Stamina.
It would be pretty reasonable to build 5 slot units during this boost, instead of the 4 slots. By doing this you can again take advantage of the Gryphon Soul and Mutation combos, and with a little proper shopping put Mastery III on for very cheap as well (Mastery III is best applied with 1 copy of Might III 1 copy of Precision III and 1 copy of Casting III. So a similar price, stronger unit would have 1-Gryphon Soul, 2-Might IV, 3-Mutation II, 4-Mastery III, 5-Might Boost. This gives you some options as well if you do want to swap out Mastery III or Mutation II for Spirit IV.
These are the main points.
I don't mean any insult or disrespect to your process, because it IS VERY straight forward and does work, for a reasonable price(before these crazy prices). I just believe there are better options out there.
No, I am sorry for causing the mis-understanding. I never meant to ignore you or your comments in my previous videos.
I agree that the alternative you posted above is a great alternative.
@@keroppi No worries man. I have a ton of respect for you and what you do for this community. You're out here helping a lot of people and making things so much easier to understand, and we need more of that. Affixing is a really hard and confusing topic with so much information and I recognize that I'm just some guy on the internet, I'm just trying to help anyway I can lol.
@@jake-eu2bz is it worth affixing with the formula you mentioned would it be cheaper for a similar outcome?
If you fail affixing does the wepon lock from increase augment
It does not lock.
@@keroppi thanks, dont know where i hurd it but its been on my mind
how about the sub stellar wall its free. is that good?
It’s a great set! Feel free to use it since it’s already augmented, all you need to do enhance it!
What about the weapons? Can I do the same?
Yes
I'm glad you made this video because the tutorials in this game really suck XD
Varder?
Hmm, i wanted to upslot a weapon from 2 to 3, all of them was 90% chance and 2 failed. i think im lucky.
Feels bad man~
Noiiicee
Saiki has better set bonus?
Saiki gives more offensive bonus stats.
@@keroppi oh i forgot, i have a circuray back, gix arms and a circuray legs haha im definitely gonna use those
Yup! If you have better units please use them!
@@keroppi I did it! Thanks for the guide sensei.
Is pso2 free to play on pc?
Yup!
Just to inform you, all the friggin affix given in this video has its price skyrocket 3 friggin times HAHAHAHA
Edit: MIGHT III IS 1.4M JESUS CHRIST
Yeah prices are higher because of affix week
Big Yikes! I would wait a day or two, let the market stabilise a bit, or you can wait for affix week to end and use a 40% augmentation aid like what I did in the video.
@@keroppi You could actually have used deus factor for melee, those come with escarde soul as well and are really cheap. But I guess this video is for teaching and not specifically catered to for melee players.
And that's why videos like this mean well and do more harm in the long run
welp, you can make it with 3 power II + spesific soul dat boost it (ex gunne soul)
seriously ? why are the units that expensive ? are 4 slots with a soul that rare ? they dont feel like they are that rare.
When your not looking for them they pop up. When you actively farm for them they never drop. So most people would just rather buy with Meseta~
The H with Vader
Ringa soul be like, sell more veteran resolve la cibai xDDD
It’s Varder xD
Haha! I just noticed, silly me.
Hi
Nice videos but don't use VTubers as jumpcuts. They are not only cringe.. but not your IP.. Its trashy.
are you accounting for the ex cube cost for the affix boosters? I value an ex cube at roughly the same price as a photon sphere (~10k) because 10 star weapons can be exchanged for either an ex-cube or photon sphere, so turning those weapons into cubes instead of spheres incurs an opportunity cost of 10k each.
It should have been cheaper to just buy saikis at 4 slot already since you're spending cubes to get it to 4 slot and also consider the affixing fee of 51k each, even from 0 slot to 1 slot, it's ~50k (Not sure how expensive 4s saikis are, but it's something to consider)
And for the expedition soul, it would have been cheaper to just go with a soul that boosts 'stat' affix rate, like Jigmol. Pay the extra 50k(?) So you can use a 30% instead of a 40%, but during boost week it doesn't matter