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Endgame Guide and Build

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The Forge Endgame Guide and Build

Here's a guide to The Forge's endgame, and the best pickaxe, weapon, and armor build for farming and forging!

The Forge Endgame Build

Best Pickaxe for Endgame: Dragon Head Pickaxe

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The Dragon Head Pickaxe is the strongest pickaxe in the game. With this, you can mine everything in the game with ease and speed. The Prismatic Pickaxe is a more accessible alternative for endgame and will still allow you to mine anything.

Best Pickaxes and Pickaxe Progression Guide

Best Weapon for Endgame: Straight Sword or Gauntlets

Best Weapon for Endgame

Straight Sword and Gauntlets are the best weapon types to forge in the game. Straight Sword has a lot of strong variants and is very cheap to forge, only needing 6 ores. For Gauntlets, the new Dark Knight's Gauntlets from the Hidden Maze Event has comparable damage to the Straight Sword but with faster attack speed.

Best Weapons and Weapon Types

Best Armor for Endgame: Raven Armor Set

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The Raven Armor Set is the best armor set in game. The Raven Questline will unlock this set. A good alternative armor set would be the Wolf Armor Set, and the Goblin's Crown helmet, which is unlocked after completing the Goblin Lord Questline.

Best Armor

Endgame Guide: Things to Do

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What Stage is Endgame?
Farm for Gargantuan Ore
Always Fight the Golem Boss
Farm Duranite for Better Armor
Optimize Forging Weapons and Armor

What Stage is Endgame?

The Peak

In The Forge, the endgame is considered reaching Lv. 150+ when you reach the Raven Cave and The Peak. The ores found in these places have higher multipliers for better stats.

This is also the point in the game where enemy damage is not a huge problem anymore, since you likely have around 1700-2000 DEF or more already.

Progression Guide

Farm for Gargantuan Ore

Gargantuan Ore Index

Gargantuan is the ore with the highest multiplier of 25x. This ore can be mined from rocks at The Peak. The most effective farming method for Gargantuan is to AFK farm at a location near Yetis in The Peak.

Gargantuan Location and Trait

Always Fight the Golem Boss

The Forge Ice Golem

You can fight the Golem boss every 30 minutes. The boss drops higher-tier runes, especially miner runes with Luck and Mine Power. Farm the boss as much as you can when the boss timer ends to have better equipment for mining and combat.

Golem Boss Guide and Drops

Farm Duranite for Better Armor

Duranite Ore Index

Duranite is the best ore for forging armor. It is found in Large Red Crystal and Heart of the Island rocks in the Raven Cave. It is also recommended to farm as much Duranite for better and stronger armor.

Duranite Location and Trait

Optimize Forging Weapons and Armor

Forging

With all the rare ores you farmed, you would want to optimize forging weapons and armor for better stats. Since ores have multipliers and can provide specific traits, try to find the best combination of ores to get the best possible outcome.

The minigames in forging are also factors in determining the item's stats. Aim to get a Masterwork forging quality for better stats. Finally, you can now add runes to further enhance your item's capabilities.

Forging Guide

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