Talk:Bitterblack Armor Lv.3/@comment-116.202.199.12-20141015154142/@comment-24458380-20141016172102

Don't feel bad, purification of Bitterblack items is the most mystifying and confusing subject in Dragon's Dogma. And rightly so. Everyone wants the best equipment, and Capcom obfuscated the process to extend the shelf life of the game.

It is kind of a good thing (making the best equipment rare), because I can tell you that once I got all the best Lv.3 Armor and Weapons I got a little bored by my overwhelming might and now I use weaker weapons like the White Hawk Talon sword and little or no armor, just for fun. Or go into Bitterblack with only debilitation weapons (like a Goldforged Rusted Bow and Aneled Bardiches) and see if you can make it out alive !

Many players simply start all over from scratch with another account, but this has the added benefit of solving anyone's Rift Crystal shortage. You'll never run run out of Rift Crystals when you can simply hire your own pawn ! A single run to kill Daimon earns my other 2 accounts/pawns 80,000+ RC each. Not too shabby...

By the way, the Bloodless Stockade chest # 12 sometimes takes me an hour also to get the Weapon Lv.3 to drop. The Fallen City chest # 19 seems to give slightly better odds. But Goldforged Level 2 weapons are already pretty devastating, if it's any consolation.