Essential Equipment to Hunt

[The Legendary Joe]

Isis (and the Occaisional Ancient Mummy if you can handle it) are a nice upgrade to the Orc Skels for exp, though not quite as nice as the places Namine mentioned earlier. Hidden Dungeon is nice as well, with the Bapho Jrs, and and all the annoying things that place comes with, though it's mobby and you might find yourself wasting SP healing all the time. I think I've seen some GC saders leveling in Niflheim somewhere on youtube, Loli ruri's being the main target, but provoke makes Bloody murderers much more managable.



I can highly recommend using a Hodremlin Card if you don't want a Race shield for everything. +15% Resist to Small, Medium, and Large Size monsters and a chance to boost Pdodge when hit. Racials will still be superior if you know you're going up against one specific race (and horn's stronger than that for ranged damage), but lazy shield is super. Especially in places like Hidden dungeon where There's mobs of many types of races that aren't specifically ranged.

Flower Wings might be an option to look into for starter gears. Their main focus is Mdef, as you get 20 mdef from them, but their base 6 def isn't to be shyed away from because they can be Refined, and the Double Wing Effect applies there too. Every Refine on them counts as 2 Refines worth of def~. Only downside is the crazy flower Lady won't give you another pair on the character you made them on. SHe's got such a stylish Cutin, but there's not much incentive to go back to her once you got what you came for
[Edit: Didn't realize Namine already suggested it]

Depending on how you're trying to gear it for, I think most pallies tend to go more Utilitarian. I am addicted to Snowier cards and the Ice Creams they farm, so I'm kind of restricted to Marc or ED, Or anything else that makes me Unfreezable like the Glorious Armor set. Other options include stuff like Peco Peco for that +10% Max HP. The + atk and HP boost from Echio card is nice, Porcellio is more glass-cannony.

Holy Property would be Ideal for GC saders, but they only have 3 Options in that regard.
Angeling card- Miniboss, and with your limited schedule, probably not going to happen.
Archdam Card combo- Needs the full set equipped,Other cards Include Freezer, heater, Permeter.
The last is having a team of a Priest and at least 2 other aco-types, and get the priest to use B.S.Sacrementi to enchant your armor with the holy property for a time. Sadly, hard to find anyone with this skill due to the reliance on having 3 aco's in the same party at the same time, standing right next to each other.

For PVP purposes, Evil Druid is quite nice on Crusader due to your Faith Skill pretty much halving the damage of holy attacks (not that we see much of them, but it's nice to have), as well as immunity to Freeze and Stone Curse.You're still vunerable to fire and I've seen some Shennanigans with Napalm vulcan. Just Be aware that wearing Bathory or Evil Druid while you're GC-ing will make you take Even more damage from your HOLY Grand Cross.

I'm not sure if it's still like it on this SVN, but I think I remember shield reflect breaking stuff out of statuses from Status Armors like Pest or Sasquatch.