Tips for those only using free combat plus

Preparation Suggestions;

- Condensed Energy exp boxes
- Purple Accessory boxes
- Orange and lower Relic boxes
- Gold Shakatu Coins. During the run, make sure to claim the 10m gold coins repeatable achievement every time. Roll main weapon unless you actually want to get specific reds for alts.
- Extra Emblem boxes
- Relic Fragments (if you are feeding to dark spirit)
- Alyaelli fragments. You will want to craft Giath's helmet after using the combat plus buff, and absorb them for dimensional fragments.
- Dark coins. You may or may not want to use your dark coins for dimensional fragments, as you will have a lot of residue to enchant your gear from shakatu. During the run, make sure to claim the repeatable achievement rewards for every 1m dark coins used (400 dim frags)
- Boss Rush/Cons difficulty levels (don't waste too much time and push too hard, whatever is comfortable. Might be easier to push harder bosses once you get some more cp during the run)
- Delaying the run as much as possible allows you to spend your HBR entries in higher difficulty runs, for better returns. Ideally you want to be strong enough to compete with the people you wanna compete with, and slowly inch ahead by delaying your runs.

Suggestions - Best time to use the buff;

- After reaching a milestone for your dark energy EXP bonus %.
- After reaching gear / non-combat plus related goals, so you have an optimal amount of cp from gear. This should be your focus all the time outside of a combat plus run anyway.
- When you have BotS buff active for as long as you will need it for boss rush. Buff ends when Friday turns into Saturday.
- Right after you are done with your dailies, earlier in the day the better.
- Wednesdays if you want to use the free revives in black sun, otherwise Thursdays or Fridays. Especially if Monday was a 30 minute ~235k edana BRS with boss stamps.
- After completing weeklies including farming edana, so there are no looming tasks.
- After reaching a target cons level
- When there is no farming event going on, or any similar event that makes you miss out if you are running boss rushes.
- Even Greater when there is a boss rush related event
- When you need the CP boost to defeat some stronger opponents.
- When it's been at least 5 or 6 weeks since your last combat plus run

Minor things to keep in mind;

- Increasing BS levels will unlock new BS quests every 5 levels. In particular, the Hadum quest gives decent Dark Crystals. Divide up your absorption of condensed energy chests, and set some time to complete the hadum quest at least. You can sort loot, spend Shakatu coins, use relic fragments, or enchant your chaos gear whilst you farm the required kills.
- Prioritize attack knowledge first, followed by defense and HP from easy bosses. This will help you handle stronger bosses - more importantly, it will make the run take slightly less time. This is less useful the stronger you are.
- The number of entries you can use at once for each boss or constellation increases as the knowledge level for that dungeon increases. Do take advantage of this to reduce the number of times you have to kill a boss.
- As a rule of thumb, early on in the run you should save your entries if you can use 20 entries per run, but you only have 19 or fewer entries left. This is because it might increase to 20 entries or so towards the end of the run, when you exchange more boss passes gained whilst afk or other content.
- Near the end of the run, save entries that are less than half the number you can use at once, unless using them is enough to get to the next knowledge level. This is so you can have some entries left for any quests in the short-term after your run.
- Near the end of the run, check to see if you have used as many entries you can, as well as your relic fragments and shakatu coins, condensed energy, alyaelli frags, emblem boxes, relic boxes and accessory boxes in your inventory and camp.