Stars End Grind Zone Revamp

Introduction

Star's End was promised a remake to make the spot an end game spot like its original design!

• This revamp is more than just tuning up the monsters to be more powerful and then buffing the loot
• There's new mechanics to the grind spot and its fast paced field monster zone, not a static one
• The new Star's End introduces a new type of grind zone type called #HighestTier grind spots
• Since it's now a high end grind spot, there's also some big ticket drops for silver as well

New Stars End Revamp

The revamped Star's End is a field-style monster zone. Instead of staying in one spot, you'll move through the area and quickly clear monster packs, which is similar to old grind spot design rather than the newer static spots. 

Star's End does keep the original design concept of knocking the monsters down so you can delete them with down attacks. Now when you destroy an object, extra mobs can spawn, giving more momentum while going pack to pack.

Like Jade Starlight Forest, kills can trigger chain explosions that take out nearby monster groups as well, basically rewarding kills with the potential to get even more kills that keeps the gameplay feeling fast. 

The devs wanted this zone to feel distinct from Edania's monster zones, giving high-end players another strong option depending on personal preference on either static or fast paced pack to pack styled grinding. 

Star's End now features new and existing monsters placed in separate areas, there's an area that still spawns the old mobs to make sure that some of the old quests are still completable.

The Vessel of Inquisition spot is basically just the old Star's End in terms of loot, it doesn't seem like a very popular spot and the silver per hour gets out done by a lot of other mid game zones. 

#Highest-Tier Grind Spots

This new term has been given to the grind spots with the highest requirements, they're basically end game spots that have additional items and rewards added to them to make grinding them more exciting. 

The biggest thing that these can drop is probably the items for giving your Sovereign weapons and Edana defense gear a custom glow colour, currently there are only a few colours in the game but more will be added later.

In #Highest-Tier monster zones, you'll be able to obtain exclusive loot, such as the mentioned Effect Dyes but also Corrupt Oils of Immortality and extra rewards as well. 

The devs have said that this #Highest-Tier tag will be something that shifts around when more grind spots added that are even more challenging or have higher requirements, the loot will only come from zones with the #Highest-Tier tag.

The For a full breakdown on how to craft the Effect Dyes, check out our guide below!

Revamped Star's End Drops

Since Star's Ends requirements have been revamped massively, the rewards have been adjusted as well to make the spot actually worth grinding as you might expect. It now comes with its own unique rewards. 

If you're a fan of using Marni's Realm, the size of the Marni's Realm grinding zone has been increased by 20% to allow for more room to grind as well as more mobs in the area as well. Here are some of the rewards: 

Required Stats	Key Loot
Displayed 395 AP / 460 DP   Total 1,920 AP / 800 DP (Max AP Limit: 1,950)   ※ Allan Serbin's Landscape effects now apply at Star's End.	Corrupted Gluttony Crystal Gluttony Crystal Origin of Corruption Black Distortion Earring (up to TRI (III)) Deboreka Earring (up to TET)
Junk Loot Corrupted Sanguine Crystal (Sale Price: 155,000 Silver)

You can now obtain the new Corrupted Gluttony Crystal from Star's End. The Corrupted Gluttony Crystal or its crafting material, the Gluttony Crystal, will drop at a set probability.

Corrupted Gluttony Crystal	Gluttony Crystal
Item Description	Item Description
Market Price (Min): 300,000,000 Silver Market Price (Max): 3,000,000,000 Silver	Market Price (Min): 12,500,000 Silver Market Price (Max): 50,000,000 Silver

There's also a unique big ticket RNG drop that can be an incentive to grind this new Star's End spot called the Origin of Corruption can be sold to NPC Shops for 3,000,000,000 Silver.

Since the new Star's End revamp has the #Highest-Tier tag that was mentioned earlier, here are the drops that are assosciated with a grind spot that has been given that specification. 

Item Name	Min Price	Max Price
Crimson Primordial Luster - Sovereign	100M Silver	500M Silver
Violet Primordial Luster - Sovereign	100M Silver	500M Silver
Violet Primordial Luster - Edana	100M Silver	500M Silver
Crimson Primordial Pigment - Sovereign	10B Silver	50B Silver
Violet Primordial Pigment - Sovereign	10B Silver	50B Silver
Violet Primordial Pigment - Edana	10B Silver	50B Silver

The spot holds up really well in terms of silver per hour value, you can check over on our Grind Tracker to stay up to date with its current reading but at the time of writing it's one of the best spots in the game. 

Maybe the numbers will be higher once people are more familiar with the spot but as it stands, it's not too far off Zephyrus Castle for money earning potential, though that also has higher gear score requirements. 

It's also worth noting that the new Star's End does also drop Refined Essence of Devouring as well, just like Zephyrus Castle. Here's how the money per hour is looking for Star's End. It's also Stun/Stiffness/Freeze CC instead.

Do you think you'll give the new Star's End a try for the pack to pack gameplay and the familarity of an old zone or will you stick to Edana zones for more static gameplay? Let us know! 

Why not check out some of our other guides while you're here?