​I’ve been playing for a while now, 1 week and a half to be exact haha. Anyways.

try using red or blues to reach lv 8 without anything else, you have a chances to get broken, but is minimal in thats levels anyway 7 blue/red stones are not so expensive. When you reach 8-7 use purple or green without white. (The white stone decrase the succes rate). In a few tries you will get a +10+11. If you are unlucky you will get a +9. In +9 use withe and if you are really lucky you will get a +12. The rest is nearly imposible without spend thousands of zeni. But you can do almost anything with a +10 gear.
Thats the way i do

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The white stone decrase the succes rate

Is this really true? If yes that's explaining why I have more luck than some other guys (lol).

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Is this really true? If yes that's explaining why I have more luck than some other guys (lol).

is not oficial, only my experiencie of loose a loot of purplem but if you ask me i can say im 95% sure of that

And I thought that white stone will stay if you get a success card.

It will disappear no matter what.

And thats BS.

It's actually easy to get to +8/+9 with only blue stones. I always try that. At +9 i try my luck with green stones. Sometimes using white to protect and sometimes without. Can't really say that white stone affects success rate. It's just luck. For example: I used 2x purple stone without any white stone on a +6 staff. Got 2x +3 and reached +12 easy xD

When you try to get past +9, from my experience i can tell you that it's annoying as hell man! But it's still possible. After reading about OB yesterday i tried a green stone on my +9 pants on my plasma. Got +12 and since i wanted too much i gave another try (ofc without white stone again) and fell back to +10 which i'm gonna keep now