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How to Make Crowns

Contents 1 Introduction 2 General Grinding Tips 2.1 Equipment 2.2 Strategy 3 The Sovereign Slime 3.1 Overview 3.2 Equipment 3.3 Profits 4 Built to Destroy 4.1 Overview 4.2 Equipment 4.3 Profits 5 The King of Ashes 5.1 Overview 5.2 Equipment 5.3 Profits

Introduction

So, you want to do a lot of things in Spiral Knights eh? But what's this?! Everything you want do make and get costs crowns and energy! It's so expensive :/ . Fear not! This guide will teach you how to make all the Crowns and Energy in Spiral Knights. Going over the basics of trading and using the Auction House to your advantage. It will teach you the basics of being a merchant and how to efficiently grind levels, as well as the best places to grind.

General Grinding Tips

Remember to run every level on elite. This increases the payout of a level by roughly 50% compared to normal. It also improves Rarity drop rates and will increase the amount of event materials you'll get when you're farming those.

Equipment

To be the most efficient at running levels you're going to want to pick up a Chaos Cloak set and/or Black Kat set and weapons from the following lines:

• Brandish
• Autogun
• Blaster
• Magnus
• Graviton Vortex

Strategy

You generally want to bring Blaster for levels that have a lot of switches or use many traps, so that you can still output damagefrom a range. Enemies that have crowds may warrant Brandish/Magnus + Vortex combo. Autogun should be brought to levels that have big tanky enemies that need to be taken out quickly.

The Sovereign Slime

Overview

This is the first mission you'll unlock that'll be a prime place for grinding. The Sovereign Slime is a Rank 5-2 Mission that'll offer plenty of Crowns, Jelly Gems, as well as Slime Coins which you can spend at the Casino.

Equipment

To effectively run this mission you ought to get yourself weapons from Acheron Line, Winter Grave Line, or Grim Repeater Line a Vortex is optional but improves run time. Once you have those, this mission will take roughly 14-15 minutes to run. Once your equipment gets better and you improve your technique, you can reduce the run time down to 10-11 minutes or even shorter! Recommended Loadout:

• Acheron or Obsidian Edge
• Grim Repeater or Graviton Vortex

There's no need to bring anything for Lumbers or Silkwings, they'll die reasonably fast.

Profits

• Jelly Gem (Token) can be redeemed for Rock Salts x2 for each. These easily sell for 500cr each on the auction house. They sell better in packs.
• 3-3.2kcr will be earned from full clearing the level.
• Additional Slime Coins will be earned from killing slimes, which have a minimum worth of 100cr. They can be redeemed at the Golden Slime Casino for much more however, averaging at a 190cr worth.
• Elite Orbs of Alchemy for crafting
• Warm and Glowing Fire Crystals

Built to Destroy

Overview

This is the second significant grinding mission you'll unlock and it competes well with The Sovereign Slime. It is the final mission of the Knight Elite rank!

Equipment

To effectively run this mission you ought to get yourself weapons from the Combuster line, Phantamos line, and Iron Slug line. Vortex and Autoguns are not necessary this time around. After getting the run strategy down your runs shouldn't take longer than 12 minutes. Recommended Loadout:

• Combuster
• Phantamos
• Iron Slug

You can substitute Iron Slug in place of Phantamos if you do not have a 3rd weapon slot.

Profits

• Bark Module can be redeemed for Schemer Scraps, these sell for 18-25kcr each on the Auction House.
• 3-3.2kcr will be earned from full clearing the level.
• Elite Orbs of Alchemy
• Warm and Glowing Fire Crystals.

The King of Ashes

Overview

The final significant grinding mission you'll unlock on your journey. The King of Ashes is a rank 9-3 Mission and it's where many Vanguards grind their crowns. You'll find yourself grinding this mission a lot as it's one of the prime areas for farming Radiant Fire Crystals, lots of other knights play this level as well so you'll always have someone to run with.

Equipment

For this mission it's recommended that you bring weapons from the Combuster or Voltedge Lines + weapons from the Blitz Needle or Plague Needle Lines. If you have additional weapon slots bring Vortex and Arcana. Recommended Loadout:

• Combuster or Voltedge
• Blitz Needle

Firestorm Citadel has many optimizations to make sure you make the most amount of crowns in the least time possible, make sure to talk with knights in-game to figure out how to optimally run!

Profits

• Almirian Seal 30x of these can be redeemed for Ancient Plate which vendors for 30kcr, this makes each Seal worth 1kcr!
• 8-9kcr from full clearing the level
• Eternal Orbs of Alchemy
• Shining and Radiant Fire Crystals