Effective Item Upgradation Tips

Tips on upgrading items in Dark Orbit:

On max upgradation of any item you will receive 6% more damage and 15% more sheild.
Usually an FE goli will have 31 bo2s, 31 LF3s and 8 to 10 iris. Upgradation of single item to lvl 16 will cost approximately 100k uridium, thus upgrading 31 bo2s will take around 3100k uridium to reach lvl 16 and it is the same case with LF3s too. Here you won't find any shortcuts to upgrade your items to lvl 16, but you may find the way to effectively and economically upgrading your items. Once you decide to upgrade your items, then first you should consider upgrading the hellstorm to lvl16 rather than any other items at first as you can only have one of this item loaded in your ship. Thus for 100k uri you get max 6% damage bonus to your hellstorm.

Next best item for upgradation will be drones. As an FE you will only have 8 to 10 drones, thus upgrading drones is the wisest thing to do. Benefits as follows:

1. Iris have 2 slots, thus you will be placing two items in a drone and thus single drone upgrade bonus will give advantage to both those items together.

2. Iris has its own bonus for damage as well as sheild and thus it also adds up.

3. If you have a drone design or in future if you are able to obtain one, then again the bonus adds up.

4. One more benefit is that according to the situation your lvl 16 drone will give benefit to bo2 or LF3 or LF4s which ever you place in those slots and gives more kind of choices to your benefit.

5. Thus total cost of upgrading all 8 iris would be 800k uridium and 10 drones will be 1 million uridium. Now if you want to spend your hard earned uridium in more smart way then you should get rebate plan from the uridium page which will give you 25% discount on all uridium items you buy, plus you would be knowing that every week as mega happy hour is released the same way 25% discount on upgradation event happens, thus this will give you 50% discount on your upgradation thus just spending 500k uridium you would be able to upgrade all your iris or for 400k uridium for you 8 iris.

I hope this information will be of great help to you in deciding the way you can upgrade the items more effectively.

Vengence for noobs in uppers

Vengance:

Vengy is the best ship for semi-Fe or free players. If you are a noob but got bored hunting aliens in lowers, and wants to get to uppers, then vengy is the best ship. Unless you are full FE, ie 31 LF3, 31 BO2, 21 pp, 8 Iris, and 20 uridium speed generators, you need to be in lowers and if you want to hunt in uppers better get vengy and at least should have 10 speed generators to get full speed advantage of a vengy. Vengy's power lies in its speed, which is unbeatable. I don't say that you will superior to a FE goli, but mean to say that vengy's speed can help you escape from the chasing golis. Unless you are full FE, even having goli is of no use, because you are going to be popped now and then by other FE and Uber FE golis. Since vengy has got less sheild power and HP, here are few tricks that you can use if you involve in a fight with a goli:

1. Vengy's speed is the best advantage for the vengy player. If you just want to escape of an FE goli, then use your speed as a tool against those FE goli to escape. You can use slowing rockets on the goli while you running, this will give vengy a good escape time as goli has got low speed and if you hit that goli with a slowing rocket it will make the goli much slower and will give you enough time to jump the portal and escape. Now most of you will have one question in mind, this rockets costs 500 uri and your ship repair too costs 500 uri so whats the profit. Its true using 500 uri rocket to escape or to get poped is upto your style of play. Now there is now new option, that slowing mine of 20 uri, which would be much cheaper, but to make the enemy run through this mine would be a great pain, but still if you are lucky you can still slow down the chasing goli. If you desire to use the slowing mine, then make sure you are loaded with turbo mine cpu so that the cool down time of the mine is reduced and while running just check out the enemy following you is chasing you in a straight line thus chances of mine hitting him will be more.

2. Vengy's HP and sheild are lower than a goli. So here are some more tricks, use turtle formation of drone which you can buy for 1 million credits which will give your vengi a 10% more shield power as well as avenger design of vengi will again add another 10% of sheild to your vengi. Now here comes another trick, try to use smart bombs as the first mode of attack if ever you decide to fight a goli, this will give the goli 20% damage, which will make the goli somewhat equal to the hp of a vengi and may give your vengy a chance of winning the fight.

3. If you are in PVP or battle maps like 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4 then you should always have emp and cloacking cpu. If a goli is chasing you and hitting you then on the run just get your ship cloacked and then press the emp and run, so the goli wont be able to target you again or you can go to radiation zone so the goli cannot chase you as you will be invisible on the mini map too, but keep in mind if you are low in hp then going to radiation zone may destroy you.