Hm. Specifically leaving out very clearly jRO items (even those that are now used in every single other server), you'll have something like:
Upper: Magic Essence 5 Old Magic Stone Hat (Plaga, Ungoliant if using Safety Accessories or Automatic Accessories)
Middle: New Wave Sunglasses
Lower: Ghost Fire
Armor: Automatic Armor Type B (Shadow Spell x2, Post-Skill Delay x1, Sweet Nightmare)
Weapon: Pride Stone (Red Pitaya, Magic Poisoned Plaga) / Detecting Staff (Same Cards)
Garment: Temporal Int Manteau / Convertible Wing (Magic) (Purple Pitaya)
Shoes: Grace Boots / Ancient Hero Boots / Temporal Dex Boots (Research Assistant Bot)
Accessories: Celine Brooch + Evil Spirit Glove Combo (Roaming Spellbook + Dy) / Safety Pendant + Safety Epaulette Combo (Roaming Spellbook + Jeweliant) / Automatic Battle Chip L+R (Combination of INT/Spell/Whatever modules, Roaming Spellbook + Jeweliant)
For Shadows Crimson / Chain Weapon + Shield set and Tempest Shadows for your mdef piercing, the rest are up to you.
Reading Spellbook Comet + Release and Soul Expansion for your main damage dealers.
The Detecting Staff set overloads you on FCT, giving you enough FCT to transition into a Crimson Arrow/Crimson Rock build once you're an Arch Mage (and 1st skill rebalance has been implemented), but might cause you to miss out on comet OHKOs before 200. It also gives enough ACD to read and fire Comet immediately at the end of Release Cooldown.
The Pride Stone set provides firepower (and should be farmed/enchanted for anti-race/property of the enemies you're fighting for even more firepower). The lowered ACD means your global delay will slightly lag Release Cooldown but its not an issue if you can cleanly one-shot your targets.
Ghost Fire is technically cheating, but in my defense, all you specified was "no JRO items". It deserves to be pointed out that plenty of kRO, twRO, thRO and even iRO unique items are now also obscenely strong. You'll need to hit lvl 200+ to begin taking advantage of the combo's firepower increase.
Edited by 3096230415192656890, 15 October 2023 - 05:44 PM.