1 . With 266 mil in the bank buy a 15 or pri liverto shortsword . I mean with that money you can afford a tri but its much more worth to used the left over money to upgrade the rest of your gear . 2 . My method of upgrading is weaponsarmoraccesories . So basically if I have all duo are armor and weapons the first thing I will do is tri weapons . Also , I tend to have my accessories 1 enchant level below what the rest of my gear is . So if I ' m in full duo gear than pri accessories , tri gear , then duo accessories , etc . 3 . The safest option for armor until boss armor is full grunil but with your taritas you can do 2 piece taritas and 2 piece grunil to take past 15 , just use the agerian for failstacks . 4 . Just not the agerian as I said , helmgloves grunil , armorshoes taritas . And idk what you mean about the extraction with regards to upgrading to ultimate . 5 . I ' d say that is personal preference . If you feel you need the money sell , if you feel you need the black stones then extract and the third option would be to save them for failstacks . 6 . I don ' t even have one of the those things myself . If I had to guess and I ' m not an expert but offense for ninja . All I know is that alch stones are super expensive to repair and upgrade and can be very frustrating I would put a lower priority on an alch stone . 7 . Join a guild , I think you may be overestimating the time needed to be in a guild considering you are sitting on 266 m . Just find a casual guild or a lifeskilling guild or PvE guild . This game gets super lonely not playing with others , even if it just chatting in guild chat and asking questions and advice . Hope this helps !