The Thumb MDE Team【Burn, Tremor, & Max Desperado】

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Cons:

Faust literally burning up in flames if not treated carefully ( A.B.S Max Attunement 【Degraded Corrosion】).

Faust, Don, and Hong Lu being not the best option to clash enemies with (especially in Extreme).

If any member of the team died, you're lowkey cooked, especially if they're The Thumb or Burn ID.

MDE Strats

Get all Starlight++ buff, take the Tremor EGO Gifts, & enable Gift Search.

Gift Search for Prestige Card, Frozen Cries, & Emergency Investigator Badge. You can replace Frozen Cries for Chief Butler's Secret Arts instead if you really want to secure Handheld Mirror fusion.

Floor Plan:
F1 : Automated Factory for Hoarfrost Footprint (Haunted Shoes + Frozen Cries) or Faith & Erosion for Blood-red Mane if you pick Chief Butler's Secret Arts on gift search.
F2 : Hell's Chicken for Hot ‘n Juicy Drumstick, Tango Marinade, & Sharp Needle & Thread.
F3-4 : A Certain World for Handheld Mirror (Chief Butler's Secret Arts + Mirror Tactile Synaesthesia). If gift searched for Chief Butler's Secret Arts, then pick any themepack with good reward.
F3-4 : Full-Stopped by a Bullet for Darkflame Smoking Pipe, Gear Shrapnel, CQC Manual, & Implicit Contract Renewal (if possible).
F5-10 : Timekilling Time BokGak for Pocket Watch : Type E (Silver Watch Case + Rusted Clock Hands), Pocket Watch : Type Y (Faded Watch Case & Etched Clock Hands), Microprecision Time Accelerator, Entanglement Override Sequencer, Chalice of Trickle-down, Interlinked Time, & Warning Notice (if possible).
F5-10 : The Dusk of Amber for Desperado (Staticky Two-way Radio + Beak-shaped Necklace + Torn Bandolier), Pink Bouquet (Pink Petals + Reverberation + Once, A Blessing), not really important but if possible Walking Bass & Harmonics.
F5-10 : Textbook for Searing Hammer, & Uniform - Liu Assoc. (Red Necktie + Lowest Star + Polarization).
F5-10 : LCB Regular Check-up BokGak for Combustion Gloves, Re-ignition Plug, Embers, Trial Extraction : A.B.S, & Modified Extraction : AEDD
F5-10 : Line 1 try to get Snake Slough & False Halo.
F5-10 : Miracle in District 20 BokGak try to get Jolly Plushie (Sad Plushie + Pom-pom Hat + Huge Gift Sack), Gift (Packaging Box + Packaging Ribbon), & Shadow Monster (Snuffed Candlestick + Snuffed Lantern).
Remember to get these tier IV-V EGO Gifts:
Lunar Memory, Downpour, Glimpse of Flames, Clear Mirror, Calm Water, Artistic Sense, Charge-type Gloves, etc.
Remember to fuse these Fusion EGO Gifts before going to Extreme:
Soothe the Dead, Purloined Flame, Omnivibro-octovecti-bell, & Coupled Oscillation.
F11-15 : Chachihu for For the Capo.
F11-15 : Complete & Total Extermination for Rules of the Middle, not super important but nice to buff blunt skills.
F11-15 : Bearers of Weight for Burning Fate.
F11-15 : Bloodtinged Ichthyic Odor for Clappity Clap!.
F11-15 : any easy extreme pack such as Bridle of Infinity, Fairy Tale, or The Master of La Manchaland.

Extra note:

[Don Quixote] T Corp. Class 3 Collection Staff is picked for Time Moratorium and because she doesn't have an Ammo ID. Meanwhile, the other possible Time Moratorium ID is [Outis] T Corp. Class 3 VDCU Staff which is currently season-locked and Outis do have an Ammo ID which is [Outis] LCA Udjat Vanguard Team 3 Leader.
[Faust] LCE E.G.O:: Ardor Blossom Star is picked for Burn Fusion EGO Gift conditionals and because the other option is instead running [Hong Lu] Liu Assoc. South Section 5 for the conditionals which is a worse option for clashes.
If during F5-10 you didn't get Line 1 or Miracle in District 20 BokGak then go to any Themepack that rewards Searing Brass.
If during F11-15 you didn't get Complete & Total Extermination then go to A Midspring Night's Dream 2 for Kkomi's Mini-Gift, Code Purple for Mid-range K Corp. Ampule, or Line 3 for Unhatched Embers instead for more survivability.
There's a possibility for alternate route:
- Gift searched Red Tassel instead of Emergency Investigator Badge.
- F3: Full-Stopped by a Bullet.
- F4: Early LCB Regular Check-up BokGak instead of A Certain World.
- During F5-10 go to Mnestic Experience for The Book of the Homeland Swordplay [本國劍譜] (Red Tassel + Unadorned Sword-guard + Overused Whetstone) and pretty much every unique EGO Gifts from this pack.
- Of course since Emergency Investigator Badge replaced by Red Tassel on gift searched, you need to pray for Emergency Investigator Badge reward or for it to appear in shop during Timekilling Time BokGak. Or just not, whatever, it's just for survivability.
The written alt route above is possible since the team has a lot of skills especially for [Rodion] The House of Spiders: The Thumb Nursefather since she is the main DPS carry of the team and essentially what it gives is more damage towards skills instead of getting Bind, Defense Level Down, and more Tremor from Handheld Mirror.
This guide is written on 27/06/2026, I spent most of my morning brain power to write all of this, idk why.