I did not calculate and do not have numbers to back up my claims, but I think there are 2 grinds that can be done simultaneously and it is to farm some dark lanterns while getting the plunderous kills. It's on a flat map, which you want on an SB, you need 5k per bag and 100k for the beginner weapon, it already takes a ton of time there and you can't candy it. I remember estimating upon my first couple results that it would take me about 65 days at dark lanterns compared to like 55 on citrines according to some people who had done that grind before... but citrines arent dropping anything good, the money is lower, the exp is lower and 10 days farming dark lanterns would yield less dark lanterns than the 65 days on active SB.
whats the drop rate/exp multi bonus you'd be getting at 1m kills? You mentioned that the grind is very long and we'd probably have better things to do, but I'm curious about how big that reward is at the end for getting to 1m kills and getting a huge drop rate/exp multi bonus would be cool to see the numbers for how long it would take to get to each pow of 10 on the way to 1m as kind of break points of how far someone SHOULD farm, because skipping the farm all together isn't good.
@fierce1340 from my calculations at a Max book level of 299, 1 million kills would give 24.8 drop rate and experience. I think it is safe to say, that 100K is The Sweet spot. The 1 million kills is more for the achievement.
You should have tested lantern spirits and clammies to see how big the penalty is for combining the plund grind with Dark Lantern / Pearl farming. SB is better att farming these drops than people realise. Not as good as ES obviously but definitely not bad. According to my testing, Lantern Spirit is actually better than Minicheifs and Sammy.
But are lanterns twice as good? Coz that's how much they'd need to gain to compare with citringes. Also agree with SB being great at passively farming rare resources, I have my second one farming rice cakes as we speak, then it'll be onto lanterns
@@0utsider2522 I think Citringes were 10% better than Lanterns in my testing. To me, that's definitely worth it. I don't want to give up some four digit amount of Dark Lanterns to be done 10% faster. My current setup is 6 toons AFK farming Rice Cakes for Pentastud Slappers and SB farming Lanterns. Regardless, I liked your video. Gave me a benchmark to test Lanterns against!
I guess I'm never getting that achievement. That is almost 2 months straight of active farming with most optimal circumstances. 2 months ago I started my current save and I'm still mid W6, so if I started with basically maxed out save never turned off my computer, I'd just barely have the achievement
I didn't even consider they might work coz when DK farming minichiefs are so much better than lanterns. The problem with the map is that it has very few spawns compared to other maps
They do it for the extra passive resources! You will take a loss on kills doing anything other than citringes. My goal was simply to get this achievement done asap :p
I did not calculate and do not have numbers to back up my claims, but I think there are 2 grinds that can be done simultaneously and it is to farm some dark lanterns while getting the plunderous kills. It's on a flat map, which you want on an SB, you need 5k per bag and 100k for the beginner weapon, it already takes a ton of time there and you can't candy it. I remember estimating upon my first couple results that it would take me about 65 days at dark lanterns compared to like 55 on citrines according to some people who had done that grind before... but citrines arent dropping anything good, the money is lower, the exp is lower and 10 days farming dark lanterns would yield less dark lanterns than the 65 days on active SB.
You are 100% correct! I did a part 2 based on feedback and actually ran the numbers you mention:
ua-cam.com/video/arRL8I5H0ZQ/v-deo.html
whats the drop rate/exp multi bonus you'd be getting at 1m kills? You mentioned that the grind is very long and we'd probably have better things to do, but I'm curious about how big that reward is at the end for getting to 1m kills and getting a huge drop rate/exp multi bonus
would be cool to see the numbers for how long it would take to get to each pow of 10 on the way to 1m as kind of break points of how far someone SHOULD farm, because skipping the farm all together isn't good.
So I'm currently at about 100k and it's about 20% the 1m target is really not worth it unless you are a completionist/have nothing better to do!
@fierce1340 from my calculations at a Max book level of 299, 1 million kills would give 24.8 drop rate and experience. I think it is safe to say, that 100K is The Sweet spot. The 1 million kills is more for the achievement.
You should have tested lantern spirits and clammies to see how big the penalty is for combining the plund grind with Dark Lantern / Pearl farming. SB is better att farming these drops than people realise. Not as good as ES obviously but definitely not bad. According to my testing, Lantern Spirit is actually better than Minicheifs and Sammy.
But are lanterns twice as good? Coz that's how much they'd need to gain to compare with citringes. Also agree with SB being great at passively farming rare resources, I have my second one farming rice cakes as we speak, then it'll be onto lanterns
@@0utsider2522 I think Citringes were 10% better than Lanterns in my testing. To me, that's definitely worth it. I don't want to give up some four digit amount of Dark Lanterns to be done 10% faster. My current setup is 6 toons AFK farming Rice Cakes for Pentastud Slappers and SB farming Lanterns. Regardless, I liked your video. Gave me a benchmark to test Lanterns against!
That is completely fair, I just want this grind over asap! It feels so painful!
I guess I'm never getting that achievement. That is almost 2 months straight of active farming with most optimal circumstances. 2 months ago I started my current save and I'm still mid W6, so if I started with basically maxed out save never turned off my computer, I'd just barely have the achievement
Yeah it's a bit of a crazy goal!
Why not lanterns? It's the citringes of w6
I didn't even consider they might work coz when DK farming minichiefs are so much better than lanterns. The problem with the map is that it has very few spawns compared to other maps
@@0utsider2522 that's fair. Just curious
@@Giggleslash feel free to give it a try and let me know your findings!
@@0utsider2522 hopefully I remember to. I'm going on a trip for a week 😂😂
Hope you have a good trip!
Most people do lanterns/clammies/citringes on SB. You only tested one of those though :(
They do it for the extra passive resources! You will take a loss on kills doing anything other than citringes. My goal was simply to get this achievement done asap :p
Done - what now? ^^
Be safe in the knowledge that you are better than me ;)
100k Golden Cake?
@@Martin-qb2mw that grind is so much quicker than this one