I need to start making them.
How do most people collect the items to upgrade? Challenge rewards? Or just play survival until something viable turns up?
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I need to start making them.
How do most people collect the items to upgrade? Challenge rewards? Or just play survival until something viable turns up?
Start by making 200mils. Around 2.5mil base value and 150ups (just to be sure). Then start dumping into base dmg. Challenge rewards like big stick and the retribution work well. If your play "high wave" survival, your will get alot of useless trans weapons, those are fine too etc.
Start by running insane alt pack 1 and getting retributions.
Any retirubtion you get with 115^ or so can become a 200m token.
whatever you do DONT make tokens over 200mil (ie. 400mil and 600mil tokens). there is just no point in my mind in wasting more mana if you can get the same reward from using less mana
Any tokens over 200m value are useful if you are trying to save space as alot of forum traders are. I personally use the everflames of nautalius for making tokens. They are easy to aquire, 3 a run in about half an hour, with a good chance of having nice tower stats for my ev waller or trapper, and they seem to have a very nice base value of average 5m with 180^ making 600m tokens possible sometimes.
Edit: everflames come from the challenge riddles of the deep on nmhc for best value
2.5m or more (i usually pick 3.5million+ weapons).
112up to 120 -> 200m token
155 to 170 -> 400m token
225 or more for 600m token
Ogre party hats are good for making tokens, and the challenge is easy. Retributions and big sticks are good, but you need better stats for assault runs. Note with party hats: You need around 138 ups to make a 200m token and 183 to make a 400m token. Despite the difference in the number of upgrades required, the cost to produce is the same.
Despite what the token guide says, 400m tokens are pretty widely used now. Some of the richest traders will only accept 400m tokens or more due to space restrictions. The cost to produce is about the same. 200m tokens are around 280-285m to make, 400m tokens are around 580m to make, which is close enough to 2 times as much. I recommend starting with a 3m+ item with 180+ ups. If you're in doubt, export to open and test it in a local game. That way you can see if you're losing too much money.
Guh, why do people still suggest Rets, or even worse random drops?
Get 1 friend, 2 is even better but 1 is enough for speed. Do Assault Pack 2 on NM for Mythical Big Sticks. Should take MAX 50 seconds a run with two people. Any Big Stick over 113^ will work for a 200m token. Any over about 4.9mil value will get there in exactly 112 ups. Any under that with the ups will get there in 113. In my experience about 75% of them are good for 112^ and closer to 85-90% within 113^.
If you have 2 good DPS friends it will take about 35 seconds a run. Assault Pack 2 is easier than 1 also, less random fails due to flukey spider BS. If you don't have friends but you do have a faster running DPS char that can handle it solo you're looking at about 1:15-1:25 to solo it.
*edit: To be clear, Rets and randoms will work, I just find that if you are specifically setting out to get token fodder the Big Sticks are more reliable and faster.
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As for the 400-600m token thing: Someone said recently that challenge rewards scale evenly and random stuff does not always. Hence why some items are costing people 2x or more for 400/600 ones.
http://www.reddit.com/r/dungeondefen...waste_of_mana/
I'm not positive if the Big Stick is one of the good scalers beyond 200m. Just dumped all my cash in to 200m tokens, shop is up so I'll test it in the morning probably.