Board Thread:Game Discussions/@comment-78.54.65.39-20140406114740

Hi!

I have an academic question, more for the sport of calculating than for the final result.

I'd like to get the green Kaleidoscopic armour from creepy crawlers.

Due to work I usually can't fight at all times of a day, usually in the morning and evening (twice) when I have to use two friends.

I manage lvl 15 to 16 alone, so that's not a problem, I usually get to finish lvl 43 on Tues. evenings (CEST). The bosses change at 2am my time.

I'm good this time - lvl 36 on Sunday - but the deadline for the creepy crawlers' caleidoscopic armour is in about 60 hrs. I need 64 hrs. 48 mins. for an epic armor and need another 13 Spider Silks.

At present I have 3 epic energy, I could buy 50 for 40 gems; I only can use another 6 friends today.

What would be the optimal strategy to still get the Caleidoscopic? I would like to invest as few gems as possible.

13 Silk means 77 gems at the summoning stone.

7 wins against the Araknos mean using 14 friends; I would have to wait till tomorrow morning (or rather, evening, as I have to start working an hour before I get the friends again).

I could use 12 gems several times with my own line up (blazeborne lvl 98 on main, "normal" behemoth maxed, Voidborne Shroud plus at lvl 18 - I need my "small" armours to lvl the normal Araknos to 35 so can't increase that; all wear the spidersilk coat) and without friends; doubtable if I'd get the bosses with one repetition. It'd probably be cheaper to invest into buying gems and just start again. Being on the safe side I'd have to calculate 20 extra gems per fight without friends; would be 3 fights with friends and then four without; 80 gems alltogether.

I also could try to fight six times with one friend and invest 12 gems each time to repeat the fight. That would be 72 gems plus 20 for an extra fight without friends or 11 for the extra at the summoning stone.

The longer I wait the more I also have to pay for finishing my armour early - 1 gem per 30 minutes. That means if I finish tomorrow evening after getting my friends again and finish, say, midnight, I'll have 26 hrs. left for crafting of the 65 hrs. I need 78 gems to finish then.

At present there are 60 hrs. and 13 minutes left on the offer.

What would be the best strategy? Anyone interested in the maths? ;)

Aravis 