Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-98.154.5.158-20131108053247/@comment-24108837-20131109203314

I personally consider the costs of different enhancement methods, but in practise I only keep as rule of thumb that at low levels lower level armours are advantageous and at higher levels the snakeskin and more fancy options. When I am under time pressure, like now I am upgrading my Headless Horseman + asap to fight against wyvern, I just look at my finances. As long as I can pay it I will enhance with basic water. I prepared a bunch of seafoams and snakeskins as much as I could, but I saved them for the moment I would start running out of cash. Today I upgraded to (I believe) level 29 using only basic water. That is wildly expensive. But i started with 200,000 and gained some money from my buildings while I was busy. The when I only had 27,000 left I stopped because the armours I saved up would cost 27,000 to use up. So I started making seafoam and using the seafoam I had, till I had to fight. Then I used up all my snakeskin in one go.

Now I am still producing Seafoam although I can't get enough gold to use them as soon as I finished them. The point is of course that snakeskin takes 2 hours to craft and is 2.4 times more valuable in EP. So if I can make enough gold to enhance 2.4 times in 2 hours  I will still upgrade faster with seafoam than with snakeskin. This way I hope to reach level 40 by tonight. Or get as far as I can. I have to, because it will be my only really strong armour against wyvern. I will be poor, poor, poor, but who needs money :)