Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-98.154.5.158-20131108053247/@comment-24108837-20131108212941

ItsRedd wrote: Well said Packmann.

If I remember correctly, farming snakeskin is (for the better part) the most gold-efficient way to level up. Using fused armors, while expensive, is the fastest.

That is true above a certain upgrade level. For an armour containing water 1 snakeskin (24 EP) matches 2.4 Seafoam Armor (10 EP). So you should look at the costs for enhacing with 1 snakeskin versus enhancing with 2.4 seafoams. The costs are for snakeskin: 120 minutes armorsmith time + 3000 gold + the cost of 1 enhancement slot.

Using seafoam costs 2.4x(30 minutes armorsmith + 500 gold + 1 slot) = 72 minutes + 1200 gold + 2.4 slots. The difference between the 2 will be 58 minutes + 1800 gold - 1.4 slot.

That means that using seafoam will always be faster than snakeskin if you have enough money and it will be cheaper if 1.4 slots costs less than 1800 gold. So if 1 slot costs less than 1800/1.4 = 1285 gold using Seafoam Armor will be cheaper. I am not sure at what level that happens but it must be somewhere around level 15.