Beginners Efficiency thread

TzaGear wrote:
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For example, lets say you are using the 4:4 method of monster leveling, that is going to area 4 and doing mission 4. The monsters it produces are 4 BP.

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krisirk wrote:
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Rank AA Evolution Cost = 1,120,000 - ( Evolver * 9,900 ) - ( Sacrifice * 900 )
Maximum Evolution Cost is with a Level 1 Evolver and Sacrifice = 1,109,200 Gold
Minimum Evolution Cost is with a Level 100 Evolver and Sacrifice = 40,000 Gold
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Normal Sacrifice Cost
As you can see above, leveling an AA up a bit before evolving it can save you a lot of gold. Unfortunately, sacrifices cost more gold the higher you level your monster. The formula above shows that for every level the Evolver raises, the cost for the evolution decreases by 9,900 Gold.
Therefore, we want to level the monster up only while the cost of leveling is less than the decrease in evolution cost. I've found that sacrificing 10 junk cards usually raises my monster level by about 2, so we would want the cost of sacrificing those 10 cards to be less than 19,800 Gold.

The cost to sacrifice 10 cards at a time is: Cost = ( Monster Level + 1 ) * 550. Solving for the cost to be equal to 19,800 gives level 35. However, TzaGear pointed out that I didn't include the opportunity cost of selling those monsters. If you use the 4 BP monsters that come from Area 4, you miss out on selling them and Gaining 4,000 gold. Using this, the most cost effective leveling strategy for AAs before evolution is to bring them up to level 27.

From this I found that it is most cost effective for you to level your AA monster up to level 27 before evolving it. Any less and you spend more for the evolution, any more and you are spending more for the leveling than you would have for the evolution.
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Kris

Event Horizon wrote:Skills that will stack in a formation:

• Preemptive Strike
  
• Slumbering Breath
  
• Venomous Breath
  
• Critical Rate Up
  
• Dodge Rate Up
  
• Heal
  
• Revive
  
• Arctic Tempest
  
• Celestial Lightning
  
• Hell's Blaze
  

Skills that won't stack in a formation:

• Icrease Party Attack
  
• Increase Party Defense
  
• Decrease Enemy Attack
  
• Decrease Enemy Defense
  
• Impulse Down
  
• Covert Down
  
• Psycho Down
  
• Demon Down
  
• Brute Down
  
• Beast Down
  
• Agility Up
  
• Health Up
  

My method for lvling skills:
1-4 Skill 1
5-6 Skill 2
7-20 Skill 4 (rarely fails, while skill 3 might fail often)

ChronoShadow69 wrote:On: Page placement in the Auction House
From: http://www.ds-forum.com/t7158-guideline-for-auction-placement-input-needed

AH stuff...

Well stated! Couldn't find a better way to filter it down without losing important information. Thanks Kheimon!