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remember back when you had to buy them? I do, I have bought them when I was lower level.... now I'm swimming in the damn things, I never check how many I have.

Actually, I never bought them. I was around level 350, magnificent (and possibly exquisite) equipment, and playing mainly random encounters when soul fragments were added. By the time I had something that I wanted to soulfuse I had more than enough fragments.

I have "legendary" and magnificent gear, am level 219, and have two monsters, and have been on e-h since 2012, but just now realized I'd never upgraded a single piece of my equipment. Now it suddenly makes sense why i've made so little progress recently (and why battles take so long).
Might still be a good idea to switch to a heavier-than-cloth armor, too, since I don't find myself using offensive spells too often either anymore. Just recovery stuff, protect, regen, shadow veil, that sort of thing really. I dual-wield a shortsword and a rapier so I already am pretty low defense.
I'm a special kind of stupid.

I was never any good at runescape either.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Apr 1 2020, 02:33

Continuing the observations (Gift Factor 244% vs 105%):

Monster __1: Mechanoid / PL 1242 / Gift Factor 244% / Battles Won: 13 / Killing Blows: 4 / Total Gifts: 58 / Gift Times: 12 [(3x) 3 gifts + (3x) 4 gifts + (1x) 5 gifts + (4x) 6 gifts + (1x) 8 gifts]
Monster __2: Dragonkin / PL 1242 / Gift Factor 244% / Battles Won: 8 / Killing Blows: 2 / Total Gifts: 44 / Gift Times: 11 [(3x) 2 gifts + (2x) 3 gifts + (2x) 4 gifts + (1x) 5 gifts + (2x) 6 gifts + (1x) 7 gifts]
Monster __3: Celestial / PL 1242 / Gift Factor 244% / Battles Won: 6 / Killing Blows: 1 / Total Gifts: 41 / Gift Times: 12 [(7x) 3 gifts + (5x) 4 gifts]
Monster 100: Undead / PL 1242 / Gift Factor 105% / Battles Won: 5 / Killing Blows: 0 / Total Gifts: 16 / Gift Times: 12 [(8x) 1 gift + (4x) 2 gifts]

Well, at least this month was a lot better than the previous one. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif) And my monster 1 even broke the record for gifts in a month (58) being one with 8 at once. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

Previous month:
02/2020: https://forums.e-hentai.org/index.php?s=&am...t&p=5627513

got a platinum coupon today. Yay!

Reached level 270!

got a platinum coupon today. Yay!

I turned it into this:
Legendary Zircon Cotton Robe of the Demon-fiend

0% prof.

got a platinum coupon today. Yay!

I don't even get bronze anymore... Damn all those raspberries and japanese home fibers.

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fun (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

At least you got some Peerless from noodles.

I don't even get bronze anymore... Damn all those raspberries and japanese home fibers.

...you could make uncreative comments on galleries (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/duck.gif)

A very small achievement...I've adopted 4 cats (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

Wow (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

If only I had the credits, I would have bought that PSWD. But yeah...hath barons are what makes HV go around, I guess.

EDIT: Also finally won myself a Gold Lottery Ticket, so now I can sit back and not enter any more lotteries until something I want actually comes up.

This post has been edited by Ea-Moon: Apr 2 2020, 03:26

Reached 90 Monsters out of 200.

I went from level 15~->200 in a bit over 3 days. It still feels like I have zero clue what I'm doing, but hey bigger numbers, so that's cool.

I went from level 15~->200 in a bit over 3 days. It still feels like I have zero clue what I'm doing, but hey bigger numbers, so that's cool.

With that shitload of confectioneries and star, obviously. I would say you are leveling too fast to get a sense of what HV is.

With that shitload of confectioneries and star, obviously. I would say you are leveling too fast to get a sense of what HV is.

Aye, but I'm assuming it'll catch up to me at some point. Not looking forward to the imminent brick wall but eh.

I do wish there were more hand-holdy write-ups on progression. Or maybe there are and I'm just that bad at finding them.

This post has been edited by emptysx: Apr 2 2020, 08:27

Aye, but I'm assuming it'll catch up to me at some point. Not looking forward to the imminent brick wall but eh.

I do wish there were more hand-holdy write-ups on progression. Or maybe there are and I'm just that bad at finding them.

The first page of the Ask the Experts thread is pretty good for that sort of thing. You will probably hit the 'brick wall' around the mid-late 300s where it'll start being much slower than you're used to (but still fast in HV terms) and it starts getting slow around 450 these days (those cookies really, really add up).

Don't level too hard; take your time to get used to how it plays and learn the game itself, or you'll probably end up making some expensive, inefficient choices later based on gut feelings.

Ask questions as often as you like in Ask the Experts. Use it a lot.

The first page of the Ask the Experts thread is pretty good for that sort of thing. You will probably hit the 'brick wall' around the mid-late 300s where it'll start being much slower than you're used to (but still fast in HV terms) and it starts getting slow around 450 these days (those cookies really, really add up).

Ah, I don't mind slower progression so much as I hope I don't reach a point where I have to start lowering the difficulty on things I was previously able to do.

Don't level too hard; take your time to get used to how it plays and learn the game itself, or you'll probably end up making some expensive, inefficient choices later based on gut feelings.

I'm going to take your assuredly well-reasoned advice on progression and completely ignore it. I remember seeing the same advice on the first page, but that just seems rather dull. I'd rather go fast until I get myself into a terrible situation, and then either un-fuck myself with my funds or just quit. Granted, quitting would be a bit BM after accepting some freebies, so I'd probably send apology credits/unbound exq+ stuff before disappearing.
Also, can I have some more concrete examples on what you had in mind for the latter part?

Ah, I don't mind slower progression so much as I hope I don't reach a point where I have to start lowering the difficulty on things I was previously able to do.
I'm going to take your assuredly well-reasoned advice on progression and completely ignore it. I remember seeing the same advice on the first page, but that just seems rather dull. I'd rather go fast until I get myself into a terrible situation, and then either un-fuck myself with my funds or just quit. Granted, quitting would be a bit BM after accepting some freebies, so I'd probably send apology credits/unbound exq+ stuff before disappearing.
Also, can I have some more concrete examples on what you had in mind for the latter part?

Sure, I guess. Bidding too high on equipments that aren't particularly useful. Judging gear entirely by percentiles. Expecting miracles from switching to expensive equip types (radiants, slaughters, etc). Forging gear that isn't worth forging. Burning energy drinks to play more when you don't have drop trainings to make it profitable (your choice on this one). Shrining trophies. Soul Catcher.

Way more things than that. And those are just outright mistakes... misjudging what's going to be a good upgrade for you can stall your progress by a pretty long time too.

If you want to speedrun the game, learn it as best you can. But no worries, don't stress about it if you don't care.

edit: fyi, levelling up makes the game slower, not faster. You get a little more survival out of it as a trade. Your choice on what's important there. This is one reason why people recommend taking advantage of the game at lower levels as long as possible.

This post has been edited by lestion: Apr 2 2020, 10:21

Got a miraculous survival.
Kept going *click* *click* *click*, didn't see I had gotten into the fatal "1 HP, next turn you DIE!!!" condition, but as I said, a miracle happened this time, the monster I was clicking died the turn I got the condition, so my clicks had no effect, and I was able to heal (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Finally got dd1 today