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Recently I am ale to get to 20-something round in Grind in my cloth armor. My strategy is simple: shield and occasional cures and poisons, very rarely infernos.

Maxed health and mana tanks, plus 20% overcharge help, I am sure (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

But I still wonder if I would be doing better in heavy armor... still missing to many pieces of that to test.

This post has been edited by Red_Piotrus: Aug 28 2009, 22:29

Better late than never, I finally put together a full set of heavy armour, mostly plate, including some nice Chausses I got playing Cakefest while I still had my old leather leggings. That drop was much more satisfying than getting a second Scythe. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) My proficiency is still nowhere near my level, and some of the pieces aren't very good, so I'm not quite invulnerable yet. Still, I can get by with casting only the occasional Cure and not using Shield except in mini-boss overload situations.

Round reached: 44. That's over twice as far as I got playing my "real" character, and really I think Cakefest has become a license to print money at the moment. Never mind, while I've got the license I might as well use it...

About that Scythe. I can't get as far with it as I can with shield and dagger, but it's so much more fun to use. The place must have been knee deep in blood by the time I finished. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I'd love to see you do that in 8 turns.

I guarantee it wouldn't be 8 turns if I used a Bubble-Gum. It only takes 35 with just straight Depreciating and melee.

Alas, I'm not going to use one to prove it either. My goals are a little more lofty than that.

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Damn double post :<

This post has been edited by Cyriel: Aug 29 2009, 03:47

...It only takes 35 with just straight Depreciating and melee.

31 13 You gain 5272 Credits!
31 12 You gain 15456.2 EXP!
31 11 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
31 10 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:
[Spirit Elixir]
31 9 White Bunneh dropped [Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch]
31 8 Giant Panda dropped [Godly Health Potion]
31 7 You are Victorious!
31 6 White Bunneh has been defeated.
31 5 Freeze procs the effect Freezing Limbs on White Bunneh.
31 4 Freeze blasts White Bunneh for 1674 cold damage.
31 3 You cast Freeze.
31 2 You gain 0.01 points of elemental magic proficiency.
31 1 Regen restores you with 80 points of health.

35 turns eh ?

We have a dick measuring contest in the works here people.

35 turns eh ?

That was 35 before bosses were downgraded into strong mid-boss difficulty. They're pussies compared to before 0.3.3. That's right, they were downgraded so more than three people on the entire site could kill them.

50-60 in cake but only by sword and boarding in full plate, half warding other half fire. 17% block and around 10%/10% evade and parry just is all sorts of helpful. How far I get depends on if I get 2nd wind HP reliably. If the HP recovery chain starts to break at around 100-150 remaining HP I have to start tapping into mana, and if my mana hits a 30-40 pt cushion I then have to drink a manapot which takes me into 10-15 more rds and it goes longer or shorter if the weapon and specialty procs hit and if 2nd winds hits in a consistent manner usually every 2 to 3 rounds.

I could have a very unlucky round and it just goes south. Sometimes I can hit consistently, other times I can go 10 to 20 turns just throwing bricks and airballs.

Hourlies I do on heroic, first 4 arenas on hero, and the rest on normal as I can't beat Arena 6 or higher anymore, just bad luck. I don't even bother with my old dwing/clothie evade/parry build, barely gets me 5-12 normal rds in grindfest and I see a bigger gain just doing cakefest so I don't even bother festing on normal/hero anymore since time involved doesn't give me the payoff my old 200% xp and 150% credit bonus did and now I get more bang for the buck just breezing through as much cake as I can and getting 300 some xp and 300 some credits once or twice. With my time however I can only do it 2, maybe 3 times a day then I just hit montage around the afternoon because I don't feel like wasting my time grinding an extra hour or two anymore since it's not as fun.


My build is pants as a spellcaster being a heavy dex/agi/end build, and a tin can isn't how I wanted to play so my original dw build right there bones my current tank build a bit with a big damage output penalty.

Arena New Wings: Cleared. Ya know, 60 fucking rounds with a reward of a Mana Elixir is really not worth it.

99 10 You gain 124902 Credits!
99 9 You gain 59707.81 EXP!
99 8 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
99 7 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:
[Mana Elixir]
99 6 Manbearpig dropped [ManBearPig Tail]
99 5 White Bunneh dropped [Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch]
99 4 You are Victorious!
99 3 Manbearpig has been defeated.

0 9 Spawned Monster H: MID=16 (Manbearpig) LV=160 HP=23870 MP=482 SP=369 NA=56 Type=hostile
0 8 Spawned Monster G: MID=17 (White Bunneh) LV=159 HP=23705 MP=479 SP=368 NA=57 Type=hostile
0 7 Spawned Monster F: MID=15 (Apathetic Canuck) LV=156 HP=3664 MP=392 SP=130 NA=68 Type=hostile
0 6 Spawned Monster E: MID=11 (Zombie Cow) LV=156 HP=3760 MP=360 SP=124 NA=65 Type=hostile
0 5 Spawned Monster D: MID=13 (Mind Raper) LV=155 HP=3488 MP=467 SP=129 NA=68 Type=hostile
0 4 Spawned Monster C: MID=12 (Manthra) LV=156 HP=3856 MP=392 SP=130 NA=63 Type=hostile
0 3 Spawned Monster B: MID=14 (Blue Hedgehog) LV=156 HP=3664 MP=392 SP=130 NA=68 Type=hostile
0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=10 (Blue Slime) LV=159 HP=1631 MP=351 SP=104 NA=75 Type=hostile
0 1 Initializing arena challenge #24 (Round 60 / 60) ...

At least you got the hand grenade.

Ah, forgot to say "holy shit!!"

Arena New Wings: Cleared. Ya know, 60 fucking rounds with a reward of a Mana Elixir is really not worth it.

What about 70? I did every single one of these arenas in a row and didn't get a single piece of equipment for the clear bonus. And I seriously need some fucking mage armor because about 150 of those turns are Interference.

Here's "Crusade"

263 13 You gain 132734 Credits!
263 12 You gain 227736.95 EXP!
263 11 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
263 10 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:
[Mana Elixir]
263 9 Dalek dropped [Dalek Voicebox]
263 8 Mithra dropped [Mithra's Flower]
263 7 White Bunneh dropped [Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch]
263 6 Mind Raper dropped [Infusion of Divinity]
263 5 You are Victorious!

0 11 Spawned Monster J: MID=19 (Dalek) LV=173 HP=27665 MP=607 SP=614 NA=50 Type=hostile
0 10 Spawned Monster I: MID=18 (Mithra) LV=173 HP=27665 MP=607 SP=614 NA=50 Type=hostile
0 9 Spawned Monster H: MID=17 (White Bunneh) LV=173 HP=25795 MP=521 SP=383 NA=53 Type=hostile
0 8 Spawned Monster G: MID=15 (Apathetic Canuck) LV=174 HP=4090 MP=437 SP=146 NA=64 Type=hostile
0 7 Spawned Monster F: MID=14 (Blue Hedgehog) LV=169 HP=3968 MP=424 SP=141 NA=65 Type=hostile
0 6 Spawned Monster E: MID=13 (Mind Raper) LV=172 HP=3868 MP=518 SP=144 NA=64 Type=hostile
0 5 Spawned Monster D: MID=12 (Manthra) LV=169 HP=4172 MP=424 SP=141 NA=59 Type=hostile
0 4 Spawned Monster C: MID=11 (Zombie Cow) LV=169 HP=4070 MP=390 SP=134 NA=62 Type=hostile
0 3 Spawned Monster B: MID=9 (Cookie Monster) LV=173 HP=1774 MP=434 SP=124 NA=73 Type=hostile
0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=4 (Cockatrice) LV=171 HP=1720 MP=344 SP=99 NA=73 Type=hostile
0 1 Initializing arena challenge #25 (Round 70 / 70) ...
0 0 Battle Start!

Good news (for me at least.)

Lv.180 challenge is "To Kill A God." 80 turns and presumably it has bosses on at least the last 5 rounds and a legendary at the end.

This post has been edited by hitokiri84: Aug 30 2009, 02:41

dunno if this would make life to easy, but at a certain point maybe arenas should have a 100% equip drop rate. Seeing as most of the equip you find is absolute garbage, its not like that would instantly give everyone all the gear they could ever want. after you hit the 100% point later arenas could have a quality bonus modifier rather than a drop chance increase.

seeing a red equip text at the end of the arena is just more rewarding than seeing another green "infusion of divinity" or most anything else, even if the end credit worth is usually about the same.

Endgame and up used to be like that and it was removed. I guess they was just giving away too many crude and fair pieces of equipment to be fair to the people not leveled enough play them. I've only gotten 4 or 5 piece since the last update, and they've all be fine or under, or in other words, junk that I don't need.

my cakefest average is 13 rounds. Since the monsters were re-vamped, I am sitting at "Test of Faith" for the arena.

Set my new record on cakefest, it's basically infinity though because I only stopped to go do arena.

1 9 You have escaped from the battle.
1 8 Cookie Monster hits you for 0 slashing damage.
1 7 Tentacle Monster hits you for 0 piercing damage.
1 6 Blue Slime hits you for 0 crushing damage.
1 5 Rabid Hamster hits you for 0 piercing damage.
1 4 You dodge the attack from Green Slime.
1 3 Amphibious Sperm Whale hits you for 0 crushing damage.
1 2 Flee procs the effect Fleeing on yourself.
1 1 You use Flee.
0 7 Spawned Monster F: MID=2 (Tentacle Monster) LV=19 HP=173 MP=52 SP=12 NA=98 Type=hostile
0 6 Spawned Monster E: MID=10 (Blue Slime) LV=24 HP=212 MP=57 SP=14 NA=97 Type=hostile
0 5 Spawned Monster D: MID=1 (Green Slime) LV=23 HP=200 MP=62 SP=14 NA=97 Type=hostile
0 4 Spawned Monster C: MID=9 (Cookie Monster) LV=22 HP=196 MP=59 SP=14 NA=98 Type=hostile
0 3 Spawned Monster B: MID=26 (Amphibious Sperm Whale) LV=23 HP=228 MP=50 SP=14 NA=96 Type=hostile
0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=8 (Rabid Hamster) LV=23 HP=206 MP=62 SP=15 NA=97 Type=hostile
0 1 Initializing Grindfest (Round 288) ...
0 0 Battle Start!

i cant even break 10 round in normal grindfest now (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif).

Cake
Initializing Grindfest (Round 115) ...
a mix of heavy and light armor and one hand shield

i can get further than when i was in my 30s (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

level 17

dual wield, shortsword (bleed +2)+rapier,

full body light armor, agi str type, +cure

cakefest, round 40 (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

@cpt and hito: looks like the race is started again. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) So I guess there is an arena challenge that has 80 rounds.

I'm not sure what gives you that idea since 161 to 175 is easily more than 30 million EXP, and I'm only getting farther away.