ANB event planning

[Rayn]

Could definitely work! In this gold ANB I was able to get 2400 gold% with greens/random drops and can farm 6mill gold from SM in one booster. That’s with BH tho, mage May not be as effective

[lmcelhiney]

Kara is my choice as well, though I am really glad she does not have the same attributes inTrials that she does while her three Minions are still alive in The Underground.

[lmcelhiney]

Well... OK.

[Keaven]

I'd be curious if it could be worthwhile for a tight budget style ANB focusing on TL 100 for mage could level to 70 and begin by farming whatever trial is ideal with non set epic/rare gold + XP items including GMC for the first half an hour with a gold booster.

I might try this to test for Silver next season (I'll be testing Assault BH for next ANB).

In general I'll be testing builds for gold every ANB I think, trying to get to trial 100 within 6 hrs spending as little gems as possible, and going from there since I'm not particularly interested in competing for top ranks.

[Rayn]

The first run I did in 3:04 I was at 1105 CL.

[MetalMan]

what CL are you at? (farming TL90 in 3 mins)

[Rayn]

Update:
2 hours left, currently farming TL90 in 3 mins (it’s better XP than 85 in 2:30) still haven’t managed to get a second 77, finding the fire GEs in short supply so my crafting has been slowed, also don’t have enough gold to convert other essences - I don’t want to waste my timer farming gold either. Skills all at 8/9, going to farm for another hour of the timer to get books and level the important ones to 10. At that point I will be able to clear 95 in under 3 mins and will then do 100. Will evaluate if I should spend 20 mins on gold to convert GEs so I can craft more, or if I get lucky and get my 77 before then I will make a push for the last 30 mins to try and get a medal!

[MetalMan]

Many thanks for the info. The biggest surprise for me is that you get better XP/minute when you DON'T kill the boss. Apparently farming XP in trials with killing a boss was my biggest mistake in Bronze and Silver (combined with some other mistakes, of course), so I barely made it into top500 both times o_O

[Rayn]

Wow! It took me 40 mins just to get to level 70. I must be doing something wrong lol

[mahara]

Didn't have enough gems to try to go all in but even though managed to start farm TL70 under 40 minutes with my main. Still adjusting my strategy on the go. Currently cooking my abilities after push for boosters. Still over 4 hours to go. Not many mistakes and i like my strategy so far. We'll see in few days.

[Rayn]

Update on my gold ANB so far:

wasn’t able to let skulls upgrade as much as I planned due to lack of gold - had to do a few levels as I went.

got to 70 in under 40 mins

I broke down and got a legendary crafting crate. I didn’t go straight for a 77 weapon, instead crafting a full legendary set. So I got 77 gloves, which is not what I wanted but not bad since they are an upgrade for my main.

currently farming trial 70 in 2:45 with over 4 hours left on timer. Running a 76/75 weapon set, but average gear level is only around 73. Working on upgrading those pieces as I go. I have experience on everything, gaining like 15-20 CL per run. Enough haste to stay at 5 hits per second and the rest ability/power. CR/CD on everything.

im going to take a break for the next few days to level skills, then keep pushing towards TL 100!

hows everyone else doing?

[Rayn]

Blue assault gear is only 1 MoT each, and I will only need 4 pieces for move speed. I think it really helps with the first 20 runs of SM. With ANB gold having only 6 hours on the event timer, every minute is precious!

[Asad Butt]

That's a good point. With a Stalker BH, I initially farmed at TL 60, which gives at least 1BoL and sometimes a lucky GBoL. Then I moved to 65, 70, and then briefly 75. I even opened up 85 while farming 75 in around 2 mins. I was able to get to a decent CL and had enough mats to craft a push set, and when I was confident I was going to be able to clear TL 100 in my push gear, that is when I went for it. I had just over 2 hours left and from previous experience, I knew it would take me around 40 or so mins to clear TL 100. I put on 40 mins of boosters from the Tavern but it took me only 17 mins to clear TL 100 starting from 85.

Then I took Keaven's advice above and farmed some more so I could get a couple of good pieces of gear out of Silver to my main. Wasn't lucky enough to get a lvl77 item but I got a couple of 76's but I think I'll call that a win for now

[Asad Butt]

Yes, do it. At least until Gold ends.

[Coldet]

Other than the movement bonus, I’m not sure I understand why you would waste MoT’s on assault gold farming gear.