Anyone else hit a plateau around Horde 90ish? I'm at a point where my bone capacity is way, way, way larger than I could hope to fill in a reasonable amount of time, and it takes about 3 days to fill my corrupted soul capacity. Progression's been pretty slow here; wondering if anyone found any good equipment combos or other strategies to push through. The next upgrade unlock is at 98, and I'm only at 93 so far...
Items, cards and gems. Nothing new. As far as I understand, you are just about to unlock Milestone, which gives *1000 bone capacity for each level.
I took Ancient Wealth and Ancient Spirit for gems. To develop faster.
In the items Shirt, Campfire for survival Toxic Sword, Forbidden Sword for damage and, of course, Red Staff. Actually, it provides maximum damage :) However, for this you need to use his ability as many times as possible. Three days is catastrophically short, unless you will use a cooldown. If there is a sixth slot Club, it gives a huge plus to the damage, though removing the crit. But you can't collect a crit set at 90 levels.
Cards... I wrote just below. You can already level things up in your 90s, but can you improve anything up to level 5? The 5th level will give you *1.7 to attack-defense. So if you can, buy cards, equip things and upgrade them to the 5th.
And the rest... Nostalgia. More, more heirloom! :) Cryolab. You say one session is three days? So you'll get the same amount in cryolabs. But you will get more profit in the future. And, again, gems. Ancient... everything. Cards. Have you collected all the sets? Treasures. Did you buy all the treasures? Generals. Have you gathered all the generals? School. Did you buy all the books?
In general, there is no special secret. Hit this wall with your forehead. Someday it will break :)
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Or you can use tactics, the mere mention of which causes unanimous rejection among visitors to this site :) You say your session is 3 days now? Double it! :) During this time, you will gain twice as many bonuses from Red Staff, which will double your attack. This is enough to go one level further. This will increase the capacity of Corrupted Soul by about 30% and their income by almost the same. Play for another day or two and accumulate twice as much Corrupted Soul as usual. Even with a fine. Do the prestige. Now, with the help of cryostasis, you will receive Soul twice as fast. Freeze it for a few days to buy some prestige upgrades. Repeat the procedure :)
This is exactly what I keep saying over and over again :) There is no other tactic except to increase the duration of prestige over and over again. But people tell me to just wait. And the author will fix everything. Absolutely! :) And then, in this bright someday, there will be universal happiness, paradise on earth, and prestige no longer than 1.5 days :)
I'm pushing through this right now. Given that you posted about two months ago, you've hopefully blown through the blockade.
Good cards help A LOT. There's a +3 equipment card that's perfect for leveling up gear in the Tainted World pack. The extra pieces of gear outclass the x1.25-type bonuses most other cards provide and ought to buy you an extra level or two.
There are a few pieces of gear worth getting to LVL 2 as a priority - Star Shield, Longsword, and Fire Orb spring to mind. The lvl2 boost lets you gain a 50% bonus to the passive, which buys you a lot of division shields and critical hit power. I'd advocate having those active on the "way up" to the levels where you're struggling, since the boss fights grant the most XP fastest. In fact, I'd consider a handful of taunt-heavy no-card runs since the point where these early equipment items start gaining XP is so low. Those extra rounds without damage from the division shields and pushing Crits above 100% chance has a HUGE advantage - you'll soon find one in six hits or so doing over quadruple damage, which beats any of the active equipment attacks.
I burn most of my school bonuses on Horde. It helps - a bunch of extra levels to things you only need to buy once and you've got another x2 or so to damage and health. Gems spent on tripling the efficacy of heirlooms are generally well spent, too.
You should be able to get the Corrupted Soul Capacity up to seven to ten days worth with a bit of patience. Then, with MORE patience, cap it once at that ridiculous value. Now your Cryo will be vastly more productive than being active, at least for a while (this is what I'm working on at the moment). While you're waiting for the CS to hit cap, remember : Minibosses at any level have the same CS drop, based on your highest Horde level hit (since prestige, I think). So if you can barely squeeze through to a high-nineties value level, then back off to a lower level where you can comfortably get 1-hit-kills. That way you can use all your equipment that boosts Miniboss spawning and drops and still wipe them out reliably. Every day or two, check to see if you've got enough bones to squeeze out another level, each of which should cut a day or so off the time-til-max-CS.
Yup, pushed past it, but your advice here is great and is generally what I did (sans star shield/fire orb). The good news is progression speeds up quite a bit once you hit 110 or so! At some point, you can hit 100% heirloom drop chance by using Power of Science plus a few more heirloom chance cards, so that's nice to linger on for a while too :P