using a potent in a higher chamber or lower chamber is still a waste, for me. it would be different if exploration family fragment was a sure thing for using runestone, but it is not. i have gotten gypped out of exploration fragment even when i use a 4 or 5 runestone in forest chambers. the fact i cannot easily survive the higher forest level chambers without using potent exstimulo does not make it any less of a waste, to me. my sweetspot for challenge xp and desired exploration family fragments is in the tower chambers, where i do not have to spend lots of spells, lots of potions, and lots of time , and yet i still have a 50% or better chance of getting my exploration family fragment (which is my primary objective).
others can value potent potions differently than i do, but any time i have to use a potent exstimulo in fortress battles is a waste, from my perspective. no consolation whatsoever in using it for non-trace purposes.
whatever incremental increase in probability getting exploration family fragment might be had from battling in higher chamber like forest or dark instead of tower levels is not worth the added cost to me (potions, spells, time), period.
I was actually thinking of increase amount of challenge xp and lovely red books! I don’t like overshooting my skill level and needing potions, but if they have to be used, might as well. But that’s fine. It’s just an alternative because throwing them at anything less than emergency, or even severe, would be depressing.
^ was not really going to higher chambers that often anyway ... tried unsuccessfully to solo dark chamber 1 and each time, ran out of time and potions on foe #7 out of 8, with potions vault devastated afterwards. i do not feel the need or desire to climb into death zone of himalayan peaks, so to speak ... give me pleasant hills to hike, any day, over those oxygen-depriving peaks
different strokes for different folks, but as a solo professor i’ll grind 2 or 3 times at tower 3 instead of once at forest any time, and get to enjoy more challenge xp, possibly more family fragments, and use up less spells, potions, time*
*the start now button needs to be implemented more than ever with a 2 minute wait time in fortress lobby killing our brain elixir effectiveness
if i can team up with my wife, an auror, then i can move up a few chambers here and there, but we are both mostly maxed out on lesson plan items except for the last green-book-intensive or red-book-intensive lessons ... and i am not going to get there faster via higher chambers
if and when they (HPWU developers) un-nerf professors’ deterioration hex, i can revisit the strategy
I strongly believe that a Masterful cast should have 0% chance of a Foundable fleeing. I don’t care about actually catching it but fleeing after a Masterful cast (which should be a truly remarkable thing) is just adding insult to injury.
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That’s not a bad idea. I just hope I come across at least 2 severe or emergencies!
using a potent in a higher chamber or lower chamber is still a waste, for me. it would be different if exploration family fragment was a sure thing for using runestone, but it is not. i have gotten gypped out of exploration fragment even when i use a 4 or 5 runestone in forest chambers. the fact i cannot easily survive the higher forest level chambers without using potent exstimulo does not make it any less of a waste, to me. my sweetspot for challenge xp and desired exploration family fragments is in the tower chambers, where i do not have to spend lots of spells, lots of potions, and lots of time , and yet i still have a 50% or better chance of getting my exploration family fragment (which is my primary objective).
others can value potent potions differently than i do, but any time i have to use a potent exstimulo in fortress battles is a waste, from my perspective. no consolation whatsoever in using it for non-trace purposes.
whatever incremental increase in probability getting exploration family fragment might be had from battling in higher chamber like forest or dark instead of tower levels is not worth the added cost to me (potions, spells, time), period.
I was actually thinking of increase amount of challenge xp and lovely red books! I don’t like overshooting my skill level and needing potions, but if they have to be used, might as well. But that’s fine. It’s just an alternative because throwing them at anything less than emergency, or even severe, would be depressing.
^ was not really going to higher chambers that often anyway ... tried unsuccessfully to solo dark chamber 1 and each time, ran out of time and potions on foe #7 out of 8, with potions vault devastated afterwards. i do not feel the need or desire to climb into death zone of himalayan peaks, so to speak ... give me pleasant hills to hike, any day, over those oxygen-depriving peaks
different strokes for different folks, but as a solo professor i’ll grind 2 or 3 times at tower 3 instead of once at forest any time, and get to enjoy more challenge xp, possibly more family fragments, and use up less spells, potions, time*
*the start now button needs to be implemented more than ever with a 2 minute wait time in fortress lobby killing our brain elixir effectiveness
if i can team up with my wife, an auror, then i can move up a few chambers here and there, but we are both mostly maxed out on lesson plan items except for the last green-book-intensive or red-book-intensive lessons ... and i am not going to get there faster via higher chambers
if and when they (HPWU developers) un-nerf professors’ deterioration hex, i can revisit the strategy
Is there a specific level of Chamber or specific Runestone I need to use to get Sneakoscope fragments?
Forest V or above. Any runestone.
I had most joy at Dark II.
Good luck!
I strongly believe that a Masterful cast should have 0% chance of a Foundable fleeing. I don’t care about actually catching it but fleeing after a Masterful cast (which should be a truly remarkable thing) is just adding insult to injury.