What is the shortest method to get most gold pieces (gp)

If I ever did this again, I would pack arcane items with firestorm, and everyone wears firehide robes / glimmer boots / untrained toughness.

 

This time it is my turn to say: Too complicated.

I just use a copy of Staff Of The Misanthrope, Armorbane Pendant and Goat Boots. That works like a charm. Most of the time I need less than thirty seconds. Yesterday I got 1004 gold in one hour and in another 422 gold. It depends so much on whether you get epic or even legendary treasures.

I think playing multiplayer was much more efficient in the last season. There I had a really high win percantage and the games were fast. This season the games take much longer and I am loosing too much. I think I can not get to 6 wins within two hours with ranked games. Maybe on the days with Chess Madness I will farm the mp and on the others I will farm the sp.

 

You cannot really count on getting Epic and certainly not Legendary Treasure ..
What I did for few months was doing maps 2-6/7 each day .. I can finish those in around 35-40minutes .. and get ~400g without Epic/Legendary treasures..
(note that both numbers are estimate, but its there somewhere, depends if you have Club ON and how many Rare treasures you get)

Sometimes you get E-L treasure run, sometimes you run into Bandit (which is really good actually) .. and its quite decent gold income and not near that boring as playing 1 level of 1 map over and over again..
(I tried that before, and it's not for me)

By playing maps lvl 5-7 you I could also (rarely) get some never-have-them-enough-lvl6-legendary-items ..

I once had a hidden bandit run on ~6 days getting bandit in map lvl < 7 .. and double dipping that ..

After lvl7, depends on available time I usually added few more favorite maps .. and called it a day

 

May I asked how your party was compound? Three wizard with as many firestorms as possible? Or also a priest for buffs?

 

Sure, I already wrote my parties on some Deck threads, but here you are:

Spoiler: Party1

This is my party for levels 2-5, after lvl3 I add Kerrick's / Quellic Boots.
I doubt there can be a faster party (maybe with more Chartwell's ..)

It should take you around 20-25minutes for lvl2-5 (dont forget console animspeed 99999)

Marazzak
Level 20 Dwarf Wizard

Red Jon's Staff
Staff Of The Misanthrope
Chartwell's Ring
Azgul's Orb
Azgul's Orb
Chartwell's Ring
Firehide Robes
Bertha's Big Clogs
Beginner Toughness
Electroporter Novice
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Dromril
Level 20 Dwarf Warrior

Blazing Shortsword
The Strongarm
The Strongarm
Xander's Mail
Quinn's Buckler
Captain Cedric's Helm
Bertha's Big Clogs
Raging Battler
Novice Slicing
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Barazzah
Level 20 Dwarf Wizard

Staff Of The Inferno
Staff Of The Inferno
Brin's Storm Locket
Chartwell's Ring
Yaro's Scepter
Azgul's Orb
Firehide Robes
Bertha's Big Clogs
Beginner Toughness
Electroporter Novice
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Spoiler: Party2

- This one's made by Qivril. I used 3 wizards before, but I felt this one is faster.

I use it for lvl 6 and Forest of Souls.

Barazzah
Level 20 Dwarf Wizard

Mullik's Blisterstaff
Wym's Lavastaff
Chartwell's Ring
Chartwell's Ring
Yaro's Scepter
Azgul's Orb
Firehide Robes
Bertha's Big Clogs
Beginner Toughness
Electroporter Novice
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Garazzak
Level 21 Dwarf Wizard

Wym's Lavastaff
Mullik's Blisterstaff
Chartwell's Ring
Azgul's Orb
Yaro's Scepter
Azgul's Orb
Firehide Robes
Bertha's Big Clogs
Beginner Toughness
Electroporter Novice
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Gromril
Level 20 Dwarf Priest

Ripping Mace
St. Amarack's Cudgel
Glowing Hide Armor
Quinn's Buckler
Bertha's Big Clogs
Skull Of Savage Iljin
Skull Of Savage Iljin
Skull Of Savage Iljin
Raging Battler
Trained Cleansing
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and for 2 Trog maps .. I have custom 3 dwarf wizards with armor removal .. should be trivial to build.

 

Interesting. Thanks! My 3 Wiz averages 1 round per map on Forest of Souls, so I'll probably stick with that.
I use 3 builds on Defense of Woodhome, and could stand to cut some load times there.
I use 2 Wiz - Buff/Tank/heal priest on the kobolds (1 build for 5 maps, another for the last), but I haven't been buffing with Savage Curse. I'll have to give this a shot. The armored lungers have complicated the Firestorm approach.

 

Thanks.

That first build for 2-5 maps .. is really fast.. wizards scorch everything, and warrior kicks those 2 big fellas, so I doubt there can be a notably faster build.

That second build .. I don't know if is the fastest possible .. its just really-fast-and-fast-enough for me .. defense of the woodhome is really easy, but other 2 maps had some bottleneck points (armor etc), and this build doesnt have problems with that unlike 3 wizards..
Fores of Souls -> yes, there could be a faster build for it, but its generally an easy/fast map..

 

Hoo-Uh! I've been using Savage Curse with Flash of Agony, but not Firestorm because it was often hard to herd all the targets into range. I guess I've gotten better at herding, because this works like a champ on the kobolds. I haven't tried it on the armored skellies yet, though. Shaving seconds is a good thing - the more the better!
Thanks again, to you and to @Qivril !

 

Yes it is hard to herd them all, I had doubts at first, but somehow it does the job :/ .. sometimes you get resistant, sometimes you get lots of healing.. sometimes you get them all in range..
sometimes priest destroys armor or on lucky-rolled-armored-fellow .. etc ..
Sometimes 1 savaged firestorm is enough even if you dont get them all in range, but then you deal with 1-2 remaining fellows the next round .. with another SC-ed FS or SCed something else

 

Thanks, I will try both parties in the evening.

 

Armored skellies are also ok, you usually just need to kill 1 .. that's why I like chartwell's .. and force cone .. you can move 1 dwarf on Victory Square first turn ..
(Savage Cursed) Force Cone is great there...
And priest helps also .. he has armor removal and some attacks ..

 

I've been using Trog Melters, Blasting Amulets, Toasty Robes, and a priest with two St. Portia's Mauls. The skellies usually take 3 rounds. It's been the slow one for me.

 

That build is also fast as hell. I love both builds. Thanks alot. I miss some items, but even without them both parties are great.

 

I also tracked my times today, I played 2-6 + Forest of Souls and Beneath the Frozen Earth. I started at 22.29h and finished at 23.05h. So it took me 36minutes.
Looks like I estimated well
I earned 290g in the process (I dont have Club at the moment, so the gold part is a bit low. But I missed 2 or 3 Rare treasures in Club slot)

I recorded times when I started each map, so those should be times with both loading and playing:

Workshop 1min
Caverns 2min
Lair 1min
Highway Robbery 3min
Ruby 3min
Lizard Priest 3min
Slub 3min
Shieldhaven 2min
Defense 4min
White Star 4min
Diamonds 4min
Forest of Souls 2min
Beneath the Frozen 3min

 

Thanks for the info! It takes me well over a minute just to load the 3 maps for Workshop, so there is a definite advantage to having a fast machine and web connection. I may have to try Steam to see if I can get quicker loads.

 

One thing that would really help (especially in your case) is having the client cache your inventory instead of downloading it from the server after every battle.

 

Good point.

 

Well definitely, this was measured on my home comp, its in some "medium" performance rang, it loads maps ok, but the one I use for work loads even faster..

 

From the CH dictionary

workplace: noun, where you can play your fav game on a rig much faster than anything you got at home

 

Tempting, but I think I'll stay retired.