Emerald Falcon gate
how can you tell which of the levels will have Danger Rooms? Is there a list compiled on the wiki or something, because I couldn't find it.
I've been farming it like a madman, making well over 9~10k, plus leveling my new weapon at the speed of light.
They don't have danger rooms, they're Arenas.
The stages with the shield icon are arenas. Arenas are a fantastic source of crowns and loot if you can handle all three rounds. If not, there's no shame in taking the extra exit elevators conveniently provided after each of the first two rounds. http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Battle_Arena
Danger Rooms have a moderate chance to appear in (otherwise unremarkable) Clockwork Tunnels stages. Note that Deconstruction Zones have the same icon as Clockwork Tunnels, but do not have Danger Rooms. http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Clockwork_Tunnels
Also, yeah, this gate's Tier 2 is just plain fantastic.
The only thing bad about it is that the 3rd stratum has Devilites... Greavers aren't as bad, but I always have trouble dealing with that many totoros. throwing junk at me.
Try antigua line, works much better than melee or magnus-line for massed devilites. Won't have the same damage as either, but you'll survive.
I mistyped my question. I know arenas don't have danger rooms. The question I meant to ask was: "Is there a way you can tell if the OTHER levels aside from the arenas have danger rooms, so you could maximize your crowns/heat?" This way, you would do a maximum of 4 arenas AND several danger room levels.
I'll work on that, but for now I'll have to rely on Snarble Barb, one poke at a time.
About the Danger Room, I know that it has to be a Clockwork Tunnel to have a Danger Room. The icon would show a gear, but Deconstruction Zone (which is also a gear) does not have the Room. Whether the Danger Room will show up in a Clockwork Tunnel in question is probably a 50/50 chance. At least that's what I think.
Yeah, I really enjoy this gate...although I'm really tired by the time I get through all that.
I don't mind the fiend danger rooms, I see them so rarely that they are more interesting to me than some of the others.
Woah, didn't know about this gate.
Do these rooms give more then running d13-16 jelly?
It's a little more rewarding than running a full T2 with Jelly Palace (I don't like exploiting the friends list), but probably not as rewarding as running just the Jelly Palace stratum twice. I'm happy to see a gate that's anywhere close to jelly runs.
A tip for Grim Gallery: toward the end of the map, when you're carrying the statue past the Gun Puppies, you can place it to block projectiles from one side while you kill the other.
Haha, I also made that face when I saw the 4 arenas. Hit all 4 of them, although I had to wait a few minutes for two of them to cycle through. Just started leveling an avenger and it almost made it to level 7 by the time I got to the warden.
Super easy arenas, if you don't run around like a madman setting off gun puppies. The devilites are cake, as they spawn only 3 at a time. Dark City is tougher than the arenas (6 devilites and 4 cats can get messy). I only ran into one mender in all 4 arenas. The rest were silverwings, easy.
I love that gate but it's a pain to be always waiting for the arenas to show up, so I end up doing it sometimes even with the non-arena levels, and it's not that bad (less lucrative of course...)
I'll just be here in the corner with my 2* stuff...*sigh*
You can still easily run the first half and then take your luck at the greed/graveyard/arena. Graveyard is so easy and so profitable if you know what you are doing it's not even funny.
My god, imagine if this gate's T2 also had the Jelly Palace. I think my head would explode from the awesomeness.
Eff that noise. I love this gate because it's not Jelly Palace. The second stratum has one or two arenas and Grim Gallery, which is awesome.
Copied from my post in the solo net earnings thread:
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Tier 2 (Fiend/Undead gate)
Depth 9-[+1314 cr]- [Iron Edge Arena: Fiendish Fray]
Depth 10-[+876 cr]- [Venom Fang Arena: Fiendish Fray]
Depth 11-[+621 cr]- [Dark City: Sinful Steps II]
Depth 12-[+413 cr]- [Dark City: Plazamonium]
Depth 13-[+0 cr]- [Basil]
Depth 14-[+581 cr]- [Treasure Vault] | Used 3 energy for a gate
Depth 15-[+2169 cr]- [Venom Fang Arena: Cadaverous Clash] died >_> (-5 energy)
Depth 16-[+1387 cr]- [Scarlet Fortress: Grim Gallery] died >_> (-10 energy) | Used 3 energy for a gate
Depth 17-[+1838 cr]- [Scarlet Fortress: Cravat Hall II]
End stats:
Total CR gain: 9199 cr
Total energy use: 101 energy
Assumed "Energy Price": ~4700 cr
Total CR-only profit: 4499 cr (assumes I buy energy after)
Grim gallery is really fun :D
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I normally make 7-8k from Jelly Palace.
I remember the old days of gates being nothing but arenas from start to finish. It was so boring, haha.
We old-fogies have no place in the new Spiral Knights world, Dirt.
My favorite gate so far. Could do arena's endlessly(and strangely I am a old player) and add in dark city and cravat halls? All of my favorites packed into one.
This gate is almost gone ;_; I spent a lot of time on this gate, i dont know what I will do with out it.
Loved this gate, got me a ton of grim tokens. I'll miss it.
I finally beat this gate (first T2 gate I beat), but somehow I only got a little over 5k crowns, barely enough to cover energy costs since I revived twice. Guess everyone has different luck?
But I did get at two ghost bells and a drake scale, so that kind of makes up for it.
Also, depth 16 had an annoying trap with a timed switch, spikes, and explosive blocks that I couldn't get past without dying.
What do you mean, this gate is almost gone?
Are they gonna replace them with another gate or something?
What about the Snarbolax Lair?
The gate will be rotated away soon and another gate will take its place. The Snarbolax Lair will be located in that new gate.
Ah-hah. Thx for answer.
Imagine those four arenas in a row and THEN the Jelly King afterwards... man.
Sadly I haven't gotten very far into that, but that's because most the guys I play with haven't gotten to Tier 2 yet.
I remember once soloing its T2. Went through the best possible course (4 Arenas and GG), died twice, and still made almost 4K profit if I deduct the cost for 95 CE (which is around 52 CR/CE as of now). But I'll have to transition into JK runs 20 minutes later from now.
All good things come to an end...
Typically this gate generated between 7-10k crowns when you hit all 4 arenas. On a very profitable solo run, was able to generate 17k after selling mats. iSpy said it right, all good things come to an end... RIP emerald falcon.
The new Golden Titan gate that replaced it is not horrible either. Stratum 3 has 3 consecutive arenas, and then a ? layer with a graveyard.
Unfortunately, the top 2 arenas are both in a slider of 5, so the odds of getting those arenas is slim, or a long wait in between it popping up.
RIP Emerald Falcon...
Graveyard is also nice. And I knew it was quite unusual for that many Arenas up in one tier.