In terms of crown gain, the boss level itself is garbage, so you can save some energy by going up at the level 16 exit elevator. Of course, you can get your 3 tokens + 1-2 primal spark tokens afterwards. Not dying to the boss is of course optimal.

The bosses are a waste of time unless:

1.- You want a particular boss item, particularly FoV, Pulsar, Sealed sword, Antigua or Blackened crest.
2.- The market of boss items makes it worth your time to get boss tokens, get a popular boss item and resell for a good profit.
3.- There is certain event or achievement you want

Other than that is better if you skip like a boss

Kill Royal Jelly because it's fun, and can be a tactical challenge. Don't Kill him if you're just farming, unless you've got the tools at your disposal to destroy him.

Personally, I would like to see the token-received items be permabind, unless you NPC-sell them. People selling off end-game weapons for kicks seems...i dunno...against the spirit of the game.

The only boss that is worth killing at all is Duke.

Each Duke token = 1k CR so you can get 3k from the Duke level. The reason they are worth 1k is the 5* items you can buy with the tokens costs 30 tokens and can sell to the vendor for 30k.

So unless you can kill Duke without a bunch of revives I would just skip the boss levels unless you want the equipment

Well yes, but that involves you also investing CE in unbinding the item and finding a buyer. With Duke you just vendor the item and be done with it. No hassle no risk.

EDIT: whoops, double post

You'd need to unbind to trade it to another player or sell it on the AH.

You wouldn't need to unbind it to sell it to a vendor, but you'd only get 3.5k

if you're going to do the unbind selling you might as well run Roar Twins and Snarbolax. They take less tokens, they're easier (sort of...I have problems with the RT), and their unbind cost is what...200 for a 2 star? Also, there are NO Static Capacitors in the AH for a reasonable price. One guy was asking literally MORE for his Static (2*) than someone else was asking for a Lightning(3*). If I didn't absolutely loathe the levels, I'd be farming it myself. As it stands, in the Sealed Sword market you'll be dealing with a faaaaar larger group of sellers.

If I didn't farm it up, I would have paid 25-30K for a Static Capacitor. There's profit to be had there.

Look at it this way, is 20 coins + 600 CE + listing price of an item in a stacked market more of a profit that 15 coins = 3500cr from an NPC?

for reference, I just sold a recipe today. it was a 5* recipe, and I buyout priced it at 27500. I made 50cr on the transaction after seller fees et al. You'll be nominally paying 33000cr for the unbind cost, then you'll going to have to undercut to make the sale. Your listing fee is going to be in the 1000s, and your 10% AH sell fee have to be accounted for...plsu the thought that your sword may not sell at all, due to the large amount of SSs in AH.

If you have 30 jelly coins, that's 7000cr RIGHT NOW.

@Volebamus No that is only true if you unbind it with 600 CE and sell it at the AH for more than 40k. To the vendor Antigua and Sealed sword sell for 3.5k

20 tokens = 3.5k for JK = 175/token
30 tokens = 30k for Duke = 1000/token

If you want to unbind it and compete on the AH by all means, but that's no guarantee and a lot more work.

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3500/20 = 175
175 * 3 = 525
I suppose it reaches 700 because of the additional coins earned after the boss fight?
Not to mention you can get 1-2 primal sparks...

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The quality of people running JK has increased considerably over the past month I might add. :D

Before I could only win JK in a PUG once in a blue moon. Now it's pretty much a sure win if at least one other player has decent gear and knows the fight.

You may have better chance with RT because:
1. Pulsars provide greater profit in the AH compared to unbind cost than SS/Antigua
2. RT can more easily be soloed if your PUG sucks or drops out

The cons of RT are:
1. You need a better computer to handle the memory leak before RT (or restart SK between levels)
2. Lower crowns than JK levels
3. Dodging missiles can be a pain if you lag

@FernPanda
It reaches 700cr because instead of wasting an extra 5 tokens on Antigua/Sealed Sword, they can spend 15 on a Brute Jelly equipment which sells for the same amount.