http://imageshack.us/f/228/emeraldsun.png/ (All credit goes solely to iSpycheck who made this map of the gate.)
*Looks at Emerald Sun Gate's Tier 2* http://myfacewhen.com/371/
*Looks at Emerald Sun Gate's Tier 3 Strata 5* http://myfacewhen.com/332/ <--(Do not click this link if you don't like bad language.)
Stratum 5 is a generic fiend depth then three Dark Cities.
It's about time, I have a stockpile of flame souls burning a hole in my arsenal, waiting for the price to spike. XD
YESH! Praise the lord! Woohoo! Party all night now...
Looks like I did convince everyone in the end. I put like over 1k fiend shards myself. :)
... at 10 seconds left and 5 seconds before I did the same?!
Anyways, here's the pic for those who can't log in right now: http://imageshack.us/f/228/emeraldsun.png/
Mind if I put that at the top of the thread, iSpy and give the credit to you?
It's already destined to be Fiend 5 seconds before I dumped mine.
Is it me, or is the Emerald gates always giving T2 runs that give 10k Cr? <3
Looks like another bunch of greedy idiots decided to just use the autosell feature again, if you ask me, I ALWAYS dump my green, yellow, & purple crystals in the Pre-Vana Stratum (Undead cuz FSC mostly has undead anyways & Poison cuz those levels are fast :D)
I always auto sell my crystals. Because they never seem to make a difference. And being in new zealand the gates never unlock at a time I have a chance to not get lost in the masses that will come before and after.
But still, SCHWEET gate!
I personally have no problem with Auto-sellers... if they do it on Tier 1, Stratum 1 because that's where most people Auto-sell anyway.
Even if you don't think you can make an impact, it still adds up, so please don't interfere with people who do care about guiding the themes.
The point of auto-selling is that it puts your minerals where they'll get you the most money. It doesn't target a particular stratum.
Personally, I usually put my minerals in the newest gate, that is, the one that won't open for about a week. That gives people trying to spike a gate with this or that mineral the chance to do so at the end without my interference.
Running tier 2 right now, hit both arenas, the graveyard and grim gallery in stratum 3 and got about 3k crowns, will let you all know how much the d16/17 arenas give out.
Hopefully if nothing else the fiends before fsc might bolster the prices of Blaze Peppers and Flame Souls a bit, sitting on a ton of them :/
I usually need 1-3 ce res before boss and 1 more during boss. This fiend strat is going to kill me so badly.
D16/17 arenas give out around 2.5k each (I'd guess about 500cr variation so 2k-3k) so you're looking at round 4k-6k for both arenas. So in the whole run you're likely to make around 7k-10k crowns, depending on what non-arena depths you hit.
It's about time, I have a stockpile of flame souls burning a hole in my arsenal, waiting for the price to spike.
Yeah, good luck with that. I suspect there are a huge number of FSC runners sitting in the same position as you and there is enough of a stock pile to last weeks.
I would *love* to be proven wrong though, I could use a bit of spare crowns.
I've made a temporary log for myself during my first run down T2, but I didn't save it, so these are what I still remember best.
First arena gave me around 800 CR.
Grim Gallery gave me just a little more than elevator cost (~650 CR).
Second arena gave me something around 1.2K CR.
Perimeter Promenade II gave me around 1.1K CR.
Third arena should've gotten me something like 2.3K CR, given that I noted 1.5K CR gain from the first 2 rooms.
The last arena (D17) hit exactly 2.7K CR. (Last time I did a D17 arena, I got ~2.5K)
The complete trip was 10,027 CR. It'll probably be a little bit more had I gotten Graveyard at D10.
Also worth noting is that the last two depths (D16 and D17) rotate levels faster than normal, so the wait between levels is like 3-4 minutes.
Screw selling flame souls- My seraphic set and dark thorn blade needs some testing :D
I just solo'd it, all 4 arenas, Graveyard, Jigsaw Valley (all "II"s), and Spiral Court I, starting with 9 crowns and ending with 9151. I also got 4 Heavy Gears (!), a Meteor Mote, a Miracloth, 2 Perfect Snowballs, and 2 Silver Coils. Probably the best T2 materials run I've done. I made it past the 8 rocket puppies in the last arena (I had 4 health capsules on the ground + the 3 I carried), but I had a lag spike shortly after the very last wave of Mecha Knights and scuttlebots spawned, so I died and decided not to spend any more energy on revives. I had died in the freeze arena right above that one as well due to a lumber.
I tried to stop the feinds T_T. Dumped a whole lotta yellow into that stratum, but it was all for naught.
It's good stuff, off topic a bit i guess but i REALLY think they need to amp up the 3ce gate "treasure" rooms..does anyone ever use these?
haha, fiends! Yay :D I'd been having fun with them in Silver Queen this week. I'd love to have a little more (and yes the fun does often end in death perhaps half of the time >.> but when you keep getting philoso from that kats there and shadow steel, its all worth it). Random sniping with Radiant Sun Shards is fun too :D
But I'll probably stick with Silver Queen til it goes since that's stratum 6 stuff so its worth more to me, I'm kind of meh about vana without my friends. (And stratum 5 has lots of kats too)
@Moogzor, I always play on mist, and when I make a T2 run I will always have 20 energy over, so I usually open those gates.
At the end on the first arena, I decided to keep track of my income for each depth as well, see how much I earn.
I ran on mist, and only had time for one run today, so I opened all the energy gates. Also, I planned on playing Grim Gallery in D11, but while kiting a Phantom while waiting on the gate to change, I just stepped on the elevator :/
D9 - Arena - ~700cr - I chose to do this after the arena, but this value is within 50cr of the actual
D10 - Graveyard - 357cr - ( 2 energy gates)
D11 - Spiral Court I - 319cr - (1 energy gate)
D12 - Arena - 1383cr
D13 - Basil - prick had nothing i wanted
D14 - Perimeter Promenade II - 1020cr
D15 - Jade Triangle - 778cr - (1 energy gate)
D16 - Arena - 2419cr
D17 - Arena - 2658cr
Total - approx 9634 crowns
Mats picked up
4 star:
Heavy Gear x 2, Miracloth x 2, Silver Coil
3 star:
Brute Core, Fine Fabric, Force Dynamo x 4, Hailstone, Redwood x 2, Rocket Sprocket x 7, Soul Dust x 6, Toxic Core, Unstable Core x 2
2 star:
Cooling Cell x 2, Driftwood x 2, Forbidden Fruit, Frayed Fabric x 4, Gel Core x 5, Grave Soil, Gremlin Gizmo x 5, Iron Gear x 4, Nightshade, Owlite Feather, Power Cell x 3, Static Clinger, Swordstone x 6
1 star:
Brimstone x 3, Bronze Bolt x 4, Exto Drop x 9 Gel Drop x 2, Scrap Metal x 20
0 star:
Blue Shard x 12, Dark Shard x 7, Green Shard x 5, Light Shard x 18, Red Shard, Crimsonite x 4, Dark Matter x 8, Moonstone x 14, Valestone x 10
Forge Spark x 2, Grim Spark
It's been a few few days, I calculated what I made on a run, they always vary, but this is what I got, also about the 3CE rooms, yeah, I almost always open them, about 1/3 of the time they have tokens in them, even saw a prismatic alchemer drop in one today that I paid for...but it gave it to someone else...grrr, but...
9 - Arena - 634 crowns
10 - Graveyard - 496
11 - Scarlett Fortress - 322
12 - Arena - 1448
13 - Basil
14 - Jigsaw Valley - 803
15 - Jigsaw Valley - 525 (maybe I missed something? I don't think so...)
16 - Arena - 2520
17 - Arena - 2395
Total: 9143
No it isnt autosellers, there was a guild that sabotaged it... i cant say who sadly... though my whole guild wants to guild war them when lockdown comes out now, they announced in zone chat, and dumped 10k in red and dark shards in the last few mins.. guess who
BTW if i am not wrong... they have started on the new vana gate, its alreadly at fiends with rather high amounts of dark crystals
My guild tried fighting back, with the 12k blue shards inside, but well its fiends again...
You have several options:
-Circumvent the Fiend levels by joining others that are at the terminal;
-Get Valkyrie set; or
-Don't go to FSC at all.
It's that simple.
I made around 8600 crowns in that gate.
Really neat, I also opened all energy gate and had to revive twice but still ran it entirely on mist.
Depth 8:
Crowns: 1496
Depth 9:
Thunder Fist Arena
Cadaverous Clash
Crowns: 2135
2 token
Depth 10:
Graveyard
Coins: 2500
Depth 11:
Grim Gallery
Coins: 3044
2 Token
Depth 12:
Iron Edge Arena
Cadaverous Clash
Crowns: 4517
1 token
Depth 14:
Perimeter promenade
Crowns:5217
Depth 15:
Jade Tangle
Crowns:5945
Depth 16:
Ice arena
Crowns: 8153
2 token
1 revive
Depth 17:
Normal Arena
Crowns: 10522
2 token
1 revive
Here how it looked like for me:
T8: Start: 14030
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T9 - Thunder Fist Arena: 14537
T10 - Treasure Vault: 14862
T11 - Scarlet Fortress: 15332
T12 - Iron Edge Arena: 16818
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T13 - Earning: 2788
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T14 - Jigsaw Valley: 17704
T15 - Jigsaw Valley: 18456
T16 - Ice Maul Arena: 21231
T17 - Iron Edge Arena: 23919
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T18 - Total Earning: 9889
"there was a guild that sabotaged it"
Sabotage? Nonsense! They made the gate better than it would otherwise have been.
New FSC gate? Please tell me Tge S5 gate is shock fiends...
And actual pics plz?