Spiral Knights - To buy or not to Buy

To buy or not to Buy

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Sun, 10/23/2011 - 06:06

Bloodigician

New player to this game, went into this game intending not to spend a penny
But wait.. there's a resource that demands pennies, and apparently this resource is the access to actually playing the game effectively
So I looked towards buying energy for crowns

Currently the rates for buying energy is ~6000 crowns for 100 energy
This is quite a lot in comparison to what I saw from around 5 months ago where ~4500 crowns bought 100 energy
Question is, is it really worth it to spend ~6000 crowns for 100 energy? Will 100 energy pay off to get me at least ~6000 crowns? How?

Sun, 10/23/2011 - 06:50

Ndognine

well its been 6k sense I've

well its been 6k sense I've started (about a week ago), but i have a few suggestion on it...

1. dont buy any until you need it for crafting. Save mist energy to do missions, and buy equipment to about 3*.
2. once you start needing to craft 4* (or 3* if you choose) equips, save up 100 mist energy before you craft, saving 6k crowns when you craft it

This is mostly stuff i just picked up while reading the forums.

personally, CE hasn't been much of an issue for me, sense i had a bunch of TF2 stuff laying around that i sold to get myself ahead a little faster.

Sun, 10/23/2011 - 07:43

Skaiwalka

Ya don't buy it till you need

Ya don't buy it till you need it, maybe it will go down.

But you can make that money (and a little bit more) back from one FSC run, and even more if you sell any high tier mats you find.

All in all, don't buy ce with cash, just do FSC runs and buy ce when you need it with crowns for crafting or want a key.

Sun, 10/23/2011 - 07:44

Narfle

There are a number of guides on the forum for going totally F2P. Even with the current price of ce, it's really not difficult. If you figure that your 100 daily mist energy is enough for a complete tier 1 run and half of tier 2, or all of tier 2 and a bit of tier 3, choosing the right gate can absolutely net you enough crowns for 100 ce without straining too much. There are some gates where the energy expense-to-profit ratio will be less than 1 to 1, and some where it will be more, you just have to spend a little time looking at gate maps and target the gates/tiers that will provide the best payout. I'm not a hardcore player, but I usually find that starting with full mist, I can net enough cr for 100 ce with some mist still left.
+1 to Ndognine's advice on crafting: after farming tiers with as many high-payout levels as possible, be on the lookout for cheap 2* or 3* gear at the auction house to avoid early energy costs (TONS of cheap stuff out there as people try for UVs), and let your mist fully recharge before crafting big stuff (4* and 5*). The pace is obviously slower than buying ce, but faster than you'd think.

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