Spiral Knights - Sprite leveling vs available resources

Sprite leveling vs available resources

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Mon, 02/24/2014 - 15:20

Fehzor

0. What resources did you start with when battle sprites were released? (Crowns/Gear/Minerals/Materials)
1. How long did it take you to level your sprite to 105 or however long it took to stop eating?
2. How did you prioritize food?
3. When/If you got the 2nd/3rd battle sprites, what did you do differently?

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I started with a ton of minerals, gear etcetera, and it took me around 3-5 days to finish the first sprite, but around a month to finish the 2nd and 3rd ones due to lack of materials (I runned out :3). I prioritized feeding them "crappy" materials until I had the necessary 5* materials to give up to get them to 105.

Mon, 02/24/2014 - 15:39

Hawksteel

Well

My materials were all cut down to about 30 each (the ones that actually make the heat bar level up) from anywhere between 90-200 for my Maskeraith.
My Drakon, I just gave up until I can finish Maskeraith first.
I just feed it when I feel like it or when my materials go above 30 because it's such a pain.

Mon, 02/24/2014 - 15:47

Gianor

I make it my duty to malnourish all sprites!

0: 4K Plus of each mineral, never payed for any sprite food except for crafting fees, about 40 of each five star material (excluding shadow lair materials) full five star set aswell.
1: It took about two months to get my Maskeraith to level 100, and my Seraphynx and Drakon to level 49.
2: Above everything else, it was new content, ima bust everything on it that I can.
3: Well, I have all three already. Assuming you can have more in the future, I wouldn't change a thing.

Mon, 02/24/2014 - 16:10

Dibsville

0. 5* mats (specifically Flame Souls and Reaper Ribs since I was a fledgling Vanguard at the time the update came out, so I had done nothing but run FSC for the few weeks prior to the update).
1. I got it to 105 during the Winterfest event.
2. 5* mats up until about Level 60, where I started running low and started feeding it 4* mats here and there until Level 75, where I saw it clearly wasn't worth it, and I fed it Shadow Stars until 105.
3. Level 55 Drakon and Level 56 Seraphynx, fed them 5* mats until Level 15, then fed them their wanted foods from there-on.

Mon, 02/24/2014 - 17:51

Whimsicality

0. Out the window with my Flame Souls. Quickly switched to Blaze Peppers and Blighted Bones when I realized it was more cost efficient. (5* Mats cost buttloads, while I had buttloads of the 4* mats.)
1. Got to Max level a month or so before Winterfest.
2. Still using my sprites as a Blaze Pepper disposal unit.
3. Level 25 Seraphynx and Drakon. Not too worried about leveling them up, as I'm not too concerned with their other ability.

Mon, 02/24/2014 - 20:00

Seiran

First pet was Maskeraith.

0. I had 4k+ of each mineral, 90+ of the FSC 5* mats (flame souls, reaper ribs, philosofeathers)
1. Probably a week or so; the main limiter was playtime / appetite, though I did run out of shadow materials and switched to selling off Power stars cause I was n e v e r going to be able to afford (nor want) to make a Drakon.
2. I used 5* materials (with occasional 4* for the 'bump'). I did this way until the 4* pet levels before realizing the 'favorite food' could get them max in 4-5 steps (whereas the 5* mats were starting to be less effective).
3. ...So I decided to make a Drakon. I was more efficient with switching to 'favorite food' earlier. Originally, I thought appetite came back with finishing floors and ended up doing various Arcade speed expeditions, to no reward. Now, I do FSC speed runs (and I finish the runs juuust in time for 4-5 appetite to refill - it's great timing and money lol).

For comparison's sake, the answers with Drakon/my second pet:
0. I had about 2.5-3k red minerals, less than 500 of the shadow mineral and 5k+ of the divine mineral. Had about 50+ of the FSC 5* mats.
1. It's a little over a week now as of this post, and I'm at 85. I've gained about 5 levels today.
2. 5* mats until pet food could fill in less appetite than the mats.

Since less people are actively heating their sprites, it's harder for me to find exchanges ("I'll trade x pet food for y pet food that I need"), so I've been aggressively converting my Shadow Stars to crowns (thanks, max level Maskeraith!), to buy Power Stars. All my profit goes to feeding my pet ._.

Mon, 02/24/2014 - 20:33

Flowchart

0. had a lot of materials, a fair amount of the rest
1. about 2 weeks
2. I used mostly 4* mats to conserve my 5* ones for stars.
3. leveled two at the same time and used more 4* mats, so it took longer.

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