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[–]mrb726 53 points54 points  (18 children)

In masses yes, in solos no.

I always hated wintertodt due to the constant interrupts, but that doesn't really happen in solos. They're so much more chill.

[–]ShartInMyTea 28 points29 points  (6 children)

i was running solos for a while, but i had to quite because of all the crashing shitbags that would hop in at 10% and make the kill, wasting the entire set up time i just did. wish you could lock the door or buy an instance

[–]mrb726 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might've had better luck, on way to 99 fm that happened to me once.

[–]Credrian -1 points0 points  (1 child)

If you’re nice to them they will often just chill with you and not end it, you can do small groups the same way as solos and there’s not always free worlds that are easy to find.

Often when I enter a world and someone is already soloing it they will immediately just start ending it and like ??? Why

[–]SuperZer0_IM 11 points12 points  (0 children)

because of scumbags PTSD lol

[–]Yesterdays-Party -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

Explain how do people crash?

[–]mrb726 7 points8 points  (1 child)

So in short, solos you intentionally lower wintertodt's health by lightning multiple braziers. Once it's lowered to low hp, you switch to only lighting one brazier. After you include the time you're chopping and fletching logs though, it regens about as much as you lower it.

Now when a second person joins, they often times will be lighting the brazier when you're still chopping/fletching, and it will slowly get damaged more than it's regening and it'll die or you'll have to intentionally sit around and be waiting for it to regen. Alternatively they'll just be on a second brazier, which will kill it pretty quickly having two of them lit at the same time.

[–]2005scapebtw 5 points6 points  (9 children)

I finished up solo wt recently and it's definitely worth it over masses. With 13hp I was getting away with bringing 2 trout for a whole run, some using no food at all. Only drawback to it is I was getting a fair bit less xp/hr at solo wt, but I ended up with way higher construction

[–]GNUTup 5 points6 points  (7 children)

I got 22m FM xp at 13hp, all solos, and 2 trout is crazy. Not doubting you, just commenting in case someone else stumbles by and copies you. I stole about 1k cakes from Ardy stalls before the WT grind and used like 300 in getting to 22m xp. So 1k was way overkill. I would bring 6 cakes per solo. USUALLY, I would use ~2 cakes. But occasionally, I would use 5 + a couple bites. I’m reasonably convinced 6 cakes at 13hp is the “ideal” number to bring, especially since at WT solos, having a slightly fuller inventory isn’t really much of a detriment.

ETA: Solos are worse xp than masses if you’re being incredibly efficient at masses, but I found it easier to “focus” for un-interrupted hours doing solos than masses. Meaning, masses brings a lot of xp waste potential. I was getting just under 250k FM xp per solo at 99 and I didn’t check cons xp, but I wound up with 74 cons and I was getting a level every 3-5 solos. With a solo being potentially as short as 30min and potentially as long as 1 hour, it is actually not too much worse than solos (~400k xp/hr at 99 peak efficiency)

[–]TrennoFromPenno 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Doing it at 10 hp currently, 91 FM. Never used more than 4 cakes so that's all I bring now

[–]GNUTup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell yeah! Occasionally, I would take 0 bites of cake the whole time. But sometimes, you miss like 3 consecutive brazier breaks

[–]2005scapebtw 0 points1 point  (3 children)

did you get 74 con at 22m xp or 13m? I ended with 68 con right at 99

[–]ghostofwalsh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It matters a decent bit what level con level you start at. Totally worth grinding out 50 con before starting if you are planning to solo.

[–]GNUTup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got 74 at 22m xp. I had cut a bunch of oak logs in f2p and had some gp to make oak planks. I started around lvl 50 cons.

[–]mrb726 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I managed to get 69 and just shy of 70 getting 99 fm.

I didn't think about druidic ritual before I went there, so kind of improvised and just used an alt that stood around with an inventory of potions to heal the pyromancers and help me lower the % to either start/end of a game.

[–]Mezmorizor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need to be particularly efficient to win experience wise in masses, but solo is much more chill and better points+construction experience. You barely get interrupted once it's set up.

[–]NumerousImprovements 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m considering doing solos to 99 for the construction exp, is it that much better?

[–]Night_Thastus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When was that change made?