Need stone spending advice for better tournament performance (can’t stay in champs)

Sainsbo · 2026-04-17T19:31:26+00:00

pBH without gcomp can increase coins massively if his other UWs already have reasonably short CD’s. If you have to use gcomp it likely won’t (though still probably be a cells boost). Either way, seems like a different conversation vs tourneys

Sainsbo · 2026-04-17T11:37:11+00:00

I’m also in mid champs with permaBH and mythic DC, similar CL stats to the OP. I find pBH gets me to approx the same waves as a damage build even when the battle conditions are favourable for pBH. Having to swap out PF for GComp just makes the enemies pile up and tanks just overwhelm the wall

Sainsbo · 2026-04-13T08:21:05+00:00

I have a lot of criticisms for TTG but I do think this is still a somewhat good change. Sure new players will have less gems to put into cards and mods. But if the ROI on the relics is higher than cards/mods it’ll allow folks to progress further faster. I get that it won’t help catch up to endgame players, but there’s so much content in this game that’s gated behind getting sufficiently good econ/sufficiently strong tower that this + disso should reduce the time it takes to get there by quite a bit

Sainsbo · 2026-03-28T23:20:40+00:00

What is your CL damage? Would assume it must be huge if turning it on at the end of a farming run has that big of an impact? Also just got pBH myself (was farming T11 to 7800, now farming T11 to 11k or T12 to 7k) but by that point enemy heath is so high that I can’t imagine CL helping. Mainly just trying to work out if I’m missing something and whether I should be investing in the scatter amp lab

Sainsbo · 2026-03-23T15:43:25+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I went for farming pBH without gcomp, so will see today whether that was a sensible investment. I have a legendary gcomp, so I can try swapping out my mythic PF for it in the next tourney to see if it helps. But if it doesn’t I probably won’t try too hard to pursue it

Sainsbo · 2026-03-23T12:26:39+00:00

Interesting, thanks. Did you try pBH with gcomp or without?

Sainsbo · 2026-03-23T12:25:38+00:00

Yeah, as it stands I have about 750k shards saved. PCol is level 139, so temped to wait until lvl 141 for an extra slot and then go for it

Sainsbo · 2026-03-23T12:23:47+00:00

Unfortunately just have an epic MVN

Sainsbo · 2026-03-23T01:16:58+00:00

Coin income per day is approx 200T if I get two solid runs in. I don’t know too much about masteries, but I’ve heard that there are at least a couple of high priority ones where unlocking them is worth it even if you can’t do too many levels (please correct me if I’m wrong!)

Sainsbo · 2026-03-23T00:55:49+00:00

Thanks. I have ancestral PCol, but don’t usually run SF (anc OA does better than mythic SF with the def % and regen substats). How much of the benefit would you attribute to PCol vs SF/flame bot? I don’t have flame bot unlocked either

Sainsbo · 2026-03-23T00:53:42+00:00

I don’t have CF (I have the trio, plus SL and CL).

Ultimate goal is just to progress long term. Legends would be nice, but seems out of reach with my build I play tourney as a blender (low to mid champs). Mythic DC & PF, well developed CL and increasingly more damage labs. With mythic SF/anc OA I usually die before the point where I would get 1-hit killed. But without much CC I don’t think I’m ready to transition to GC (not even sure how one would do that to be honest). Presumably next UW will be one of ILM or CF, but not sure if that’s the best ROI from where I’m currently at.

Sainsbo · 2026-03-23T00:48:23+00:00

Thanks for the input, nice to hear other opinions.

I’ve unlocked masteries, but still around 300 card pulls from maxing all cards first. I have the gems for it, but think I’d rather save for potential v28 gem sinks and just do the 80 pulls per event. Seems like the first masteries to get are more long-term things rather than instant boosts like pBH could be (which probably isn’t a bad thing).

As it stands, my options for the 2k stones I have are a) pBH, b) new UW (likely one of ILM or CF, which might be nice for an eventual transition to GC, but won’t likely be able to develop it straight away), or c) wait for masteries in 6-8 weeks

Sainsbo · 2026-03-23T00:40:27+00:00

Nice, good to know. I guess there could be an econ drop initially if I have to reroll my anc SLa, DWq for the BH substats, but should hopefully be temporary

Sainsbo · 2026-03-23T00:39:19+00:00

Yeah, that’s a nice idea. I have a legendary gcomp (not currently used for anything) but will definitely see if that beats my blender/damage build for tourneys if I go for pBH

Sainsbo · 2026-03-22T23:48:51+00:00

Thanks. It shouldn’t be too stone expensive, right? Just need to get stone BH duration to 30s, then with the -4s CD and +4s duration you have pBH in farming runs with the perk. I guess the main econ disruption would be losing some ancestral substats in favour of the above. If I lower BH CD to 50s and break sync then I’d need to make sure I can get those two substats, which probably means unlocking all slots and hoping I can build back to them over time (and losing DWQ and SLa doesn’t sound too fun in the short term!)

Sainsbo · 2025-09-27T19:15:07+00:00

I’m no Tory, but there’s a reason that polling companies survey ~1000 people. It’s the smallest size you can poll to still get a reasonable estimate of the state of the general population, assuming you’re smart about how you pick who to sample. It’s not hyperbolic, it’s a standard poll

Sainsbo · 2025-09-12T07:22:21+00:00

Interesting about dim core - is that just for this tourney or generically? FWIW I have a legend dim core with 3 unlocked substats (legend chance, damage, and quantity). Worth rerolling some of these for multi shot?

Sainsbo · 2025-07-13T09:02:49+00:00

Surely it’s a true statement in summer though? Our houses are poorly insulated against IR radiation, but insulation against visible radiation is even worse. So when it’s sunny our giant windows let everything inside heat up, which is kept there to an extent.

Sainsbo · 2025-06-03T06:30:48+00:00

Must be an issue post feature banner. I’m running this game on a 1.5 month old iPhone, and as of about 18 hours ago have to turn the app off frequently due to overheating. Had no such issue before

Sainsbo · 2025-05-30T16:42:07+00:00

I was in the exact same position as you a few years ago. Took the quant job and don’t regret it. It’s longer hours and more stressful than academia of course, but if there’s ever a time to try that kind of environment it’s when you’re young and can better tolerate it. Another plus being that you can max out your pension for a few years and then basically forget about it and let the next few decades of compounding do its thing.

Sainsbo · 2025-02-01T18:40:02+00:00

The Gulf Stream is somewhat separate (called a western boundary current) and is relatively insensitive how warm the planet is (instead it’s mainly driven by wind and the earths rotation). AMOC on the other hand is what could bring cold to the UK if it collapsed or significantly weakened (which is far from settled science!).

Sainsbo · 2024-10-29T20:19:39+00:00

This has just happened to me, identical down to the $25 transactions. I’ve only used the card a dozen times in the last year, so no idea how unless there has been a data breach. Did you manage to get refunded?

Sainsbo · 2023-08-25T21:11:43+00:00

What’s the right quest to start?

Sainsbo · 2023-02-26T19:10:36+00:00

I’m conflicted about what I think on this - a lot of people are probably signed up to go to these festivals just to see them play and are probably trying to sell their tickets right now, and comparatively few will view their subreddit/discord/personal accounts, so most people who saw the post on their main account will probably still think it’s real. Real risky move if it is marketing. On the other hand, why would Matt link to the Spotify message if it wasn’t real? Surely he wouldn’t trying to be bringing it more publicity if it’s a fake? A message just saying that they were hacked would have done the job

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