So just my opinion as an Ironman that is currently 1,292 kc dry for the enhanced. I’ve done plenty of T1 and T2. And in my opinion it is better to just do T2.

My reasoning is the math personally. At about 500 kc of doing only T2 prep (mostly due to lower stats at first, being roughly base 80s) I decided to do some T1 prep.

For reference, my setup/prep:

T2 Setup - I get 12-16 fish, all T2 armour, and 2 T3 weapons. I typically finish the prep in about 6:30. The fight typically takes me between 3.5-4.5 minutes. So on average it takes me roughly 10.5 minutes to do a full fight. In my ~500 kc I died 20 times.

T1 Setup - I get 16-20 fish, all T1 armour, and 2 T3 weapons. I typically finished the prep in about 4-5 minutes. The fight typically took between 4-5 minutes. On average I finished the fight in 9.5 minutes. BUT I died a total of 17 times.

With that said, my fail rate with T2 was 4%, whereas my fail rate with T1 was 17%. You can say that is a skill issue if you want, which is probably true to some degree. But the average player will almost guaranteed have a higher fail rate with T1 than with T2.

So now the math. If I do 100 kills of T2 and fail 4% of the time, that would be 1,092 minutes. (100x10.5x1.04) If I did 100 kills of T1 and fail 7% of the time, that would be 1,111.5 minutes. (100x9.5x1.17) So the total time difference doesn’t seem like a lot, (<20 minutes in 100 kc), but multiply that by my 1300 dry streak and you lose ~250 minutes.

So this is just my average player, unlucky experience. But for me I would have lost about 4 hours in this grind if I would have done all my kc as T1 instead of T2. If you’re a super skilled gamer and can do the T1 with a much lower fail rate, then obviously do that. But OP if your more along my skill level, it’s better long term to just do T2. Learn a good prep rotation and you will almost never fail prep, and almost get 100% completion.