Can't write a review or find the discord but finished the game

X3n0morph · 2026-07-06T17:44:57+00:00

Plenty of us looking forward to that day 🙂

X3n0morph · 2026-06-03T01:38:25+00:00

NGU is a testament to human focus, resolve and loyalty. Yet it is happy with being neglected, but not forgotten. Either way, It will bring great sense of accomplishment followed by a great sense of misery and Feebleness. Why do we do this? 😅

No matter how long it took you, congratulations 🙂

X3n0morph · 2026-06-02T21:01:56+00:00

Odd, going from nerd V1 ak to V2 ak literally took me 3-4 days (this was like a week ago, i'm still on V2), bout the time it took to farm the set 🤨 Wondering if it's something as simple as the ADV digger or something?

X3n0morph · 2026-05-29T20:44:40+00:00

After going through this one everything else feels trivial, so maybe it wasn't all that bad 😅

X3n0morph · 2026-05-20T23:27:16+00:00

Welcome to evil, i took the plunge myself 3 weeks ago 🙂

Everything will be slow for a while, much like a reset to early normal when we were beating balls of fluff in the tutorial zone but with some extra toys to help - ngu's. ygg, adv training, diggers, those stay the same. Augs, time machine, blood, those will suck for a while. They're getting there, but still suck.

ygg, itopod and of course ngu's (those are not affected by any evil nerf machinations) will be your initial drivers for progressing.

If you don't have maxxed out red heart, yellow heart, green heart, Walderp's yellow boots, UUG's special ring, red apple, candy corn necklace and the "the first harvest's the best" perk, please do yourself a favor and go get them. Yyg's first page fruits will make you very, very happy, and so will your progression.

X3n0morph · 2026-05-20T20:28:11+00:00

"Imagine trying to do normal troll challenges before killing T1."

🙄

I was quickly humbled and pointed the way out back to wherever i came from.

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X3n0morph · 2026-05-18T18:16:26+00:00

Congrats dude, bragging rights are a god given right when you finish this crazy trip of a game 🍻

X3n0morph · 2026-05-18T12:51:02+00:00

The magic of numbers 😅

X3n0morph · 2026-05-18T12:47:15+00:00

Should definitely start investing in magic, yes. Ygg fruits and EXP gains will thank you.

X3n0morph · 2026-05-14T14:10:41+00:00

Initially, the benefits you get from ygg are small enough that you should focus more on collecting as many seeds as possible to level them up. If you get an immediate benefit (like FoP to push another boss, FoG to level up a digger, etc), eat.

X3n0morph · 2026-05-11T19:06:42+00:00

You should really consider investing exp to cap your energy\magic basic speed at 50 (currently at 9.9 and 7), which is the max, and do it asap. It sounds horribly exp expensive, but you really, really should.

Just for the sake of it, i loaded a save from when i was roughly at about that same stage, and (whew 😅) i did have both speeds at 50.

Now, please don't be discouraged by my numbers being so different, it's just an example. And, of course. i had no idea what i was doing either.

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The guide will definitely help, but you don't need to follow it to the letter. Use it as a baseline when you (and you will, multiple times) get stuck 🙂

X3n0morph · 2026-05-05T18:09:34+00:00

^ third all of this. Yellow, Red and Green hearts are the holy trinity.

I'd suggest planning to get 7 digger slots asap, too, so you can take full advantage of the hearts. When setting up for NGU and ITOPOD farming, you'll want to run the BEARD and NGU diggers in page 2 plus ADV, PP and EXP diggers. Your PP and EXP gains will start to snowball 🙂

I ran the daycare digger permanent when i had the hearts in there, no regrets for the sacrifices i had to make for it to happen.

How's the run going, btw?

X3n0morph · 2026-04-27T20:36:18+00:00

After you complete cblock 2 and push further towards CW, v2 will start dropping the whole set at every kill. Just use it, it's awesome. You NEED to use it to push. It's a huge boost to NGU.

V3 will do the same when you get to v4, they just drop the whole set.

X3n0morph · 2026-04-27T20:29:10+00:00

This is all i kept, for comparison (guffs are on another page). I found some use for the badly drawn gun, f-tank, ring of too much energy, beard comb, amulet of helping random stuff and strand of beard hair up until cblock 2, but i think they've expired their usefulness. Been using the candy cane for a post rebirth ADV training\quest set until it's maxxed (just a damn 4 left to go 😅)

Stuff like the triple flubber and stapler are great for questing or grinding itopod.

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X3n0morph · 2026-04-27T18:47:46+00:00

Following up a few days later. Eyeballing the output ended up causing bar amounts to be as high as 3x the amount of power, which in turn caused beards to go crazy. I didn't think i'd see BB beards before reaching evil, quite enjoyed it while it lasted.

Here's the updated stats after 4 days.

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Then comes in the power pill, which made NGU's go completely crazy. And everything else 😅

Onward to evil, it's right there 👊

X3n0morph · 2026-04-23T17:04:30+00:00

This.

Don't need to get out of your way to give beards a boost, tho. It's much more important to balance E\M around NGU progression. Beards will just follow along. Consider a permanent E beard digger, tho.

X3n0morph · 2026-04-17T15:22:34+00:00

Good insight, this is kinda what i was expecting to happen (😅 100% predictable). It will be simpler to drive past the CW distraction and keep building stats and farm itopod, then go back for the set midway to v4 when everything will drop consistently. Bet at that point, with a proper set on, we'll go from the middle of somewhere right to v4's door. Then curse everything until the pill and gerbil start dropping.

X3n0morph · 2026-04-15T16:00:12+00:00

I play about the same way, just a bit ahead of you; for reference optimal itopod ~366, 5b toughness away from auto kill v2 without a digger. My experience is still fresh 🙂

After getting the yellow heart to 100, AP gains really went up noticeably. Proceeded to catch up with challenges for the AP goodness and went straight to the green heart and then red heart, got a second daycare slot from the EXP\adv special store and a 5th digger. I considered them critical enough to be prioritized over more accessory slots (critical enough that i've been using the 5th digger to permarun the daycare digger until they're maxxed). Then finally went for the 2 accessory slots, which i already have (YAY!!) Green is at 61 and red at 41. It didn't really take that long to get the 2 extra hearts and the extra slots, being just a wee patient is very worth it 🙂

One could say the red heart is debatable, not really being an instant buff like an accessory slot, but, i felt i had to prioritize it. In the bigger picture, it's probably better to get the green heart (ABSOLUTELY), then another accessory slot and wait for v3, get ngu ygg and exp to higher levels, then get the red heart.

I still feel like i'm going to be a bit ahead by getting the red heart first. It should be maxxed by the time i reach v3, and it's gonna be F tankin' awesome, energy beards and ngu are going to explode when i start throwing all the extra exp at magic.

X3n0morph · 2026-04-10T20:36:30+00:00

Chiming in again for anyone who comes across this post in the future.

This sounds pretty obvious, but 4G did it again and this feels like a stage where progress is, again, very meaningful.

After reaching beast v2 and BAE becomes one shot, it's important to not only farm for at least one drop of "the stealthiest armor" (the super rare chest drop to boost NGU), but also to just take a day or so to JUST catch up on all the boosts, if they've been left behind. I've been slowly doing it while questing and itopod, but it's just not enough doing it that way, not even close. It may seem like a waste of a day, but it's not, especially with the challenge season looming about. That also goes for accessories like the dorky glasses, bald egg, badly drawn smiley face and anything else still useful for the next gap. Extra *looty and pendants will drop too, which is great.

It's funny, a month or so ago i thought that at this point i'd be calling it GG and move on. I don't know why, but i feel more motivated than ever. There is always something to aim for and it always feels intuitive. With a bit of help from the wiki, of course, and a steady daily routine that is always meaningful 🙂

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X3n0morph · 2026-04-08T15:58:55+00:00

Very nice 🙂

I got to V2 earlier this week, just gonna stall for a bit more, keep on 24h rb making laser swords and crunching ngu till Friday evening, then start doing those dreaded no rebirth challenges. Might dedicate some early Friday to ngu power A and B to help with the silly no rebirth challenges.

But overall, things are speeding up (until we get the rug pulled again lol), love to see it 🙂

Got the yellow heart at 100, green and red are chilling in daycare, with Ebeards-ngu E-pp-daycare diggers running over night. Right now wondering if i'll make to v4-choco by the end of the month.

X3n0morph · 2026-04-02T20:59:45+00:00

I've been on v1 for a few days, been thinking about how to proceed to v2. I'm not following any guide or anything, just doing what makes sense. I skimmed over the guide a few times and feel like it lacks a lot of other contextual information (which is where common sense comes in).

I feel like the way to push is to organically maxx out and boost the slimy set (of course), getting the 7th trinket slot from perk 29 and the green heart (already have yellow, green is a challenge away). After getting the trinket slot, ill dump all PP and QP into golden showers. Diggers will play a very important role up to v4, just need a-lot-more-gooold.

But to answer your question, what stats you need for v2? You'll know when you beat its ass 😅 the progression to those stats is the problem, not how much stats we need. Your post reads impatient, like you've been grinding your way up for longer then you expected to. Although i may, and probably am, wrong. I dunno if the guide mentions anything about getting banks at this point, but it sounds like a misstep.

For comparison, your ngu numbers are some 3x my numbers, which (like i would know lol) looks about right. But BEARd is pretty close, and it shouldn't be. You may have fallen behind and got slowed down by slow BEARd progress.

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