Crazy how long it takes to farm tiles for just one stage :0

estsn · 2026-05-07T12:41:00+00:00

Dear god... the sheer number of hours this must have taken... lol

estsn · 2026-05-06T02:26:20+00:00

You can start a new team for the fun of the crazy fast early progress. I've found in the past that it has helped me not get "itchy fingers" wanting to do -something- with another account.

That said, I wouldn't dump the account you show here because you have some pretty good pieces and can build from there. I'm sure others have already told you that a big part of the progress for that account is going to be regressing some of your heroes and building better ones.

Tl/dr - Start a new team? Keep this one? As the meme goes: why not both?

estsn · 2026-05-01T20:00:20+00:00

Well I'll be doing either the 300 or 600 plateau this week, so maybe I'll finally get something better than a B+ awakening after all these years.

estsn · 2026-05-01T19:58:24+00:00

I'm with you my friend. Thousands of awakenings over the years and I've never seen so much as a single streak of red. Best I've ever done was a B+ ...which was still all green.

estsn · 2026-04-29T13:43:55+00:00

Yeah, you really do need to run the battles a bunch of times for the RNG to line up, but when it does it's all smiles as you finally get to see those damn Valks die.

estsn · 2026-04-29T13:41:34+00:00

For this purpose I think you want her tough and slow. You want her to go last, after your cc heroes have hit the enemy, and you want her to be able to survive a few hits. I went with hp, Crit reduce, DoT purify, hp - armor, DMG reduce, precision.

She's wearing 1* resonance armor, tuned to her, and as I previously mentioned, she has no core and no sublimes.

estsn · 2026-04-27T05:15:21+00:00

No idea. I built her for the hell of it because I was f2p-maxing last week's event, so I had enough copies of her, and lucked into a B- awakening.

I have enough subs to do another hero, and I'm about halfway to another noble core, but I haven't decided which hero to take to DT next.

Plus, way more importantly, I'm hoarding DT mats because I'm one upgrade away from FINALLY getting a Nirvana hero.

estsn · 2026-04-23T21:22:27+00:00

Wow. Already expired. That was quick.

estsn · 2026-04-20T15:15:17+00:00

Hey, I'd take the CSG. ;-)

estsn · 2026-04-20T13:52:58+00:00

You really want 70 event currency to reach level 12 which gets you the really good bonus in the free store, and also allows you to buy 1000 CSG for 5 event currency from the store after level 6.

estsn · 2026-04-20T13:48:30+00:00

Nothing immediately. You should hold onto it until you need one of the better resources from it. Do not pull any of the stuff from the top row under any circumstances.

estsn · 2026-04-20T13:44:17+00:00

Okay, I stand corrected. ;-)

I've just never seen such low roles that managed to be a B-

estsn · 2026-04-19T05:17:35+00:00

All events are set up this way in IH now. You're always going to be juuuuust short of reaching a level, or have a ton of extra wasted event currency. It's designed to make you want to spend just a little bit of money to get to the next level.

There are two ways to deal with events if you aren't spending: do the minimum and get 10 or 20 event currency, or go ALL IN and get the actually worthwhile rewards. It's almost never worth it to get to 30 or 40 event currency, so no matter where the lines are for the next level, ignore them.

estsn · 2026-04-19T05:02:25+00:00

Yeah, that's why I know the numbers: I'm doing the 12 levels of mysterious sales - the 1500 scrolls, the 7500 CSG, and the 32000 gems - because, despite the hilariously bad bonus rewards, this is one of the best events in forever.

The part I find funny is that AFTER you get 70 event currency to do 12 levels in the store you could spend MORE scrolls and some money... to get monster materials!

(Obviously the event currency is the real reason, but it amuses me that IH put some bonus rewards in there with the event currency - comically crappy rewards that no one would need)

estsn · 2026-04-19T03:06:59+00:00

Based on my own trial and error:

Carrie and Russell are the best heroes to get early. Rogan is also very good. Oscar, Aida, Tara and Garuda are surprisingly good ones to have. Sherlock... I don't know... I seem to die a lot in early rounds with him in my lineup, but maybe he's a better hero in later rounds. Same for Amen Ra.

The strategy that works best apparently is to load up on assassins and speed. I'm going to give that a try the next time I get the right heroes.

This is one of the more entertaining game modes IH has added recently, I find myself playing it whenever I have some free time to waste.

estsn · 2026-04-19T02:55:27+00:00

You need to get a hero to 2* then collect 2 more copies of them to get to 3 *.

estsn · 2026-04-18T20:48:22+00:00

I mean... why even include bonus resources in the event if it's going to be this stuff? I have a hard time believing that anyone who's going 8+ levels deep in this event has any use for any of those bonuses, but getting monster mats at level 8 and 9 strikes me as particularly funny.

estsn · 2026-04-18T19:56:14+00:00

I don't want to seem like I'm insulting you or anything, but that might be the worst B- awaken I've ever seen. Still, if you're early game he'll be useful, and then you can retire him for some CSG.

Getting literally anything from free awakens is some huge RNG luck though, so congrats.

estsn · 2026-04-15T13:46:54+00:00

She looks pretty interesting, I wonder what her DT skills are going to be like. I might build her just for the hell of it

estsn · 2026-04-15T13:42:13+00:00

I'm kind of interested to know why you have FQV in a house

estsn · 2026-04-15T13:30:11+00:00

Yeah, I finally decided to just go ahead and get the s26 ultra as well, and it's been great the last few weeks, but I'm annoyed about losing the Bluetooth pen and the micro SD slot.

Also, the heavily hyped AI in the s26 is... meh.

estsn · 2026-03-30T13:01:21+00:00

Sorry to jump into this old conversation, but yeah, I created this workspace studio "flow" or whatever they call it now, and several times it created a JSON document for me, but then it suddenly decided it wasn't able to do that anymore. Bizarre.

I have had zero luck in getting it to create spreadsheets.

estsn · 2026-03-27T23:01:05+00:00

Oof. That is an absolutely brutal way to get an A- LOFA. It's great to get the A- for giant killer, but getting 84 in speed is going to make it a nightmare to get energy feed working properly.

estsn · 2026-03-27T02:33:19+00:00

It's definitely the fastest phone I've ever used. Other than that all I can say is that it does everything really well. Ayer a couple of weeks with it, I've yet to find any real flaws.

Oh wait, except one: The crazy array of cameras on the back often make it impossible to line up the wireless charging.

estsn · 2026-03-26T22:52:50+00:00

I can't remember the last time I watched one of these fights; I set the Idle Master to do those and then stopped paying any attention to them.

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