User:Silent Knight/ProTips
Here is where I keep some tips for optimal ascending. These will be decidedly HC relevant, since that's my game.
Sewer Leveling
Summary of RoyalTonberry's posts on strategy
You need to be able to kill gators at worst which can be helped by
- PERMS
- +60% init (Overdeveloped Sense of Self Preservation + Springy Fusilli
- Entangling Noodles
- An attack spell (Saucegeyser+Jabañero SaucesphereBander=6MP for highest damage/mp, and/or Stringozzi Serpent, etc.)
- +spell damage (Flavour of Magic, Jackasses' Symphony of Destruction, Intrinsic Spiciness)
- Mr. Items
- +spell damage (Sugar chapeau, Mental A-cue-ity, and to a lesser extent rock band stickers)
- Bander makes noodles last 3 rounds, and has other bonuses
From 20 myst with +25 spell damage and +100% spell damage you should be able to deal 150 damage per round, killing the monsters within 3 rounds. Geyser+Jabañero+Bander+Chapeau+Acueity costs 7 mp average on a 3-geyser kill.
Saucerors can generate lots of MP from Sauce Synergy
Without a bander Stringozzi Serpent is a great perm for damage/MP early on.
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the rabbit hole might also be an option for fast substats (+50 per foodstuff), and scaling monsters with a lower barrier to entry
The Mysterious Island Quest
There's debate on where to use it, but a 4-d camera can go a long way. Either by fighting a camera'd brigand as a frat before you have access, or by copying lobsterfrogmen
There exists a tool to optimize your island quest for you here
Twinkly Wads
If you're in hardcore and not a muscle class getting wads is a bitch. This list is to help lessen the bitchness. Once you reach the level 12 war it should be pretty easy to get wads. I haven't included armorcraftiness items, because without that skill or inigo's permed it's worthless to me. Highlighted items will be unique per ascension; Make sure to exhaust other options before smashing them.
| Item | Level | Yield | Prereq |
|---|---|---|---|
| C. H. U. M. knife | 0 | 0.5 | |
| grumpy old man charrrm bracelet | 7 | 0.9 | |
| tarrrnished charrrm bracelet | 7 | 0.5 | |
| drywall axe | 8 | 0.9 | |
| armgun | 10 | 0.9 | |
| giant discarded bottlecap | 10 | 0.9 | |
| giant discarded plastic fork | 10 | 0.9 | |
| giant needle | 10 | 0.9 | |
| Mohawk wig | 10 | 0.9 | |
| ridiculously huge sword | 10 | 0.9 | |
| wolf mask | 10 | 0.9 | |
| giant discarded torn-up glove | 10 | 0.5 | |
| magilaser blastercannon | 10 | 0.5 | |
| glowing red eye | 10 | 0.3 | |
| blackberry combat boots | 11 | 3.0 | |
| blackberry moccasins | 11 | 3.0 | |
| blackberry slippers | 11 | 3.0 | |
| booty chest charrrm bracelet | 11 | 3.0 | |
| cannonball charrrm bracelet | 11 | 3.0 | |
| copper ha'penny charrrm bracelet | 11 | 3.0 | |
| wonderwall shield | 11 | 3.0 | |
| Ankh of Badahnkadh | 11 | 1.8 | |
| big bad voodoo mask | 11 | 1.8 | |
| black greaves | 11 | 1.8 | |
| black helmet | 11 | 1.8 | |
| black shield | 11 | 1.8 | |
| black sword | 11 | 1.8 | |
| bottle opener belt buckle | 11 | 1.8 | |
| charming flute | 11 | 1.8 | |
| denim axe | 11 | 1.8 | |
| Drowsy Sword | 11 | 1.8 | |
| gauze shorts | 11 | 1.8 | |
| giant cactus quill | 11 | 1.8 | |
| headhunter necktie | 11 | 1.8 | |
| leather chaps | 11 | 1.8 | |
| Maxwell's Silver Hammer | 11 | 1.8 | |
| mesh cap | 11 | 1.8 | |
| pygmy spear | 11 | 1.8 | |
| batblade | 11 | 0.9 | |
| black kettle drum | 11 | 0.9 | |
| buoybottoms | 11 | 0.9 | |
| extra-large palm-frond toupee | 11 | 0.9 | |
| grassy cutlass | 11 | 0.9 | |
| grungy flannel shirt | 11 | 0.9 | |
| happiness | 11 | 0.9 | |
| Iiti Kitty phone charm | 11 | 0.9 | |
| mummy mask | 11 | 0.9 | |
| palm-frond capris | 11 | 0.9 | |
| pygmy nose-bone | 11 | 0.9 | |
| solid gold pegleg | 11 | 0.9 | |
| witty rapier | 11 | 0.9 | |
| world's smallest violin | 11 | 0.9 | |
| a butt tuba | 11 | 0.5 | |
| jungle drum | 11 | 0.5 | |
| grungy bandana | 11 | 0.3 | |
| palm-frond cloak | 11 | 0.2 | |
| yohohoyo | 11 | 0.3 |
