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For me, budgetcore means:
* No IOTMs, or items priced similalry.
* IOTM-derivatives and other rares are okay as long as they're cheap (max 1m?)
** These are non-perpetual though, so they go under an "unrestricted" heading. I mean, maybe it's in Standard, but I don't want to write something that's outdated in two years.
* Nothing that requires lots of ascensions.
** This means low-skill friendly.

Lists are item ((price,) type, (level/stat requirement,) effect). If you see an outdated price feel free to edit it.

When I say "out of Ronin", I mean "not in Ronin or HC".

==Speedrunning theory==

An ascension is about finishing all Council quests in a given number of adventures. Thus, to ascend faster, we can either:
* Increase our ''turngen'' (the number of adventures we can use each day) by:
** Having a better ''diet'' (the food and booze we consume).
** Getting more ''rollover adventures''.
* Decrease our ''turncount'' (the number of adventures we use to finish quests) by:
** Better ''powerlevelling'' (levelling up faster, thus unlocking quests faster).
** Increasing ''item drops'' (a common quest step).
** Manipulating ''encounters'' (another common quest step).

Balancing +turngen and -turncount is important.

Powerlevelling isn't just important for quests: it's also important for equipment stat requirements.

Note that, for item drops, the relevant number is chance to get a given item per adventure:

    (combat rate) * (monster rate) * max(1, (item drop rate) * (1 + bonus item drop / 100))

This means [[#Combat frequency|combat rate]], [[#Encounter manipulation|encounter manip]], and [[#Item drop|item drop]] are ''all'' important for item searching, not just item drop rate.

==Rollover adventures==

These get less useful for speed ascension, because you get no benefit on day 1 rollover.

Being in a clan with a stocked [[Clan Rumpus Room]] is +8 out of Ronin.

* [[clockwork maid]] (7k, campground, +8)
* [[Pagoda]] (7k?, campground, lvl5, +3)
* [[The Long View]] (TT passive, +3)
* [[sea cowboy hat]] (8.5k, hat, 85mox, +3)
* [[General Sage's Lonely Diamonds Club Jacket]] (300, shirt, 50mus, +3)
* [[staph of homophones]] (80k, weapon 2H, 45mus, +5) or [[sword behind inappropriate prepositions]] (80k, weapon 2H, 45mus, +5)
** It's probably cheaper to finish [[A Quest, LOL]] instead of buying these.
** These are all two-handed, so you won't have an offhand.
* [[ancient calendar]] (25k, offhand, 20mus, +3)
* [[Mer-kin stopwatch]] (13k, offhand, 85mys, +3)
* [[dead guy's watch]] (120, accessory, 10mys, +1)
* [[tiny plastic bitchin' meatcar]] (18k, accessory, +1)
* [[BGE pocket calendar]] (185k, accessory, +3)
* [[numberwang]] (500k, accessory, 35mys, +5)

Unrestricted:
* [[Hairpiece On Fire]] (12k, hat, +4)

==Powerlevelling==

The unit of measurement is s/f, or substats per fight.

* [[astral shirt]] (shirt, +3s/f)
* [[Patient Smile]], [[Wry Smile]], [[Knowing Smile]] (TT, SA, AT skill, +1s/f)

==Combat rate==

The most important way to manipulate encounters is by changing [[Combat Frequency]]. As combat frequency modifiers have diminishing returns beyond 25%, it's probably not worth trying to push harder than that. Also, -combat is more important than +combat.

-combat:
* [[Smooth Movements]] (DB skill, -5%)
* [[The Sonata of Sneakiness]] (AT song, -5%)
* [[red shoe]] (400, accessory, -5%)
* [[ring of conflict]] (1.5k, accessory, -5%)
* [[duonoculars]] (7.5k, accessory, -5%)
* [[Bram's choker]] (7.8k, accessory, -5%)

+combat:
* [[Musk of the Moose]] (SC skill, +5%)
* [[Carlweather's Cantata of Confrontation]] (AT song, +5%)
* [[giant turkey leg]] (700, weapon 3H, +5%)
* [[monster bait]] (28k, accessory, +5%)

Unrestricted:
* [[portable cassette player]] (100, accessory, +5%)

==Encounter manipulation==

Not a lot of ways to affect monster rate. [[Olfaction]] is great but solidly not budgetcore. This leaves, in perpetual:
* [[4-d camera]] (11k, [[copying]], once per day)
* [[Batter Up!]] (SC-only skill, [[banishing]])
* [[Harold's bell]] (quest item, [[banishing]])

The only cheap reusable monster rate manip is in unrestricted:
* [[Snokebomb]] (700k, skill, [[banishing]])
** This does not autoperm, so make sure to have karma.

==Item drop==

+item is hard to increase by a lot. Low-item drops are around 15%, and to bring to 100% needs around +550%.

Pickpocketing is like

Skills and buffs:
* [[Mad Looting Skillz]] (DB passive, +20%)
* [[Fat Leon's Phat Loot Lyric]] (AT song, +20%)
* [[Powers of Observatiogn]] ([[The Gnomish Gnomad Camp|Gnome]] moonsign, +10%)
* [[Singer's Faithful Ocelot]] (200k, [[A Vending Machine|VM]] buff, +10%)

Eqiups:
* [[Baby Gravy Fairy]] (familiar, +50% at 20 lbs, approx +1.5% per lb)
** The [[Slimeling]] is better, but slightly harder to get. (1.5m?)
* [[spiky turtle shield]] (3.5k, offhand, +10%)
* [[Mark V Steam-Hat]] (1k, hat, +10%)
* [[Baron von Ratsworth's monocle]] (accessory, +10%)
* [[War Medal]] (accessory, +8%ish)
* [[lucky rabbit's foot]] (300, accessory, +7%)
* [[observational glasses]] (accessory, +5%)
* [[makeshift cape]] (3k, back, +5%)
* [[Bounty-Hunting Rig]] (45 filthy lucre, outfit, +70%)