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slow decent - seems quite impossible
65 Posts	Link to post - Posted February 22nd 2016 at 4:18 AM Last Edited February 22nd 2016 at 4:42 AM bigfat-and agry ranting-rasta I was running this challenge and had to break it off on level 72 to use my accumulated nearly 30 k event items. After around 10 days running (further enhanced by countless time warps) a fully buffed ( power, accuracy, siphon, splash....) Hermit based formation did not make a dent on level 73, even supported by the bushwacker and an overclocked mouse! I think that this challenge went over the top! The main problem is that while the difficulty ramps up very fast, the gold drop of the enemies stays normal, so even opening a lot of saved chests (for additional gold )does not help becouse the effect is based on the enemy/stage lvl and on lvl 1-100 this is next to nothing! I have >12k idols, 300 % from rings ...., so I thought to be prepared pretty good. I wasted a lot of buffs, as i had to quit to at least get some of the event stuff done. opinions? someone who finished it?
114 Posts	Link to post - Posted February 22nd 2016 at 5:13 AM Bluji People on the Kongregate forums have stated that they've found it somewhat challenging at 20k idols. You're probably looking at like twice your current idols if you want to make it easy-ish.
134 Posts	Link to post - Posted February 22nd 2016 at 6:09 AM thedude I had a little over 23000 idols, 560% from rings, and Sarah (my DPSer) has 260 EP, and it took me a bit over two and a half days to do it. All of the newest objectives were designed for very high level players.
65 Posts	Link to post - Posted February 22nd 2016 at 7:25 AM bigfat-and agry ranting-rasta 260 EP = 1300 h= 54 days!!!!!! really? (- your 2,5 days that would mean you used 155 Epic time warps (or equivalents) that merely confirms my statement i think ....
65 Posts	Link to post - Posted February 22nd 2016 at 7:26 AM Last Edited February 22nd 2016 at 7:27 AM bigfat-and agry ranting-rasta unless you ment Enchantement Points (and then my hermit is in a similiar ballpark) still if the "recommended" idols are 5k that is VERY missleading ...... should be 15k the very least then
692 Posts	Link to post - Posted February 22nd 2016 at 10:07 AM Teschio EPs = enchantment points. Experience points are XPs. And yes, the new objectives are quite challenging. I have 45k idols, and it took me a few buffs/warps to finish them in a timely fashion. As a general rule, I am against extremely long runs. If it takes more than 12 hours to do an objective, simply ignore it and retry when you have a lot more idols. It's much more effective. BTW, always ignore the "recommended idols" part. If you want to see if you can do an objective, just try it out, if you are less then 75% through and you stop instakilling stuff (without any chest or warp usage) just give up and try when you are stronger.
62 Posts	Link to post - Posted February 22nd 2016 at 11:47 AM Last Edited February 22nd 2016 at 11:52 AM Roku It was incredibly hard at 30k idols and poor gear luck. If your gear luck is better than mine, you might be able to do it more easily with fewer idols, but the last few floors were an extremely harsh climb for me. I'd rate it considerably harder than Cursed Treasure which was harder than Lion King. I haven't tried Holiday because I'm missing several Event Crusaders and have had such poor loot luck with the ones I do have that half of them are useless.
692 Posts	Link to post - Posted February 22nd 2016 at 12:56 PM Teschio Yes, Slow Descent seems the hardest of the 4 new objectives. I strongly suggest to delay an attempt until at least 30k idols (and even then, with some chests/warps/buffs to spare, and a clicking formation for the last floors as well).
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