For me, outside of Billy and Mindy being the horribly obvious ones (god bless whenever Mindy gets a GE piece), Veronica is probably the best choice for pure DPS. She has no specific target (e.g. "only animals"), so her ridiculous buff can be applied to anyone, and her generously-wide effect range allows Mindy to copy and double-dip easily. Basically everything you said. However, to give a different suggestion to add something to this post, my personal second-best recommendation would be Mr Boggin's suspenders. "The New Students" is already a pretty strong buff regardless, but ends up becoming arguably the best DPS buff in the game with the relevant GE. It only affects animals, but considering the huge buff it gives, it hardly matters. Even if your main DPSer is not an animal, this one ability can do wonders for FORCING an animal crusader to be your main DPSer. Of course, that is just with GE. With GL, the buff becomes even more wicked strong, but also adds an exponentially-increasing crit chance buff, which does WONDERS for anyone with "Passive Criticals" maxed out, as well as kind of overpowering any clicking crusader by giving it HUGE base chance to crit without timed buffs. The buff starts at 3%, but doubles with each level, being a +24% chance at level 4. That is some intense, all-purpose damage. Even without an animal DPSer, +24% crit chance giving it's DPS buff would make Boggins viable in ANY formation.

My third would be Bubba's goggles, since Bubba's GL makes for some more huge DPS buffs and can do really well for increasing your gold find. Not quite as super broken, but certainly really useful and worth mentioning.

Animenut the wall of text style aside that was a great post.

Viktyr you neglected to explain why.

Well, I'm not looking for maximum idol efficiency. I am looking to punch deeper than anyone else ever has, and that means a tanksplashing/cannon/firebombing strategy. Pretty much all of my choices revolve around Wendy/Ilsa DPS with Mindy copying Fire Phoenix and Montana James.

So you want me to explain my strategy for buying legendary gear, without discussing the strategy I'm buying it *for*?

Viktyr, she is saying that the point of this thread is not to discuss how multiple GLs work well in groups, but rather how useful each individual GL would be on its own. Your explanation largely revolved around "These multiple things synch well together for pushing more areas", but the point isn't about item synergy, it is about individual, independent, isolated examples. If you have a plan set up for yourself, then that is great, but this thread is not about formation discussion. Essentially, the question being asked is "What single GL do you think is the best?" If you want to say Deflect Evil is what you think is best "Because it works well for screen-wide damage", then that is perfectly fine, but it is against the point to say "with a tanking formation including these other crusaders and abilities" because that is not explaining the GL's usefulness by itself.

I am sorry that I missed the point of the question and became argumentative about it.

By way of apology, I would say that probably the best single legendary gear outside of Mindy's hat is Littlefoot's camera. It works regardless of your strategy, regardless of what other crusaders you have or are using, and can be inflated to astronomical levels.

Mr. Boggins Suspenders. He is a very useful crusader overall, the legendary doubles his effectiveness, it's applied to what can already be a golden epic, but more importantly, it increases crit chance. By A LOT: 3% on level 1, which means an incredible boost once you level it (48% at level 5...). This not only gives a huge boost to your clicking (you need an autoclicker, ofc), but also massively increases your DPS through the Passive Criticals talent.

@snow: Synergy with Larry. Favorite Prey is a good buff for the majority of strikers I'm interested in. Snickette and Larry trigger each other's legendary gear bonuses and they buff all three magical strikers-- magical for Ilsa and Wendy, non-human and male for Kizlblyp.

Last three posts are all off topic.

A legend I hope to upgrade is Fright-o-tron 3000 Tail for a -30% health debuff to enemies life.

It's hard to pick just one.

There are four rather obvious ones though:
* Mindy's Hat - You mimic abilities into a BETTER version? Sign me in!
* Billy's Cufflink - Better progression-speed? Yes please! Combine with Mindy's Hat legendary for some nice progression-speed results.
* Mister Monkey's Toys - Gives absolutely insane gold potency, even more so with a (level 1 is enough) Cane legendary.
* Santa's Hat - Has less potency than Monkey's Toys + Cane, but is a single gear improvement which also gives some insane gold potency.

And now for some extra ones:
* FoT4K's Mask - If the wiki is correct, it gives 100% DPS boost to all Crusaders PER ROBOT in the formation! This is either a typo on the wiki, or a numerical mistake on CNE's end. Regardless, if it's correct, it is probably the best DPS-boosting legendary in the game!
* Boggin's Suspender - 3% crit at BASE... Not as crazy as FoT4K's Mask, but still an incredible booster. (And why 3% when BW only has 1%? Seems unfair imo).
* Boggin's Glasses (especially when combined with at least 1 legendary level in his Suspenders) - His New Students ability is already one of the best animal dps-boosters in the game, so being able to improve it this massively is very welcomed.


EDIT: Also, Veronica's Armguard as already mentioned, is crazy good too!

And @Tygari, I think your math is a bit... odd? I don't understand some of your numbers. Your endresult is correct (3400 + 1700), but how you got it from your showed calculations (which look flawed), I have no idea. Here's the math I got for it:

Golden Legendary starts by making the effect +300%, before the legendary bonus kicks in. This makes PA give 50 * 4 = 200% dps.

Then, each legendary level then gives a multiplier to the entire MODIFIED ability, meaning a multiplier to the base WITH the gold's bonus ADDED. It's NOT simply additive.

So, level 1 legendary gives you a 100% boost (a 2x multiplier) to the ENTIRE 200% dps-boost. It's thus this math:
50% (base) * 4 (The 300% gold bonus) * 2 (The 100% legendary bonus) = 400% dps boosting!
For all the levels, it means:

Level 1 = 200 * 2 = 400% dps boost from PA. Or, a 700% boost to the 50% startbase (not 400%)
Level 2 = 200 * 3 = 600% dps boost from PA. Or, a 1100% boost to the 50% startbase (not 500%)
Level 3 = 200 * 5 = 1000% dps boost from PA. Or, a 1900% boost to the 50% startbase (not 700%)
Level 4 = 200 * 9 = 1800% dps boost from PA. Or, a 3500% boost to the 50% startbase (not 1100%)
Level 5 = 200 * 17 = 3400% dps boost from PA. Or, a 6700% boost to the 50% startbase (not 1900%)

If you were comparing the Golden Epic to the Golden Legendary levels, I get these numbers:
Level 1 = 200 * 2 = 400% dps boost from PA. Or, a 166% boost to the 150% goldepicbase (not 400%)
Level 2 = 200 * 3 = 600% dps boost from PA. Or, a 300% boost to the 150% goldepicbase (not 500%)
Level 3 = 200 * 5 = 1000% dps boost from PA. Or, a 566% boost to the 150% goldepicbase (not 700%)
Level 4 = 200 * 9 = 1800% dps boost from PA. Or, a 1100% boost to the 150% goldepicbase (1100% is correct here... somehow)
Level 5 = 200 * 17 = 3400% dps boost from PA. Or, a 2166% boost to the 150% goldepicbase (not 1900%)


I really don't get your numbers, sorry xD

Regardless, yes, it's ABSURDLY strong to level up!
Also, sidenote, but I'd recommend to not level up using common parts, as you use common parts for ANY gear upgrade. Try to use spare uncommon parts instead, those have very little use.