77 cap goal completed

[Fusionstrike]

I just completed my 77 cap goal and wanted to share it. And who better to share it with than the good old forumers? Here’s my story.

My previous goal was to create two characters of each class with both a “pure” and “hybrid” build. My latest goal was to take all of those 10 characters to 77. I realized this would take a long time, but I figured I didn’t have anything else to do with them, so I dove in and tried not to think about it.

Two things helped speed up my journey. There was a plat sale that let me get some XP-boosting funds, and also a double XP weekend that helped accelerate the process. I think I got about 3 caps’ worth of XP out of that weekend alone.

I also made the decision to play whichever character had a combo blessing. This meant that I would not necessarily drive any one character to completion quickly, but I’d be maximizing the XP I could earn each time. The downside of this strategy is that it wouldn’t make sense to use week-long double XP elixirs, since I’d never know if I would come back to the same character within the week it lasted. I did the math and found that I’d have to do about 8 or 9 hours on the same character for it to be worth using, and I thought the odds were slim of the same character getting a combo at least 2 times in 7 days (since my best case was 3-4 hours grinding per day maximum).

I started my leveling in the new area. However, I quickly realized that this would make for an unreasonably long journey given the instant wipe-out capabilities of the foes there and the lack of good teams running it, especially given that most of my pure characters are quite squishy. Then I tried plasma pyramid leveling and discovered that not only did I advance faster there, it was also more plat-efficient (as measured by XP gained per plat spent). After that, I did nearly all my leveling there. This was the only cap where I did most of my leveling outside the new area. It felt strange not to be capping in the new area, but the going was just too slow there for me to stick with it.

I also got some good benefit out of the Halloween event. I had only one character left to cap by the time it started, but I was able to use the runs going on there to level pretty effectively. It was a welcome change from running plasma alone for hours on end.

All told, it took from when the new area opened (the last day of July) until today (nearly the end of October) to complete. That’s almost exactly 3 months, which is a lot faster than I figured it would be.

Once I finished, I got curious about the amount of XP gained on all my characters. I had just done 3 million in 77 caps, but how did that compare with other XP gained? I decided to figure it out.

Cap XP per character
Fusionstrike: 61, 66, 71, 76, 77
Tuftedcrow: 71, 76, 77
The rest: 76, 77
Total cap XP earned: (10@77)x300k + (10@76)x100k + (2@71)x100k + (1@66)x100k + (1@61)x100k = 4.4 million


Regular XP per character
I got my regular XP numbers from the XP table here (big thumbs up to Apa): http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...uirement-Guide

Fusionstrike: from table skipping 61, 66, 71, 76, 77: 50,837 + 12,824 + 22,794 + 36,239 = 122,694
Tuftedcrow: from table skipping 71, 76, 77: 93,149 + 36,239 = 129,378
The rest: from table skipping 76, 77: 138,044 x 8 = 1,104,352
Total regular XP earned: 122,694 + 129,378 + 1,104,352 = 1,356,424


Total XP earned for all characters
4,400,000 + 1,356,424 = 5,756,424

So I’ve earned about 5.7 million XP in my PL career. Of course, these numbers aren’t 100% accurate because there was some XP curve flattening a little over two years back, so my one character I had then actually had to earn a little more of the “regular XP”. Unfortunately, I have no way of going back to calculate the difference (or even remember what level he was at when the XP curve changed). In any event, it was eye-opening to learn just how much grinding it’s been since starting 3 years ago.

Thanks PL for keeping me out of trouble. Who knows what I would have done with those hours otherwise…

[Somemager]

Amazing job and it was a nice read i wish i had the motivation to cap that many classes. I remember i set a goal to cap every class to 76 during 76 and achieved it in 6 months only using blessing combos which was a long but fun journey. ATM im planning on capping my bird (150k/300k) xp so far so im hoping to cap in a few weeks to months just been busy so yea. This cap i will most likely only cap my bird and mage just all depends how much longer this game will last due to the player base going down the hole. Amazing job over all these storys motivate me to keep playing and grinding out the last xp i need!

[anahadaz]

Wow I wish I had that motivation, how much gold did you make after all of that grinding?

[Fusionstrike]

Wow I wish I had that motivation, how much gold did you make after all of that grinding?

I wish I kept track of the gold earned. That was one other nice bonus from running plasma. Unfortunately, I've spent a lot and sold a lot over this time, so I really couldn't guess how much cash these runs netted me.

[dudetus]

Holy poop that's more time spent in PL than it's healthy for ya

[Ssneakykills]

That's insane I'm surprised I haven't seen you in game with the amount of toons you have

[Fusionstrike]

That's insane I'm surprised I haven't seen you in game with the amount of toons you have

Yeah well I've been mostly grinding XP so I haven't seen much around the wider PL world. Now that I'm free from that I might just show up in more populated places.

[Faq]

1) how much plat did it take?
2) how in the world did you have that much time to spend on Pl (I hate to say but it is also a dead game)

[Somemager]

1) how much plat did it take?
2) how in the world did you have that much time to spend on Pl (I hate to say but it is also a dead game)

You would be suprised how many hours some of us play XD

[Fusionstrike]

1) how much plat did it take?
2) how in the world did you have that much time to spend on Pl (I hate to say but it is also a dead game)

1) I didn't track the plat. My best case estimate was that I would need 8k or so if I did full runs in plasma with 3x combo. But then there was double xp that got me xp a lot cheaper. Then there was also the fact that good runs dried up as people capped their one toon and stopped, which made it get more expensive as the months went on. So overall I'd guess it was between 8 and 9k.

2) I basically just played when I could. I went as hard as I could when I had the right blessings and took the day off when I didn't. Luckily I was able to put in time when it counted, like on double xp event, so I made my time count.

[Oldcoot]

I didn't read all that but grats on 77

[Epw]

im jelaous of your patience. grats on all of your caps! x)

[Fusionstrike]

I didn't read all that but grats on 77

Just for you Oldcoot I'll TL;DR it.

I capped all 10 of my players to 77. It took a lot of time and earned a lot of XP.

[Oldcoot]

U da man, I'm still working on the 3rd

[Sheugokin]

U da man, I'm still working on the 3rd

Same lol!

[bosstinytitan]

I can't even get my only toon to 76

[programmed]

Congrats! I don't have the patience to cap even one toon, but since there won't be any more caps (for a long while at least) maybe it's time to finally give it a go.