Ohhh no! I spent ~16M on skel bones and orc vouchers ( and still have over 600 alcohols in storage from stockpiling stems / spores at the same time) and maybe 2-3M on fabrics and hearts that I didn't feel like hunting.... you know, about the same amount that you would spend on cannon balls getting 21 levels even assuming you 1-2shot EVERYTHING for those levels. Bombs are cheap as dirt when you have your own brewer, stems and spores are stupid easy to get, same with fabrics. And that's assuming you don't have a genetic with change mat. for the skel bone / voucher shortcut. Not to mention, that without god items DF /FE is faster than cart cannon, and even if you don't one shot everything in the mob the rest WILL be burning. So you just wander off and build a bigger mob as they drop.
Yeah, but then you have to either take smaller mobs or burn a lot more pots because you won't have the reducs from wearing a bigfoot shield. During the TI event I would go down there just to grind and was averaging 20ish scarabas in a mob, sometimes double that. Without reducs I wouldn't have been able to survive that short of spamming ygg berries. As it was, during the TI I was drinking whites faster than a fratboy doing a kegstand downs beer.
I used medium life potion and a +9 rideword and didn't really use... any... consumables in mobs D: also FYI they are medium in size so my +12 HF is -22% damage from them. Its not a gargantua shield but it IS reduction. Not 'without any reductions' that you are implying.
Edited by Jaye, 07 September 2011 - 04:34 AM.