i dont have any hard data but 2/1/9 seems like a decent place to farm, anyone else have thoughts or data on this? not great for recruits but does seem to be a decent place for kits along with a decent monster count for chests. i hit it about 6 times then hit 8-7 3 times and chest is full.
My approach on farming S2 has been based on vanity more than efficiency/results…I’ve been farming levels to complete the avatar missions … after I fill a monster chest in the S1 3-flag zone.
So I have yet to actually farm the hard levels. I have completed them all for the coins, but didn’t need to use battle items. (I did discover that autofarming the hard levels was a mistake, after wasting 10WE a time or two, oopsie!)
I’m still hoping for other good farming levels to be unlocked; while the recruits/WE are acceptable, province 6 features practice swords, my least favorite of the usable 1* ascension items, meaning more of them at the expense of backpacks and rugged clothes. (I wish that province 1 with backpacks featured had more recruits someplace)
In a couple more days there are three more levels opening up.
Normal ( 6 WE )
2414 XP
3977 food
8679 iron
10 items ( heroes, troops, ingredients )
Hard ( 10 WE )
4024 XP
6628 food
14465 iron
18 items ( heroes, troops, ingredients )
I am starting to warm to s1-12-9. I can use my s1-7-7 farming team ( both have Yellow bosses and some/ all yellow mobs ) and its stats compare well to s1-7-7
I do all my farming comparisons in xx/flag instead of straight values, otherwise I get confused. I extracted data from a few levels for comparison purposes, including various S1 favorites and the most promising ones from S2 provinces 1-6 (7-9 is likely to have something of value, but I don’t have sufficient data yet)
Level
XP
Food
Iron
Rec
AK
PS
RC
Items
S1: 5-8
154
353
718
1.97
0.27
0.16
0.14
2.62
S1: 6-8
207
421
880
2.95
0.12
0.15
0.14
2.62
S1: 7-7
236
483
1024
2.63
0.13
0.12
0.35
2.71
S1: 8-7
272
553
1194
3.01
0.18
0.16
0.19
2.68
S1: 12-9
347
614
1384
2.50
0.20
0.18
0.17
2.46
S1: 23-11
405
666
1448
1.43
0.14
0.22
0.15
2.26
S2: 1-2 Norm
242
510
1089
1.65
0.26
0.13
0.15
2.50
S2: 1-7 Hard
261
476
1021
1.59
0.37
0.10
0.11
2.48
S2: 4-3 Hard
289
507
1171
1.78
0.15
0.14
0.32
2.59
S2: 4-9 Norm
282
590
1155
1.71
0.13
0.11
0.28
2.57
S2: 6-9 Norm
297
608
1198
2.50
0.18
0.24
0.13
2.53
S2: 6-10 Hard
315
586
1274
2.29
0.12
0.33
0.11
2.60
Curiously, in S2, the relative quality doesn’t (usually) match between Normal and Hard. I didn’t include the one I saw as “worse”.
None of these S2 levels are better than S1: 12-9 in XP, Food, Iron, or Recruits, 'tho 6-10 hard matches it in recruits.
In fact, these levels which are among the best of S2 recruits wise and they don’t exceed S1: 23-11 by much, which I have long considered to have unacceptably low recruits for farming. The great majority of S2 has recruits that bad or worse!
I am still getting different values than you for recruits in s1-7-7, s1-8-7 and s1-12-9. I wish we know the actual percentages on the recruit loot roll.
Every level I’ve examined, I’ve seen that X-1 / X / X+1 pattern. I’ve not looked carefully to see if the three are always equally distributed.
Item drops, troop drops, feeder hero drops, food, and iron all follow other patterns / distributions, with items varying much more widely. (XP seems fixed per level)
I stopped farming on Atlantis
Back to the original map, visting 5-8 and picking up my nuggets
Atlantis didnt prove to be worthed farming, after checking all my runs on both maps 8-7 still proves to be one of the best
It says season 2 stage 9 there are greater chances of dragon bones, but they seem to drop more on 8-7 for me, plus all the recruits etc…
Randomness is what is in game here, do you pay 10 flags or 3 flags for a random drop?
I ve had great runs on atlantis with 1 nugget and 2 roots, but these also have dropped on 5-8 and 8-7.
I spent a lot of energy for season 2, but it looks like season 1 is a bit better for me.
I don’t care about forge ingredients. What I’m after are troops and feeding heroes. All my TC produce only 1s / 2s heroes (lvl 1,2,11,19). Besides I have more than enough recruits cause of some extra drop from raiding. Where is the best place to farm food for heroes? At the moment I do 5-6 all the time cause of backpacks and 1s/2s hero drop.
Heroes drop randomly, with what seems to be equal odds in any location. Therefore pick a place with low WE cost and that gets you the other farmables you want and camp out.
s1-12-9 is also a good stage for farming 3* ascension items for 4* 4.1 / 5* 3.1 .
I need much more string and Rugged clothes ( s1-7-7 ) then farmable 3* ascension items, but I still need some 3* farmable ascension items and s1-8-7 and s1-7-7 do not drop them as loot.
Update:
2018-Dec-08, 3:20A UTC
2.4-10N gives +19% more XP per world energy than 1.7-7.
2.4-10N gives only 1.5 recruits per energy while 1.7-7 gives 2.666 recruits per energy.
2.4-10H gives +25% more XP per world energy than 1.7-7.
2.4-10H only 1.5 recruits per energy while 1.7-7 gives 2.666 recruits per energy.
1.7-7 drops more Rugged clothes and String.
1.7-7 does not drop Scabbards, Chainmail shirts or Tall Boots while 2.4-10 does drop them.
2.4-10 drops more Rugged clothes and Fine steel, but still tracking the number. I have got up to 4x Rugged clothes from one run of 2.4-01N and up to 5x Rugged clothes from one run of 2.4-10H
Season 2, 1-9 is great for Backpacks and during the Atlantis event it is just 5 Energy. A good place to farm normal, a great place during Atlantis Event.
you asked if there was a google sheet out there with some data on farming. Link below is the best I’ve seen. Easy reference if you’re farming XP, recruits, items, monsters, etc.