Trouble reaching the Greasy Nerd

[stalewee]

I've been in Evil for a couple of weeks now, and I'm not even close to defeating boss 125, even though my adventure stats are way higher than the auto-kill for Greasy Nerd. Is this normal? Or am I doing something wrong?

I have full Evilverse set and most Pretty Pink items are ~lvl 70.

I'm doing 24h rebirths and putting all my exp into EM.

I'm usually in the ITOPOD and working on NGUs.

Should I be doing something else?

[Fel]

If you didn't do that already, get your beards and diggers on multiplying the attack/defense as well as your wandoos 98 and your augments.
Similarly getting early levels in evil NGUs for augments, wandoos, power alpha, power beta and number has a significant impact on your progress through the bosses in evil difficulty.
After getting those early levels you want to go back to levelling normal NGUs until quite a bit later when you have the energy and magic stats to pump a lot of levels into evil NGUs.

Something you probably already do but that is worth noting is that you want your fruit of power beta and fruit of number to rank 24 and grab their itopod perk (the one that activate their stack's bonus at 30 minutes).
Those two fruits can easily get to bonuses that are enough to negate quite a lot of the lower boss multiplier and when added to NGUs, beards, diggers, augments and wandoos you typically defeat boss targets long before being able to farm the zone/titan like you did in normal difficulty.

[stalewee]

Thanks.

I've got all 7 beards going, and 30% banked

I run 8 diggers as high as I can

Wandoos 98 gets me ~7 bosses each rebirth

Maybe I need to go further on the Evil NGUs. The power alpha and beta are taking ~1min per level, so I'm not sure whether they're more effective than capping all the normal NGUs.

First page of fruits are all 24, and I've got the perks for power beta and number. Watermelon is up to 9 now.

Stat boost for rich perks is 1000/1000

So I shouldn't be putting exp into stat boost or anything crazy like that?

[Fel]

Well, it depends on how high you already have it, having around 1 million percents from exp is somewhat cheap and the first "stat boost for rich perk" in itopod is pretty cheap at that point as well but those are things you probably already have at that point.
That being said it would probably explain a part of your troubles if you didn't get that as a part of your pre-evil preparations.

[lordatog]

How much have you put into attack/defense boost with xp? You don't need an excessive amount, but you should definitely put at least a little into it.

[Elenoe]

nothing crazy. no, just what seem easily achieveable like 6M tier by that time. Even NGUs are only worth minimum effort. I did them one day every week (double boosted) and then back capping the normal.

And I hadn't that problem. Certainly reached the zone before I could manual him but it was tight. It's the only zone like that. After this zones are esier to reach then adventure stats to beat them.

Maybe you have some abnormal adventure stats? You use blood (as it allows) with digger, augments with gear boosting it. Not sure which part may be lacking. The main zone progress comes from E/M. So maybe XP shortage somehow?

[stalewee]

I have 650,000% in each stat boost for rich Jerks. Sounds like I need to put a bit more in here.

I didn't feel like I was going hard on adventure stats. I haven't bought any with XP. Before Evil, adventure stats have always been the limiting factor for me.

I'm at 170mil XP total, and almost all has gone into EM.

[Fel]

I can't help but notice that you have not mentionned augments at all, what augment+upgrade are you levelling?

[stalewee]

Just safety/danger scissors at the moment. The others are crazy slow

[Huillam]

If I remember correctly I spent the two/three weeks it took me to reach nerd with the Badly Drawn Gun equipped to speed up augment speed.
Aside from that I only had (and still have) 100K% Att/Def from the exp shop.

I also had my fruit of power alpha set to harvest instead of eat (I wrongly assumed that it was additive with beta and by the end of normal I had no reason to eat it and never bothered to check if I was wrong). As soon as I started eating it again I made major progress toward nerd.

[NataSaint]

i'm 1 week and 2 days into evil, and i am also way higher stats than needed to autokill the easy one, but only made it to 123 after today's 24hr, so i'm still a day shy to kill 125 and a day to do the unlocking... so 1 week 4 days and i have a little less stats than Original poster, based off yggdrasil and attack boost %

[stalewee]

I think I'm going to make it this rebirth