Why would I want multiple beard slots?

[Nathaniel Prime]

I have a beard slot. I could buy another one with AP, or do the obnoxious troll challenge to get yet another. The question is... why would I even want multiple beard slots? You get the same total amount of beard XP overall since the total XP is divided by the number of bears you have activated, right?

[Karzon]

You'll hit the per-beard speed cap eventually.

[JackSamEss]

It's been awhile but I remember there being something to reduce the penalty for having multiple beards activated at once.

Also, there is a speed cap for gaining beard levels. Meaning that you can have powerful enough resources to have all beards gaining levels at max speed.

[muljostpho]

Even with weak stats and when you're only just getting started with beards, keep in mind that about half of them level based on energy speed and about half of them level based on magic speed and that penalty only applies when multiple within the same half are active at the same time. You could have two slots in use and not deal with any penalty so long as one is an energy beard and one is a magic beard.

[Elenoe]

you want to run as many as possible

1) energy and magic domains are separated

2) if you run 2 it's not "/2" division, the beardverse set bonus makes it "/1.8"

3) beards gain has diminishing returns (the more levels the slower they get) which translates to 4000 levels = 3000 + 3000

[Hypertext Eye]

I have two things to add.

1. You only get the active bonus for currently active beards (active bonus and permanent bonus are separate, permanent bonus is always applied). If you run one beard for a while, and during the same rebirth, you switch to a different beard, you lose the active effect of the first beard until you switch back. You'll need a beard slot for each beard that you want active at the same time. For example, you might want Neckbeard and BEARd active together for farming gear.

2. When you rebirth, you only get permanent bonuses for beards that are active at the time of rebirth. You only have one slot, but you worked on all 7 beards in a single rebirth? Sorry, all those levels are wasted.

[Nathaniel Prime]

Ahh, so there are a whole ton of reasons. Interesting, it makes sense now. Thanks!

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by Nathaniel Prime:

I have a beard slot. I could buy another one with AP, or do the obnoxious troll challenge to get yet another. The question is... why would I even want multiple beard slots? You get the same total amount of beard XP overall since the total XP is divided by the number of bears you have activated, right?

having multiple beards on is more beneficial than 1 beard even if you aren't fullspeeding through your beard

[kevinshow]

personally I wanted as many beard slots as I could have as soon as I could have them, because everything seems so important! I want more Gold gains..I want more Adventure stats. I want more Drop chance. I want faster NGU or Higher number, Etc

in reality, you could pick and choose which ones to grow when you don't have all beard slots, and you'll still progress just fine, but when you have all beard slots, there is no reason not to run all of them all the time.

[HotSipOfColdTea]

(You eventually will earn those beard slots, the question is whether you want something else sooner).