What equipment loadouts should I add?

[scott.bland]

I'm finishing up Breadverse, and here are the loadouts I'm running. Are any others really important?

Power
Ygg yield (not seeds since I'm maxed out)
Augment
Wish
Hacks
NGU (regular, not focussing on energy or magic)
Cooking
Blood
Wandoos

[Hypertext Eye]

gold drop

ETA: Blood? Wtf do you have in a blood loadout?

[scott.bland]

I used the optimizer to see what would be good for running blood rituals, and it suggested a gear set that I wasn't using and I noticed that it was giving better results so I saved it. I"m sure it's just something that focuses on magic power / cap (so you could probably say it's an energy / magic power build, but I use it for blood rituals).

My usual run is to start with Augments until I hit those numbers, then move to blood until I exceed my previous run's number, then to Wandoos for that boost, then to whatever I want to work on for that session - ngu, hacks, wishes, or power if I'm farming a new zone for gear.

[Hypertext Eye]

i see no reason to need separate loadouts for aug, wandoos and blood. you can do them all at the same time.

You still need a gold drop loadout.

Also I forgot but you should have a quest drop/respawn loadout too, if you do manual quests at all.

[Fel]

A gold drops + bars for the start of a rebirth
NGU
Hacks
Wishes
Yggdrasil
And if you really need it, drop chance but you can easily squeeze your best one in other loadouts anyway.

That's all I ever needed, I even combined NGU and Hacks most of the time (slightly worse but not by a large amount due to the amount of available accessory slots).

[Hypertext Eye]

Originally posted by Fel:

That's all I ever needed, I even combined NGU and Hacks most of the time (slightly worse but not by a large amount due to the amount of available accessory slots).

Depends on if you follow the "hack day" meta or not. I suspect you didn't.

(I didn't either)

[Fel]

Yeah, I hoarded my consumables until the very end and never used any of the boost ones.

The main reason I didn't go for hack days and went for NGU+Hacks instead was because I saw no purpose for wishes without a lot of energy and magic, but when I was running NGUs I needed those so hacks were just a good place to dump my resource 3.

[scott.bland]

Hyper - I did the blood loadout at first because it was actually a significant upgrade from my augs loadout, and I'd let it run while I was asleep and didn't really need the game to do anything else. Now it isn't, so I might scrap that one for now. Wandoos I'm still building, but since once again it's so significantly different I want to see if it will push me into an efficient XL run for better stats. I will be running manual quests, so time to get that done also - and that's a lot of gear that I've already trashed, lol.

Thanks all for the suggestion of the gold loadout. I think my next step needs to be learning a better order to run loadouts at the start of a rebirth. If there's a guide to that type of thing, I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in that direction. I'm mainly self-taught on this, with an occasional question when I feel something isn't working right.

[Hypertext Eye]

generally, people run augs/wandoos/blood for about an hour at the beginning of a rebirth and ignore them the rest of the time.
since you're in sadistic now, blood has lost a lot of its usefulness, and it will pretty much never be especially helpful again (even when you can bb all rituals).
with gold drops, you'll basically want to use it twice. once at the beginning of a rebirth, and then again at 1 hr when you autokill titans (because they tend to have the biggest natural gold drop).

[scott.bland]

Ah, ok. Currently I fire up blood at the beginning and get the gold bonus to 1800-2000%, then build up my number until I meet or beat the previous rebirth (currently 2.4 quintillion).

Unless I'm farming gear, my time is usually spent in the ITOPD building up perk points. Should I be in adventure mode for regular gold drops from kills instead?

[Hypertext Eye]

no. you go to the highest zone you can idle, kill something (optionally, wait for a boss since bosses drop more gold), then go to itopod forever

[kevinshow]

I just have a few load-outs, and I'm sure I could have more if I really think about it. But as much as I like this game, I'm not really a fan of min-maxing *every single thing*.

So I have the typical
1) Power/Toughness to try to get higher Adventure stats to push into some zone or tower level,
2) Gold Loadout just for the first few minutes of a new rebirth and when I'm killing Titans ast the 1-hour mark or 2-hour mark if I missed the first hour,
3) NGU Loadout for when I'm not pushing Adventure stats and I just want to sit through the entire rebirth just dealing with the best NGU % I can get, though this has kind of rolled into the Respawn/Power/Toughness loadout because "good enough, I'll just go up slowly".
4) Yggdrasil / Seeds loadout , used just at the end of the rebirth or if I'm doing multiple days, then around every 23 hours
5) Respawn Loadout, which now has become my Respawn/Power/Toughness loadout -- at least, as much as I care about not maxing each one of them and just saying "good enough, I'll just go up slowly"



I thought I might add a Cooking loadout but in the end, I've been with this game for a long time and it doesn't matter as much to me anymore if I get 100% cooking or 75% cooking every day. Heck, some days I don't even eat because I just want to get on and do a quick rebirth and then get off.

So I'll just keep cooking inefficiently and eating and have the numbers go up slowly.

You probably noticed a theme here. As much as I wanted to progress faster at the beginning of the game, now I'm here in Sadistic mode, and I'm just enjoying the game without having to be "best" at everything the game offers to me.

[Hypertext Eye]

Originally posted by navorskatie:

You probably noticed a theme here. As much as I wanted to progress faster at the beginning of the game, now I'm here in Sadistic mode, and I'm just enjoying the game without having to be "best" at everything the game offers to me.

I'm the opposite. I enjoyed the game in the beginning. Here at the end I just want it to be over.

[Fel]

If you leave the game alone for a couple months you will probably have more than enough advanced training and exp to expedite the final portion.
That's how I ended up finishing the game since I was getting very bored of it then I switched to NGU industries instead and only came back after the cooking update with everything pretty much maxed.
Just make sure to set your energy and magic on NGU (with a large surplus if possibe) to maximize the gains.

[Hypertext Eye]

If i do that I'll never come back. I'm really close to the end anyway.