For ITOPOD is it better to keep fighting at the "optimal floor" for pp or progressively keep going up higher in floors?

[Uncle Jon]

Like should I have the starting floor and the end floor the same as "optimal floor" or should I have the last floor be the max floor?

[Fel]

Optimal floor is better by a large margin.

Of course it is useful to try to go to a new "highest floor" when your stats have risen quite a bit since there are one-time PP rewards for reaching floors.
But other than that, 1-hit for killing enemies means a lot more than a bit more PP progress per kill.

The highest floor also has a fairly big issue for farming since it is where you were last defeated (most of the time at least that's how you set your highest, setting the max to 1600 and waiting until you get killed).
If your stats didn't increase much since then, you will more likely get defeated again, meaning that some of the enemies will not give you anything, on top of each taking a long time to fight.

You can always check yourself if you are not sure, record your current PP and progress, do a certain amount of time (like 5 or 10 minutes for example) on the optimal floor, record the new values and do the same length on whatever higher floor you want to use for this.


The optimal floor is determined by your stats, and it is more or less the highest floor where you can one-shot even enemies that have the highest stats for that floor.

[pterrok]

Hmmm, I watched it for a bit and saw that once I know the optimal floor, if I just say i want to start and end at that level +4 I MOSTLY 1-shot the dudes and get more PP since it's 4 levels higher than optimal. When you don't whack it in one, it's a 2-shot so then it's down to swing time and such.

Bad on me that I never actually did as Fel says which would have made sense: to note values and see results after 5 or 10 minutes. It just 'seems' OK to me--likely to be slightly better. (So I guess I have to turn in my barely used min-max card! ;-)

[Hypertext Eye]

Originally posted by pterrok:

When you don't whack it in one, it's a 2-shot so then it's down to swing time and such.

The occasional 2-shot means you're losing PP. It's not much, but it's something. Really depends on how much you're having to 2-shot.
I would suggest staying at "optimal" unless you are right on the edge of the next boost or EXP tier.

[Fel]

The impact of 2-shots also depends quite a bit on the respawn time.
Very early on the respawn time is pretty high so the impact of an additional attack isn't that big but when you get decent respawn bonuses (especially the NGU one) it starts to become quite a big deal.

For example, if your respawn is at 4 seconds and your auto attack at 1 second, the difference between 5 and 6 seconds matters but is not that big.
But when your respawn is at 2 seconds for example, even if your auto attack is at 0.8 seconds the difference between 2.8 and 3.6 is kind of big and it only increases as your respawn goes down.

You would need the extra hit to be quite rare for only 4 floors to make a gain for you unless you are in the very low floors of itopod in the very early game (since 4 floors at floor 10 is a lot different from 4 floors at floor 40).