need help figuring out how to boost my toughness in adventure mode

[Maghoul]

i have 6 accessory slots, i use a maxed out the F-tank, level 9 out UUG's "special" ring, maxed out an infinitely long strand of beard hair, maxed out ring of might, maxed out generic paper weight, maxed out right of way top much magic, i have maxed out badly drawn armor and a level 87 badly drawn gun, my BEARd is level 1537, level 75 adventure digger, level 11,228 adventure alpha NGU, level 147,500 adventure toughness +, level 178,084 adventure power +, and i've maxed out the newbie adventure perk, my adventure power is slightly over 400 million and my toughness is slightly over 236 million this difference in power and toughness is huge for some reason and i need 270 million toughness so i can afk the boring ass earth and i dont want to manually farm any gear for it so is there anything i can do to get that extra toughness so i can start my boring ass earth grind without manually farming any of it?

[jshepler]

Originally posted by Maghoul :

is there anything i can do to get that extra toughness so i can start my boring ass earth grind without manually farming any of it?

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[phenir]

Assuming all else is equal, your toughness will always be a lot lower than your power because power from weapon goes up faster than the total toughness from armor. Welcome to the adventure stat wall.

[EckyThump]

Earlier on, gear power and toughness ratios were more balanced, 1:1 for the earliest sets like Sewer and Forest. The Clock set is 6:5, and then it slowly approaches 2:1 and stays like that for a very long time. So yeah, you'll always be lagging behind on toughness.

Whenever you hit a wall, you ought to Rebirth more. Regular rebirths (timed as long as your longest Yggdrasil fruit growth time) will give you those gradual small permanent upgrades from fruits and beards, that will then make the temporary gains (training, beards also) faster and greater.

[SheepGravy]

Just keep playing till you max your stats. Then everything is easy lol. I might even start over myself sometime in the future. Sorry I'm not much help here.
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[InvalidError]

I wouldn't worry too much about boosting toughness. Most of the time in Adventure mode, you need a ton of extra (attack) power to reach the auto-battle threshold with Beast Mode off. Toughness is rarely an issue.

Regen is also often greatly under-valued. If you neglected regen like I did until a good part of the way into Evil, check the proportional cost-benefit. When I started investing in regen, I could get ~10% more regen for the cost of 1% more defence. You want the incremental benefit of toughness vs regen to be roughly equal.

Having more power to end bosses in 2-3 fewer turns also lets you spend more time on the respawn timer for regen to catch up with damage, which makes regen more valuable than defence, especially earlier on while your respawn time is ~3s, lots of regen to be had there.