autobuyer priority?

[xizar]

I feel like I'm stuck between my first and second ascension. I've been stuck around 60% to ascension point 2 for about as long as it took me to ascend the first time.

Should I set the autobuyer to buy higher levels (which seems to prevent me from going deeper) or prioritize biggest stat gains (which seems to prevent me from prestiging higher)?

Rather than leaving the game on all night (as I normally do with idlers), I set hours accumulate and manually go in every "hour" or so to buy higher prestige levels when it seems appropriate while using the default "biggest stat gain on small floor change" preset.

(If it's important, I'm using WRRRPC; it seems like I'm not in danger of dying instead of auto-prestiging, and I like having at least one of each class.)

[gothmog77]

I think it is almost always best to set autobuyer to prioritize biggest stat gains. This means it will focus mostly on the lower prestige layers, which is fine (that's usually where the biggest gains are).

The higher prestige layers are mostly useful for the unlocks (bigger floorskip etc.), so I think it makes sense to occasionally buy higher layers for this purpose (as it seems you are already doing). If you pay attention to how long each run is taking, you can get a sense of when you are slowing down and need bigger floorskip.

I'm not sure what the ideal class combo is, but it's good to have a Warrior in front for the group kills, until you get the item that makes all enemies into bosses (no more groups after that, so put a Ranger in front).