Feeling a bit stuck at Pyramid

[Aura]

I've unlocked the pyramid and a few floors. Farming for materials seems to take a very long time for me right now as I don't have many of the ancient shop upgrades. To get those I would need a high amount of ancient leaves, but I can only get around 2k at my current floor (-11). It wouldn't be so bad if I could just AFK farm these over a few days, but the pyramid taxi costs 25k blorbs per run. I had about a million blorbs saved up just from doing trades, but now I've run out and I'm not sure how to amass more.

What should I do? Am I missing something important? Is there a source of high amount of blorbs outside of trading?

I really don't like manually entering the inner pyramid after every run haha, maybe I'm just lazy :)

[Blackwolfe]

Първоначално публикувано от Core:

Първоначално публикувано от Blackwolfe:

I'll see about the trade level. Thanks. Got 2-3 leaves with additional ancient leaves. So, trade level 17+ starts giving more beer per trade (atm it's just like 1 beer, 2 if lucky, lol)

Atm what I usually trade for are mulch, borbs and gems.

That last line "what i usually trade". The last update a few weeks ago changed the game. What you trade, is everything using the bear pet from the gem store. Get it, no matter what. I would argue that is now the single most important pet in the entire game.

Trading is important, this pet automates trading.

There are mulch discounts, and maybe others that will reduce the amount of required materials. Upgrade bearo and he fires off like every 30 seconds or something crazy like that. He will buy everything that can be bought, and also collect any trade that's done.

I have now completed 43.900 trades. I didn't do that by hand.

Be sure to get Owlo up to level 10 to reduce trade completion to 1 minute. Any other trade skills you can up anywhere also help.

- As you roll in cheese, craft more. Don't settle for crappy rolls on ancient leaves. Just leave it auto crafting, once full, cull anything lower than 90%.. 95% if you're more patient.
- With 8 slots, i found trying for 3 with + additional ancient leaves, then shard'ing those was plenty. I'm almost done farming.
- The remainder of the ancient leaves only took a few rolls to get + global trade. Add a specific shard. Spam the remainder.
- Remember all that cheese? Max Level and Max Evolve your ancient leaves.

My current trade global is 8.67 million %. Sitting on 10 million beer and 1 billion cheese, 1 trillion mulch. Used all these yesterday.

1 minute o.O *starts making leaf essences again*

With that low delivery time I can see bearo being far more useful than my current trade delivery times of 1 hour :P

As for borbs, I can pretty much endlessly taxi pyramid now, which is nice.

[Silberfuchs]

Well, auto-trade refresh time (aka new trade offers) goes down to 1 minute, but a single trade won't go below 2 minutes (the actual time needed per trade).

[Blackwolfe]

But still, 2 minutes is pretty short. I suppose upgrading water leaf also helps. Mine is only level 4 atm.

[Simon]

Early pyramid progress is pretty slow. It took me ages to get up to about 20 something, but then all the ducks line up and you get up to 50-60 once you're knocking out ancient leaves and shards and things. I'm 95 now so nearly finished the pyramid phase of the game.

As others have said, trade is a major progression point and you can't avoid it. 1000 beer seemed so much back in the day. Now I have 2 billion cheese and 10 million beers. I can't even spend all the cheese and bear on ancient leaves now. Oh and 1 trillion borbs.

Butterfly, Penguino, Bear combo can work over night while you're farming low level pyramid for ancient leaves or doing some other farm. I would run that combo + witch once you're on the essence farming grind as you can have 4 pet, and butterfly will buff witch too.

[Daunmi]

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Butterfly, Penguino, Bear combo can work over night while you're farming low level pyramid for ancient leaves or doing some other farm. I would run that combo + witch once you're on the essence farming grind as you can have 4 pet, and butterfly will buff witch too.

If you're almost finished with the Pyramid, you should probably grab your 5th Pet slot. It's nice because once you have 5 you don't really need to change pets (Butterflyo, Penguino, Bearo, Witcho and Crabbo for trading, essence and damage, all the main things you're doing).

[Astralite]

300 gems gets you the Buy Borb Taxi Ltd, which makes it free.
Then you don't have to worry about the 25k borbs, unlimited farming.

[Daunmi]

2 minutes of trading gets you enough Borbs that you can't ever run out anyway.

Gems are a limited resource for some people, massive trade deals are not. Buy Borb Taxi LTD. is a NICE upgrade to have, but it's in NO WAY something to get when you've got better things to spend gems on.

[Simon]

It just got a lot easier. You can get a reward for increased blower damage when you hit pyramid 50 now, and lots of other goodies along the way. I was at 6 e40 before the update, crawling my way to e41. After I took all the rewards from tower and pyramid progression, I jumped straight up to e42 or e43, something like that, and one shot the boss lol.

The bonus of me being so close was that the damage boost let me one shot the *redacted* too.

[DrShak]

I want to mention on this thread for others to see, that ASCENDING LEAVES will likely get you out of the rut you are in. I poured through many posts and noticed in this thread someone mention ascending....I forgot this mechanic and once I ascended the TRADES MASSIVELY INCREASED. I'm talking 100x the value....I got hard stuck here after 250 hours and this seems like the solution....

[hallaloth]

Yeah, the pyramid descent is even rougher than the tower climb. The last few floors are a pain.

Early pyramid its definitely trade level. The start point for beer is like 17. . .but it seems to take closer to level 24 before you start any decent amount. . .and after that you never need it again as far I can tell. Then its all about crafting leaves for damage to finish the tower. . .then witch farming for the rest of your foreseeable life because it always come back to crafting new leaves.

[Stylish Notions]

To get more floors faster you will want to get tons of orb of BLC artifacts so you can spam them to increase your BLC amount, then spend it on the upgrade to get higher trading levels.
From there you will want a leaf set that has trade global multiplier (and maybe even try the two bingo challenges for extra multipler).
When you do all this you should have higher trading levels, which will net you higher amounts of beer and cheese per trade. Without high trading levels, trades for beer will net you 1 for a long time. Higher levels increase the amount you can get, and the trade global multiplier will also factor in once the trade level is high enough.

Once you get all 100 floors for the pyramid unlocked with your trading, then you should focus on getting more equipment (specifically the cursed cheese one) and upgrade it to level 10 so that way it gives you a 2% boost to damage per curse. The most annoying part about the pyramid will be getting more damage and then later more shards to enter the portal, but i found that getting a craft set with curses per second (note, this is different from curses%), as you can rack up a ton of curses for free damage really fast, ESPECIALLY if there is an event active like nature season or cursed cheese. (Nature season is especially good, you can make a farm field of flowers to boost the amount of curses per second you get.
I think that curses will be more reliable because they still are relevant later and you can do other things while accumulating more curses like upgrading crafted leaves or finding more ways to get curses. If you can you should try to trade for gems or play the claw machine so you can buy the gem upgrade for ancient leaf rewards offline, it will help greatly since it means you can get free ancient leaves as long as you beat your highest floor every crunch (you need to remember this since it gets reset every crunch or prestige). You only need to beat 1 floor to enable the passive ancient leave reward. Even just having a sand leaf craft set with all 1 per second will be better than nothing, and the cursed cheese pet also gives 3 curses per second. Unless you obtain shards you won't be able to up the amount of curses you get per second without an event active, but shards really won't be part of the question until you unlock floor 100 and also can beat the witch. Getting essence from the witch is very vital to progress, and the witch pet is absolutely worth obtaining and upgrading to level 10 asap since the extra essences and curses it provides *ARE* accounted for when you equip craft sets with 'witch essence multiplier' and 'witch curse multipler' properties. Those will make the witch drop more essence per kill, which can then be spent brewing dark matter to later turn into shards or upgrade things each time they reach a 10 level milestone.

While I do think that getting a craft set with 'blower damage%' and 'slap multiplier' helps in the pyramid, you may be crafting and salvaging a lot to get a leaf that has both on it or spending essence to reroll. (rerolling properties is expensive so early on it's prolly better to just scrap and recraft if the leaf isn't ancient rarity) Most craft sets are okay without shards but way better with them, though starting out it is kinda slow to obtain them to put into craft sets for powered up results. A max (10 shard in curse) sand leaf can give you like 20 or something curses per second, which adds up if you can get more in the same set.