Is it better to do 1 hour or 12 hours on expedition?

[holyperith4242]

I have been slowing down on leveling because I don't know strat. I have been just throwing pets in teams and sending them for 12 hours

[adeyke]

The results scale linearly with time, so in that sense, it doesn't make a difference. A shorter duration means you'll start to benefit from the rewards earlier, and you won't lose as much if you have to cancel an expedition. A longer duration would be useful to reduce wasted idle time, but the expedition auto restart solves that. So just set it to 1 hour with auto restart.

[bayyard]

I dont know if this has been addressed but it used to be 8hr runs in the earlier ascensions because of expedition token rewards rounding down. Once you get later and have more bonuses you may not worry too much about a few less tokens here and there for faster rewards from shorter runs.

[adeyke]

It has been addressed. It tracks the fractional part, so there's no more rounding.

[Silberfuchs]

At A12 the answer becomes even more one sided, because finding new outposts is based on completed expeditions as well. And the pity bonus the outpost system has makes it more likely to find new ones for each hour. => 1 hour expeditions are the way to go.

To be more specific:
A longer expedition adds more to your outpost pity counter, but this only happens when a expedition is complete. Splitting a 12 hour one into 1 hour expeditions lets you benefit fromn pity earlier.

The only remaining upside 12 hour expeditions have is the option to manually change to a +10 or 20% tolen bonus pet team shortly before those 12 hour expeditions are complete.

This trickery is to much of a hassle with 1 hour expeditions, but i consider it to much of a hassle period. => hence 1 hour expeditions are the way to go for me.