How should I spend my diamonds?

[Silverbane]

I have 500 diamonds currently.

So I'm tapped out at around level 1,500 now. My Carl gets at most to 27, usually to 26. Total DPS around 3.300e79. I have 111.2M orbs at 5% bonus per and 2 black orbs. I beat the level 1,500 angel.

Armory 4
Capitalism 4
Arcane 3
Shower 1
Chaos 1
Maurice 1

I have a bunch of uniques such as:
+1 carl level
-1 fight level
several +20% diamond drops
a few buffs to black orbs
+ when Bob sleeps

I'm about as stocked as I think I could have gotten so far but I have plenty to buy out there still. Several event combos I don't have, even more additions to diamond drops, that kind of thing. But I don't know what to do to break through this wall. I've been getting shards out the wazoo and managed to get 14 megacubes out of that last event which was when I started playing.

Any suggestions or tips?

[phillip_lynx]

I spend all my Diamonds on building Buildings in Hell. When they are all build completly I rethink, what to do with them :)

[Silverbane]

I'm doing the 500 diamond armory boost. It has been decided! Thanks.

[Phantom]

Forge is necessary, the most useful anything you can upgrade or get... bar NONE. get it to max asap

Next should be diamond deals resort, having 7h craft boosts is great

Shower is the worst, after level 1 its a minute upgrade, I only maxed mine because diamond horde

Maurice I like having upgraded for sooner nasty items, less chance of missing out on one, plus eventually it will pay for itself (quite eventually)

5x increase in skulls / war is kinda mediocre

So should go

Shower - 1
Maurice - 1
Forge - max
Essential items purchased
Resort - 7h crafts
Maurice - 3
Resort - max
Useful items purchased
Bank 1
armory 1
Bank 2 (repeat bank first until both max)
Useless items purchased
Bank roll, spend on craft shards when craft costs under 100

[Silverbane]

Thank you!!!

[Mr. Fibble]

Upgrading maurice means that you have more tasks each reset that award diamonds, which will speed up getting the others.

Likewise the resort is worth getting for those extra diamonds from deals

I'd suggest to get the 3 slots in the forge then swap to maurice and top him out before worrying too much about the final couple of forge slots. If you're around level 1500 then it'll be a long while before you get any of the batteries for the top end and I've found that 3 slots do just fine unless until you're more focussed on processing ghosts.

The DPS and skull boost buildings don't really seem to have much of an impact as you much think by looking at the %'s so can be left til later with ease.

With maurice giving ghost storage the necroware can easily be skipped until last, assuming they don't ever add in a craftable thing from the event ones you can buy.

[Silverbane]

Thank you!

[Phantom]

Maurice - 900d / 5 = 180 bounty collections, given some are as expensive or cost 1 to get lets round up to 200 bounties to pay for itself

6 bounties a day = 30 days to break even, but then at 20 bounties per item you have to add in 3.33 days per one, so for simplicity, 60 days to break even

So breaks even in 60 days, assuming you hit every bounty before you get a full batch


3870d to get the resort to 8 diamonds a deal, a bonus of 3 diamons per deal, which means you need to hit 1290 scroll deals to break even on that one.

So again, both are long term investments, with the resort being more about getting the crafting time, and if you can maxing it for the eventually being closer to 8h crafting

Whereas the forge costs 1275d, so really only 400 more than maurice, and thousands less than the resort.

Now the forge allows you to craft so many more things, having 5 slots means one churning splinters, and 4 churning items (ghosts at end game, or others earlier). With battery having more slots means more speed crafting items. Basically 99.999% of your dps will be directly related to things you need the forge to obtain.

[Silverbane]

This makes sense. Is there anything I could be doing in the very immediate short term to break 1550? There are still a couple + to orb drops and a single +1 to portal that I haven't gotten so far that's available to me. I've just been grinding and I'm stuck at around 10 million orbs per quick run.

[Phantom]

Well make t3 shards if you can, 6x beats 4x beats 0.77x (1 t3 vs 2 t2 vs 6 t1)

Medal rewards do add up, even as such small things

Really the way I look at orbs is

a Green shard end game is worth 1.06 Yellow shard

A yellow shard gives 2x damage, a white orb shard gives 2x orbs.

Effectively a white orb only gives 2x damage, with the added bonus of allowing for easier full shards, but are much harder to obtain

So to help

Focus on green shards (helps that end game cups are nearly worthless for anything other than making green shards, while potions have a myriad of useful formulas... heck I've spent over 2500 on crests alone)

If you don't make a point of chest farming thats probably of help at your stage...

IF you don't have permasloth get that, 108 necklaces = super power

IF you don't have 10ish squid stones (math might say 8?) get those, huge boost

IF you have farmed a lot of swords, craft them into the item that gives villager killed drops (math says a hundred or two hundred of those or something... honeslty i only have a few because swords only drop on w1 and they aren't valuable enough for me to go out of my way to get)

Then just keep slogging away

Perma sloth is a game changer

5 forge is super helpful

Monsters if you can afford them

Everything else is just more power

[Silverbane]

Thank you so so much. I'd instinctually done some of this but I haven't done anything useful with swords, nor any focus on t3 shards nor necklaces.

I'll chest farm for awhile. Thanks!

[Preske]

On reddit, there is a guide that'll thell you what building/item to buy in which order. Unfortunatly I do,n't have the link anymore, but I'm sure someone can point you to the right way

[Bautista]

Originally posted by Preske:

On reddit, there is a guide that'll thell you what building/item to buy in which order. Unfortunatly I do,n't have the link anymore, but I'm sure someone can point you to the right way

https://www.reddit.com/r/Zombidle/comments/6oyeob/hellitem_dump/dkp9z5s/