...about the three patron's challenges

[MehZhure]

For those who had all three patrons unlocked, does it usually take about three days to complete all the challenges? Just asking because I finally decided to finish up the strahd requirements and unlock strahd. First time doing his challenges, and it seems like three days to do all the challenges from all three patrons is going to be the norm.

[Soteria]

Depends on what the challenges are, how actively I'm playing, and whether or not I do a time gate which interrupts me. I've had weeks where I was done on Tuesday, this week I have 2 challenges left (No support for Mirt and no DPS for Vajra), though I don't plan to do the 'no support' one.

[Phantom]

Totally depends on the patron challenges

To get the 5k free play and the 6k challenges (5k+20%) it takes about a day for them

I can do some of them in a couple runs when things land tickity boo like

Use X Y and Z... 1000
Use no Q 1000
Have Y be your highest damage dealer 250
Clear level 400 (which has A B C monsters)
Kill A monster
Kill B monster
Kill C monster
Kill xx distractions (have all 8 'free' familiars, before that this was a paaaaaainful one to complete)
Use XX ults

They can land together nice

But when its Catty-wumpas

Use X Y and Z 500
Use no Z 500
Use no Y 1000
Have C be your highest damage dealer
Kill monster M
Kill monster H
Kill monster 12512

it can take a bit of time

When things overlap the challenges can be wacked out in no time (the freeplays still take a bit longer, especially with the new patron who has much less speedy hero options available)... but I've also bought all his uniques and have 100k patron currency left over so theirs that

[tyrantton]

I usually spend 3 days to get all challenge by always using Shandie, Deekin, Sentry and Melf when they are available on the Mad wizard. Before Melf came, it took day and a half to finish one of patron. My current progress is 600th area as wall and 1e28 of torm favor, so it might take longer than 3 day depend on your progress.

[thegrassyknoll]

Yes i find it takes about 3 days average of reasonably active playing. All of what phantom stated observed and stated=true/correct.

This time on mirt i have i have do 1000 levels of pure DPS ( clearly the worst draw) AND do 1000 levels with nerys ( thus eliminating melf, and mirt has not deekin).

Heres a couple tips that might help allieviate the pain of feeling locked into challenges for 2-3 days and not playing fun variants with your active time: ( i play on PC by the way so i have to be present and home to do resets)-

1) we sleep 7 times and i usually work 5 times( average). Since i can make it to give or take lvl 500 - 550 on autopilot, this means i can collect 10000 or so of the patron gems without doing anything active. And finish kill monster x/ use x special moves/ kill bosses etc at same time without chasing them.

2) So resist the urge to get all the gems immediately. Most weeks i get my final 1000 gems or so on sunday night while i sleep. Since game would be on running the same freeplay while i sleep for regular non patron gems, i am not losing any progress while completing these challenges and collecting the patron freeplay gems.( running with dinosaurs is the best i feel since it has beasts/undead and humans) ---so also zorbu gains some kills while you sleep and are at wall.rinse repeat, go to work. come home and play fun variants at night that require active play :)

3) use potions of speed to burn through quickly the challenges where you must use characters that kill slots with speedsters. ie-if you cant use shandie cause you have to use asharra or evelyn, use large potion of speed. 1 hour should net you 320 levels give or take if you can autopilot that far( just burn a firebreath too with that speed potion, and you can walk away and come back in an hour.

4) especially use same 1 hour speed potion on the infamous " must use only DPS" challenge. This is beyond tediuos as we all know. i also use a 15 speed with the 1 hour speed for this crappy challenge.

Hope that helps MEhzure and anyone else. peace man lol

[Phantom]

Originally posted by thegrassyknoll:

Since i can make it to give or take lvl 500 - 550 on autopilot

How much favour do you have?

I have e37 on one and it ends up with minsc helping vs fey around 380 (leveling familiars only, 430-440 with the familiars I have on a few heros (6 on levelup, 1 on map click, 1 on ults)

You'd need like e50 to be having familars auto push up that high (or actually maybe you have bought a ton of familiars and can automate your entire partys leveling?)

[Zrazzt]

Originally posted by Phantom:

How much favour do you have?

I have e37 on one and it ends up with minsc helping vs fey around 380 (leveling familiars only, 430-440 with the familiars I have on a few heros (6 on levelup, 1 on map click, 1 on ults)

You'd need like e50 to be having familars auto push up that high (or actually maybe you have bought a ton of familiars and can automate your entire partys leveling?)

I spent cash on familiars and I go on auto pilot to about 600th level with e28ish on each of the campaigns.

[Phantom]

Yeah that makes sense

[thegrassyknoll]

not click damage phantom. like a non-optimal zorbu/speed formation while i sleep just to get max gems the fastest and get some kills. i usually dont use a tank in this so that i get event tokens at same rate. hence 500-550. Can make it to 720 ish playing active with ultimates and optimal formation

[Phantom]

That's not bad, I have to really push to get past 700, hit 969 before but that was a variant that had some kinda moon and stars alignment

Haven't spent a dime though

[thegrassyknoll]

ya unfortunately once ya hit 640-650 ish and above. It is impossible for me to survive with old setups. So you have to use briv and celeste to stay alive, but do less DPS then say regis over celeste and callioppe over briv. But briv in front lets tyril be back with new 80% moonbeam. And gromma can now survive upfront just a little longer to cycle through ultimates and survive the enemy DPS. Obviously nerfing the ulimates last patch sucked. I have pretty much all strahd perks now/extra level cap and a months worth of chests and contracts. And i now just barely get back to same levels i was at prepatch. So Every bonus they gave doesnt even break even the nerf. Proabably costs 4-6 months realtime progress starting now to match nerf loss of progress. ( assuming no new krull or avren comes out ). anyhows oopsy kinda off topic. i added ya as friend if ya want to strategize

[muljostpho]

I'd tried keeping up with challenges for Mirt and Vajra a while back but I haven't done that in the last few months. (Or has it been even longer than that?) It was a lot to keep up with back then so I'm sure it's got to be even more chaotic with Strahd added in as well.

I still have yet to actually attempt any patron variants. I've only done patron free plays. And I've unlocked Strahd but I haven't done anything at all there yet. I've got 4.47e4 ruby coins and 4.61e4 symbols of vajra and can't actually do anything with them yet since I have no influence yet.

I'm really looking forward to whenever they finally add in a specific update that was mentioned a while back in some sort of roadmap of expected updates for this year. The ability to run several different adventures in parallel. The feature will have its share of headaches with us having to juggle which characters will participate in which adventures, of course. But it will give us the opportunity to actually multi-task all these different activities that we can have access to. I wonder what the limits will be though. (How many different tracks we can run in parallel at the same time.)

[MehZhure]

Originally posted by tyrantton:

I usually spend 3 days to get all challenge by always using Shandie, Deekin, Sentry and Melf when they are available on the Mad wizard. Before Melf came, it took day and a half to finish one of patron. My current progress is 600th area as wall and 1e28 of torm favor, so it might take longer than 3 day depend on your progress.

Looks like I am around where you are. Furthest i have been able to push thus far is lvl 685. I have the most favor with tiamat @ 1.08e28, followed by kelemvor @ 2.08e26, then torm @5.21e21, and far last place with Helm @ 4.13e17.

[MehZhure]

Originally posted by Phantom:

Totally depends on the patron challenges

To get the 5k free play and the 6k challenges (5k+20%) it takes about a day for them

I can do some of them in a couple runs when things land tickity boo like

Use X Y and Z... 1000
Use no Q 1000
Have Y be your highest damage dealer 250
Clear level 400 (which has A B C monsters)
Kill A monster
Kill B monster
Kill C monster
Kill xx distractions (have all 8 'free' familiars, before that this was a paaaaaainful one to complete)
Use XX ults

They can land together nice

But when its Catty-wumpas

Use X Y and Z 500
Use no Z 500
Use no Y 1000
Have C be your highest damage dealer
Kill monster M
Kill monster H
Kill monster 12512

it can take a bit of time

When things overlap the challenges can be wacked out in no time (the freeplays still take a bit longer, especially with the new patron who has much less speedy hero options available)... but I've also bought all his uniques and have 100k patron currency left over so theirs that

Good point about the alignment of the challenges. That will make a huge difference on how fast they go.

[MehZhure]

Originally posted by thegrassyknoll:

Yes i find it takes about 3 days average of reasonably active playing. All of what phantom stated observed and stated=true/correct.

This time on mirt i have i have do 1000 levels of pure DPS ( clearly the worst draw) AND do 1000 levels with nerys ( thus eliminating melf, and mirt has not deekin).

Heres a couple tips that might help allieviate the pain of feeling locked into challenges for 2-3 days and not playing fun variants with your active time: ( i play on PC by the way so i have to be present and home to do resets)-

1) we sleep 7 times and i usually work 5 times( average). Since i can make it to give or take lvl 500 - 550 on autopilot, this means i can collect 10000 or so of the patron gems without doing anything active. And finish kill monster x/ use x special moves/ kill bosses etc at same time without chasing them.

2) So resist the urge to get all the gems immediately. Most weeks i get my final 1000 gems or so on sunday night while i sleep. Since game would be on running the same freeplay while i sleep for regular non patron gems, i am not losing any progress while completing these challenges and collecting the patron freeplay gems.( running with dinosaurs is the best i feel since it has beasts/undead and humans) ---so also zorbu gains some kills while you sleep and are at wall.rinse repeat, go to work. come home and play fun variants at night that require active play :)

3) use potions of speed to burn through quickly the challenges where you must use characters that kill slots with speedsters. ie-if you cant use shandie cause you have to use asharra or evelyn, use large potion of speed. 1 hour should net you 320 levels give or take if you can autopilot that far( just burn a firebreath too with that speed potion, and you can walk away and come back in an hour.

4) especially use same 1 hour speed potion on the infamous " must use only DPS" challenge. This is beyond tediuos as we all know. i also use a 15 speed with the 1 hour speed for this crappy challenge.

Hope that helps MEhzure and anyone else. peace man lol

Good points. No sense wasting a bunch of time chasing gems when a person can do that while they are asleep.

I try to save my speed potions for events generally. I remember seeing someone had previously talked about just doing speed runs with nothing but click damage and speed champs, so I started doing that. I don't get terribly far yet (still need a lot more favor)...generally starts being notably slow around lvl 300 to 350-ish, at which point i just reset. But, all that said, there have been a couple times where I did some potion stacking to get it over with quickly.

Speaking of the special challenges(no dps, no tank, no support, etc), the new formation save system has been pretty sweet. I have started just saving the specialized formations for those challenges. Makes for a quick reset-and-run.

[MehZhure]

Originally posted by Phantom:

I have to really push to get past 700, hit 969 before but that was a variant that had some kinda moon and stars alignment

Wow! 969...that's waaaayyy up there! Do you happen to remember what formation you used, and which campaign it was?