Azaka gold farming formation

[Kriogar]

Hey, so whats the best set up for Azaka gold farming atm?

[kab_reg]

Wait a bit, it will probably be affected by the coming release of Merilwen.

[Gorgoneus]

There is alot of guides googled by "Azaka gold farm". They are pretty same. But don't spend too mutch before new character release June 8

[Intuition]

Right now, I'm running: Widdle, Omin, Jarl, Krull, Freely, Nrakk, Drizzt, Ellywick, and Rust.

Depending on how good is Merilwen, it is possible that Widdle will be replaced.

Edited.

[Hecate]

She will have gear & level upgrades on Liquidity, but even without that, simply from her ultimate effect on Rust gold find, she'll be miles ahead.

[Intuition]

Originally posted by Hecate:

She will have gear & level upgrades on Liquidity, but even without that, simply from her ultimate effect on Rust gold find, she'll be miles ahead.

Agreed, and she's Wis 14+ too. Will definitely miss Drizzt 2s attack cd, though lol. But hopefully, Widdle's 35% chance to attack again is enough to cover between attack animation.

[Hecate]

Hmmm, Merilwen is slot 2, it'll be hard to bring Widdle with her ^^

[Intuition]

Originally posted by Hecate:

Hmmm, Merilwen is slot 2, it'll be hard to bring Widdle with her ^^

Right...

[Kriogar]

Originally posted by Blue:

Right now, I'm running: Widdle, Omin, Jarl, Krull, Freely, Nrakk, Drizzt, Ellywick, and Rust.

Depending on how good is Merilwen, it is possible that Widdle will be replaced.

Edited.

https://i.imgur.com/qtj2PwN.jpg
Maybe Im doing smth wrong,...
I dont have Omin and Ellywick yet

[kab_reg]

Originally posted by Kriogar:

Maybe Im doing smth wrong...

Not using Krull?

[Hecate]

Spurt, Shandie, Xander & Hitch have no gold find by their own, so I suppose you use them for Jarlaxle, but they may be better options, their contribution to GF is not so good (and that's turn out in very little favor*). Celeste is even worst there, I see no contribution from her.

I can't give you suggestion without your champion list, but as examples:
- If you have Krull, use him over Shandie.
- If you don't have Omin, Mehen is strong candidate in seat 3, if you have him with Tiefling feat, he will give you way more gold find than Spurt. And if you have Talin in seat 2, it'll be even better (tiefling + rogue)
- Drizzt in seat 9 with Bruenor seat 1 is a frequent beginner combo for GF. It works better if you have Nrakk too (& wisdom feat for Bruenor).
- If you've Mehen & no Ellywick, you can too use Havilar (if you have her) as tank to replace the loss of Aila, bonus is her slow will be welcome (but usually you should use Briv in Azaka farm for tanking).
- If you've time to land some hits, Freely is better than Gazrick if you have him (and you can still hot swap them during Azaka's ultimate to increase benefits, Freelyde buff is 15s sticky). This method also works with Baeloth & Jarlaxle.

* Just for the numbers:
Your GF is 8,47o% = 8,47e27%, I'll take TG as example there.
Your GF means basic mob at area 705 gives 1,44e90 gold, that converts to 8,21e26 favor

If I remove the contribution of the 4 said rogues (Spurt, Shandie, Xander & Hitch), you remain with 2 rogues (Rust & Jarlaxle) & base value of Master of Piracy is down from 150% to 50% (as they're additive). And so you divide you GF by 3 to 2,82e27% GF
Which means basic mob now awards 4,12e89 gold, that converts to 5,54e26 favor

So for spending 4 slot for those rogues, you only gain only 48% extra favor (8,21 / 5,54 - 1), there may be better options than them.

A kind of rating of champions for Azaka, given the scale of their GF:
5/5 : Rust, Krull, Freely (if you have enough well aligned champions, sticky 15s)
4/5 : Jarlaxle, Omin, Azaka (mandatory ^^), Ellywick
3,5/5 : Mehen (compete with Omin with enough tieflings), Stoki (with her changes, guess)
3/5 : Baeloth (sticky 15s), Gazrick, Beadle
2,5/5 : Paultin, Ishi
2/5 : Drizzt + Nrakk + Bruenor (WIS feat)
1/5 : Donaar, D'hani,etc. & indirect contributor (rogues, drows, tieflings, CotH, etc.)

I don't included Makos because he needs direct kills

edit: changed from Witchlight to TG gold/favor conversion (I was disturbed by layout)

[Kriogar]

TY
I use celeste so I wont wipe when I leave the formation running for an hour or overnight

[kab_reg]

There is absolutely no point in running it for more than an hour at the same area due to diminishing returns.

[Hecate]

Yup, usually I only take 2 Azaka's Ultimates, 1st for the gold, 2nd just as a safety net if something goes wrong in 1st ultimate.

As kab_reg said, they're huge diminishing returns to do tons of Azaka's cycles, because:
a. every runs are additive which each other, so you need 2 time more runs to get same relative benefit in gold.
b. gold to favor conversion greatly diminishs the benefits of extra gold earned anyway.
(eg. In TG to double favor gain you need close to 1e more gold (9,03))

[Intuition]

Originally posted by Kriogar:

Originally posted by Blue:

Right now, I'm running: Widdle, Omin, Jarl, Krull, Freely, Nrakk, Drizzt, Ellywick, and Rust.

Depending on how good is Merilwen, it is possible that Widdle will be replaced.

Edited.

https://i.imgur.com/qtj2PwN.jpg
Maybe Im doing smth wrong,...
I dont have Omin and Ellywick yet

Hecate already done better analysis :D
But from the picture, I'll say you forget to get Rust's coin. Right spec will prevent him from losing it on normal attack.

[Kriogar]

Ty for advices. My gold per one Azaka ult increased 1000x at least.

Just a few more questions
Why use Briv instead of Havilar?
Why use Nrakk?