Gem Farm Party

[SheepGravy]

So Mad Wizard with (front to back, top to bottom): Hew Maan, Nahara and Melf, Deekin, Widdle and Shandie, Havilar and Minsc, and Sentry in back. I am missing the slot 4 for Hew Maan rn.

Working pretty well for me. I am slowly getting Briv to 4 jump (about 3/5 of the way there - 24% for 3 jump). Is Briv only useful for scrip farming (which I don't plan on using currently)?

Should I move to Waterdeep and add in another character?

[kab_reg]

It's possible to use Briv for gem farming even without scripting. However, many old strategies don't work anymore. For example, old strategy of farming at Everlasting Rime was ruined by the recent rebalancing of Minsc.

BTW, if your gem farming party is decent, it's probably time for you to switch from Mad Wizard to Cursed Farmer.

Check this thread for some useful info: https://www.reddit.com/r/idlechampions/comments/znhxxl/nerys_ezmerelda_vecna_briv_modron_gem_farm/

[Hecate]

Waterdeep? No way, usually. If you move your gem farm, there is two more solid options: Icewind Dale (Everlasting Rime) or Witchlight (Tall Tales - But you need perfect 4j (or 9j) Briv ; but Hither of the Feywild is not so bad). The reason is some areas have a better loading time & shares the same background so no reload between them.

But is it needed? Not really, as the game is glitchy and poorly optimized adding champions may be counterproductive. If your Widdle is high enough, you'll be slightly better using only Widdle over Widdle + Deekin because your client will have less sprites and numbers to handle. The same way, if you're already at 10× speed, using Shandie will slightly slow you.

Kudos on CNE for the lame optimization...

And so, my usual farm formation uses only 5 champions (6 if I don't have enough potion).
Briv + Nahara + Sentry + Widdle + Hew Maan (+ Shandie if I'm not on double pots)
Witchlight – Tall Tales & Vajra because of the blessing (I'm not sure if it's needed, but I don't think it costs me speed anyway).

[LostSoul]

I find Briv doesn't really come into his own as a gem-farm champion until 100% 4 skip -- at least if you're not scripting. Before that, getting his stacks built up wastes a lot of potential time widdling down a boss by itself, meaning he builds a small number of stacks in the process. That same time spent widdling down groups of enemies builds more than 10x the number of stacks, which means you can reset sooner and with far more stacks. And since 4-skip Briv means no boss areas, you'll only ever be building stacks when it's most efficient.