Next Market purchase

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Hi! I have bought some items in the Market, but I am not sure what my next thing should be. I have got Bat Hunter and Renown 3. I have 60 relics now. Should I save for Renown 4 or another permanent upgrade? The various permanent upgrades don't seem very strong now.

[sandokanski]

I'm not an expert, so I'm usually guessing what will be the best.
I have Bat Hunter - very nice upgrade. I have Auto Idle Expeditions, again - very nice upgrade. I like the game to be idle as much as possible.
I also recently got 1st level of Gatherer. It isn't that important, but still I often forget collecting the crafting dust, so it's nice in my case.
Renown IV is the next goal.

[phenir]

If you don't have auto idle expedition yet, get that asap. It's a significant boost to idle catalyst income, the upgrade is also very good. First level of gatherer isn't particularly good, the second level is nice though, it's about 5% more dust. Since you have renown 3 already, you can hold off on renown if the other upgrades are appealing to you. Renown 4 doesn't give that much more than 3 and 5 is far off.

[sandokanski]

Originally posted by phenir:

First level of gatherer isn't particularly good, the second level is nice though, it's about 5% more dust.

Basic calculation tells me I get about 10 crafting dust per minute, so 1 more will be 10%.

Somehow you are getting twice as much dust as I do. I have Gathering 28. I also have 4 of the 5 trial buffs, and I'll get to the fifth soon. I also have Reclaimed Methods at max.

My stats are CD income: 518.55% and 1.48e4 income per day.

How can you have twice as much dust income?

[phenir]

I have level 34 gathering and have gathering booster buff active (164% total) alongside renown 6. Also have effectively 480 trials done currently for another 25% bonus. Total stats page says I have 923.77% dust income and get 2.64e4 dust per day so it would actually give me a little less than 5% currently. I don't have gatherer level 2 yet.

[sandokanski]

Oh, i see. it's mainly the buff and Renown VI. I never get the buff, because it doesn't work offline.

So basically it much better boost for me. I'm already thinking to change my goals and get it before Renown IV.

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Originally posted by phenir:

If you don't have auto idle expedition yet, get that asap. It's a significant boost to idle catalyst income, the upgrade is also very good. First level of gatherer isn't particularly good, the second level is nice though, it's about 5% more dust. Since you have renown 3 already, you can hold off on renown if the other upgrades are appealing to you. Renown 4 doesn't give that much more than 3 and 5 is far off.

Thank you! I have done this.