3500 is easily possible. I’m at 2540 Spirit today from casual grinding of the Veilgarden/Baby carousel. I’ve also completed all companions I intended to change. I’m making 300+ Spirit per day.
If I keep this up until Friday, I’ll be over 3500. If I do any over the weekend, higher.
edited by Toran on 11/2/2021
[quote=Captain Blood Storm]
As someone from the non-Fate-for-Hallowmas grinding, mildly sleep-sacrificing school of grinding I can confirm that to date my efforts to use Balmoral for grinds have eked a paltry 1700 Spirit.[/quote]
It seems not interacting with the festival content was not an efficient means of doing the festival. Surprising.
Pretty much all I’ve done to grind spirit is play the infant mask card. When I’m low on actions, I take the gift option. When I have a bunch, I go to the masque. I’ve spent plenty of actions doing other stuff, like rat market, a few skeletons, Nadir, other weekly business, and playing other cards as I draw them (Arbor etc, sure I’ve spent a full day’s worth of actions there). On just a handful of occasions when I had a lot of actions but the mask card wasn’t turning up, I’ve used favors to get into the party. 2151 spirit so far. It really doesn’t take much planning or optimization to hit the 2500 reward cap, and it certainly doesn’t take any fate.
So there’s no reason to go beyond 2.5k Spirit except for vanity or bragging reasons?
I’ve seen someone posted a screenshot of 7777 Spirit in a previous Hallowmas. ::
So there’s no reason to go beyond 2.5k Spirit except for vanity or bragging reasons?
I’ve seen someone posted a screenshot of 7777 Spirit in a previous Hallowmas. ::[/quote]
It’s just vanity yeah
I really can’t imagine how Balmoral failures could give you more suspicion per action than going to the party. You would need to fail nearly 100% of the time.
I really can’t imagine how Balmoral failures could give you more suspicion per action than going to the party. You would need to fail nearly 100% of the time.[/quote]
BDR-lowering equipment means you can get yourself a 10% success rate on adding Nuance, Credentials, or Witnesses. Those actions also have a Player of Chess check which gets harder with each success, meaning the odds of success can drop down to 4%.
The Masques are still top-notch, though. They used to be a bit expensive, but the Roof Below hands out Fossils, which have upper-river uses.
I really can’t imagine how Balmoral failures could give you more suspicion per action than going to the party. You would need to fail nearly 100% of the time.[/quote]
BDR-lowering equipment means you can get yourself a 10% success rate on adding Nuance, Credentials, or Witnesses. Those actions also have a Player of Chess check which gets harder with each success, meaning the odds of success can drop down to 4%.
The Masques are still top-notch, though. They used to be a bit expensive, but the Roof Below hands out Fossils, which have upper-river uses.[/quote]
I was being ironic. The people bending over backwards to try not to interact with the event designed by multiple actual game designers whose job it is to create the event is funny to me.
Failure in Balmoral still requires going to and from London, adding two actions every time you want to cash in Suspicion, which is automatically a 20% action increase over the "average" rate I’m seeing from Baby Farming.
[quote=Toran]
I was being ironic. The people bending over backwards to try not to interact with the event designed by multiple actual game designers whose job it is to create the event is funny to me.
Failure in Balmoral still requires going to and from London, adding two actions every time you want to cash in Suspicion, which is automatically a 20% action increase over the "average" rate I’m seeing from Baby Farming.[/quote]
I’ve not been bending over backwards, but I have been attempting to double dip - low chance things that help me whether I win or lose. Wars of assassins in the Forgotten quarter, wounds + danger boost. Box office burglary in Mahogany Hall for suspicion + shadowy + Tales of MH boost. Nightmare gain in the underclay seems faster than the masque. I think this makes sense as a mid-gamer.
I’m certainly not avoiding the masques, I’ve been to them all multiple times. A couple of mistakes, and my spirit is still not the greatest, though. Only at 904.
I have two alts who with no Fate and no particular effort, and with a fair amount of downtime (for work) are at 1610 and 1782 just by running through masques when the card comes up.
My first Halowmas, and I know I made some mistakes. I’m pushing it now, trying for the 1500 by Friday,
All right, I admit I’m puzzled- I’ve been doing little since the start of the Festival but going through Masques and other Festival activities (collecting Confessions and trading them in, sharing menace-raising with friends when the Masque card just won’t show) and my ES main is still only at about 1500 Spirit (using the Baby) and my non-ES alt only just cracked 1000. Is there some trick I’m missing ? How are people getting such high Spirit? Are other people just getting the Masque cards much more often?
I think the people who have gotten insanely high spirit amounts have done a good portion of the SMEN storyline. I got to the level I’m at by going at the masque in Spite over and over, and spending favours to get in if the card didn’t show up.
I have basically no time to play. How long do I have to finish my business with the attendants? Will they still be around at the weekend?
First page says ends the 8th, turn ins till 15th
Does anyone know what the different levels were of the Hallowmas titles last year? My main got Knight of Hallowmas: Murmurer of Secrets, which I think is 2500 and I would like to aim only for the next one but don’t know when to stop. I’m on 2400 + doing a mix of Ugly Baby and Nightmares, so there may be a risk of overshooting.
edited by Nathalia on 11/3/2021
[quote=Thjazi]All right, I admit I’m puzzled- I’ve been doing little since the start of the Festival but going through Masques and other Festival activities (collecting Confessions and trading them in, sharing menace-raising with friends when the Masque card just won’t show) and my ES main is still only at about 1500 Spirit (using the Baby) and my non-ES alt only just cracked 1000. Is there some trick I’m missing ? How are people getting such high Spirit? Are other people just getting the Masque cards much more often?[/quote]I really don’t see why this would be happening as long as you
I keep stressing this is all anyone needs to do to gain as much Spirit as you can reasonably need. Even EF only accounts for 20 actions a day so you should be able to hit 2500 without it.
edited by Tsar Koschei on 11/3/2021
You need to have Menace-reducing items equipped. For me, I equipped the Cheerful Goldfish and the Bejewelled Cane, that’s -2 Nightmares, and just kept grinding at the Pavilion. Finishing the Masque once yields 45 Spirit.
I picked the Baby mask for my first day of the event, however I have no Wound-reducing items and since I had not yet unlocked the Railway, I do not have the Wound-reducing helmet. Without any menace-reducing items equipped, it’s 28 Spirit gained per run. With one menace-reducing item equipped, you gain 35 Spirit per run.
I popped into the other two Masques to take a look (and also to convert my Confessions), it turned out that I couldn’t progressed too far in them anyway, since I do not have many of their required expendable items e.g. Strong backed Labour, Knob of Scintillack, Presbyterate Passphrase etc. However I do have a ton of wines (Strangling Willow Absinthe) and maps, which can be used for the Pavilion grind. More expendables = less actions required = more Spirit gain in less time.
I do hope the devs put in more Menace-reducing items into the game, especially the Wound-reducing ones, so they can be used if/when the Baby masque returns in a future Hallowmas.
By the way, you don’t really need the Masque cards often if you have a lot of Favours stocked up. I have experienced the Masque card stubbornly refusing to pop out of my deck, but many Favour gain cards appeared. If your Favours are 7/7 anyway you might as well use one to enter the Masque.
[quote=Tsar Koschei][quote=Thjazi]All right, I admit I’m puzzled- I’ve been doing little since the start of the Festival but going through Masques and other Festival activities (collecting Confessions and trading them in, sharing menace-raising with friends when the Masque card just won’t show) and my ES main is still only at about 1500 Spirit (using the Baby) and my non-ES alt only just cracked 1000. Is there some trick I’m missing ? How are people getting such high Spirit? Are other people just getting the Masque cards much more often?[/quote]I really don’t see why this would be happening as long as you
I keep stressing this is all anyone needs to do to gain as much Spirit as you can reasonably need. Even EF only accounts for 20 actions a day so you should be able to hit 2500 without it.
edited by Tsar Koschei on 11/3/2021[/quote]
I have to admit I’m astonished at how much more quickly I’m progressing simply by playing the event. I must have had a really, really unlucky carousel for my first time, because I swear the mask-specific option was barely firing when I tried it at the start of the season.