I got the melting message about 9 hours ago, 23rd Jan, 23:10 GTM.
73 Noman’s friend 6.30 MEZ.
So, how much Noman’s friend should one arrange for the tattoo?
Quite a bit.
I may or may not be able to squeeze another week out if I can get ahold of one or two more Tears of the Bazaar, but I doubt I’ll make it past that. I gave my noman one after TtH and got up to 68, but that’s not enough if I lose even the same amount, let alone significantly more.
edited by CameoAppearance on 1/25/2018
[quote=CameoAppearance]Quite a bit.
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That’s not terribly helpful, is it? ;-)
Since a lot of the gathered gentlefolk is probably striving for it, may I ask:
What reserve of Noman’s friend do you labour for?
[quote=Krampus][quote=CameoAppearance]Quite a bit.
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That’s not terribly helpful, is it? ;-)[/quote]
It just depends on too many variables. The biggest ones are when you made your Noman and what the melt rates are.
Last year if you made your Noman at the last possible moment then 361 NF would get you through to a tattoo. This year the melt rates are more aggressive. Also it depends on how cautious you want to be. Last year 361 was safe but you could have been lucky and done with a lot less
[quote=Krampus][quote=CameoAppearance]Quite a bit.
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That’s not terribly helpful, is it? ;-)
Since a lot of the gathered gentlefolk is probably striving for it, may I ask:
What reserve of Noman’s friend do you labour for?[/quote]
I stopped at 700. But’s that’s probably overkill (I sincerely hope).
I called off my preparations at 630 Noman’s Friend. Hopefully that’s enough to be safe.
edited by Yves Devereux on 1/25/2018
Noman #1:
You’ve lost 61 x Noman’s Friend (new total 7).
Phew, I have one more week for the quest of reclaiming my soul. Thought I’d be losing this one today.
Noman #2:
You’ve lost 78 x Noman’s Friend (new total 622 - The Noman is pristine).
edited by alekth on 1/25/2018
700? 600? i think i may have used up all of my hard earned resources for naught. their is no way i can get it that high.
I only have 169 nomand friend, and 12 pails, 5 tears remaining.
My estimates are that you’ll be 50-100 NF short :| 600+ likely isn’t necessary; more like 400+
one can only hope. might try to grind anther tear in the coming week, RL is in the way. i’m not sure i cna actually get this much stuff ready for next year unless i grind this and only this.
Lost 27 NF on January 13; 41 NF on January 20. I’m not going for a tattoo, so I got it as soon as could get to the Wicket.
Lost 68 on January 25th.
Do we know if your current Noman’s Friend level affects the amount taken? Or does that not matter? If it does matter, I went from 463 to 395.
edited by Harlocke on 1/26/2018
Lost 58 of Noman’s Friend on the 25th of January.
I’ve never tried to get my Noman’s Friend to a massive quantity as quickly as possible and then feed off that until it melts, rather than patching my noman up with a few bottles at a time, and I’ve never actually bothered adding up the total number of points I went through before.
Well, last year I participated in the noman liveblog thread and successfully made it to the finish line, so I’ll tally it now out of curiosity. Apparently I lost 226 Noman’s Friend total in 2017: 59 (Jan 24) + 58 (Jan 31) + 109 (Feb 7) and then Thursnow died on the 14th because I only had 11 left over. This cost 8 bottles of Tears and 0 pails of lacre. 226 seems weirdly low, however punishing the jump from 58 to 109 may have been. Maybe I just got lucky enough to essentially skip a week since my TtH fell on the day the Feast started.
Jan 26, 14:18 GMT: lost 76 x Noman’s Friend (new total 402 - The Noman is pristine).
Shhh, don’t encourage the devs!
January 26th, ~18:30 GMT:
You’ve lost 63 x Noman’s Friend (new total 637 - The Noman is pristine).
I fed my remaining ToL to the noman today and got Noman’s Friend up to 77. That might buy me another week, since the most anyone else in this thread has lost so far is 76, although with the amount of NF you get back from Tears it’d take a miracle to get more than one more week. (Or a large Fate expenditure, which is essentially the same thing.) I’m trying to hedge my bets and get at least one more bottle of Tears from either the Sommelier or the Gallery of Serpents before TtH hits.
[quote=CameoAppearance]I fed my remaining ToL to the noman today and got Noman’s Friend up to 77. That might buy me another week, since the most anyone else in this thread has lost so far is 76, although with the amount of NF you get back from Tears it’d take a miracle to get more than one more week. (Or a large Fate expenditure, which is essentially the same thing.) I’m trying to hedge my bets and get at least one more bottle of Tears from either the Sommelier or the Gallery of Serpents before TtH hits.[/quote]Bad News: This is probably the week that FB ramps up the melt rate, so expect to lose between 90 and 120. It’s either already happened, or within the next day or so. Usually by Feb 1 or 2 the minimum is 90.
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edited by idyl on 1/30/2018