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Prisoner's Honey vs. Antique Mysteries
GG Crono
Posts: 24
4/24/2012
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I'm considering grinding up for a room at the Royal Beth (40k drops of honey for 50 Antique Mysteries). Has anyone done the math on time spent for the honey vs. the mysteries? I did a forum search, but nothing cropped up.
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Vyrlokar
Posts: 75
4/24/2012
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It will depend on what actions are available to you. If you're a Person of Some Importance, you can grind Prisoner's Honey at 50/action, meaning that you need 800 actions to get the honey. You'll need Persuasive 105 to do so without risk, but I assume that if you're a PoSI, you have at least that much, once you factor in gear. If you have Shadowy 125, however, you can go to Polythreme Streets, and Grind Romantic Notions, at 12 per action. You need 6000 Romantic Notions (500 actions). You then bulk convert with the 500:105 option, for 1250 Visions of the Surface (12 actions). Convert them into Mysteries of the Elder Country via the 50:51 conversion (25 actions) for 1275 Mysteries of the Elder Country. Convert 1250 Mysteries of the Elder Country into 250 Presbyterate Passphrases at the 50:10 rate (25 actions, and you've got 25 Mysteries of the Elder Country as leftovers). Convert them 25:5 into 50 Antique Mysteries (10 actions).
Total actions: 500+12+25+25+10=572 actions, plus the actions needed to go to Polythreme and back (No idea how many actions on the tramp steamer are needed, as I have my own ship. With it, I will tell you that you don't need 128 actions to get there and back, so if you own a ship, and have the Screaming Map, it's a better deal to go grind the romantic notions)
EDIT: Also, by taking the crafting route, you get some extra leftovers: 25 Mysteries of the Elder Country [12.5 echoes], plus whatever you get from successes and lucky successes when converting to Presbyterate Passphrases (normal success: 50 x Cryptic Clue [1 echo], lucky success: 2 x Uncanny Incunabula [25 echoes]) and to Antique Mysteries (normal success: 100 x Cryptic Clue [2 echoes], lucky success: Unknown, but should sell for around 60 echoes). You'll spend some Connected: The Tomb Colonies though.
edited by Vyrlokar on 4/24/2012
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