Gymfan15 wrote:So here's a little bit of interesting news that I saw today:
Apparently there has been a "bug" with the Prestige base that has doubled the listed stats (even though it still says the "correct" stats on the trap page, in actuality it's doubled...which would explain why people have been reporting the Prestige being better at lower UU TE catches than it *should* be). According to the most recent FBF, it seems like the "bug" is going to be made permanent?
This is what they said on the forum:
"New milestones for Prestige Base:
Overtakes CWB Power at Floor 17
Matches CWB Luck at Floor 32 (TE4), overtakes at floor 40 (TE5)
Overtakes Mino Power at Floor 27
Matches Mino Luck at Floor 40 (TE5), overtakes at floor 48 (TE6)
Matches Denture Power at Floor 52 [but denture has 5% more power bonus]
Overtakes Denture Luck at Floor 64 (TE8)"
I still don't fully understand it, but basically it means you can take all of the old recommendations on what TE catch is needed for the Prestige base to match/eclipse other bases, and divide it in half. That means for me, with TE7, the Prestige base is better than the Mino in ALL areas (just with worse attraction). The only base it's not better than is Charged Denture, and I was one stinkin' TE away from that lol.
So, assuming this is all going to stay, it changes up my strategy a bit. I'll probably push for UU Floor 64 a lot sooner than I planned, since I was really close during SEH and I have much better augmentations now. I'm still going to try for a big UU run, but I'll do it at Halloween instead of next CNY. And I'll probably aim for something like Floor 100 or thereabouts, depending on how much gold I want to spend.
Varna, if you haven't bought the Prestige base already, you might want to sooner if you were able to get to Floor 40 on your UU run?
FK, since I know you've gone past UU 64, I'd be curious to know if you've tried the Prestige base everywhere and what your experience has been with it.
I just found out about this today. Yes that is nuts and is actually making me change my plan about the vrift.
Other news from today’s fbf
The devs are working hard on the floating isles. It will have a lot of new mice similar in size to the sunken city, they are hoping to release in 2020 but no promises
The next event is big jaqs spice shack, and then Ronza. I missed big jaq last year but apparently it’s a good way to use gold and wild tonic with milder leaves to get stronger leaves without doing any hunts.
Also you get massive amounts of queso just from hunting in the queso areas during big jaqs event.
They had 2 bits of info about the prestige base as gym fan mentioned: people were getting the over 9000 egg when their power was much less than 9000 during the egg hunt. The prestige base is basically giving double the intended bonus, and the bonus from the rift walker set is also doubled and has been for years. And they are not nerfing either.
I’m on a string stepping run right now, at floor 100 and will likely not quite get to 104 using ult rift lucky power charms. I wanted to do a full run in November with ember charms but will likely do timesplit charms as a cheaper alternative and try to farm up ultimate charms at the living garden during lunar new year, egg hunts and the summers over the next 3 or so years I’ll need about 650 ultimate charms and should get to about level 140.
I may scrap this idea is I decide getting a prestige base with total eclipse 13 or 14 is already overpowered and makes the game too easy. My concern is that going to any area with the prestige base will now be like hunting in the meadow with chrome monstrobot: essentially using a sledgehammer to kill an ant