The chill alt farm route

    Intro & description

    This is a little something I came up the last couple of days and I've been doing it ever since. Let's start with the lv14 chill route:

    The route starts with you completing all of the quests at Control Zone 43. It is well known that, afterwards, you'd normally want to proceed to R Square; well, false. Not with the chill route.

    What you want to do instead is to grind the EP 4 Manic of Control Zone 43 until level 11. Once at level 11 you can go back to questing. All of the bottlenecks are now gone, all it takes is 5 runs per dungeon, 4 of which normals + the grutin gold quest of each dungeon. At the end of everything you'll be lv14. You can now end the route here and go to Candus to pick up your Anti-destructions or you can do x2 suicide runs at Best Showtime EP 4 Manic in order to transform the route into a lv24 route (you need the exp from these 2 suicide runs in order to remove a bottleneck you'd otherwise have to deal with at Granite Ridge).

    For the level 24 chill route you need to grind Granite Ridge EP 4 Manic until level 22 and 10%; assuming you have all of the EXP gear you can have and at least Novice Rank D, those are the numbers you want to finish with. Afterwords you run Junk Pool and the rest of the dungeons; the way you approach clear this time is as it follows: you do all 4 episodes on normal + whatever number of EP 1 (normal) clears it takes to attain 100% dungeon completion.


    Pros:

    -painless;

    -very convenient for solo players or/and players with bad gear;

    -just as fast as a normal route if not even faster;

    -allows you to snowball the dungeons;

    -you're very less likely to feel the need of taking a break simply because progress comes a lot easier than it does with a standard route.



    Cons:

    -consumes more stamina than a normal route.


    Some Videos:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDIqVCk0aA0

    You don't actually need to kill those last few mobs at the end given how they only provide 2% ish exp but if you really want to just know that you can replicate the thing I'm doing with my grutins with a deus ex machina. In fact I'm only using the grutins because my akashas were on a different alt.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEB-7EETuZk <-Granite Ridge run


    Enjoy :)

    Edited 3 times, last by xCGG ().

    Hello there 😃 that's a good guide we have here .

    Just a question, doesn't the episode 1 of each dungeon give you less completion pts per run?

    Also if you finish Candus you could also go to Grace to get a free Socket Puncher thing. You just need to say hello to every Npc when you get there.

    Edited once, last by epikachu ().

    Quote from epikachu

    Just a question, doesn't the episode 1 of each dungeon give you less completion pts per run?

    For Rucco, seem like you need 5 runs for each district no matter which episode you do. I think it's also the same pattern for Candus but I'm not 100% sure on that (not 5 runs however).

    EP1 normal gives the same amount of completion as EP4 Manic or any other episode. All episodes provide the same amount of completion, no matter their difficulty. This goes for every dungeon in the game.

    Where do you get the antis from? I did the 14 route through to Candus and when I arrived and accepted all the quests I didn't receive any antis (apart from rucco completion obviously), do you need to actually complete any dungeons in Candus for them?

    Edited once, last by Bumluffa ().

    Quote from Bumluffa

    Where do you get the antis from? I did the 14 route through to Candus and when I arrived and accepted all the quests I didn't receive any antis (apart from rucco completion obviously), do you need to actually complete any dungeons in Candus for them?

    Once you finish talking to main npcs in Candus (yellow talking quests), 2 blue quests will appear; 1 on Shade and another 1 on Jenna.


    Go take Jenna's quest. She will ask you to upgrade an item once. Do it at Trisha. On completion you will get 3x antis.

    Yesterday I stumbled upon this guide, and it just so happen that I finished a normal candus alt farm route, took me 10 days but I didn't use a lot of XP stuff, nor the XP weapon, nor played often, but I can totally see the rewards in here, and I'm not talking about just not wanting to spoon your eyes out. Now I'm currently in the middle of testing this method. blew 200 energy away with minimal effort and just 1 hour, I made it to lvl 10 and 70%,in about roughly the same time I would've been able to 100% rucco, but NOT complete it, so I can definetly confirm that this chill route not only is chill, but also slightly faster

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    xCGG bro thanks for this, however how many hrs it will take to reach lvl 23 or 24 with this method?

    Hi, I'm glad you like it. I haven't really counted to be honest.

    It shouldn't take more than a standard route, especially for people with weaker gear.

    Quote from Pepsimaaaaan

    i'm 16 in 3h,gonna start grinding granite ep 4 till 22 10% now,after that its faceroll time




    and i'm slow

    Yo, while you're at it you might want to check if ony Lv22 (0%) is enough. I can't really tell for sure since I've only managed to level one alt to 24 with this method, Hanusa1, and as you can see in the vid I actually had Lv22 and 23% after my Granite Ridge grind but at the end of N-102 Shelter not only that I had Lv24 but also a ton of excess exp. I'm pretty busy at the moment and I can't quite test it myself, that's why I took that 10% exp as a measure of precaution against bottlenecks. So yeah, get just Lv22 (0%) and tell us if it still works. Good luck :)

    Alrighty, it seems that I'm the first one to finish another lv24 route by using this method.

    It turns out that Lv22 and 10% is indeed the way to go.

    As for the duration of the whole thing:

    The grind from Lv15 and 50% to Lv22 and 10% takes a little bit over 1 hour and a half while everything else takes a little bit under 2 hours, making for a solid 3 hours and a half.

    Overall, the whole route takes roughly 6 hours for a fairly geared solo player.

    welp,we'll have to find out tomorrow cause i ran out of energy,and i got mains to raid with,tho the method is still waaaay better than the standard route.and since its EP party it should take a total of 5 days using no vitamins,and going rly rly chill


    Edit:it all comes to an end



    after 5 days worth of energy and no lvl 23 bottlenecks,i can say this fast,also,no man,22 and 10% is not the way to go,cause i finished mine starting from 0.02% with a mil of leftover xp.

    Also,looking at your runs,i noticed all your lvling runs were suicide ones,ye it saves energy,but dem upgrade chips man,i got like 2 mils from akasha keys and something like 6 chips from weapons,and i was unlucky as hell

    Quote from Pepsimaaaaan

    after 5 days worth of energy and no lvl 23 bottlenecks,i can say this fast,also,no man,22 and 10% is not the way to go,cause i finished mine starting from 0.02% with a mil of leftover xp.

    Also,looking at your runs,i noticed all your lvling runs were suicide ones,ye it saves energy,but dem upgrade chips man,i got like 2 mils from akasha keys and something like 6 chips from weapons,and i was unlucky as hell

    I do suicide runs because my usual routine is 1, max 2 lv15 alts per day (3 per week), 2:30 - 3h each with 312 stamina consumed at the end of the day /per alt.

    Then in the half stami weekends I pick one of my lv15 alts and grind my way up to Lv24. Funny enough it takes roughly the same ammount of stamina - thus base 200 stami + a 100 stami pack and a 20 stami pack is kinda my norm of the day/per alt for like 5 out of 7 days and tbh I don't regret it at all.


    As for the bottleneck, that's not that big of a deal anyway (in case you do bottleck) since we're only talking about a bottleneck which is 3 mins worth of EXP grind at all levels.

    Edited 4 times, last by xCGG ().