Starting Epic over from Scratch

[burbman]

@zaqxsw – My mastery grinding method consists of playing levels where the pigs are at a much lower XP level than my birds. Pigs still drop mastery, but little to no XP stars.

I start each day by picking the three bird lineup I want to increase mastery for, then head to South Beach. I play that level until I spin the top prize on the wheel, then I progress to the next level and do the same. I continue this process until I get to Star Reef Castle, then I start all over again. Each trip through usually nets me a couple of mastery levels for my selected classes, and less than one experience level. With your higher XP level, you might be able to go through the Bamboo forest before you start to see a lot of stars coming off defeated opponents.

[nickname]

thanks for reply
are you doing whole route for ingredietns? clearing just one castle(src) should be faster or am i completely wrong?

[burbman]

@zaqxsw – One castle is definitely more efficient, but I get bored easily, so I like the variety of playing other levels. If you are to pick just one castle, I would go with an earlier one than SRC. I am going to run some tests later today, but just at first glance, my CPC is at level 4, DPC is level 11, and SRC is level 21. Your levels will vary based on what level your birds were at when you first cleared each of the castles. Assuming that Mastery payout is similar between the three, CPC will be by far the best choice due to the much lower XP payout. I will confirm this and post results later.

EDIT –
Testing Complete, and it is not even close. CPC is the best castle to grind for Mastery while minimizing the accumulation of experience.

CPC averaged 5 experience points and 25 mastery per bird per play (5 M/XP)
DPC averaged 19 experience points and 25 mastery per bird per play (1.3M/XP)
SRC averaged 75 experience points and 43 mastery per bird per play (.6M/XP)

CPC also autoplayed much faster than the other two, so Mastery/minute was also better.

Again, this was with my level 40 team, and Castles at the levels noted above. Your results will vary based on the relative differences between your team level and the level you were at when you first completed each castle.

[burbman]

BabyBurbman experiment has come to an early end as a result of Epic 2.0 proving to be too much for my device. I will hold off on completely writing it off just in case there is a new update to allow for older devices, but not holding my breath.

BTW failed device is a 32GB Gen 5 iPod Touch.

[burbman]

Started BabyBurbmanII Friday night on a Kindle Fire. Version 2.0 is not out yet for the Fire, so I am playing version 1.5.7. After two days of game play, my new team is as follows:

Experience Level 18
Red
E Knight M4
Guardian M4
Samurai M3

Chuck
Mage M4
Lightning M4
Rainbird M4

Matilda
Cleric M6
Druid M6

Bomb
Pirate M4

Blues
Tricksters M6
Rogues M6

No future events showing on the calendar, so I hope they get the 2.0 update done in time for the upcoming Tinker Titan Event.

[DD]

@burbman
The new version is probably using way more memory than iOS can give with the iPod Touch G5.

I observed the same absence of events, and I hope Fire has its update in time.

[datguygamer]

@toolow I can give you that idea on Android.

On device 450 Mb approx compared to 230 Mb. Data stored 2 MB compared to 1.3 KB. Cache 3 MB compared to 2.2 MB. Traffic data 23 MB compared to 5 MB.

[DD]

@datguygamer Are you able to tell how much RAM are the different versions using?

[datguygamer]

@toolow 677 MB on my device compared 458 MB

[DD]

@datguygamer
Obviously we cannot properly compare the versions between iOS and Android. But taking a very broad stroke, the new version RAM usage just exceeded the iPod Touch G5 and iPad 2 RAM capacity of 512MB. I don’t know how much RAM a typical game of this type consume, but it seems over the top to me.

[burbman]

BabyBurbmanII team stats following Tinker Titan Event

Team Experience 24

Red
E Knight M16
Guardian M16
Samurai M16

Chuck
Mage M21
Lightning M21
Rainbird M21

Matilda
Cleric M16
Druid M16
Princess – Not obtained but got the Elite class upgrade from the chest

Bomb
Pirate M22

Blues
Tricksters M16
Rogues M16

[burbman]

Original BabyBurbman team stats following Tinker Titan Event

Team Experience 44

Red
E Knight M21
Guardian M21
E Samurai M21
Paladin M21

Chuck
mage M16
E Lightning M14
Rainbird M15

Matilda
Cleric M22
Drued M22
Princess M22

Bomb
Pirate M16
Cannoneer M17

Blues
Tricksters M17
Rogues M16
Treasure Hunters M17

[burbman]

First place for both teams in Cloud of Night event provided some nice mastery returns. Too bad I did not have enough FE for them to respin the prize wheel at the end so I got what I got on the first spin.

Stats after the event

BabyBurbman Team XP 44

E Knight M22
Guardian M22
E Samurai M23
Paladin M23

Mage M20
E Lightning M19
Rainbird M20

Cleric M23
Druid M23
Princess M23

Pirate M18
Cannoneer M20

Tricksters M19
Rogues M19
Treasure Hunters M19

Team is now strong enough to progress through island levels without excessive potion usage.

BabyBurbmanII Experience 33

E Knight M17
Guardian M17
Samurai M23
Paladin M11

Mage M25
Lightning M23
Rainbird M23

Cleric M19
Druid M19
E Princess M17

Pirate M22
Cannoneer M21

Tricksters M19
Rogues M19

This team has done most of its mastery grinding in v2.0, and things have stayed much more in balance than they were under the prior version of the game.