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Jamairoqui
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@maxxmatt  Exactly! It takes ten attacks to refill the rage chili, or three turns with 4 birds (assuming Snor is charging and not attacking). But I notice no difference in that 10-attack refill cycle regardless of whether I have Perfect Balance equipped or not. And I’m not sure strength of birds makes a difference to rage chili recharge times.

Anyway, including the Golden Chili rage attack, in 19 turns of Cave 26/10 I get 7 or 8 rage attacks (depending on how many times Snor attacks before he starts charging). Perfect Balance makes *zer0* difference to those numbers (although it takes me more turns with Perfect Balance to finish Snor since I don’t get the extra damage I get with Nightmare (plus the attacks with Nightmare at +8% each)).

I went through the archives to see if anyone had posted differences between chili filling with and without Perfect Balance and I can’t find anything on this, people just assume the rage chili fills faster with Perfect Balance. What I think is going on is that Perfect Balance does increase the rage chili fill speed if the pigs (or other birds in arena play) are attacking your birds, but not in cases where only your birds are attacking (or maybe the increase in rage generation is seen only when Matilda is attacking). Snor is a special case, at least the way I play against him, because by design he doesn’t get to attack so I see no benefit from the PB set.

I would be frustrated but it seems my Samurai/Thunderbird/Bard/Treasure Hunter team might be the most efficient in terms of speed of play with minimal failures. Although I might fiddle around with using Illusionist in place of Thunderbird. TB is good if Snor calls help because the shock shield from Thunderbird is very effective at getting rid of the helper pigs. But maybe Illusionist’s ability to give double attacks to Samurai and TH would be better.

Finally, if you equipped Illusionist with the Sonic Lance/Orb set, it gives you one more 25% chance to reset Snor’s counter. That can come in handy.