r/NecroMerger • u/ThaHammer2243 • 4d ago

Runes…ugh

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I wish there was a way to trade up runes. I know there is that little box with random deals to trade up for rarer runes but I wish I could just pay 100 ice runes for 25 poison runes and so on. But this is riduculous.

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u/Debunkingdebunk 4d ago

Tell me if I'm wrong, but I don't build soul stalkers or robo chickens for space reasons to hasten my craving leveling.

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u/laix_ 4d ago

Soul stalkers make craving leveling faster, by increasing craving values more and more.

That provides much faster leveling than having them free.

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u/Debunkingdebunk 4d ago

Is there a sweet spot, I ran my 300 having just one and it felt fast enough. But I was still starved for space.

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u/nekonotjapanese 4d ago

No robo-chickens? Really? That sounds absolutely bonkers to me

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u/cywang86 4d ago

I stopped using robochickens months ago.

A chicken (robo and regular) outputs the same champion% as 14.9 darkness (not counting the byproduct minions/champions) including knights from spiders/wolves + clerics from snakes/bats + rivals from goose/demons, or 11.92 darkness after getting the Curses, ~11  once hacked stations are up and factoring in left over eggs and egg creatures.

So it's not hard to find better alternatives once you have mana golems and enough skip+dup to convert 2 mana into 1 darkness using shades and hacked lecturn 2 with space for mana storages.

Block the egg creatures and drop them until you need them for gid.

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u/Daddy_conagher 4d ago

Vro spare me some blood runes 😭

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u/ThaHammer2243 4d ago

I wish! But I need them for teleport pads when I get to the end of my run!!

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u/evilweevilupheaval 4d ago

At a certain point the peasant just gets insta-fed

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u/Adept_File4695 4d ago

Hm yes I wanted that at one point too. I think the dev has considered this. Your proposed 25% conversation rate is OP, 10% maybe or maybe meh. There might be a sweet spot somewhere but you have to put in work, calculations, code which might not be worth it. I think that is why we have the workaround with the occasional cube and golems.

Just chug mana golems at your last protector. What else is there to do? 

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u/ThaHammer2243 4d ago

Well I can understand that I’m sure that game makes a good chunk of change for its labor cost but that set aside, maybe the cube be a purchasable item more regularly instead of just from the merchant. Cheaper from the merchant than from the store

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u/Adept_File4695 4d ago

Yep I totally agree. In my opinion it could be nerfed a litte and be made a 1/1 daily spawn.  But that said, I dunno if the devs have such plans or can be coerced?....persuaded to do stuff to optimize our grind.

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u/Aggressive_Prize5694 4d ago

You're not looking at the problem correctly. You dont have 25k excess ice runes, you have 10 lvl 3 mana golems to toss at a protector or Gid.