I have super-ascended a nineteenth time.

Boon chosen: +25% AP

Total boons: +200% AP, +11 artifact

Artifacts carried over:

* Insane Army Cache Boost
* Legendary Alloy Values
* Legendary Supercharge Army Camp
* Legendary Army Camp Boost
* Legendary Time Warp
* Legendary Triple Strike
* Legendary Mercenary Discount
* Legendary Cache Boost
* Legendary Money Cache Boost (wzib; upgrade)
* Epic Hospital Boost (replacement)
* Epic Inspire Mercenaries
* Uncommon Speedy Crafters
* Uncommon Territory Money Boost

Next time: probably +1 artifact

Also: IM upgrade or build an insane

Note: bunch of extra digging this time

Super Ascension #20

+11 Slots
275% +AP

Insane Army Cache Boost
Legendary Alloy Values
Legendary Army Camp Boost
Legendary Time Warp
Legendary Cache Boost
Epic Supercharge Army Camp
Epic Triple Strike
Epic Mercenary Discount
Epic Inspire Mercs
Rare Hospital Boost


I'm going to take a break from the Sasc grind. I'm not sure what I am chasing anymore.

So I was ready to super, pressed the button totally forgetting to save the artifacts.

The game told me to select the ones I wanted to save.

So I guess you can't lose all your artifacts by forgetting to save them.

Now if you select some but not fill all the slots, will it stop you or toss the rest away. I don't know.

But it's good to know there is some safeguard there. If I lost all my arties, including ones I've spent money on, I'd rage quit.

@Morg, unless things have changed, it warns you only if you select 0 or 1 artifacts. the minimum everyone has without any SAsc benefits is 2, so the game protects you from carrying over less than that. but if you select 2 or more, doesn't matter how many artifact carryover slots you have, if you haven't filled them all, all your non-selected artifacts are gone forever. instead of protecting from "less than 2" it should protect against "less than the # of artifact carryover slots" each player has; it's already a variable, so should be a suuuuuuuuuuuuper simple change

I agree, but from a strictly narcissistic point of view, I am more likely to go all or none than some. I don't have 40+ artifacts which helps

10th SAsc for me fellaz… +25% AP leaving us at 100% AP boost and 7 artis: ITW, IIM, ISAC, I$B, IA$B, IACB, IAV

Onto the next one!

@Morg, 99% of the time, i did the same, all or none ... but if you get interrupted by something mid-artifact selection, come back later and think "oh yea i selected them all, let's do it", you could victimize yourself

or once like i did where i was selecting the last 4 artis to carry forward at the bottom of the list (the ones currently in use/in slot) and the mouse slipped down a couple pixels and instead of clicking the arti to save it, i clicked the "Super Ascend" button by accident and BOOM, Insanes instantly vanished into the void, never to be seen again

30 Years War tec run, 12 days 19 hours Max idle time.

1857 supers +3925%ap(40.25x), 60 slots, 40 dig speed, 160200 start ap

Abandoned some tech runs, to super 35 times(with insane Time Warps) and finally finished my insanes.

Seventeenth Super Ascend!

New bonus: +25% AP
Kept: Insane A$B, Legendary AV, TW, SAC, ACampB, CB, Epic RCB, MCB, TS, Rare HB, Rare MD
Bonuses: +9 slots, +200% AP

The SAs are really starting to fly by now, Insane A$B has shaved a ton of time off. It helps that I only need 1 Ascend at the end now too, the ending P4 grind is dramatically less painful at this point.

I had to survey the remaining SLs as I'm starting to run low on those. I won't have to go out of my way to pick them up yet, but fairly soon I will. In another 10 SAs or so I'll have to start digging into the uglier levels (Trisk, HTrisk, HEH) to farm SLs. Provided I do those in late P4 rather than pre-Hex, that shouldn't be too terrible at least. After that I'll have to figure out Plateau Assault.

Next up: +25% AP, bringing RCB back up to Legendary (this SA)

Eighteenth Super Ascend!

New bonus: +25% AP
Kept: Insane A$B, Legendary AV, TW, SAC, ACampB, CB, RCB, Rare HB, MD, SS, FH
Bonuses: +9 slots, +225% AP

The P4 grind continues to shrink, the entirety of P4 lasted well under 12 hours this time around. Right before SAing, I ended up firing off a Legendary TW for no reason other than to get my TS off of cooldown so I could fodder it into my Legendary RCB. I'm now down to only two levels that need a SAC arti (Copper Creek Castle and Breaking Green), and they're getting quite close to not needing one anymore. The real bonus is that they're not adjacent now.

SA19 will probably be slower than SA18 because my RCB will be cooking for the whole time that it matters (the early levels). Of course, SA20 should be better though.

It's slightly wild how much artifact slot pressure is removed by making an Insane. It's a couple more SAs off yet, but I'll have to start thinking about taking slots again at some point. I need to give some more thought to whether digging 1/2 Rares (alternating) per SA is still practical or if I need a new cadence for that.

Next up: +25% AP, bringing MD back up to Legendary (needs 2 SAs)

12 supers: +175%AP, 7 artifact slots



Got lucky to get HB in WZIB

P.S. Now I can restart digginig artifacts

4th Super-Ascension for me today. Kept a 4th artifact: Insane TW, Leg AV, Insane ACacheB, and now I kept a SAC (upgrading from Rare to Epic). Still at just +25% AP.

See why people don't like extra levels. Talk about tedious

Nineteenth Super Ascend!

New bonus: +1 slot
Kept: Insane A$B, Legendary AV, TW, SAC, ACampB, CB, RCB, Epic MD, FB, TS, Rare HB, IM
Bonuses: +10 slots, +225% AP

Despite my expectation that this SA would be slower than the previous, it was actually a smidge faster. This mainly came down to being able to slice out a couple of the later levels thanks to the extra AP. On the first Ascend I was able to get away with just a single HOT, HScandi and HRome run before cruising on straight to AU, EH and Hex. I was also able to run EH without needing a TS again (and without needing the CW bonuses either), which meant HCCC could be done last instead of earlier, which is also quicker.

I had some bad luck with Uncommon digs (3x in a row came up with Common), which was lining me up for having a dig/smelt bottleneck at the end of this SA. As I was waiting for the aforementioned bottleneck I yoloed a 7% Rare dig and it turned up Rare, instantly fixing my bottleneck! As a result, I ended up taking another artifact slot to keep the extra Rare. I'll probably use the spare slot for a backup HB while the other upgrades to Epic and Legendary soon (provided I find one).

Next up: +25% AP, bringing MD back up to Legendary (this SA)

2nd super ascension on 22nd July.
New Bonus : +1 slot
Total bonuses : 25% AP & +1 slot
Artifacts carried over : Leg AV, A$B, TW

*SAd as soon as I hit the Leg upgrade button for TW that it is still under upgrading phase.

*Took 3 months and 20 days for 2nd SA

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Twentieth Super Ascend!

New bonus: +25% AP
Kept: Insane A$B, Legendary AV, TW, SAC, ACampB, CB, RCB, MD, Rare HB x2, IM, DT
Bonuses: +10 slots, +250% AP

Having MD back up to Epic smoothed out several rough edges on levels again. Legendary will be even nicer, obviously. I was able to find a HB and bring it up to Rare, so it will serve as a convenient backup (as I had hoped for in SA19) while the other copy upgrades to Epic and then Legendary.

Some levels are starting to look practical for a draft free L1 hospital clear on the first pass, Australia in particular. AD 1045 is also looking pretty close, unfortunately it has the problem of Copper Wires meaning that's actually much further away than it looks. It's borderline comical how much harder Old Town (which still needs L3 hospitals) is than Hardened Old Town (which is very comfortably draft free with L2 hospitals), in both cases as soon as I can get there.

I'm getting dangerously close to having to decide on an actually new Legendary (as opposed to just rebuilding what I foddered). I'm leaning towards SC, although I don't have one ready to go and I don't think I'd stall waiting for one, so we'll have to see what happens. BMB or TMB are also distinct possibilities. I have more or less decided that I won't fodder my RCB again for my next Insane, HB and MD are still potential fodder candidates.

Next up: +25% AP, probably bringing HB back up to Legendary (needs 2x SA)

Just did 4th today. Had legendary av, army camp, sac but decided to take some time to bump up av to insane.
So +75% with insane av. Epic sac (upgrading) and a middling epic (territory bonus boost) mostly to upgrade. Going to do 5th with +100 and hopefully have either a$b or camp as third. Haven’t bought anything and no clans. Just leveling with arenas to speed things up and coins won from quick matches on either =+30% on hex or poor arties

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