The following formula gives the exact abandon AP value for all 5 of my current levels: 0.6667 x base AP x % of territories taken

Today is the 7th day of my superb-descension.
Till now I finished 10 levels. My timings are kilometers away from here's progress!
last level I finished was the Siege of Feldmere within 1d5h. And the only Advancement I maxed recently was JS.
I don't have here's artifacts (I use leg SAC and leg AV), thus I can't reach anything within 1 hour of playing.
To tell you the truth, I stopped speedrunning. Finishing a level within 1 or 2 days seems legit to me.
In any case my current progress is much faster than my first playthrough a year ago.

Am I happy with my reward choice? Probably.
Getting +25% AP is like getting the maxed Advancement for free (=7700 AP for free). I hardly felt it at the beginning, but it should add up to a faster progress overall (again, not comparing myself to the blitz play from here. Can't compete against it))

Here are my timings, just as a reference for a future comparison:
01 Tutorial - 1 min
02 Huruey's Castle - 6h
03 Floating Rocks - 16h
04 War Of The Worlds - 16h
05 Ursa:Luna - 1d
06 Final Earth - 12h
07 Drakemor's World - 23h
08 Peloponnesian War - 17h
09 K-PX - 1d
10 The Siege of Feldmere - 1d5h

During the first five levels I couldn't use my SAC at all. It was upgrading. But AV was my lord and saviour.
The most annoying thing at the beginning is the lack of JS and lack of idle time (yuck!)

Edited 12/15/2021 21:51:26

Those times are more what I expect tbh, than the crazy speed of here's playthroughs, which is unreal.

No Idle Time is the killer. 2 hrs ... agree with you, yuck yuck yuck. And manual drafting, ewwww.

I'm sure that a combo of SAC+TW will give way better results even without here's strat

Tbh, the 4 artifacts I feel that I need to effective for both (casually) clearing levels and digging are AV, TS, TW, SAC. So torn between what to take. +25% AP would be nice ... but those artifacts are pretty necessary. Not having any 1 of those 4 is likely worth ~25% AP, but hard to say. Beyond those, there are good ones but not as big in value.

I'm thinking to carry over AV, TS, TW, then using powers SAC+FC to offset not having SAC artifact until I find a new one & level it up.

But then for next SAsc ... will be torn again, to carry over SAC or go for 25% AP. Eventually need to get at least +100% AP to maintain sanity. But also need AV, TS, TW, SAC to maintain sanity. And once all those artifacts are Leg, need increased digging speed to make digging worthwhile thereafter, else everything is throwaway at next SAsc (to enable actually selecting +25% AP and not another artifact). Decisions.

don't torment yourself, krinid.
for your super-descension pick the +100AP bonus and the following artifacts:
Fog Buster and Efficient Smelters.
you'll be fine!

Edited 12/17/2021 20:40:00

LMAO

You win joke of the week, Pars.

Nah, damage territory has got to be the best artifact to bring.

I'll take Damage Territory over Fog Buster.

Epic FB reveals an entire 24 territories.

As someone in the tail end of phase 2, I’m thinking AP might actually be better, just to run the early levels 2-3 times and power up. The 5.15+ merc hit is just a bit tough and it’s still taking me 4-6 days even on Africa.

2nd SAsc
4th artifact
Leg Time Warp
Leg Triple Strike
Leg Alloy Values
Common Supercharge Army Camp

Wow, here, you are so fast!

Here,

If you were starting over again and had to pick your Artifacts and reward (with what you know now), what would you choose?

Options being 1 Insane (of any type), 1-2 Epics (of any type), and/or a SAsc bonus.

Asking for a friend…

@Z
Insane Army Cache Boost
Epic Alloy Value
Epic Supercharge Army Camp

Interesting. I would not have guessed Insane Army Cache Boost. I always thought that was somewhat lackluster for an Insane. I guess that is to help with the partial level farm strat?

So you don’t think TW or Army Camp Boost would be worthwhile? My “friend” thanks you for your suggestions.

7 days have passed since I super-ascend. I super-ascended with:
+25% AP
an upgrading Time Warp (it's still upgrading lol)
Rare alloy value

So, I basically only have a rare alloy value to use, which isn't very helpful and I keep running out of money even after milking markets.

01 Tutorial - 1 min
02 Huruey's Castle - 4h41m
03 Floating Rocks - 12h
04 War Of The Worlds - 3h10m
05 Ursa:Luna - 2h39m
06 Final Earth - 19h
07 Drakemor's World - 11h
08 Peloponnesian War - 10h
09 K-PX - 1d2h
10 The Siege of Feldmere - 2d6h

This will make me wait SAsc for a while

I expect that I would be slower than Parsifal given that I have worse artifacts. Seems that I'm faster in some levels, and slower in some levels.

I'd say "good times @Math!!"

but since here's 3rd Descension made us all look like noobs, I'll keep my mouth shut.

I lost the drive to play efficiently. Simply open idle once in a couple of hours and click on some territories.

Did you use powers on the earlier levels?

EDIT: I think the point where my times got better than yours is when I finally got my legendary SAC (it was upgrading during the first 5 days of my Descension)

Edited 1/5/2022 08:23:32

Yea I used SAC+FC. Maybe that's the reason why I was able to be faster than you on some levels lol