Hi y'all. Casual player here. I'm getting close to my first superascension and would like opinions from more experienced players.

I'll have an insane AV, legendary SAC, and epic AcacheB by the time I'm ready to superascend. I'd still lean toward playing casually but do want faster runs. I'll be utilizing the market strategy as well. Should I take all 3 artifacts with me or go with the +25% AP instead?

what other artifacts do you have ?
any chance of upgrading that A$B to legendary as well (perhaps with some extra digging)?

otherwise i think youre better of taking your insane and legendary and +25% AP

I did sth similar my last 2 supers: take the +1 slot, but fill it only with an epic...

@JK_3 I could take the time to get AcacheB to legendary. At this point, I'm not exactly rushing. From what I've read in other posts, AcacheB helps a lot in the levels that are unlocked upon superascension. But how feasible is it to play those levels on my first run after the super? Or would it be super, then regular ascend a few times and THEN play those new levels?

@otto What did you choose when you supered for the first time?

insane av, leg sac, 25 ap.
after 10 supers now, i still dont have an acacheb, but i might be the only one with >2 supers. but it also proves that it is no must have arti.

Sorry for the dumb question otto. Are you saying none of the digs are giving you an AcacheB or just that you're not taking one with you when you super?

meanwhile i have:
* insane AV
* leg SAC
* leg TW
* leg AcampB
* epic HB
* epic fodder

And it was my concious choice and not bad luck. I discarded many acachebs so far and i will do so for a while until:

* insane AV
* insane acampb
* leg SAC
* leg TW
* leg HB

Then, and only after that I start thinking about an acacheb. (And i am still not 100% sure whether going for an insane IM wouldnt be more straight)

But it is personal preference. Feel free to make up your own mind and decision

Edited 10/9/2023 19:52:13

AP bonus probably the fastest way to your next Super Ascension. For clearing individual levels faster probably the third artifact. I really enjoy my insane Army cache boost, makes some of the hardened levels really easy to get going and easy to finish.
If you're going to take a third artifact, I wouldn't wait to dig to make it legendary. Super ascending lets you get all the artifacts from battles and stuff to help upgrade.

Reflecting on my first run, I'd say 25% also. I had trouble with having enough armies.
25% means maxing out additional mercs quicker and not hitting that trouble spot.

Now if we were talking something like insane army cache boost, perhaps that would also prevent hitting the wall. I didn't record how short I was when I was short.

Edited 10/9/2023 21:00:52

*Assuming that you decide to take three artifacts*, whether to wait to upgrade or not really depends on the combination of (a) how much time left until you can superascend and (b) how much upgrade fodder you have. If you had only the three artifacts you mentioned, then you'd be four epics away from the upgrade. Each epic is base 1000 hours, but if you max out Faster Digging in stage 4 then that becomes 500 hours. If you've also done Hardened China then it's 400 hours. An epic Time Warp would gain you two hours every 16, reducing that to around 350 hours.

All that combined would be around two months (59 days) to complete the digging. Without the Time Warp it is 67 days. Without China it's 84 days, etc. You'd have to figure it out based on more precise information about what you have.