Good advice from CIM and XYZ - it does all depend on your situation especially Knowledge and energy.
Other things you need to consider are which materials you are after, how quickly you want them and how much money you have to spend on energy packs.
Standard materials come from a variety of sources including invaders and you can also buy them in the item store. Always they are random.They will build up faster than invader materials and you will eventually be able to combine them into legendary materials even without spending on energy.
Materials for invader equipment will build up slowly regardless of which invader level you attack unless you buy a lot of hero energy. So no spending means you might never get legendary invader materials.
There is video out on the net concerning cost efficiency of hitting different level invaders ... one where the person did an extensive experiment and puts all the information out there.
xyz said:
Thanks, Eleria .
I see you are not the player who started the thread.
With not knowing Peabody's abilities, I was trying to keep it as informative and simple as I could.
Also when answering, its always possible to omit items you forgot,could,should,might have mentioned.
So you are right, I did not specifically mention increasing sustained attack,though perhaps I did allude to it.
Without question,there are specific times when having the maximum sustained attack is desirable.
REMINDER:
Advice given by one person may not be relevant to every person reading it.
Suggesting players hit invaders above L.1, if that 's all they can hit,or telling them to hit higher levels if they can,with the promise of rare or epic, when they are still only getting simple materials,is not helpful.
The decision on what you attack should depend on what items drop and the energy spent.
As to your suggestion, I would like to see your evidence that it is more energy cost efficient to go for higher level invaders .
I wasn't advocating that energy should be wasted,time spent marching,or re-locations moving around, problems can be solved by "cutting your cloth to suit your needs"
Nor did I advocate attacking level 3-6 using only enhanced attack.
Nothing can be, "WAY MORE BETTERER"
So... I accidently deleted my last response, much to my frustration, and I don't have time to retype it all but I'll edit this one with more info soon. Here's the bullets..
1.) XYZ... Sorry to have made you so defensive. I hope in the future, you will follow your own advice and take what you read with a grain of salt. Also, it's not healthy, and certainly not productive, to assume that every comment is directed towards you, in spite of you or intended to be at your expense. The advice I gave was for the original poster, in order to answer the question this thread was founded on. That said, if a person can only hit level one invaders, then this thread isn't really for them, is it?
2.) XYZ... Experience, common sense, and a few thousand dead invaders are the building blocks for my statement about building up a sustained attack on high level Invaders being the most energy cost efficient method to gain crafting materials for high grade equipment. It is the BESTEST method. xP
3.) Everybody else..I'd like to stress that my advice was for those seeking better equipment, and is NOT necessarily the best way to gain event points. If the only purpose served by attacking invaders is gaining points, then many other factors come into play as others have mentioned previously.
4.) Everyone still reading..One last thing to keep in mind - Maxing your sustained attack for every invader is not necessary and I do not recommend it. As your sustained attack grows, the quality of your rewards will fluctuate in a kind of "5 steps forward, 4 steps back" (or similar) pattern. This creates 'sweet spots' for your finishing blow. It's easy to figure out though. Watch your rewards closely as you kill invaders to see where your sustained attack is when it always gives you rare or epic material and then finish with an enhanced attack at one of those points, allowing for change as you gain different hunting bonuses. ;)As I wrote in the other thread ... I do recommend to continue to increase ones sustained attack until you reach maximum bonus. Yes it is true that sometimes one of your attacks will get a lower level material than an earlier attack that had less bonus ... but it seems to me (logically and experientially) that continuing to increase your attack bonus is the best way to get higher level material. Also I have over 50 pieces of equipment at legendary level that use invader material (invader or special or shaman equipment) ... this includes numerous "sets" of equipment.
I second this for simplicity. Please see the other thread titled "Equipment Materials" and skip to my last post with the intro "CONCLUSION"As I wrote in the other thread ... I do recommend to continue to increase ones sustained attack until you reach maximum bonus. Yes it is true that sometimes one of your attacks will get a lower level material than an earlier attack that had less bonus ... but it seems to me (logically and experientially) that continuing to increase your attack bonus is the best way to get higher level material. Also I have over 50 pieces of equipment at legendary level that use invader material (invader or special or shaman equipment) ... this includes numerous "sets" of equipment.
Not sure what you are asking.
Wait a moment.
Are you trying to compare the amount of hero energy your hero accumulates compared to someone else's?
Have they shown you, or discussed this with you?
You said " they are about the same " well about the same means you cant compare,you can only compare if they are the same.
You can rearrange your hero skill points to give your hero more accumulated energy,so even if your hero is at the same level as another players, they might not have the same useable energy.
Also town skins affect the amount of energy your hero has.
