Late stage, best way to advance devourer level to 100
Alright, I'm getting ready for what will probably be my last prestige reset. What I'm having difficulty with is hitting devourer level 100.
I have 1 of each legendary.
I have level 10 (max) cravings and food relics. A level 5 skip relic. Rival relic is level 6, and the other invader relics are all at level 7 (max). I have all experiments at max level besides the protector health scaling (and I don't need cubes or astro coins except for getting the final cage expansions, which I don't consider critical this run). The spellbook is also maxed out.
For my block cravings, I have it set to block skeletons, eye monsters, and zombies, as that way I don't have to put up with the relatively long level chains of merging those, and it also simplifies the producers I need to keep around. Having to feed 8-10 things that have 6-7 levels of merging is just a right proper pain.
Right now I'm just focusing on cravings, but it still feels like this is taking a while. For relics I have food/craving/skip, and the other 2 I leave open to switch around to maximize the appearance of invaders, and then I feed the invaders directly to the devourer because that appears to result in the most souls in the soul grinder.
I've considered switching "down" to a level 1 soul grinder so I only get peaceful spirits, but until I can block vengeful spirits at 90, that seems unwise given the possibility of getting it on craving. I'm also already at a 362% increase from peaceful spirits, so I think I'm getting diminishing returns there anyway.
I don't think the benefit from extra cyclops with the 20% food on creatures is really going to do it, as cravings just win out over food at large enough numbers.
I try to maintain 3 guzzlers, as that seems like a decent amount of not filling every time I complete a craving, but not taking up too much space on the board.
Is having multiple archdemons worth it? I assume so, it just seems like a fairly high rune cost to dedicate towards rather than just completing more cravings.
I recognize that this is basically the end-game, so of course getting there is going to take a long time, just trying to figure out best practices here.
Posted Feb 20, 2023, 4:45 PM UTC