As with steem, I take a long-term approach to steemmonsters… I’m looking to max out all the cards eventually, so I just calculated what the total cost would be for me to max out all of the Life splinter and neutral cards.. Betas and rewards. Those are the two sets I’m looking to max out first.
The cheapest cards to max out are as below (just Life and neutrals)
You can find the rest of the results here on my google spread sheet
It would be typical if someone's already designed some direct database mining tool that does this for you automatically of course
On the basis of the above, I made the following level up decisions
NB - these are the cards I'm looking to max out first, but I'm a long way off that, so I had a look at what abilities are unleashed at what level to inform these decisions. I also had to level up the summoner to L6 first!
Stone Golem to L6– he is just one awesome Tank IMHO
Peacebringer to L5 over Earth Elemental to L4
I know the later has a great flying ability, but it’s just that much more expensive.
Divine Sorceress over Defender of the Truth
Lord Arianthus to level three , he’s cheap!
Honestly, check out this if you don’t believe me, it’s my most hilarious victory yet!
Flying Pixie to level 5
Not the cheapest I know but I figured once she’s up to level 5, she gets the inspire ability, and flying already – she’s also quite good to play in front of the divine healer, to act as a cushion for snipers.
My imperfect calculations
Of course I know they’re rough calculations… I should factor in how many health and damage points you get for your money and somehow factor in speed and abilities which are much more difficult to value, actually impossible if yer entering the data manually like I am, but I guess you could do it based on historical battle data.
There’s also the fact that some cards only really need to be taken to level 8 or 9 to get near enough full utility, it may be better value to level up some to the max than others. And of course the market values change, and I’m only basing this on the cheapest card.
Finally, I’m working on two assumptions, I may be wrong about both, but if I am, let me know and I can easily adapt my spread sheet…..
First assumption – Life has the best buff – every single character gets a ‘bonus round’ due to the shield as far as I see it.
Second assumption – the reward cards level up in the same way as Betas (I think they do?!?)
Final thoughts
Is that really how i just spent my Saturday afternoon? Really?!