This morning I was at Camp Phoenix gathering sweat. I over heard a conversation where one guy says “Wearing armor while sweating is the dumbest thing a noob can do. They are just giving their money away because of armer degrading”.
I always wore my armor while sweating because:
I can take more hits so I can stay on one animal longer. The longer I can keep at that animal the better the chance of a score.
The longer I can take hits from the animal, the more my stats go up.
If I get sweat from it and have enough HP remaining, I kill it so my battle stats go up and in hopes of getting a drop.
Oh ya, I checked my armor and it hasn’t degraded much at all. I have been using the same armor for about a week. All noob armor.
Could someone contribute some pros and cons that I am unaware of.
Try doing what you do for a long time, like say one hour. Then do the other thing (no armor) for the same time. After your done, count the abount of bottles you get in each case and multiply it with the market value of them, subtract your expences (if any).
Then you can proove for yourself if one method is better than the other.
Also consider that eventually you will not be able to sweat anymore so you might also have to consider skillgains on each method.
My guess though would be that with the new armor decay system, you will propably save time with armor. (but you will get less money in the end, when you reach the sweatcap)
If you sweat in groups you should be able to sweat for longer without armour on , I do occaisonally let them hit me if I am at CP in armour but often take it of when sweating, I use a fap-5 and try to outheal the mob then they normally move onto someone else and I switch back to sweating
just my :twocents:
I’m still just new to the game, and I don’t know about how sweating without armour compares cost-wise to sweating with, but my thoughts have been that because of how minimally you tend to get paid for sweat, if you need any repairs to your armour afterwards it outweighs the gains in amount of time you’re able to stand in front of the mob. It doesn’t cost you anything to go out there and get yourself killed
Plus you still get skills, like evade, and other such skills it takes to get your head knocked about
i’ve been killed so much that my evade skills are high, and I can stand there right in front of a mob for quite a while without taking a hit
I personally take off my armour to go sweating, but I’m curious now about how much it costs to sweat with it on.. maybe it really does give you an advantage..
