So my thought at this point is to buy 10 of the Large starter pack ammo refills (getting 50 skill pills/month) and 100 strongboxes for the chance at other pills and MU items.
After 2 months of this, I will see if I should alternate to 100 on refill packs, and 200 on strongboxes.
Thank you so much everyone on the insight.
Go for straight strongboxes
Skill pills not worth it on your lvl
Start thinking about skill pills when you do some dps lets say 60/70, when you unlock some skills.
Skilling up to lvl 50 is more then easy
And boxes bring 100% pills too... out of 1500 Event boxes you will have a good amount of the skill pills + mu you can sell to upgrade your dps
Dps is King in skilling
Not Saying its a Bad idea @ all
But i think its more effektive when you buy boxes
I agree with naika, Only buy boxes. The only time I would suggest buying something different is when you run out of HDNA so buy the large HDNA pack every now and again if those are something you like using, otherwise stick to the boxes. You are guaranteed 10p out of every box one way or another, the chance at 100% skill pills that last 10 hours, 5 hour skill pills at 30%, and tons of 10% skill pills for 1 hr/10 hrs... With enough boxes you can keep that 10% buff running nearly any time you are playing, and save the 100% pills for long grinds once you are a higher level and have multiple unlocked skills.
On top of that you always have a chance for rings, if you dont own any, pulling an Improved ares and athenic ring would be a big boost to your setup, or a way to get some cash to pay for more play or pay for event boxes to start racking up more pills that you can sell as well as mayhem amps and the sought after event rings. Boxes have never been as cheap as they are now at 1p or less, they used to be 3-5p depending on the ring, so this is a great time to be new, as your cost to potentially get one of these is substantially lower than when I first started back in 2017 when boxes first became lootable.
Lastly since you can afford to depo, dont tt everything, build up stacks of loot like the wool and leather extractors etc, during the summer their value goes up as mindark runs an event for crafters buying up certain textiles etc. Same goes for robot loot, weapon grips, filters, and a few other things are used frequently and can be sold for a decent markup.
We could sit here for hours giving you tips and ways to make things last or have fun etc. So if you ever have questions hit me up I will be more than glad to answer any questions etc. And if you have not done your mentorship yet I would like to throw my hat in the ring to be your mentor
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Good luck! I look forward to hearing back from you.