Hi All,
I have a few questions that will hopefully help me on my way
First of all please forgive me for my misunderstanding as I am a newb.
Ok, I have been sweating for a while and it bores me to death, I spend hours and only get a few hundred sweat to sell which is just terrible, so I want to give swunting a go.
I understand it is a terrible idea to wear armour when sweating as you will lose money as you will have to keep repairing armour, but what about with swunting? Is it a good idea to wear some low level armour so I can stay alive longer? If so what armour would you recommend I buy as a new player, I do not mind depositing a small about of cash to get me up and running because I enjoy the game and I would be paying £8/month for any other on-line game anyway, hopefully it won't come to that though
Also where would be a goo place to start swunting somewhere with mobs I can kill and not many other players around.
Any advice would be excellent, thank you!
Re1entless.
Right this is what you should do. Get someone to take you to neas place which is a far better place to sweat/swunt mobs. Sweat camp is ok to begin with and to introduce you to the idea of sweating but you have outgrown that place now. That is why you are only able to get small amounts of sweat and getting frustrated with it.
At neas you will find there are 3 types of player -
1. the type of player that finds a mob, finds a group of players standing around, and then clicks on 'auto click' on their sweating tool and then buggers off afk for 15 minutes. You should avoid grouping with players of this type where possible as you will not get much sweat by grouping with them (though sometimes you may need to if there are not many other decent players around). These players can be found most commonly near the main teleporter/service station.
2. A more organised group of players that work as a team when sweating a mob by circling the mob and moving with the mob to keep the mob encircled. When the mob is dry, the players all run to the gun turret to kill the mob for free before moving on to the next mob. You will get much more sweat by working in this way. These players can most usually be found by heading north/north east, past the revival point, during peak hours. Note you can still use the auto-sweat tool and go afk for short periods while sweating mobs in this way, but you should always keep 1 eye on the screen so that you don't let down the rest of the team when they need to move.
3. swunters - these players group together in teams of 12 to swunt the larger mobs (either at neas of elsewhere).
It is now widely accepted that wearing armour while sweating will increase the amount of sweat that you get. This is because you will die much less which means you can spend more time on the mob sweating. Fapping is optional but will be more costly and also with fapping you have to be constantly watching your health bar and judging whether now is the right time to fap yourself. With armour you just put the armour on and forget about it, the armour will work quietly away in the background protecting you from damage. (you can still get the cheapest fap tool from the TT terminal to use in emergencies).
If you opt for option 2. above, the armount of sweat you can expect to get will be between 300-400 per hour (on average). The optimum situation is grouping with around 16 well organised players (who keep the mob circled) while wearing pixie armour. In this situation you can expect to get up to 400 sweat per hour. If there are more players then you don't need so much armour because you will be getting hit less often. If there are fewer players then you may need more armour (plated pixie) to avoid dying, because you will be getting hit more often (dying all the time while sweating just doesn't work for me). Where there are fewer than, say, 10 players, it may not be worth wearing any armour at all as you will be getting hit so often that your armour will decay a lot and cost you more much more pec to repair. It is up to you to experiement and find what situation works best for you. when I was last doing this several months ago, I found what worked best was being in a group of around 16 well organised players while wearing pixie armour. I was able to sell sweat for around 4.75 ped per 1k and armour decay would cost me around 30 pec. So that is about 4.5 ped per 3 hours (or less) of sweating.
With regard to swunting, since the game system got changed, solo swunting is now no longer viable. In the olden days, solo swunting used to be a viable proposition but no longer (this is because the mob now aggros straight away at the first attempt to sweat it). So now the only realistic way to swunt mobs is by forming a group of up to 12 other players (i.e. a formal team using the 'form team' tool). This happens quite a lot at neas though it is not something I have ever participated in so cannot comment on how effective group swunting is. No doubt you will get told wild stories about how profitable swunting is, but again this is something that you will need to experiment with yourself. You will almost certainly be required to wear armour/fap while swunting (you don't want to die after just having spent nearly 50 pec on ammo without getting any loot).
When it comes to sweating, it really is all about how much time you have available to put into the game and finding ways to use that time most effectively. Note that when you have got your sweat you then need to sell it, but that is another story.
love u Shana 