Woot woot.
Anyways, only got Persuasive left to get up to 100 before I'm a person of some important...
Stupid persuasive... MY other skills vary from 90 to 105 (before item mods) but my persuasive is around... 40?
This is gonna take a while... Anyone know the best way to grind Persuasive? Are those influence hand ins worth it, for example?
I don't think the influence hand ins (above the very lowest cost level) are worth it.
The best way is to simply do persuasive challenges while they are at high risk/chancy (not sure about chancy though). Ideally if you can do persuasive challenges that don't increase your scandal, thats best, but I am not sure if there are any of those above ~33 (or with the negative items you can get to about 55 or so).
If you can't find any high-risk challenges that don't increase scandal, then you will have to use a lot of confident smiles (or a lot of scandal reducing things).
And even once you get to all 100, it will still take quite a long time to get to become a person of some importantance.
Got my watchful up to base 100, now working on dangerous, my lowest stat. Also, trying to save up for a house in the bazaar, which costs 80,000 whispered secrets for the lease. These days I only get cryptic clues, which I don't want to dilute into whispered secrets in case I need them. That means buying whispered secrets with echos... which is astronomically expensive. And I just spent around 300 echos on rats for a storylet. Ah Echo Bazaar, how you befuddle me >:I
That's a terrible idea, at 800 echos, a house is, in my opinion not really worth it until you have got pretty much everything else (since it is the equivalent of two +4 items).
But at 1600 echos it is even less worth it (its probably worth all the +2, and a few +4 items).
There are many good sources of secrets around 100 stats, but if you can't find one, then wait.
People seem to be grinding for echos, and for what it's worth, unless your highest stat is 110 or above (with items), or you are close to a good item and want to get it fast/unlocking a new area, then grinding is almost always a bad idea.
If you use 200 actions and you are grinding using a 75 stat you can either get (~150 echos and +4 to a stat at straightforward) or (~45(?) echos and +12 to a stat at high risk), less once you factor in the amount of second chance's required to stop you from gaining menace).
150 echos is just over the cost for a +3 stat item, so you get about +7 to a stat overall if you are echo grinding, and you get +12 to a stat from stat grinding.
Also, the longer you wait to echo grind (and you will have to at some point), the larger the gains (which max out at about 115 or so at 110, excluding the person of some importance choices (since I have no clue what the max for those are).
Keep in mind you will need to grinding to get all your stats to 100 to become a person of some importance, and then get your stats to 125 to be able to do the person of some importance storylets that allow you to get some of the endgame content at lower costs, so if you grind echos, it will take you about two-three times as long to become a person of some importance, and while you will have better items when you do get to the same point, you will never be able to catch up.
Most importantly, I finally got a ship.
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