An earlier discussion got me thinking about how long it will take me to farm up all the gear my characters need at their current gear levels. I have 55 characters at gear levels VII or higher, let's just consider them.
No joke, I currently need over 12,000 pieces of salvage just to fill their gear needs at this level. Let's say I buy two energy refreshes per day; with bonus energy, that gives me 615 energy per day. Let's use all of that to farm gear, assuming 10 energy per sim, so that's 61.5 sims per day. If 20% of those sims drop gear for me, that's ~12 gear every day. Some pretty easy math tells me I'll need 1000 days (2.7 years) to get those 12,000 pieces just to fill their current needs.
Even if I were to go nuts and refresh six times per day, I'll get ~110 sims per day, or around 22 gear. That's still 545 days just for what they need right now, and I'm not doing that anyway, so I'm looking at 2.7 years in gear needs right now. Add in a new character and MORE gear needed when I move up a gear level, I can safely assume at least 3 years of gear farming in my future.
Oh sure, some of that gear is available in challenges and raids. I'll be generous and say that cuts my time in half (it doesn't). So at least a year and a half. Plus, some of that gear is only in the AAT raid ... I'll never get that stuff.
No worries though. Keep grinding that gear and leveling up to reveal the NEXT gear level. There will be plenty to keep me pushing that sim button, seemingly forever.
Solution: buy more gear! Well, I have actually. It helps for a little bit, and it does move your target hero along a bit faster. But Gear Mountain never goes away, it just gets bigger.
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