This is a repost from a review I wrote, that many friends found helpful. However it’s better as a guide, so here ya go.
Last year I finished reading one of the best books in TORN, Fuelling Your Way To Failure (energy cans give 2x), and had the good fortune of being able to do this twice with Memories And Mammaries (repeat the last book). If you don’t have BOTH books, you could consider waiting. However, money and stats today are better than stats tomorrow, so it’s up to you to decide.
Here is a report of my gains, $$$ spent on cans, and $$$ earned from Halloween. Hopefully this might inform some of you who are lucky to hit this combination of books.
Prep: Joined a 10 star restaurant. Apply early, since they tend to fill up well before Halloween. If you’re reading this now (September), it might be too late but try your best. In terms of monetary costs, I used around 1040 cans in total. My costs are a rough estimate, which should suffice since those of you who plan on doing this will have varying prep costs. I purchased half of the 30 E cans for around 3.3 mil per, 300 cans at 3.7 mil, and the rest of the cans were produced by my own stock dividend supply and Halloween basket.
I switched to 25 E cans after Halloween due to the massive difference in price between 25 E and 30 E cans. I’ll include in the total cost as if I sold those cans. Total cost of cans were around 3.2 Billion**. Lesson #1: This would have been much lower if I did a better job buying everything I needed in advance. If you are starting to buy them in September or October, it’s going to be much more expensive. Consider 25 E cans.
Here are my stat gains, based on the torn-stats graph (start to end date):
2 months (and 1 day) of progress:
Starting Dex: 1,456,780,954
Ending Dex: 1,978,445,632
Total DEX Gain= 521,664,678
Starting Str: 1,318,284,444
Ending Str: 1,419,485,402
Total STR Gain= 101,200,958
For a total of 622,685,636
A couple factors that affected my gains: Faction DEX steadfast of 15 → 18/19, and STR steadfast of 19. I trained at George’s gym until I unlocked the DEX specialty gym towards the latter half of training. (I think when I hit 1.7 bil Dex). Also, not all energy was expended on training. Weekly termed wars and Halloween took a chunk of the energy that would have been trained. Additionally, I ended up flying to Swiss to rehab almost daily, in order to keep my happiness above 4000. I would recommend you read these books when you are active enough to rehab every day. You will burn happiness like the release of a new (arson) crime.
And for the most important stat, HOF rankings:
Day after finishing books: #4774 in total battle stats.
I wish I got an exact starting ranking before I started, I believe I was around or under rank #5500. For simplicity, let's say I gained 700 spots in battle stat ranking.
I made a mistake I finished reading the first book 24 hours before the start of CaffeineCon. Therefore, I lost around 24 hours of booster cooldown since I could not wait for my booster CD to reset to 0 before starting the 2nd book.
Lesson #2: Finish the first book at least a few days before start of CaffeineCon.
Halloween: I did 2657 attacks during Halloween. I finished upgrading my basket to Nightmare after the first day, and purchased the Cold Sweat and Crystalline Falcata upgrades. The value of the loot varies, but the torn report evaluation day after Halloween valued my loot for a total of 4,162,713,422 torn-buckaroos, as valued immediately after Halloween. This is noteworthy since it more than covers the total costs of cans, and put me in the net positive considering RW payouts and passive income. Having access to a good revitalize weapon helped a lot.
Lesson #3: Join a HOF faction if you can, in order to benefit from a good steadfast and access to high % REVIT weapons.
Final thoughts: If you want double E cans for 2 Halloweens, I would recommend starting the book on or before CaffeineCon, wait 1 year without reading a book, and read Memories and Mammaries. I didn’t even think about doing this until it was too late, but tbh doing 2657 attacks in a week is physically and mentally exhausting and I don’t know if I would want to do this again next year anyways. Also, stats today are more valuable than stats next year (IMO). I was curious how much progress I made in 2 months, and I’m quite pleased with the results. I think it also sheds some light into how much progress you can make with a full year of reading this book, if you were so lucky to loot Ladsos Eye.
Lesson #4: If you want to maximize $$$ gains, wait a year to use Memories And Mammaries. You can start Fuelling Your Way To Failure in October before CaffeineCon, use it for a month, and wait a full calendar year to reap the bonuses of both Halloween and CaffeineCon twice! If you don’t have any good books you really want to read, it’s a good option.
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