Gray Goo - 18K It's Getting Dark - 28.3K Haunted Ship - 29.1K Follow the Breadcrumbs - 47.2K Using a Royal / Orc formation with Sal as main DPS.

> *Originally posted by **[Endox](/forums/12051/topics/667029?page=1#10734886)**:* > **Follow the Breadcrumbs** > **Idol recommendation** 500k idols for reasonable run. 350k idols with good weekend buff and triple buff from 600+, minimum idols 200k with lots of buffs/autoclicking. Need e155 dps. > Reward: Gloria, the good witch 

Completed Tier 1 Objective WOWZA @912K idols - see formation below: Instakilled all the way thru except for the spawned "heroes", who would die as they approach the tank line of the formation. Natalie was my main DPS - reached her cap 6k at area 703 - and Nate took over to complete and reached area 725 when he was at level 5825. Max DPS was 5.5e190. All crusaders in the formation were equipped with Rare or better and 9 of them have 17 L's at levels 3 and 4. I am sure, the weekend buff - Spring showers may have also played a role although, only Nat and Thalia have the benefit. No buffs were used except for the Adrenaline and Pheromones from the missions. 

Croakchief @596K. Only used 1 formation. Sal main until he maxed @5625 then Kyz for the last 10 levels. Took just under a day. Wasn't the strongest formation i could have used as i kept Bae & Billy the whole time. Ring 4 & Amulet 3 on Thalia probably helped. Had both add buffs & 100% Empowered Power Boost.

Wowza: Formation and Crusaders:     Total Statistics and Storm Rider bonus:  My Idols are ~400k. My playthrough was in two parts, according to Legendaries, while the formation was that from the screenshots all the time. The first part was, when I've had only Level 1 Legendaries - Nate's Fire Extinguisher and Sword, Fright-o-Tron's Tail, Brogon's 3 Gears, Artaxes' Amulet, Billy's Cufflinks and Suit, Baenarall's Breastplate, Detective Kaine's 3 Gears, and Veronica's Armguard. The hard wall was around Area 600. Then I started to open SCs, until reached Area 630, when I was having to open around 60 SCs in order to raise the next 25 Levels of my DPSer (Exterminator, if someone didn't noticed from the screenshots). At the end of this part I've spended around 650 SCs and obviously was too faraway from the finish. The second part began, when I decided to upgrade the following Legendaries (all to Level 3) - Nate's Fire Extinguisher and Sword, Brogon's 3 Gears, Artaxes' Amulet, Billy's Suit, Baenarall's Breastplate, and Detective Kaine's 3 Gears. Boy, it was such AMAZING overall upgrade, that I was able to finish the Objective at auto-progression only. Well, at the last 5-10 Areas I've hit the soft wall, but was able to finish it without spending a single SC. This confirms my statements that the Legendaries are extremely powerful and especially the self-multiplicative ones (mine are Artaxes' Amulet and Detective Kaine's Hat) are probably too OP.

Croakchief finished at 115k idols. Had to quadruple buff the very last boss as I had maxed out every crusader.... timing worked out great. Now to knock off the last few RP2 objectives and grab Eiralon. [EDIT] Or maybe not. "Polkamans" is the worst thing in the world since the invention of Limburger cheese. I don't want to have to do this. And no, I don't have mobile, and can't get it. Brutal.

Wowza completed at 117k idols; 5500 level cap. It was a breeze. Ilsa was my DPSer - I got a little lucky getting good gear for her after completing her objective a few days ago. Definitiely the easiset 11th objective after Ghostbeard. [EDIT] Now to twiddle my thumbs until The Priestess... :)

over a third of your idols in fast learners, I think when I had the same number of idols I'd just managed to max out EX and DIS

I did grey goo with 22k idols but it took me 1 week and i dont remember the formation.... Its getting dark with 48k idols in 2 days formation ------ -------- emo ------ santa --------- robot turkey foresight ---------- terminator ---------------- thalia --------- lion ---------------- sasha ---------- ------- veronica w\e buff on emo 400%dps

Did Grey Goo in about 48 hours at ~12k idols. But my idols are heavily into idol talents (lvl 25 efficient crusading, level 5 deep idol scavenger) Basically got through this using well stacked legendary equipments Used Jim Lumberjack as primary DPS, full lvl 1 legendary set up. Human/male-centric build focusing around Nate/Natalie and their legendaries (level 4 Nat gold find legendary) + Thalia with level 4 gold find Storm Rider legendary. Popped a small handful of timetuners to speed up the StormRider cooldowns. (3HR default CD currently). Also stacked mission/ad DPS bonuses for the last bit of it as it slowed down ALOT as the male/human buffs started to dwindle. Popped some bonuses for the last ~25 levels cuz i didn't feel like waiting. Also popped probably around 200 silver chests ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **It's Getting Dark*** 1Day 49 minutes 14.6K Idols No weekend buff, fair amount of buffs and silver chests popped over the last 50 levels, not too absurd. 5.83e125 total dps 9.51% Total gold find Again a Human-Male centric buff build based mostly off a few legendaries Formation: ** Nate {L2,L2,L1} Jason {E,L1,L1} | RoboSanta {R,R,L1} Jim {L2,L2,L2} | Natalie {L2,R,L4} | Kaine {R,R,L1} Khouri {L1,R,R} | Sasha {L1,E,L1} Thalia {R,L4,E} ** Rings: 326% DPS Horns: 127.5% CD Coins: 270% Gold Amulets: 253% ClickDmg DPS Talents: Level 5 Storm Building Level 17 Passive Crits Level 15 Surplus CD Level 3 Over echanted Level4 Set Bonus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Breadcrumbs** Getting my butt handed to me. Hard stalled around 618, keep accruing exp/storm rider buffs. Will use some buffs later when I have time to click/etc to try to push up the exp/gold to stall at higher levels. I've been saving up jewled chests to pop after completeting bread crumbs but maybe ill gamble on some helpful epics to help me finish this.

Breezed through Croakchief at 400k idols (with 8 hours of worth of exp while sleeping) and using the formation loading trick to avoid polymorph. Only hit 5750 on my main DPS (Sal) and was insta-killing all the way through the end. Went right into Wowza and finished it up in under 7 hours. Hit level cap (5925) on Sal at wave 708, stopped insta-killing at wave 715, and switched out Bael for Princess to start insta-killing again at wave 721. Never had to open any chests or use any buffs (other than spawn speed just so I could finish up sooner and go do other things). I used Bushwhacker and Phoenix for the weekend boost, but that was because they were minor DPS increases over the random crusaders I usually have. Key legendaries: Kaine Mask/Magnifying glass level 5 each. Natalie Cloak level 4. Draco GE Crown level 4. Jim Axe level 4. Katie Quiver level 4. Reginald Crown level 4. Sal Trident/Shark level 4. Shadowqueen cloak level 3. DPS talents: Passive Crits 50, Surplus Cooldown 18, Overenchanted 16, Set Bonus 15, Well Equipped 1, Swap Day 3, Ride the Storm 25, Storm's Building 15. Now to open some JC!

**Croakchief** Just finished with 731k, started today, have only 7047 idols on my passive tree, so it could have been alot easier before the t4 talents, also no weekend buff used. Used Sal as main; L3, L5, L3. Emo as backup. (E,E,GE) Not too hard, just required alot of concentration, especially at the end. Took under 13 hours, because I am a lazy person. 

**Croakchief ** complete with 79.2K idols. All crusaders maxed at level 5250. Main DPS = Sal. Quite challenging towards the end! 

**Wowza** complete with 92.3K idols. 

Did Grey Goo with 10.6k idols, poped 55 chest. and a couple of timewarps :P

PoT failed at 150K idols

I did Wowza! at 1.12m Idols, and it was pretty easy. Here was my formation: https://i.imgur.com/0ezjRox.png

Bump so we don't lose this.

Just completed Croakchief at Mugwarts @ 62k idols Key: Mindy the Mine (blue gear) copying Milgrid the Mining Mage (blue gear) and The Exchange Student (3x legendary) arranged such that class president and the copy of it boosted Chiyome (green geared). Chiyome ended at level 5050 (or 5075?). Had 3 configurations. (1) the desired dps config (2) a config to switch to outwait the frogging of 1 (3) config#2 plus mindy, milgrid and the exchange student

Am I crazy to try Gray Goo with only 8K idols?

> *Originally posted by **[BoinkySiwinski](/forums/12051/topics/667029?page=10#13405117)**:* > Am I crazy to try Gray Goo with only 8K idols? I did it yesterday with 10k idols. I used princess u/r/r montana james e/r/l serpent king u/l/l king reginald l/l/r as the last crusaders.If you would like to try: Find the best dps you have, use deloreans (for abilities) when it is alert while using common/uncommon/rare buffs and store 2 hundreds silver chests for gold (Open them at area 1) It is a nice challenge, you re not crazy

It literally depends on how challenging and how much time you want to invest towards it. its probably do-able if you have enough chests saved up and a few pirces of decent gear, but it might be slow going. My 2nd account i ran it with 50k and it didnt insta kill all the way. Theres no right way to do it, i could have done it sooner but have been busy clearing as many objectives as possible.