Has anyone crunched the numbers on Efficacy Vs. Reinforcement upgrades to tools? Is one better then the other by any significant margin? I’ve always just reinforced my stuff so I don’t need to fix it as often. However now something has me thinking. Do I get more if the tool lasts longer or do I get more from getting more?
reinforcement combine with 2nd survival, otherwise i would bet that efficacyis better
1 Like
You don’t get more from the 2nd survival perk you just get it all faster. So wouldn’t efficacy multiply the 2nd survival perk making you get even more?
I do tool upgrade, and 2nd perk. The 2nd perk helps offset repair resources due to durability loss. If you do reinforcement, it will give slightly reduced returns and take longer in time technically to get what you need form mining. 2 times the strikes basically.
i don’t know, it reduce the impact on the tool, if they are stronger it can’t be bad, you can pickaxe more
Are you repairing via bench, with thrall/no thrall or with repair kit?
Is that true? It only gives like 50-150 durability to begin with, so reinforcement upgrades would be a horrible choice if they also lower harvest rate.
They don’t lower the rate. But i think the tool upgrade is like a slight boost (10%???). And surv 2 takes half as many strikes. Brimstone in 1 strike instead of 2, other nodes in like 2-3 if i am not mistaken. It takes roughly 15-20 minutes for me to run thru gods claw with the 2nd suv, and tool upgraded star metal to get 19,000 Iron ore. compared to 35 minutes+ without the surv 2.
2 Likes
Ah ok. I’ve never taken the survival skill. It sounds like it can save a lot of time.
At high level, with best tools, efficiency add 20% more resource gained from a single node, reinforcement upgrade grants a longer lasts better than +20% of original durability of the tool.
But that’s the point: obviously if you want to mine meteors in a single run you’ll never be out of durability at all, so its always better to have a pick with efficacy upgrade on it.
Same for brimstone or Crystal because you’ll never find a field to mine so huge you’ll have any advantage from reinforcement without losing a LOT of your time waiting respawns.
If you want to farm stone/wood/iron nodes ?
The problem is: your time value more than any resource when you’re high level: too many things to do to waste it. When you’re low level your material resources are more important than your time because you have not tons of them.
Efficacy upgrade save 20% of your time so is imho best choice at high level (if you play PvE or PvE-Conflict and you love build you’ll never have enough hardened bricks). More and faster.
If you are low level that’s not the case, best tools you can have was made probably in valuable resources for you, so use reinforcement because they grant a better result / cost.
2 Likes
For the purposes of my question I don’t care about time. What I’m after is the life of the tool. If you add more durability then the tool lasts longer and will harvest more over time then without it. If you add efficiency then you will gather more per swing then without it. What gives more per single life of a tool?
This topic was automatically closed 7 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.