If its going to be close, I'll just lose my idle, if its going to pass it by a decent amount but not enough to hit the next breakpoint, I'll just shut them down a few seconds early since I have to attack again anyway. How close I cut it depends how far I get past the 1/3 or 1/2 immortal health mark. If I'm still idle, I pull them down (remember iOS here) after starting the fight and close them up just as the fight is finishing so I stay idle.

I also use the times I activate dark ritual (since it takes me out of idle) to activate the rest of my abilities and all my auto clickers, then fight the immortal if you activate them prior to starting the fight, they all stay active and gives you a boost to your output.

Oh well, the price to pay for more souls and gilds I suppose I try not to just let my battery run down and can't always have it plugged in. It only will progress a boss or two most of the time, if any at all, while it is still insta-killing the mobs. The only problem I do have with switching to active (and I guess I can understand it being this way), is I have to keep the phone on/game open. I throw everything at solomon, then atman and kuma, then idle and gold ancients, then push the leftovers to the clicky ones, giving Morg some leftovers now and then depending on if I remember to When my idle fails, the auto clickers can one shot for some time, it is usually several hundred extra zones, which means a ton more souls at 80T+ a boss. I also do the idle 90% and then 7 auto clickers once I can't down a boss when you are getting 200q souls per ascension, investing in all the click ancients isn't a big deal and greatly increase that last 10% productivity. My next goal is to reach tsuchi, was just able to regild back to wepwawet a couple ascensions ago. Hze 5582, immortal damage 140q, 7 auto clickers, no money spent At the point I can beat a level 60 immortal solo, my guidies are trying to catch up even a month out of the game wasn't enough! I had an extended break, just getting midway through my current transcension. Except, you know, reviving a mercenary is impossible if you actually leveled it up a bunch, and it's an impossible amount of rubies to do it.Yeah, the highest mercenary I had was level 51 without the xmas candy canes, just impossible to revive, it would costs thousands of dollars worth of rubies So if you revive them, they're guaranteed to complete that mission. The only thing you can control, apparently, is that they cannot die on the same quest twice. When you hire one, they are created with a set time limit, anywhere from one second to eternity. I also learned some things about mercenaries. I do literally this, and I've been sitting on the same hero forever just waiting for money to get one or two levels.

Except, you know, reviving a mercenary is impossible if you actually leveled it up a bunch, and it's an impossible amount of rubies to do it. It's pretty fast to progress normally up until then.I do literally this, and I've been sitting on the same hero forever just waiting for money to get one or two levels. and I usually don't start claiming them until I'm around zone 50-60ish. With 3 or 4 gold missions I can get back to the 100s (and start Ascending and snowballing) within an hour or two. Once the going gets slow, claim one, use it to level up your doods a ton, let them get as far as they can and once it gets slow claim the next mission, and so on.' 'Note that the amount of gold received from a mercenary mission is a factor of your DPS, GPS, and current Zone, so don't claim them immediately.

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