I just looked at @here's arts again and he has a cooling down rare IM art that's not in his equiped slots. How is that possible?

It was on 4th slot which has gone after SpAsc

@LL
As long as you have >3 carryover slots & >3 artifacts, the 3 artifacts you have equipped @ time of SAsc will become unequipped, and the 1st three unequipped artifacts will become your equipped artifacts.

When you Super Ascend, artifacts are ordered as follows:
- everything in your unequipped list comes first, into Super Ascend slots 1,2,3,etc
- everything equipped gets put to the end of Super Ascend slots, n-3,n-2,n-1,n,etc (cooling down artifacts are in this category)
- after Super Ascending, the first 3 artifacts (#1,2,3 in the Super Ascend slots, see above, these are your first 3 unequipped artifacts) get put into your equipped slots

How about Insane TW on cooling down at #3?

So can you get multiple of the same art equiped this way? Triple insane TW is basically infinite TW

@mob
Not sure about that, but he probably swapped IN a cooling down artifact after it was swapped out post SAsc, but not sure, before taking the screenshot.

@LL
No, can only equip 1 of a given artifact type at any given time.

I meant if I were to place the 3 first art slots on SAsc to be TW not just moving it in manually afterwards.

I volunteer to carry two Time Warps next super ascension - should be within the next week or so. It’s high risk but the reward really cannot be overstated. Even if I take a poor TW, it will never ever leave the slot if this works.

One quick question for this group - I see in here’s screenshot that he has ‘Artifact Cooldown Speed’ at 30%. What is this? I see it in my statistics but it’s only ever been 0% for me.

Clan wars reward

@graemes It does not work like you think so I recommend that you just pick artifacts that you need.

To keep it short the 1st 3 artifacts that you select are the ones that get equipped so if you don't select anything with a CD as the 1st 3 then they will end in the "unequipped bag" with a CD. If you equip them from the bag with a CD active you can't remove them till the CD is over (as expected). If you have multiple copies of the same artifact and select it 1st, 2nd, and 3rd only the 1st one you select gets equipped.

I usually select my 1st 3 artifacts form the middle and then go from the back of the list towards the front so it's really easy to verify. I'm guessing most go from the start to the back of the list.

“If you have multiple copies of the same artifact and select it 1st, 2nd, and 3rd only the 1st one you select gets equipped.”

Yeah, this is the crux of the question. I didn’t realize anyone had been mad enough to try. Have you actually done this?

Yes. After super ascending I only had the 1st one I selected equipped while slot 2 and 3 were empty. I was expecting that the 4th and 5th I selected would have been equipped but that did not happen.

I've super ascended 2 times. +25% AP, and 3rd slot.

Edited 7/29/2022 20:47:59

updated

I just pushed the Super Ascend button for the first time 😁

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May anybody recommend decent SAsc levels from the middle of the SAsc levels list as well as strategies to beat them efficiently?

There is already lots of info on pre-SAsc EH,HEH and post-SAsc HE (lol at the acronyms). The most common route described in the forums is to have skip level advancement, beat EH, then use super skill level power and get to EH. But what is the best way to go without the skip level powers? What levels do you complete, when you dont have the powers and how?

Edited 7/31/2022 21:17:34

I’ve poked around on the SAsc levels and I think the answer might honestly be that there just isn’t a way to make these efficient from an AP/hour standpoint in comparison with the regular levels.

The mercenaries are so expensive that you are ultimately forced to use IM powers or IM artifacts if you want to beat these levels in less than a week. If you’re going to use these ultra-valuable powers though, you might as well just play Hex Earth.

I’m honestly not even convinced it’s worth “rescuing” the TW and IM powers from these levels - I think you just skip skip skip to Hex Earth and pretend the other 14 levels don’t exist.

That said, I was focused on levels #6-#10 in particular because I was interested in a “landing spot” between super-powered skip levels. Maybe one of the ones before or after?

I think you're right on in your analysis, graemes. I think all the new maps are pretty much garbage until Hex.

Especially the first few, offering a paltry 100-200 AP. But everything up to Medieval is still <1000, and for the time/powers it takes to clear them, I'd say minimum 4000 AP is where I'd draw the 'value' line, so only 7YW, 30YW & Hex are worth it from an AP earnings perspective.

And 7YW is just simply one of the most annoying maps ever, way too many super bonuses and odd bonus combinations, makes it super obnoxious to know what to clear to get certain buildings and caches, and even once you know, they're often so spread out that it's still obnoxious. 30YW is only somewhat better. So I cast them both out.

And that leaves just Hex. The only new post-EH map worth doing imho.