Theatre Mission VS Their Method

• Retard wrote on 2011-01-25 01:11
  I've Come to learn that Their Method is poor profit but awesome exp. I'm staring at Theatre Missions and looking at the Millions i could make+The good exp. But you also have to Make the Theatre Passes, So if i may ask. WHich one is truly more efficient? o.o
• Chockeh wrote on 2011-01-25 01:30
  More efficient for what?
  For the money or exp?
  Or perhaps both?
• Akemii wrote on 2011-01-25 01:32

  Quote from Chockeh;303509:

  More efficient for what?
  For the money or exp?
  Or perhaps both?

  
  
  Probably both.
  
  I don't know how much money making will last. But if you have an upgraded gathering knife you could get some nice gathering speed+ 40% chance to get 2 things from sheering 8D
• Retard wrote on 2011-01-25 01:36
  ^Awesome, I just happen to have a guildie who likes to let me borrow her fully upgraded gathering tools XD (In fact i just borrowed her -2 sec mining axe with 18 durb o.o)
• TheTempest wrote on 2011-01-25 05:24

  Quote from Purrz24;303474:

  I've Come to learn that Their Method is poor profit but awesome exp. I'm staring at Theatre Missions and looking at the Millions i could make+The good exp. But you also have to Make the Theatre Passes, So if i may ask. WHich one is truly more efficient? o.o

  
  
  I don't know...but if you're doing the higher difficulty Their Method missions, the gold drops from the zombies are nice pocket change. I'm assuming that, "the millions," you could make is referring to the rare reward chest drops and whatnot. Personally, I wouldn't depend on those Glory Swords, Trinity Staves, and whatnot to drop at any sort of consistent rate.
  
  Their Method is pretty much harmless, you can solo it, and some of the rewards aren't bad at all.
  Theater missions are great experience at higher difficulties and if you're lucky you'll end up with a rare item. Be sure to have a decent party if you want to tackle a mission like Fortinbras though. :T_T:
• Jando wrote on 2011-01-25 05:42
  Their Method has to be the greatest Shadow Mission ever made, Theatre Missions however are something different and a nice change. If I was spamming for EXP I would still do Their Method over King's request....on another thought, I need to calculated the exp gained from KQ HM.
• Luridel wrote on 2011-01-25 16:00
  If you have a solid party of people you know, theater missions can be enjoyable, but I'd still prefer their method grinding for actual leveling.
• truefire wrote on 2011-01-25 20:09
  Their Method likely wins out against Theatre Missions for the same reason it wins out against Semis. In the time you spent looking for a group that was doing said mission on a suitable difficulty (now add in the time you're going to have to spend shearing paper sheep and weaving the pages for the actual missions/difficulties you want), you could have entered, cleared, exited, reapplied for, and reentered Their Method multiple times. So, yes. The appeal to Theatre Missions is first and foremost a change of scenery and pace, not the new bees' knees.
• Chromatic wrote on 2011-01-25 20:46
  their method doesn't have stuff that sells 500k+, well their method doesn't have anything worth selling. For people who prefer to get xp and a chance of getting good cash while lving. Avon missions > their method
• Ryoko wrote on 2011-01-26 01:52
  Theatre missions you'd still have to gather all the pages and weave them. But I guess the rewards from it do make up for that time. Most of the time you'd get gems which would probably be fed to your ego...So I don't really see how it makes up for it. The chance is relatively low, and most of the time it'd be pretty wasteful spending all that time on those runs of shearing sheep and weaving the pages to get nothing much out of it.
  
  Their Method because it's free and less time consuming. This is one of the reasons I ranked my WM to 1 on the first week of my character creation.
• Cryosite wrote on 2011-01-26 02:02
  Vicious, Thin, and Stone ES's from Their Method/hard would like to say "hi" and disagree with you about your statement that nothing is worth selling from that mission.
  
  So would shock page 9, if anyone happens to be looking for that page when you find it.
  
  And burgundy bear I know from personal experience can demand a pretty penny.
  
  Waterdrop ES is a handy rank A suffix for stepping enchants on anything. Not worth a lot, but certainly useful, as are several other of the rkA suffixes.
  
  Zombies' gold drops and mission rewards add up. Again, the point that is being missed is just how many times you can complete this mission in X amount of time makes it super valuable.
• Kueh wrote on 2011-01-28 11:29

  Quote from truefire;308171:

  and the additional 10-20 minutes you'll spend trying to get the afk group around the entrance into your party for just one mission.

  
  
  I think you mean seconds. I don't know how it is on Mari, but on Tarlach, the afk group is really a group of lurkers who are just sitting around waiting for someone to post a party.
  
  It really doesn't matter what the mission is either. I had a bunch of faded pages, so I made a bunch of basic missions. Within three seconds my party was full. They kept complaining that it was only basic, but they stayed in the party anyway.
  
  Also, I don't know why, it takes you 10 minutes to weave pages. I've woven 50 pages together in less than 2 minutes.
• Kueh wrote on 2011-01-28 11:30

  Quote from truefire;308171:

  and the additional 10-20 minutes you'll spend trying to get the afk group around the entrance into your party for just one mission.

  
  
  I think you mean seconds. I don't know how it is on Mari, but on Tarlach, the afk group is really a group of lurkers who are just sitting around waiting for someone to post a party.
  
  It really doesn't matter what the mission is either. I had a bunch of faded pages, so I made a bunch of basic missions. Within three seconds my party was full. They kept complaining that it was only basic, but they stayed in the party anyway.
  
  Also, I don't know why, it takes you 10 minutes to weave pages. I've woven 50 pages together in less than 2 minutes.
• Chromatic wrote on 2011-01-28 15:02

  Quote from Cryosite;304591:

  Vicious, Thin, and Stone ES's from Their Method/hard would like to say "hi" and disagree with you about your statement that nothing is worth selling from that mission.

  
  
  the amount of people that spam that mission and will make those ES become worthless would like to say hi
  How many people can spam their method? even one person who just reached 1k can spam that mission on hard just by having r1 wm
  
  Now how many people can do new king request hard solo?
• Justified wrote on 2011-01-28 15:17

  Quote from Chromatic;308164:

  the amount of people that spam that mission and will make those ES become worthless would like to say hi
  How many people can spam their method? even one person who just reached 1k can spam that mission on hard just by having r1 wm
  
  Now how many people can do new king request hard solo?

  
  
  Vicious Item and Burgundy Bear ES won't be dropping below 500k anytime soon.
  
  Also, it takes me longer to solo Their Method HM than it does for King's Request HM (not counting shearing). But SCC still wins in terms of exp, with a fair amount of gold drops to boot.