Dung Solo Floor Advice

[smitty260]

Hello everyone.

I am currently grinding out some Dungeoneering to get to level 90 for ports. I am currently at level 88 and was just wondering how people do their floors and wanted some advice for completing my floors.

Currently I just rush all floors (as in don't explore all rooms and just go straight for the boss)( on small c6 until the last 10 floors I can do in which I do them on medium c6 and explore all the rooms.

Does anyone have some advice? For example should I be exploring all the rooms on my small c6 floors or just keep rushing or should I be doing medium c6 floor sooner or later than I currently am or any sort of advice like that. Would like to see the type of feedback and advice I can get from the community.

It will be a lot easier when we get ironman grouping. So please hurry up with that, Jagex. =P

Thanks.

 

Rush everything c1 small.

Then rush your aba2/occs on c6 and clear every room trying to go quickly but minimize deaths.

 

[smitty260]

Rush everything c1 small.

Then rush your aba2/occs on c6 and clear every room trying to go quickly but minimize deaths.

Really? I did a bit of looking around and people were saying that doing c1 smalls are a huge waste of xp.

 

Really? I did a bit of looking around and people were saying that doing c1 smalls are a huge waste of xp.

That's the way I did it to 115 dung, and everyone I've talked to.

Could be different now.

 

[smitty260]

That's the way I did it to 115 dung, and everyone I've talked to.

Could be different now.

Well I am testing the xp between the two methods. For aba2/occ do you mean to do them on medium c6?

 

Well I am testing the xp between the two methods. For aba2/occ do you mean to do them on medium c6?

Yeah, I suppose you're limited to medium doing solo.

 

[smitty260]

Yeah, I suppose you're limited to medium doing solo.

Yeah haha. Well I'll see how the xp varies.

EDIT: I tested both methods and the c1 small xp is sooo bad. The only positive is you get to higher floors faster but it's not worth the major xp loss you get.

 

Yeah haha. Well I'll see how the xp varies.

EDIT: I tested both methods and the c1 small xp is sooo bad. The only positive is you get to higher floors faster but it's not worth the major xp loss you get.

You're not doing a proper test.

Run your c1s quickly, and then run your large floors and add up the times. Divide xp by hours spent and see what you're at.

Then do your smalls at c6's and then medium c6's for the same floors. Divide xp by hours spent.

Pretty sure the former is a faster method.

 

[smitty260]

You're not doing a proper test.

Run your c1s quickly, and then run your large floors and add up the times. Divide xp by hours spent and see what you're at.

Then do your smalls at c6's and then medium c6's for the same floors. Divide xp by hours spent.

Pretty sure the former is a faster method.

Alright. Gonna take a while to test both. Haha.

 

You're not doing a proper test.

Run your c1s quickly, and then run your large floors and add up the times. Divide xp by hours spent and see what you're at.

Then do your smalls at c6's and then medium c6's for the same floors. Divide xp by hours spent.

Pretty sure the former is a faster method.

In my experience, rushing 1-29 c1 then doing 30+ c6 large is significantly better xp/hour. I suppose it depends on how quickly you can clear c1s, but this should be the case for most people.

 

[smitty260]

In my experience, rushing 1-29 c1 then doing 30+ c6 large is significantly better xp/hour. I suppose it depends on how quickly you can clear c1s, but this should be the case for most people.

Yeah I will have to do some proper testing but it just seemed like it wasn't worth it. I could be wrong but I'll see. I take it you meant c6 med?

 

Yeah I will have to do some proper testing but it just seemed like it wasn't worth it. I could be wrong but I'll see. I take it you meant c6 med?

Right, sorry. Forgot you were soloing.

 

[smitty260]

Right, sorry. Forgot you were soloing.

Yeah, have to do solo on ironman until they bring out grouping for us.

 

[Drakey]

I haven't dged since pre-eoc but yeah, rush 1-29 and med (open everything) 30-60.
And also, I highly doubt they will release group dung for ironmen

 

[smitty260]

I haven't dged since pre-eoc but yeah, rush 1-29 and med (open everything) 30-60.
And also, I highly doubt they will release group dung for ironmen

Well I am doing up a spreadsheet at the moment to calculate which method is better.

They had a vote on it and it was in favour of ironman grouping so I would think it's for dung as well as bosses so they better put it in!

 

[smitty260]

For anyone who is interested I did some more in-depth testing into the two different methods and created a spreadsheet of every floor I did along with the time it took me to complete it (both on c1s and c6s) and how much xp I got. I have the c6 mediums listed there too but the time/xp for those floors are the same for both methods because they will be the same no matter which way you do your floors. Basically I solo'd 1-29 on complexity 1 small and complexity 6 small both using prestige 45. I did 30-45 on complexity 6 medium and added up all of the values and calculated the xp per hour for both methods. I have the main stats listed below if you just want the main results of my testing but I will also attach the full spreadsheet if you're interested in looking at my data. Obviously floors will slightly differ in time and xp because of things such as different annoying bosses, long puzzle rooms and of course, everyone's favouriter, dead doors. Either way it wouldn't alter the xp per hour very much so this data should fairly accurate. Anyway, the spreadsheet is there if you want to see it more in depth otherwise below is the main results of my testing.

Method 1 (Floor 1-29 on C1S, Floor 30-45 on C6M)
Total time: 3:32:35
Total XP: 551,321
XP per hour: 155,606.08

Method 2 (Floor 1-29 on C6S, Floor 30-45 on C6M)
Total time: 4:33:30
Total XP: 785,270
XP per hour: 172,271.30

So according to my data it's better to solo floor 1-29 on complexity 6 small and then floor 30-45 on complexity 6 large for the best xp per hour. OBVIOUSLY it's going to be different for non-ironmen accounts who can group and do large floors as it would be more beneficial to rush 1-29 on C1S to get to large floors faster but this data is based on SOLO ONLY. Hopefully this helps anyone who wants to solo dung, ironman or not.

Spreadsheet download link: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=96523146559903055692

 

For anyone who is interested I did some more in-depth testing into the two different methods and created a spreadsheet of every floor I did along with the time it took me to complete it (both on c1s and c6s) and how much xp I got. I have the c6 mediums listed there too but the time/xp for those floors are the same for both methods because they will be the same no matter which way you do your floors. Basically I solo'd 1-29 on complexity 1 small and complexity 6 small both using prestige 45. I did 30-45 on complexity 6 medium and added up all of the values and calculated the xp per hour for both methods. I have the main stats listed below if you just want the main results of my testing but I will also attach the full spreadsheet if you're interested in looking at my data. Obviously floors will slightly differ in time and xp because of things such as different annoying bosses, long puzzle rooms and of course, everyone's favouriter, dead doors. Either way it wouldn't alter the xp per hour very much so this data should fairly accurate. Anyway, the spreadsheet is there if you want to see it more in depth otherwise below is the main results of my testing.

Method 1 (Floor 1-29 on C1S, Floor 30-45 on C6M)
Total time: 3:32:35
Total XP: 551,321
XP per hour: 155,606.08

Method 2 (Floor 1-29 on C6S, Floor 30-45 on C6M)
Total time: 4:33:30
Total XP: 785,270
XP per hour: 172,271.30

So according to my data it's better to solo floor 1-29 on complexity 6 small and then floor 30-45 on complexity 6 large for the best xp per hour. OBVIOUSLY it's going to be different for non-ironmen accounts who can group and do large floors as it would be more beneficial to rush 1-29 on C1S to get to large floors faster but this data is based on SOLO ONLY. Hopefully this helps anyone who wants to solo dung, ironman or not.

Spreadsheet download link: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=96523146559903055692

Very interesting data, thank you for sharing it in detail! I hadn't considered that there may be a difference rushing to the larges between regular and ironman accounts(?).

I can be picky and say that those xp rates are within the margin of error. You have to consider researcher bias, etc. But I am interested to try it out myself.

Also there is more to think about. While the c6 smalls yielded a few k more experience per hour they probably involve paying slightly better attention which could be fatiguing. You have to consider whether you'd prefer an extra 1hr of doing small rushes for the extra 3-4k xp per hour.

 

[smitty260]

Very interesting data, thank you for sharing it in detail! I hadn't considered that there may be a difference rushing to the larges between regular and ironman accounts(?).

I can be picky and say that those xp rates are within the margin of error. You have to consider researcher bias, etc. But I am interested to try it out myself.

Also there is more to think about. While the c6 smalls yielded a few k more experience per hour they probably involve paying slightly better attention which could be fatiguing. You have to consider whether you'd prefer an extra 1hr of doing small rushes for the extra 3-4k xp per hour.

There's not much of a difference in the rushing part between normal and ironman. It's more so the fact that ironmen can't do larges therefore they are stuck doing mediums which means the xp per hour is going to be different for us since we can't do larges. If you do 1-29 C1S then 30-whatever C6L in a group then the xp per hour is going to be a lot higher than doing solo C6M if you get what I mean.

Well the times for both methods are fairly consistent so I don't think there was much bias although I could be wrong but I thought it was fairly accurate because I was just focusing on smashing floors as fast as I could to get consistent and accurate values.

Yeah that's true. These values were from like concentrating fairly hard on the floors for both methods as well as the mediums. Most people probably wouldn't pay as much attention. I can say I won't be as concentrated now that I am not focusing on getting the best times now.

 

[Dodging Fate]

1-30 C6 Smalls
Then Mediums
Then Large on the floors that matter or give good exp.

Leeching is pretty cheap as well if you want to do that.

 

[456Split]

In my experience, rushing 1-29 c1 then doing 30+ c6 large is significantly better xp/hour. I suppose it depends on how quickly you can clear c1s, but this should be the case for most people.

This is how I have been doing it lately and it has been working well, and its even better when you get a dungeonering challenge when you have floors 1-29 to do. Make sure to spend the vis wax to double that challenge.