Noticed them pop up in the Oddments shop so I bought one pair to test them, and they seem really bad compared to Advanced Pulse cores.
When skilling with an Advanced Core and bonus XP, they stack multiplicatively, granting you +50% XP from the core, then the bonus XP doubles both XP from skilling and the +50% from the core for a combined 150% increase, or 300% XP rate.
On top of that, you get a +2% XP buff that stacks multiplicatively with bonus XP at no extra cost. At max stacks that's +10%, or 330% XP rate.
Now with Cinder Cores, the bonus XP increase is 250% rather than 100%, so you gain XP at 350% of the rate, or 400% at max stacks. The core itself does not provide any bonus XP or XP increasing buff, it just drains bonus XP faster.
Overall comparison with their buffs at max stacks.
Pulse core:
XP gain rate: 330%
Bonus XP consumption rate: 150%
Cinder Core:
XP gain rate: 400%
Bonus XP consumption rate: 300%
With Cinder cores, you're getting a 21% faster XP rate, but losing bonus XP twice as fast. The moment you run out of bonus XP, pulse cores become outright superior as they provide bonus XP in themselves and an inherit XP buff while the Cinder Cores rely entirely on bonus XP.
I get that these are marketed towards "large aquatic mammals" with infinite bonus XP and not someone who uses their daily keys and hardly cares about TH, but unless you want to reach goals as soon as possible with infinite bonus XP, Cinder Cores aren't good value at all.
I suggest adding something like "When a Cinder Core explodes, you receive a Small Smouldering Lamp from inside", giving direct XP roughly half the amount of a Pulse Core and burning a bit extra.
of the elves
06-Nov-2019 03:53:59
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