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With that in mind, there are two general strategies for targeting a specific payout. In the first, you start with a topic that adds your target quality, spend four actions writing to improve that quality, then use the final two writing actions to sprinkle in the other two qualities without reducing your target quality. The second involves picking a topic with a starting quality that will not be reduced by grinding your target quality, such as using a {{IL|Monograph: Tragic}} topic when your target is {{IL|Monograph: Ironic}}. Then you can spend five actions improving your target quality and one action adding in the third quality at the expense of your starting quality. Examples of both approaches will be provided below. In either case, the final result is usually close to 500 of your target quality, 100 of a secondary quality, and 50 of a tertiary quality, but specific topics can modify that, and varying your approach can help with expending research materials evenly. | With that in mind, there are two general strategies for targeting a specific payout. In the first, you start with a topic that adds your target quality, spend four actions writing to improve that quality, then use the final two writing actions to sprinkle in the other two qualities without reducing your target quality. The second involves picking a topic with a starting quality that will not be reduced by grinding your target quality, such as using a {{IL|Monograph: Tragic}} topic when your target is {{IL|Monograph: Ironic}}. Then you can spend five actions improving your target quality and one action adding in the third quality at the expense of your starting quality. Examples of both approaches will be provided below. In either case, the final result is usually close to 500 of your target quality, 100 of a secondary quality, and 50 of a tertiary quality, but specific topics can modify that, and varying your approach can help with expending research materials evenly. | ||
| − | Since {{IL|Monograph: Cautionary}} and {{IL|Monograph: Tragic}} materials cannot be farmed without picking up a second type, some forethought is helpful when planning expeditions to gather research materials. If you're focused on a {{IL|Monograph: Tragic}} payout, for instance, sooner or later you'll end up with a surplus of {{IL|Monograph: Cautionary}} materials. It's a good idea to identify an alternate payout to target using that surplus so that you can benefit from it. It's also worth noting that [[The Deep Layer]] and [[The Silvered Front]] expeditions provide the pattern-breaking research materials that are often helpful for | + | Since {{IL|Monograph: Cautionary}} and {{IL|Monograph: Tragic}} materials cannot be farmed without picking up a second type, some forethought is helpful when planning expeditions to gather research materials. If you're focused on a {{IL|Monograph: Tragic}} payout, for instance, sooner or later you'll end up with a surplus of {{IL|Monograph: Cautionary}} materials. It's a good idea to identify an alternate payout to target using that surplus so that you can benefit from it. It's also worth noting that [[The Deep Layer]] and [[The Silvered Front]] expeditions provide the pattern-breaking research materials that are often helpful for maximizing a specific payout, so as a general rule those two expeditions will be the most useful, although [[Across the Zee]] will still be a useful gap-filler for some strategies. |
==Research Outlines== | ==Research Outlines== | ||
===''Simple Scrip Grind''=== | ===''Simple Scrip Grind''=== | ||
| − | Every item [[The Disgraced Diplomat]] pays out in (with the exception of the bonus bottle of wine) can be sold on the Upper River Exchange for scrip, so if you don't want to worry about | + | Every item [[The Disgraced Diplomat]] pays out in (with the exception of the bonus bottle of wine) can be sold on the Upper River Exchange for scrip, so if you don't want to worry about prioritizing a specific quality, writing exceptional monographs for him is a simple grind. Start with [[Investigate the Fourth City's decline|The Fourth City's Decline]] or [[Investigate the Fourth City's War against Hell|The Fourth City's War against Hell]] as a topic and follow the circle of research (Ironic to Tragic to Cautionary) to ensure that no quality gets reduced to zero. Finish it as exceptional, sell, and repeat. One of the payouts is in {{IL|Knob of Scintillack|Appearance=Knobs of Scintillack}}, so if you use the [[A Renegade Claw on your Expedition|Renegade Claw]] as an assistant on expeditions, this helps make that part of the grind more self-sustaining. Since you only have to make sure no quality ends up at zero, you're also free to vary the proportions in order to use excess materials of a certain type. |
===''Backstory without Breaths or Bones''=== | ===''Backstory without Breaths or Bones''=== | ||
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===''Tragic Orange-apples''=== | ===''Tragic Orange-apples''=== | ||
| − | As above, we're selling to [[The Exiled Antiquarian (Monograph)|The Exiled Antiquarian]], but in this case we're | + | As above, we're selling to [[The Exiled Antiquarian (Monograph)|The Exiled Antiquarian]], but in this case we're prioritizing the {{IL|Memory of Distant Shores}} payout for up-conversion into {{IL|Collated Research}}. If you have {{IL|Favours: Hell}} to burn and don't want to wait around for card draws, writing about [[Write about the Expulsion of Roses|The Expulsion of Roses]] lets you fold 4 echoes into starting the monograph. For the purposes of grinding, use [[Write a history of Arbor|The History of Arbor]] or [[Investigate the Fourth City's decline|The Fourth City's Decline]] as your topic. |
With [[Write a history of Arbor|The History of Arbor]] (or [[Write about the Expulsion of Roses|The Expulsion of Roses]]) as your topic, write {{IL|Monograph: Tragic}} four times, then {{IL|Monograph: Ironic}} once (do not [[Examine Viric-tinged Trinkets]]), then [[Examine traces of the First City]]. | With [[Write a history of Arbor|The History of Arbor]] (or [[Write about the Expulsion of Roses|The Expulsion of Roses]]) as your topic, write {{IL|Monograph: Tragic}} four times, then {{IL|Monograph: Ironic}} once (do not [[Examine Viric-tinged Trinkets]]), then [[Examine traces of the First City]]. | ||
