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I agree. Massacre way of leveling is bad in many ways as discussed in various threads now. I plan to do a huge testrun tonight live while looking for a good mix of rifts, bounty and massacres without the need of a new game every couple of minutes. Timer included. If someone is interested I'll post my results when I have them

I was definitely going to use the massacre bonus to level until I started reading how it could slow you down in the end. Now I'm not so sure. I asked Desolacer how do you get enough gold to level all the artisans to level 12. His reply was that all you have to do is a full run of bounties A1-A5 and you will have enough gold.
Its a catch 22 situation. Level really fast via massacre bonus but potentially spend extra time getting all you need after you reach lvl 70 (gold, gear, and so forth). Or level slightly slower and acquire everything you need along the way. Could it even work out to be the same amount of time spent, therefore neither is faster than the other?
So very interested to see your results AtACarnivorus.

Up until I saw that bullet point this morning I was convinced I was going to level using the massacre bonus. I had even been practicing chaining together some big bonuses with fresh chars. But your insight into it has definitely left me thinking. You bring up some great points about recreating games continuously affecting servers, amount of effort to keep the massacre bonus going, how much gold you get and prob most NB, about having fun.

Thanks so much for the feedback and all the best in S7

Hey Bagstone. This journey tracker is really awesome. Been loving the guides/info you been posting lately. Always makes for an interesting read. Keep up the gook. Wondering if you got more info on that last point you made about leveling using the massacre bonus in solo mode. I'm really torn this season between leveling solo vs group. Solo looks so fast but also don't wanna gimp myself once I hit lvl 7 and delay my 2piece gift.

I read somewhere it cost 186,000 gold to upgrade the blacksmith to lvl 10. Does it cost the same for the jeweler and the mystic? By leveling using the massacre bonus, roughly how much longer will it take to get enough gold to lvl all the artisans to lvl 10?