Simulacrum Farming: Profit Analysis and Strategies

Simulacrums offer consistent currency gains and potential big rewards, but they can be tedious and boring to run.

### Simulacrum Strategy: Profit Analysis and Insights
* 🔍  The video discusses a new approach to running simulacrums, which have been modified from a **30-wave to a 15-wave format**, making them **more challenging yet rewarding**.
* 📊  The presenter commits to running **25 simulacrums**, separating the loot from the first **10 waves** and the final **5 waves** to analyze potential **profit differences**.
* 💰  During the runs, the first 10 waves yielded **26 divines**, translating to approximately **3,833 chaos profit** after accounting for the initial investment, averaging about **153 chaos profit per simulacrum**.
* 📈  The last five waves generated an additional **20 divines**, bringing the total profit to **7,342 chaos or 43 divines** across all 25 simulacrums, equating to **1.7 divine profit per simulacrum**.
* ⏱️  The entire process took around **355 minutes**, resulting in a profit rate of approximately **7.24 divines per hour**, not including any valuable voice drops which could **significantly increase profits**.
* 🎮  The presenter also highlights the gem leveling aspect, noting that they leveled up several gems during the runs, adding an estimated **3.2 divines to the total profit**.
* 💵  Despite the low gold gain of 250,000 over the runs, the **consistent currency generation from simulacrums** is emphasized as a viable strategy for those with an **effective build**.
* ⚠️  Ultimately, the presenter expresses a lack of enjoyment for simulacrums, deeming them **boring**, but acknowledges their potential for **consistent profit** if approached with the right strategy.

All right, welcome back to Beast or Cringe, non-Atlas strategy version. We are leaving the Atlas for this one, and we're going to go into the simulacrums with a twist. So, they have redone these. This used to be a 30-wave, used to be originally 25-wave or 20-wave encounter. Then they added 10 more waves to make it harder and more rewarding, and then they slashed the waves in half for the SL, so now it's only 15 waves. So, I'm committing to 25. I'm not going to run 50 of them. These are pretty boring, but the prep time for them has been very nice. I'll show you a clip of all of the preparations that we've done for this project right now. So, I had an idea today that I'm going to run this, but I'm going to separate the loot from the final five waves. So, these simulacrums, especially the final few waves, require pretty good characters to kill the Kus and Omni, so I

figured if I can remember every time we run one after the first 10 waves that were done looting. The last five waves of loot will be separately dumped into this tab, and we'll see if you can make good profit on them even if you can only clear the first 10 waves. So, I'm kind of curious of what's the difference between the first 10 waves and the last 10 waves loot. So, these three tabs will be the first 10, and then the last five wave loot will be separated here. We'll total it in the end, of course, blah blah blah as usual. Affinities are set. I just need to remember to shift control click dump into this from the final five waves to separate the loot accordingly, and that's it. Zero prep. We're done with rolling a million maps and chiseling and trading and buying scarabs and all that. We're just going to go in, run some simulacrums, and see if they're good. They are good, but they are boring, and so

I should probably be leveling gems during this. Maybe I'll buy some, but we can exclude that from the profit. We can just buy some random auras, gem them into some bow, level them up. Shout out to the ACT vendors. If you want to skip like 10 clicks, you can buy leveled gems from the vendors in the acts. If you buy from Lil, they're all going to be level one, but depending on the gem, they're going to be like level 10 to 14 if you buy them from vendors. So you can avoid the first like 11 time 9 90 clicks. So yeah, PSA. So I bought some Graces. Whatever doesn't need quality. So we'll just level these and uh, let's go into the first one out of 25. Should we have Maven witness this? Just kidding. Maven has no interest in this area. The Searing Exarch has no interest in this area. And The Ether of Worlds, nobody has interest in this area. I don't really have interest in this area, but maybe some people do.

and so we'll run this for those people. Good luck. I don't want to see mediums ever. I don't think. I don't even care if there are L. Simon, sinful raccoon, Shimmer Lagoon, path of Splatoon, monkey baffoon, wack Aon, flion, nice project Tex. Okay, it's a split personality strength live yo. Is that good? It's one div. Nice. This paid for Five simum Guys. Oh, both bosses spawned at the same time, which means they're going to buff each other's chances to drop Jewels at the end of this wave, right? Shing. They didn't drop anything. Do you respect the tree? Yes, I respect the tree. I have great respect for all trees. Do not disrespect the tree, guys. Should I drop one frenzy this for three pier? Maybe I disrespected the tree once. Now I run simulacrums as punishment for all eternity. My name is Oliver Queen. For 5 years, I was stranded in similar CHS jungle Valley with the conquer cool. Oh look, seven passive voices, our first

voices. It's bad, all right. This is still wave 10 loot. So wave 10, you can already get voices. That's good to know. T, not a cockroach. What was this? I got four scowers and 12 chenor. What is this loot? Wave 14 loot. Why is Head Hunter so cheap? 'Cause it's bad. Split personality and megalomaniac strength. Mana. Wow, it's Error. The trade side is down. It's probably 5c next wave, I hope. Yeah, one passive voices from wave seven and then GG, guys. It's uh, seven Mir per hour strength. Okay, what the hell is going on? Five Ms down here. Okay, now I haven't [__] up dumping yet. Well, I have, but I fixed it. This voices five passive [__]. I refuse to trade with anyone. Auto replying simulacrum. I know they are psychop F. That's fair. I can't believe I haven't died yet. That is crazy. This character is strong. I, I, I got to, I got to die at some

point right. There's no way. What's your farming patches? I just have one of each and then two of one. I don't know which one. Probably the best plant megalomaniac times two, and they're probably both bad. Wow, got a dog up. Nice, perfect. You got a dog up. Nice, perfect. This is good, and that how allow this. This is good. This is good. We can win. All right, get him. He does have endurance charge. Nice, start choking. This is prime. Nice, this is very good. You're dead. Yes, yeah, yeah, helicopter. St joking. Holy [__][__]. That's funny. Build is a bit slower last two. I wonder straight up more profitable just not do the last two. If I had to guess, the chances of jewels dropping go up with waves, so I'm guessing the final waves have more chance to either more chance to spawn bosses or more chances for those bosses to drop the jewels. 'Cause now they're not guaranteed to drop the jewels. However, you can get multiple like

you can get two buses, and both of them can drop jws. Back then, it was uh, back then it was limited, so I think if you can, it's worth. I might be wrong. 14 and 15 both have two buses, yeah, so you're basically getting guaranteed buses at the end, but they are not guaranteed to drop the jeels. Is macro on your mouse allowed imping as long as all the macro does is rebind a keybind to another keybind, and you're still manually pressing it? Yes. If by macro you mean like an automated process that clicks multiple times for one user input, no, the answer is no. I incubated a Divine. The simulacrums are so good, guys. I found this incubator right here in the simulacrums. GG. You've got a manager. No, it's my girlfriend. It's just funny. She has editor privileges on YouTube, right? And uh, that role on YouTube is called manager, so I joke about that. She's my manager now. It literally says like if she opens

like my channel on her like on her from her account. There's like a bar in the bottom. It says you are manager. Just means that you can manage the content of the channel, but it's just like you are manager. It's a funny way to put it. So off to play some other stuff now. I incubated another Divine. Incubators are better than simulacrum. What the [ __ ] boy says. S seven passives unlucky next time guys. Any idea if the straw wheel thing works on GeForce? Yes, but you have to set up um your X Mouse button control to work in what you think darker half. Okay, this is the third time that something tinged from simulacrum Loot and it's always been this card. It's 84c card not bad I guess. Open three all those got a mage blood map easy game is too easy. All right this is oh dark of half. It's the only thing that things in simulacrums [ __ ]. It's the fourth one all.

right that came from the early waves though, so we dump here, and then it's New Wave time. Head Hunter is now literally unplayable. All you head hunter virgins can go [ __ ] yourself. Worst unique by far. Finally, ethical builds can compete, but serious L. Head Hunter is trash. It would literally be better to wear a worm's W. Finally, G listened to me and gave those rmt [ __ ] what they. The funny thing is now Head Hunter is kind of a trash item, actually, but it's like years later me when I get shroud Walker. Oh [ __ ], I died. Okay, it happened. First death on simulacrum number 19, 18, 19 wave wave four apparently. Interesting. Oh, something tinged. Okay, the first thing that isn't a darker half guard ultimatum. Scarab of uh catalyzing. How many one passive voices? Hundreds of them, obviously. I've already found hundreds of them in this 20 simrs. What do you think? How many one passive? Hello

oh something tinged what tinged it's the darker half guys who would have guessed another one yo I leveled up Paul chimp we did it 24 simulacrums with one death leveled me up from 98 to 99 so it's probably like 21 20 21 simulacrums with no XP gear if you'd never die full clear all of them can expect a level up from 98 to 99 that's pretty cool please please no please no one passive voices oh it's gold dropping at the end yes we are free and I didn't [ __ ] up with the separating the loot everything is in the correct tab oh my God we are so free and everything everything is dumped yes 25 okay I took out some garbage I uptiered the Essences where possible and uh there is still more garbage in here but I took out all the cluster Jewels it's about half of them came from the first 10 waves and about half of them for the last five I really

don't want to price check clusters. They are probably a couple of chaos each, maybe some of them are 20 C each if it's a good base. I am CBA checking, so you know this many cluster jeel came off the simulacrums and now they are gone and nobody cares, at least I don't, so goodbye um, you know, sorry about that. So everything in here, here and here, came from the first 10 waves, and everything in here came from the last five, so wave 11 to 15. Need to do some like gem vendoring for gcps 'cause that's a lot of gcps. I looted gems that are 14 or more quality, so you can three to one them for a gcp. There H ay click. We got an Enlighten here. Some of them maybe are, you know, higher level gems. I don't know, I don't care. Here, like for example, here's a 21 Frozen Legion, 3C, whatever. I'm vending them. I'm not checking the gems. It's fine. Breach rings are

3 C, but I don't know if wealthy Exile can price them, so I'm taking out the breach Rings pricing them. They are One D for an inventory easily bulk cells. We didn't quite get a full inventory from this, but maybe with this total, we got about one div in breach rings from both early waves and later waves. So I'm going to start opening some calculators. Let's do two of them. This is going to be last five waves, and this is going to be first F first 10 waves. So the last five waves got 129 C of breach rings, and the first one you can just not count this. It's pretty low value, but if you run enough, you'll get a Divine sale here and there. It says 14 42c. Maybe oil out any low-value oils in here that shouldn't really be valued dumpster these. We don't care. There is a bunch of jewels in here like um fractured items. We could take a look at those on each tab, search for on

ID and check him out. We have 14 cldr sorcerer boots, life as extra es, chest base a synth armor, not great stun and block recovery, Grace a reservation gloves. I don't think that's great, it's like 10c, whatever, take that out, we don't care. Cold res 12, strength belt also 10c, take it out. What about this ring? It's bad. What about this Jewel? Attack speed, Max draw for maces and specters, it's want to see. Okay guys, we are taking stuff out. Okay voices, we found one five passive voice and one seven passive voice s from the first 10 waves and one seven passive from the final five waves. That's all the voices that we got. We got this many megalomaniacs from the final five and this many from the first 10 and this many split personalities here and this many here. They're all [ __ ] maybe int Mana is 15c, cool strength life is one Divine. I think that's the only two valuable ones.

everything else is dog [ __ ] they're all bad, and I should probably just take them out so that wealthy Exile doesn't add like one chaos for them. Okay, we'll take them out. Any cards? We got a single darker half in the first 10 waves and a lot of darker Hales in the last five. Look at how much more we got, four of them. Of course, you got more rewards in the final wave, so you have more chances through all like the car stuff. So like this is the stack deck from the last five, and we have 342 from the first 10. There's some random yellow maps with like, you know, blight on them and whatever. I think we're nuking those. I think that's about the stuff. Everything else is liquidable essences. We didn't get any big drop. I got a single raw Divine drop, and I incubated three divines from the incubators that dropped during these simulacrums. And everything else is in here, guys. I'm taking out every

megalomaniac because wealthy Exile values them at 30C each, and they are probably mostly bad. My advice is let other people price check them for you. You know that's not very good advice, and it makes trading bad, but it's the lazy way. You chuck them into your quad tab, price it at one div, see if you get a message from someone about one of them. You know, if you do, maybe price check that one or go through the painstaking, Okay, let's see what about this one, these three nodes doesn't exist. What about these two nodes? It's 20C for these two nodes. What about these two nodes? It's 90C for those two nodes. Okay, that's crazy. Okay, what about these two combinations? It's 10C. Okay, so this is the best, but what does the 990C one have on it? What's the third node on it? Maybe it's better than your I don't [__] know. You can spend hours price checking your megalomaniacs. I'm not

going to chuck them in a One D tab. Whatever, maybe some sell, maybe some don't. I'm not even going to count them as profit, even though there is probably some value here, but to me, it's not worth the hassle. Maybe to you, it is. Then you price it in. So now we open Wealthy Excel. Let's see how much we made in the first 10 waves. It looks like we made 26 divines times 169. That's 4,394 chaos. Nice in 10 waves. Okay, so if you can only clear the first 10 waves, that's the profit. Except we got a discount on the simulacrums, which we paid 603 chaos for. So we are at 3,833 chaos profit. First 10 waves, so that's 153 chaos P Exile profit per simulacrum. First 10 waves. However, we also cleared the last five waves. And how much did we make there? Let's find out. Stash only the last five waves. Boom. We made an additional 20 divines on the last five waves. So

that's 3,380 chos, and remember we already took out the investment, so it's about the same. It's like you're doubling your money on the last five waves, and that's without getting any voices. So let's add them together, go back to one calculator. Our final profit is... I final profit total is 7,342 chos, which is 43 div for 25 simulacrums. That's 1.7 div pure profit per simulacro, not accounting for megalomaniacs, not accounting for... actually, I mean, I accounted for two split personalities, but we got absolute dog [__] on the split personalities, and we didn't get any good voices, so that's what we made. We made 43 Dev in all easily liquidable Gumball, okay? If you find the voices, this profit goes way the [__] up, right? If I found the three passive, I would have doubled my profit. If I found the one passive, I would have 5x my profit. How long did it take to run?

It took 71 minutes for five, so 71 * 5. It took 355 minutes to run, which is 5.91 hours. Let's say 6 hours. Although you're kind of CT, it's 7 even div an hour profit, 7.24 div per hour, and that is without any good voices drops. So, like I said, it's consistent currency on consistent Gumball with the possibility for big gains from the good voices drops. Three passive voes currently is 45ish, and two one passive is uh 200 plus. So, this does not include farming XP for your gems. I have leveled up this many gems during these simulacrums, and the next set is pretty close to dinging. Well, it's like another level and a half. So, let's V these and see if we get any 21s. Eight nine gems at 21. These are 60c each. That's an additional 540 chaos, which is another 3.2 divines. Let's say three. So, this is our total Divine gains plus three div on gems, 3.2. So, with

gem leveling. It's 7.7 D per hour. Goes up a little bit. You can level more gems if your build conf fit it. I could have probably leveled like two or three more by dropping some random buttons. XP is really good. I leveled from 98 to 99 in 25 simulacrums. So I got a skill point. Very cool. And um, gold. We made 250,000 gold in 25 simulacrums. So 10K per simulacrum. Gold gain is pretty bad. 250k gold in 6 hours is terrible gold per hour. But you get some gold. It's not a great way to farm gold, but you get a little bit. So that's what you can expect for gold. I will not do this again. I don't like simulacrums. They're boring to me. But if you have a nice AFK build, you can supplement this by profit crafting in your inventory. You can roll flask. You can fossil craft. You can do whatever. If you have a minion build, just stand in the middle or hold hold down.

spark. You can use your mouse to craft things if you're, you know, an ADHD gamer. That is an option. It's a fishing strat. Sometimes you'll get a 200 div drop, and it's going to be poggers. You find the one passive voice, or you waste your sanity and run hundreds and hundreds of them for weeks and weeks and never get a good drop, but you're making consistent currency if that's what you care about. Simulacrums is a decent way to do that. Thank you for watching this episode of Bas or cringe non-Atlas strats. We'll be back with another one soon.

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The simulacrums have been restructured, now featuring 15 waves instead of the original 30.

The loot from the final five waves will be separated to analyze the difference in rewards.

The plan includes leveling gems during the runs and buying from ACT vendors to skip clicks, while also aiming to make a profit from the loot.

Wave 10 loot includes voices, with a strong character managing to survive multiple waves.

The final waves have a higher chance of spawning bosses and dropping jewels.

The player jokes about their girlfriend being the "manager" of their YouTube channel and shares the success of incubating Divine items.

The Head Hunter item has become unplayable and is now considered trash, while ethical builds are finally able to compete.

The player experienced their first death on wave 19 of the simulacrum but leveled up from 98 to 99 after completing 24 simulacrums.

The loot from the simulacrums included numerous cluster jewels and high-quality gems, which the player is now vending for chaos orbs.

Analyzing Inventory from Simulacrum Waves

The inventory from the simulacrum waves yielded a total of 129 C of breach rings from the last five waves and 14.

Valuable items found include a Divine sale, a 15 C Int Mana jewel, and a 1 Divine strength life jewel.

The final five waves provided more rewards, resulting in a higher quantity of darker half cards and megalomaniacs.

Megalomaniac items are priced at 30C each, leading to a lazy trading strategy.

After 10 waves, the profit is 3,833 chaos, with an additional 20 divines made in the last 5 waves, totaling 7,342 chaos.

The final profit from 25 simulacrums is 43 divines, with potential for higher profit if voices or passive abilities are found.

Running five simulacrums took 71 minutes each, totaling 355 minutes or 6 hours, with consistent currency gains and the potential for big profits from good voice drops.

Gem leveling during the runs added an extra 3.

2 divines, increasing the total divine gains to 7.

While gold gain was minimal at 250k in 25 simulacrums, the strategy offered a consistent currency flow for those with an AFK build.