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Or you could just replay F1 with no additional settings over and over again. Takes less than 30s/run and you can get tons of shadow cores per run at a high level.

How many SC do you get with no traits?

@Op darn you're lucky. I got my first rarity frag 100 at level 2818, during my 2818 -> 3142 jump of 7 trillion xp. Got 2 of them, but still lol. Nice on the fragment.

Do they really help that much? :O I got it on my 1000-1200 jump I think.

Well they give the most +Xp% xD. Also inner fragments 100 rarity give 10% WoE health loss, making 5 of those give -70% total. Better than blades shrine. So yeah.

Talisman fragments are helpful at lower levels but there arent many bonuses that are helpful in endurance. WoE health loss and freeze duration are the best affixes, both found only in inner fragments. Corner fragments have charge bonuses, but the worst are the edge-only affixes. +mana for starting waves early, gem wasp bonuses, orblet bonuses, +harvesting speed, slower killchain counter these are all irrelevant in endurance mode. I hope that Peter will review this issue and makes fragment hunting a rewarding experience.

On topic: Just play a map with a lot of waves like X4 or T8 on haunting with no traits or 3-4 in chasing shadows. Usually I make a 3/8 white 3/8 orange 1/8 red 1/8 yellow gem in a tower with 8 pure orange in amps and an O-W-R-Blue mana farm trap close to the tower. Call waves early so the killgem can shoot Beam all the time. And thats it, 6-800 SC without endurance in 1 minute or so.

Why white?

As for why not white, white certainly will never compare to the bloodbound multiplier here.

Because its a 1 minute run, killgem is about g30 at the end so no reason for bloodbound.

For grinding shadow cores i find white > black, mainly because black takes time to power up whilst white gives me the instant powerup i need.

It might be different if you have MP, but using white i usually finish faster and easier than using black. Grinding exp however, it is black all the way.

Black outpaces white at grade 20ish. No, really. It does.

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Skill level 60 both cases.

I meant for the trap gem.