Multi imaging basic guide

I have gotten a lot of questions lately about multi imaging and wanted to cover the most frequent ones and also later discuss my personal opinions on it. Disclaimers are I am in no way the source of truth on the most optimal setups or methods, and this guide frankly is more about a surface level overview. Feel free to ask more in depth questions either here or on disc or in game.


# Should I multi image?
I get asked this a lot and I cant give an answer that applies to everyone. These are very basic reasons someone may or may not want too.

I also want to put this here to highlight it. Making any number of mages is either a time or meso investment that could have been spent elsewhere. Its important to recognize that you need to justify the cost and it may be better for you to just continue selling leech, and that for a long period of time you will not even be break even.

You probably shouldn't if:

1. You do not currently have a mage that is able to leech up to skeles/petris
2. You do not have a source of good income or already have a lot of mesos saved
3. You are strictly casual or do not intend to put in a significant amount of hours on multi imaging over the long run of ur time playing this game (this will become important later)
4. You are not comfortable with controlling many clients at the same time or do not have the hardware to support that
5. (more subjectively, ill touch on this later) You are not washing a character or have any plans to do so

Now some reasons someone may want to multi image.

You probably should if:

1. You are tired of the process of finding buyers to sell leech too and dealing with discord and shops
2. You don't want to be bound to "selling long hours" of leech. 30 minutes, 1 hours, 5 hours, its up to you and there is no agreement to anyone.
3. You are washing an attacker and want to progress faster than the crazy amount of voting time built into this game
4. You are very sweaty and have goals that live above a mere petri leechers wages
   
5. You are fine with controlling many clients at a time and okay with your meso gains being proportional to the amount of clients you can control.

# How do I get started?
First you need mages. I recommend leeching 5 mages at the same time, this will land you with 6 total mages and that is a great amount as you can do 2 maps of 3 mages, 3 maps of 2 mages, or 1 map of 4 mages and 1 map of 2 mages. It really will allow you do most setups.

The mage class or classes you choose is entirely based on your goals:

• Bishops are by far the best long term investment, however are also the most short term expensive and NX hungry, and will greatly delay how quickly you can begin farming unless you have a lot of mage gear laying around. They are low potion cost, can give HS, and eventually can be PB mules.
  
• FPs are the opposite, they are the best short term investment and can 1hit everything easily. No or low NX required upon account creation. This is a good option if you plan to only do maps like ulu1, viks, ulu2, etc. You will be gated from some desirable maps due to elemental strong. although not many.
• ILs are kind of the middle ground. They 1hit slightly slower than a FP, however are useful on all currently known maps. They also require little to NX to begin. I would personally recommend these and you can always make bishops later :^)

Second you will want a sweeper, or multiple sweepers. Qualities of a sweeper:

• Has a mount
• Has 3 pets with all the loot equips on them
• Ideally has large inventory size
• Is either an attacker you are washing or is on an account that you plan to use to wash eventually. (You will generate a lot of NX multi imaging)
• (Ideally) is a shadower, night lord, or warrior with stance. This is not required but will make looting much more AFK.

And lastly you will need either a large amount of mesos or time. It costs roughly 1k c to leech 5 chars to 130 I believe (this is a ballpark guess).

Personally I did a lot of self leech to avoid this cost but you can also sell petris/skeles to offset during the time your characters are being leeched.

So yeah, leech them to 130 so they get their end game wand. Vote and wash to your desired goals. Personally I started washing around level 100 and that has been fine for me.

# How many mesos does this make?
I can only share what I have tracked. Firstly I want to break any idea that multi imaging is somehow overpowered in Mesos/HR. If you see people farming 3 maps at a time please understand that a lot of time and cost when into attaining that setup, and that it is far far less AFK than selling single client skeles.

I wont cover all the maps or setups, I will just use ulu1 as a reference point. Also remember this is total EV of mesos, not raw mesos. A large portion of your mesos will be in gachapon tickets.

Ulu1 with 4 mages is ~18-22m+/hr. and ~2-2.5k nx/hr

Generally if you want to multi image long term you want to scale to more maps to make your gains larger, as with just a single ulu1 map you are making the same or potentially less than a petri leecher!

Ulu1 + Ulu2 is ~28-32m/hr. Again that is not raw mesos, but you can see how adding another map has quickly increased earnings a lot.

You can do ballpark math on how much farming 2 or 3 ulu1 maps may generate :^)

# Closing thoughts
All in all this is not meant to be an end all guide to multi imaging but hopefully provides enough information for you to make an informed decision. I think for most players this is not the path to go down and it would simply be better to focus on selling petris/skeles/5-6f for mesos. It is far more straining to multi image and although I can watch netflix while doing it now, that wasn't true in the beginning.

Also I want to share that currently Ulu1 and Viks (and to some extent Ulu2) are all becoming contested at the time of writing this.

 

Good points to anyone starting! this guy is the real pro and super kind.

I haven't found casting stance much of a problem but I am only using 2 maps and 1 sweeper, I imagine that would become annoying as you scale.