Ether Portal - where to hunt?

Recently I have bought my ether portal, finally. Also I got my Mighty Chrono Crystal about a week ago. Now the question is, where should I go?

The first answer is, the pinnacle. Since now EP is the highest raw mechanism available, its logical to consider to go to highest hunting location available. However, EP requires the circle Lightning Coils to be effective in pinnacle, yet the coils costs 3 bottles per hunt which is painful. On top of that, you need Witch Hunt mocktails, which I only got a few stocks. I haven't got any + raw pet yet, (little kelpie, please come T_T) and the only raw-boosting arcane contract is the Balthasar daily click, which need me 60 more days to click (I clicked Arlington Steele already). If you consider to go mystic in pinnacle, magic maze will be better, but the witch hunt is irreplaceable.

Now moving down the castle ranks, is the library. Of course EP/LC pair will give a good catch rate there, but with the cost of 4 bottles per hunt I advise not to use any mocktails. Which will lead you to use normal potions, and any contract or pet you like best. The cooldown time here is around 8 mins, if you equip your dragon whelps and the Countess, or can go to 7 with cosmic ID. But I think 7 mins with rarely loot drops and moderate xp/money grinding... this is not the best choice. The same argument also applies to the Duke Leyton Castle.

So the best answer I come up so far is, to go to the crypt. Equip your EP with the Skulls circle, it will give you -2 mins already. Since you are forced to use Nightcap here, then it will be -5 mins, and Countess is still the best arcane contract in terms of loot and speed. Now we have -7 mins. Oh, I forgot my MCC, then make it -9 mins :D. Now the choice of your pet and your ID is up to you... you can go lepre/puzzler to opt for better loot, 5 min hunts; or go diamond whelp/twilight to opt for 3 min hunts with slightly worse loot multiplier. I opted for the latter, since I want to train my diamond whelp.

Oh and another good point using EP in crypt is, beside you got 100% catch rate here, you can also get the hidden treasures from the nightmare ghost. I'm looking for EPH.2 also, so I think this is the best option that I have right now.

See you on the next post! :D:D