Upgrade Finder - Option to only consider current crest quantities

Simple Q & A
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Is there a way to run an upgrade finder that only considers the crests you currently own instead of upgrading everything to max level? Raidbots has this functionality and I haven’t figured out how to do it on AMR.

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I actually gave a lot of thought to this type of feature last expansion. What I realized after implementing it on our test server is that you get almost the exact same result as if you simply do what our Upgrade Finder crests search does already:

  1. Rank all items that you can upgrade in your inventory upgraded to max level in order from best to worst
  2. For each type of crest you have, start at the top of the list and upgrade the highest-ranking item that requires that crest type to max
  3. If you get to an item that you can’t upgrade all the way, stop and save your crests until you get more

This takes into account that crests aren’t a finite resource. Solving the rather difficult constrained optimization problem of e.g. “pick the best upgrades with exactly 230 hero crests and 150 champion crests” isn’t a “real” problem. Those specific limits mean nothing if you can just go get more next week.

Another feature that we added this expansion that you can also try is the “Upgrade Items” option for Best in Bags. That will upgrade all of your owned items to your specified threshold, then run Best in Bags. You can use that in a similar way. Look at the result and do the upgrades on the items that it equipped (you will see the item level of the chosen item highlighted in yellow with a green indicator of how much it was upgraded next to it).

While the Best in Bags result won’t tell you what specific order in which to do those upgrades, you can use the Upgrade Finder crests search to help you decide – it will rank the same items, so start with the ones that rank higher in the list.

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Thank you for the in-depth response