Super Adventure Box - Bubble Bauble Farming

Video for BB Farming: First Run

Video for BB Farming: Speed Run

This guide is designed to teach lay-peoples how to grind baubles in a realistic and reasonable manner.  This method is most effective for people who have 5+ character slots full, who do not want to delete a character to re-run them through the starting instance like some people do.  Each character is an investment, and should be treated as such.

Super Adventure Box went live on the 31st of April, 2013.  It provides rewards for exchanging Bubble Baubles for weapon skins.  Bubble Baubles themselves can be obtained 2 different ways;

• Opening Chests at the end of each Zone
• Converting Baubles into Bubble Baubles at the Moto NPC in Rata Sum

You get 2 Bubble Baubles for each zone chest, and 1 Bubble Bauble for every 250 Baubles you redeem at Moto.  This means that completing World 1 will give you 6 BB's for each character you run through (in 1 reset period).  Additionally, getting a full wallet (500 Baubles) will net you another 2 BB's per speed run, resulting in 8 BB's per character.  On a standard account, you have 5 characters, which means you can get 40 BB's per day using this method.  My account has 10 characters, so I can get 80 BB's per day (which I did until I collected all 9 skins I wanted).

At the top of this guide are the links to two videos I've created for this guide.  The first one is for the First Run, the run you would do to prepare a character for farming.  The emphasis behind it is to get both a shovel and the 500-capacity wallet.  You would do this for each character, and after the first day (where you get 6 BB's instead of 8) - you can move them into production mode, farming 8 BB's per day without the incessant bauble grind of Zone 2.  In order to follow through with this first part you're going to want about 500 Baubles to start out with.  This is simply because you need 100 Baubles per character to buy the shovel with.

Step 1: First Run

Put 100 Baubles on the character you intend to run through the Speed Run.  Buy the shovel in Zone 1, and the Wallet in Zone 3.  You'll be able to afford the Wallet by the time you get to it, so long as you follow the digging locations shown in the First Run video guide.  The actual run takes around 13 minutes from start to finish, and yields 6 BB's, 1 shovel, 1 wallet.

Step 2: Speed Run

Make sure your character has no Baubles on them now.  You won't be buying anymore gears, and you will be hitting up several convenient digging locations in all 3 zones until you have 500 Baubles to redeem after Zone 3 completion.  This run also takes about 12-13 minutes, and yields 6 BB's, and 500 Baubles (which is an extra 2 BB's).