Originally Posted by
wishtheywerereal
This is my strategy for maxing gold token collection - the shield tokens can be traded in the bronze trade for more swords and compensates for the higher energy requirements. Although it is a 90 monster, it often only needs 35-40 only to '****'. While I am in the stage of really going for tokens so that I can craft in the MRC all the energy sources I possibly can, and to Max on upgrading the wizards portal, I will keep on doing golems until the blue dire boar spawns come back. For me, I prefer the reliability of a golem spawn. I can go a dozen energy through cloudberry bushes without a monster - I keep thinking on each miss that it could've been a shield token I could trade in for swords.
Once I get all my energy sources, I will slow down on the gold token production and switch to the cloudberry bushes anyway so that I can spawn as many wisps as I can. When the monster hunt is one of crafting of past animals, I find that incredibly awesome and appealing. I don't make anywhere near as many gold tokens in those, but I can catch up on animals I have missed, or max out on useful animals I have.
I personally don't see the point of the leaderboards. In addition to the objections others have listed, the nature of this forum is cooperative and helpful and wanting everybody to win and get the most for them. SW and SC and other long term players (Riverly, M'77, and so many more) are so kind with people asking questions that have been showing up in so many ways from so many angles already. With kindness and cooperation the genuine values of this forum, in my opinion, the leaderboards just don't fit.