There are various leader perks and edicts that give "ship starting experience" and "army starting experience" or increase army/ship experience gain. I assume more starting experience is better but I honestly have zero clue what the actual impact of this is on gameplay. Does it increase your leader assigned to that fleet/army's XP gain? Does it increase ship fire rate/weapons damage in some way?
For some context I am an eHP build farming T11 to about 10,700. I bounce between platinum/champs depending on my bracket I can sometimes stay in champs for 2-3 tourneys before dropping back to plat. I recently unlocked masteries, and I have 2 already (intro sprint and cash), and I am wondering what I should do with my stones from here.
As I see it, my options are the following:
Unlock either wave accelerator mastery or super tower/damage mastery. WA is obviously more useful for farming, whereas ST/damage might be able to keep me in champs.
Unlock my 6th UW and hope for CF then stat working towards perma CF for the damage reduction to to boost waves. As I see it this would cost about like 3000ish stones as well as a good amount of lab time but it could be very useful.
Save up 1700 stones to get BH duration to 35 seconds for pBH without gComp. This could also get me pBH in tournaments using gComp which is also a big plus and might keep me in champs. I would also need to roll a mythic BH CD/duration stat for this option, which is likely with my 2M shards but not guaranteed.
I'm kinda leaning towards saving the stones for pBH without gComp so I can then lower my GT/DW cooldowns to 110s (which costs roughly 1700 stones) and get sync with GB and summon chip (I have 5 levels in GB cooldown so I cannot get 120s sync). This also allows me to use my mythic+ BHD which should skyrocket my econ in farming runs and probably improve my tourney runs if I have pBH.
Let me know what you all think.