If you're getting the grills/jesters for the purpose of the boosts they provide, you overtake by around 150 days. It also gets a quicker start out of the gate. The reason for the comparison is 2 palaces should be 'better' in the longterm, but a palace + 4 jesters requires much less runs and might be better for my sanity (doing a full chests buyout at the end of 4 of them).

1 Palace + 4 Jesters (or grills) allows a simple 300 task strategy (run every 2 days or so - some can even take 3 days) and uses the extra gemstones *not* spent on extra runs to hit 550 tasks to instead buy the full set of chests for a side building 4 times. It *was* a bit easier at the start on beta though. This is what I did on beta and i expect should work on live - you should get enough spare regular upgrades from chests along the way with a bit of attention. 2 Palaces assumes hitting ~550 progress is enough for silver league. One of the things I've just been looking at has been comparing the following options which use similar amounts of gemstones: Since apparently it's not entirely welcome in feedback, figured I'd start a thread specifically for discussing fellowship strategies.

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