>>58709750Your first month or so on Expert is going to be pretty shitty anyways. No area bonus and all the inflated tiers make it pretty hard to get anywhere early on.
I'm still thinking about going this week, but it might be better to try and refill my ingredient stocks; I usually end up with a deficit on Expert and I'm already low from the massive pot boost during the event.
And speaking of ingredients, I decided to take another look at our oil producers, just because there's actually a lot of AAA ones.
>MawileIf you level its skill up to 7 (absurd for a skill that isn't really THAT strong), it can compete as one of the highest ingredient quantity producers.
>CramorantHas the lowest gather rate, but Tasty Chance is a really strong skill.
>DittoSeems like a bit of a waste since it can get tails and leeks instead. Also the lowest dedicated gatherer for Oil. Its skill can be really strong, but ultimately wasteful.
>ToxicroakThe "best" and easily accessible, but also pretty unremarkable.
>Luxray2nd place, but a very strong BFS candidate and even gets some extra Tomatoes.
>DragoniteEven though it gets the least Oil, frankly it's absurd that it can pull double duty with just the single slot.