>>1931296
>new spots are so bad everyone is grinding the old ones even if they have enough AP
I don't know what you are smoking but I'd want some too. Coral Nagas is a 2.3b per hour spot with agris, Orbita is a 3b per hour spot with agris. These are according to garmoth, which isn't saying much because these are averages at 200% droprate, most people stacked on event items and LoML foods grind at 320%, and well geared players that are at the AP caps of these zones pull more than the garmoth's averages. Orzekea is a maid-gated grindspot unless you go in there and grind without agris and at this point you are making shit money anyways.
>the castle winners were just doing cheesy DP build and didn't even fight
Met one today at Coral Nagas, the guy was close to hardcap and was doing drive-bys on whoever was grinding at the spot. Managed to drop him down to 50% before I even realized I was getting ganked, he dived into the mob camp I was grinding. I wouldn't be amazed if he "won" the title in an arranged fight along with his Discord friends.

>>1931328
>Because you need to pop buffs for 300m
The only difference in my buffs between Orzekea and Orbita would be the furniture buff scroll. That's 35m silver per hour in spots where you earn 2b+ per hour. I dunno what else you use in your buffs to reach 300m silver in consumables.