This guide is meant for steady energy training. The guide’s main goal is to promote special gyms. Yes, that means you can swap and configure your build to your personal liking.

Step 1:
You have to first pick a stat that you would like to “whore”. In Torn terms, it means it’s going to be far in the lead of the others. The opposite stat, has to be one that you leave behind for a very long time. (You will train it eventually, see bottom notes later)

4 combinations:

1. Whore Defence *** Forget Dexterity *** str/speed stay in the middle
2. Whore Dexterity *** Forget Defence *** str/speed stay in the middle
3. Whore Strength *** Forget Speed *** def/dex stay in the middle
4. Whore Speed *** Forget Strength *** def/dex stay in the middle

To get the best outcome of 2 simultaneous special gyms, for example, you cannot whore strength and forget dexterity. It must be one of the 4 options above. Once you pick a path, it is very hard to change the course.


Personally, I would pick: Whore Defence *** Forget Dexterity *** str/speed stay in the middle.
Your goal, as you train…
For: DEF : STR : SPD : DEX
The minimum ratio is: 1.25 : 1 : 1 : 0
The maximum ratio is: 1.5 : 1 : 1 : 0

Step 1 - COMPLETE




Congratulations, you have decided on a build ratio.


You now have to figure out what items you’re going to use for training. You’re about to see numbers in the millions. If that scares you, and makes you want to close this guide, you need to focus on some money making. Millions can be a lot during your first days of Torn. I would first recommend reading and understanding Baldr’s new player guide. Once you can bring in a few million daily from flying or other sources, you’re ready for step 2.




Step 2:
Alright, what range are you in? (EXCLUDING the stat you’re leaving behind)


Less than 200k in a single stat:
Those are rookie numbers and it’s time to pump them up. You need to be happy jumping (See Baldr’s guide above). If you don’t have the cash for this, I recommend keeping your drug cooldown going still. Maybe chase the “50 of each drug” merits. Cannabis is very cheap, gives you a few extra nerve and introduces you to the world of Torn drugs. The more you dive into this world, the more you will wish you started it sooner.
Doing an exchange of 25 points for a daily refill looks expensive at first glance, on your first day. In reality it’s the cheapest form of energy you can convert your money into. ALWAYS refill the moment you can afford it.


More than 200k in a single stat:
You better be refilling. If you’re not you start today. It’s also time for Xanax.
3x + r + e
3 xanax, a refill, and all the natural energy you can pump. This is a MINIMUM for any substantial gains. To put this in perspective, if you were 500th in battle stats, you wouldn’t gain a single rank because EVERYONE is doing it. This is your bread and butter minimum effort.


Depending on your choice in step 1, this is what a ratio looks like as it grows:

For checking and maintaining the ratio, download the script, HERE.

Step 2 - COMPLETE




To review, you should spend all your game money on:

• Donator Status
• Points for an energy refill
• Xanax
• PI/Castle rental
• Full armour gear (For that defence modifier!)
• Unlocking every new gym

In your gym progression, this is what you're working towards:
You want to unlock a gym that takes 25 energy to train in.

And eventually, You want to unlock a gym that takes 50 energy to train in (while keeping the 25 energy gym open)

Step 3:
Advance faster.
You can create scenarios of who would win, between someone of this build, and someone balanced (same total).
Here is the catch, the little golden secret…
You will gains stats, way faster than someone who is balanced.


Are you @ 300 million total, and your adversary is at 300 million balanced? Are they mugging you and really driving you mad?
If you have the same activity and Xanax use, I can guarantee you will gain more stats than them, just for maintaining this ratio.
Don’t fight the gym system that’s in place to give you extra gains.

Step 3 - COMPLETE




Extra areas to really bust out MORE gains:

1. Pay attention to your factions steadfast upgrades. Factions of a certain standard can upgrade to 11% or more, but they have to pick, and usually have a set rotation for them. Go with the flow, and train in sync with the rotation. Talking to your leader to understand the specials is a great move. It shows some dedication and interest in the faction.
2. Def/Dex each have a job that gives +10% gym gains. If you’re not a big math nerd, you can think of it like this: After training for 10 days, you get an entire days training for free. The “extra” gains the job gave you, would have added up to 11 days without the job.
3. Fitness centre gives +3% to all gym gains, and uses less happiness for training (this is really only seen when using cans)
4. Cans/FHC are really expensive. They are the top designer items to REALLY pump you up. If you’re not going to use them 24/7, make sure they are used if you ever come across a training book.

** Major screwups people do **
1. They train without a private island, or much happy at all.
Go rent, I can understand that not everyone can easily own a private island… that’s what renting is for. You might see it as throwing away your money, it’s not. You’re paying a very low price for good gym gains

2. They have no faction, a self owned 5k faction, or a very low dead faction.
Get into a REAL faction. If you want a bank, go grab a company (and run it for profit). You should be in a real faction with other members. I know of factions that have millions of respect and they still accept new players. Feel free to comment if you want a faction change and I’m sure some eager leaders watching this can scoop you up.

3. They don’t take any drugs
Happy jumping is expensive, Xanax can look expensive. You need to be doing SOMETHING with your drug cool down, chase some merits or even taking the cheaper LSD gives you 50 energy (High OD).

4. They go SSL
If you don’t know what SSL means, ignore it. If you’re currently doing it, the people who follow this will *eventually* crush you.




** What about my bottom stat? **
Now, one day you might want to train that very low bottom stat. There are merits attached to every stat, and as a merit hunter myself how can I deny others?
There is a very shiny and perfect item for this case, and it’s called:

Are you a monster now? Do your stats look like this?

Good! Rip open this book, use some items and get 99,999 happiness. For a literal month every gain will be a “happy jump”. You thought 3 days of waiting and 1 big train was cool? Try having 99,999 happiness all the time for 31 days. Make sure you’re in a job to help gym gains.




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Thank you to everyone who supported my 2019 training thread. I will keep it as a reference, but will have it locked for replies.
Comment below anything I missed, as this is my first draft I’ll be tweaking the wording during February.