Guidelines for future Events

Why the next event is Green?
1. There has not been a green Event yet (only one left).

2. Dungeons will start soon and there seem to be little green cards in comparison to the other colours.

Why it will happen soon?

I suppose they went forward with the Light cards Event so soon after XXX-mas, because a lot of ppl started to collect items and they were expecting less earnings because of that. Also maybe they are in a hurry because they want to start with the dungeons soon and finish with the Events first.

For this I expect the next (final?) Event to be Earth and expect it to comevery soon. At least before the end of february. There seems to be no real logic in colour ~ Event relation. Otherwise I would expect a 'Spring' Event, but I think they are pushing it. When dungeons would start now there are not a lot of good Earth cards besides good old 'Lady Butterfly', the new 'XXX-mas Elf' and 'Witch Doctor'. This adds to the probability that the next Event is Green.

Again I would like to state that it's in the game's best interest if we all get all the cards. To level them up is costly and having them is good for all motivational reasons. Especially since at the point of dungeons the 'weaker' legendary and Mythic cards, we don't use now for our main decks, become interesting again. Since going into dungeons requires a deck of one colour. If you don't have the cards then why bother trying to get them better in dungeons? If there are no good Green cards, then 1/5 of the dungeon days is lost.

To increase their earnings they came up with this strategy of a crazy amount of automatic fake players. So real players would start to run more to finish higher in the group. Unfortunately: the sooner and the more points you get, the more fake players are added to make you run more. Maybe that worked. There are a lot of players complaining, but we don't know exactly how many ppl spent and if it was more than on the previous events. Since the company that runs this game is obviously interested in earning more (for that we can't blame them) the question is:

Did they earn more by this change or less?

The answer to that question will determine whether next Event will be different or more of the same.

Could be that they earned more, but only now ppl stop playing out of dissatisfacion for instance if they didn't get Zariel. The company won't know that ppl stopped until the next time. Then they will earn less next time, but didn't change the rules before the start of that Event. Just because of that it would be strategic to spam the customer support with reasons and emotions why the next event should be different. Don't expect them to put customer satisfaction on the top spot of their agenda. But there is a straight relation of customer satisfaction and earnings.

Another thought: If the companies profit is the reason (and it is) then shouldn't they just have a promotion pack that you can buy and get the Mythic or other cards? Don't be surprized if that becomes available in the future.

Why will the Events never be exactly repeated?
It's only logical. If they repeat an Event with the exact same cards what will happen? A lot of ppl that got the cards will not play because a lack of interest. Maybe some will to level the cards. But I don't see that happen in an Event.

If you take into account that some of the quests are 'seduce an Event's colour card' and 'level up an Event's colour card' then you need more and new cards, so the ppl that levelled and seduces all cards can play too. Otherwise you can get stuck on the first quest: level up an Event's colour card. They will never do that.

Does that suck? Yes! Nutcracker and Morozko which are part of a full set cannot be seduced to 5 star.

Will there be other means to get more duplicates? Probably not, but yet I hope there will be.

How to prepare for the next event?
1. Start to collect items for green cards. Keeping in mind the next quests (which are probable but not certain):

10 - Level up a green card

60 - Level up green cards 5 times

170 - Level up green cards 10 times

280 - Level up Epic green cards 10 times

460 - Level up green cards 15 times.

So collect items for normal and epic green cards. Maybe the 460 quest is not that neccesairy and can be done if you have enough time.

Check what cards you have and what level they are. ' Earth Elixer'  and ' Precious Ring' are very good, but there are also some cards that level up with different items (also the new cards of the new event, probably there will be a 'wisdom book' and 'luxurious Diadem' card, so if you have these items keep them, but concentrate on Earth Elixer and Precious Ring'. Also you can get some different kind of necklaces: common, epic and maybe some rare. Since leveling up rare cards costs less items (but is more expensive), rare cards can be a good alternative to level quests if you got enough gold but less time. If you got Lady Butterfly, don´t level her yet but save gold and Life Dildo´s. That´s an easy level up option if you don´t have the items. Lady Butterfly is a card you are going to level anyway, so if you level her during an Event, you keep the other items in your pocket for future use! Keep your green cards low level, as much as possible.

2. Don´t seduce your green cards before the Event!

40 - Seduce green cards 3 times (they can be three different cards)

250 - Seduce green card 5 times

There is plenty other cards to seduce, and you don't need to seduce most green cards for your deck. For the normal tournament don't level nor seduce any card. I know that in the first stages of your game you can win a tournament if you seduce all your 1 and 2 star cards, so if you really need to do it, just save some Earth cards. Otherwise opening Silver boxes with the bonus of 25/50 energy or up to 8000 gold, will be a much better option then seducing/levelling cards.

Only level or secude a card if you are planning to win a tournament. If you just started your game, do it before you open silver boxes, because you might be able to win more of your map and get a lot of extra points. This way you can (depending on other variables like other players) get to 5 star Temptress in 3 weeks, but you need to save your items and choose them strategically, and save your silver boxes and map as much as possible (only talking about the first weeks after you begun the game). In the beginning the silver boxes don't give 8000 gold but far less, also the energy doesn't give you too much gold, so the focus in the beginning of your game should be to reach a higher place on the map asap. Sands 16 will be a bridge too far, but Sands 6 is doable. Make your advance on the map also part of winning your tournaments. Make sure you have extra resources (aim at 2200 points at least), if you don't get to the 1-3 spot in the early stages of your game it will trow you back weeks.

One more thing about the early weeks. I know I wrote that you had better only open silver boxes after you seduced/levelled your cards, but....If you can manage to win by only opening silver boxes (you need a lot of gold), that will give you a vast amount of 'free' items of low star level. That will come in handy anytime.

3. Stack your legendary and epic chests. Leave them for the duplicate quests

100 - Get 10 Rare green card duplicates

130 - Get 20 Common green card duplicates

160 - Get 2 Epic green Card duplicates

230 - Get 2 Legendary green card duplicates

240 - Get 20 Rare green card duplicates

320 - get 5 epic green card duplicates

360 - Get 7 Legendary green card duplicates

470 - Get 10 Legendary green card Duplicates

For the Legendary Duplicate quests, it might be better to just open the small coffers of the event. If you decide to leave the legendary chests for the 2 legendary green card duplicates, it can be chests from Champions league 1 or 2, since otherwise you get a white (CL3) or either dark or light (LL1) legendary. But beware that the higher league you are in, the more duplicates all boxes give (also Bronze, Silver and Gold boxes). For the epic duplicate quests it's always better to have a LL3 chest also because you get more Rare and Common cards that might finish that quests in one shot. With many thanks to the guy who posted it below and took a lot of time to figure out a pattern in chests you get. It seems that if you keep winning with 3 stars, or either forfeit a match, the pattern keeps repeating itself. I made a table in Word and also pfd, but it seems it cannot be uploaded on this page. So the printscreen has to do. You just put a cross every time you play. And see the box you get. I tried it and it works. If anybody has an idea how to upload a document here, drop me a line.

I include the original text of the guy who came up with it, only changed 'boxes' in 'chests':"A little help for the chests be advised that most efficient way to locate yourself is the legendary chest! The numbers are from your very first round everybody has this but if you dont like them change it to whatever you want it to the pattern will still be the same.""Silver Chests - 1,3,7,19,24,26,31,39,44,47,55,59,66,71,79,87,92,95,99,104,107""Gold Chests - 15,36,52,64""Legendary Chests - 12,84,112""All not numbered Chests are Bronze and the best way to get additional energy points !""Once you done your first round 112 becomes 12 and you can go with this till you are fat on every single card you need. The league you are in has no effect on this so choose wisely which one you take ! IMPORTANT !!! Always win with at least 3 cards intact ( 9 point ) and if you reached a league where you cant win with 9 points forfeit the match at the beginning do not go to battle! My deck power is 7829 so not important which league I take but if YOU bite off more then you can chew then the game can teleport you somewhere and need to relocate yourself ! Given the numbers the easiest way is on a legendary Chestt. After you get it fight 2 more and if the next one is gold then you are 15 if silver then 87. Can do it with gold boxes as well but its more difficult !""Hope this will be helpful for many players !"So thanks again for adding this!

And how about getting more slots for Chests? It is good to have a headstart with more chests if you can afford it.

I believe the table for the extra slots is:

1-4: free (everybody has 4 slots at the beginning)

5: 150 rubies

6: 250 rubies

7: 450 rubies

8: 800 rubies

9: 1500 rubies (not sure)

10: 2500 rubies

11: 4000 rubies

I think till 7 slots it's really worth the rubies. On my free accounts I stopped there. In the first few Events it was a great advantage to have many slots. In the previous 2 (exept for the first week XXX-mas) it was a bit dissappointing. Yet more slots is always an advantage. Suppose you have 11 Legendary chests at the beginning. That is 352 points.

'''4. Get gold, gold and more gold. '''Once you got your inventory stacked with items for levelling up cards, you just save gold. Sands 16 (the lower one of the two) gives 5358 gold for 17 energy. That's the best rate you get for your energy.

In my experience: if you got 1m gold (1000000), it's enough to get all the items you need for an event: you open silver boxes and will have many times 25, 50, 75 or even 100 energy. With this energy you can get all the items you need (Event's colour elixir, about 12 common Necklaces, 12 epic Necklaces, then about 150 items (the sum of some Wisdom books, some Luxurious Diadem to level the cards that are new, and some Events colour specific items). Pay attention you need the items from the (seduced) star level you cards are of. Maybe except the Wisdom book and Luxurious Diadem, that you need for the new cards and that can be 1 and 2 star.

This is also what you can do if you don't know what the colour of the new Event will be. Just save 1m gold (or if you feeling unlucky opening silver boxes, 1.5 m). That will get you the items you need during the tournament. A bonus to do it this way is that you get a tournament win if you spend 1m on silver boxes and collect the items. Maybe even 2 tournament wins, which equals 4 life dildo's.

5. Save your Rubies. If there is a promotion (2x rubies) maybe in advance buy some, that is if you like to spend real money.

6. Write to customer support that they really need to change the odds of winning Heavenly Coffers.

7. Thanks to Pana133, we could prepaire to have a 4-star Epic card, or even a 1 star epic card with enough duplicates and gold in stock to seduce to 4 stars. In the last event this was the 210 quest (before 320).

During the Event
1. Don't start running. The sooner and faster you get points, the more fake players are added and the more points they have. Start to play later on the day and hope the real ppl in your group act likewise.

2. Be patient and open Heavenly Coffers not right away in the first days. Wait also for the quests in which you need duplicates. The 2nd exclusive card out the Heavenly Coffer is the one that counts. It's usually only available and more available later on in the Event.

3. Check all the quests before you decide what to level and what to open. Probably the questline will be the same as before. You don't want to instantly finish all quests all together. That is why I pushed the 'renew' button on my duels' page, so I could a have a choice when to finish a quest. At that moment I didn't know that going back to Novice League would diminish the duplicates from Silver and Gold boxes just as the Chests drastically.

4. Opening chests gives you extra points. 4 for Bronze Chests, 8 for Silver, 16 for Epic and 32 for Legendary Chest. Since the more expensive Chests also take proportionally much more time to open, it's best to save Legendary Chests before the Event and Bronze Chests during the Event. Except when you got to sleep, it's better to have a Silver or Epic chests. You choose your Chests by using the above table. In the first 2 Events having more slots and hence opening more chests was a big advantage. I got to 20-50 place a couple of times at the end of the Event just because I had 7 slots at the time. But today it's not a very big advantage. That might change ofcourse.

What benefit is there to gain from opening Chests? In the next table I put the points that you might get, depending on how many slots you have. Each slot could get you 128 points (24 hours devided by 0.75 multiplied by 4 poinst). The Bronze Chests gives 4 points in 45 minutes, that's the best rate. So 128 points, that is if you need no time to win a duel and get the next chest (and skip the duels that give you silver/epic/legendary chests) and if you pay somebody that will keep doing this while you sleep (or sleep 15 minutes every 45 minutes, which will make you either suicidal or psychotic, so I advice against it). The actual limit would be 124 points, since losing only 45 minutes in a day between opening the chest, skip fights that you don't want and selecting the fight you do want, would be a world record anyway. If you take into account that you need some sleep, say 8 hours. The 16 hours you are awake could give you 84 points. At night you can have a silver chest or an epic chest. In case of the silver chests you get 8 points, in case of the epic chests, you get 16 points, but you loose 4 hours which is a potential 20 points. Besides getting to the epic chests takes a lot of time. So stay with the silver chests, unless you sleep 12 hours or go to work 12 hours. Maximum would be 92 points a slot. Let's make that for sanity's sake 70 points. And if you need to work or do other things, I suppose 52 points is very good already (I am aware this is totally fictive). During the last Event I was able to get about 300-500 points for 10 slots, depending on if I had to work or do a lot of social things.

So during the Event: if you get 105 cups from 200 rubies and you are still with 4, 5 or maybe even 6 slots, then you should always invest your rubies into slots. Unless you really need that cups in the last seconds of the day. That one extra slot will give you about 52 cups extra every day. If you really put your time in it maybe 70 or even more. Besides if you have more slots, you can stack more chests. As I wrote before: 11 legendary chests equals 352 points. Imagine you get >1000 points on the first day only from opening chests! (but then you have to open all your chests at the beginning, the fake accounts go crazy and you need 7700 points for place 50, not a good idea...)

5. Avoid the first day. This is possible. You need 2 accounts, or you check the forums all days before you open your browsergame. The first 2 Events had a counter in hours from the start. When you devide that by 24 you can check whether your event is over before or after 1 am (West-European winter time) or 2 am (West-European summer time). What you want is that it's after the reset time (with an extra hour or so for playing). So you will have an extra day at the end. Ofcourse you loose the first day, but that's mostly a crazy day. In the X-mas event this was not the case, it was fixed. When I saw '6 days till end' in the Light Event I assumed they abandoned this but in the end it turned up that my 3 accounts all had diffferent ending times (depending on when I started). So you can change the beginning and thus end. It depends on when you open your browser. Probably the last day is much better then the first day, maybe you can even wait a few days, but I haven't tested that. The later you start, the less players are running (not taken into account the bots).

To do so you either park an account when you expect the Event to start and check with another account if it's opened. Then you open your parked account after the reset at 1 or 2 am, but make sure you wait another hour just so you have a chance to open your coffers before the tournament is really over. If you have only one account, just check if the forum talk about the event. It's a bit tricky because you need to park an account so only do it if you got enough resources, or do it if you want some weaker accounts to get the mythic cards.

6. Be prepaired or pay. You can have all cards without investing real money if you play smart and are well prepaired, and you need a little luck. In the first 2 Events my 2nd and 3rd account were still in forest and without Temptress. They never had any Mythic Event cards. Only now one of them got Zariel. The account where I pay a litte every now and then gets all cards. I even got the Bone Talker on my first account that was just in the 2nd week of playing. That makes you wonder, doesn't it? In the X-mas event I could stay in top 20 overall with the account I pay for, but the other 2 didn't make top 500 and couldn't have done so even with 1m gold and about 800 rubies. Even though our deck level is also important, in the X-mas event even more because of the chapters, I still think that unpaid accounts are somehow discriminated.

So if you are a beginner and don't have a high deck level, probably the only way to get the Mythics is to pay a little.

What are your thoughts?
If you can add anything, please contribute. The devs are plotting against us and planning all nasty tricks. But we are human beings, we can outsmart them because human beings adapt. We just need to know the rules.

It's possible that I am wrong and that the devs come up with something new and something very enjoyable. We can never be sure. I just wrote this article observing how the game functions now and everything I wrote is what I expect to happen. There are no guarantees but it's good to be prepaired.