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Your Elvenar Team
Mana Question..
- Thread starter Lady Mya
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crackie
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, Buddy's #1 Fan
Look to upgrade some of your evolve buildings (require Royal Restorations). They will likely start giving mana in Woodelf chapter. Also, festival merchants in Magic academy is a much more efficient mana producer than jumbo sized Willows. If you have somnial pool from past seasons, that is one of the top mana producers the game has to offer so probably worth throwing some RRs at it too if needed.
Dhurrin
Well-Known Member
No, I prefer the Burning Pool (and the Somnial Pool). They both have a yield (at least in chap 21) that is higher /square/hour than the Lava Egg.
AND they have early pickup after 6 hours (maximum production reached after 12 hours) which means I can pick up more regularly than the Lava Egg whose early pickup is after 24 hours, maximum production time of 48 hours.
Of course, if you are away for long stretches of time the Lava Egg may work out better.
@Lady Mya
As @Lelanya already said; event-buildings tend to outperform regular ones. However, they do require RR-spells to be upgraded to new chapters.
Also, keep an eye out for Mana Sawmills in your MA. They can be crafted and with a 2x4 footprint are relatively small and easy to place, with a very good yield of mana too.
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Count Rupert
Well-Known Member
Weeping Willows have the additional advantage of providing a fair bit of culture which allows you to free up space by trading in your culture buildings. ElvenarGems recommended placing 10-12 Weeping Willows and removing all your other culture buildings. It's not always about getting the absolute best producers. Getting top shelf producers is nice but unless you have a source for RRs to keep them current to your chapter they're more of a thing later when chapters are taking longer.
Enevhar Aldarion
Oh Wise One
What elvengems listed for the older chapters was so out of date that the data was mostly worthless. The info for chapter 9 was written several years ago, way back before any of the newer mana producers were added to the game. Event buildings and the Festival Merchant in the crafting rotation in the MA are way better.
Count Rupert
Well-Known Member
No doubt, but they made it harder for those buildings to come up in rotation with all the recent recipe additions and there is the matter of having enough spell fragments when they do. If you can get or have event/crafted buildings, great. Not everyone can easily follow that path though.
Lelanya
Scroll-Keeper, Keys to the Gems
Many of the Gems' Guides were written early on, shortly after the Chapters' release, by end game players. So to give you an example, the Great Festival of Mendaci was released for Elemental chapter, and it was one of the earlier mana producing event buildings. What has come later, is better, if you have them current: Manta Ray, Burning Pool or Lava Eggs.
Ten Willows is ten expansions, and then your best culture is pinned down in slow mana producers. The early collect on Pools or Rays make them much better, they will probably be on offer in 6 weeks for Black Friday sales.
Ten Willows is ten expansions, and then your best culture is pinned down in slow mana producers. The early collect on Pools or Rays make them much better, they will probably be on offer in 6 weeks for Black Friday sales.
Mykan
Oh Wise One
That's because it was the only mana building at the time of that guide. The good news is if you can do the same in less space with the newer building choices than your life will be easier in that chapter than it was for those first there.
Henroo
Oh Wise One
If you are in the Woodelves or Sorcerers and Dragons chapters, your best bet for mana is going to be crafting Festival Merchants in the magic academy. Festival Merchants are way better than Mystical Lake or Weeping Willow for mana production in those chapters. Once you reach the Halflings chapter, Festival Merchants will switch to producing Divine Seeds instead of mana.
Dhurrin
Well-Known Member
But when the Weeping Willows came out there were not that many other buildings that provided mana, so the suggestion to place a lot of them was at least in part based on the fact there were not that many alternatives.
Some of the top producers are worth using RR spells on. But most event buildings will be outperforming regular buildings even if they are 2 chapters lower. And of course, some can just be sold off and crafted again in the new chapter, or won again in later events.
Darielle
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, and Buddy Fan Club Member
When I was in wood elves on one ID, I built 1 willow for a quest and then sold it immediately to put a Festival Merchant in that place. I was lucky enough that they came up in the MA often.
I still lament the loss of Elven Gems, but I wouldn't use it for info now. Try IDavis for more current advice.
I still lament the loss of Elven Gems, but I wouldn't use it for info now. Try IDavis for more current advice.
Pheryll
Set Designer
To be clear, when the chapter came out, the only event buildings were pure culture or population and culture. The only mana buildings offered were the culture buildings from the woodelves chapter.
Dhurrin
Well-Known Member
I am not quite sure when the Mana Hut was introduced as a reward, but you may be right there was nothing else at the time