News from Beta - May Contain Spoilers!

[Moho]

Between this new set & last year's set that gave out a very hefty amount of T1, having both could easily replace ALL a city's T1 + T3 needs?!

With an additional number of GingerBread Mansions (that supply T2 goods), every Elvenar enthusiast can only but play happily ever after.

However, space always remains a problem and the Forbidden Ruins Set will require some adjustments:

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

So much for something new. It is just another Sorcerer's Pilgrimage event, just in January, instead of May. But this may mean some other shifts for later in the year and maybe something actually new in May instead.

 

[crackie]

Seriously, Inno? Y’all gonna make us complete a big set with a random building jutting out like that so it doesn’t form a nice rectangle for city Tetris?

 

[Iyapo1]

Rumor has it in silver AND gold league you can get Pilgrims Manor Pieces? Is this true?

 

[Henroo]

Between this new set & last year's set that gave out a very hefty amount of T1, having both could easily replace ALL a city's T1 + T3 needs?!
(...just keep a few T1-3 factories around for event quests & teleport them out when not needed.)

Don't forget the Mermaid's Paradise, which would offer additional T1 goods. Also, I don't think the Air Trader's set was as strong, but it gave all 3 kinds of T2 goods. Iff you also had a Gingerbread Mansion and a good Moonstone set giving T2 goods it might be possible to run a city with no manufactories at all.

 

[Alram]

@crackie
It's a 7×6 rectangle. That's just the top floor of the main building.

 

[crackie]

That’s better, though if they don’t add hide building feature in browser mode, we can look forward to not being able to see/remember what is behind there.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

That’s better, though if they don’t add hide building feature in browser mode, we can look forward to not being able to see/remember what is behind there.

Put it against the right edge and you won't have to worry about it.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Rumor has it in silver AND gold league you can get Pilgrims Manor Pieces? Is this true?

Yes, a sorcery that gives you the choice of any one of the buildings from that set.

 

[crackie]

I apologize to everyone in advance if Inno decides to implement some terrible things I've referenced around here just to mess with us, like winter lampions into the Spire and oddly shaped set building footprints.

 

[Darielle]

We wouldn't need to have as many FAs with double Tomes if players had a more reasonable chance of getting a fully evolved building by the end of events, and by reasonable, I mean reasonable for players like me, who make steady progress through the event, finish all the quests, and still come up short on keys, cats, bunnies, whatever and cant get the last artifact.

I have the same problem. Just a few short of the last artifact and no one can say I haven't been on enough to get the keys around the neighborhood ... I practically live on Elvenar, lol.

 

[Darielle]

So you're the balance to my poor luck! Ever since the Ashen Phoenix, I've had to rely on the FA to get the extra artifact to level my evolving building to 10.

I was foolish enough to use my Ashen Phoenix artifacts to trade for Phoenix ones to level the fire phoenix. Oh, I regret that.

It seems strange that completing all quests does not enable a player to complete their building. It's like you put in all that work and still aren't quite good enough to "win" the event. Pity those poor new players that don't have an Ashen Phoenix. They must be wondering what they're doing wrong to fail the events so often.

I have an Ashen and as I said, I practically live on Elvenar to collect keys, and I still didn't get the last artifact. The ashen doesn't give you as much as some may think. When I first got it, I was expecting it to give me the 1 or 2 percent of all event currency I gathered. I should have known better. It counted ONLY from the quest events ... not the drops. And if you count up all that, you're talking MAYBE 100 keys over the entire month? Or less? I mean, we're not talking a whole lot of keys from having a fed ashen here.

 

[The Unbeliever]

I have an Ashen and as I said, I practically live on Elvenar to collect keys, and I still didn't get the last artifact. The ashen doesn't give you as much as some may think. When I first got it, I was expecting it to give me the 1 or 2 percent of all event currency I gathered. I should have known better. It counted ONLY from the quest events ... not the drops. And if you count up all that, you're talking MAYBE 100 keys over the entire month? Or less? I mean, we're not talking a whole lot of keys from having a fed ashen here.

With a fed Ashen + the e-mail freebies, that's roughly 200 additional currency, which with a little luck is close to squeezing out an additional grand prize.
Overall though, the point remains; if you want a full set/evo building, then focus on grand prizes ONLY!!
ie: ignore the daily prizes, or else just focus solely on the 1-2 dailies that look the most appealing to your city's needs.

Now, if you want Silver and especially Gold leagues? The spend those diamonds you get for free from the Spire.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Yep, the post box format is the one where you really have to choose between get all the grand prizes or getting multiples of the same daily prize, because to get extra dailies, you pretty much have to waste keys on reshuffling. But if all you do is play a board until you get the daily prize and the extra present prizes, and maybe a couple of others on the board, and the stop for the day. rather than clearing the board every time, completing the evolving building is easy. On both Beta and in my one Live active city, I got the owl avatar, so 280+ presents in each, without using any diamonds or money.

 

[Tehya1]

Yep, the post box format is the one where you really have to choose between get all the grand prizes or getting multiples of the same daily prize, because to get extra dailies, you pretty much have to waste keys on reshuffling. But if all you do is play a board until you get the daily prize and the extra present prizes, and maybe a couple of others on the board, and the stop for the day. rather than clearing the board every time, completing the evolving building is easy. On both Beta and in my one Live active city, I got the owl avatar, so 280+ presents in each, without using any diamonds or money.

This is exactly what I did this time, and I even skipped days when I didn't care about the dailies, and I still came up short.

 

[BrinDarby]

@Darielle ,
It also didn't help when per task the currency was lowered below 50.
that shaved off a little of the benefit Ashton gives.

 

[Jackluyt]

 

[Lelanya]

The trouble with this event is that the city litter, in this event guant scrolls, aren't really visible against snow, so very poor timing.

 

[BrinDarby]

wow really ??? no +4 or +5 ..... ( so the nerf'd version ) good 2 know.

 

[Huor]

I never built the merc camp, and even though I may not use them, blossom mages are the only thing I don't produce, and it would be nice to see where I could fit them in.