Thank you for all the responses. Some further thoughts:
I think this is definitely needed. Anyone who logs in late will occasionally miss rewards (you figure once your kingdom reaches the average Boss level it can defeat/almost defeat, some people will miss out on rewards every other day)
Ah, missed that, thank you.
Please do. I’m absolutely shocked that there is not an ongoing food/gold sink similar to another game that I can’t mention on here because this is not that game. Even if it provided modest additional rewards, we should be able to do something with constantly recurring base currencies especially given its extreme abundance, otherwise whats the point of it as a medium of exchange? Just give us any items denominated in gold and food and be done with it.
Thank you very much for the table. Honestly the gold reward is almost a punishment because again, gold is pretty much a dead currency for any regular player. Furthermore, most kingdoms are going to settle in a range of rewards. This situation where certain kingdoms will always be getting greater shards, or getting superior shards is yet another reasons why shards need to be downgradable. Finally, having things in the kingdom bazaar still denominated in gems/Crowns is really dissatisfying. Can you please pass this along? It would be nice if that was confined to Daily Deals.
@Jeto, can you or someone from CX confirm whether or not Loot ticket use on Seasons Battles now count towards the Seasons Bank? Personally, I would advise anyone against paying money for Seasons Pass if they are required to fight every single battle to optimize gem rewards. It’s very tedious after 60 days. Please say this has been fixed?
Especially, after the previous round of mana generation adjustments to prevent Turn 0 PvP wins.
Though, a low-hanging fruit solution to solve this issue should be rather simple to implement. Apply the normal 80% cap to starting mana totals and problem solved without any more equipment adjustments. Prevents Turn 0 wins, while allowing the player who wishes to specialize in speed to be within one 3-match from the start of the match from firing spells.
This significantly impacts classes like Shaman whose Ultimate includes an enemy debuff. I understand stuff like Wither and Poison not being applicable but consideration should be made for fundamental class mechanics otherwise they are worse off relative to others vs these kingdom bosses.
Can you confirm if this means the Kingdom bosses are on a 22 hour cycle or a 40 hour cycle? The in game text says “Every few days, a new Boss will attack your Kingdom”.
EDIT: Killed Tier I Boss, timer shows less than 22 hours until the next attack so we have our answer. The in game text should be reconsidered since it equates to daily, not “every few days”.
For me the most positive change of this upgrade is the gear space increase.
Most negative and totally surprised I was about the devaluation of food. There is nearly nothing where it can be used for. As a consequence and with respect to the new bazaar system we cannot get marks by this. So the only source for marks is now events. But by events wec cannot get enough marks to buy crystal and relics as rewards.
So please consider to replace the gold in your bazaar table by marks!
Tier 1 dragon died way too fast to test whether Bad Juju stuck on it or not. I don’t think it did, but the dragon had so few HP that the spell one-shotted it.
However, the dragon’s spells charged up so fast that I don’t think that there is going to be sufficient time for a Shaman (or Merc for that matter) to build up any significant number of stacks of their Ultimate abilities before being auto-killed by the dragon. Maybe 5-6 turns max. Not sure if the 25% Spirit Shield would even be enough of a slowdown to actually matter.
I was able to buy a Northelm Crystal for food in the bazaar shop today which was a nice surprise. It remains to be seen how many food deals that will be in the bazaar though. IIRC the Crystal was 1,800 food but not sure.
I’m hoping when the enemies that attack your kingdom gets to a high enough level this won’t be a problem, but this morning the enemy was alreay defeated by the time I got up so I couldn’t compete for the silver and gold rewards attached to defeating the enemy. Given all the complaints about people missing out on the old bazaar this seems a little strange that the same problem has been introduced with the enemies that attack the kingdom.
The tier will escalate daily and that problem will quickly go away. Also the rewards you missed are paltry so its just a matter of waiting until the tier escalates to be in alignment with the kingdom capability, a couple of weeks at most. This was the same issue when they introduced events.
The problem wont entirely go away until you get to the boss that the guild cant defeat. Overkill should absolutely be a thing, otherwise it will constantly disadvantage some players.
In the end, likely those players who play the latest after the defense starts will always potentially be at a loss - I think it will actually get worse as the rewards for silver/gold get better.
Sure, but that will likely change over time as it gets more powerful (though overkill should exist)
Seem that since everyone will get a chance to do it at a convenient time across the 12 time cycles as it rolls around the clock, then it just averages out for the entire guild
(so everyone averages 80% of maximum possible)
Compared to the fixed daily reset, this seems much better overall for everyone in the guild
Not necessarily. There could be several factors such as alignment advantages that could create significant damage from several players such that the boss is dead when only 20 people have attacked. The assumption is that you will reach a balancing point where you average killing a boss one day, not quite killing it the next, so every other day there will be people who will likely miss their chance to attack.
At the end of the day, Overkill mode is featured commonly in designs of this type across numerous games. No reason not to implement it here and then the issue is moot.