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I did not breed any event dragon, at all. Despite trying none stop in all 3 spots with best combo possible and with some gem speed-ups, the only dragon I managed to get through this whole event is one Sumi, which isn't even an event dragon... Either I'm really unlucky, or BFS made the breeding odd aweful. I sure hope this is not the new trend. Should be able to buy all dragons and one hidden habitat, but won't be able to afford any new decor :/
Empathies: I bred 2, one a sumi , both in coop, had to buy the rest maybe BFS over adjusted from the far too easy prior event? I guess it's hard to strike the right balance between too easy ( no challenge no fun) and too hard ( impossible and frustrating...and no fun) sigh do loooove the hidden draggies tho atm plateau is winning for me as a fave
I did not breed any event dragon, at all. Despite trying none stop in all 3 spots with best combo possible and with some gem speed-ups, the only dragon I managed to get through this whole event is one Sumi, which isn't even an event dragon... Either I'm really unlucky, or BFS made the breeding odd aweful. I sure hope this is not the new trend. Should be able to buy all dragons and one hidden habitat, but won't be able to afford any new decor :/
Empathies: I bred 2, one a sumi , both in coop, had to buy the rest maybe BFS over adjusted from the far too easy prior event? I guess it's hard to strike the right balance between too easy ( no challenge no fun) and too hard ( impossible and frustrating...and no fun) sigh
I don't think DragonVale has ever been near "too easy" territory. They could make all dragons much easier to breed than the winter event even, and it would be fine. The fun part is getting new stuff and adding it to your collection. Retrying for weeks on end to get absolutely nothing, that part I could do without.
The balance is in creating pressure so that players will spend money to make the pressure go away, but not so much that they'll give up. I think DragonVale is toeing that line, while DragonVale World has already overstepped it and fallen down a well.
Last Edit: Apr 17, 2017 15:42:26 GMT -6 by Mr. Bones
Empathies: I bred 2, one a sumi , both in coop, had to buy the rest maybe BFS over adjusted from the far too easy prior event? I guess it's hard to strike the right balance between too easy ( no challenge no fun) and too hard ( impossible and frustrating...and no fun) sigh
I don't think DragonVale has ever been near "too easy" territory. They could make all dragons much easier to breed than the winter event even, and it would be fine. The fun part is getting new stuff and adding it to your collection. Retrying for weeks on end to get absolutely nothing, that part I could do without.
The balance is in creating pressure so that players will spend money to make the pressure go away, but not so much that they'll give up. I think DragonVale is toeing that line, while DragonVale World has already overstepped it and fallen down a well.
I will say that the really long fails and not able to breed the event dragons turned all of our family off from spending our usual event money. Even though the extra eggs or gems would have helped we decided against it this time. I don't want to support that type of gameplay. When the odds of breeding dragons get back to what they used to be, I won't mind spending money here and there for enjoyment of the game. I am happy with what I will get out of the event, but usually we are able to breed 3-4 each and are able to buy the rest of the dragons, pedestals and decorations that we like. I did need the Lost Island and the Relic this time so that took a great deal of my eggs. I will personally miss out on one dragon, all the pedestals I need and there will be no decorations able to be bought either. I tried the whole event to get Stoneshell, Tulip, Cumulus and Tansy with no luck at all. I am down several hundred gems trying to get them. I maxed out every single day. It is only my fifth event, but it was definitely the most difficult for me and at times frustrating when getting so many fails. I am not saying at times it wasn't fun just saying there were times I almost wanted to quit the game which hasn't ever happened before. I have been sad when all the other events ended, I am kind of over this one. I also didn't get Sakura or Sumi (really wanted Sumi) when they were available. Womp womp!
On the plus side, I really love the Hidden dragons designs. They are possibly my favorite release. And Star Wing is gorgeous. That was the first event currency I spent.
Hello all:) I am brand new to the forum but not to DV. And I just had to say, I was totally not able to breed the hidden ones no matter what I tried! I did breed a marbletail, glowwing, and starwing which was nice so then I used my eggs to get the hiddens. So far I'm only missing two event dragons, swallowtail and pond. (I've tried to breed pond so many times haha and nothing!)
You did awesome. I didn't manage to breed any but the Sumi and that one with the last gasping breath of its availability and gems.
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I don't think DragonVale has ever been near "too easy" territory. They could make all dragons much easier to breed than the winter event even, and it would be fine. The fun part is getting new stuff and adding it to your collection. Retrying for weeks on end to get absolutely nothing, that part I could do without.
The balance is in creating pressure so that players will spend money to make the pressure go away, but not so much that they'll give up. I think DragonVale is toeing that line, while DragonVale World has already overstepped it and fallen down a well.
I will say that the really long fails and not able to breed the event dragons turned all of our family off from spending our usual event money. Even though the extra eggs or gems would have helped we decided against it this time. I don't want to support that type of gameplay. When the odds of breeding dragons get back to what they used to be, I won't mind spending money here and there for enjoyment of the game. I am happy with what I will get out of the event, but usually we are able to breed 3-4 each and are able to buy the rest of the dragons, pedestals and decorations that we like. I did need the Lost Island and the Relic this time so that took a great deal of my eggs. I will personally miss out on one dragon, all the pedestals I need and there will be no decorations able to be bought either. I tried the whole event to get Stoneshell, Tulip, Cumulus and Tansy with no luck at all. I am down several hundred gems trying to get them. I maxed out every single day. It is only my fifth event, but it was definitely the most difficult for me and at times frustrating when getting so many fails. I am not saying at times it wasn't fun just saying there were times I almost wanted to quit the game which hasn't ever happened before. I have been sad when all the other events ended, I am kind of over this one. I also didn't get Sakura or Sumi (really wanted Sumi) when they were available. Womp womp!
On the plus side, I really love the Hidden dragons designs. They are possibly my favorite release. And Star Wing is gorgeous. That was the first event currency I spent.
You said almost exactly what has been the case with our family except that both of my kids have given up. One is just randomly checking but they both used to play regularly. The complaint for the last few months is that they have had little to no success. So I started reducing the amount spent on events to just my park with the theory that I would buy and get all the dragons hopefully breeding some so I could get decorations. But this time around there was no success and I lost them. Sigh. I have decided to not spend anymore at all and just be a very casual player to see how that works for me. This one was just to frustrating for me.
Positive note I love the look of the new dragons and will be getting the decorations that are fun to watch.
With the demise of game centre I just started in FB to be able to friend people from this forum and join in on the fun. Please message me if you want to send a friend request so I know to watch for you😊, I never check FB otherwise. I'm deleting random requests way too many of those 😮.
Hello all:) I am brand new to the forum but not to DV. And I just had to say, I was totally not able to breed the hidden ones no matter what I tried! I did breed a marbletail, glowwing, and starwing which was nice so then I used my eggs to get the hiddens. So far I'm only missing two event dragons, swallowtail and pond. (I've tried to breed pond so many times haha and nothing!)
Pond has has been the most stubborn to breed for me using a purchased Pond with high level Plant, but it can be done! Hope you have a friend who will put a Pond up for you in the co-op. The moral of this story is: Always Buy The Really Limited Dragons When You Can!
I also got seconds of all the other Hidden Dragons using the purchased ones with Elders - Cumulus/Air, Plateau/Earth, Tulip/Plant. Stoneshell/Starwing got me another Stoneshell too! Now ready to breed for the pedestals when the Event is over.
I think I might have spent about 200 gems for speed-ups during the whole Event.
ps, you may find a special affinity for N/A, who was chosen to be the Fan joining the BFS group that developed the design for Portent! You can find his posts about that extraordinary event somewhere here. Maybe N/A will point you to them 😉
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hello aportentgirl. Nice to see a fellow Portent enthusiast haha. I have a link in my signature (which you can see if you're on the desktop version) which goes to my tumblr account for DragonVale, and that has some pretty cool concept art that BFS had, including how the Portent dragon almost looked! That reminds me to post a few more pictures on there.
For Pond, I would recommend breeding someone else's with an Elder of yours, or Monolith 1, Harvest, or Century. I've haven't had the best of luck with this event either, but thankfully a couple other people have been lucky breeding with my dragons and gotten twins. Also it's a good idea to get your dragons up to level 20 if you can, it helps the breeding odds. koala and don't sweat it too much, everything always comes back by BEB at the end of the year anyways!
by "clock error". I've never messed with the clock.
? Petulant wizards?
NachoKitty >^..^<
I tried but experienced an error as well :/ I also think that, since we are only getting 4 days to collect our banked eggs, instead of the typical 7 days that we have gotten in the past few events, that maybe BFS is trying to limit our exploits. Which would explain why they would have the doubles/triples towards the end now if they continue to have events end on Mondays/Tuesdays. I can't really complain since these are extra event tokens but this event was pretty expensive. I guess it was offset by the mystery egg, which could help you get Pond.
by "clock error". I've never messed with the clock.
? Petulant wizards?
NachoKitty >^..^<
Mischief also interrupted, but I got to 1892 before DV hung.
I bought the Mystery Egg which got me Pond. I bought Tulip, Tansy, Cumulus, StoneShell and Plateau. Bred Glowwing and got Starwing for free.
Bought both Hidden Habitats, the Mono Reward Habitat, the Arc de Trieggs, Stone of Enchantment, Transfiguring Tree and Monolith Boost
I've also bought the Plateau, Stoneshell, Starwing, Cumulus and Glowwing Pedestals, after having bred the Pond, Tansy and Tulip ones.
So I should have *everything* with ~3,500 eggs in hand at the end, and rather a lot banked too
I still have to get seconds of Plateau, Stoneshell, Starwing, Cumulus and Glowwing, but I'm hoping that won't take too long after the end of the event, and then I can go back to being BORED again
by "clock error". I've never messed with the clock.
? Petulant wizards?
NachoKitty >^..^<
Mischief also interrupted, but I got to 1892 before DV hung.
I bought the Mystery Egg which got me Pond. I bought Tulip, Tansy, Cumulus, StoneShell and Plateau. Bred Glowwing and got Starwing for free.
Bought both Hidden Habitats, the Mono Reward Habitat, the Arc de Trieggs, Stone of Enchantment, Transfiguring Tree and Monolith Boost
I've also bought the Plateau, Stoneshell, Starwing, Cumulus and Glowwing Pedestals, after having bred the Pond, Tansy and Tulip ones.
So I should have *everything* with ~3,500 eggs in hand at the end, and rather a lot banked too
I still have to get seconds of Plateau, Stoneshell, Starwing, Cumulus and Glowwing, but I'm hoping that won't take too long after the end of the event, and then I can go back to being BORED again
I was just gonna say, shouldn't we be getting a post coming soon about "when is the next event"?? Lol
Pond has has been the most stubborn to breed for me using a purchased Pond with high level Plant, but it can be done! Hope you have a friend who will put a Pond up for you in the co-op. The moral of this story is: Always Buy The Really Limited Dragons When You Can!
I also got seconds of all the other Hidden Dragons using the purchased ones with Elders - Cumulus/Air, Plateau/Earth, Tulip/Plant. Stoneshell/Starwing got me another Stoneshell too! Now ready to breed for the pedestals when the Event is over.
I think I might have spent about 200 gems for speed-ups during the whole Event.
ps, you may find a special affinity for N/A , who was chosen to be the Fan joining the BFS group that developed the design for Portent! You can find his posts about that extraordinary event somewhere here. Maybe N/A will point you to them 😉
🐨🐨🐨
hello aportentgirl . Nice to see a fellow Portent enthusiast haha. I have a link in my signature (which you can see if you're on the desktop version) which goes to my tumblr account for DragonVale, and that has some pretty cool concept art that BFS had, including how the Portent dragon almost looked! That reminds me to post a few more pictures on there.
For Pond, I would recommend breeding someone else's with an Elder of yours, or Monolith 1, Harvest, or Century. I've haven't had the best of luck with this event either, but thankfully a couple other people have been lucky breeding with my dragons and gotten twins. Also it's a good idea to get your dragons up to level 20 if you can, it helps the breeding odds. Koala and don't sweat it too much, everything always comes back by BEB at the end of the year anyways!
Thank you! The portent is my favorite dragon and it was so much fun (and tiny bit stressful haha) breeding it! It is a gorgeous dragon and I will have to go look at those pictures. I do have a friend with a level 20 pond so I have been trying that but so far it hasn't worked. I've been pretty happy with how this event turned out for me so I can't complain! Thanks for the advice and it's a pleasure to meet you!
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Mischief also interrupted, but I got to 1892 before DV hung.
I bought the Mystery Egg which got me Pond. I bought Tulip, Tansy, Cumulus, StoneShell and Plateau. Bred Glowwing and got Starwing for free.
Bought both Hidden Habitats, the Mono Reward Habitat, the Arc de Trieggs, Stone of Enchantment, Transfiguring Tree and Monolith Boost
I've also bought the Plateau, Stoneshell, Starwing, Cumulus and Glowwing Pedestals, after having bred the Pond, Tansy and Tulip ones.
So I should have *everything* with ~3,500 eggs in hand at the end, and rather a lot banked too
I still have to get seconds of Plateau, Stoneshell, Starwing, Cumulus and Glowwing, but I'm hoping that won't take too long after the end of the event, and then I can go back to being BORED again
I was just gonna say, shouldn't we be getting a post coming soon about "when is the next event"?? Lol
O gods of the Vale please send Magpac out to round up wild koalas and post them to needy park keepers!
In the final hours before reset, I tried rebreeding for Plateau a few times. My nursery was already full, and I'd just put in a Double Rainbow and one of those longer Monolith fails. So when I got an 11:12 timer in my cave, I thought, "Ugh, that's going to be another Tree or Vortex."
So I decided to try my luck and go for an Egg of Mystery. Nope: a twin Gold. So I had to buy the Plateau...
This morning when I woke up and cleared the breeding cave, guess what that 11:12 timer was for? A Plateau!
I know I shouldn't complain; I've got a second already! But still, you know how much we on this forum like to whine...
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Post by shanda2lee on Apr 17, 2017 23:59:46 GMT -6
Hi all,
For anyone contemplating trying a few rounds with the 'Mystery Egg', I decided to throw collecting to the wind and see what happened!😱 In my baby park of course🙂!
The park already had 295 eggs of that 109 are Epics. Of the six 'Mystery Egg' I bought 2 were new Epics. The first being a Tourmaline (wasn't everyone's first egg one they didn't have already?), then a twin Snowflake, a twin ribbon, then a New Berry. After that blech a twin Plant 😝 and a twin Bog then I Ran out of eggs.
Dont know if this will be helpful to anyone but thought I would record my results. I plan on using all the remaining 4000 I collect for a couple of more tries just because I am tired of being such a trapped completionist 😁.
Of course that does NOT include my main park. Nope that one I only tried 1 extra mystery egg and nearly spit egg shells at the resulting twin Iron.😝👿
Koala all 🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨
With the demise of game centre I just started in FB to be able to friend people from this forum and join in on the fun. Please message me if you want to send a friend request so I know to watch for you😊, I never check FB otherwise. I'm deleting random requests way too many of those 😮.
Posts: 4,392
Platform: iPad Accepting New Gifts: Thanks friends; this game now a solid chore, no longer a delight sadly, so taking an indefinite break. Koala to all. Forum Name to Tag: kiwichris01
For anyone contemplating trying a few rounds with the 'Mystery Egg', I decided to throw collecting to the wind and see what happened!😱 In my baby park of course🙂!
The park already had 295 eggs of that 109 are Epics. Of the six 'Mystery Egg' I bought 2 were new Epics. The first being a Tourmaline (wasn't everyone's first egg one they didn't have already?), then a twin Snowflake, a twin ribbon, then a New Berry. After that blech a twin Plant 😝 and a twin Bog then I Ran out of eggs.
Dont know if this will be helpful to anyone but thought I would record my results. I plan on using all the remaining 4000 I collect for a couple of more tries just because I am tired of being such a trapped completionist 😁.
Of course that does NOT include my main park. Nope that one I only tried 1 extra mystery egg and nearly spit egg shells at the resulting twin Iron.😝👿
Koala all 🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨
LOL at the twin Plant! From all the reports I saw here, I though Mystery eggs only give "good" dragons, you know, those rare Epics or limited hybrids... Seems like all is possbile!
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Post by ncdiablosaur on Apr 18, 2017 10:51:24 GMT -6
Hey there all,
I hope everyone has enjoyed this event. Sadly I haven't been able to post much recently. I was able to get all the Chrysalis dragons this event. I think I was able to breed 3-4 of them through the help of others posting their dragons (MANY MANY THANKS FRIENDS). I got 2 of the Monolith dragons and then went to town breeding and was able to breed all of them from there (just landed Monolith 5 last night based on the timer). All I am missing from the hidden dragons is Tansey. I was able to purchase the Relic of Epics so I can bring my epic dragons to 15.
I am closing in (I think about 12-15 days from my first wish). Right now islands aren't that costly so I don't think that is worth it. Or can you get islands from past events like the olympic island? (that might be worth it since I am not sure when that event will occur to offer the island again). Not sure if getting the Monument of epics that levels epic dragons up past 15 is worth it yet due to the enormous amount of food it requires and I am still busy leveling up epics to 15 and will be doing that for a while. So I am not sure if I will use my wish for that.
I am a little more than halfway through 33 so I have an island to buy at 35 but have more than enough funds for that. I guess I will store my wish for a while if that is an option. If anyone has any good advice on a wish please let me know.
Thanks all and hope everyone had a good easter. This month has been an incredibly rough one on a multitude of levels. I am just trying to remember the helpful motto: That which doesn't kill you, better make you stronger, because it just might come back and try again.
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