5. How well does Elkar fit the theme of the event : 5
6. Design details : 5
7. How would you rate Elkar’s breeding combo (REINDEER + SNOWFLAKE 7) : 1.5
8. How much do you like Elkar : 4
Comments / feedback for Deca : Elkar has a great animation and I love how he hides in the snow. Has a nice reference to a Taylor Swift lyric in the description. Reindeer was a perfect dragon to use in the breeding combo, but Snowflake 7? NO. Although Snowflake 7 is a permanent dragon, it is has extremely low breeding odds. Next to impossible to breed in the rift and unlikely to obtain one via the Snowflake EOM.
1. Animation 5/5, amazing animations with a ton of character. love all the things it does!
2. Rift trait 4/5, kinda hard to put it anywhere else really.
3. Size (if you don’t own Elkar, please check a friend’s park) 4/5, biiig elk.
4. Price (12,000 Iceberries) 4/5, very reasonable for a weekly limited!
5. How well does Elkar fit the theme of the event 5/5. cold innit
6. Design details 2/5, feels *very* similar to keyper. fairly complicated design that's hard to read if you're not looking close up at it.
7. How would you rate Elkar’s breeding combo (REINDEER + SNOWFLAKE 7) 5/5, nice and simple edited, 2/5 for it being snowflake 7. i forgot about that part.
8. How much do you like Elkar (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!) 3/5, the biggest thing being the issue mentioned in point 6. so much detail really makes it difficult to discern the shape and such of the dragon, although this one is substantially better than keyper in that regard as it's only really the front end that's cluttered.
Last Edit: Jan 14, 2023 20:43:29 GMT -6 by sargassum: forgot which snowflake it was despite it being right there in the thing lol
3. Size (if you don’t own Elkar, please check a friend’s park): 5
4. Price (12,000 Iceberries): 5
5. How well does Elkar fit the theme of the event: 5
6. Design details: 5
7. How would you rate Elkar’s breeding combo (REINDEER + SNOWFLAKE 7): 3
8. How much do you like Elkar (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!): 5
Comments / feedback for Deca: Love the animation when a dragon runs off screen. Very clever and creative actions. Breeding snowflake dragons can be frustrating.
Post by ilovdragons on Jan 17, 2023 10:57:36 GMT -6
ELKAR DRAGON
1. Animation - 5 - definitely a 5 for me! Great job, enough going on to keep me entertained!
2. Rift trait - 5 - beautiful and noticeable.
3. Size (if you don’t own Elkar, please check a friend’s park) - 5 - well-sized w/others.
4. Price (12,000 Iceberries) - 3 - too expensive. They are all too expensive. ☺️
5. How well does Elkar fit the theme of the event - 5 - perfect fit
6. Design details - 5 - fabulous! 👏🏻 Another ‘horse’ look dragon so i love it. Stately, majestic, beautiful. Not colorful but realistic & still lovely.
7. How would you rate Elkar’s breeding combo (REINDEER + SNOWFLAKE 7) - 1 - 😭 way too difficult for new players! Snowflakes are virtually impossible to get! 😔
8. How much do you like Elkar (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!) - 5 - love him! Great addition. Great animation. Stately and majestic!
Comments / feedback for Deca - another winning design! DECA, u do a great job w/this game! 👍🏻👏🏻😃
Last Edit: Jan 17, 2023 10:59:36 GMT -6 by ilovdragons
1. Animation: 5/5 Another dragon who's falling a lot. Maybe it's the iceberries? I love the dead/overwintering "bush" left in the snowbank after his dive. Can we please have that as a decoration? Please?
2. Rift trait: 5/5 Could have more, but I'm ok with where it is. Looks good.
3. Size: 5/5
4. Price (12,000 Iceberries): 5/5 Yes please!
5. Theme: 5/5 Deer-like, quadruped that likes snow. Lookin good.
6. Design details: 4/5 Less is more. This guy has less going on than some of his antlered predecessors, but his wee head is lost under those massive antlers. At one point I thought his orb had floated down to his nose as a nod to Rudolph, but then realized it was just part of his antlers still. I'm a fan of his dark colour, but I would have loved for him to change seasonally or by skybox theme. E.g. Summer skyboxes - dark. Fall/winter skyboxes - white.
7. Breeding combo (REINDEER + SNOWFLAKE 7): 3/5 So here's the thing. I'm not against using Snowflake 7 generally. We had the entire year to breed for it. I was lucky enough to find time mid-summer to spend a week trying for a rift-traited one and succeeded. But. Snowflake 7 only came out last year and with the regular event schedule, it's really hard to find time to dedicate to breeding permanent dragons. I was glad to see the normal variant reasonably priced in the market, but boy that rifty one can be elusive.
8. How much do you like Elkar (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!): 5/5 Without the antlers in the snow, this would have been a 4. Kudos to whoever thought of that.
Comments: I do like this dragon. He's a bit forgettable just because he's yet another antler guy after several antler dragons, but he's got personality. I really appreciate that he's a winter dragon and not a festive dragon. I appreciate the background into being about his wintery origins.
Also, can we please have the Antlers/Bush in a Snowpile decoration next year? I promise to buy a whole bunch of them.
I really like it when Elkar drops down into a hole and only its antlers show, like a dried, charred, and leaf-less bush.
2. Rift trait: 4/5
There could be a little trait in the antlers. Elkar has a very dark colour, so the contrasting trait looks very appealing.
3. Size (if you don’t own Elkar, please check a friend’s park): 5/5
4. Price (12,000 Iceberries): 4/5
5. How well does Elkar fit the theme of the event: 5
6. Design details: 4/5
7. How would you rate Elkar’s breeding combo (REINDEER + SNOWFLAKE 7): 1/5
Reindeer is perfect. But Snowflake 7? Come on. Snowflake 7’s breeding percentage is 1%. This dragon should not be used in breeding combos. Remember, if players need a traited Elkar, they must breed Elkar in the Rift. Therefore, they must first breed a traited Snowflake 7 in the Rift. Snowflake 7 is particularly difficult, because it cannot be cloned in the Vale. There is no way to get around the miserable breeding percentage.
Snowflake 7 does, once again, bring up the issue of allowing players to wish for a traited version of a dragon at the Wishing Well, if they already own a twin. Players can already wish for a twin if they have a regular version, so it makes sense. And it doesn’t cause an imbalance in the game or make the Rift too easy, like buying traited dragons would create.
8. How much do you like Elkar (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!): 3.5/5
Comments / feedback for Deca
Elkar looks like it got left behind from the previous Garden Noms event. It’s a winter version of those dragons. In the Noms event, there were lots of dragons that resembled trees and/or had branching antlers. As a result, Elkar doesn’t feel as unique or original as the rest of the new holiday dragons, but I do like the transition from an autumn tree dragon to a winter tree dragon.
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Post by sylviasylvester on Jan 27, 2023 12:34:48 GMT -6
ELKAR DRAGON
1. Animation: 4/5 2. Rift trait: 3/5 3. Size (if you don’t own Elkar, please check a friend’s park): 5/5 4. Price (12,000 Iceberries): 3/5 5. How well does Elkar fit the theme of the event: 5/5 6. Design details: 3/5 7. How would you rate Elkar’s breeding combo (REINDEER + SNOWFLAKE 7): 2/5 8. How much do you like Elkar (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!): 3/5
Comments / feedback for Deca: I like the idea of Elkar, but I really didn’t like Snowflake 7 in the breeding combo. Please use don’t dragons that are so difficult to breed. It ruins the fun in the game.
3. Size (if you don’t own Elkar, please check a friend’s park) 5/5
4. Price (12,000 Iceberries): 4.5/5
5. How well does Elkar fit the theme of the event 5/5
6. Design details 5/5
7. How would you rate Elkar’s breeding combo (REINDEER + SNOWFLAKE 7) 1/5 Snowflake 7 is terrible in this combo
8. How much do you like Elkar (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!) 5/5
Comments / feedback for Deca
Snowflake 7 is totally unnecessary in this breeding combo. It seriously looks like you just added it to make Elkar close to impossible to breed in the Rift.
Post by singleimage on Jan 28, 2023 3:45:57 GMT -6
ELKAR DRAGON
1. Animation: 5
2. Rift trait: 3
3. Size (if you don’t own Elkar, please check a friend’s park): 5
4. Price (12,000 Iceberries): 5
5. How well does Elkar fit the theme of the event: 5
6. Design details: 4
7. How would you rate Elkar’s breeding combo (REINDEER + SNOWFLAKE 7): 1
8. How much do you like Elkar (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!): 3
Comments / feedback for Deca: Elkar looks good with the Garden Noms dragons. Reindeer + Snow would have been a perfect breeding combo. Snowflake 7 made Elkar less likeable. I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but it really hurts a dragon and influences players’ opinions about it when extremely low breeding percentages are involved (either the dragon or the parents have percentages at or below 2%). Please let us wish for traited dragons at the wishing well. It would help players who are having trouble breeding a traited dragon. Wishes are given infrequently so it’s not like players could do this for every event, just for those rare times they can’t breed a dragon in the Rift.
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