📈📊📉 RATE A DRAGON: TREEBARK

[Arceus]

Animation: 1.5/5 Why aren't the dragon's toes animated? It looks like it's wearing a pair of massive snowshoes, which makes it look out-of-place.

Size: 1/5 Treebark started off being one of the tiniest dragons known to the Vale - and the squashed details made it look like a dragon-shaped brown smudge. However, after not one but two size increases, Treebark is about the size of its version on the school of spellwork and sorcery but now suffers from the opposite problem.

Treebark is now so massive of a dragon that at level 20, its erratic animation makes it capable of disrupting an entire island. Not only is it impossible to see the dragons in the same habitat, Treebark makes it difficult to see all the dragons on the island in which its habitat is placed.

Price: 1.5/5 The reasoning for this is less due to the magic price and more due to the time taken to complete the incantation. After spending your magic it takes a whopping three days before you receive the dragon egg in your gifts menu... then you still need to hatch it! By this point it's far more worth the effort co-op cloning this dragon, as its 10% chance makes it fairly likely that you'll clone and hatch a treebark egg in less time than it would take to "conjure a spell to get the dragon down from there!"

Theme: 5/5 If you've played Summerthings Magical I, this rating is self-explanatory.

Design: 5/5 Wish I could rate this one higher... I've been waiting for this dragon to arrive in the Vale since Mrs. Murphy's School of Spellwork and Sorcery debuted at the beginning of Summerthings Magical I. After over a year of anticipation it has finally arrived - with little change to the design on the decoration, Treebark is excellent as expected.

Breeding Combo: 5/5 An elemental combo is always a relief to see in a dragon.

Preference: 5/5 As I already mentioned, it's been over a year of waiting for this dragon to arrive in the Vale. With the other three starters being mid at best, with the limiteds being better yet about average among designs, Treebark is the best dragon added during Sumerthings Magical II - and it's no competition.

[hawk]

TREEBARK DRAGON

1. Animation: 5

2. Size: 5

3. Price (12,000 Magic - summoning price): 5

4. Theme: 5

5. Rate Treebark’s design: 5

6. How would you rate Treebark’s breeding combo (earth + plant metal): 5

7. How much do you like Treebark (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!): 5

Comments:

Sorry Adlerist - I meant to get these done earlier today, but I completely forgot.

I love Treebark. I'm so glad Deca made it an actual dragon. It's non-thematic, really, but since there's one on the school, it fits the theme. I LOVE the big size. It was fun putting mine up on the event island for ec because it got to hang out with the other one. The baby is just the sweetest, cutest little guy. I want to snuggle it. The adult is beautiful and elegant. I love the animations. The egg is gorgeous too! All around, a winning design!

[adlerist]

TREEBARK DRAGON


1. Animation: 4


2. Size (if you don’t own Treebark, please check a friend’s park): 5


3. Price (12,000 Magic - summoning price): 4


4. How well does Treebark fit the theme of the event: 5


5. Rate Treebark’s design: 4


6. How would you rate Treebark’s breeding combo (earth + plant + metal): 5


7. How much do you like Treebark (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!): 4


Comments/feedback for Deca

Ever since Mrs Murphy’s School was released last year, expectations have been high for the dragon perched atop it. Players really wanted the dragon. So, when it was super small, it was extremely disappointing. Thank you for fixing the diminutive size — twice!

The animation of Treebark, when he was in the sky, was terrific as he swooped past Kairos with a serious case of the zoomies. It’s unfortunate that he lost the animation once he was summoned to the Vale. He seems like a more demure and tired version of the grand dragon in the sky.

Treebark’s huge wings and horns are fabulous! But the brown colour of the body and wings is a little bland and makes the dragon seem flat and monochromatic.

At last, a dragon that fits the event theme perfectly! A champion of Mrs Murphy’s School!

Treebark's summoning process was fraught with issues, like confusion on how to obtain him and no in-game notification or deadline for when players had to summon him. Three days was too long to wait for Treebark; 24 hours max would’ve sufficed. After several days, players forgot they summoned the dragon. And then, players still had to incubate the egg. At the very least, the dragon should’ve instantly been available in the player’s park.

Nevertheless, it is wonderful to finally have Treebark in the Vale!

[belorga]

TREEBARK DRAGON


1. Animation 4


2. Size (if you don’t own Treebark, please check a friend’s park) 5


3. Price (12,000 Magic - summoning price) 4


4. How well does Treebark fit the theme of the event 5


5. Rate Treebark’s design 4


6. How would you rate Treebark’s breeding combo (earth + plant + metal) 5


7. How much do you like Treebark (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!) 5


Comments/feedback for Deca: Excellent to have a different summoning mechanism requiring a bit of detective work to figure out the new goal. Albeit without the forum may have been hard to work out how to summon.

[samiam]

TREEBARK DRAGON


1. Animation
3/5

2. Size (if you don’t own Treebark, please check a friend’s park)
5/5

3. Price (12,000 Magic - summoning price)
5/5

4. How well does Treebark fit the theme of the event
5/5

5. Rate Treebark’s design
3/5

6. How would you rate Treebark’s breeding combo (earth + plant + metal)
5/5

7. How much do you like Treebark (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!)
3.5/5


Comments/feedback for Deca

Thanks for increasing Treebark’s size a couple of times! That definitely made Treebark more desirable for players to buy or clone. I’m glad that Treebark was cloneable, but its percentage could’ve been 5% so more players would’ve summoned him. That being said, I am very grateful that he wasn’t 1% because that’s such an impossible percentage.

The process to summon Treebark was not clear. There should’ve been a notice in the game 4 days before the event ended that the deadline was within the next 24 hours since it took 3 days to summon him. DECA also should’ve posted warnings in all the DV communities and on their FB account, but thankfully the Game Reps did this. If the warning was just in the game, that would’ve been enough. Also, 3 days was way too long. 16 hours, the time to incubate Treebark would’ve been better, and players should not have been forced to incubate the Treebark egg. They summoned the dragon, so it should be in their park. The whole summoning/spell process was not fully thought through, and it resulted in a lot of players not getting the dragon in time after they spent 12,000 EC.