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Magic; Use this topic for all magic related stuff
Topic Started: Oct 10 2013, 08:46 AM (21,035 Views)
essiw
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I thought that it would be nicer to have a separate topic about magic. So here you can discuss about everything you want as long as it is about magic ;)

Below I will include what we know about collecting magic and some strategy ideas. We will include more info as we discover it and have time to include it. :)

Hiding info so we don't have to scroll as much while still being able to access the info.

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[R4E]Adding magic info[/R4E]
Edited by wapatango, Nov 19 2013, 07:35 AM.
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jtfields

Since its double magic weekend I went ahead and did the 5 gem exchange since this weekend you get 60 magic. I noticed that when I did the exchange for light instead of automatically casting the magic it added it to my total and I had to manually cast the magic. I then did the 5 gem exchange for 60 dark magic and it did the same thing...it just added the magic to my total and I was able to just cast it like normal magic. So in the end I exchanged 10 gems for 120 magic and was able to cast all of it to light.
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wapatango
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Actually, what it did is it gave you 60 magic in your bucket for spending 5 gems, and it sent 60 magic to dark/light. (I just spent 5 gems myself and kept track of numbers.) So, you actually get 120 magic for spending 5 gems, 240 for 10. That seems like a good deal to me. My magic earnings have already decreased greatly since I don't have as much time or energy to use my small plant habitats. However, I should get my giant dark habitat some time tomorrow, unless I somehow manage to earn max magic today. (I don't think that's going to happen.)
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Suncrusher
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wapatango
Nov 2 2013, 11:28 AM
Actually, what it did is it gave you 60 magic in your bucket for spending 5 gems, and it sent 60 magic to dark/light. (I just spent 5 gems myself and kept track of numbers.) So, you actually get 120 magic for spending 5 gems, 240 for 10. That seems like a good deal to me. My magic earnings have already decreased greatly since I don't have as much time or energy to use my small plant habitats. However, I should get my giant dark habitat some time tomorrow, unless I somehow manage to earn max magic today. (I don't think that's going to happen.)
oh nice. I'm definitely buying that every day this weekend
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RiffRaff
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I now have giant light and dark habitats and feel like i won't miss out on much if i slow down, all magic will be cast to the dark in a bid to slow it down.
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Fletch_smf
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Suncrusher
Nov 2 2013, 08:07 AM
Fletch_smf
Nov 2 2013, 04:55 AM
The Leap Year Dragon was released for a handful of days at the end of February last year. There are a lot more people that didn't get that dragon because of the short breeding window then in this comp, and it wasn't going to return for 4 years, essentially meaning players then would miss out. Breeding non stop, speeding up fails, etc, people still missed out. This whole comp is handled way better than that situation. To suggest that not knowing here what is happening with the 3rd Rift Egg is different to people not knowing if the next breeding attempt would result in a LYD is false. And since then we have learned that dragons come back in limited events, so to suggest that people might miss out on something exclusive here is also not born out by past experience. To not want them to do another event because of what they might do is worrying for nothing. It's trying to diminish future possibilities because of unfounded concerns.
You could buy a leap year dragon directly with gems (at least, you could during the christmas special; I wasn't around for the first time they were released). I wasn't talking about speeding up fails with real money, I was saying that when players know exactly when a dragon will suddenly be unavailable, they can simply buy the dragon directly rather than missing out forever. Therefore, previously players have always had the information they needed to decide whether to spend real money on the game. So unless Leap Year Dragons were not available to buy in the market during their original run, then I never suggested that "not knowing here what is happening with the 3rd Rift Egg is different to people not knowing if the next breeding attempt would result in a LYD."
A Leap Year Dragon cost 2750 gems. It would cost me $110 to buy the gems needed to buy the dragon. Do you think anyone was genuinely looking at that as a possibility?

Also, because we were not given a specific time that the dragon was disappearing, there was still that uncertainty of when my time would be up. Would I have time to try for some more breeding attempts or do I need to spend that $110 now? Uncertainty of success and the chance of missing out has been a part of the game since they introduced the Bone Dragon.
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RainbowTears

It looks like this is going the way of other f2p games. If I wanted to get light and dark fully upgraded I had to buy and sell bushes or some other boring thing.
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Suncrusher
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Fletch_smf
Nov 2 2013, 04:35 PM
...we were not given a specific time that the dragon was disappearing, there was still that uncertainty of when my time would be up. Would I have time to try for some more breeding attempts or do I need to spend that $110 now?...

Like I said, I wasn't playing the game during that time. As long as I've been playing BFS has always posted the exact day on their facebook page that other dragons would disappear from the market so that people could buy them in time

RainbowTears
Nov 2 2013, 05:33 PM
It looks like this is going the way of other f2p games. If I wanted to get light and dark fully upgraded I had to buy and sell bushes or some other boring thing.

yeah : (
Edited by Suncrusher, Nov 2 2013, 06:33 PM.
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RainbowTears
Nov 2 2013, 05:33 PM
It looks like this is going the way of other f2p games. If I wanted to get light and dark fully upgraded I had to buy and sell bushes or some other boring thing.
I'm pretty confident I'll get both giant habitats without any sort of grinding, but won't get the third egg. All I added to my game play was racing and party hat collecting.
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jtfields

I don't have any problem with the event. In fact, I think it was genius in the part of BFS. Sure they are hoping to increase in app purchases but I also think they want to encourage players to actually play all aspects of the game. In that respect it is a huge success. For the first time in a long time I'm racing, visiting friends' parks, growing food, etc. Instead of popping in for five minutes and collecting food and leaving I'm spending half an hour a day doing a little bit of everything. The Kairos fiasco was a ridiculous grind, this is not.
Edited by jtfields, Nov 2 2013, 08:17 PM.
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Sylvandyr
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Hm. This whole magic thing has actually helped me to understand that I've lost interest in the game. Of course I'd like to see what happens, so I'm sticking around to just see the end result, but after that I'm probably uninstalling. I've come to the realization that the DV gameplay is no longer for me. Collecting magic wasn't particularly fun for me. I got most of my enjoyment from collecting pairs and replicating the dragons that I really liked, but there isn't as much of an incentive to collect pairs now.

It's interesting to see how different people react to the same things. I just hope that we can all remember to respect each others' individual differences and realize that not everyone enjoys the same experiences.
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jtfields

Just got the large light habitat. Can't decide if I should now go for the 3rd light egg or switch to the dark large habitat. I'm thinking we'll be able to breed or purchase the eggs after the event so maybe the large habitats are more important. Not sure though.
Edited by jtfields, Nov 2 2013, 09:18 PM.
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Sylvandyr
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Congrats jtfields!

I'm way behind everyone else, I completed the 2nd egg for the light habitat today. I dunno how some people have both full upgrades o_O Anyways, I'm going for the dark 2nd egg next. I'm hoping to be able to get the habitat upgrade at least, but I'm not sure if I will be able to. Once light dragons are summoned, dark is gonna move very fast.
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jtfields

Sylvandyr
Nov 2 2013, 10:01 PM
Congrats jtfields!

I'm way behind everyone else, I completed the 2nd egg for the light habitat today. I dunno how some people have both full upgrades o_O Anyways, I'm going for the dark 2nd egg next.
Thanks. If I were you I'd go for the Light large habitat first.
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magpac

I'll be getting the 2nd dark egg today. I'll start on the 9999 upgrade for light after that, but I can't see me finishing it before the end
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jtfields
Nov 2 2013, 10:42 PM
Sylvandyr
Nov 2 2013, 10:01 PM
Congrats jtfields!

I'm way behind everyone else, I completed the 2nd egg for the light habitat today. I dunno how some people have both full upgrades o_O Anyways, I'm going for the dark 2nd egg next.
Thanks. If I were you I'd go for the Light large habitat first.
I'm 100% sure I won't be able to complete it on time, unfortunately. I'd prefer the habitat upgrades over the eggs, but 9999 magic is too much for me when there are only 2.5 steps left to go before light awakens.
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