Hello Adventurers,
We wanted to share with you some changes/improvements we have made with Cedric Sparklesack’s (and King Cedric’s) rewards. Most of this will have very little effect on your experience, but we like to be transparent about changes, so here they are.
We have 2 issues we wanted to address:
- Sometimes Tarot Cards do not go into the Vault when expected, due to us having to handle the release process manually.
- Because of the manual process above, and the increasing number of Tarot Cards and Gnomes, it was becoming increasingly difficult to manage their drop chances from Cedric Sparklesack.
For the first issue, we have updated our system to automatically add Tarot Cards (and Gnomes) into the Vault. This is similar to how we automate other areas of the game (like Chests). When we no longer have to do things like this manually, they’re much more reliable.
This means Tarot cards will automatically be added to the Vault Rewards 4 weeks after the event they first appear in has ended.
For the second issue, and as part of this automation, we have made a change to Cedric’s loot table. Currently Gnomes and Tarot Cards come from the same “pool”, which was a 20% chance to drop whenever Cedric was defeated in The Vault. This pool was a mix of Gnomes and Tarot that would constantly change every time one of them was added. It sat around 10% for Gnomes and 10% for Tarot though, and might vary up and down by one percent at different times.
In the updated version, we have separated Tarot cards into their own separate pool from the Gnomes. Now Gnomes are always exactly 10%, and Tarot Cards are always exactly 10%. The chance of getting any Tarot card is roughly equal to the chance of getting any other Tarot Card with a small bonus for the latest one released into the pool. As for Gnomes, newer Gnomes are actually a bit rarer than the older Gnomes, and over time, as we add MOAR GNOMEZ! that will change with the NEW Gnomes becoming the rarer ones. The difference between new Gnomes and old Gnomes remains close to what it was before with most old Gnomes appearing about three times as often as Vault rewards.
More Gnome details for our number crunchers
The drop rates for each Gnome will change every time more Troops are added to the Gnome pool, so while we aren’t posting exact drop rate chances for each Gnome, we can share how the drop pool for Gnomes works.
4 Gnomes will be considered “new” at a time. Currently the Gnomes that are considered new, and therefore slightly rarer are:
- Hoagi Humbucker
- Baz Bonebeater
- Cursed Gnome
- Dragonite Gnome
The older Gnomes are:
- Treasure Gnome
- Pet Gnome
- Soul Gnome
- Glory Gnome
- Jewel Gnome
Any Gnomes not listed here + the Heart of Rage are considered to be “middle ground”, so new Gnomes are rarer than them and older Gnomes are more common than them.
When new Gnomes are added, enough of the currently listed “new” Gnomes will be shifted to the “middle ground” to maintain the number of 4 “new” Gnomes.
The Heart of Rage will appear in the Gnome Pool, as it did before, rather than the Tarot Card pool (since it isn’t a Tarot Card).
These changes only affect Cedric Sparklesack’s reward pool.
Gnome and Battlecrasher appearance rates throughout the game have not been changed.
