That car is closing in it seems 
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Youāve mistaken a side mirror for a rear view mirror. 
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Every time they limit it to one type it really is a failure - remember Nagas
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I believe you could use challenges for Nagas though.
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The Nagas were explore or PvP, and a bunch of players put up Naga defenses making farming easier. I donāt remember that event being too tough, although this one is painful since itās so randomā¦
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Kinda agree hereā¦ Why not make it explore a certain kingdom instead? or just explore in general.
Combined with the 20 bonus souls, itās not a good week for doing events.
20 bonus souls? commonā¦ If I do a challenge on Warlord 4 with souls armor on and some necroās, I can make over 300 souls easy in one fight, and thatās not even the best souls farming team out there.
I would have to do 15 PVP battles with a weaker team to get the same reward as 1 quick fight.
Double the souls in PVP would have had a much more fun impact, everyone would dive in with their soul farming teamsā¦
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Iām glad I broke myself of the mental āNEEDā to do these events.
Sure, I miss out on some nice gems and keys, but it feels so much better to just not care. The added events really added to the feeling of a forced grind for me.
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This kind of apathy is exactly what Iām talking about. Since the day Events were released people have been vacillating back and forth between āIām only going to do halfā and āIām not going to do them at allā. Why spend the time and resources on Events if nobody is going to use them?
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This is the first āchallengingā event as there is no way for the community to directly help or indirectly give aid. I think this comes down to the explore having too many troops to pull from with what seems like a sense of balancing to ensure you even fight enemies from that kingdom.
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Actually there have been plenty of such āexplore onlyā events. All of them just as irritating. Although there seem to be less of this troop type around, so ā¦
i am exploring in zhulākari which has reasonable amounts of elves for explore.
First one I went to was Silvergladeā¦ it gave me Blade Dancer++ (i.e. 50% bigger -_-) and three Dragons from Dragonās Claw.
Sort of not what I was expecting, didnāt bother.
Iāve seen satyrs there too. Have also encountered all-raksha, all-mech, all-dragon teams. I donāt understand why that happens. At one point I checked all three kingdoms with elves and there was only one elf available between the three of them.
Seriously may be the first event I donāt finish (though I will certainly try). Btw this, guild wars delayed again, and the need to hoard keys for weeks for anything new/useful in endgame, the burnout is real
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If they would only make it so you could do Pvp as well as explore, I would be happy.
I never do more than half because I donāt play THAT much And I donāt do annoying things like treasure hunt or explore specific kingdoms when I only heavily need blades (and I donāt explore unless I absolutely need to). I usually just pvp to max seals and if I have any time left, explore.
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I posted above, but the way the explore battles are created is from the challenge and quest teams, with one random troop (from any kingdom) subbed in. I donāt want to give too much of a spoiler for the Silverglade quest line, but if youāve done it, think about how many elves you fought against. Not defending the choice(s), just answering the āI donāt understand whyā part of your comment.
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Iām reasonably certain that normal quest teams as a base wont make their way in the explore rotation. Very early on into explore, I do remember at least a few times where I got a team that I got some fairly anomalous teams that did not fit this profile, but these were very few and far between. I chalked this up to more troops randomly being swapped out, but it could have also been that explores were pulling from the āoldā challenge table to get their initial team. Again, these were the exception and not the rule, as a great majority of the time Iāve been able to correlate an explore team to āchallenge team with one troop swappedā. If they pulled from quests as well as challenges at an equal rate, there would be a huge amount more of base teams that could not be correlated with challenges.
Just did 15 explores in a row where the explore could be correlated to a specific challenge with one troop swapped. Two silverglade challenges are in fact nothing but dragons and a third also has zero elves. Looking at the challenges, Silverglade has 0/4/2/3/0/4/0 elves on their challenges. ZhulāKari, in contrast, has 2/2/0/3/1/3/1 elves on their challenges. So ZhulāKari has a higher chance of there being an elf somewhere in a given battle, while Silverglade will generally have 2 or 3 if it has any. If you are changing the difficulty to force an explore swap, Iād recommend Silverglade. If you just want to grind it out, probably ZhulāKari. Or whatever you need more stones in.
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Elves are not dropping consistently for me at all. Restricting to Explore only is downright punitive. Around 30 explores, 33 snotgems. Iāll probably stop at the third reward level.
I agree. The current implementation basically removes fun from the game for me. If I do them it is by accident only.
Iām glad for botches like this weekās as they can bring into focus underlying problems.
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