šŸŒˆ Beating Contest of Elements as a F2P: Guide and Opinion

Lol thanks very much @arrow_slinger sorry for my late reply.

I guess youā€™re right, Iā€™m not super super doomed, but nonetheless I am still a bit nervous lol. I think I might be able to just make it with a bit of luck, but we will seeā€¦it starts soon

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Ok I pulled Orla. I think I am going to put her in lieu of Buddy and then get Buddy to replace C-Isshtak in the later teamā€¦

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Thanks for the nicest feedback I could get in this. The Nature contest version will be published once I finish it. I have a timer in my phone that only let me play 1h per day ~ which I think is healthy at this point of the game ~. So I may take a little longer than I did to Holy version.

See you soon. x

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What a great idea with a timer :100:

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Thank you :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
With the constant new hero avalanche, lack of control on overpowerness, lack of quality in general and sickening style that Zynga hasā€¦ I donā€™t think that it is healthy to spend more than 1h on this game anymore, sadly. I use some extra time on Forum, but honestly I donā€™t think that filling chests for useless repeated pixels and facing unbalanced opponents over and over is worthy anymore. Only because they trying to sell heroes insanely over players frustration.

Finishing the events and sharing experiences here is more fun.

The other side is, Iā€™m not being able to fast level my heroes and such but honestly I donā€™t care.

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My teams for this event (all 3* LBd and fully emblemed, 4* emblemed but not LBd, unless stated otherwise):
1&2: Belith-Dolgoon-Mnesseus-Whacker-Lianna(1/1)
3&4: Grevle-Noril-L.John(uneblemed)-Kadilen(3/70)-Elkanen(3/70)
5&6: Hansel-Peters-cKashhrek-Faiez-Tettukh(unemblemed)
7&8: Melendor-Skittleskull-cCaedmon-Elradir(+12)-cGadeirus(LB)
And I ran out of flags :wink:
But for 9&10 I have:
Heimdall(LB+19)-Silvaria(LB+12)-Yunan(LB+19)-Zocc(+6) or Caedmon(LB+20)-Melendor(LB+20)
and Morgan le Fay in reserve.

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Little John was one of the pleasant surprise ā€œheroesā€ for me this contest. really useful!

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Iā€™m completely with you - thank you for the inspiration :blush: I think Iā€™ll do exactly that then too. :star2:

How you do prioritise your game time then - sticking only to the important quests and tournaments, or?

(I apologise, slightly off topic - this forum should really have a PM function :pray:)

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No problem. I think health and quality of life should ALWAYS be discussed everywhere. Specially when there are some people heavily addicted to something.

I open the game, watch mystic vision, collect food/iron/recruts/food heroes/alchemy lab fragments then reply alliance chat. Use half to entire my world energy on useful quests (gems, recruits II, emblems, ascension items, battle items II). Yes, i ignore the ā€œuselessā€ quests. Then I hit titan. Usually i dont burn all 3 flags at once since they take a while to recover anyway. No need of anxiety.

Mostly, after, in next time i open the game I burn tournament flags and raid until I can open the chest. Watch another mystic vision. Feed heroes and such. Use some more world energy on quests and/or stages that Iā€™m farming avatars.

I always save some time for war too in the end of my day, when 6 flags are avaible so I use all them once, so I wont need to open the game again. Usually, i hit the titan again there.

Before sleep sometime i hit the titan again, burn some more world energy, extra mystic vision. Collect food/iron and others.

I do open the game for some seconds during the day to randomly watch mystic vision but they are occasional.

My phone will show me show much time i have left so I keep controlling myself. Also managing it better


the blue bar indicates my time left for today

Forcing myself to make that only 1h counts and use it as wise as possible made it a lot more interesting, tbh. I was using 3 to 4 hours and honestly thatā€™s not Okay. Specially how this game is being managed.

Hope it helps :slight_smile:
I wish some healthy playing for you and Iā€™m fine with any other questions.

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Thank you so much for elaborating :hugs:

When you break it down, it sounds much easier to stay at maximum one hour. YouĀ“re so right - this game just isnĀ“t what I want to spend so much time on either! IĀ“ll try to pay attention to time spend in the coming week and see how I can adjust - I think a lot of my logging in sessions are a bit scattered and unorganized - so - Time to clean up! :broom: :file_cabinet: Thank you again - you too! :slight_smile:

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Nature version is now out:

Enjoy.

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@Gwniver , I agree, there should be a PM function on this forumā€¦

@FrenziedEye , this contest is about to end in 5 hours. I hope you and everyone did well. Me personally, I had a lot going on the past few days. I did not hit the mythic titan, and (probably) wonā€™t do this green elemental contest either, due to time constraints.

Iā€™m good thoughā€¦ I agree with above that I spend a lot less time in this game than before. (Though I had quite a bit of fun in that Monster Island beta.).

(Insert ā€œhumble bragā€ tag here)ā€¦ Believe it or not, Iā€™m still (with 6 hours left), in the Top 1% of the 4* raid tournament after Battle Day 3. So I am just stoked about that because I had three defeats and didnā€™t die on offense today, lol.

I did die today to a hero with 18 left in the war (and three thorn minions), so it balances out, in the end.

What Iā€™m really happy about (sorry I didnā€™t post or create a thread sooner), is that I got a really good (for me as F2P) 10-pull in the Black Friday summons. A few solid 4* and some decent 3* so Iā€™m happy.

If I do work on this contest, I will use my unemblemed Little John somewhere down the line, lol.

Off to the raid tournament thread to post , because thatā€™s probably where I belong after that surprising finish today. (My 4* mostly red defense is coming through for me this week!). End of brag.

Edit to properly tag @Gwniver and @FrenziedEye ā€¦ I hope that worked.

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