Maybe SGG realizes that people have not dragons ready to tackle more difficult quests. Or they want to cut down the number of resources one can get for free. You decide!
Iām a victim of bad RNG, I have 4+ of all the element specific statuesā¦ but only 2 of the Yellow statues. And of course, my only 4* dragon is a yellowā¦ and the rare quest only gives one statue, so Iāll need another one to dropā¦ sigh
If the current rotation continues, we are looking at ~4 months between running the same rare quest twice. That seems like way too long. Without getting lucky from chests, it would be 2 years+ to get the color-specific mats for a 5* dragon?
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3 days per quest
Each ābasicā quest 2x in between rare quests
18 days from end of one rare to start of next
21 days including time of rare quest.
Assume rare quest for each color and one generic/colorless quest = 6 rare quests
6 cycles * 21 days - 3 days of said quest=123 days from end of e.g. Ruby Caverns until we expect it again.
6x4* mat (e.g. Ruby Pendant) for final ascension (note between 3rd/4th ascension 8* Uncut Ruby @1/quest)
6 mats * 123 days = 738 days from first Ruby Caverns to 6th Ruby Caverns for 6 Ruby Pendant
Actually it looks fine to me. With current schedule of silver coin dropping rate (100 coins in 15 days) not sure if we going to get any 5* dragon in two years
2 years is about what a new player would expect out of the main game if all they did was quests, mapping and raids. Itās going to get better once they add more stuff, like PoD and SOME sort of alliance based something. We get quite a chunk of our AM from Mystic Visions, War rewards, Titan battles, etc that have no current component in DS.
Adding in aether quests, a specific color rare quest comes around every ~9 weeks (aether quests mess it up a bit because occasionally there could fall 3 aether quests between iterations of the same color quest)
9 week rotation * 6 color specific mats = 54 weeks.
2 years = 104 weeks
Without other sources of mats -only rare quests- main game gives you mats for a specific color in just over half the time.
items needed to fully ascend an epic green dragon include 4+6 Jade Turtle Statues, 4 Jade Daggers, 4 Uncut Jades (as well as 2 Feathered Headresses and 2 Ornate Headresses), and
items needed to fully ascend a legendary green dragon include 4+6 Jade Turtle Statues, 4 Jade Daggers, 4+4 Uncut Jades, 1 Dragonstone Pedant, 6 Jade Pedants, and 1 Rainbow Chalice (as well as 2 Feathered Headresses and 2 Ornate Headresses).
Bottlenecks may include various uncut gems and ornate headdresses.
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So it seems that the rotation is (Fish/Stone stuff ā Egg/XP Stuff ā Item Stuff) x2 ā Rare quest. Each quest lasts 3 days, so 21 days from the beginning of one rare quest to another. Thatās way too long. In base game even rare quest lasts 1.5 days, and though common quests in Dragonspire have 5 tiers and energy requirement of Rare Quest in base game (plus Dragon energy refills half as fast), there is no reason to have it for longer than two days at most. Even one day for common quests would be probably enough.
and the rare quest only gives one statue, so Iāll need another one to dropā¦ sigh
