🧪 Early Information on New "Sanctuary of Gargoyles" Challenge Event [Part of The Beta Beat V48]

[PlayForFun]

NOTE: Please do not, under any circumstances, share IMAGES OR VIDEOS from Beta in this or any public Forum thread. Violations can cause players to lose their Beta accounts, or threads to be closed down.

This thread is to provide early insights and discussion on the new “Sanctuary of Gargoyles” Challenge Event

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Don’t get too attached

Details from Beta, especially brand-new Beta content, don’t tend to be very reliable for actual release.

It’s incredibly common that features are changed during Beta testing, or sometimes even after testing but before release. That is, after all, the purpose of Beta testing.

So I wouldn’t get too attached to any of this — it’s not unheard of for entire portions of features to be removed or reworked, or for radical changes to functionality to be made.

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New Sanctuary of Gargoyles Heroes

A new challenge event = new heroes…

For more information on see here: 🧪 Early Information on New Sanctuary of Gargoyles Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v48]

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Gargolyle Heroes in Challenge Event

As with the League of Villains heroes, the Gargoyle heroes have a bonus when they are used in the Sanctuary of Gargoyles challenge event.

Specifically:

• Heroes of the Gargolyle family bypass the Elemental Barriers, and have increased attack, defense, and health (+20%) in this Challenge Event’s stages

Some Notes:

• This bonus ONLY applies to Gargolye Family Heroes IN the Sanctuary of Gargoyles Event.
• It is NOT limited to Unique heroes only… Any and all Gargolye heroes gain the bonus stat boost.

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Special Gameplay

There is a special event effect:

In the Sanctuary of Gargoyles event, the gargolye enemies harden their skin! The Stoneskin of the enemies grows every time you use a Special Skill or Battle Item.

Damage the enemies receive is reduced. The harder the Stoneskin is, the less damage they receive.

At the beginning of the turn when enemies reach Max Stoneskin:

• all enemies receive Stoneskin buff
• all enemies receive 5% health
• all status ailments of the enemies are cleansed.

The Stoneskin will be reduced if you don’t use any Special Skills or Battle Items during your turn.

When you use a special skill or battle item, then the “Stoneskin” meter at the top increases with 10%, which has 50% as maximum.

The damage to enemies is reduced with the percent in the Stoneskin meter.
So if it is at 30%, then for example Arrows do 70 damage instead of 100, and if you use an additional arrow without waiting 1 turn without an use of a special skill or battle item, then it will deal only 60 damage.

If you reach maximum Stoneskin, then the Stoneskin buff (dropping damage to 1 buff) will be applies to all enemies, and the Stoneskin meter will fall to 0%.

(So it does not stays at maximum like the Rage meter fo Slayers of Fell Shadows event)

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Summoning Odds

As with all other challenge events, the Sanctuary of Gargoyles comes with it’s own Summon Portal. See below for information regarding the appearance rates.

APPEARANCE RATES
Rare Classic Hero: 53.1%
Epic Classic Hero: 19.8%
Legendary Classic Hero: 1.5%

Rare Trainer Hero: 10.0%
Epic Trainer Hero: 1.0%

Rare Event Hero: 7.9%
Epic Event Hero: 5.7%
Legendary Event Hero 1.0%

BONUS DRAW
Legendary Hero of the Month: 1.3%

Yes, you saw that right. Trainer Heroes are in this portal also (same as in Legaue of Villains). The odds tho are different from LoV portal. There is STILL NO CHANGE to the event hero odds from any of the other Challenge Event Heroes.

The 11% odds needed for the Trainer Heroes has come from Rare Classic & Epic Classic Heroes

Discussions here: Trainer Heroes in Event Portals -- Thoughts and Discussions

Table Below compares Starfall odds to other event portal odds:

Hero Class	Starfall	League of Villains	Classic Challenge Events e.g. Guardians
Rare Classic	53.1%	58.1%	63.1%
Epic Classic	19.8%	15.8%	20.8%
Legendary Classic	1.5%	1.5%	1.5%
Rare Trainer	10%	5%	-
Epic Trainer	1%	5%	-
Rare Event	7.9%	7.9%	7.9%
Epic Event	5.7%	5.7%	5.7%
Legendary Event	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%
HotM Bonus	1.3%	1.3%	1.3%

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Challenge Coins

The “Sanctuary of Gargoyles” makes use of the existing Challenge Event Coins currancy for summoning. It also features the Suspicious Chest’s as a rare & random monster which drops 1x Challenge Coin as bonus loot.

The premise of Suspicious Chests appears to be similar to the concept of Orichalcum Seadragons appearing at random during Atlantis Rises and dropping Atlantis Coins, which can then be used for Summons. One difference is that in initial testing, it appears that Suspicious Chests only drop a single Challenge Coin — but you only need 10 of them for a Summon, not 100.

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Event Rules

CHALLENGE EVENT RULES

The goal of a Challenge Event is to get a high master score. The players with the highest master score win exclusive loot at the end of the event.

Master Scoe is the combined score of all stages within a diffiiculty tier. Each difficulty tier has separate master score. Stages can be replayed for the best possible score.

The score from each stage is defined by the enemies defeated, speed of completion and the amount of the Hero health left at the end of a stage.
Big combos and great matches are also taken into account. Using Continues has a negative effect on the stage score. It is possible that Special Enemies spawn in stages. Defeating these enemies gives bonus points and awards Challenge Coins.

The different Difficulty Tiers have limits on what Heroes, Troops and Battle Items can be used in fights.

TIPS:

1. Using Battle Item can be extremly effective in Challenge Events.
2. Some enemies in Challenge Events have an Elemental Barrier. These enemies reflect all damage back from their own element.
3. Completing a difficulty tier for the first time gives and extra Tier Completion Reward that is not tied to the score.

EVENT HERO BONUS

Gain addiitional perks in the battles by using the Heroes of the Challenge Event !

Heroes of the Gargoyle familiy bypass the Elemental Barriers, and have increased attack, defense, and health in battles!

SANCTUARY OF GARGOYLES EVENT EFFECT

In the Sanctuary of Gargoyles event, the gargolye enemies harden their skin! The Stoneskin of the enemies grows every time you use a Special Skill or Battle Item.

Damage the enemies receive is reduced. The harder the Stoneskin is, the less damage they receive.

At the beginning of the turn when enemies reach Max Stoneskin:

• all enemies receive Stoneskin buff
• all enemies receive 5% health
• all status ailments of the enemies are cleansed.

The Stoneskin will be reduced if you don’t use any Special Skills or Battle Items during your turn.

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Event Info – Stages, Bosses, and WE Costs

Duration	Reflect Colour	Stages
4 days	Green	10 per difficulty
Note: Info is beta so may change…

The Sanctuary of Gargoyles follows the the usual set-up for Challenge Events with 3 difficulty tiers (Rare, Epic & Legendary); It is however, Like LoV, using the old format of only 10 Stages for each tier.

Stage #	World Energy ( R/E/L)	Waves	Monsters	Boss
1	2 / 3 / 4	3	Yellow & Green	Soroca (B) & 2 Green Mobs
2	2 / 3 / 4	3	Blue & Green	Kalø (G ) & Budatín ( P)
3	3 / 4 / 5	3	Yellow & Green	Bellerive (Y) & Goseck (P)
4	3 / 4 / 5	3	Green & Yellow	Hohenwerf (R) & Arco ( N )
5	4 / 5 / 6	3	Blue & Green	El Doque (R) & Peñolite (Y) & Gaillard (B)
6	4 / 5 / 6	3	Green & Yellow	Soroca (B) & Hohenwerf (R) & Kalø (G)
7	5 / 6 / 7	3	Green & Yellow	Arco (G) & Budatín (P) & Peñolite (Y)
8	5 / 6 / 7	3	Blue & Green	Bellerive (Y) & El Doque (R) & Gaillard (B)
9	6 / 7 / 8	3	Blue & Green	Arco (G) & Peñolite (Y) & Hohenwerf (R)
10	6 / 7 / 8	3	Green & Yellow	Goseck (P) & El Doque (R) & Gaillard (B)

Boss / enemy stats:

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Rewards

*Sanctuary of Gargoyles has the similar tier based reward system like any other challenge event.

Rare rewards

Tier	Hero	Avatar	Flasks	Tokens	Ascension Materials	Other materials	Battle items	Emblems
1	Bellerive	Soroca	1x Titan 1X WE 1x Raid	1x EHT 1x ETT 1x Summon Token 10x Challenge Event Coin	1x Mystic Rings 2x Damascus Blade 2x Trap Tools 1x Hidden Blade 1x Compass 1x Sturdy Shield 10x Dagger 10x Battle manual	10x Dragon Bones 10x Midknight Root 10x Firestone 10x Oil	10x Revive Scroll 10x Timestop 10x Healing Poition 10x Arrow attack	-
2 - 10	-	-	1x Titan 1X WE 1x Raid	1x EHT 1x ETT 1x Summon Token 5x Challenge Event Coin	1x Mystic Rings 1x Damascus Blade 2x Trap Tools 1x Hidden Blade 10x Dagger 10x Battle manual	10x Dragon Bones 10x Midknight Root 10x Firestone 10x Oil	10x Revive Scroll 10x Timestop 10x Healing Poition 10x Arrow attack	-
11 - 1000	-	-	1x Titan 1X WE 1x Raid	1x EHT 1x ETT 1x Summon Token 2x Challenge Event Coin	1x Mystic Rings 1x Trap Tools 10x Dagger 10x Battle manual	10x Dragon Bones 10x Midknight Root 10x Firestone 10x Oil	10x Revive Scroll 10x Timestop 10x Healing Poition 10x Arrow attack	-
1001 - 10000	-	-	1x Titan 1X WE 1x Raid	1x EHT 1x ETT 1x Summon Token	10x Dagger 10x Battle manual	10x Midknight Root 10x Firestone 10x Oil	10x Revive Scroll 10x Healing Poition 10x Arrow attack	-
10001 - 100000	-	-	1X WE 1x Raid	1x ETT 1x Summon Token	10x Dagger 10x Battle manual	10x Firestone 10x Oil	10x Healing Poition 10x Arrow attack	-
100001 - 500000	-	-	1X WE	1x Summon Token	10x Training manual	10x Oil	10x Arrow attack	-
500001 or lower	-	-	-	1x Summon Token	-	-	-	-
Tier Completion Reward	-	-	1x WE	3x Challenge Event Coins	1x Warm Cape	-	1x Revive Scroll	25x Rogue 25x Sorcerer

Epic rewards

Tier	Hero	Avatar	Flasks	Tokens	Ascension Materials	Other materials	Battle items	Emblems
1	Peñolite	Kalø Bellerive	2x Titan 2x WE 2x Raid	2x EHT 2x ETT 1x Summon Token 20x Challenge Event Coins	2x Royal Tabard 1x Mystic Rings 1x Tome of Tactics 1x Mysterious Tonic 12 Hidden Blade 1x Orb of Magic 2x Sturdy Shield 1x Warm Cape 1x Fine Gloves 20xLeather Armour 20x Advanturer’s Kit	20x Orichaculum Nuggets 20x Fine Steel 20x Metal Ores 20x Large Bone	20x Super Mana Poition 20x Super Antidotes 20x Axe Attack 20x Antidotes	-
2 - 10	-	Bellerive	2x Titan 2x WE 2x Raid	2x EHT 2x ETT 1x Summon Token 10x Challenge Event Coins	2x Royal Tabard 1x Mystic Rings 1x Hidden Blade 1x Orb of Magic 2x Sturdy Shield 1x Warm Cape 20xLeather Armour 20x Advanturer’s Kit	20x Orichaculum Nuggets 20x Fine Steel 20x Metal Ores 20x Large Bone	20x Super Mana Poition 20x Super Antidotes 20x Axe Attack 20x Antidotes	-
11 - 500	-	-	2x Titan 2x WE 2x Raid	2x EHT 2x ETT 1x Summon Token 3x Challenge Event Coins	1x Royal Tabard 1x Hidden Blade 1x Orb of Magic 1x Sturdy Shield 20xLeather Armour 20x Advanturer’s Kit	20x Orichaculum Nuggets 20x Fine Steel 20x Metal Ores 20x Large Bone	20x Super Mana Poition 20x Super Antidotes 20x Axe Attack 20x Antidotes	-
501 - 5000	-	-	2x Titan 2x WE 2x Raid	2x EHT 2x ETT 1x Summon Token	1x Hidden Blade 20xLeather Armour 20x Advanturer’s Kit	20x Fine Steel 20x Metal Ores 20x Large Bone	20x Super Antidotes 20x Axe Attack 20x Antidotes	-
5001 - 50000	-	-	2x WE 2x Raid	2x ETT 1x Summon Token	20xLeather Armour 20x Advanturer’s Kit	20x Metal Ores 20x Large Bone	20x Axe Attack 20x Antidotes	-
50001 - 250000	-	-	2x WE	1x Summon Token	20x Advanturer’s Kit	20x Large Bone	20x Antidotes	-
250001 or Lower	-	-	-	1x Summon Token	-	-	-	-
Tier Completion Reward	-	-	2x WE	5x Challenge Event Coins	1x Fine Gloves 1x Trap Tools	-	1x Revive Scroll	50x Sorcerer 50x Monk

Legendary rewards

Tier	Hero	Avatar	Flasks	Tokens	Ascension Materials	Other materials	Battle items	Emblems
1	El Duque	Gaillard Peñolite Arco	3x Titan 3x WE 3x Raid	3x EHT 3x ETT 1x Summon Token 30x Challenge Event Coin	2x Mystic Rings 2x Farisght Telescope 1x Tome of Tactics 1x Damascus Blade 1x Royal Tabard 2x Orb of Magic 2x Hidden Blade 2x Warm Cape 1x Trap Tools 30x Sharpening Stone 30x Practice Sword	30x Meteor Fragments 30x Grimoire Dust 30x Potent Leaves 30x Common Herbs	40x Dragon attack 30x Bomb Attack 30x Turtle Banner 30x Minor Mana Poition	-
2 - 10	-	Peñolite Arco	3x Titan 3x WE 3x Raid	3x EHT 3x ETT 1x Summon Token 15x Challenge Event Coin	1x Mystic Rings 1x Farisght Telescope 1x Tome of Tactics 1x Damascus Blade 2x Orb of Magic 2x Hidden Blade 2x Warm Cape 1x Trap Tools 30x Sharpening Stone 30x Practice Sword	30x Meteor Fragments 30x Grimoire Dust 30x Potent Leaves 30x Common Herbs	40x Dragon attack 30x Bomb Attack 30x Turtle Banner 30x Minor Mana Poition	-
11 - 100	-	Arco	3x Titan 3x WE 3x Raid	3x EHT 3x ETT 1x Summon Token 5x Challenge Event Coin	1x Mystic Rings 1x Farisght Telescope 2x Orb of Magic 2x Hidden Blade 2x Warm Cape 1x Trap Tools 30x Sharpening Stone 30x Practice Sword	30x Meteor Fragments 30x Grimoire Dust 30x Potent Leaves 30x Common Herbs	40x Dragon attack 30x Bomb Attack 30x Turtle Banner 30x Minor Mana Poition	-
101 - 1000	-	-	3x Titan 3x WE 3x Raid	3x EHT 3x ETT 1x Summon Token	2x Orb of Magic 1x Hidden Blade 1x Warm Cape 30x Sharpening Stone 30x Practice Sword	30x Grimoire Dust 30x Potent Leaves 30x Common Herbs	30x Bomb Attack 30x Turtle Banner 30x Minor Mana Poition	-
1001 - 10000	-	-	3x WE 3x Raid	3x ETT 1x Summon Token	1x Orb of Magic 30x Sharpening Stone 30x Practice Sword	30x Potent Leaves 30x Common Herbs	30x Turtle Banner 30x Minor Mana Poition	-
10001 - 100001	-	-	3x WE	1x Summon Token	30x Practice Sword	30x Common Herbs	30x Minor Mana Poition	-
100001 or Lower	-	-	-	1x Summon Token	-	-	-	-
Tier Completion Reward	-	-	3x WE	7x Challenge Event Coins	1x Compass 1x Fine Gloves 1x Sturdy Shield	-	1x Revive Scroll	150x Barbarian 150x Wizard

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Related Threads

• 🧪 The Beta Beat (V48) – Tremors of Underwild, 2022 June and July HoTMs, Sanctuary of Gargoyles -- Sharing the Big Picture on What's Going on in Beta
• 🧪 Early Information on New Sanctuary of Gargoyles Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v48]

[NicoX]

@PlayForFun

In the Sanctuary of Gargoyles event, the gargolye enemies harden their skin! The Stoneskin of the enemies grows every time you use a Special Skill or Battle Item.

Damage the damage receive is reduced. The harder the Stoneskin is, the less damage they receive.

It seems very similar to the rage mechanic of the Slayer event. Does it raise at the same pace?

@PlayForFun

all enemies receive Stoneskin buff

Can you please elaborate on what this buff is?

Once again, thank you so much for the time you put in creating these threads and replying to dumb questions from annoying members like me.

[PlayForFun]

Answer to the first question:
You can use 5 items and/or specifial skills before the meter at the top fills up.
If it fills up, then it drops to 0 after activation. (So not staying at 5 as the Rage meter).

Answer about Stoneskin buff:
All heroes have Gargoyle’s Stoneskin Passive.
That passive activates even if those heroes have not used their Special Skill.

[NicoX]

@PlayForFun

Answer about Stoneskin buff:
All heroes have Gargoyle’s Stoneskin Passive.
That passive activates even if those heroes have not used their Special Skill.

They won’t take ANY damage?! That will be annoying as hell.

@PlayForFun

If it fills up, then it drops to 0 after activation. (So not staying at 5 as the Rage meter).

I guess this mitigates it a bit, but still.

[PlayForFun]

But that drop to 1 damage is applied to the first 1-4 damages.
So you can deplete it fast with tiles
But of course it is causing delay and the opponent can kill you in that turn when you have charged heroes…

[alonyor]

[PlayForFun]

Thx, I will add it to the event’s topic.

[Tidyup]

What element reflect is this? I’m assuming red

[Wotan2019]

I heard is green which surprised me.

[Shunt]

It is green.

20 chars of answers

[BlackZed]

So… this will be “tougher” than Slayers due to the extra buffer for the enemies: Stoneskin buff.

Slowing down their activation will help then. Mana control ?

Plus Taunt to buy time.

[PlayForFun]

@Tidyup

What element reflect is this?

Yes, it is green as I have written it to the OP and the V48 main thread.

@BlackZed

So… this will be “tougher” than Slayers due to the extra buffer for the enemies: Stoneskin buff.

Slowing down their activation will help then. Mana control ?

If the buff is given by the hero, then mana controll can help, but if you use 5 items or special skill withinh 5 consecutive turns, then the Stage will add this buff to all Gargoyle enemies.
Maybe giving buff immunity can help, but I will try it, and let you know.

When this buff is active, then the opponents are shown is a semy-ghost form so that you can easily see that you can not really harm them.

I have missed on thing what I will add to the OP later.
Each time you use a special skill or battle item, then the opponents will get 10% less damage next time (maxumum: 50%)

[PlayForFun]

The OP is now updated with all informations.

[Chenowyn]

Again with the enormous S1 odds We’re 5 years in, these are so pointless. Even a 5* S1 doesn’t feel like a ‘win’ anymore.

[TomSnow]

For more seasoned players S1 heroes are nothing more than feeders for Soul Exchange. But even a relatively new player won’t be happy with Quintus when it could have been Goseck instead–and when already many 4* event heroes are better than most S1 “legendary” heroes without costume…

They could at least add the old event heroes to the S1 pool (of course without costume so that Challenge Festival will still generate enuff revenue ). Then there are at least a few really good consolidation prizes and more useful heroes.

[Chenowyn]

Agreed, I’m a new player and yet I still don’t want to draw an S1. Ascension mats are hard to come by and leveling is slow. Who would want to invest in a hero knowing that hero won’t measure up from the beginning? So they’re all food for more recent releases. I would honestly prefer 50% odds of pulling trainer heroes than ‘Classics’. At least they serve a purpose.

[Gaia]

they have to increase the percentage of epic trainers. 1% is the same as the hero of the event. it will be very annoying if you get an epic trainer!

[Kilted]

The epic trainer percentage was higher initially when they first added them to new version challenge events, but following the first month where there were a number of complaints from people unhappy with getting a trainer instead of a 4* hero they reduced it to what it is now.

[Gaia]

and now they got epic trainers. then they will be more unhappy. because it equals % with 5* heroes from events

[Photon]

as a good amount of players have Penolite, i can see the Legendary portion being highly contested for El Duque.