šŸÆ [Feb 2021] Ninja Tower Event - FAQ, Discussion & Summons!

Pulled nothing but food from hero and troop portals here.

Itā€™s really disheartening to grind through 50 floors, using a fair amount of time and resources to scrape enough tokens for 2 pulls and get 2 s1 3*ā€™s

Saved all troop tokens for ninja event and still nothing. Used 3 more troop tokens that Iā€™ve obtained from chests and find recruits since pulling on day 1 and nothing but 3s

I get itā€™s a business and SGG need to make money but itā€™s beyond ridiculous the constant money grabbing now.

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Itā€™s available every day. There are 2 offers daily. The flask is at the bottom for 50 gems

Investment? Nobody says you have to use items. Too many people have the idea that you either go crazy and try to get number one in an event or donā€™t play at all.

Ninja Tower has become my favorite event in the game due to the deep strategy involved and the dynamic use of your roster. Early on use DOT heros and let them curse out by the time later floors come and their effects become ineffective with the erratic time status effect on higher floors.

And for me emblems are SUPER useful and valuable Iā€™ll get my hands on as many as I can so even the base reward is pretty good for playing one level.

If you think an event isnā€™t worth a lot of items and resources then play it without using them. Go as high up the tower as you can and especially think and be strategic in what teams to take, you really can go quite far without just brute forcing things with a ton of battle items.

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I went through 50 levels without a single hero cursed out. So yes it is a puzzle with a solution.

Tornados a few hurricanes and scrolls of alteration but 90% just tile play focused above all on matching curse tiles over anything else. It CAN be done.

The best tactic to achieve this is to make dragon tiles and diamonds whenever possible and to think how youā€™re going to kill the curse tile the moment it appears. Sometimes it will take a few moves and shifts to get it to a match point. But being able to blast it with a dragon tile or clear with a diamond saved me many times.

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Depends on your goals. For me itā€™s an emblem farm and the pulls are pretty much irrelevant. I did enough pulls to get Uraeus and Iā€™ll hold the rest I earned for April. I managed to complete the set of 4* ninjas which is all I ever hope for at event pulls. I think in a year Iā€™ve gotten 3 event 5*, I feel like Iā€™ll have better luck at those in HA10.

But yeah see each event for what it has to offer, for me thatā€™s usually emblems.

Finished the tower, got 3 summon (have 1 summon available from December). Ulmer, Balthazar, Renfeldā€¦

I post it here just to balance your expectation. Somebody should post their bad summons too right?

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If anybody still cares I used this team for almost 85% of the tower:

The idea was to stack as many defense debuffs as possible, and I basically maxed the list out (special skill, regular, elemental). Helps that Frida/Cobalt/Lepus are all hit 3 heroes, with only Lepus doing 50% splash damage. When all debuffs are applied, the amount of damage output is just insane. And by that I mean two rounds of everybody firing (with Cobalt ā€œonlyā€ at x2 charge) eats away 80% of the bossesā€™ HP even at floor 40+.

To avoid key heroes getting cursed out at a really inconvenient time, I switched to this secondary team for floors 47, 48, and 50 (basically floors with green mobs and Jade as a boss):

Again same logic as above, although the damage output is quite a bit less since Gormek even with CB and +14 still hits like a semi-wet noodle.

For blessing, I prioritized as follows:

  • mana generation
  • attack
  • lantern minion
  • mana bonus

IIRC in the end I had the following:

  • +25% mana generation
  • +25% attack
  • minion with 25% HP and attack
  • +10% mana every 5 turns

Mana generation stacks with costume bonus and mana troops and increases mana gained from items. Once you cross the +25% total threshold, one tornadoe provides +50% mana to the team, and two tornadoes fully charge up everybody once again. This was key to me slamming through the last 5 floors when the board ran dry.

More attack means tiles and specials do more damage and help you finish the level faster (better score, less exposure to oni curses). You might frown at the minions, but since Iā€™m not competing for a top 10 score, these became crucial as insurance against that damn toxic chamber especially since 25% HP is very beefy and basically completely counteracts the poison.

Final result:

For reference, last time I scored 1,412,697 and finished in 921st place, so it seems 1.41 mil is the breakpoint for top 1000, and somewhere between that and 1.494 mil is the breakpoint for top 500 (1.45 mil maybe??). Obviously I expect this to change and likely increase each tower, but these are the very rough benchmarks to gauge your progress I suppose.

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Finished still in top 50k (44951). 20 emblems all round. Happy bunny.

ToL will be a nice rest next month thoughā€¦ I know it doesnā€™t work for everybody but for me I think alternating them was a positive move.

I have been inspired by several posts above to try out scrolls of alteration next time. Believe it or not Iā€™ve never used one. I can imagine theyā€™re very handy for warding off curses as well as doing scary damage.

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Last of 3 Ninja summons. All S1 dupes.

BT loves me. I got him from Villans too. :rofl:

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Why not level up a second copy of him then? Heā€™s obviously trying to tell you something like thatā€¦

Iā€™m currently levelling my sixth BT. :see_no_evil:

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Six? Wow. That seems like overdoing it a bit. Probably heā€™s come to tell you that heā€™s had enough then and you oughtta stop :rofl:

Edit: I got a last minute blue ninja troop on a side acc.

Overall happy with the event, from 6 ETT pulls got one 4* and it was a ninja. I guess itā€™s within the expected %.

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Consider yourself lucky. Expected would be 1 out of 20. ā€¦ but you know it is random. After like 70 troop pulls total on all 3 ninja events I only got 1 :wink:

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I got 4 curses all the way through stage 44. That was unfortunately when I lost my first hero. Only lost one other after that but throughout the entire event I managed only 7 curses in total. Tornadoes were my most used item. Itā€™s definitely an event that makes you manage the board carefully as well as hope for some sheer dumb luck. Had quite a few curse tiles slide in just to immediately get matched up and taken out. So as usually goes with this game you need a fair bit of both

I love Ninja Tower! Last month I said I should do a little better to get top 1K so I can get 20 tornadoes back.

Very happy to get top 1K. Posted scores below and comparison from last event.

Stage Score Total Score Dif from Dec
1 20,156 20,156 -696
2 20,200 40,356 5,040
3 19,032 59,388 7,916
4 16,720 76,108 9,256
5 18,236 94,344 10,368
6 14,920 109,264 9,812
7 15,308 124,572 7,168
8 17,164 141,736 10,476
9 17,892 159,628 10,912
10 18,472 178,100 12,676
11 16,613 194,713 12,149
12 16,694 211,407 10,537
13 17,212 228,619 9,578
14 15,290 243,909 7,854
15 19,673 263,582 9,438
16 20,025 283,607 11,346
17 19,678 303,285 12,192
18 15,111 318,396 10,064
19 19,620 338,016 12,823
20 35,407 373,423 17,218
21 32,647 406,070 19,011
22 34,215 440,285 24,269
23 27,607 467,892 19,506
24 30,465 498,357 18,164
25 33,532 531,889 20,324
26 32,422 564,311 22,454
27 35,287 599,598 24,704
28 29,407 629,005 25,897
29 32,917 661,922 25,312
30 30,367 692,289 24,922
31 26,369 718,658 20,931
32 30,045 748,703 20,586
33 32,542 781,245 22,266
34 31,942 813,187 20,511
35 40,707 853,894 23,958
36 43,488 897,382 28,656
37 40,896 938,278 31,266
38 38,700 976,978 32,328
39 41,112 1,018,090 39,384
40 38,331 1,056,421 40,194
41 39,483 1,095,904 41,571
42 39,393 1,135,297 50,472
43 32,805 1,168,102 44,757
44 35,640 1,203,742 39,312
45 38,304 1,242,046 44,280
46 38,970 1,281,016 42,588
47 41,688 1,322,704 47,007
48 41,778 1,364,482 54,432
49 41,085 1,405,567 55,485
50 38,700 1,444,267 53,208

Pulled a Damascus Blade from the completion chest! The chest also gave me enough coins for one last pull and I got Ametrine. I havenā€™t had a good purple to level for months and Iā€™ve wanted her so this was a big win.

According to my tracking I pulled 95 coins and 207 emblems just from levels. Throw in progression chests and end of event rewards and this was very nice.

I wish I would have tracked how many tornadoes I used. If I had to guess Iā€™d say 50. Getting 20 back is really nice. Outside of tornadoes I used arrows, axes, and minor mana pots which I all consider very cheap and throwaways. So I used a net 30 tornadoes to improve my ranking which got me at least 100 more emblems than I would have had I not used tornadoes. If I saved those and used one per titan for the next month, I think iā€™d like the 100 emblems more than the incremental difference in titan loot (itā€™s just harder to calculate).

I told myself I would save my Green and Holy teams for late in the event when I need them most. Went mono blue more than I thought I would. Wish I would have tried mono red a few more times. The few times I did use mono red and mono purple it worked well because I didnā€™t care if a hero got cursed.

I am f2p. I state that to address anyone that says this event is only for whales. Yes I have a deep bench of four star heroes, but that seems pretty doable for most people that arenā€™t too new to the game. Iā€™m also curious if I was the highest ranking f2p person? If there were a separate leaderboard, Iā€™d definitely consider gunning for the top f2p spot.

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Iā€™m very confused, how exactly is it that some players have gotten exactly the same loot as others BUTā€¦ in addition got 4* accention materials in the final chest, darts, rings dblade ect whereas the other half of players did not get a 4* accention matā€¦
I mean, going by players scores ect ect, itā€™s all mixed, so some got an additional accention mat whereas others didnā€™t
Pot luck, I mean, itā€™s a very difficult event and comes every 8 weeks, costs alot of resource ect, so if 2 players both completed the tower, both get the same loot but one gets an additional 4* mat and the other doesnā€™t, itā€™s so unfair and very disheartening to be honest, itā€™s super disappointing if you got one and your teammate didnā€™t and vice versa.
I just canā€™t fathom how exactly this is fair for the whole player base

There is a chance only to get a 4* mat for completing Ninja Tower.

Itā€™d be really nice if it was guaranteed, but it is what it is. I didnā€™t bother to complete Ninja Tower this time.

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Thanks SamMe, Hmmmm, I completed it this time for the first time, it was too expensive in resources and Iā€™m completely out of everythingā€¦if that is the case where ONLY A CHANCE where some get mats and the rest doesnā€™t, Iā€™m most definitely not going to bother with the tower again, too expensive, time consuming, hard challenge and if some get more rewards than others based on only a chance then itā€™s just, yeah no ways, very disheartening and discouraging

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What is the percentage of getting a 4* ascension material from the last tower chest. I was literally the only one in my entire alliance that got a 4* material from the final chest. At least 20 of us finished.

The odds must have been so stupidly low.

For making it all the way up that way tower, one of those materials should be guaranteed.

I didnā€™t get one last time round but got one this time.

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