IMO the whole point of this event is to reward roster depth.
If you get to use any alive heroes for an eternity, most people will just breeze through the entire thing with a single 5* team, since there is no way they die before stage 9-10.
We already have enough events that you can complete with one team.
Tavern is currently not meant to be completed entirely by new (<1 year) f2p players - and that’s fine! There’s too many events to bother with anyway.
This is a good idea or they could reduce the amount of coins needed for one pull. I can only get 50 coins each month, so for one summon I need to wait two months. It would be nice to have a chance to summon one Dawa during this event every month.
This time the event feels a lot more challenging, but for the wrong reasons.
Honestly I believe the fact that element link heal (4% max hp per turn) wasn’t downscaled like boss ability heals (from 40% to 10%) is an oversight.
What I would like to see is it getting tweaked to 1% per turn, HP doubled (essentially heal cut by half) and defense reduced to double tile/special damage.
This would reduce the effectiveness of items, putting more emphasis on working the board and actually using your heroes, while leaving the general difficulty about the same.
add ability to pull current HotM as well on the portal; it’s fine if that’s at the cost of S1 legendary heroes being removed from the pool, we can pull them elsewhere anyways
add reward system; maybe add some Elemental Chest tier RNG chest as a reward for completing the entire ladder, and some minor one half way through.
unbreak the heroes’ mana speed issues; these just feel weird, on 1st iteration GM was charging worse than Guardian Owl, and on this iteration Evelyn seemed slower than Drake
Tol is way too easy, need to add a easy and hard tab. Solves 2 problems., makes game better as you would really have to stragize for hard making it more interesting. Also give double the pulls.
It’s nice that SG rewards roster depth and long term commitment to the game with literally the worst gate. Hoping once I reach 100 leveled 5*s and 4 years playing they’ll give me a Dawa every week for a month!
Since S2 is really rare and once you completed the coins are really rare. They are sort of legends. They could replace S1 with S2 in the less desirable pull at the tavern
Replacing s1 with s2 heroes will be an interesting solution and will make something new (a portal without s1 heroes outcome, and as worst outcome a s2 hero which is not so bad).
However I highly doubt it will happen. I will continue to:
collect coins and save them WITHOUT using them
do not spend gems here for any reason (usually I use gems only in s2 or s3 portal… surely not here)
do not buy any offer for this event for any reason (usually I do not buy event offers as a general rule, but in this case it is total no worth on spending a single cent for absolute nothing, seeing that - except of the very low chance of getting an HOTM - there is any other (even little) valuable outcome compared to other special portals.
The best way to increase our chance of being heard about tavern portal is not buy any offer related to this event. If NO ONE player buys ANY offer during this event and do not spend any gem in this event, than SG will discover that there is not earning money for this event and should do something to making it appealing.
Until a single player continue to spend in an event like this one where it is so clear that there is not a single desiderable outcome possible, we are out of hope.
In luie of making it possible to expect the summoning of good 5* heroes in this summon portal, what if season 2 and 3 and perhaps some event 3* and 4* heroes were in this portal as well?
In the avalon event last week, I didnt get Black Knight but I did get two Bauchans which will be cool for tournaments. Perhaps a similar dynamics for this tavern portal would make it less useless.
This is the single worst event in E&P. Good concept with roster management but it’s way too easy and the odds are junk. Be creative put emblem packs in the pulls, 4 star ascension items, food and iron bundles get rid of season 1 hero’s…just make it better even if it’s 4 times a year stagger it away from the seasonal events…make ie special people will spend. Not seeing a dollar of my money in its current form.