Tag: winter event

Get it? See that pun there? Gahhhh I’m terrible.

ANYWAYS – with the December event came the introduction of RUNES and a fun event where you can get tons of loot.

Winter event… what is it?

This is the introduction of Card Collections essentially.  When you open the card collections, you can get a TON of loot. Some of it good, some of it bad.

I got a LOT of purple gems, and dust, and legendaries, and food from it. I’d say the biggest help was in the gems followed by the runes and the Artifact,  Let’s start with what are Runes.

I also got a good amount of diamonds, and if you buy the “Bell” you get more rewards for completing card sets for the first time.

ONTO THE RUNES:

What are runes?

Runes are an item that can be applied to a weapon to make them more powerful and improve their abilities.

There are three types of runes, to my knowledge, you can only get 1 of each type. You get them from the Christmas/Winter event by opening different types of collections. Collections are cards gathered by doing certain events.

The Confrontation cards come from: Successfully attacking plays castles, Winning Battles in the Arena, winning at waypoints in clan wars.
The Massacre cards come from: Completing all invasions, Gem Bay chests, chests obtained in the Hustle area.
The Fun cards come from: Sending Resources to your friends, When Receiving resources FROM friends, buying diamonds, completing daily quests, portal CHEST level completion.

Hustle Area

The new Hustle area is this little area on the left side of the below screen shot:

This brings up a map that looks like this:

As you can see, there are 12 way points and then 1 way point they all lead into.  SO…. 13 way points.

The top row is a series of bosses, it’s a 1 guy vs you type fight. I walked through it at 1.5-1.8 million squad power. I think it adjusts for your level.

The middle row is a series of gem-bay type battles vs minions.  Easily do-able as well.

The bottom row is a Arena like battle area, and usually the toughest.  You should win them all, but I did have to use a spell or two occasionally.  These are also scaled for your squad level.

You get a chest per win here, and then a special chest at the end.  This special chest is typically the worst.  Every chest you open though, you get collection cards.  Refreshing this area only costs 89 diamonds.  Each battle for me was only 12700 food. The chests usually aren’t that great, but you get a ton of cards from repeatedly doing this.

FINALLY THE RUNES

Rune of Strength comes from “Confrontation” Collections.

Weapon before and after:

Rune of Dexterity comes from “Massacre” Collections.

Weapon Before and After:

Rune of Wisdom comes from “Fun” Collections.

Weapon Before and After:

Artifact

The artifact you get from this is pretty awesome.  You get it by completing 100 collections over the course of the event:

Overall thoughts?

THIS EVENT WAS/IS AWESOME.

The game really needed this. As I mentioned above, I got a ton of loot from it so far. Mainly by doing the hustle area over and over and over and over and over again.  Hope you all liked the update as much as I did, and hopefully you have a better understanding of the event and the Runes.