My team constantly has problems with races, the best we did was lvl105 Charmless, but the past 2-3 races we havent been able to get a single legendary.

This race (shademoon) was impossibly difficult for anyone who doesnt spend hella money, we managed 6 laps because of the epic rankups and legendary breeds, i mean none of us could breed and speed up that much. MAKE RACES EASIER PLEASE .

Also our team is extremely active and our average level is around 80-90, so im pretty sure that isnt the problem, and besides before it was 4 laps for a legendary, y?

Have you tried organizing & beginning to breed your Epics 2-4 days before the RACE? We start "stockpiling Cells" for FIRESAUR, GREENASAUR, & PANDAKEN. We also buy 5-10 Firesaur & Treezard & now adding Rockilla for fast hatching. Do you look at the "LAP LIST" that Marianne puts out? While we do that, we use our DISCORD Group to "schedule" who can do what Quests. We got 15 laps & the Rank 1 Moonshade by doing this. We worked on using as little gems as we could. I think we used less than 500 gems total. Our Team ranges from Level 25-100. We ended up finishing with 23 players all qualifying for the Monster. It can be done. It just requires planning in advance!

The races are the one event that is for BIG paying teams, period.

If you aren't a big spender, it's best to forget about the races and focus more on the other events. This last race was about twice as expensive as previous races.

I wonder about how much the total cost was for a team of 30 to complete 100 laps of that race? I doubt they could even answer that! Nor would they want to.

@grnxnham said in Races are simply to difficult for f2p/low paying teams:

The races are the one event that is for BIG paying teams, period.

Not exactly. An organized team that saves all gems for this event can do quite well.

If you aren't a big spender, it's best to forget about the races and focus more on the other events. This last race was about twice as expensive as previous races.

I wonder about how much the total cost was for a team of 30 to complete 100 laps of that race? I doubt they could even answer that! Nor would they want to.

60.000 gems, according to team AfKK. Divided by 30 players that still is a bargain for a rank 5 monster.

That is if you don't count the wasted time during ten days to get that far.

People shouldn't race because it's a waste of time, not because it is too expensive.

I think it's just a matter of previous preparation and organized well like some of you were pointing out. It is possible for f2p because either if you don't do any spending, the game itself gives you the chance to get gems weekly from different events like dungeons (book - gems - and survival when it's live), monsterwood happy hour, monsterwood tasks, daily goals, weekly challenges and spinning roulettes, you just have to save the gems