HEROIC RACE TIPS AND GUIDE
IMPORTANT--> Check the probability of getting an item in the guide before you post in group to say you are not getting anything for breeding/hatching etc. Some probabilities are low and you will have to keep doing the task repeatedly to get the items. Please do not flood the group with posts asking why your breeding and hatching is not working unless you've checked this and you really think you are having an issue.
You are in a group of 8 players. To get the dragon, you must qualify by finishing lap 4 and win in that group of 8. Or reach lap 15 to get the new Herioc dragon. However, there are prizes for finishing the race in other positions. We receive the Heroic at the end of the race, not upon reaching lap 15!
Pools and waiting times
In heroic races there are pools and waiting times.
Pool is the maximum number of items you can collect in one go. The pool always starts full in each mission. Once you start collecting items it will empty the pool. When the pool is empty you can not collect any items anymore until items are refilled.
Waiting time is the time you have to wait until items are reproduced to refill the pool. In the sheets you have waiting time per item - that is the time it needs to reproduce 1 item. And total waiting time - that is the time to reproduce all items.
Note If the pool holds less than 50% of the total of items you have to collect you have to collect several times. For example if the pool is 3 and you have to collect 9 items you have to collect 3, then wait, then collect 3 again and wait again to collect the last 3 items. For the waiting times you have to add up the waiting time per item.
Whenever we collect an item from the pool, the wait timer is reset to zero and starts again. So it’s recommended to collect as much items as possible and wait untill the pool is full. Items generated by the slot machine do not reset the timer.
Check the spreadsheets posted for pools and waiting times. I recommend checking each time you begin a new node so that you are not frustrated when you are not receiving an item for doing a task.
For breeding: Breed unstared Terra and Terra or Double Terra (fastest combination). All other breeding pairs can give longer breeding results.
For hatching: Breed the combinations above. Hatch, place and sell. If you dont have to breed dragons you can just buy terra eggs from the store, hatch, place and sell them. Check to make sure that you don't have the task of feeding your dragons on your current node. If you do, feed that dragon before selling.
For feeding your dragons: To save food you can feed the hatches you did to level 7 and then sell. Or buy terra eggs and feed these after hatching. Of course you can also feed new dragons you got.
For collecting food: Grow Bluebell Flowers or Bluebell Bouquets and collect after 30 seconds. Repeat this until you have collected the full amount of points.
For collecting gold: Collect when the habitat has a gold bar icon. In case of consecutive gold nodes, you may use Midarian’s Tower to boost gold production.
Again: All actions until here (colleting gold, food, feeding, hatching and breeding) do not guanrantee a point for each action. It has to be repeated several times to get one point. So you perhaps have to hatch 20 or more terra dragons for example before you get a point. But it is still quicker than waiting for longer food, breedings or hatchings.
League battles: Fight ONLY the number required for your current task! If you run out of league battles, check the pools and wait times for the rest of your node tasks. If the waits are longer than your next league battle refill and you can afford to wait (nobody is gaining on you) then wait. Also, if your league battles take many gems to refill and it's only going to take a few gems to skip the rest of that task completely, buy the task out with a few gems.
Slot Machine: The slot machine may generate extra items for free once every 24 h otherwise one spin costs 20 gems.
+1, +2, +5: generate the respective number of items. If more than one task is unfinished, the generated items may be split.
Mission complete: Completes one random task
Node complete: Completes the entire node
+1 spin: Yes, exactly. Try again.
** If you come to a point with getting no items for breeding or hatching although pool should be full and you tried hundrets of times, close the game and clear cache. Let it load long until everything shows up proper and try again. That helps sometimes.
Pro Tip!!!!
How to prepare your islands for a heroic race:
- Have at least on free breeding place (for breeding Terra + Terra)
- Have at least on free spot on the hatchery (for hatching Terra eggs)
- Have some space in a habitat or kindergarten (to place Terra Dragons)
- Have 9 hour food ready on all food farms you own ( that will guarantee points for collecting food for the first laps. After that change to 30 second food)
- Have 5 or 6 pvp battles waiting to be done. For 6 battles: Do the last 2 battles of the set. Then the first one of the next set. Then reset the league and do 2 more battles. Then next three battles. Then you will have 6 battles waiting for you for the next set.
- For gold collection: For beginners it will help to build as many terra habitats as possible and fill them with low level Terra Dragons (level 4-7). These will fill up with gold quickly and will help a lot with collecting gold items.
How to claim your rewards in the end of the race can be found here.
To get any reward you have to finish lap 4 to qualify.
If you win and reach lap 15 you will still only get one heroic dragon when the race ends.
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