Hello Legends,

We have shared with you some news about the upcoming feature Relics HERE.
In this thread, you can discuss all related topics.

WATCH the relic teaser.

Are you excited?
How do you think it is gonna impact the game?

Let us know!

@Fox I like the aspect of being able to customize my monsters. This way people will not always know what to expect when dealing with a particular monster. The visibility of the defender relics to an attacker or lack thereof will be important in determining who to attack in PVP or war.

Let me just start off by saying this looks interesting. Hopefully it is something that will be doable for me since I am not a heavy ranker. But I am excited to see it....

Regarding relics in the game, it is interesting. But it is only Pay to Win.

You really need to spend some more time creating new game modes or tournaments or something, otherwise there is too little to do with or monsters.

I still don't understand the concept of relics though - if I put a shield on my monster, it makes it harder to beat? So it is basically a life rune?

Are there going to be Relic Dungeons every week?
Are you going to get rid of runes completely?

@Clackers said in Relics are coming!:

Why does Ingenica talk?

Are you now going to make every new monster with its own voice tracks, like in Overwatch?

Is this Relic related, if not please let's stay on topic.

@Clackers said in Relics are coming!:

Regarding relics in the game, it is interesting. But it is only Pay to Win.

You really need to spend some more time creating new game modes or tournaments or something, otherwise there is too little to do with or monsters.

I still don't understand the concept of relics though - if I put a shield on my monster, it makes it harder to beat? So it is basically a life rune?

Are there going to be Relic Dungeons every week?
Are you going to get rid of runes completely?

There will be free chests, so where Fox said it could take months it will probably take f2p players or those who do not invest in the relics a lot longer. However just like the team war monsters and the runes those who progress slower will be facing those who progress faster, so keep that in mind for wars and Seasons. Me, I will be one of the slow progressors but then I am used to not being top ranked so this works for me.

As to your comment this is a company, a company who is out to make a profit, they added the feature with the option for f2p players but I have said it before and I will say it again, f2p players are not their target demographic and sorry they should not be their target demo if they want to stay in business. This game has plenty features for f2p players. In fact you can do 90-95% of the things in the game just at a much slower pace. Other than the VIPS, Nemesis monsters and those sales for real money everything else is obtainable.

Can't say I'm overly excited about the relics becoming the most premium season reward, meaning loss of either gems or runes...

@Bruce-Hamilton said in Relics are coming!:

Can't say I'm overly excited about the relics becoming the most premium season reward, meaning loss of either gems or runes...

ROFL, well since I am not in a premium league this is a moot point for me. And the runes that I get in Gold 1 I can get myself. Now if they want to replace them with gems, this is going to be a problem for me.

@Nynaevelan said in Relics are coming!:

Now if they want to replace them with gems, this is going to be a problem for me.

Same here. I'm only in Gold III, but that league is the only source of gems I can win consistently, other than monster wood. I certainly can't compete with TG in the gold harvest challenge, LOL

@Bruce-Hamilton My weekly gem earnings are from Gold 1, the dungeons, the 45 from gold, rune and love season challenges. I've run out of monsters for growth spurth and I am not wasting food to level up throwaway monsters for the gems.

Our first concrete and official information.

There will be 9 different types of Relic, presumably fitting a theme, in four levels of rarity.

That is a potentially huge range.

The key bit: each monster has 2 Relic slots of predetermined type.

This is an opportunity for SP to tweak balance. I wonder if they will take it?

Some monsters could have Relic slots that are not expected for the monster category. So, for example, a dominant denier like Hackster could be given no Fast Denier type relic slots and therefore not get relics designed to augment fast deniers - a re-balancing of sorts. An average denier monster could get 2 Fast Denier slots, increasing its value as a denier. Etc

I can see scope for many possibilities if implemented well.

So at this stage I have two main questions:

1. What will prevent a fast uptake at the high end of town and leave the top teams even further ahead in power disparity when the opposite should occur?

Well, chests perhaps. If Diamond Resurrect Any Ally at end of turn is sold separately then game over for any shift towards a smoother war team power distribution. If only available by RNG then that should make it ridiculously expensive to get and upgrade the best Relics. Hopefully prohibitively, for most.

2. To what extent, and how, will Relics be scoutable? This will shake up wars considerably, and I hope it isn't going in blind or battle planning will be hopelessly compromised.

Level 40 ?!
Are you sure it is not a type @fox and you meant 4 ?

@Fox I call Bull crud, Aparently the people who run monster legends should talk with the guys who run candy crush. Your free to play player base is everything, and you should be trying to attract them and keep them.

The fact is you can squeeze the high spenders for yet more, but that won't be making anywhere near the profit that you would if you took an approach that was different' In fact you wouldn't even have been this successful had the game not originally been much more (nearly) free to play.

@Ruth-Walker said in Relics are coming!:

Your free to play player base is everything, and you should be trying to attract them and keep them.

I could point you to several high ranked people who are among the free to play player base, so spending money is totally on you, it will just take you a long time to get there.

@Ruth-Walker said in Relics are coming!:

@Fox Your free to play player base is everything, and you should be trying to attract them and keep them.

In fact you wouldn't even have been this successful had the game not originally been much more (nearly) free to play.

First point, is sadly just plain wrong, the F2P is absolutely nothing or next to it, and I am part of that.
Second point, you're probably right, initially there was far less incentive to pay and the game did fairly well in early stages.

I like the idea of relics and must compliment SP on adding a new feature, rather than simply introducing lvl 150 monsters or lvl XV runes.

I reserve judgement until relics really hit the game. I am curious to see how influential they are compared to the level of monsters and runes, what the added strategical layers will be, and how the availability of relics for F2P is compared to P2P (note that even though I am a paying player I am opposed to any content not being available at all to F2P).

Relics are coming, many are leaving...

That's what I heard even since the news started. :-) Does SP read the comments in their FB community and Wiki? Or they just choose to ignore those negative ones.

@SkeelMaster said in Relics are coming!:

Relics are coming, many are leaving...

That's what I heard even since the news started. :-) Does SP read the comments in their FB community and Wiki? Or they just choose to ignore those negative ones.

Players leaving at the introduction of a new feature is normal. It is the perfect time to assess whether you want to continue investing time and/or money in the game. SP should neither be surprised nor scared that people are leaving at this point. It is normal.

@SkeelMaster said in Relics are coming!:

Relics are coming, many are leaving...

That's what I heard even since the news started. :-) Does SP read the comments in their FB community and Wiki? Or they just choose to ignore those negative ones.

Honestly if players are leaving due to the start of a new feature, perhaps they should be leaving. Now, if they are leaving because of other underlying issues and this is the "straw that broke the camel's back" now that I can understand. We each have our threshold of when we have had enough.

As to SPs response to negative comments, I do believe they are seeing and reviewing them but if they made all their business decisions based on the comments of their community, they will be out of business in no time. However I think they do read those comments and take them into consideration, after all they are continuously working hard to deliver new content to try to bring challenge and diversity to the game. Personally I wished they worked just as hard to get rid of bugs and make things a little harder for the hackers to progress so much while not making it so difficult for the legitimate player to progress.

@Fox
Wondering why the weak going about of a major update to the game? "Appstore may take a few days to get the update" is hardly acceptable for such a large game, when smaller games and games just as big have solid schedules and down times and when updates will go live. Pretty weak to see such vague and nonchalant postings on such impacts to the game, structure is obviously heavily needed.

Hi @Zealot,
Every new version takes time for all countries to get it in their stores. This is what every game has to go through, especially on iOS it goes through a long approval process by Apple. We do have schedule and deadlines as well, but we tend to be reluctant to reveal the exact dates in case we would need to delay it which would surely disappoint a lot of players.
Now, if you download the version, it doesn't mean that you have the Relics. We will be releasing the Relics gradually to make sure it is 100% stable, better safe than sorry if you ask me.
Whenever there is a new information, I will share it in the forum. Also, make sure to follow ingame UPDATE section where you can check the latest info.

@Fox said in Relics are coming!:

Now, if you download the version, it doesn't mean that you have the Relics. We will be releasing the Relics gradually to make sure it is 100% stable, better safe than sorry if you ask me.

Good plan!

We rolled out relics to 20% of Android players.
Who was lucky and can try them out already?

@Fox said in Relics are coming!:

We rolled out relics to 20% of Android players.
Who was lucky and can try them out already?

I got lucky and mine is repairing now!!

Love it @Nynaevelan. Let us know once you will have time to play with them a bit. :)

Me too got it but i am on a sever gem diet right now so waiting till repair finish

So far i opened a free chest and got 5 Wisteria cells, this is my chest shop

@Haka-Taka i got a level 4 speed rune in my chest.

@Fox I don't even have an update in iOS yet. :(

The chest timer started at 6 hours when you opened it or is there a fixed hour at which they reset ? I hope it's the second option, would make it easier to get to 4 daily chests.
Well no update or early access for me, hope the next waves won't take too long.

@Darvys There is no fixed time. The countdown starts from the time you open it.

@Haka-Taka did you get the Release chest? I got 4 relics, 5 Gullin cells and 70,000 food.

@Nynaevelan said in Relics are coming!:

@Haka-Taka did you get the Release chest? I got 4 relics, 5 Gullin cells and 70,000 food.

Lucky you :D i just opened mine and it gave me 3 relic .70k food and 5 Lostyghost cells , so yay my first 3 relic -- not sure when the 4th will come so --

From Ml players chat . this is removing relic cost
Diamond ,gold ,silver and bronze

I'm sure that price increases as you level them up, just like runes. Anything to take another buck from us.

@Bruce-Hamilton
Maybe fixed price per rarity ,, tester donot have that many relic to make sure but it looks like it

What on earth is a Jakugan sword? Jakugan doesn't have swords.

@Clackers said in Relics are coming!:

What **** is a Jakugan sword? Jakugan doesn't have swords.

EDIT: language per forum rules... and obviously he does since the creators created one for him.

He does now. LOL

@Bruce-Hamilton The design of Jakugan clearly has blades coming out of her arms. No swords.

Now I would like relics, if you could take a staff/weapon from another monster and add it to someone else.. But that is not what relics are unfortunately.

@Clackers said in Relics are coming!:

What the holy macaroni is a Jakugan sword? Jakugan doesn't have swords.

LOL good try but implied language as well....

@Clackers said in Relics are coming!:

Whatis a Jakugan sword? Jakugan doesn't have swords.

She usually don't like to show it as she consider it her ultimate trump card

@Haka-Taka Remember she was a breedable monster from Jabaline and Haku. It would have been more likely to have a javelin or something rather than a sword. Wasted opportunity IMO.

@Clackers said in Relics are coming!:

It is Genetic evolution , Her Doctor and Dr viktor both confirmed it :)

@Haka-Taka said in Relics are coming!:

Me too got it but i am on a sever gem diet right now so waiting till repair finish

So far i opened a free chest and got 5 Wisteria cells, this is my chest shop

So the starter chest is supposed to contain 1 Top Prize monster guaranteed. I got Growler... Seriously, who would say this is a Top Prize monster?? It's a good monster, not top prize... and it's an Epic.
The rest of rewards were far worse: Sludger cells, a level 2 rune, food...
I know that for 50 gems you can't ask for much more (although real price is supposed to be 330 gems), but please SP, let's be clear about Top Prizes ;)

The starter chest, on the other hand, was quite good: got 3 relics, 5 Sylvannis cells and some food.

@Sydyk
The celebrating chest we got had 3 or 4 relic so we as a tester could test the feature so 3 relic per chest is not the standard here . And and rest assured everyone when the feature is globaly released every player will get one

As for relic chests , it is pure gamble , even if we pay 95 gem for relic it is still a gamble you may get one you don't want , sure it will help with leveling relic up that if you can get that relic first

So far i think i will not use chest offer as my main relic source , so pvp ?? the new season just started yesterday so we need nearly 2 weeks till we see relic as pvp reward , and still want to know how many relic we will get or we will get chests instead ,, and what rarity for L IV for example

My second free chest :

Jakugan Sword is a Sword with a Jakugan blade!

@Haka-Taka said in Relics are coming!:

My second free chest :

Are these even used anymore ? I get stockpiles of them from the monthly rewards, and prize wheels, yet they can only be used in the Adventure map which is really just a chore not a challenge. I haven't use one of these things is forever.

@Carlos @Fox What I really would like to know is whether those relics are only useful on offence and if they are also giving benefits for defence, how you can recognise them on bases in team wars in order to be prepared for them BEFORE you go into battle!

@David-ML of course you can, the information is in the wiki page!