New island dropped an hour ago, with 2 new legends and 1 new epic.

Also in this 10 day maze are: Trevor, Squamata Jr, Taiga, Burotgor, and Van K Mark.

I am expecting Armole (between Taiga and Burotgor) to be the limit for F2P players, but he is a great epic anyway, so I am not bothered.

For high spenders, there is the chance to get extra cell packs for Rabbish after you have obtained him at the end.

I disagree with your assessment, I think players could make it for free or less than 50 gems as far as the elementium or Van D Mark.

@Nynaevelan totally agree, well said

@Nynaevelan Yep, I agree too.

My thoughts on Mercenary Island..

For Once (exaggerated), free2players may come across one free legend that is actually quite good, Furrious Robin.

Furrious Robin is the attacker type while Rabbish is half-denier half-support. Well they put Rabbish at the end so I would assume Rabbish is better. About Armole, meh nice, his special skill is unresisted though, the only epic with special type ulti.

Design:
Armole resembles someone though I can't remember..
Furrious Robin, we all know this resembles Robin Hood. His design are awesome 10/10
Rabbish, still liked Robin than this though his egg and juvenile form design is better. But I feel like Rabbish has the Epic Rarity design criteria, don't you think?

Overall: Great Island, If played often might get Furrious Robin despite Free2Player.

Well I am half way through Squamata Jr already.

I hope you are right about the F2P getting Furrious Robin.

I just hit level 105 btw, and got the offer for 3400 gems for £48.99 - if I had bought that I could have completed the Mercenary Island already!

Rabbish at Level 130 gameplay: www.youtube. com/watch?v=8zribXBGD0s

BTW, anyone know why the WIKI is not being updated with new monsters?

Based on 6 Gold - 4 Food - 1 Breed - 1 Hatch every 8 hours

So 12 days to complete Furrious Robin?

@Clackers said in Mercenary Island:

So 12 days to complete Furrious Robin?

?
red is the longest time to collect all so in Robin's case 95 hour (I took the liberty to add an additional 20 min because the full gold pool takes the longest to gather) so 95 hours in my book is almost 4 days not 12.
If i roughly add the times together for the first 8 tasks then i come to 14 days, so if you speed up here and there Robin is easy obtainable (+ the 10 Elem), this is without the boost that hopefully is coming (Taringa leak)

The Ingenica and Yamada islands spoiled me, making the target monster rank 2 easy to get at a reasonable gem cost. Looks like the same will not apply to this one, but Mercenary Island is still an excellent event (though the old rare and epics are kinda meh). Having Taiga so early is a boon to newer players.

I am still exhausted from the Titan event so will appreciate not having to push thinking I might be able to get Rabbish (and then failing). Thank you Marianne for posting your chart so promptly, it is a huge help.

I hope monster-wiki does their gemming graphs again as they did for the Gangs Island

Don't forget that the attack is a big gem drop when finished so If you are planning to gem the monster I suggest you do the battle first.

@TheSwedishHippo it's 3 gems per attack

@keki14 Yes but when you do the attack (or gem an attack, i don't know I haven't tried) big gems will be deducted to the total gems to get the monster

@keki14 what @TheSwedishHippo means is that with each task you get a certain amount of gems reduced from the total amount of gems needed to skip the monster/chest/elem/cells if you look at the total gems needed for Buro and Robin 951 and 1398 but they both require the same task amounts, this means although the tasks and how much is needed is same the worth of each is different. So according to @TheSwedishHippo fights lower this amount quit a bit, I have to say I didnt know that because I always do all fights because it only takes 4 hours to do all of them but I will try and pay attention to it now

Honestly, I do think Armole is my limit in this event.

I am currently on around 414 gems for Taiga.

@TheSwedishHippo
@Marianne-van-Es

I'm fully aware of that, I meant for me it's always 3 gems from the total cost (3 attacks are minus 9 gems). Maybe it's different this time

well Im on Taiga and my last fight didnt do anything lol

So you can collect materials every 8hours? I am pretty sure its less

@Chris-Zagelidis No the pool is filled to the max every 8 hours you can collect gold every 1h20m - food every 2h - and hatch and breed every 8 hours

@Marianne-van-Es Yep, the second only did 1 gem (the Taiga attack)

@Marianne-van-Es Thanks for info, where did you find this information mate?

@Chris-Zagelidis don't know what the female form of mate is
but to answer your question the pools and times are based on former progressive islands the spreadsheet I made is based on youtube video (no hacker)

@Marianne-van-Es Ooops! Marianne ! Right ehm... hides
Thanks for the info

@Clackers How does the breeding and hatching work? I can't seem to ever get anything that counts.

@Salomon-House Im no Clackers but I never miss a hatch or breed
use treezard + thundenix every 8 hours (4 with boost) you have your breeding and or hatching results in 1 to 5 tries (30 sec)

@Marianne-van-Es Thank you. So it is one time every 8 hours, right? And it can be any time in the 8 hour window?

I tried that (4 cycles so far) and I got credit for the hatchmg, but not the breeding.

@Salomon-House if a breeding and or hatching is required you start with them at say 8 am and then the next one (again without the boost) at 4 pm, with boost at 12.

@Salomon-House
maybe you are dragon city player ? as they use this hours windows . but here no .. 8 hours must pass till you can get another item for breeding and hatching as Marianne said

@Haka-Taka No Dragon City. And I'm a noob at ML so I am just trying to get a handle on all the little nuances of game play. Thank you all.

I have a rough idea of when the 8 hours is going to be up, and then keep an eye on my gold collections. As soon as they reach that magical multiple of 6, I do my breed and hatch, and finish my feeds. I do at least one feed in the middle of a session with a mind to make certain that there is room for new gold collection and feeds to start filling as soon as the 8 hours is up.

@Bellendaine What is the "magical multiple of 6"?

@Bellendaine And, are the 8 hour periods fixed from the start of the island, or does it reset as I complete a quest?

6 is the number of gold collections you can do in the 8 hour span (1:20 for each). There are 4 feedings in that same time (2:00 for each). Hatches and breeds are one each in 8 hours. The hatch/breed clock starts once you have completed the current ones (so if you don't collect for 10 hours, you have to wait 8 hours, not 6).

@Bellendaine Ah ... that explains my failure so far. Thank you!!

Not every breed or hatch always yields a point, even if it is time. So you may need to try several times. See Marianne's comments above for advice on breeding combo and timing.

@Salomon-House pool is for every item is full again at start of new quest. Gold often takes the longest at start of a new one it helps to log out and in to reset the game

@keki14 @Marianne-van-Es

I just noticed that Taiga didn't get a big gem dropped after I fought a battle.. But at the Alpha Cliviast's Dark Forest Progressive Island, Ylitre got massive gem drop after I fought a battle.. Maybe @keki14 is right, It is different this time.

Before:
https://m.imgur.com/a/dUHyF

After:
https://imgur.com/a/ni5ck

@Bellendaine What happens if I forget and breed again before the time comes around? Does that reset the clock, too, or does it just ignore my attempt?

@Salomon-House I honestly don't know, but I think (based on experience) that it doesn't reset, because technically your pool is still empty. I could always get an item in breeding events after 8 hours (or 4 hours in maze events).

Try it and see it for yourself

@keki14 I did <smile>. Thank you. I'll let you know.

@Salomon-House it doesnt reset

If I try to sneak something in between the "magic number" times, it is unpredictable. I did not get points for collecting food if it was more than just a couple of collections. I did not get points for breeding, even just once. It didn't seem to affect points for hatching at all. It also seems that I need to give it at least 5 minutes past when I think it should work or it doesn't sometimes (or maybe it just randomly doesn't work).

Thanks for your help everyone.
Salomon

@Salomon-House its not for collecting food but for feeding monsters you get the reward
ps read THIS

@Solomon_House - sometimes you need to relaunch the app for you to see the the points. My understanding is that often the points are awarded, but you have not yet been notified. That is why you will occasionally see more points being awarded than the maximum for that task.

Regarding the breeding and hatching. I just use two firesaurs every 8 hours. Like people said before, not every breed/hatching returns the item for the maze but it is only 15 seconds to wait for a repeat.
This works for me every time.
I also noticed it is good to completely restart the game every few hours for the timers to resync completely.

I just obtained Armole and the Elementium.

I guess I am way behind everyone else.

@Clackers said in Mercenary Island:

I just obtained Armole and the Elementium.

I guess I am way behind everyone else.

Don't know hat you consider way behind I think your about a day behind me

@Clackers @Marianne-van-Es
Lol i am still on taiga