Crafting Material Crates

[IPassButter]

Greetings Kingdom Lords and Ladies!

We just wanted to give you a quick update regarding the crafting material crates that are showing up now in event rewards. These crates are as follows:

Wanderer's Crate
Adventurer's Crate
Nomad's Crate

These crates reward you with crafting materials which will be used to craft all new powerful hero equipment when the crafting workshop update is released in the very near future. We're working hard to get the update out as soon as possible so stay tuned!

[Jomama1]

Will new recipes for colored stones come after the current ones expire or do we need to spend those now?

[Assault and Flattery]

Will new recipes for colored stones come after the current ones expire or do we need to spend those now?


New recipes come out each week with the new limited time units, so you don't need to worry about spending them right away. The crafting update is unrelated to units in the "misc" tab.

[dpille]

Do you have some plan for a "mass open" button in case someone gets those 200x crates from the current box event?

[JamieF]

^ That would be nice. Opening 1 box is already so time consuming.. I still have sh*tload of boxes i didnt open because of the time it takes

[Jnsolberg]

Do you have some plan for a "mass open" button in case someone gets those 200x crates from the current box event?

Please, please, please! I just got 200 crates in the box event, and I'm not looking forward to an hour of trying to open them!

[Tachyon]

I'm pretty sure the 200 crates was a GREE blunder. I think a previous box event was re-used and Militia was changed to Wanderer's Crate without changing the 200x. Especially since other events have only handed out crates just one at a time. What this will mean for the crafting is unknown but I expect a significant widening between the haves and have-nots.

[dpille]

I'm pretty sure the 200 crates was a GREE blunder. I think a previous box event was re-used and Militia was changed to Wanderer's Crate without changing the 200x. Especially since other events have only handed out crates just one at a time. What this will mean for the crafting is unknown but I expect a significant widening between the haves and have-nots.

Yeah, I'd agree. The only questions, I think, are whether those 200 crates stay available for the entire event and whether those that already have them get to keep them.

[Thorbin]

The have / have not divide is for sure going to increase since the powers that be have been real good at keeping things like the colored stones out of the hands of the small guys. Why should we expect that to change.

[IPassButter]

The materials awarded in the crates are an incentive for players to be ready for and engage with the new crafting update upon release! We wanted to give active players a good amount of materials to play with when the new equipment recipes are introduced.

[Jnsolberg]

The materials awarded in the crates are an incentive for players to be ready for and engage with the new crafting update upon release! We wanted to give active players a good amount of materials to play with when the new equipment recipes are introduced.

One my toons has 253 of the first crate. It took @ 10 seconds to open the first one. That means it will take @ 42 minutes to open all of those crates. That alone may sink crafting, lol. Please give an option to open multiples at the same time. Just like buying equipment or units.

[Jomama1]

We really need mass open for chests and a way to craft a bunch at once - otherwise this will be lost to tedium - does anyone want to craft 1575 items in each category one at a time? That is not fun.

[Msikes]

We need all the "basic materials" we spent a year collecting opening all the other crates. This is stupid to start over

[Ryosaeba]

I'm pretty sure the 200 crates was a GREE blunder. I think a previous box event was re-used and Militia was changed to Wanderer's Crate without changing the 200x. Especially since other events have only handed out crates just one at a time. What this will mean for the crafting is unknown but I expect a significant widening between the haves and have-nots.

Doesn't really matter as you will still need to open other types of crates to craft other missing materials.

[belgario]

Everyone is forgetting one important point, since GREE has been so liberal with giving conquest attack and alliance attack boosts, even if I crafted 1500 of the strongest items of each category, normally much weaker stat players would still be able to beat me during wars. Combined with not being able to do multi-opens...I will be passing on this functionality.

[Jomama1]

The work required to equip your army is ridiculous - it was hard enough clicking buy multiple times before that was fixed, you think we are going to execute over 7.5k multi stage crafts? Clearly only useful for hero equipment and none of the recipes beats what I have. I feel sorry for those who need it and will have to labor through opening hundreds of chests one at a time to find the right materials. Looks like another epic fail by Gree. Makes me wonder if the developers play this game or whether they just like torturing their customers.

[plavine]

Everyone is forgetting one important point, since GREE has been so liberal with giving conquest attack and alliance attack boosts, even if I crafted 1500 of the strongest items of each category, normally much weaker stat players would still be able to beat me during wars. Combined with not being able to do multi-opens...I will be passing on this functionality.

But u can beat stronger players too .

[belgario]

But u can beat stronger players too .

Plavine, you are missing the point: why bother with this significant effort when it will mean nothing in the end?! Others will still be able to beat me, yes-I can already beat anyone in the game (as frankly most top 10 players can), and even if the strongest player had a full army of the best new equipment, I could still beat him with my current conquest attack and alliance attack boosts which GREE is still giving out very freely and thus perpetuating the current situation...the result: there is NO POINT in crafting any of this equipment if you have been an active player (which I assume those reading this forum are) and have a decent amount of alliance attack and conquest attack boosts

[Jnsolberg]

It's good for minis and maybe lower income peeps who can't afford all the equipment in the store. Also so far my mini is crafting an Epic item @ 33% of the time.

[Ryosaeba]

Plavine, you are missing the point: why bother with this significant effort when it will mean nothing in the end?! Others will still be able to beat me, yes-I can already beat....

You see, if lower stat peeps can't hit anyone, they will likely quit the game because they can't catch up. Now, those guys that couldn't beat me before can easily raid me even though my army is twice as theirs. So they end up not quitting. For the ones on top, now you have to beat them by getting more CP in wars, and this leads to more spending where as if no one can beat you, there is no spending. So top players quit because of this? No! They are too invested. It's a really good business strategy tbh. If I were them, I'd likely do the same thing.

[Jomama1]

Doesn't change the fact that this latest crafting change is a fiasco- I have no reason to open boxes so I will get more useless prizes

-needs add opens and mass crafts so you can build army equipment practically.

[Jomama1]

Of course now we are seeing prize slots filled with useless crates again .

[Jnsolberg]

This new crafting helps players with low level of no equipment. Very easy to craft decent equipment with one rusty ore.

For the higher level players, maybe one or two items can equip on your hero, maybe not. There are many things that can equip your army, but let's face it, it is way too tedious, and no way to get enough materials to ever become fully equipped.

If we were able to get the crates in the quantities that were available on that first box event, that would be better. But it is way too many steps to craft high or even mid level equipmeint

IPassButter, perhaps you could make it so we can select how many materials we want to craft at one time. Just like buying something. Instead of having to check in every 10 minutes, why not let us do 10 at a time in 100 minutes. Some may still be impatient enough to gem, so you won't lose any revenue.

[IPassButter]

IPassButter, perhaps you could make it so we can select how many materials we want to craft at one time. Just like buying something. Instead of having to check in every 10 minutes, why not let us do 10 at a time in 100 minutes. Some may still be impatient enough to gem, so you won't lose any revenue.

Thank you for the feedback. We hope to start working on UI improvements soon.

[Metsrock9931]

Everyone is forgetting one important point, since GREE has been so liberal with giving conquest attack and alliance attack boosts, even if I crafted 1500 of the strongest items of each category, normally much weaker stat players would still be able to beat me during wars. Combined with not being able to do multi-opens...I will be passing on this functionality.

Agreed- also thanks for discarding everything we crafted and had in inventory from the past, all items useless now. You will do the same in the future so forget about this event as well.

[Jnsolberg]

Agreed- also thanks for discarding everything we crafted and had in inventory from the past, all items useless now. You will do the same in the future so forget about this event as well.

Not sure where you've been. The old equipment in the crafting building was vastly inferior to what is in the store. None of those Epic whatever's have been in my army for a long time, lol

[Metsrock9931]

Not sure where you've been. The old equipment in the crafting building was vastly inferior to what is in the store. None of those Epic whatever's have been in my army for a long time, lol

Duh, but they could have used what we have earned and just change the items we were crafting for. Not starting over? People received 200 crates and some didn't. This is getting ridiculous on starting over now with two events.

[War player]

Duh, but they could have used what we have earned and just change the items we were crafting for. Not starting over? People received 200 crates and some didn't. This is getting ridiculous on starting over now with two events.

Starting over = building up bonuses with gems = more cash spent

[Jnsolberg]

Greetings Kingdom Lords and Ladies!

We just wanted to give you a quick update regarding the crafting material crates that are showing up now in event rewards. These crates are as follows:

Wanderer's Crate
Adventurer's Crate
Nomad's Crate

These crates reward you with crafting materials which will be used to craft all new powerful hero equipment when the crafting workshop update is released in the very near future. We're working hard to get the update out as soon as possible so stay tuned!


IPassButter, A suggestion about these crates we get as occasional prizes in the box events and the litqs. Since the Wanderer's Crate Contains only common materials, please make the Adventurer's Crate Have only uncommon materials, and the Nomad's Crate Should only have rare materials. There's nothing worse than opening one of the better crates and getting only common materials.

The 33% spilt in the crates you buy is fine. I'm only talking about the crates we get as prizes.

[Laura TCK]

I agree I have opened approx 10 adventure crates since start and only gained just one uncommon I need the epic stuff as not buying equipment anymore as the money is always just wasted in the end so yes Gree make adventure all uncommon



IPassButter, A suggestion about these crates we get as occasional prizes in the box events and the litqs. Since the Wanderer's Crate Contains only common materials, please make the Adventurer's Crate Have only uncommon materials, and the Nomad's Crate Should only have rare materials. There's nothing worse than opening one of the better crates and getting only common materials.

The 33% spilt in the crates you buy is fine. I'm only talking about the crates we get as prizes.

[sdunn00]

IPassButter, A suggestion about these crates we get as occasional prizes in the box events and the litqs. Since the Wanderer's Crate Contains only common materials, please make the Adventurer's Crate Have only uncommon materials, and the Nomad's Crate Should only have rare materials. There's nothing worse than opening one of the better crates and getting only common materials.

The 33% spilt in the crates you buy is fine. I'm only talking about the crates we get as prizes.

Yes....I agree. It's very frustrating to work for hours on getting a nomad crate and then opening it to get elf grass :mad:

[plavine]

Yes....I agree. It's very frustrating to work for hours on getting a nomad crate and then opening it to get elf grass :mad:
Elf grass is at least more difficult to get than that toad wort , I have tons of those - : yes I think the common items should be removed from the nomad crate

[Idiokus]

It's very annoying to get common stuff in an Nomad crate! just got a damn bush ��

[Jomama1]

Most folks who tried this have stopped because they ran out of Myrtle Sage, Several of these are needed for good artifacts and unless you got a lucky epic you are out. This is an uncommon item yet in significant more demand than any rare.

Please address this.

[CrawFishEater]

I believe the percentages for "epic" crafting has been adjusted. Out of 7 items crafted only one has been "epic" so far. Before it was supposed to be around a 50/50 chance.