We found our stronghold decked out in celebratory banners, with confetti raining from the sky absolutely everywhere. There's also a new repeatable escort quest in the stronghold just for the jubilee event, which follows all the bad tropes of an escort quest to a T... well, except for the one where your escortee attacks everything, cause the foreign merchant actually just cowers.
My favourite skirmish, the Protector's Speech, is also back! I just wish they'd actually give him a new speech every year. I have to be careful not to fall down the rabbit hole of grinding it over and over again just because it's easy, fun and rewarding, simply because I do need to get sleep at some point. I do think I would like to get the horse for my control wizard though.
I'm a bit torn on how much to involve my lowbie hunter ranger. On the one hand I want to get her a key to the Protector's Garden because all my other alts have it, on the other hand this risks throwing her levelling journey seriously off course, considering that a single run of the skirmish was enough to net me nearly two levels. I'll probably go ahead with it anyway.
Also, don't forget to claim your free goodie from the Zen store every day for the next week! If nothing else, Cryptic sure knows how to celebrate.
Hi Shintar! Nice post. How do you manage to get the Garden Key? It seems to me that we get one figurine a day and the event runs for 8 days, but you need 15 figurines for the key. How did you do it?
ReplyDeleteAfraid I haven't done it yet this year and they seem to have changed the way the rewards work this time around. However, so far I've gotten figurines from the skirmish, the purple boxes and from other people using the Protector's Hospitality gift-giving thing on me, so you can definitely get more than one per day.
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