Some Wartune event designer has really fallen in love with this hard-to-pronounce event, because he runs it nonstop. Still, the rewards are cool, unless you have grown so bitter to say "never spend on Wartune again".
Sadly, the golden age of Consecutive events are over, when you could just claim all the bonuses by clicking on the "Get free balens" menu and watching videos. Now you have to pay 5 x 5 USD to get the bonus. So far, we have seen this event giving out like 500 beast souls (equivalent of a +40 mount) plus some chests. Combined with the other recharge bonus running parallel (awarding items and bound balens) it was the best recharge bonus in Wartune's history, you got like 150% bonus to your payment.
The current one is pretty decent too. Instead of beast souls, it gives divinity souls, up to level 7. Divinity soul is still an exclusive casher-only item. Although you can win some in sylph expedition, it won't be much, unless you are top (due to being casher). Also you can buy them in mystery shop, but that's also an option mostly for cashers. So lvl 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 soul, plus 40 cloth shards is as good as the +40 mount, if not better.
Please note that this event follows a predictable pattern: during the 6 days when it's active, there is usually a recharge pack for 2 days, and for 3 days, they award bound balens for your payment, plus additional recharge gift packs which are better than the small ones. So it' best to time your recharges so you get maximum benefit. I recommend wait for the bound balens, recharge once between midnight and 5am, again after 5am, and then the next 2 days: this way you get bound balens for 4 of your 5 recharges.
Although the rewards are cool, this recharge event is prolly the most annoying one in Wartune's history for several reasons:
1.) if you forgot to make payment on 5 different days, or you mess up something, and accidentally do twice on the same day, or just their system get's messed up, which is quite frequent - you lose the majority of the bonus which comes on the 5th day.
2.) doing 5 small separate recharges is just pain, many clicks, and 5 chances to select the wrong server, the wrong game.
3.) With many payment methods, 5 USD recharge can be very expensive. Someone mentioned with Xsolla, 5 USD recharge cost actually 54 USD! So unless you use paypal or bank card, this will cost you a lot more than 25 USD.
4.) Since R2Games introduced the - otherwise illegal - double-taxing (charging Europeans BOTH USA tax and European tax), many players try to dodge this by using proxies while recharging. But it's a lot of extra trouble, and if you do it too often, paypal might ban you.
5.) And the last point, when a player recharge 5 x 5 USD, R2Games will receive only 12.5 USD. When a player recharge 25 USD in one sum, they get like 22 USD. So with this degenerated method, they lose half of their income. But yeah, this is one point we don't care about :)
I collected some data about Wartune's new Mystery Shop, and I was thinking what is the best buy strategy. I will share what I found, feel free to comment!
The first thing is, you shouldn't spend real balen in this shop, use only bound balens. Let's hope you stacked up a few tens of thousands from dimensions, because it seems you are not getting more. The bound balen producing dimension mines are seemingly non-existent.
Here is the list of useful items so far:
You can buy the same item for different prices: pure balen (or bound balen), bb + kyanite or daru, and bb + mystery stones.
The item is always the cheapest in bb terms when you use mystery stones, and its always the most expensive when you dont spend an additional resource.
As you see, all gems (divinity souls, eudaemon diamonds, normal gems, and resist crystals) can be purchased. Will crystals seem to be more rare than the others, but the rest is pretty common.
What catched my eye that whoever made these prices, was not aware that Wartune has regular gem events, where you can create higher level gems and get extra gems. As you see, a lvl 2 eudaemon diamond costs 20 bb and 1 mystery stone, while a lvl 3 cost 90 bb and 4 mystery stone. However, when you combine 4 lvl 2 eudaemon diamonds (during an unlimited event), you get an extra lvl 3. So effectively, if they sell a lvl 2 for 20 bb, a lvl 3 should cost max 40 bb. (but 2 lvl 2 is still better because if you combine them during an event, you will get chests).
The same is true for everything: the higher level a gem, the more expensive. So in general, you should buy only the lowest level gems (I marked them with dark green). Since there is no reward for making lvl 2 divinity soul or lvl 2 resist crystal, in those categories the lvl 3 is a good buy as well.
Please note that I recommend buying even the lvl 5 will crystal. Although in general will crystals are much more expensive than resist crystal, here you can buy them cheaper. Additionally, will crystals are more rare. So I think it's okay to buy even higher level will crystals if you can afford.
About the miscellaneous items: so far I found 2 which I find exceptionally great deal, marked them bright green. These are beads of influence and vulcan hammer. These are "must buy" items.
Eternal heart is good too, especially since its less common now in dimensions (although you can find it still). The gift of god I find overpriced. Mahra, mount whip and mystery stones are useful items, but you can find them in large quantities for free, I wouldn't waste bound balen on them.
Please note also something very important: you are limited to 3 buys per day! For this reason, I recommend buying dark green items only if you have at least 1 purchase attempts remaining afterwards, or if this is the last shop refresh before you log out - to make sure you can also buy the top items if they come up.
I'm pretty sure that even if you buy only dark green items, you will buy the 3 items most days (if you check the shop every 4 hours), So you will spend about 200-300 bound balens, and about 10 mystery stones each day. If you have 20k bound balens like me, this will be enough for 2-3 months for sure. If you have a LOT more, like 50-100k, you might consider buying lvl 4 gems too, but don't forget, those will be suboptimal purchases.
Lastly, I would like to mention that there are other items in the shop, but they are really, completely utter junk. Here is the list of them. The sylphs could be useful to some beginner players - if they weren't so expensive.
There are really a lot of items, so I'm sure my list is not complete. I didn't see empire truncheon for example, but I hope it exists :)
Mystery shop would be an okay change after wild shop - if they didn't remove bound balens from dimensions.
*** UPDATE 03/08 ***
I updated the above tables. Advanced mahra and sepulcrum is highly recommended items too. I moved vulcan stove from junk to recommended for the following reason:
Now you can get vulcan's hammers 200-600 per week from Narrenda. And you get only 200-600 stoves, where you would need 600-1800. Yes you have some saved up from AB, but that will run out quick... You will need the stoves :)
Cloud adventure is a simple and fun event, I like it very much. It involves one strategic decision, should you use magic dices, and when?
Earlier on I read on Cosmos blog an article from DZmage which suggests that you should always buy 5 magic dices, and use them roll 6s - even by skipping bosses - so you get the maximum amount of reward. He said he got more bound balens he spent plus extra goodies, so this is a good strategy. After that, I heard complaints from several people who lost the precious bound balens they saved up because they tried this strategy. so I decided I summon statistics and math to verify this.
First of all, I collected a good amount of statistics about Cloud Adventure spins:
Since you get 3 items with each spins, a spin's average value is 3x41=123 balens.
A normal dice's average roll is 3.5, while a magic dice's is 6. So with one magic dice, you can save 6/3.5=1.7 normal dice. When you spend 180 bound balens on a magic dice, you get an average bonus worth 123 x 1.7 = 209 bound balens.
Please note something in this table: I put a magic hammer's value at 8 balens (while it's sold for 65 balens). I collected a lot of statistics about magic hammers too, and it was very disappointing. The expected value was only 8 balens (and only because I assigned some value even to the junk, ie. gold, kyanite, sylph equip shards). If you say magic hammer worth ZERO balen, that won't be far from the truth either :)
So anyway, yes, buying 5 magic dice is a good deal, since you can convert your bound balens into either bound balens or highly useful items of greater value.
But there is something you have to notice: generally, you will get back LESS bound balens than you spent.
If you spend 900 bound balens to get 5 magic dice (and as such, save 8 normal dice), you will get back an average of 24 x (12.57+7.47+6.79) = 644 bound balens only. So if you are low on bound balens, and saving on a gem recipe or some other specific item, you should be careful here.
Here is also another strategy suggestion from me: if possible, try to kill the bosses, if you can reach them via a magic dice roll of 5 or 6. Alternate normal and magic dices, and try to move on as many bosses and chests as possible.
