Originally Posted by
wishtheywerereal
When I crafted the cabbage hut, also in a MH where I wanted to keep slaying golems but was going to max out on gold tokens, I put it in overnight and gemmed the rest over coffee. : )
To share w all: spoke w my maths PhD hubby last night about the armoured direwolves and the wizard portals. His lateral thinking perspective on it was that with gold troll tokens at 50 gems each, two purchased gold tokens is equivalent to a daily alicorn on sale. The gem cost of 85 gold tokens is therefore the gem equivalent of 42.5 daily alicorns. The *energy* yield of a new WP is about two daily alicorns, fully upgraded two more. Not good gem value. Direwolves equivalent harder to calculate as my experience is is drops 20 energy almost exclusively for me and other players are luckier w that guy. One daily alicorn more than covers it for me. It is a lot easier to make a reduced price purchase with gems bought on sale. Ergo, the only reason to do the WP or armoured direwolf is for the fun of it. Fun is worth it, and it is subjective, whilst the maths bit is objective. One isn't better than the other.
When I have gazillions of energy saved, it might be inspiringly fun or feel pointless to craft them, impossible to tell from here. For now, after crafting our warrior who cooks feasts (great combo) and the rest of my allowed lions, I prefer to restock for trades and then save a bit of energy for the next event.
I will probably wind up crafting the allotment of flyers as well; the expansion permit drops are poor but still exist, and every little bit helps, as a supermarket ad here says. But I won't push for it, yet. : )
I really really hope we get a WW at the end of this as well!