I also got one hammer when I was on Goal 7. Several other players reported that they too had gotten hammers before Goal 9. They drop consistently in Goal 9, but are not a guaranteed drop. It would have been fantastic if they had been dropping regularly in earlier Goals. They are hard to come by. No such luck!
The Xiang Pu pandas appear to be a guaranteed spawn from the Level 5 Bamboo Grove. They take 12 hits (around 6, really) but the damaged helm drop is not guaranteed. I think I went through about 12 pandas to collect 7 helms.
This event has several bottlenecks (stones, mud, hammers) but we are also only 3 days into a 13-day event so I don?t want to be too panicky.
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I've gathered everything where I have control (e.g I have enough blades just waiting for the handles). I am concerned about the hammers. I only received 1 prior to goal 9, and now it looks like it will take over 10 hours to collect 8 hammers for one repaired helm. We need 3 repaired helms (4 if collector). This is assuming we get a hammer every time from both mines (and we know that isn't true). I think it was something like this that kept me from finishing level 7 in the Three Little Pig event.
S8 - 8 hammers seems like a bit of an over****. Too many hammers for a long wait period and not guaranteed. Please rethink. Even guaranteed drops would still make this a huge bottleneck.
Last edited by ladlasse; 08-23-20 at 04:13 AM.
Kingdom is Nancelot. I play regularly and try to be very swift to respond to requests.
You can spawn and defeat the Shaolin Panda's from the farmhouses from the start, basically.
There is an optional side goal you'll find in your book called "Warrior Panda-monium" where you need to collect Panda Coins (exact number needed @ bottom of Info Post #2) to craft one of each Panda as a pet. If you start fighting the Shaloin Panda's early, they'll only drop the Panda Coins needed for the side goal. However, if you have no interest in crafting these as pets then you probably wouldn't want to focus your time and energy on fighting the Shaolin Pandas before we're required to do so in Goal 7 when they start to drop other materials needed to craft items for the main goal.
I can't follow your logic and/or math.
Don't we need 24 Hammers? (8 per Repaired Helm, 3 Repaired Helms required)
Assuming you will get 1 Hammer every 2 Collections (collecting from 2 Sparkling Mines 1 time each), it will be 1 Hammer every 3 Hours (times may vary slightly).
24 Hammers needed x 3 Hours per Hammer = 72 Hours.
And that's without sleep and including being able to collect every 3 hours for day's straight.. which isn't possible for normal humans..
Does this make sense, or am I totally seeing/ calculating it wrong?
Starting to worry
Edit, I changed the time from 4 hours to 3 (for collecting from Sparkling Mines), but like stormaurora42 says, it depends on the level of you're Mines
And if I could make a suggestion to S8, it would be to make the Hammers a guaranteed drop and/or let us begin recruiting Fire Panda's when we have the Repaired Helm, not letting us wait till we have 3 before we can recruit them. (that feels a bit like torture)
Last edited by RonjaR82; 08-22-20 at 11:46 PM.
I agree!!
I’m in Australia and the pack is $8.
$8 for 10 Expansion Permits is crazy good.
I rarely (pretty much never) spend real money on this game...
but this is an amazing deal!!
Also, I’m pretty happy with Storm8 and all their hard work.
Theres been a lot of beautiful character design lately.
My kingdom is looking amazing at the moment.
So I thought it was worth the purchase.
It’ll also take the edge of this Bamboo Grove event with the bonus supplies (especially those stones).
I’m tempted to buy a second.
Last edited by hagypagy; 08-22-20 at 11:31 PM.
also...
I have a feeling Mei will be animated similar to Demetria ...
twirling her staff!
(just a hunch though)