The Potions

The contest is based on the same principle as previously, but there have been a lot of changes to simplify it. The jackpot is Fenrir, the first divine of the new Nordic divines series.

Concept

The aim of this event is to collect ingredients and use them to brew potions in cauldrons, to win the gifts they bring. Some potions bring items, some bring ingredients to brew more potions and one brings the divine.

At certain points during the event, players have the opportunity to buy packs of ingredients on the Black Market.


How does it work?

Obtaining Ingredients

The player collects ingredients:-at the first connection--by completing daily objectives--
in potions and by buying them with passes (8 random items for 1 pass, from Red or Blue Liquids and Dragon Scale)


Brewing Potions

The player brews a potion by putting 2 different ingredients in the Cauldron (by double clicking or dragging and dropping).

Then, they see which item is obtained with this potion and they validate to brew it or cancel it to try another recipe.

Discovering a recipe for the first time unlocks it. Unlocked recipes can be seen on the gifts page. On the gifts page, you can also see how many times the brewing takes and how often you obtained a gift.


The potions take some time to brew (it depends on the value of the item they bring), and this time gets longer when you brew the potion additional times. Players can use Boosters to reduce the brewing time by 2 hours. Boosters can be obtained at the first connection (x1), bought (1 pass = 8 boosters).

The player has 3 cauldrons and can brew 3 potions simultaneously.

The recipes for gifts will be different on the preprod and the prod. However, the recipes for ingredients will remain the same.

Daily Objectives

At the beginning, there are 2 daily objectives that bring ingredients and gifts for the contest, and if they reach the Community goal of brewing enough potions, they unlock a third daily objective.


Obtaining the Divine horse Fenrir
Fenrir is a divine from the brand new Nordic series.
Special ability: They do rides on the 3 Norse worlds: Niflheim, Midgard and Ásgard. A sort of map with a gauge is displayed on the horse page.
The horse should ride in the world he is located in to win points and progress to the next world (if he doesn’t, he loses points).

The gauge fills up to show where the horse is.

Once the horse reached the top of Asgard and the gauge is filled up, a button appears under the uncovered picture to allow the player to get their gift.
Fenrir’s gift is a Seal of the Apocalypse.


To get the divine horse Fenrir, players must brew the Divine potion. This potion requires 100 units of Elixir.

Collections


The collections include the ingredients you have to brew yourself (brain, elixir, bone, eye,…) and give additional gifts.

Mobile Version
A mobile version is available for this contest.

The Book of Monsters

New year, new Halloween customization item!

This year we introduce the Book of Monsters. It will be on the Black Market on a specific weekend, but players will also be able to win it in the Potions contest.


How does it work?


The player gives the item to a horse, which gets one of 5 random monster coats: Blob, Headless Horseman, Mummy, Yeti and Triton.

Each coat brings a specific bonus:

Blob - Drink action on horse console restores energy and health to 100%.

Headless Horseman - Horse get a Bonus +3 in each of his skills in competitions

Mummy - When aging on its birthday (when age is a multiple of 12 months), gives randomly between 1 and 3 aging points. This stops when horse reach 25 years.

Yeti - Horse can't lose health from being underfed nor overfed.

Triton - If the horse is a mare, the owner can choose the gender of its foal(s) when she gives birth.

They are the Blob
Headless Horsemen
Mummy
Yeti
Triton

The New Zealand Cards


The concept remains the same as the usual cards contests: collect and scratch cards to win gifts. Complete all the puzzles cards to win the new divine horse.
The Jackpots are:

Tawhirimatea from Maori divines (won when completing all the puzzles)

1 Greyfell in a card (random one among the ones the player does not have) (this gift cannot be cumulated)


<b>Changes since last time</b>


Some layout changes: the cards puzzles are now on top of the page instead of the gift cards

Players can now complete the puzzles several times to win more of the gifts they bring. However, the divine can only be won once, even when you complete all puzzles an additional time

Private sale: Each time a player buys a card in the flash sales, it fills a gauge that brings access to a private sale once it reaches 100% (the number of points a card brings depends of the rarity and goes from 2 to 40%).

The private sale enables a player to buy a Joker of the color of their choice once. The price will depend on the rarity. They have until the end of the contest to buy it.


<b>Mobile Version</b>


A mobile version is available for this contest. Please test it on the oldest and newest devices you have.

Tāwhirimātea


Tāwhirimātea is a divine from the brand new Maori series. He is the god of weather (including thunder and lightning, wind, clouds and storms), so his gift is a Wind Element when he reaches 800 mana.

Once a day, you can scratch off three turtle’s nests to win either baby turtles or shells.

Baby turtles award Mana points to fill the Tiki gauge.

Once the Tiki gauge is full, you will receive a Wind Element item.

BLUP Revaluation


The BLUP calculation has been reworked to ensure greater equity between breeders.

There was a certain imbalance in the way BLUP is calculated as well as in how the genetic potential and skills are passed down to foals. For example, training a horse in their 3 best skills counted more than age or wins when it came to calculating BLUP. On the other hand, an average BLUP that was lower than 100 would still give you a high enough genetic potential gain so that reaching 100 BLUP lost its interest for some people.

We wanted to give value back to the efforts of determined breeders who make the effort to get to 100 BLUP with their horses before breeding them and thus ensure a greater reward for breeding quality. So here are the changes we've just made.

For more comprehensive list of changes, please see the changelog.


BLUP Calculation


There’s now a better distribution of the 3 factors determining BLUP calculation: the BLUP calculation is less weighted toward training so that wins and horse age count more.

Win weighting: Each win gives you more BLUP than the previous win. The 20th win is therefore the most significant.

Age weighting: Each month gives you more BLUP than the previous month, so you get to the maximum when the horse reaches age 10.
Note: A horse’s BLUP updates after their first aging after the update.


Calculation of a foal's genetic potential


The formula for calculating a foal's genetic potential has been adjusted to change the BLUP factor in the formula.

If the parents' BLUP is below 100, the GP gain is weaker than before, whereas if the parents' BLUP is 100, nothing changes.

Note: Nothing changes for coverings that took place before the change: the genetic potential and innate skills of foals will stay the same as they were expected to be when the covering took place.


Other adjustments: Morpheus' Arms and Nyx Pack


You don't need to wait for a horse to be 3 years old now. You can give a foal Morpheus' Arms or even a Nyx Pack any time after they're born. So you can now save on some aging points!

On the other hand, any horse over 30 years old now loses their Morpheus' Arms.

It seems like a shift backwards - people who 100 BLUP aren't really being
rewarded, everyone else is just being penalized.

Pragmatically, this would make me (and I'm sure others too) want to play the game less. More work = same results as before (for non 100 BLUPers) OR no change (100 BLUPers).

Given that they could easily just have given 100 BLUPers an actual advantage or reward above what they currently gain from their play style, the cynic in me says this is yet another nerf (i.e. way to make people use more resources), but spun in a way to hoodwink people into thinking this is a net positive for the game.

Yes, I agree it is a hoodwink. The real motive is for players to spend more on aging points/M Arms/Nyx Packs (if the applicable BLUPping perk is activated) & more.
But, as a strict 100 BLUPper I do all of these with very little pass purchases already.
I like the idea of it because it validates or officialises my reasoning behind only breeding at 100 BLUP - I am guaranteed to get as close as possible to optimum results for any coverings.
I'm not going to deny that it will make it harder for the general populas to be competitive with their breeding, it's going to be a huge impact, but it suits me personally as it's something that I'm already doing.

I completely understand where Howrse is coming from with the change, breeding with 70 blup isn't exactly a (nerf, disadvantage, problem, I can't think of the word?). I'll have to bring my fillers back and start breeding at 100 again but I guess that's a good thing. I always breed my Teke's when they're 10yrs old and whatever wins they get is what they get because the difference from 70-100 blup isn't much so I use 60 AP's to get 70-100 blup. With the change, if I keep doing that I'll get 60-100 blup and use 60 AP's. But if I include fillers in that it's 100 blup for 60 AP's.

I've been snooping around the Int spoiler forum, a lot of people hate this and say that the comps are going to be destroyed especially on smaller servers. Not sure how the comps will be affected on this server but I can see the western comps being an issue.

If anything this change is just encouraging going to 100 blup. I lost interest in going to 100 as 70 was easier and delivered results that were almost just as good as 100. With the change.
70 blup will = 60 blup I believe?

Moral of the change: fillers.

cards that were duplicates and were wasted if they were puzzle cards. Well no more. All cards can be used even the bronze duplicates. You can now get multiples of prizes from the puzzle cards. Before you could only win them once but not now. I have tested this and got up to 4 copies of the puzzle prizes and the duplicates just add up. Once you get a second set of all the cards in that puzzle piece it releases another gift. It could be a GA, or bonus pack, a TC or Poseidon's pack.

They think comps are going to get destroyed because people will now be putting more effort into winning the 20 wins and therefore breeders with a little less knowledge or skilled horses won't be able to blup... thus furthering those ahead (sorry if this doesn't really make sense)

BLUP Revaluation


The BLUP calculation has been reworked to ensure greater equity between breeders.

There was a certain imbalance in the way BLUP is calculated as well as in how the genetic potential and skills are passed down to foals. For example, training a horse in their 3 best skills counted more than age or wins when it came to calculating BLUP. On the other hand, an average BLUP that was lower than 100 would still give you a high enough genetic potential gain so that reaching 100 BLUP lost its interest for some people.

We wanted to give value back to the efforts of determined breeders who make the effort to get to 100 BLUP with their horses before breeding them and thus ensure a greater reward for breeding quality. So here are the changes we've just made.

For more comprehensive list of changes, please see the changelog.


BLUP Calculation


There’s now a better distribution of the 3 factors determining BLUP calculation: the BLUP calculation is less weighted toward training so that wins and horse age count more.

Win weighting: Each win gives you more BLUP than the previous win. The 20th win is therefore the most significant.

Age weighting: Each month gives you more BLUP than the previous month, so you get to the maximum when the horse reaches age 10.
Note: A horse’s BLUP updates after their first aging after the update.


Calculation of a foal's genetic potential


The formula for calculating a foal's genetic potential has been adjusted to change the BLUP factor in the formula.

If the parents' BLUP is below 100, the GP gain is weaker than before, whereas if the parents' BLUP is 100, nothing changes.

Note: Nothing changes for coverings that took place before the change: the genetic potential and innate skills of foals will stay the same as they were expected to be when the covering took place.


Other adjustments: Morpheus' Arms and Nyx Pack


You don't need to wait for a horse to be 3 years old now. You can give a foal Morpheus' Arms or even a Nyx Pack any time after they're born. So you can now save on some aging points!

On the other hand, any horse over 30 years old now loses their Morpheus' Arms.

I also fully support this change to Blupping, it's how they should have had it in the first place. The best results should always be from 100% blupped parents. All it's doing is what it should, if you want the best results in your breeding program, then you need to put in 100% effort!!
About time we got to use the MA properly. We buy it to save AP's so it should be available right from birth....same as the Nyx pack!