darkSpyro

This post is not meant to be a brag. It just happens to be where my game is at after eight months of very intense playing. I've maxed it all out, collected everything - except Tessa. Because I was really lucky at the wishing well when the B&Bs were initially coded to be much easier to get, I've got 112,000 free mabu. So Tessa is 100 per cent useless to me - except that her quests would net me a free air shrine.

Obviously there'll be other content down the road to spend gems more sensibly on, but I do have 6000 gems saved. Should I blow half of them on Tessa purely to score an elusive 'extra' unpurchasable shrine, or is that being entirely too stupid?

Can't it be both? I think it is a waste of 3000 gems, buy what else are you going to do with them? If your goal is to max out the game, you're going to get her anyways, eventually. Might as well do it when it nets you a shrine.

It seems to me that Tessa is pointless for you. I'd wait and see what the future updates will bring you. Probably some new nice things where you can spend your precious gems on. Besides, when you maxed out everything, what good is a new shrine? I have about 12 shrines, and those generate enough stones for me to win some nice prices in the wishing well every month.

However, if you really would like to max everything out, inclusing Tessa, I'd definitely wait for here to go on sale at 50%, and at some point in time she will. Just be patient. This way you save 1500 gems, which in return you can use to buy multiple shrines :-)

I agree that it would be a waste. She will eventually go half price (even if you have to wait for another 50% off companion sale), and she is of no use to you, anyway. The shrine isn't worth 1500 gems, even if you are already maxed out on them.

I'm facing a similar dilemma, though, with Jade Fire Kracken. I could spend 300 gems (out of the 600+) and get a fire shrine (which I'm maxed out on). I do have the potential of getting those gems back, eventually, if I get Jade Fire Kracken, but there's no promise I'll find it nor the promise of me having the money when I do find it. I'm holding out on getting Fire Kracken in hopes of getting Jade (as I normally just collect one of each instead of all the variants for physical figures), but I can't guarantee I'll get him. Plus we don't know how long that will be. I might be better off spending my gems on Snowler Brawl's house and hope for a shrine quest next week (although I only have 2 undead shrines).


But wait....while I was writing that, I just went back to my game and saw that Fire Skylanders are 50% off until Friday! That makes JFK 150 gems. So 150 gems for JFK and a shrine?! Might be a deal too good to pass up. Except you have to defeat 5 bats with JFK and I rarely seem, anymore, so would the shrine be guaranteed?

I'm betting you'd get another chance at the shrine soon enough wo spending three large, although if you have all the sky landers what else would you have to spend gems on. You probably have enough gold to spin any new SLs, so maybe yes.

I think the question here is, do you need another 10% more gold from Air Skylanders (50% bonus vs 40%) on air days? The bonus to crops is useless for Air. I am sure you don't need another extra wishstone on air days.

Personally, I say no.

In fact, I don't know about you, but I have all my shrines on one island and that island now has no more room. I'm going to start putting the less useful shrines in my storage. Or I need to start rotating the shrines around based on the element of the day.

Speaking as someone who has maxed out everything like you, it's the first opportunity to get a free air shrine past the 3 limit, at least for me. To me it's worth it just to get the shrine.

I'm not quite as maxed out as you. I can use the 25% boost to my 38,000 Mabu and only have about 1,000 gems in savings. But I can't see spending effectively 1,500 gems on an air shrine and I can't see spending 3,000 gems on Tessa. In fact, I'm still struggling with whether 1,500 gems is reasonable. I can mimic her effect with a few wood stack houses, for example.

I went ahead and dropped the 3,000 on her, just to be one of those that has everything in the game. With several B&B's and 34 shrines, I couldn't really rationalize it but why else play the game? If you are really shooting for a rational argument, it seems worth it so that you can free up island space.

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I'm facing a similar dilemma, though, with Jade Fire Kracken. I could spend 300 gems (out of the 600+) and get a fire shrine (which I'm maxed out on).

50 per cent off fire skylanders right now. Jade Fire Kraken is a fire skylander...

Tessa is 50% off right now. Today is your lucky day
I had ~15000 mabu before buying Tessa. Now I have 29000 Mabu. For me it seems she boosts population by 50%, not by 25% as it is written in her description.

EDIT: Probably she is for 50% off not for everyone - it seems that there is a new trend in the game - personalized offers. I just get an offer after loading screen - Fire on sale 50% off, Gem pack 1200+30 wish stones on sale (with "Special Offer for You" title), and then - Tessa 50% off (with "Great Value" title).
And when I checked the gem offer - it was not 1200+30 offer but 2790+30 for $15.

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I went ahead and dropped the 3,000 on her, just to be one of those that has everything in the game. With several B&B's and 34 shrines, I couldn't really rationalize it but why else play the game? If you are really shooting for a rational argument, it seems worth it so that you can free up island space.

Doh, just found out she is on sale next week. If you time travel to last Tuesday (not the future) you can buy her 50% off and get the shrine.

time traveling backwards didn't mess with your timed quests?

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time traveling backwards didn't mess with your timed quests?

No, just the opposite. It adds time when you go to the past.

Thanks to all for your advice and comments.


I just went from today's standard "take me there" button to find that as Rom713 pointed out above, Tessa actually is 50 per cent off. 1500gems for an unpurchasable air shrine? I can do that. In fact, I just did it.

Also spent a couple of hours rearranging all my islands and cleaning up. Now have three completely empty islands, and I'm really happy with the look of my new, bigger shrine only island.

My offer today was for Gorm & Tuk, not Tessa at 50% off :/

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I'm facing a similar dilemma, though, with Jade Fire Kracken. I could spend 300 gems (out of the 600+) and get a fire shrine (which I'm maxed out on).

50 per cent off fire skylanders right now. Jade Fire Kraken is a fire skylander...

I stated that later in my post, but thanks.