darkSpyro

So there's a few things this week that I can't confirm atm since my game keeps crashing but according to info screens:

Legendary Week: All Legendary Skylanders earn double gold this week!

Legendary Houses On "Sale": This is interesting as they are listing Legendary Houses as on sale (50% off) for 250 Gems. Can't tell if this is a permanent change or not.

Gem Conversion!!!!: This is what everyone has been asking for but until 1/1 you can convert excess gold and energy into Gems.

I'm very interested in that second part. Can anyone give me a few more details in the mean time?

I eagerly clicked this thread hoping to see new/bigger islands...

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I eagerly clicked this thread hoping to see new/bigger islands...

One of the things people have been asking for.

New companion Diggs. Allows you to convert excess gold and energy to gems. Price 1000 gems

!!!!!!!!!
They have changed Hall of Legends to costs 500 gems instead of 200 wish stones!! And they are giving us a 50% sale on them now, for ONLY 250 gems.... Seriously wtf! As if wish stones didn't were useless and piling up enough....
Yes I'm mad.

Also timed quests for new QuickDraw snake for a shrine, and snow roller to earn a adventure balloon.

I logged in and got 10 gems for being level 40. It says you can continue earning xp for prizes but not sure about whether that is working.

I don't mind spending 1000 gems on diggs (have 1200 saved up) if the conversion rate is ok and it will eventually pay for itself. Has anyone tried this yet.

I also don't mind legendary house now being gems depending on conversion rate. Excess stones now = gold which in turn= gems.

Diggs gives a hut. When you put a Skylander in the hut it converts either 500,000 gold or 200,000 energy for a random payout of gems. The mission takes 24 hours to complete. You can speed up the payout for 75 gems and my reward for 500,000 gold was 25 gems.

They also added the ability to keep getting exp at level 40. For each time you fill the EXP bar you get 10 gems and 5 stones.

Quickdraw has a timed quest with a shrine reward
Crazy sheep hat guy (drawing a blank on the name) has a timed quest for a snow chompie
Snowlerbrawl has a timed quest for a balloon.

The rest of the legendary characters were released today as well. A different legendary goes on sale every day this week.


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I didn't realize unit after I posted that you can have more than 1 of the Molekin Markets. I placed 4 and I can still add them but that added up to 1,000,000 energy. I'm not sure I can continue to sustain that for an extended period of time.

500,000 gold for 25 gems is not bad for the players who continue to rack up gold from sanctuaries with nothing to buy. Promo screenshot says earn up to 100 gems daily. Diggs will pay for itself over time.

I'll be shocked to see another payout of 25 gems. Typically the first time you get a payout on a building you get the maximum gem payout. After that point it goes back to a payout in the range for the house. It shouldn't take long for Diggs to pay for himself. I've got enough gold on hand to run 140 days before I run out. Even with an average of 50 gems a day that's 7000 gems over the next 4 months.

Anybody know if you travel back a day can you still get legendary houses for stones?

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Anybody know if you travel back a day can you still get legendary houses for stones?

It doesn't work sadly

What level do you have to be for diggs to show up? My husband had to start a new game because activision wasn't able to recover his lvl 39 kingdom. He is level 11 now but doesn't see the new companion.

As someone who is new-ish (almost 2 weeks now I think). I'm level 19, almost 20. I noticed Diggs is only available until Jan 1st and he'll be gone. Is it worth the gems to buy him at this level? I know eventually he'll pay for himself, but not for a while for me. But I also don't want to miss on something good even if I don't get much use for while.

Also, can someone tell me how long Snowler Brawls hut takes for payout? New timed quests requires 8 times to collect and you get a free airship (I have none of the 25% bonus ones, so I assume with that kind of deal the house is worth it)?

And is Quickdraw RS worth paying the full 300gems (I know he has been some peoples 50% off sale) for an undead shrine?

I had to load, exit, and reload. Then Diggs showed up.


Also given Diggs as an expiration date, is he going to reappear at random times ? I believe Ermit is the same way? I doubt being new myself to the game, I'll have the time to get my gems all the way up to 1000. I'm not against the idea of giving the game some money, but its not going to happen until after I have all the figures themselves.

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I didn't realize unit after I posted that you can have more than 1 of the Molekin Markets. I placed 4 and I can still add them but that added up to 1,000,000 energy. I'm not sure I can continue to sustain that for an extended period of time.

I get "May only have 1", so I think you might have got a lucky glitch there

They must of fixed it quickly because I placed 4 had to wait 10 minutes for a chest to be done for more space and when I went for another it was limited to 1, but already got 4 so I guess I'm lucky.

I put down 8 Molekin Markets (to see how many I could have) and it would still let me put more down. I didn't, and have left it. Going back to it, the App closed and restarted itself, and when I looked back, it now says the 'may only have 1'.

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As someone who is new-ish (almost 2 weeks now I think). I'm level 19, almost 20. I noticed Diggs is only available until Jan 1st and he'll be gone. Is it worth the gems to buy him at this level? I know eventually he'll pay for himself, but not for a while for me. But I also don't want to miss on something good even if I don't get much use for while.

Totally. The payouts seem to range up to 100 gems and (assuming that’s not a bug) it’s the answer to freeing yourself from the real-money transactions forever.

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Totally. The payouts seem to range up to 100 gems and (assuming that’s not a bug) it’s the answer to freeing yourself from the real-money transactions forever.

Thanks! And it's likely safe to assume that it won't go on sale since it's only available for 2 weeks.

If I don't care about totems/wish stones I can crank out around 300-600,000 gold a day depending on how much time I have. Since I only have 16 skylanders. I'm contemplating getting Quickdraw RS for the Undead shrine, but have seen others get discounts for him so am kind of waiting. Too bad his quest is timed. Granted you could probably do his quest in 2 days.

So glad I saw this before I updated. I grabbed an extra 10 halls just to be future proof.

Also, Diggs does show up in the 50% sales. Feel free to use the custom sale feature to buy him at 50% off.

I really have to decide how to get him and if I want him. Of course I do, but not sure about getting 1000 gems in time. I had around 700 earlier today, but spent 260+ to get a sidekick house from the daily offers. Now I need about 500 to get to 1000. I was long to get Snowler Brawl's house, but the prize isn't really worth it. I was also wanting to get QuickDraw to do the timed quest, but I don't see me getting enough to do both. The conversion seems somewhat decent and I can probably earn enough back in time to get QDRS. Now to figure out how to get that many gems. My wife would probably kill me (or, at least, be mad at me for a while) if I spent real money

bummer I was saving wish stones to buy more halls and now I can't

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So glad I saw this before I updated. I grabbed an extra 10 halls just to be future proof.

Also, Diggs does show up in the 50% sales. Feel free to use the custom sale feature to buy him at 50% off.

Custom sale feature? I thought it was random o.o

Yay! I have been asking for this forever and it is worth a lot more to me than bigger/more islands. I got the 50% off sale and am so glad I didn't spend my gems on Snowler Brawl's house first. I did have to use energy to get it going because I let my son spend my accumulated 20 million gold on the new Skylanders.

I got the new companion half off. And incase anyone questioned if the new house gave 25 gems every time, the answer is yes (I tested it). Best addition ever......seeing as I have like 200+ million and 80 million energy. That's about 1k gems guaranteed every month.

How does one do this "custom sale feature"?

Disconnect from the internetz and then change the date back and forth. Each time it randomly picks what deal you get.

I consider it cheating, plus I don't want to accidentally end up in a situation where the 'time to finish' on a building is over a year long (like one guy go), so I just brought it at it's current price. Even at full price, it should pay for itself in less than month.

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Disconnect from the internetz and then change the date back and forth. Each time it randomly picks what deal you get.

I consider it cheating, plus I don't want to accidentally end up in a situation where the 'time to finish' on a building is over a year long (like one guy go), so I just brought it at it's current price. Even at full price, it should pay for itself in less than month.

I'm gonna abuse the heck out of this > also kinda reminds me of changing the stock of insaniquarium on the lap top

Too bad I missed getting him directly and multiple houses before they fixed it, but at least I got this

Fyi. The quest for the chompy snowman gives you a pair of them.

This update was as good as I've ever seen. Now all the well winnings I've accumulated can proffer me some some prizes in the new max kingdom XP feature, which allowed me to pop my sheep and troll prisons. I have been so curious as to how much I had built up. It moved my kingdom XP bar to half wayside. I also picked up gem changer, 1k is a lot but he'll pay for himself. Thanks to Activision for throwing the long time and hardcore players a robust update as that is exactly what this was. And I'm sure there will still be some kind of Christmas event to come. I'm pumped. Just sayin.

It seems that level 40+ is easier to achieve than 40. It is hard to measure without the % display, but level 40 took nearly a month while I am halfway through the M in MAX in 1 day. The 2 theaters certainly help, but I have not banged my troll prison yet.