darkSpyro

The Monday update is here, giving us a new house, the dark house, which works in the same way the dragon lair did. Also I dark blast zone and dark stealth elf are now available.

Bah! The only dark character I have is Dark Spyro (from a spin before the Swap Force update). I don't plan on spending $100 to get the Dark Force edition of Swap Force, so I really don't care about the dark house, for now. Maybe months and months down the road when I finally get tons of gold and can just spin for all the Skylanders Oh well. I guess it's great for everyone else. I'm pretty sure a Dark House was a request someone had on here.

I suggested a Dark house months back but I was hoping it would be a wish stone item similar to the Legendary House.

How come I get a quest for Maboo when I don't own it and the person in this house owns it doesn't get the quest?

I think they realised that offering a house for wish stones was a big "mistake", so I don't think they will do it again.

Double hero points for Super Tuesday.

Dark house 1200 gems? No way.
New timed quest. Reward: Wish stones. With the really low chance to get a top prize in the well plus the fact that most of us have plenty of stones, plus the fact that Ma-Boo is an irrelevant companion equals a totally lame quest.

Helpful to someone starting out, well that was the theory, I nstead Maboo hasn't been sighted since it was bought.

Got it working. 5 wish stones was the reward.

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How come I get a quest for Maboo when I don't own it and the person in this house owns it doesn't get the quest?

I think this is to motivate you to acquire Ma-Boo. With the lame reward, it's not working for me....

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I think they realised that offering a house for wish stones was a big "mistake", so I don't think they will do it again.

Why is it a mistake? They need something for the wish stones. At least make the wishing well have more of an incentive. I know they don't want to just give everything away, but the rate that most (or all) of us win anything worthwhile in the well keeps us from wanting to waste our stones. We're pretty much guaranteed the alter ego at around 200 or so max, so after that, most of us have nothing to do with the stones. If the luck meter (or even a separate one) affected the top prizes, so we would be guaranteed a top prize every 200 or so stones, that would probably help.

I love that the Halls of Legends can be purchased with stones. I still need 3 more so it'll be a month or so before I'm in the same boat as all the big ballers around here.

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Why is it a mistake?

I mean mistake from the Activision point of view. For us, it is great having 10 legend houses working day and night.
The proof that it was a mistake from them is that all houses from that moment on have been available via gems, no more houses available via stones.

Yep, think I will wait for a sale for the Dark House

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Quote: sungren150

I think they realised that offering a house for wish stones was a big "mistake", so I don't think they will do it again.

Why is it a mistake? They need something for the wish stones. At least make the wishing well have more of an incentive. I know they don't want to just give everything away, but the rate that most (or all) of us win anything worthwhile in the well keeps us from wanting to waste our stones. We're pretty much guaranteed the alter ego at around 200 or so max, so after that, most of us have nothing to do with the stones. If the luck meter (or even a separate one) affected the top prizes, so we would be guaranteed a top prize every 200 or so stones, that would probably help.

I agree although I do win a top prize every 50 I believe. The problem is I win the 100k or fishery/Coco/Tavern/B&B everytime. Although most would think B&B is great, not after you have 10 and nothing to build since you are level 40. I've only won the Airship or Radiant Energy field once. What I never win are the giant houses. And I mean never have I won a giant house, not in the thousands of spins I've made. The only exception was on the wishing weekend when it was obvious the devs temporarely changed the win tables for the well so I won two houses.

So I do agree, the win% needs to be better for the ultra rare prizes while the other top prizes are probably where they should be (at least from my win %, I swear I win 2-3 a "grand" prize on average every 100 spins).