Do NOT download the new update - and some other notes on news (NEW divines, new body type, two breeding dens etc.)

Hello Dragon Ladies and Lords! I haven't planned to write any post today, but I've just downloaded the update and I must warn you not to download it as long as it is possible! I know one day it will update automatically, but as long as it is possible to play with the old version of the game, keep it! In this text I will explain why isn't it a good idea to rush updating your game and sum up all the currently know information about what's new coming to Dragonlandia. So, let's start!

The biggest change: new Daily Tasks 

We are used to the good Daily Quests the campaign map. With being careful not to complete their Daily Challenge part unwillingly during fighting the Divide and Reconquer, we were guaranteed to get 16 side-quest battles (aka scroll battles) to be refreshed. Fighting all of them for a player who has completed the campaign map used to mean 387,360 experience, 403,200 food and 3.6 M gold for a non-VIP player (581,040 experience, 604,800 food and 5,4 M gold for a VIP player). It was very important way to obtain resources especially for the players who had finished the campaign map and could no longer get reasonable amount of resources or XP from main quest battles. It also used to provide us 16 scrolls per day, which was ignored by most of the players, but actually after the Whale-Mart started visiting us, scrolls have gained a new value that shouldn't be ignored. Not to mention that the Daily Quests were very important during fist hours of a clan event that ensured us we'd be able to complete to or three "win side quests battles" clan quests that might for example give us the last missing ingredient for a recipe. And the side-quest battles weren't the reward, just a job to be done. For completing them we'd get additional reward: some gold, food, scrolls or even a gem, a Gift Chest (see this text if you don't think it was important) and a dragon piece card. And now all of this is gone ;(  *sob* Some of my dear readers, get me a tissue please.

What did we get in return? Daily Tasks! At the very first look, they don't seem so bad. I mean, there are no Gift Chests rewards for milestones, which is very sad especially for the players who are struggling to enchant a divine dragon, but there are just six tasks to get the milestones (as far as I understand two fist of them will randomly be food, gold, scrolls or a gem just like the first milestone for a Daily Quest used to be). The tasks will probably be random and similar to clan quests: collect gold from habitat, per dragons, win Enchanted Arena battles or dungeon fights... The problem is that they no longer refresh the side-quest battles, leaving us much less opportunity to fight and earn resources. Especially the lost experience will hurt a lot the advanced players who actually need 50 M experience to level up. Yes, the new tasks give us experience - 12,600 in total. It's less than one side quest for a veteran player. There is also no flexibility in them. If you can't complete just one of them, you won't get a dragon piece! This will also hurt a lot many high-level players with many level 80**** dragons unless the impossible dungeons are fixed. As well as many low-level casual players, who are playing few times a day and not having many battle dragons yet will be unable for example to win 5 Enchanted Arena battles. With old Daily Quests, we had the flexibility: we could fight scroll battles, but if we had a busy season and could only play once a day for a few minutes, it was still doable to get the dragon piece, for example planning the battles the way we'd do a lot of perfect hits or defeat the dragons with weak attacks. Now there is no way to play the Daily Tasks strategically in any sense - you just have to do them.

There is a bright side: two new dragons! Remember the left dragom from the update announcement? It's the Scout Dragon, who will be the prize for the new Daily Tasks. Another Dragon is the Foxglove Dragon that has been known by DML community for quite a while, but hasn't made any appearance in the game until now. They are the only two dragons for the Daily Tasks now - which can be good or bad news depending on the point of view. New players will have the opportunity to really get a cool dragon, which was nearly impossible before level 25 with old card packs that was only awarded once per day (or three times for those who watched the ads) before being able to join the clan. Veteran players probably already have all the dragons from regular card packs, so two new dragons sounds exciting too. But once you get them, you won't be getting anything new. This means no chance to get a card of Weekly Dragon Pieces, like Kitty or Apocalypse (who is desired by many players and extremely hard to get). How long will it take to get new dragons? Well, we can never be sure, but judging by average drop rates by rarity in other card packs that was actually revealed by Gameloft, I estimate that there is about 65% chance to get the Scout Dragon piece and about 35% chance to get the Foxglove Dragon. This would mean about 23 days until completing Scout and about 129 days until completing Foxglove. So, we have something to work on for the next 4,5 months. Or 9 months if you really love Foxglove and would like to have a family of an adult and a baby living together. Not bad after all.

The divine event is coming!

Remember when I mentioned in the Furnace review that the next divine event will probably take place in July. All the evidence shows that I was right. After the update, number of blank divines in codex increased by 6 - which means 6 divine dragons were added in this update. Linda_Night from the official DML Forum has also noticed that this update was called the "Pyramid Update". Thank you for the screenshot! This probably mean that we will get the Egyptian Gods! I'm quite excited, aren't you? 

The official information from Gameloft is that we should "check back" on July 9 to learn more about the new event types. Is hasn't been officially confirmed if this event will actually be the divine event, but I think it will. Note that Andras from Gameloft said "new types" in plural, which probably mean more than one type of event. And remember the previous divine events? They actually had many parts - calendar, castle, Dragon's Delight, simultaneously or one after another. The most likely reason for Gameloft to release two or more event type in one update is that they are somehow linked, which points to the divine event. It's hard to predict if it would actually start on July 9 (which is Monday) or just be announced - we have no idea yet how long will those events last, so it's hard to point a day in a week when they are most likely to start. But obviously soon after July 9. Another official information is that there will be new body type for dragons from event (it hasn't been stated clearly that it refers to the dragons from this particular event, but I see no reason for it  not to do). In my opinion, Gameloft would rather make first dragons with the new body type divines to make players more excited about this, plus - the new body type must have taken a lot of work of graphics and previous divines were really masterpieces, which shows that Gameloft puts a lot of effort in designing divines. So, it is another clue pointing to a divine event being the announced new event type. 

Other news

Can you see this? We will be granted the opportunity to obtain a brand-new thing called "Habitat Multiplier Tokens". As far as I understand, they will be able to increase the number of dragons that can be placed in a habitat by up to 3. This could mean 6 dragons living in one habitat. Isn't it great? I totally love this and can't wait for it, since habitat shortages are a lot of pain to me. Probably they will be hard to earn and they will only be available during some events, but still! The question if we are going to get some of them during the divine event is open, but I think we will. 

Another new feature is the extra breeding den that we can rent for a 30 days. Unfortunately, it costs real money and there is no way to pay for it with gems - I really hate the idea of big game-changing features being only available to those who pay for the game. I mean, some dragons that are pretty, but not powerful in battles (like Mystic or Elixir), time-saving things like auto-battle or auto-training are really great ideas. They let more wealthy players pay to have some extra dragons or save their time and help to keep the game free for other players. But such a big thing like another breeding den that can not be gotten by a free players no matter how much effort they put? It's in my opinion far too much. However, it can be very helpful for those who actually pay for the game anyhow - it will probably be cheaper than buying gems to speed up breeding, it will allow to try breeding DotW or DotM in one den while breeding Fire+Wind for the solo event or, for example Ceremony + Fire for the clan quest in another. Or DotW in one and DotM in another. There is one restriction: the pairs of dragons in both dens must be different. So, for example, you won't be able to try breeding DotW in both (however, you can try to breed DotM in both with two different combinations). 

Conclusion

Despite the dramatic introduction, I find this update a good thing: we have been given opportunity to get new two dragons from Daily Tasks, we will get new event types, new body type for dragons and Egyptian Gods divines! The feature of paid for real money breeding den in my opinion is a bad idea, but I can just ignore it and pretend that I didn't even see it, it won't change much in my game (or at least I hope so). No Gift Chest from Daily Quest, no flexibility in doing them and no chance to get Weekly Dragons Pieces from Daily Quest are minor inconveniences compared to all the great things that we will get soon. The only real problem with this update is the huge decrease of number of side-quests that we can fight a day. It is a huge problem. Really giant one in my opinion. And this is the reason why I recommend not to download the update as long as you can play without downloading it. All the great things like new divines aren't available to us yet anyhow, so playing the old version of game for a couple of days more won't change anything with them and will let you earn the usual amounts of food, experience, gold and scrolls. I also recommend to do your Daily Quest as soon as you play the game for the first time a day - if the game is updated soon, you'll at least get all the resources from Daily Quest (and probably also from the Daily Task that will appear after the update). I really hope that Gameloft will somehow deal with the problem of lower number of fights soon, for example increasing the number of side-quests that just refreshes over time - the change caused far too much anger and hatred in players for Gameloft not to do something about this. So just keep calm, enjoy the excitement of Egyptian divines, hope for the better and play the old version of game as long as you can!

Please tell me in comments what do you think about this new update. Also, please share this post wherever you feel it's a good idea to share, so that possibly low number of players download the update too soon. Tell your clanmates not do to. And have a wonderful day at your Dragonlandia! :)