Flight Rising General Thread [Registration: 8/15 - 8/20]

[Xanarcah]

ok this is probably like dumbest question ever but do you add stat points after or before stoning.. cant remember cause i haven't stoned in forever uwu

I add mine afterwards, because adding the stones gives points for you to spend; you can't spend them before. Also, I'm dead afraid I'll mess up on a tinctured dragon if I forget how many points Berserkers give. Or if I have +1 stats for Dom or something.

 

[Alienfish]

Ah, thank you kindly

Also almost done cleaning out dergs. Might keep a few nonoldies as well because I wanna keep some fae and others but yea lots of em got booted..

 

[Llust]

just out of curiosity, how long is the incabuate cool down for the eggs?

 

[inkling]

Thanks for the welcome! So I guess there's not much to do on my first day? I bred my dragons. Is there anything else I need to know thats not so obvious?

 

[Xanarcah]

just out of curiosity, how long is the incabuate cool down for the eggs?

Nests take 5 days to hatch (you can incubate the nest on the first day you put the parents on).

It seems like a long time, as does the breeding cooldown on individual dragons, but after you accumulate a bunch of pairs, you'll be able to have nests hatching just about every day with no space for all the babies. xD

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Thanks for the welcome! So I guess there's not much to do on my first day? I bred my dragons. Is there anything else I need to know thats not so obvious?

If you haven't done so already, drop by your Flight's Sales Forum (it's on the right hand column list of forum boards, titled [Your Flight Name] Sales, right beneath Skins and Accents), and check out what kind of freebies older players are giving away. : D Pick up a few dragons and items that you like.

My advice is to get together a team of 3 adult dragons and hit the Coliseum to start leveling them up. Having a team of level 25 dragons is absolutely indispensable, especially since a Coliseum-heavy event is coming up soon, starting Sunday.

My favorite leveling guide is HERE, I can't recommend it enough.

 

[Alienfish]

Yeah also, about free dragons, don't ask if you're gonna exalt and/or let them rot, a lot of people doesn't like that. I never asked for free dergs when i joined mostly because I can be indecisive asf about some and I'd rather have people wanting them for real having them.

I got some welcome gifts still from some kind peeps so yea :3

 

[gnoixaim]

Just quoting this since Rockbreaker's Ceremony is coming up : )
so you don't have to write it again Xan, lmao

OVERVIEW ON FESTIVALS AND HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM THEM​

Overview On How Festivals Work

Each Flight has their own elemental festival during the last week of a designated month. July is Lightning's month, with the Thundercrack Carnivale!

During Festivals, you collect Festival Currency, which you can trade for exclusive festival apparel and familiars at the Festive Favors booth. You can either fight in the coliseum for the currency (monsters of the same element and also neutral element monsters have a chance of dropping currency), or find it by gathering in the same region as the festival. This festival is Lightning's, so use your gathering turns in Lightning and fight Lightning monsters! : D Lightning's currency is the Charged Sprocket.

This festival, the best farming locations look like they'll be the Arena, Golem Workshop, and Forgotten Cave.

The Festive Favors booth sells 1 Flight Emblem, 1 Familiar, 1 Themed Apparel that is part of a set, and 1 Unique Apparel item specific to that flight festival. They cost between 35 and 65 currency each.

The Emblems and Crowns (this year's themed apparel) will cycle back in the future and be obtainable again, but the Apparel worth 65 currency and the Familiar will retire, never to be released again.



There will also be 6 skins and 6 accents for sale in the Marketplace that will only be available during the festival and will retire afterwards. They're 35k each, but you can get them for cheaper (29,750) by having someone from Lightning buy them for you. We have a few TBTers in Lightning here, so I encourage people to ask them to buy skins/accents with the discount. Don't forget to leave your buyer a little tip!

Skins and accents are difficult to snipe from the Marketplace on the first few days of the festival. Around the middle of the week they're much easier to buy since the rush has died down. On the every last day, especially as it gets closer and closer to rollover, the Marketplace will turn into a mad frenzy of people trying to buy their skins and accents last minute. So buy your skins and accents during the middle of the week and save yourself the stress.

In the Coliseum and also via Digging, you can find 6 different chests, each containing one of the accents/skins. Don't open them. D: They're usually worth more sold unopened than the skin inside is worth, especially around the end of the week, because of their value as a collectible item.

HERE is a magnificent guide to which coliseum venues are best to farm in for festival currency! It's not fully up to date right now because no one is sure which chests will drop from which monsters until the festival actually starts, but check back on it on Sunday and it should be more or less complete by then!

Festivals run from Sunday at 12:30AM server time until Saturday at rollover (midnight server time). So remember to use up all your festival currency and buy the skins and accents you want before then!



Ways To Profit From Festivals

- Sell your currency early in the week. Festivals start on Sundays and end on Saturdays at rollover. At the beginning of the week, currency can sell for around 2k each, sometimes more in the very early morning on Sunday. It usually drops around the middle of the week and ends up around 500-600t each at the end. So you can either just outright sell the currency and forego the festival items, or sell them at the beginning of the week and buy them back for cheaper at the end of the week. I usually find around 1 currency for every minute spent farming in the coliseum, so that ends up being 60/hour. Imagine 60k+ per hour in profits.

- Buy apparel/skins/accents to hoard for later. They retire after the festival, so no more will ever be released. Takes some time for them to go up in value, but it's a good investment.

- Buy extra apparel and familiars from the Festive Favors shop. Even if you don't like them, they will be retired and retired items have a strong tendency to go up in value over time.

- Sell your Coli drops. After spending so many hours in the Coli, you're bound to end up with a bunch of loot to sell. : D Even the small stuff is worth a lot in large quantities, especially now that Alchemy has bumped up the prices on so many formerly cheap items. Food sells for around 20t per point on the forums (not per food item, per point), and much higher than that in stacks in the AH.

- Train fodder dragons to exalt at the same time as farming for currency. You'll be in the Coli anyway, so why not?

- Keep an eye on the prices of festival chests. There are occasionally one or two chests that are somehow rarer than the rest, and are worth more because of this. On the last day or two of the festival, they will often skyrocket in price because collectors who haven't found them yet are desperate to complete their collections and buy them.

- Trade festival currency for other retired items. During festivals, the Item Sales board is full of people willing to trade their old, retired items for festival currency. It's a once a month chance to be able to work through some of your wishlist items for something that drops in the coliseum pretty regularly, so take advantage of it if there's something you've been wanting! Try to secure a trade in the early part of the week before the value of the currency goes down in order to get a better deal for yourself.



That just about covers the basics. Ask me more questions if you've got them!
I'm serious, walls of text are my specialty. I have a degree in them.



Quick Links

- Festival Coliseum Guide
http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/gde/1388514/1

Haven't finished leveling a team yet?
- Culex's Guide
http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/gde/1040710
- Kiena's Guide - Which also has info on mage/healer builds that might be handy for farming in the Golem Workshop
http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/gde/937136


FAQ

Spoiler: Is it REEEAAALLLY worth it to buy extra Festive Favors items to sell later?

Absolutely! Check out the Golem Gauntlet from last year. It was the Thundercrack Festivale's apparel item from 2014, and was sold for 65 festival currency. It's sitting at a cool 970k, lowest in the AH at the time of this writing.

If it's easy to earn 65 currency in an hour or so, you can consider that 970k for an hour's worth of work back them. An hour's worth of work back then is worth waaay more than an hour's worth of work right now. Essentially you're letting time push the value up for you, and it's the easiest way to make money.

Spoiler: Is is a better idea to buy one more festival item or save my currency to sell for next year?

Get another item, for sure.

Let's say you have 65 currency, and the decision to save it or buy another piece of apparel. If festival currency goes for around 2k the morning of the first festival day, you can expect to get roughly 130k for 65 currency.

On the other hand, last year's apparel item, the Golem Gauntlet, is now worth over 900k. The Electrified Sash (worth 30 or 35 currency last year) is sitting around 275k.

So go get another item. It'll probably be worth more than any currency you have left over by next year.

Spoiler: I don't like the Coliseum, can I still get Festive Favors stuff?

Sure you can! I usually find around 130 or so festival currency in a week's worth of Gathering, which is aaaalmost enough to get one of each Festive Favors item, minus the Emblem, which I personally never see the need to buy. You can buy festival currency from other users in order to make up the rest of the amount you need/want.

Spoiler: Why should I ask someone in the festival's flight to buy skins for me?

They have a discount of over 5k per skin/accent. A full set of all 12 skins/accents costs 420k without the discount, but only 357k with the discount. That's 63k per set. You could get two more skins for that much.

 

[Xanarcah]

Ah, thank you kindly

Also almost done cleaning out dergs. Might keep a few nonoldies as well because I wanna keep some fae and others but yea lots of em got booted..

Ooh, nice! I bet you've got tons of lair space now. xD

Are you planning on doing anything with your oldies, like geneing them up or training them or something?

I recently got this guy:




because I somehow decided that I wanted to replace some of my normal dragons with Low ID/G1 versions. .-. He'll look like this when I'm done with him:

 

[Alienfish]

Maybe train them, currently training Lyoko to be a mage.. and put on the crapton of apparel/skins i got free meow haha.

And yeah I sure do and a lil more treas x))

jfc nice pc.. and it'll look smashin after all that gene up n stuff

 

[Xanarcah]

Just quoting this since Rockbreaker's Ceremony is coming up : )
so you don't have to write it again Xan, lmao

You are actually the best and I love you <3


I should probably give the guide an overhaul anyway thouuugh, since it's all July info. xD;

 

[Alienfish]

Yush that some good guides right up there

Also yeah talking about Earth, I hope they shaped up on skins/accents selections.. so i can spend even more treas or not

 

[Xanarcah]

Maybe train them, currently training Lyoko to be a mage.. and put on the crapton of apparel/skins i got free meow haha.

And yeah I sure do and a lil more treas x))

jfc nice pc.. and it'll look smashin after all that gene up n stuff

Ooh, nice. o:

Yeah, he's going to look a little gothier than the original, but I kind of like the change. Gives him a little contrast from his prettyboy image. xD; The black gembond looks less like petals, though, so that's a con. I'm going to wait to gene him up, just in case I change my mind agaaaiiin.

Spoiler: Comparison!

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All the apparel will move over too, but I couldn't preview that in.

 

[Alienfish]

pretty boys (and girls) ftw!


i get the picture that looks soo goood

 

[Llust]

//back with another question
someone sent me dragons via pm and i accepted them but i dont see them in my lair o: are they supposed to show up there or are they for a different purpose?

 

[Xanarcah]

//back with another question
someone sent me dragons via pm and i accepted them but i dont see them in my lair o: are they supposed to show up there or are they for a different purpose?

Dragons don't get sent via PM, so maybe they were just asking if you'd like them and showed them to you in a PM?

Dragons are transferred around through a system called Crossroads, CR for short. You can check HERE if you've got any requests pending! : D

 

[ObeseMudkipz]

Can I see new members progens (The dragon you first get and are allowed to choose the primary and secondary colour)

 

[Cailey]

just made an acc<3

 

[Alienfish]

welcome to fr

also did anyone join plague? just a bit curious cause thats my current flight

 

[Xanarcah]

just made an acc<3

Welcome to FR! : D

 

[inkling]

Nests take 5 days to hatch (you can incubate the nest on the first day you put the parents on).

It seems like a long time, as does the breeding cooldown on individual dragons, but after you accumulate a bunch of pairs, you'll be able to have nests hatching just about every day with no space for all the babies. xD

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If you haven't done so already, drop by your Flight's Sales Forum (it's on the right hand column list of forum boards, titled [Your Flight Name] Sales, right beneath Skins and Accents), and check out what kind of freebies older players are giving away. : D Pick up a few dragons and items that you like.

My advice is to get together a team of 3 adult dragons and hit the Coliseum to start leveling them up. Having a team of level 25 dragons is absolutely indispensable, especially since a Coliseum-heavy event is coming up soon, starting Sunday.

My favorite leveling guide is HERE, I can't recommend it enough.

Awesome. This has been very helpful!

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welcome to fr

also did anyone join plague? just a bit curious cause thats my current flight

Nah, I was torn between arcane and water but I joined water in the end.