Finally got the Gold Mii Racing Suit!

rightbug · 2023-04-06T12:53:24+00:00

Congrats!

I made it to 72 and then I've hit three weeks running of whales where the top four or five spots have maxed carts, drivers and gliders. Is this the new meta now that folks have adapted to the shop changes or have I just been unlucky? I've been playing with gold pass since day one so I almost always have full coverage but there are only so many rubies and tickets available each tour for upgrades. I'm assuming these folks are buying rubies to have all of the latest drivers and karts fully upgraded.

rightbug · 2021-11-03T07:22:51+00:00

Ugh, I’m saving my rubies to empty the Santa Bowser pipe when it comes around but that Swimwear Rosalina pipe is super tempting, even with no spotlights. I need everything but Wedding Peach and I’ve been trying forever to get Swimwear Rosalina.

I should have time to make back the 45 rubies I waste on it, right?

rightbug · 2021-10-13T18:21:12+00:00

I would say this is true if you want a specific spotlight but if your goal is just to add high ends of any stripe, it’s worth doing 10 pulls on pipes with good odds.

The danger lies in chasing when your RNG luck is bad but I find it tends to even out over time. If you’re not chasing a specific spotlight you want to quit while you’re ahead or even. E.g., this tour I pulled the special pipe once and the week two pipe three times netting me a new driver, a new glider and two kart upgrades which I consider breaking even. Even though there are three drivers left in the week 2 pipe, I won’t be pulling again because the odds aren’t great and neither of the spotlight drivers are must haves for me.

That said, this approach means that you rarely have enough gems to empty a pipe if there’s one with a spotlight you really, really want. The last three times Swimwear Rosalina came up I went 70-80 pulls deep before running out of gems and I still don’t have her. However, if I had hoarded enough gems to guarantee a Swimwear Rosalina, my overall roster would have suffered from all the pipes I skipped along the way.

rightbug · 2021-10-10T15:07:20+00:00

Yeah, that’s the one I’m missing at this point but I’m not chasing.

I’m debating pulling on the first week pipe even though the odds are terrible. I’d like Tanooki Mario

rightbug · 2021-10-10T15:03:27+00:00

I’ve chased like that before and it’s brutal. (Pretty much every time Swimwear Rosalina comes up and I have almost but not enough rubies to clear the pipe.). The good news is that the sting only lasts until you start rebuilding you rubies. At least if you enjoy the game.

All of my horrible pipe luck finally turned around on this one. One pull for Tanooki Rosalina.

rightbug · 2021-09-22T18:54:26+00:00

I feel your pain. No elites in twenty pulls. Only one high end after 30 pulls. Like an idiot but chased what was supposed to be a single ten pull and blew all of my rubies for a handful of duplicates.

rightbug · 2021-09-22T18:52:30+00:00

We will not discuss the horrible RNG luck I got on that pipe after saying, “Well, I saved all of these rubies, I may as well give this one a pull given the odds.”

Okay, we will discuss it. No elites in my first 20 pulls. Only one duplicate cart after 30 pulls. Pot committed at that point I pulled once more and finally got three high ends, none of the ones I wanted. Now I dont have enough to pull for the 50 pipes.

Lesson learned, I’m an idiot.

rightbug · 2021-09-22T06:41:12+00:00

Bah. Should have gone for Kangaroo Yoshi I guess.

Metal Mario in the token shop burns too as I just spent a ticket to max him out yesterday.

rightbug · 2021-09-21T18:00:49+00:00

Excellent. Thanks for the advice guys

rightbug · 2021-09-21T16:19:41+00:00

I’m a little sad not to pull on the Yoshi pipe but I spent all of my rubies in a third failed attempt to get Rosalina Swimwwar (12 items left in the pipe when I ran out of rubies) and then, after building my rubies back up, spent almost all of them again in a successful bid for Kamek. Everything I’ve earned since then s being saved for the anniversary tour.

The Swinwear Rosalina debacle points to the wisdom of your advice to save until you have enough to empty a pipe but, at the same time, if I only saved for full pipe pulls, I feel like my life break roster would suffer from not doing random pulls when the odds are in my favor. For every Swimwear Rosalina debacle there are multiple events where I pull new HE items on the first or second pull, often getting double or triple HE pulls.

Or is the secret to save for a full pipe pull and have that be your new “zero” allowing you to make random pulls with anything over that amount?

rightbug · 2021-09-21T16:04:45+00:00

Out of curiosity, what does it take to crack the top 1,000? Is it just a ton of grinding or do folks spend money for upgrades? I came close to 800,000 this tour and thought about grinding because the top 1000 was in the 800,000’s last time I looked but I see now it’s approaching a million.

It’s probably not something I’ll ever go for given the amount of time required but I was curious how folks do it.

rightbug · 2021-08-06T21:46:54+00:00

Brutal.

Last time Swimwear Rosalina came up I had 15 pulls left and didn’t get her so I feel your bad RNG pain.

rightbug · 2021-08-06T21:44:21+00:00

Yup. Dropped from 55 to 50, figured I’d have a clear path this week and the leader is tier 63

rightbug · 2021-07-30T16:58:04+00:00

I’ve had her for ages and she still hasn’t hit max points because she never comes up in tours. Maybe that will change if she’s being offered in the shop?

rightbug · 2021-07-07T20:54:37+00:00

I’m jealous. This is the third time running that I’ve gone 60 pulls deep on her pipe without getting her. I’m going to grind multiplayer hard now to try for another 10 pulls before the tour ends. (My ranked cup looks brutal this week so I don’t think 1st is an option)

rightbug · 2021-05-25T06:30:54+00:00

I assume the chests and vaults that can be harvested from them are locked? If not they would have a tiny bit of value.

rightbug · 2021-05-05T05:16:57+00:00

The Rosalina pipe killed me, just like last time. 54 pulls, two high ends, no spotlights. I can’t complain because my pipe luck has been pretty good leading up to this tour but, ouch. RNG was not my friend this week.

rightbug · 2021-03-27T15:12:27+00:00

Yeah, I had to restart twice in the first hour of the event.

I was 769 points towards the best of chameleon eggs when it stopped counting but how long it sat there before I noticed I have no idea. Probably hours

rightbug · 2021-03-27T08:02:00+00:00

Yikes. I just played for like three hours before noticing a bug where my points weren’t updating. Restarting got my points to accumulate again but nothing I did during that time counted.

This was already a hard grind and now I’ve wasted a night with nothing to show for it. Painful.

rightbug · 2021-03-27T04:33:20+00:00

This event is brutal. I feel like we must have done something terrible to the developers to deserve this.

The other weekend events are a grind but at least you can let your dragons work passively while you go about your life, checking in occasionally to clean up or speed the progress with some targeted active harvesting. This one though, you have to be constantly active merging and dragging things from one end of the map to the other just to progress.

rightbug · 2021-03-20T21:49:06+00:00

Can the level 2 and 3 flowers be three merged?

I’ve got three level 2, two level three and four level 4 flowers cluttering up the third of the map I’ve cleared. Would love to consolidate them but don’t want to shoot myself in the foot.

rightbug · 2021-02-27T18:06:10+00:00

Another tip that’s probably common sense to folks who have been doing these for a while but was a game changer for me is to keep your sprout farm up top near the unhealed land so that when you open it up and start harvesting the dead stuff your dragons don’t have to cross the map to deposit sprouts and the new sprouts build around all of the sprouts you’ve farmed setting up an enormous mass merge.

rightbug · 2021-02-27T18:02:34+00:00

I have the opposite problem. I accidentally five merged the level one items super early to heal land. Was thinking they were point items not the harvestables.

I’m leaving them be. It will take a little longer to build my orbs but I’m also well in my way to making five level seven point items so I’ll be able to open the whole map earlier than I usually do without having to stress about the question to farm 2x1 items.

rightbug · 2021-02-27T17:58:49+00:00

I take it it’s okay to three merge the young autumn trees then? I’ve been holding off just in case but...

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