Angry Birds Epic 1.1.0 came out today on iOS and Android, by the look of it.
- There's a countdown on the main screen telling me an event will start tomorrow at 10 AM Eastern. The event is called "For The Pirate King". The patch notes say something about becoming champion of my leader board. Whatever that is. There was a message in-game about killing pigs on the map. The Account Settings screen says I have 0% achievements.
EDIT: See below. Event is now live and pics are available as well as details.
- I got rewards for however many stars I've collected throughout the game. Considering I've 3-starred a lot of the game, that got me something about mastery (see further). Not sure if that unlocks the dojo for new players after so many stars won, but I got no discernible benefit from that. I also got 3 Experience Potions, 3 Mighty Eagle's Favorite Dish and 1000 snoutlings.
I have 724 stars right now. If I'm counting correctly (and no, I didn't forget the Maelstrom level), there are 62 more I can earn, for a total of 786. Not sure if there's another reward beyond what I already got.
- There is a new Stamina Drink in the store: 25 of them for 45 lucky coins. They increase by 1 (max of 15). It says it can be crafted with 5 Essences of Friendship, but I don't seem to have the recipe. No clue how to get it as of yet.
- Max level is still 33. No new caves or levels that I can see.
- The big one: Mastery. No more Veteran, Elite and Master upgrades. Each class now progressively earns Mastery. After the update, classes I had at Veteran are now level 3 Mastery. Classes I had at Elite are at level 5. I had no classes below Veteran and none at Master so I don't know what those levels are.
EDIT: Confirmed below that Master classes start at level 7.
I'm assuming there's level 1, 2, 4... etc. That does offer more granularity and more progressive increase in power for birds instead of the 3 levels of upgrades from before.
For my classes at level 3 (formerly Veteran), it says 2499 Mastery to next level. For the ones at level 5 (formerly Elite), it says 9999 to next level.
EDIT: Confirmed below that it's 19999 from level 7 (aka Master) to level 8.
The nest says I have 86 Master Ranks earned. I have 22 of the 25 classes. 10 were at Elite and 12 at Veteran. 10 times 5 (the new Mastery level for Elite birds) + 12 times 3 (the new Mastery level for Veteran birds) = 86. So that does add-up. I did have the Archmage update from the Android special a few months ago. That hasn't added an extra medal like it did before.
Dojo (see further for dojo cooldown - looks like 24h): it's offering me 3 things to purchase:
1. 100 snoutlings for +500 Mastery for one of the classes (Red's Avenger in my case, which is at level 3 aka Veteran)
2. 100 snoutlings for +500 Mastery for one of the classes (Bomb's Berserker in my case, which is at level 3 aka Veteran)
3. 15 lucky coins for +500 Mastery for all of Matilda's classes (apparently, you'll only see this if you have all the classes for a given bird). Confirmed that you can get that offer even if you don't have all the classes for a given bird.
EDIT: It has been reported that you can buy +1000 Mastery for all birds and classes for 75 Lucky Coins. I haven't personally seen that in the Dojo yet.
So let's do maths. I need 2499 for my level 3 to go to level 4 (let's say 2500 to make it easy). That's 500 snoutlings at that price. I don't know how much it is from level 4 to 5. By comparison, it was 2000 snoutlings to go from Veteran to Elite before. So another 1500 snoutlings would get me there, which works out to 7500 Mastery to get from 4 to 5. Since I already know it's 9999 to get from 5 to 6, that could make sense.
I'm guessing Level 6 isn't what Master classes are at after the update. Someone out there reading this who has Master classes, please let us know.
Now confirmed that Master classes are level 7.
So:
- Level 1 to Level 2: 24 Mastery (confirmed)
- Level 2 to Level 3: 1199 Mastery (confirmed)
- Level 3 to Level 4: 2499 Mastery (confirmed)
- Level 4 to Level 5: 6099 Mastery (confirmed)
- Level 5 to Level 6: 9999 Mastery (confirmed)
- Level 6 to Level 7: ?
- Level 7 to Level 8: 19999 Mastery (confirmed)
The 15 gold to update all of a bird's class is pretty nice. If I'm guessing the table correctly, for 75 lucky coins, you could get all 5 classes of a given bird to level 3 aka Veteran. Or for 225 lucky coins, you could get all 5 classes of a given bird from Veteran to level 5 aka Elite (300 from nothing to Elite). To be confirmed, since I only have a couple values confirmed and those are between levels, not total to that level.
Apparently Mastery drop in the world from pigs. I haven't seen it, but after playing one level, a couple of the birds I used in that level need slightly less Mastery to the next level. I'll have to keep an eye on it to see what it looks like.
EDIT 2: So it's not a drop. There's a passive increase in Mastery for every battle you do (only applies to the classes actually used during the level). Basically, it's like experience, but with no animation on the screen.
EDIT: It really is a drop. I've now seen it and not all pigs drop it.
This is what happens when you gain a Mastery level:
- I haven't looked at gear or abilities to find out if anything got nerfed (or the opposite).
- I won't know until a couple days from now if the trick to always get legendary with the friend's roll still works. I happened to roll earlier today right before the update. Someone else can confirm.
EDIT: Several people have confirmed that it still works.
Please add your sightings and new things you find.
EDIT: Forgot to add:
- Each rank of Mastery = 10% attack and health.
- The dojo cooldown is now longer! I wasn't paying attention, sorry, but I think it's 4h30m or somewhere around that. That sucks, because with the increases being smaller, it's going to take a while to power up those birds.
- The fact that mastery drops from pigs encourages you to use more classes than just stick with the known good ones.
EDIT 3:
- Matilda's animation is fixed.
- When a pig summons an ally, it looks like it's dead at first. That's not been fixed.
EDIT 4:
- My dojo countdown is now over 13h!!!! I wonder if it's synced to the server now. That's a loooong time.
EDIT: I think the dojo cooldown is 24h. Seems to roll over at midnight local time for me (I'm Eastern).
EDIT: Buying something at the dojo replaces it with something else. So I'm not sure what the cooldown is for unless you're really short on funds or want to wait for a specific class to show up in the dojo.
- So the Event is live. It lasts 63h. Pictures are below.
The pigs are showing up all over the world map. Some of these battles let you use 4 birds, some have a breath of fire AOE effect (think Chronicle Caves where you get damaged every few turns), some don't let you use Matilda.
I see the rewards for the event, but I don't know how to get them. After the 63 hours are over? EDIT: The reward wheel for the tournament has +1500 Mastery for each individual bird (so that's 5 of the possible rewards), one +1500 Mastery for every bird and two +6 Stamina drinks. The 3 people with the most medals on their leader-board get 3 stars. the next 5 get 2 stars. The next 7 get 1 star.
EDIT: Now that the Event is over, I saw that it takes 10 Friendship Essences to re-roll the Event's reward wheel.
The battles reward you with event medals and stamina drinks. EDIT: The battle that costs 7 Stamina has a top reward of +500 medals. The battle that costs 5 Stamina has a top reward of +350 medals. The battle that costs 3 Stamina has a top reward of +200 medals.
I got my first stamina as a reward and it now appears in the crafting section (the cauldron). It can be crafted for 5 essences of friendship. Or as I said in my original post, buy 25 of them for 45 lucky coins.
I still don't understand what it does or how useful it is. When starting one of the event battles, it does say the battles require Stamina. There is countdown that shows you lose gain a point of Stamina every 15 mins. As I said in my original post, you can only have 15 stamina points max. I started the event with 15 Stamina. Not sure what happens when I run out. Can I not do the event anymore?
EDIT 5: OK figured it out. Stamina is basically a way to make you spend money. You can't do the Event battles if you don't have Stamina. See my picture above, where it says -5 stamina on the icon you use to start the battle? That means it costs you 5 Stamina to enter the battle. If you don't have enough, you can't get in. It's a new currency...
Since I don't have any Stamina drinks left and not enough Essences to craft Stamina drinks (and I'm not spending 45 Lucky Coins to buy 25 of them), I guess I'm done with the Event.
Looks like you gain one Stamina point every 15m.
Let's hope the next event starts you off with 15 Stamina again.
Now to wait for the rewards.
