I don’t see these new sets on my iPad. Are they Android only? What are their effects?

On Ios, the three most recent new sets (but they’re not brand new) for Red, Chuck and Matilda are the following. I assume (and can you please confirm) that these are not what you are referring to.

Red: Primal Power (Primal Axe and Primal Spear):

60% chance to…[Read more]

Generally I ignore the Black Ninja (3 stamina) battles, focusing on the Master Ninja (5 stamina) and Shogun (7 stamina) battles.

I have two separate games/logins running: Regaterleo and Gertaleo. All birds are currently at level 50, with Mastery of 10. I’m working on the long, slow, slog up to Mastery 11.

Over a long period of time I’ve used…[Read more]

Generally I ignore the Black Ninja (3 stamina) battles, focusing on the Master Ninja (5 stamina) and Shogun (7 stamina) battles.

Over a long period of time I’ve used automated battle mode with Star Reef Castle to accumulate mastery and lots of snoutlings. As a consequence, in each game I have over 200 each Greater Pig Cherry Juice Rank 2, Pretty…[Read more]

It appears that if you want to stop receiving e-mails about follow-ups to a topic, the only way to do it is to post something and uncheck the notify box.

So please accept my apology in advance for this off-topic post.

@mnnla2. Darn. I tried twice to paste the HTML code for a table representation, but neither one worked. Fiddlesticks.

@dr_ishmael If I may make a suggestion, change the KPC row of your first table so the final column reads “14+28*”, and a note with an asterisk explaining that killing the King Pig guarantees 14 points of mastery.

@dr_ishmael It wasn’t toothgnasher with the post, it was me, @greatleo.

I know a secret! Neener, neener, neener!

OK, OK, I’ll share.

On page 12 (currently) of the Good place to rack up snoutlings discussion, @dr_ishmael presented a table showing the mastery per wave and cumulative mastery per wave for all of the castles. While CPC is the best for the first 2 waves, King Pig Castle offers more total mastery through…[Read more]

@dr_ishmael I track my number of trials by putting hash marks on a piece of paper; four vertical marks and a diagonal slash. I have two completely separate games running, one on my iPhone and the other on my iPad. Each is linked to a separate Rovio account and Facebook account.

I run my tests by hand on both devices at the same time to save…[Read more]

@dr_ishmael Huh… Interesting and confusing. In my tests I also counted Wealthy Rogues, but didn’t subtract them in my count of pigs dropping mastery. I forgot that they don’t give mastery.

Here are new numbers from two of my tests factoring in Wealthy Rogues:

Dec. 12:
Bombs exploded: 200
Pigs exploded: 1000
Mastery-dropping pigs: 989
Mastery…[Read more]

@mvnla2 You’ve already answered the question yourself, but anyway, I got the info about Big Boss dropping double mastery from the work of @dr_ishmael.

I ran two separate tests during which my birds took out all 6 pigs–in one turn–in the first wave. If possible, take out all 5 pigs in the second wave, again in one turn. In all tests I used a Berserker (mostly for its Explode feature, but it’s also very powerful when the Rage Chili is filled) either a Paladin or Samurai, and either a Spies or…[Read more]

@mvnla2 @toothgnasher Sorry, I’ve been away from the Interwebs for most of today.

I ran my two tests with 3 birds each: Paladin, Spies and Berserker. Regater’s 3 birds each gained 1022 mastery, Gerta’s 3 birds each gained 1169. So the total mastery dropped is 1022 + 1169.

I’ve run another test where Paladin and Spies attack the Big Boss before…[Read more]

@mvnla2 @dr_ishmael I haven’t seen anyone post the chances of a pig dropping mastery, so I decided to run a test myself.

Cutting to the chase, I believe the chances are 5/16.

I ran the test on CPC (Cobalt Pig Castle). At the beginning of the first wave I exploded a level 41/9 Berserker to take out the Bird Catcher and 4 Stick Pigs, then…[Read more]

@dr_ishmael @toothgnasher Wow. OK, now I *really* understand it. In less than a half hour I got 882 mastery points for my Knight, Priestess and Berserker in Cobalt Pig Castle.

The first wave has a Big Boss, a Bird Catcher, and 4 Stick Pigs. For the first several tries, I took out the entire wave. Bomb’s Explode took out the weaker 4 pigs, but Big…[Read more]

@dr_ishmael Re: the Master ribbon, never mind. I see them now.

@dr_ishmael Thanks for your last posting. I think I get it now. From your investigation, is it the case that all (or perhaps most) pigs have the potential to give the same # of mastery points (perhaps with the exception of bosses)?

Given that, it seems then that a simple strategy would be to do as @toothgnasher managed to figure out: wipe out a…[Read more]

@dr_ishmael I don’t care for places like King Pig’s Castle, where I have to fight a combination of pigs that ignore greater than X damage, like Prince Porky, and pigs that ignore less than Y damage, like a Guard Captain or Royal Guard. In 3 out of 5 waves, there are birds that can only successfully attack certain pigs. Samurai is the most useable…[Read more]

Please Ignore. I’m posting this so I can disable “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”.

@toothgnasher good points about the limitations of King Pig Castle and Desert Pig Castle. In addition, because of the combinations of ignoring high damage and low damage, you’re limited both on the character classes you can use, but also on which weapon sets they carry.

@partshade

On Dec. 1st I measured the mastery increases for Desert Pig…[Read more]