@nurw I don’t know the answer to your question about whether the “holiday” classes have appeared more than once. The Challenger classes keep appearing, and I think the Halloween classes repeat, but I haven’t paid enough attention to know about the others.

A while back there were the elite classes that you could only get if you had a code from a…[Read more]

@nurw  Interesting. If you already have all the Valentine class hats then you get mastery, and if you have all the mastery you get resources.

Ah. That explains it. If you’re already at 100 mastery you get 70 LC *or* 50 FE *or* 25 SD. Or maybe it’s 35 SD. Anyway, I saw there was no hat upgrade and gave up on the event.

@maxxmatt  But if you are grinding C26/10, in about fifteen minutes you can earn enough to get 2000 mastery points for all birds. Snoutlings are irrelevant. Once I figured that out, my birds got to M100 darned quickly. (And as an interesting aside, once you are left with one bird only to mastery level up, you can go with the 15 LC buy and it is a…[Read more]

@maxxmatt  I like the GoForTheThroat team. Although I swapped Bard/Nightmare for Samurai/Titan (I just cannot give up the extra damage done every time Snor gets stunned). Anyway, GFTT w/Bard is at least three full turns faster than the team I came up with using Thunderbird.

Also, it is kind of fun to swap Frost Savage for Seadog, because that…[Read more]

@bchild  Thanks. So it wasn’t just me. There is something odd about rage attacks and the mirror effect. It makes using Illusionist tricky.

The thing about Priestess is that Matilda/Bard gives a stun of her own, which is added to by Nightmare, so I think using Bard over Priestess gives you a better chance of stunning even though Priestess attacks…[Read more]

@maxxmatt  I played around a bit with subbing Illusionist for Tbird and one thing I noticed that might have been a one-time bug is that if I used rage at the beginning of a turn, it disabled the mirror effect from Illusionist for all the birds during that turn. But then I tried it a second time after restarting the game and there didn’t seem to…[Read more]

@maxxmatt  I can see the benefit of using Illusionist over Thunderbird. I’ll have to run some simulations to see if losing the +25% damage benefit from each attack is compensated by an increase in the number of stuns per turn. It’s not clear to me that is necessarily true. (I ran one trial and it didn’t seem like using Illusionist over…[Read more]

@maxxmatt  Exactly! It takes ten attacks to refill the rage chili, or three turns with 4 birds (assuming Snor is charging and not attacking). But I notice no difference in that 10-attack refill cycle regardless of whether I have Perfect Balance equipped or not. And I’m not sure strength of birds makes a difference to rage chili recharge…[Read more]

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Funny. I’ve tried a lot of those combinations. The final one with Marksman can play quick, but it is also prone to getting 85% of the way through and failing. So I abandoned it very early. But it is fun to fool around with.

One thing I don’t get is how Perfect Balance is supposed to work. When I equip Bard with it, it takes 9 attacks…[Read more]

I’ve been fiddling around trying to figure out the quickest way to 3-star Cave 26-Level 10. So far I’ve settled on a team of:

Red Samurai with Titan Grip set (E10)
Chuck Thunderbird with Sonic Lance (E10)
Matilda Bard with Nightmare (E10)
Blues Treasure Hunter with Ballista (E10)

All of the birds are L100/M100 with elite headgear, with Samurai…[Read more]

The phrase you are looking for is RNG’d, as in you were on the wrong side of a random number generator. The mythic time jump emblem is particularly bad for that happening. The way I deal with it is to use the Cheat set so I move first, and then use a venom lineup so there is damage to the opponents even if my birds are KO’d. IMO it’s also required…[Read more]

@winkwink  It does feel like something changed with the game. Like Rovio has given up.

@toolow For a while I decided to track who I was getting FE from by only responding to FE requests when I got one from them. The que in my inbox got hundreds of requests long, with multiple request from mostly the same people. So it was clear my requests were not going to the same people who were giving me FE. But I didn’t see an obvious pattern.…[Read more]

I *think* what is going on with daily FE requests is Rovio sends them to only five of your FB friends at random. If you have a lot of FB friends that don’t play ABE, then you miss that FE from the request sent to the non-playing friend (since they don’t keep sending out requests until you get five).

I rarely get FE from people using my flock. I…[Read more]

Scott:

ABE used to be finicky about hardware. For example, above a certain version, ABE doesn’t play on Kindle Fire tablets. Maybe you have a tablet that doesn’t run ABE? Only thing to do is check with Rovio and see if there is something particular about your hardware.

-j

@bchild Interesting. Thanks for the tip.

You can also three-star this level by going with a DOT approach, sort of anyway, using:

Samurai (Titan set)

Rainbird (Mana shell)

Priestess (Nightmare)

Rogues (Piercing Claw, also used Cosmic Rogues)

When Samurai knocks out Alpha Pig for two turns the birds will heal by attacking, and each cycle Alpha Pig loses a lot of HP from the DOT from…[Read more]