Start Time: Friday, April 24th at 12:00 PM
End Time: Sunday, May 17th at 11:59 PM
This is the official Announcement Thread for the 2015 Spring Festival! Please be sure to read over everything carefully before asking any questions. The Spring Festival marks the return of the Fabled Aeridini. It is also the time of year Sylestians take time to appreciate life and new beginnings. So Happy Spring Festival to all!
New Traits Released
https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=24458#forumtop
We have released about 16 new total Traits for some of our species. While this is less than we usually release for Festivals, it was all our artists were able to complete in time for the start of the Festival. Due to the Zolnixi, the Mega-Zone, and some uncontrollable forces, our artists have been very busy as of late. As a positive note, we do plan on releasing new Traits with the release of the upcoming Mega-Zone.
Festival Exploration Zone
https://www.sylestia.com/explore/newzone/?zone=esiorsfieldsspringfestival
This zone is recommended for players using pets of Level 10 and above!
This year's Festival Exploration Zone has a lot stuffed into it. There are currently a total of 32 Themed Pets available to find while exploring (not including the Plant Themed Pets, which is an additional 21). Additionally, there are 3 Static Named available who drop a set of unique Avatar Items each.
There is also an Egg Hunt feature available. The Egg Hunt is similar to last year's Egg Hunt, but moderately improved. Everyone can participate in an Egg Hunt for free once every 4 hours by simply talking to May Flowers near the entrance to the Zone. Once you begin, you will have 400 steps to find as many prizes as you can! Prizes include Gold, Garden Supplies, an unique Named, and Easter Eggs. Additionally, you can also find Themed Pets while in the Egg Hunt! For expert hunters, if you find at least 15 Eggs and 2 Secret Room Prizes, you will receive the Title: Master Egg Hunter.
Lastly, there is the Majestic Maze of Amazements. You can access this feature by talking to Justinia Aurorelius near the entrance of the Zone. This feature is discussed in more detail down below.
Sylesti Garden
https://www.sylestia.com/festival/festival_spring/sylesti_garden/
The Sylesti Garden, a brand new feature for this festival, is comparable to the Winter Festival's Sylesti Baking; only it's much more involved. All players will have access to two Planting Pots at all times. You can purchase additional one-time Planting Pots if needed up to a maximum of 30 Pots at one time. Once you have a Planting Pot available, interact with it to fill it with Dirt for a small amount of Gold. Once filled with Dirt, you can plant one of the 21 Seeds available this festival. Seeds can be found by battling enemies in the Festival Zone, opening Treasure Chests and Prizes in the Festival Zone, or by purchasing Seed Pouches from the Diamond Shop or Festival Shop.
Once you've planted a Seed, you can now watch it grow! Frequently, your growing Flower will require nurturing, such as being Parched, Wilted, or Overgrown. You can cure these ailments by using Enrichments on it. Enrichments include: Enriched Water, Sun's Glow, and Weed-B-Gone. Everytime that your Flower is Enriched, it grows 1 Hour faster. Through the course of its growing time, you will have the opportunity to decrease its growth time by up to 96 Hours! So be sure to Tend your Flowers as much as possible! Enrichments can be obtained from the same methods as Seed Pouches.
In addition to Enrichments, you can also give Fertilizer to your Flowers. Adding Fertilizer will increase the amount of Traits that your Flower Pet will hatch with. There are 3 types of Fertilizer: Lesser Fertilizer (1-Visible), Greater Fertilizer (2-Visible), and Exceptional Fertilizer (3-Visible). Fertilizer can be obtained through the same methods as the other Garden Supplies. Lastly, if you have excess Lesser Fertilizer or Greater Fertilizer, you can combine a bulk amount of them and upgrade them to the next level.
As an added bonus to this feature, you are also able to Tend other player's Flower Pets! Simply visit their Garden and Tend their Flowers as you would your own. They will be notified of your caring gesture and may even return the favor!
There are a total of 21 Flower Pets available, 7 of which are Fabled. Fabled Flower Pets can only be obtained through Premium Seed Pouches, from the Majestic Maze of Amazements, or by placing in the Spring Contests.
There are also 4 Titles available from the Sylesti Garden. They are as follows:
The Tender: Tend other player's Flowers at least 20 times.
Premier Green Thumb: Be the first player to harvest a Flower Pet.
Fabled Green Thumb: Harvest at least 1 of every Fabled Flower Pet.
Green Thumb: Harvest at least 1 of every Regular Flower Pet.
Spring Contests
https://www.sylestia.com/festival/festival_spring/sylesti_contests/
Throughout the duration of the Festival, there will be a total of 63 Contests running; 3 Contests per Species. There are 3 types of Contests: Enemies Defeated, Pets Nurtured, and Pets Released. The 1st Place winner of each Contest will receive a 3-Visible Flower Pet of that Species. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Place finishers of each Contest will receive a 2-Visible Flower Pet of that Species.
Enemies Defeated Contest: In order to earn points for this Contest, you must defeat enemies inside the Festival Zone with pets of that Species. Having multiple Pets of the same Species counts as multiple points. Additionally, having various Pets in your Party counts for each of their respective Contests.
Pets Nurtured: In order to earn points for this Contest, you must nurture Pets of that Species. There are no other restrictions.
Pets Released: In order to earn points for this Contest, you must release Pets of that Species. The only restriction is that the Pet must have been created before April 24th at 12:00pm Sylestia time.
Lastly, all players can earn [Contest Reward Pouches] by earning so many points per Contest. There is no limit to the amount of pouches a player can earn. So the more you participate, the more that you'll receive! Reward pouches contain Gold, Enrichments, and either a Fertilizer Bag or Regular Seed Pouch.
Majestic Maze of Amazements
https://www.sylestia.com/explore/newzone/?zone=esiorsfieldsspringfestival
The Majestic Maze of Amazements is the replacement to the Wheel of Dreams. It is accessible by talking to Justinia Aurorelius in the Festival Zone. She is located in the fenced in area near the start of the Zone.
Entering the Majestic Maze requires one [Majestic Maze of Amazements Ticket]. Tickets can be purchased from the Diamond Shop for Diamonds, the Festival Shop for Easter Eggs, or from April Showers in the Festival Zone for Gold.
Once inside the Majestic Maze, you will have the option of taking one of two paths. One path, the Path of Dreams, is a risk taking path where the rewards can be significantly higher, but less prizes are guaranteed. Whereas the other path, the Path of Destiny, is a much more stable path but the top prizes are rarer.
Path of Dreams: Contains a total of *6* Prize Rooms. As you pass through each room, the Prizes become of better quality. Starting at the 2nd Prize Room, you have a chance to find [Philters of Trait Disruption] and [Perfumes of Themed Attraction]. The 5th Prize Room is guaranteed to contain a Boss with unique Legendary Avatar Items. The 6th Prize Room is guaranteed to contain a Fabled Exclusive Flower Themed Pet. However, after the 2nd Prize Room, you have a chance to not make it on to the next Prize Room.
*The chances of reaching Prize Room #5 and Prize Room #6 are about double that of the Path of Destiny.
Path of Destiny: Contains a total of *3* Prize Rooms. As you pass through each room, the Prizes become of better quality. Starting at the 2nd Prize Room, you have a chance to find [Philters of Trait Disruption] and [Perfumes of Themed Attraction]. The 3rd Prize Room can contain either a Fabled Exclusive Flower Themed Pet., a Boss with unique Legendary Avatar Items, or Premium Items.
*The chances of finding the Fabled Pet and Boss is about half that of the Path of Dreams.
Recent Changes (4/26)
After two days of the Festival, we decided to make some changes to prizes of the Majestic Maze to make it more a-maze-ing!
-Easter Eggs have been removed from the prize list.
-Drop rates for the higher tiered items significantly increased.
-Added Philter of Trait Disruption and Perfume of Themed Attraction to prize list.
-In Path of Dreams, you are guaranteed to Prize Room #2. This almost doubled the chance of reaching Room #5 and Room #6.
-Players who used Tickets prior to these changes will receive some free Tickets via Trades based on their amount of Tickets used.
Philter of Trait Disruption
This is an amazing new item that can only be found in the Majestic Maze of Amazements. When used on a Pet, it will completely re-shuffle its Traits. This can only be used on Themed Pets and it can only be used on Pets that have not yet Bred. It will also retain the same amount of Visibles and Carries.
For example, if you used this on a Pet with 2 Visibles and 1 Carry, the result would be the same Pet with 2 new Visibles and 1 new Carry. The results are entirely random, so you may end up with the same Trait(s) picked as were initially on the Pet.
Perfume of Themed Attraction
This is an amazing new item that can only be found in the Majestic Maze of Amazements. When used, for the next 100 steps that you take in the Festival Zone, the chance of encountering Themed Pets is significantly increased.
While active, it will not wear if you are inside of the Egg Hunt or Majestic Maze.
Spring Festival Shop
https://www.sylestia.com/shops/holidayshop/]
Throughout participating in this year's festival, you will earn [Easter Eggs]. You can spend these Easter Eggs in the Festival Shop. In addition to many new Avatar Items available, you can also purchase Majestic Maze of Amazements Tickets, 2014 Retired Spring Festival Avatar Items, and Garden Supplies.
Official Spring Festival Forum Games
https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?forum=24#forumtop]
Be sure to participate in as many Spring Festival Forum Games that you can! Many great prizes await you and some contests just simply require you to participate. And besides the prizes, it's also just plain fun to participate! So don't miss out! |
