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The Shared Garden is going to be making its debut tonight at 7:30 PM Server Time with a Faelora test run!

Assuming everything goes as planned, I'll take a look at the data once the event is over, make some final adjustments, and then the feature will be fully released shortly after!

Once things are fully running, here is how everything will work:

Enchanted Water

Players can collect Enchanted Water by doing virtually anything inside the Festival Zone, Astryl's Meadow. By now, you guys have collected tens of thousands of Enchanted Waters so I am assuming most of you are aware by now of how to obtain this item.


Using Enchanted Water

Once the Shared Garden is open, players will have the option of visiting any of the 22 Flowers in the Shared Garden. This area is located directly to the West of the Zone In of Astryl's Meadow. You will be able to speak to Sadie Wildflower at any time to ask her some questions regarding the Shared Garden.

Each of the 22 Flowers represents one of the Regular or Fabled Garden Seeds. Players can choose which one that they want to use their Enchanted Water on. Each Flower is a community shared Flower. This means that if I use enough of my Enchanted Water on, say the Faelora Flower, then it will finish and start an event for the Faelora for the entire community!

To actually use your Enchanted Water, just simply interact with the Flower you want to work on and use the available buttons to add your Enchanted Water to the Flower. You can do so in increments of 5 or 25. There are also now 4 new Festivals Tasks pertaining to using Enchanted Water. So make sure you help out!


Fully Grown Flowers

As more Enchanted Waters are used on a Flower, it will continue to grow. Eventually, it will reach 100% and be ready to Bloom. At this point, no more Enchanted Waters can be used on it until it resets.

Once a Flower is ready to Bloom, it will schedule a zone-wide Event. If there is already a pending queue of Events, it will be added to the bottom of the list. If there is not a queue, then in 10-15 minutes, the event for this Flower will begin.

There will be a server-wide message in Region Chat once an Event is scheduled. Additionally, players can track the current schedule at any point by looking at the Zone Progression area.


A Flower Bloom Event

Once the countdown has finished and a Bloom Event has officially begun, players will have 20 minutes to roam around the zone and reap the benefits of the Bloom. The current benefits are as follows:

1. All base Wild Themed Pet encounter rates are doubled. This effect does not stack with a Perfume of Themed Attraction.

2. Players can now encounter Flower Fairies. Flower Fairies can drop an assortment of rewards including the following items:

(Level 60+ only)
-[Tamed Aeridini (Rosie)]
-The Garden Seed of the current Blooming Flower
-[Composted Seed (Majestic)], [Composted Seed (Fabled)], [Composted Seed (Regular)]

-[Premium Fertilizer Bag], [Regular Fertilizer Bag]
-[Root Strengthener], [Blue Tree Sap], [Pink Tree Sap], [Genetic Bonding], [Genetic Splicer]
-[Large Basket of Enrichments], [Small Basket of Enrichments]
-[Decorated Egg]

3. Players can now encounter Spring Blossom pets of the species of the Blooming Flower. These are wild pets that are guaranteed to have the Spring Blossom Trait and are guaranteed to either be Epic or Legendary pets.

And yes, this includes the Fabled species that are not normally Wild. Yes, this includes Puffadores and Ny'vene.


Unlimited Chances

Once the Blooming Event begins, the Flower will have been reset and ready to receive more Enchanted Water.

Once the Event ends, if another is already queued up, it will begin.

Players can continuously trigger Events however they want for the remaining duration of the Festival.

oh wow this is very cool thank you

Oh my gosh that event is gunna be loads of fun!

Sounds exciting - I will never want to sleep in case I miss an event :)

Thanks, Krin, for all of your hard work.

Oh awesome...! Thanks, Krin ^^'

This is amazing!

Wow, this sounds really exciting! Especially the wild pets with the Spring blossoms!

Thank you so much for your hard work Krin! Im really looking forward to this, especially catching some puffs and such :)