Yeah I noticed they tend to hit less often when grabbed too, still the occasional 22 damage strings but they seem to be less frequent

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Akami, are you exploring in Temperate Savannah or Dry Savannah? In Dry Savannah you're low level brink compared to zone (12 out of 11-15 zone), enemy stats will be MUCH higher and they will be much more difficult to defeat, 22 damage strings sound like you're exploring in high level zone.

Remember guys, always explore in Temperate Savannah ONLY. Its not widely discussed but enemies are MUCH tougher in higher zones, it doesnt have anything to do with event - its just how explore is coded, all enemies are tougher in higher level zones.

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To add^ this has probably already been said but

Do charge > rest > charge > grab > kick/claw/pound

I find that works the best. I still get rounds where I will lose like 5 in a row, but those are way less frequent :)

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I like to do charge and then spam pound. Has a chance of stunning the snake, without as high a chance of it breaking the grapple as strangle. I switch to strangle if it's already looking dicey since that move does do more damage on average.

Gods are finally in play. I immediately bought Nefer and then swapped from Bast to Seth because I like him more, so I can't say how she is, but Seth is reliable enough and Anubis imo is actually really good. He hasn't failed to enter the fray on my side yet and he does ~40 damage per battle, which makes the Z1 snakes easy. Is it Bast who doesn't always participate, or just that her healing is not useful enough? So far this is as I remember it being year 1 re: the other two.

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Anubis ajnd bast don’t always participate:)

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Okay so I’m a little confused on the battle buddy. How does it work? Does it show up every other day?? Every other encounter?? Every other explore session? If it’s every other explore session does that just mean we can refresh the page until it shows?? Or do we need to run out energy to zero for it to register that we’ve finished the explore session for it to have a change of being activated next time? Is it constantly on?? Like??

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Mad Hyena I just went exploring in the lvl 1 zone and the snake hit me for 21 damage a couple times in a row, the highest I explore is the tropical forest just for the SB, but for the snakes I go to the lvl 1 zone

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Lv1 zone increases the chances of your hits and increases the chances of their misses I believe. The damage still stays the same.

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I was thinking things felt more...draggy than usual. I've got like 10 beetles so far lol. At this rate, i am not gonna reach 400 lol

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Anyone getting like one snake per explore session?? Even with the hyena butter I’m still only getting one snake

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Yes, totally random. Sometimes, I get only 1 - 2 with two full energy bars and then, five in a row.
Today, I have this cat mummies quest, never saw them before in the game, have I go to a special biome to find them?

Edit:
20 min later, 2 full energy bars and one bone marrow together,
I fought 4 snakes and found one cat mummy.

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Yeah I love the bases and decor from this month, but warning KB is such a slog. I have summer classes and a part-time job, not to mention having somewhat of a social life, and I just don’t have endless time to grind for currency. I wish we could either earn more KB from battles or the story quests or that the event shop prices were lower. February has comparably cheap event shop prices (especially considering those items are much higher value). 400 KB for base apps is too much when there’s like 15 possible applicators to get.

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Good point about February. Is a base app that's a factor for a combo really worth more than buffy balls? Probably not.
I've made a little over 200 KB so far on this account. So, end of month, I should be able to buy two apps.

Meanwhile, in February I bought ten buffies and a very indulgent amount of decor and backgrounds plus a few base apps, since I'd just gotten off a long hiatus and most were new to me. I could have bought 20 buffies if I hadn't bought all the other stuff, probably. I feel like I should at least be able to buy like, at least four apps in June? I can see not wanting to make them so cheap/KB so easy to get that you can buy 20 without grinding, the economy for most items including buffies is in the toilet, but yeesh, someone who's logging in to participate every day should probably make enough KB to get a little breeding group going without buying from other players. Right now you have an okay chance of doing that much even in December, the other month with poor opportunities to gather event currency and a lot of comb-factor base apps to buy.

I will say, on my side I'm still getting enough help from Anubis I don't think he's junk/needs revising. He turns up regularly and is so much help when he does that my win rate with that king (crappier stats and lower level) is the same as with this king and Seth. Seth might always be there but he sometimes is not much help if my lion is doing a bad job and the snake is not getting stunned. I also still got KB the one time I beat a snake without Anubis turning up. I'm not sure if that's supposed to happen. I recall the first year that's how it worked- your god was taken to be with you even if they were just standing there not helping- but everyone's saying otherwise now.

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Where is this rift? I used 6 full energy bars today and no sight of this one........
Shouldn't it show up after a day of grinding, LOL?

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I love the lore, aesthetic, apps and decor of this event, but yeah it’s a frustrating grind.
The spawn rate for quest stuff feels far too low. Like the above poster I’ve had quests I’ve spent hundreds of energy on in a day, only to never complete.
And trying to get enough beetles to afford all the cool stuff available is pretty much impossible.
I would personally love the quests to be a bit easier and the snakes have a chance at dropping ore beetles at a time. Either that or the price of apps being dropped to 300. You still wouldn’t be likely to collect them all, but I feel it would make a difference!

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