Celestial Towers is an event that is played with your troop. You will individually battle different floors of either the sun or the moon towers to win emblems. Your troop then donates these to the Raid Boss, unlocking the troop raid battle for a chance to win trophies.
Map Screen showing location of Celestial Towers
Finding Your Way Around Celestial Towers
When you enter the Celestial Towers map area, you'll find yourself on a screen that has a Raid Boss in the middle, an entrance to the moon tower on the left hand side and an entrance to the sun tower on the right hand side. More information on the towers, collecting emblems, and the element of each floor are at the end of this post.
Trader
You'll find a trader below the moon tower on the main Celestial Towers screen where you can make purchases with event tokens. (These are most easily earned from Raid events, but can drop during tower battles during Celestial Towers). Purchases always include an event super that will start at feeding level 1, which will have an event bonus against the Raid Boss. This is usually the easiest way for beginner players to gain supers for their teams. Other items can be purchased at the trader should you choose.
Trader Items that can be purchased with Event Tokens
Raid Boss
The Raid Boss is always located in the middle of the Celestial Towers screen, however the monster itself (and related event monsters) will change between events.
Clicking on the Raid Boss will show you which emblems the Raid Boss is wanting you to donate: sun emblems or moon emblems. The choice is randomly allocated by the game.
The screen will also show you how many of these emblems you currently have and will give you the option of donating them to the raid boss. Once your team has filled the donation meter, your troop admins will be able to start the raid. This is the best opportunity within Celestial Towers to earn trophies. (This screen also gives you the option of clicking on the "Store" button to open the event spin to buy a chance to win event monsters).
Your troop admins will have the opportunity to set the difficulty of the raid boss: easy; medium; hard; or extreme. The harder the difficulty level, the more trophies your troop can earn, but at the cost of the raid boss having more health and attack. The raid boss will also become stronger (in health and attack) each time a raid has been successfully defeated.
The common strategy for troops is to start the raid on the hardest difficulty achievable for your troop until you can no longer defeat the raid boss, and then drop down a difficulty level.
Raids will have a chance of bringing up an enraged boss - this raid boss will have more health and higher attack than normal but you'll receive double trophies if your troop defeats it.
Defeating an extreme raid gives a chance for participants to win a crystal or candy, with the top 5 damagers in the raid receiving double the drop rate. During some events, reward epics may also drop from extreme or hard raids (with a much smaller drop rate than the crystals!)
Hard and extreme raids generally have a danger bar to consider.
Understanding the Raid Details
The pop-up in the screenshot below will display when you click on the raid boss when your troop has a raid underway.
The timer in the top right corner will countdown from 8 hours - this is the time in which your troop must defeat the raid boss. Failure to defeat the raid boss will mean that 0 trophies are won by your troop, regardless of how close you came to finishing the raid. If the raid is too difficult for your troop, you'll need to wait for the 8 hours to end before you can start donating emblems for another raid - a good time to spend farming more emblems!
The blue percentage bar shows the percent of the raid that your troop has completed so far.
Below that, in tiny font, is a statement about your current troop "combo" with a 15 minute timer. Whenever your troop maintains a hit against the troop boss within that 15 minutes, the troop combo goes up slightly and the timer restarts. The maximum combo is 150, and this will give your troop a 50% bonus against the raid boss!
Below that is an announcement about which zodiac monsters will receive a +25% damage bonus during the current raid. This is randomly allocated by the game.
The "1 Regular" message below that shows that my first team, called "Regular" within my inventory, is chosen for this battle. You can have up to 4 teams preset within your inventory and can select between them from this raid screen (alternatively, go into your inventory and change the "default team" manually).
The bottom slider bar selects how many energy you want to use during the battle against the Raid Boss.
Most raid battles gives you 60 seconds to do as much damage as you can against the raid boss. (The alternative is that some events give you 7 turns instead). A screen will pop up at the end of the battle showing you the damage you did and the new percentage of the raid progress. You won't earn trophies until the raid has been defeated and these will be awarded as one lump sum at the end.
The Towers - How to Collect Sun/Moon Emblems
Sun emblems can only be collected from the sun tower and moon emblems can only be collected in the moon tower. Most people choose to collect either sun or moon emblems based on which type the Raid Boss is wanting for donations at that time. High level troops may allocate "farmers" (another name for collecting emblems/resources) to each tower to collect one type of emblem only. You can see how many emblems you currently have stored by checking the "Backpack" section of your inventory.
When you first enter either the sun or the moon tower, you'll see a sequence of "floors" with entryways into battles and stairs in between. Everyone must start their tower at floor 1, which is the easiest floor to complete. After successfully defeating this floor, you'll be able to access the floor 2 battle, which will be harder and will have monsters of a different element. The difficulty level and the rewards will both increase as you move up the floors. The common strategy is to keep going up the tower floors until you hit one that you can't defeat, and then resume farming one floor below this. You may find that you can reach a higher level in one tower compared to the other, due to the different elements and actives.
Floor 2 is locked until floor 1 is completed.
Click on the "Battle" button to start floor 1 using the 3 energy required. As the battle is first loading, you'll see a screen similar to that below. This lets you know that you'll be facing three wind monsters to complete the floor. The first two will appear together and the last will be by itself (often called the "End Boss").
At the end of the battle you will receive a set number of sun/moon emblems, trophies and randomly one of the following: 50 stone multiplied by the floor number; 1 event token; or 2 event tokens.
Details of the Moon Tower Floors
- Rock, 1 moon emblem, 10 trophies, 50 stones*
- Fire, 2 moon emblems, 20 trophies, 100 stones*
- Water, 3 moon emblems, 30 trophies, 150 stones*
- Leaf, 4 moon emblems, 40 trophies, 200 stones*
- Water, 5 moon emblems, 50 trophies, 250 stones*
- Rock, 6 moon emblems, 75 trophies, 300 stones*
- Leaf, 8 moon emblems, 100 trophies, 350 stones*
- Water, 10 moon emblems, 150 trophies, 400 stones*
- Fire, 15 moon emblems, 225 trophies, 450 stones*
- All Elements in 10 waves, 30 moon emblems, 350 trophies, 500 stones*
(10th wave is wind - see section below for help defeating floor 10)
Energy cost is 3 energy for levels 1-5 and 5 energy for levels 6-10.
Endbosses of the Moon Tower - by Dominic Stöber
Details of the Sun Tower Floors
- Wind, 1 sun emblem, 10 trophies, 50 stones*
- Rock, 2 sun emblems, 20 trophies, 100 stones*
- Fire, 3 sun emblems, 30 trophies, 150 stones*
- Leaf, 4 sun emblems, 40 trophies, 200 stones*
- Water, 5 sun emblems, 50 trophies, 250 stones*
- Fire, 6 sun emblems, 75 trophies, 300 stones*
- Wind, 8 sun emblems, 100 trophies, 350 stones*
- Water, 10 sun emblems, 150 trophies, 400 stones*
- Wind, 15 sun emblems, 225 trophies, 450 stones*
- All Elements in 10 waves, 30 sun emblems, 350 trophies, 500 stones*
(10th wave is rock - see section below for help defeating floor 10)
* stones listed above may be randomly substituted by 1 or 2 event tokens
Energy cost is 3 energy for levels 1-5 and 5 energy for levels 6-10.
Thank you to Joakim K., Samos C., Ju Lia and Wilson for helping with trophy counts at higher levels!
Energy cost is 3 energy for levels 1-5 and 5 energy for levels 6-10.
Thank you to Joakim K., Samos C., Ju Lia and Wilson for helping with trophy counts at higher levels!
Endbosses of the Sun Tower - by Dominic Stöber
General Strategies
Aside from level 10, all floors have 2 monsters in the first wave an a single end boss in the second wave. During the first wave, make matches of 5 to target all monsters with your attack. During the second wave, return to making matches of 3.
The most useful monster to have on your team is one with the active crush/crush+ in the same element as the floor monsters (see lists above). Crush will stun the end boss (of the same element) continuously so that you don't need to worry about danger bars or actives. Make sure to time it so that crush is due to be activated ideally on your first turn against the end boss, or alternatively turn off auto-activation until you reach the solo boss and then turn it back on. (To do this, click on the crush monster during battle and adjust the "auto-activation" slider. Note that the slider will remain in this position indefinitely until you manually change it back during a battle). To clear floor 10, make sure to have an extremely high power rating, or a crush monster in each element on your team.
Most players work their way up either one or both towers to the highest level they can comfortably achieve. The reasoning for concentrating on one tower is that you don't need to begin again at the low emblem levels of the other tower. This allows you to earn the most emblems quickly for starting raid bosses. It can however cause your troop to be waiting a while if no one is farming the other tower when those emblems are needed to start the raid boss. Some troops balance this by allocating players to each tower. The reasoning for working on both towers are: that you'll be able to help start a raid regardless of which emblems are required; you may be able to reach a higher level in one tower than the other; or you may like some variety once you reach the highest floor you can in one tower. Some high level troops further break down the roles by allocating players as farmers on one of the towers or raiders, and the roles don't change during the event.
Sometimes the highest floor that you can reach is not the most cost effective floor to farm on, especially halfway up the tower. Floors 1-5 give an increasing number of emblems each floor for the cost of 3 energy. If your highest achievable floor is in this range, keep farming there. Level 6 (and beyond) costs 5 energy and the emblems available don't increase linearly. In fact, it's better to farm on level 5 (5 emblems/3 energy) than level 6 (6 emblems/5 energy) as you'll get more emblems per energy. Level 7 is on par with level 5 for emblems, but the stone/energy is better at level 5. Most players will either farm consistently at either floor 5, or floors 8+ if they can reach them.
Completing as many raids as possible (at the highest difficulty level you can finish) is the key to earning trophies within this event. This can take a lot of emblems, and some troops choose to only farm emblems during one Celestial Towers event and then use them to complete a lot of raids during the next Celestial Towers event.
Collecting a high level of emblems 500+ or 1000+ can be a way to gain entry into a super/ultra tier troop to win their troop tier prize while donating these emblems and spending the event farming for more. Keep an eye on the Battle Camp Global facebook page during the event to find troops looking for farmers if you're interested, and be prepared to provide them with a screenshot of your emblems as proof.
What about the 10th Floor?
The 10th floor of each tower is the exception to the 2 wave pattern of Celestial Towers, where you face two bosses in the first wave and then and end boss. In floor 10 there are 10 waves... each of the end bosses from the earlier floors in sequential order but with level 10 difficulty in regards to health and attack. The 10th wave is a new boss in both towers: wind for the moon tower; and rock for the sun tower. The sequence of the end bosses are shown in the screenshots above by Dominic Stöber, and is matched by the floor listings above.
The trick to easily defeating floors 1-9 was to place a monster with crush of the same element as the floor (using the lists above). In floor 10, you'll now be faced with all of these monsters. Unless you have an incredible PR that was able to breeze through the earlier levels without crush, there's only one way through floor 10: create a rainbow (all element) team with one crush of each element.
It's not quite that easy though as you'll need to carefully control when each crush is activated. By knowing the order of the floors you'll be able to have a crush of the right element ready to be manually activated on the first turn of each wave. This will stun each boss, and by turning auto-activation back on for that wave, the boss will remain stunned until its defeated.
To toggle auto-cast on/off, click on your monster during battle. This will bring up a pop-up screen as per the screenshot below. Here you can turn auto-activation on or off. Note that when auto-cast is off, your monster will have a pulsating white border when it's ready to be cast (as shown in the screenshot for my last 3 monsters). You can either double click your monster to cast the active, or you can open up this pop-up screen to press the activate button. Make sure to do this before you match your gems if you want the active to be triggered that turn. Also note that if you turn auto-cast off, you will need to reset it in a future battle if you want it to turn back on.
The remaining challenge is making it past the first 4 turns so that your first crush is cast. Having approximately 100k in health is enough, and you may need to activate a health booster to make this level. (I needed to with the above team! I also found that the health boost remained with my team throughout the match despite the booster wearing off before the end). Take your time with these first few turns and the rest of the floor should be easy... however it may be long as finishing times have been quoted on BC Global as taking 28 minutes to 1 hour. Have patience and you'll be rewarded with 30 sun/moon emblems!
More Information Available in the Event Screen...
Clicking on the event "E" in the top left corner of your screen will bring up a collection of event specific information for you.
The next section of this event screen details the current event rules, and the active/passive of event prize rewards.
The next section lists the benchmark trophy rewards - prizes you'll gain when you collect the required amount of trophies.
Clicking on the "Individual" tab will show you your current ranking based on the trophies you've earned, and the prizes for that tier. This will change often throughout the event and may experience a 4 hour delay in updating each time you win more trophies.
Clicking on the "Troop" tab will show you your troop's current ranking based on the trophies you've earned, and the prizes for that tier. This will change often throughout the event and may experience a 4 hour delay in updating each time your troop wins more trophies.
Good guide, congratz! :)
ReplyDeleteNice guide! :) Very thorough and complete
ReplyDeleteU need to update it , the cost is now 1 energy for 1st floor and 2 energy for 2nd floor
ReplyDeleteBtw nice guide it helped me a lot :)
ReplyDeletehow do I get event token in this event
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