New for June/July 2017 Exodawn - World boss has changed to rock. New event monsters will be available.
Updated after the event started:
Other changes during June/July event:
If you're farming for event specials, changing rooms no longer refreshes the common monsters that you can battle. Instead you will need to move to a different map location and then return to Exodawn.
A new table showing the event commons to battle to have a chance at the right event special dropping has been created by SpikeTanner.
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Exodawn is a recent addition to the Battle Camp event rotation. It first appeared in December, 2016 and is currently repeating in March, 2017. Exodawn had previously been a world/global boss that had occasionally appeared in between regular events for the entire army of BC players to battle this world boss together for 2-4 hours. It then disappeared entirely for over a year and has now been reformatted into a regular 5 day event.
Summary Table (created by Jen BC)
T-R = Top Right
T-L = Top Left
L-R = Lower Right
L-L = Lower Left
Body is also considered the Head
Where is Exodawn?
Exodawn can be found on the upper left of your map screen. (It is the old location for past global boss events).
Exodawn boss
The exodawn boss is a wind boss that is comprised for 5 different raids, each corresponding to a limb or it's main body section.
The boss has an upper left, lower left, body, lower right and upper right components/raids to consider.
In order to raid each section, your troop must collect and donate 10 event specials to the 5 raid locations. Each raid location requires a different event special. Each raid location will also have a different active when you battle them. (A special thank you to Jenn W. for sharing this information!)
Upper left - leaf special - Stun
Lower left - rock special - Burst
Body - fire special - Surge
Lower right - water special - Shield
Upper right - wind special - Lacerate
Upper Left - leaf specials Lower Left - rock specials
Body - Fire Specials
Lower Right - Water Specials Upper Right - Wind Specials
The each set of raids will require 10 specials to be donated at each limb/body component of the boss. Unlike other raid styled events, the number of specials required does not increase throughout the event, but remains constant at 10.
As each raid is ready, your troop admins can start that raid. Your troop will need to complete each of the 5 raid components before you can donate to, or run raids, for the defeated components.
Note: This event is different to the Santiflyer event and there is no time constraint on finishing all the raids within 3 hours of each other. Each raid can safely be run separately and you can take as long as you like before starting the next one.
Each raid has a maximum duration of 4 hours. If you fail to complete the raid within this time, it will reset to the special donations stage and you won't receive any trophies for the incomplete attempt. You will however receive trophies if/when you complete this raid at a later time for the damage done within that successful raid.
Screens admins see to start each raid
All raids are preset to run in Medium difficulty and this cannot be adjusted by the troop admins. The first raid has 1 million health. The second has 1.5 million health and hits slightly harder. The third has 2.25 million health and the fourth has 3.375 million. (Special thanks to Bo S. for this information). Each raid will become progressively harder to finish, with a 1.5x difficulty multiplier predicted at this time.
Damage calculations provided by Bo S. using the 1.5x multiplier
Boss health now stops increasing at 2 billion unlike this table!
For advanced troops, anticipate that the early raids will be finished incredibly quickly! Once your troop cannot defeat a raid, you'll need to try it again or decide that your troop can no longer progress any further. (Alternatively some players are joining another troop who is still able to raid at an easier level. You can only leave one troop during an event and will be locked into the next troop you join).
In March, 2017, the boss has a maximum health of only 2 billion (2 million trophies), with further raids beyond this eventually having a reduced amount of time to complete each raid. Top troops have experienced the timer slowly reducing each round until they only had 30 minutes to complete their raids. It's not known if the timer continues to reduce beyond this. (A special thank you to Rojer F. for providing the information about the reduced timer).
[In contrast, when exodawn was held in December, 2016, the boss had a maximum health of 200 billion (200 million trophies) and raids beyond this point had increasingly difficult actives. (Thank you Kit N. for providing this information so early!)]
Maximum available raid trophies - March 2017
Battling each component runs the same as a regular raid with one minute to do as much damage as you can. Each component of the boss has a different active, as listed below (and repeated above).
Upper left - leaf special - Stun
Lower left - rock special - Burst
Body - fire special - Surge
Lower right - water special - Shield
Upper right - wind special - Lacerate
Upper left arm with Stun Active
After your troop has completed their raid against a boss component, you will no longer be able to donate specials or raid against that component until you have completed all of the other parts of the raid boss.
Upper left arm can no longer be raided/donated to
Be prepared to farm a lot of event specials! Joseph G. has calculated that it will take 660 event specials until the raids have 128 million health (about the level of the third extreme raid in most events).
Event Specials
There are five different element event specials used for Exodawn, as shown in the screenshot from
bcrank.us below.
Exodawn Event Specials
Around the event screen you will notice three common monsters that you can also battle. Each battle will give you a chance for an event special to drop of the same element as the common that you chose to fight against. Choosing to fight a water common will give you the chance to earn a water special for the lower right arm.
All water commons will give you a chance to win a water special.
If you choose to fight with multiple energy and a special drops, you will win the same multiple of these specials.
Fighting with 1 energy gives you a chance to win 1 special.
If by chance the element you're needing doesn't appear as one of the three available commons, you can always change rooms to renew the selection. To do this, click on the 'Me' button to the right of the store button at the bottom of your screen. Then click the door button on the left. Select any of the rooms shown to refresh your event screen.
To change rooms, click the Me button, then the door button
Select any room for a chance to refresh your common monster selection
These event specials have limited purpose outside of their event. A regular special has a feeding value of 800. Event specials only have feeding values of 100, the same as any common monster, and won't level up your monsters well. (The lantern fire special appear to still have 400 feeding value from their appearance in a previous event).
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Lantern has 400 feeding value, Key Lime has 100
Regular glohawk special has 800 feeding value
Other Ways to Get Trophies
Aside from using energy in Exodawn raids, the only other way to earn trophies is by farming in map areas around the game. This only gives a small amount of trophies per energy though. Note that farming in the Exodawn event area does not earn you trophies.
Trophies earned by farming in Lost Temple
Event Monsters
Event monsters can be spun from the Event Grab in the store or through Lucky Grab opportunities that may randomly pop up while you're playing in the event screen. Event monsters receive an attack bonus against all raids within Exodawn. These event monsters are reused each time Exodawn has run so far. (They have also had their bonus active for the January 2017 Sanctiflyer event, although it hasn't been confirmed if this will always be the case).
Exodawn Event Monsters - Unevolved and Evolved
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Leader and Vice Leader Bonuses
Exodawn and Sanctiflyer have been designed such that the leader and vice bonus runs differently than most other events. If either/both of these bonuses are running when the last hit of a raid takes place, these bonuses are applied to every hit made during the entire raid.
It's rumored that you can also run these bonuses for during the raid for their 15 minute effect, but the majority of troops are choosing to wait with clever timing for the very end of the raid. This takes teamwork to coordinate though!
This following example comes from Cat Tidbits. Their troop coordinated their leader bonus (13%) and their vice bonus (6.5%) with the end of their raid and received 19.5% bonus trophies on all the damage they did during that raid.
19.5% bonus trophies applied to the total damage from the raid
when the leader (13%) and vice (6.5%) bonuses were running
when the raid was completed.
Without activating the leader/vice bonus at the end of the raid, your troop's trophy pop-up screens won't have the "Bonus Trophies" line. Marcus H. has provided the screenshot example below of his trophies when no bonus was running at the conclusion of the raid.
Trophy pop-up screen without any leader/vice bonus being active at the end of the raid.
Troop Strategies
As all raids need to be completed before your boss entirely resets to the new difficulty with 50% more health, there is the freedom to choose to start each component raid individually or together.
For the purpose of activating the leader and vice over as many raids as possible, many troops are initially running all raids together and finishing them together in the 15 minutes that they choose to run their leader/vice bonus. (See above section).
The daily event goals reward players with specials for the number of raids they have been involved in. At the beginning of the event when raids run so quickly, it can be worth limiting players energy during the raids to increase troop participation so that more people receive these event goal prizes. Note that a player must hit a raid themselves for it to be counted for their daily event goals.
Specials and Crystals can be won from the daily event goals
As the health of the boss increases, the shield and stun raids tend to be the slowest to complete as shield reduces the damage your monsters can do and stun reduces the number of turns you can make. Lacerate, burst and surge can be easier raids if your troop is struggling to finish within the time limit. On the other hand, if you're not having time constraint issues, the damage from lacerate, burst and surge can add up significantly at the higher raid round levels.
When the raids become too hard for your troop, some troops are resorting to farming in map areas for the small amount of extra trophies they bring. However, some top troops are disbanding so that they can start a new troop to begin raiding from the beginning again for the individual trophies that can be earned. Players can only leave one troop during an event and will not be able to leave the troop they next join until the event prizes have been distributed. Also be aware that you cannot completely disband a troop during an event, at least one player will need to remain in that troop.
