Expedition Portal

## Expedition Portals

In the Kingdom view there is map with all the bases listed.  There may also be coloured swirly things called Expedition Portals.  At the bottom right there is a button to create a new Portal.  This costs Kingdom Scrolls, which you get from random drops during attacks and from chests.  The number of scrolls depends on the Kingdom Level (level 4 costs 8 scrolls).  The difficulty of the portals increases with Kingdom Level, as do the rewards.

There was a major rework of Portals released May 31, 2022.

## Guidelines

Note: This is very much the opinion of Mostly Harmless.  It is aimed at Kingdom Hall Level 4 clans.

Create or click on a Portal.  There are a number of slots, each has different requirements.

Click on a slot.  If you have matching beasts they will have a green label "Match" on them.  Matches cause a 20% increase in the chance of success for additional rewards.

Click on each slot and find which slots you have matching beasts.  If you find one slot that you have one matching beast and another slot with three matching beasts, the one slot may be more difficult for other players.  So you may want to fill that one.  Another factor may be slots the are filled by Seasonal beasts, which many people in the clan have, therefore you may want to fill in a different slot and leave that one for a lower level person.

Always fill in a match if you can.  You can also fill in a slot with a non-matching beast.  You will see that the % chance of success will go up or down depending on which beast you select.  This is because better partial matches result in better percent chances.  If you don't have an exact match then you could have partial matches that increase the value 10-18%.  Because the beasts are listed from low tier to high tier, your best beasts (and the ones most likely to partial match) will be near the bottom.  If it wants a Tier 5 Gaia Berserker maybe you have a Tier 4 Gaia Berserker and can get 18% increase.

There is another option, and that is to use the online beast roster at https://www.clashofbeasts.com/beasts-roster/  For example, a slot says "Tier 4, Rouge, Slern, Expert, Air".  In the beast roster I put in Rogue, Slern, Tier 4, Air.  I can see one match, Arigoz.  While I have him, he is not Expert which is why he is not Match.  He does have 4 of the 5 requirements, and when I select him the % chance goes up 18%.  So even if I don't have an exactly match giving 20% I have something close.  But maybe the player does not have Arigoz.  In the filter, remove the Tier and take another look.  Now I see Voltur can match and interestingly enough he also gives me 18% (based on my Voltur level he is equivalent to Tier 4).  Another player added a lower tier Voltur and it only added 12%.

As the number of Tier 4/5/6 beasts is high the clan may not have enough high level people to fill the beast slots.  A clan may want to limit the number of portals that are concurrently open, so that their limited high level beasts can be used in more than one portal.

After a portal has been created there are 2 hours for people to add beasts.  This is shown with a "Time left to form a party" timer at the bottom.  If all the slots are full the expedition is started immediately.  If the creation time runs out and the expedition has not started then it fails and no rewards are given.  Any clan member can therefore start an expedition even if it is not full.  Ideally you should only do this if there are 10 minutes left on the timer, as it is better to wait as long as possible and then launch manually than to have it fail.

After the expedition is launched, the timer changes to "Quest will finish in" for 2.5 hours.

Ideally when you create a portal you also set a timer on your phone to go off in 1:50 hours.  When the timer beeps at you, log in and check to see if the portal started and if not, start it manually.