Events

Clash of Beasts uses a three week cycle consisting of three events. Events are clan competition with high rewards. You must be in a clan and remain in that same clan during the entire event in order to be eligible for event rewards.

In the first few weeks of play, players often ignore the cycle of events and complete Tier 1 as fast as they can. However by the time that they are level 23, finished Chapter 3, and forging Tier 2 beasts they should in a clan and following the event cycle. The cycle proscribes when it is best to build up your base and forge new beasts. Each event also has its own wiki page.

You must be part of a clan before the event starts to participate and remain in the clan the entire time. Every clan is placed in a "shard" of ten clans. The leaderboard clans 1-10 are in a shard, and 11-20 are in a shard, etc. You compete against other clans in your shard. As each clan can have up to 50 players, the shard may have up to 500 players.

VP refers to Victory Points, which is your personal score. Individual VP in a clan add up to the clan score.

Building Boom Event

* During this event all building upgrades will earn you VP (Victory Points)
* Spend all of your speed ups during the event to build more
	+ you should not use speed ups outside of this event, just collect them
* Takes small amount of player time
* Everyone's bases will jump ahead in level
* Do not open chests during the event. During the event the chests are more likely to contain speed ups but less likely to contain more valuable items.
* Build your base enough to complete chapter quests and be ready to forge the next set of beasts

Raid War Event

* During this event there are special attacks against completing clans to earn you VP
* Players who spend more hours raiding will get more VP
* This event takes the most player time. Many consider it the most fun but it can have high burnout.
* This event has the highest rewards and players will collect huge numbers of chests.

Forge Fiesta Event

* During this event all beast forging will earn you VP
* Spend all of your shards during he event to forge as much as you can
	+ After Tier 1, you should not forge outside of this event
* After forging a beast you need to use the to earn XP and levels so you can use them in future forging
* Takes a medium amount of player time
* Generally the best time to open chests

Building Boom and Forge Fiesta are each five days long, with two days of rest. Raid Wars is four days long with three days of rest.

## Event Pacing

The pace of events means you will collect soul shards for two weeks and then forge a lot of beasts at once. You will collect speed ups for two weeks and then jump ahead in city level in one event.

Mostly Harmless Opinion: Here is a typical pace. Note that where we are in an event cycle when a new player start playing will affect this.

* Forge Tier 1 beasts outside of events...
* Forge Fiesta event -  Forge most of T2
* 2 weeks later...
* Forge Fiesta -  Forge remaining T2 and some T3.
* 2 weeks later...
* Forge Fiesta -  Forge remaining T3.
* 2 weeks later...
* Forge Fiesta -  Forge some T4.
* 2 weeks later...
* Fiesta event 5 -  Forge remaining T4.

Mostly Harmless Opinion: In my experience a f2p players will need three event cycles to collect enough shards to forge all of T2 and T3.  So while it is possible to do all of T2 in one event and all of T3 in the next event most f2p players will be unable to do so due to either chapter/building completion or shard limitations.  However this is not a rule and some people might go faster or slower.