Forge Fiesta Event

## Events

Forge Fiesta is one of three events in Clash of Beasts. It is the one where everyone forges new beasts, which for most people is the real measure of how far you have progressed in the game.

As with all events 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.

Disclaimer: Some of this page is the personal opinion of specific people.

## Forge Fiesta Event

During this event you will be forging soulstones to earn VP. Those soulstones go towards summoning new beasts.

There are several factors in what you can forge:

* Chapter completion
* Soul Forge Level
* Beastiary Level
* City Level (specific levels of Soul Forge and Beastiary unlock at different city levels)

There are several cases of "technically you can do x with only y". The basic rule of thumb is "a certain city level, with the beastiary and soul forge at their max for that level" and the previous chapter complete.

A list what needs to be done for each chapter can be found in Story Quests.

Hopefully in the last Building Boom event you built everything you need for this round of forging. As you prepare for the event be aware of what building levels you need and story chapter completions.  In general, if you are going to be forging Tier 2 you need to have completed Chapter 3.  If you are going to be forging Tier 3 you need have completed Chapter 4.  Forging a complete tier in one event is difficult but not impossible, given how many Soul Shards are needed. Finishing the remainder of a Tier and starting the next is possible but you may be limited unless you complete an entire chapter in a day - you need to pre-complete do all the chapter work ahead of time (before you see the quests).  A lot of these will be building quests and ideally a lot of them you will have wanted  to complete during the last building boom event.  If you don't meet these pre-requisites you might be able to do it by using speed ups, but you'll lose out on the benefit of building during the build event.  You will need to decide whether it is more important use your speed ups outside of the building event so you can forge more now, or to only complete one chapter and have patience to save your shards and build when you get the most benefit.

It is important that before the event starts you complete all the Soul Forge and Beastiary upgrades that you can for your level.

When it is not the event, save all your shards and prismatic shards.  Never forge outside the event.  You may also want to save a lot of the chests from the Raid event that just ended to open during the Forge event, especially gold (as they can drop prismatic shards).

## Forging and VP

When the event starts you can start forging.  You get VP for every shard you spend, regardless of whether it creates a soul stone.  In general beasts trying to create Common soul stones are easier than Rare, which are easier than Epic.  Summoning the beast does not get you VP.  Successful and unsuccessful forging gives the same VP.  1 VP for every shard and 200 VP for every prismatic shard.  Clan points are the sum of all clan member VP.  Therefore clans with more members  and higher levels (who naturally use more shards) will tend to score higher.

In order to use a prismatic shard, you need to first forge at least one shard the normal way.  You can then use prismatic to do the rest, one prismatic will always get one soul stone.  Remember that the more rare the beasts the harder to forge, and the higher the tier the harder to forge.  Saving prismatic shards to be used later may hurt in the short run but it is good in the long run.  My recommendation is never use a prismatic to get a Tier 1 beast.  For Tier 2 only use it for Deathgaze and only if that is the one thing that will make the difference between getting it now or the next event. Use the forging guide and only use prismatics on the most difficult beasts. For later tiers, look at the upcoming costs and determine for yourself where best to spend them.

## Forging Guide

Do **not** use the parents suggested in game to forge a new beast. They suggestion is not optimal and there are much cheaper ways of forging each beast. Please see see the Forging Guide.

## Gaining Experience for the Forging Level

After you forge a beast you will need to get it to forging level before it can then be used as parent for new beasts.

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Tips for gaining beast experience quickly:

* You can use an XP potion.
* Any beast that reaches the max level (sometimes referred to as Expert) will continue to earn XP. You can then transfer the XP to a beast for a small gem cost (worth it).
* If you have max level beasts, use them while they have the 5x XP bonus to grind XP faster, and then transfer it.  The max level beasts can build up to be large batteries of stored XP between events.  You can use them to quickly level up new beasts that you gain by transferring XP.

Tip:  As you go up in tiers, the XP costs get higher.  Although the max XP per attack will go up, it does not scale as well.  You may want to build large XP banks and save them for later tiers.  My recommendation is after forging a beast to use potions/transfer to get to one or two levels below forging level. Then use it for all its bonus XP runs. Depending the time of day (when bonus XP resets), how much of the event is left, how much you more you plan to do either wait until you can do more XP runs with that beast, or continue using potions/transfer.

You can also of course grind XP the old fashion way and use the beasts in battle.

If you can, arrange a time when you know that a clanmate will join you in an attack.  Attack a max XP base with your new beast.  It will most likely die but your ally can finish the base.  Not only will this allow you to hit a max XP base with your new beast and also get the 10% bonus XP for a shared attack.