Still managed to do it without spending the money or gems but it required me to check back every 2 hour on the hour. It’s bullshit and you KNOW that the current event will do the same. Especially since they’re making you wait 4 days so you only have 3 days to complete the rest of it and the entire battle with the boss will most likely take exactly that ammount of time.

@Background Pony #F598  
Apparently “TEMPEST” grants another 20 gems.

@runner2  
Its true. My top 10 are russian and chinese. Update, Ive been sent behind. The 200, I dont think Ill be able to recover

@Background Pony #029C
 
It kinda depends on what servers you get grouped into. I’m basically in the middle of the USA and russian users tend to be at the top of my ranking boards.
 
Well, really any non American user is at the top on my boards. Since almost all of them are either foreign names or ones they put in themselves instead of having a random name assigned to you like in the US.

@runner2  
I didnt know that. I live in a Latin American country but travel fairly often. The last two events I spent the first days in a first world country and didnt notice any kind of change. Back home the competition has been harder. And I doubt many have the game or even speak the language.

This is such bs

There a new 20 gems gift code on the Instagram page.
 
“SHADOW”

@Neko Majin C
 
@Background Pony #F598
 
Chances are that the first instance will get you Tempest early while the second chance will be replaced by like 10-30 gems as a sort of bonus for getting her early. Which, with how many gems you would need to spend to get to this point, is completely not worth it.

@Neko Majin C  
You can’t get 2.
 
But from what it sounds like, the bonus is only early access; and if you can’t beat it within a time limit, then focus on beating the Ursa.
 
Your primary goal is to beat the Ursa before the event ends, Time wise it’s going to be hard.
 
Now that being said. it’s a greedy phone game. So is the finale prize might be a second chance at Tempest, and the first chance might just be a ploy to get you to spend money.

Tempest Shadow is the reward for completing the story line, right? She is at the end, so when the event is over, everyone gets her automatically, right? So, even if you do not complete the Ursa thing in the three days, she is still yours after eight days? Does completing the Ursa event within the three days only get you Tempest five days before everyone else, or does it mean you get two Tempests, one for defeating the Ursa and one for completing the event?

Never-mind, the Tutorial explained what the skip button does, it’s for 1 attack.

So what is the final reward?
 
Also what does the skip button do, is it just for the one attack?

@Background Pony #029C
 
I’m at 108 maps and 1399th place. The top ranked right now is at 1264 maps. In 4 hours I will have another 30 maps whenever that task completes and I get around to clicking on it.
 
If you didn’t know, your location greatly determines how effective your efforts are since it’s only around 5000 or so people per group ranking. You could be in a fairly light area/country without much heavy competition, while I’m in a group dominated by hackers and big spenders.

@runner2  
Without spending money I have 270ish star maps and am at place 132. Only with sweetie bell and apple bloom.

I MAY have had to buy more gems in order to keep the fight going, but my reward IS Tempest Shadow. How could I turn down an opportunity like that?

>ploy to force you to spend gems  
>already on the final part of the event
 
Ya, sure. That’s the one thing that will force people to buy gems. Despite you probably spending several to get to this point already. . . . .
 
I have mostly given up on this money grabbing event. You literally have to no life it or pay to even have a slight chance. Like with you little calculations there, you couldn’t sleep at all to be able to do that. And you have to check on it exactly every 2 hours or else you have a good chance of not having time.
 
I still do the event at my own pace between playing other games and working, but I know I won’t even come close to completing it. Just like the community event trash…. I’m at like 78 collected which puts me in over 1500th place. The top people have near 2000.

Both fights require you to spend some serious money. At that price a well made plushie of the character is cheaper.