(21 June 2019 news on official LN fb, details via LN subreddit and the ever amazing Iri’s videos)
CLOUD REALM (25 June - 11 July)
HELL EVENT? HELL YEAH! Check under the read more for information about the mechanics of the hell event, as well as info on the major suits, the side suits, and their costs.
MAJOR SUIT MECHANICS
So first off--brace yourself if you haven’t heard the news yet--this is a pavilion hell event. However, it’s not as bad as it sounds; there are several things they’ve done that make it far less annoying than it would otherwise be. Firstly, there is not one pavilion for all four suits. Instead, there are four separate pavilions, one for each of the major suits: [Daymare Fairy Tale], [Glorious Chapter], [Aster Guardian], and [World in Dream] (named in the order they appear in the picture above). With the exception of [Daymare], all the pavilions are available to pull from as soon as the event starts. This means if you only want [Glorious], you can grab her and not spend a single diamond on any of the other suits.
However, if you want [Daymare], that’s where things get a bit more complicated. [Daymare] is closed until you pull 31 times in EACH of the other three pavilions; this means that if you finish one of the suits in less than 31 pulls, you will need to keep pulling until you hit 31 to unlock [Daymare]. To the bottom right of each pavilion, there is a small heart-shaped lock; when you’ve pulled 31 times from a pavilion, a token will be unlocked. You can then click on the token to use it on [Daymare] and once you’ve used all three tokens, the pavilion will unlock and you can pull for [Daymare]. Please note that, like other pavilions, most of the posed items are items that must be drawn from the pavilion and are not completion reward. However, unlike other pavilions, this does not include the posed dress, which is a completion reward. So, you will need to pull the posed hair from the pavilion, but you will receive the posed suit (along with the suit’s background) as a reward for getting all the unposed pieces of the suit and thus completing it.
Each pull costs 100 diamonds. You are guaranteed a new item every 10 pulls that you do. You do not get free daily pulls in this event; instead, if it’s like the Chinese server, we should get 7 free pulls. 2 were sent via mailbox (1 on the first day, 1 on the third day) and 5 are purchased from a shop that comes with the hell event, purchased with event items that you collect in other aspects of the hell event. (I won’t be going into detail here, I highly recommend you check out Iri’s great video which talks about it and gives some amazing tips.)
Cost: Keeping in mind that this is a pavilion, and thus cost estimates are random, the current rough estimates (based on the Chinese server) by the awesome Squirtle Squad are: 3100 diamonds for [Glorious Chapter], 3300 for [Aster Guardian], 3800 for [World in Dream], and, along with the cost of 31 pulls from each of the other 3 pavilions to unlock it, [Daymare Fairy Tale] will cost 3600 diamonds. So, if you want all four major suits, it will probably be around 13800 diamonds. Again, this is a pavilion so these are all rough estimates.
SIDE SUIT MECHANICS
There are three minor suits, their recolors, and then the SSR interactive moving suit [Cloud Dream] that can be pulled from the side suit pavilion (see gifs and the ever amazing Iri’s video to see it in action) and, yes, it does move like that in competition. You don’t use diamonds directly to pull from the side suit pavilion, instead every 8 pulls you do in one of the major suit pavilions, you’ll receive one pull for the side suit pavilion. This seems low but you aren’t pulling minor suit pieces, rather you receive the entire minor suit in one go (you do not need to recolor the minor suits; their recolor will drop in the side suit pavilion). The only pieces that you’ll pull are for [Cloud]. The minor suits and the pieces of [Cloud] are pulled in a predetermined order and, once you get one, you will not get a repeat. (Drop order can be found in the links below.)
Cost: To finish all minor suits and their recolors, but not [Cloud Dream], will be around 11,200 diamonds. If you finish all four major suits, you will probably have all the minor suits. Now, how much to get [Cloud Dream]? This is going to hurt, guys, I’m sorry. If you want [Cloud Dream] you will need 25,600 diamonds. It may be possible to finish it for less, but it’s very unlikely. You’ll probably receive pieces throughout your pulls but, as I’m sure you’re expecting, the suit will not move without every single piece.
RETURN COSTS AND SCHEDULE
This came to the Chinese server only a few months ago so, unfortunately, we don’t know any of this info. I feel pretty safe saying that it will eventually come back (unless they’re collaboration events, they always do). However, we’ve never had a hell event like this so there’s just no way to know what it will look like when it comes back.
TIPS AND TRICKS
I did not cover all the aspects of this hell event (and there are quite a bit more) because I didn’t want to make this longer and more convoluted than it already is. I recommend checking out the Cloud Realm post, over at the LN subreddit. It has a ton of different resources. A few things worth noting: The event cost breakdown sheet by the awesome Squirtle Squad, which lists not only cost but also the chances of receiving a particular item. A much more in-depth guide to the event mechanics is also available which you should definitely check out.
I highly highly recommend checking out Iri’s Pro Tips video. It is full of a ton of useful tips that will could save you some grief; I really cannot recommend it enough. The ever amazing Iri also has her normal suit breakdown video, where she shows each of the suit pieces individually. If you’re trying to decide which, if any, suit that you want, it’s extremely helpful and it’s what I always watch when I’m unsure about a suit.
Again, there is a lot that I didn’t cover in this post and I highly recommend that you check out the sources I listed above as they will help tremendously to understanding everything.
