25% speed? the most common speed buff gives you 50%....should do at least that if not 75% or 100%.

I agree with Fing in that 25% is a tad low considering speed buffs are so absurdly easy to stock up on that keeping them in constant effect isn't terribly difficult. Considering silver chests drop them plenty, and the average high-tier player commonly has literally thousands of silver chests stacked up, 25% is low, even for a constant buff. I agree completely that $5 should not be too overly useful, but 25% speed buff would be only slightly less underwhelming than the 100% damage buff. Considering even the 10-minute missions give 100% speed buffs for several hours (if you've maxed the relevant talent), a speed boost for real money should either last long (severals days) and be 100%, or be greater than 100% (400%?) and only last a few hours, buffed to around a day and a half or 2 days with the maxed talent. I can understand that a several-day buff sounds better for $5, but I also see plenty of value in a buff that lasts a short time, but makes an area-950 reset only take 4 or 5 hours. Even if the buff only lasted 24 hours, if you babysit the game for the day, that's 2 or 3 resets in a day, and I'm certainly not against getting nearly 10k idols within a day. Though, that still requires the person to doggy-guard the game, which I'm sure not everyone wants to (or can) do.

For the second part, why wouldn't the buff affect killing X number of monsters? "Act of Congress" affects monster kills. Speaking of which, just in your own opinion, would the suggested buff cause x4 of something to drop when paired with "Act of Congress" if both proc, or x3? Normally I would say x4 is way too much in general, but for $10, it seems fair. Same logic as above - better speed-resetting for a higher-tier package. $5 makes enemies spawn super fast and $10 makes every area take at LEAST half as long when paired with "Act of Congress".

Explaining it all out, it almost seems like with those ideas, the $5 and $10 tiers would be kind of overpowered for high-tier players and underpowered for newcomers who are resetting quickly anyway.

Maybe to mitigate some of the unfairness, speed would be reserved for $10 and $5 would instead be a hefty AoE effect. The AoE buffs aren't particularly overpowered in any way, but ARE very useful when the percentage of damage is high enough. Maybe a 200% DPS AoE to push a few extra areas? Considering how the area difficulty scales, the percentage would have to be fairly high to be useful for more than, like, 2 areas.

Another possible reward (not sure which tier, though) could be a critical click chance buff. A fairly decent one. Lots of damage gets pumped out in critical clicks, but on top of that, if you have the relevant talent leveled/maxed, it also serves as a nice DPS buff as well even if you don't plan on using a clicker. 6% seems fair. That's a 300% DPS buff only if the talent is maxed, so even the DPS buff itself would scale to player tier automatically.

AoE means area of effect. Means splash damage here, I guess.

Agreed that the term doesn't really fit the mechanic but it's the name for the basic consumable with said effect, so went with it. The higher rarity versions' names certainly fit even less...

Amanda, I am a huge Kingdom Hearts fan (I'm about to start playing KH2.8 after this x3), so I know a thing or two about crossover confusion. My entire fandom is always bickering about "Wait, when does this happen in their timeline?"

As for the terminology used earlier, not a problem. Everyone does not have the same gaming experiences. There are already too many trolls that quickly resort to "LOL WHO DOESN'T KNOW ___?!?! NOOB" Everyone has to start somewhere. Nobody begins knowing everything right off the bat. It is unfair to fault someone for not knowing everything you do, especially if they are new to something.

P.S. Not-so-little bragging moment for me lol In an MMORPG, I was such a veteran high-tier player that the devs implemented a new "Ambassador" system where veteran players could offer their help introducing newer players to the game. An ambassador would greet new players, lead them through some of the beginning quests, teach them the mechanics of the game, and if the new player wanted, help them level up a little. Basically, ambassadors were tutorials, but with real people. I applied and was one of the first to be accepted. It was fun helping newcomers get into the game, and because I had nearly every item the game had to offer, if they complained that the game was too simple at the start, I would get involved and show them "This is the kind of stuff you can do, and how strong you can become, once you really get going in the game" and that would motivate them.

I'd be happy with a pro-rated idols boost (like you get with a $20 purchase), only for all chests purchased including starter packs (with the possible exception of the $5 GE purchase). Maybe something like x hours of 50% idols boost bonus per chest, and increasing it every 10 chests purchased or something, so the bonus time is bigger to reward bigger purchases.

Edit: by "$5 GE purchase" I meant the 3-chest minimum purchase to get a GE

btw this game is all about the Idols, is it not?

Base chance of a chest dropping on a previously defeated boss area is close to, if not exactly, 25%.

So an increase of a chance of a silver chest drop by .5% of your total hoarded chest with 1,000 chests hoarded would mean a 5% increase of the base 25%. Giving a 26.25% chance of receiving a silver chest.

5,000 chests would be a 25% increase meaning a 30% chance of receiving a chest.

10,000 chests would be a 50% increase meaning a 37.5% chance of receiving a chest.

20,000 chests would be a 100% increase meaning a 50% chance of receiving a chest.

40,000 chests would be a 200% increase meaning a 75% chance of receiving a chest.

60,000 chests would be a 300% increase meaning a 100% chance of receiving a chest.

I like the idea. But do not think that a chance of increasing Jeweled Chest upgrades should be included. Since Jeweled chests are more along the lines of 'When a silver chest drops it has a 1% chance of upgrading to a jeweled chest.' Which means that you would naturally be getting more jeweled chests because more silvers are dropping.

"Base chance of a chest dropping on a previously defeated boss area is close to, if not exactly, 25%."

I am not experiencing an average of one chest drop in four areas - are you sure about that?

I regularly reach about 940 on a normal, non-event run. 940/5 = 188 defeated bosses, then 188/4 = 47 silver chests on average per reset. Sounds about right to me, so 25% makes sense.

I fully support anything that would give me more speed buffs! I also find that i have accumulated a lot of buffs that I don't use, or have become somewhat useless to me after playing a year. But I feel like I can never have enough speed buffs, and that I don't get nearly enough. I would absolutely pay more, if it meant guaranteed speed buffs