I have to say, it's great to have so many events, but it feels kinda weird to have a new crusader that swaps with Kaine: he will be the first one to have TWO extra crusaders in his slot, while there are still 5 crusaders with no event counterpart...

@ Teschio: We're offering gold choices. Everyone will have their swap soon enough. :)

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@ GoldenNewb: Yes, the Golden Epic boosts Larry's Little Pockets formation ability.

What is this "smashed" crusader about?

Oh...thats an interesting new mechanic.

OMG another event and the past one is not long away... again. So i´m outa here. This is Crusader and not Eventader

Are leprechauns human? Because I always thought they were magical marshmallow cereal faeries or something, but Emo seems to think Larry is human.

Erika, by that logic, Emo, Sally, Prince Sal, Groklok, Drizzle and RoboSanta (and maybe Frosty) should all count as humans, since they're humanoids as well. Humanoid just means "shaped similarly to a human". Wendy is a witch, which depending on your source material, is just a human (usually female) possessed by the devil or otherwise has magical abilities. Leprechauns are a type of faerie from Irish folklore, not a human hit by a golden shrink ray. Calling a leprechaun human would be like calling a dwarf (mythical creature, not a person with dwarfism) human, and I wouldn't recommend that because dwarves are notorious for being grouch xenophobes.

@Erika/Alyniana: I´m leaving cause i´m tired of countless events. Since Xmas was there sooo many Events. I love an Event if its special, but at this point they aren´t special any more and it feels like devs had lost the spirit of Crusaders

Erika, don't listen to him. Events are awesome, a nice break from usual idol farming. Besides, I don't understand how someone can hate events, since they are not mandatory... you don't like one, don't play on that event, that's pretty easy to do. They are just bonus content for players that like mixing things up a bit.

I enjoy events. They're a fun break from the grind and new crusaders offer new strategies.

That said, I do understand the criticism. Oftentimes, the new event crusaders are unbalanced to the point that events feel like just a way to get people to buy Golden Epics. For example, Larry is so much better than Kaine (and I guess Monkey) that he's more of a complete replacement than a swap because they fill the same role. It's not like Natalie/Jack or Gryphon/Rocky, to name a few pairs, who have fairly different specialties. With considerably worse gear, Larry is already better than Kaine in every way on pretty much every map I would use either of them.

I know you guys have plans to fix this later, but another frustration is that event crusaders are limited-time only and so is their gear. I missed out on Pete and Monkey plus enough gear to get the achievements for RoboSanta/Sally due to poor RNG. They are both also completely useless due to lack of gear. It's not like I didn't try hard to get them gear either...but it's all RNG and I just ended up with a dozen repeats for Frosty/Rocky. I'm having a really hard time convincing my friends to start this game due to how much they will have missed. We all have a little bit of Sarah the Collector OCD in us.