User blog:Solara184/Hoping the next event is a rose.

So..let me elaborate a bit on that title. I'm hoping the next event when it rolls around will be a "rose event" in that we get to use roses to boost through steeplechases rather than diamonds. I can't recall when our last rose event was but looking at my diamond decimation from the last few months it feels like a while ago.

In fact we haven't had a rose event since BEFORE I had a full diamond horse and now I almost have 3!!!

While it's nice to have a diamonded skilled horse I'd just like to point out the effort that goes into them (as I know people can be upset when a diamonded skilled horse beats theirs in a race)

Solstice: I was quite lucky with this one as I managed to get almost all the skills from steeplechase wheels without adjusting the percentages. However his final skill point was purchased by having to make the wheel 100% sunstrider which cost approximately 1k diamonds alone and that's not factoring in all the diamonds spent running and rerunning steeplechase's for the skills before the last.

Sultan: Sultan was a tad more unlucky in that I had to fund the wheel for his last 2 weather skill points. The closer you get to diamond weather the worse those wheel % are, so he cost me 2k diamonds to finish plus all the others to bring him that far up.

Mars: Destined to be another 2k Diamond drain. I have been incredibly unlucky landing the weather skills on this guy, he probably used the most steeplechases of all 3 horses just to get this far which is a huge time sink. As I no longer pay the steeplechase manual resets he has taken months together this far.

For those that are not aware, manually resetting a steeplechase that has been completed not only costs diamond fees but the distances per reward on the resets are far greater meaning you will spend over twice as many diamonds running the whole thing a 2nd time. I tend to only ever manually reset a steeplechase if it's a rose event as that's the only diamond cost to endure in those events unless of course you also want to manipulate the wheel %.

Many newer players are frustrated to loose a race to a diamond skilled horse. (I've been there and it used to make me sad too that I never won anything) I  just ask that you are aware how much work someone has put into skilling up. I didn't actually win anything on a derby leaderboard until our current event. Spring was my first ever race reward and it felt so good to finally finally win something...but it took time.

Your turn will come too and until it does all those on your friends lists who do manage to win will gladly share thier reward for your breeding needs 🙂.