Talk:The Return of Whitbee's Candy Bash/@comment-27140552-20151030230939

I'm seeing a lot of complaints about this event. Guys, Backflip does need to make money, you know. I budget $10-$15 a week for this, it's my replacement for my daily useless coffee and scone. Now its daily useless dragons which I like significantly more than I like coffee AND scones. If you're not paying, then you really can't complain - you're getting free fun. That said, it is possible to get all the new dragons WITHOUT paying. The theoretical max on the event, with the two double weekends so far, is 32,150 candy, not including banked candy. You can hit the max easy, especially now that they've upped the pumpkin payout. You might have to do a tiny bit of plant dragon grinding, but it's worth it. Now, we have four new dragons we can only get with candy: Trick, Ortreat, Spectre, and Lycan. Together, they cost 30,720. You can afford that without paying.

As for Nosferatu, that one's not new, but it can be bred with something like Arctic & Blue Fire, between 7pm and 7am (if you have the Twilight Tower, its even easier). According to DV Sandbox, on the island, your chances are 13.6%, and in the cave, 16.8%. Go for the cave. Unless you're ridiculously unlucky, it'll take max 7 tries, and the fails are only 8 to 22 hours long.

As for Pharaoh, breed Sun and Crypt. Your chances in the cave are 3%, and 6% on the island (according to DV Sandbox). Go for the island. Again, unless you're really unlucky, it'll take max 18 tries, and the fails are anywhere from 2 to 48 hours and the shorter fails are way more likely.

On top of that, if you're lucky, you might get them in an even shorter amount of time - I got my Pharaoh on the fourth try, after getting 3 Frostbite dragons, which are 4 hour fails. It's perfectly possible to get everything, especially if you've been saving your gems well, and now that they've fixed it so the daily candy max is easier to attain, you really shouldn't have any problems.