Hive and Seek - Chesterson

[versed axle]

The only way to farm chesterson faster so that we can get more honey is to reduce chesterson skill to 1. That may be counter productive. In 2nd picture, I have to wait 46 bosses before seeing another chesterson. That can take a while. Please adjust hive and seek chesterson reward structure.

[dapper flicker]

Thanks for the feedback! I can pass this along to the design team 👍

[lost plaza]

Chesterson skill only increases the cap for the "duration" that chesterson will remain activated. (Chesterson mode gets deactivated whenever we reach the cap. The count increases whenever we KILL a chesterson.)

EDIT 1: I'm no longer sure what increases the count. confused

The appearance of the special titan, Chesterson, itself is determined by the chesterson probability, which is increased by an aura equipment attribute.

EDIT 2: Anyway, I was wrong. Like OP wrote, Chesterson (as well as Hayst & snap) will not reappear while the corresponding counter (& effect) is active. The counter increases whenever the current stage increases. (Going through non-boss titans does not increase the counter).

On the other hand, the Sprout counter increases whenever a Sprout is killed. Sprout effect deactivates when the count exceeds the cap.

[dapper flicker]

To be clear, the special titan kill achievements will increase anytime you defeat a titan. So it will only increment when that titan spawns and you defeat them. The idea of lowering your Chesterson Incense level is to have lower Chesterson Duration, and thus see more Chesterson titans to defeat them.

[lost plaza]

Indeed! I wish I read this post earlier, and not just when H&S is about to end. At least, I made it to the 500 mark faster because of the lv1 tip.

Not much luck with the other special titans quest. It didn't occur to me to keep and lock relevant slash equipment after claiming my first large heap of loot from my first transcendent run.

Btw, can the devs adjust the scheduling of this mini-event (in the future) to coincide with two regular tournaments instead of 1 abyss, 1 reg?

[wintry hollow]

Equip Manni Aura for Aura Manni Spawns and leave boss

Equip Snap Slash or the Unique Gunblade Helmet and do lots of normal runs.

Also, in the hours before the event started, and the values were visible in the CSVs, all the special Titans were set to 5k 😛

As far as the scheduling of the event, I would totally agree 👍 having any event not related to the AT makes the two events direct hinderances on each other, since no progress can be made from the couple of hours of play time required to finish ATs casually

[lost plaza]

Good thing they shrunk the others to 1k then, haha. Ironically, 5k Manni Mana was the easiest to finish.

I ended with 500-ish for Hayst & Snap, 895 for Sprout, but only 1.24k for Necrobear.

The rest, I managed to complete somehow! I stopped trying 20 minutes before the game day started. Did extra runs for almist a couple of hours, killing 10k titans & 5k bosses. Modded my build: minimized stage skips (lv1 anchored shot), maximized titan skips, & lv1 Chesterson Incense. Also, the 1 adrenaline perk was really helpful. I usually don't use perks, so it's nice that I didn't forget this time.

Like I wrote somewhere earlier, I already salvaged my first giant heap from my first and only trans pushing run so far, before realizing I could have locked some useful aura and slash equips. T_T