Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-44289441-20191228191557/@comment-44123106-20191230022157

I've been doing much the same: following the quests until I found the forum (level 40ish) and now I follow the mani story quests, and take part in the events.

I think that just leveling up will make it more "expesive" in terms of energy and passes to complete the later quests that send you to earlier rooms. However, I really enjoy the Emerald Event as it's a good way to fill the coffers (mostly APs this time for me) and if it sends you to a lower room, your max score is lower, and I find it takes me the same time to do the room! I'm not sure what the max score on a brown room is, but a Connoissuer gets only 54, Sleuth gets only 63, a Detective and Virtuoso get 72. I don't have any locations at Master yet, so I don't know if this rises again.

So to get more Emerald Event chests, I need to raise the levels of my rooms. I plan to do this by not opening new rooms. Currently I have one stalled quest storyline that requires me to play The Mayor's House. However, I have another storyline (Agnes the Witch) running,  It's currently taking me back to the centre, so I wonder if I managed to stall it earlier in my play. Once all my open rooms are green, I'll open The Mayor's House, unless I'm ready to open CW, at which point I'll do a Mott and blast at it exclusively, hoping that the main story quests pop up too!

I haven't used talismans until the last few weeks and have been experiementing. My day didn't got to plan, so I didn't get to try my latest plan; that will have to wait,  I'm starting to see how best to use them!

The other reason some rooms are black or red on some maps is that since the premium rooms give more EAPs, people tend to play these so that they can play the event location more. I do a little of this, especially if I have quests requiring mosaic or AC plays. I park these for a bit then go back to them when I need some light relief.

That's my plan, anyway, it remains to be seen as to whether it will work, or whether there are pitfalls. The game is intended to be played the way you have been playing it, I believe.

I don't know if this answers your question - after all this is just my take on it. And that's the point, the best way to play is the one that suits you!

Enjoy your time in Darkwood.