Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.183.248.26-20190902070955/@comment-38279969-20190902121402

Hey Newbie!

I felt exactly the same way, so the summoning items that I earned through regular play lay gathering dust in my "bank". Then someone at this Wiki said she used a strategy where she would use the anomolies to keep her locations perpetually in anomaly mode. What that did was "froze" the locations so they wouldn't randomly come up with something less desirable, like Night Mode, for instance. Whenever she played a location for a quest, she would then put an anomaly on it. It was a way to control the play, rather than having it control you.

A couple of things to be aware of if you don't know them. First, when you summon an anomoly, it will go randomly to any location, not necessarily the one you want. Second, you can't summon a anomaly to a location that's in anagram mode or if the location is at a low rank (don't remember whether you have to get above Novice or what, but it will tell you). That's good and bad, depending on what you need, but if you're following this person's method, you can control where your summoning goes by keeping all the other locations in anomoly or anagram mode. I hope this makes sense.

Anyway, I tried her method and have been happy with the results for the most part. I don't regularly "anomalize" my locations until I'm doing quests where you have to go to specific locations to find a quest item. But when I'm on the hunt, it does come in handy. If, for instance, I have to play Wish Fountain in Reflection mode to get a quest item, but it is in Gargoyle Mode, I'll dispel the Gargoyle, play the location in anagram, then use the cracked mirror to make it Reflection Mode. Then, I dispel the reflection mode and, voila, I've got the quest item I was looking for.

Of course, if you need a location in Night Mode to find a quest item, you still need to play it until Night Mode comes up--no way to summon it. And, if you are playing the daily guardian quests, sometimes the quest is to play locations in Silouette Mode 7 times, and that's really difficult to do if most of your locations are in anomaly or anagram mode.

Okay, probably much more than you wanted or needed to know. Bottom line, you can use the summonings for strategic purposes as JiminBonita pointed out with a lot less words@

Cheers, M