[B]What is the New Bloom Event?[/B]
In this event, you will need to face off against the deadly Year Beast and defeat it to defend your lands and earn rewards alongside. However, the Year Beast is no ordinary creature. While fighting it will not be an easy task, the long patrols it takes tracking its predecessor gives you enough time to prepare for its coming.
You can track how much time is left for the arrival of the Year Beast on the Play Tab in any of the match making tabs: *i.imgur.com/SnjxxOm.jpg
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[B]How Do I Prepare?[/B]
Defeating the Year Beast will require special weapons and trinkers crafted from Flamesalt Ingots by talented artisans. So you will need to collect as many of these Ingots as you can.
Flamesalt Ingots: These Ingots will drop from your regular Dota games that you play during the course of your event. You can earn them by playing games in Normal Matchmaking, Ranked Matchmaking, Co-Op Bot Matches and Team Matchmaking.
If you're already collecting Flamesalt Ingots, you are already prepping up pretty well. So why not make it more rewarding? Time to buy the Fortune's Favor.
Fortune's Favor: You can purchase the favor in the Dota 2 Store for $0.99 that will boost the drop rate of your regular Ingots by 100% but also enable the dropping of Jade Tokens for the period that it lasts. The favors stack with favors from other users at a rate of 20%.
Jade Tokens: While you are stacking Ingots, there is no need to not pamper yourself. With the Tokens you gain, you can redeem Bloom Bounties to earn some nice goodies for yourself. In order to redeem your Token, visit the Play Tab and open up the the Redeem panel. | *i.imgur.com/AelH35L.jpg
Before we get to what you can redeem, remember you can also purchase the Abundan't Fortune's Favor that does what the normal Favor does but so much better. You know you want to go hardcore with this.
But is this enough preparation? Stay cool. You also have a chance to gain random drops that will help you further.
Crimson Parcels: If the number of Ingots you are gaining is not enough, you can always open these random dropping parcels that will give you a Handful or maybe even a Pile of Ingots and sometimes maybe even Jade Tokens. Who knows? Pray to your RNG Gods.
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[B]Redeeming My Tokens:[/B]
Currently there are two things that you can redeem with the Tokens you earn.
Bloom Harvest (1500 Tokens): Redeem and open it to gain one of the following items with a socket and a gem.
Ashtongue
Repose of the Defiant
Cauldron of Summons
Lantern of Auspicious Days
Beast of Vermilion Wilds
Dragonfish Sceptre
Banners of Battle Fortune
Flight of the Jade Phoenix
Stone Dragon Soul
Or you can use it to redeem the ...
Seal of the Vermillion Renewal (1500 Tokens): which basically a key to open the Treasure of the Vermillion Renewal that drops one of the following loot.
Charming Assassin Curls
Dragon's Breath
Fortune's Coin
Curse of the New Season
Jade Talon
Equine Battlehelm
Living Nelum
Staff of the Enduring Colt
Healing Fount of the Lost Isles
Dragon Horse Spirit Totem
Or an exceedingly rare item (you know the courier with a unique particle effect or that simple battle bonus)
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[B]What do I get if I beat the Year Beast?[/B]
Good question but there is still time for that. There is so much that you can reap from the body of the beast by collecting parts that it drops but for now you can take a quick sneak peek at the possible drops on the website including the Bloom Recipes, receive items like the Wardfish or even maybe win the elusive Redhoof Courier depending on how well you perform against that Beast.
Normal Bloom Recipe: 3 Year Beast Parts = 1 Random Year Beast Loot | Wardfish, Blade of the New Year, Power of the Red Horse, Heavy Butterfly Blades, Locks of the New Bloom, Temple HUD, Surge HUD and Thunder Spirit HUD.
Rare Bloom Recipe: 5 Year Beats Parts + 1 Year Beast Horn = 1 Rare Year Beast Loot which includes one of the following sets. | Strength of the Demon Stone Set, Flames of Prosperity Set, Gifts of Fortune Set, Ember Crane Set, Foreteller's Robes Set, Aria of the Wild Wind Set, Commander of the Dragon Guard Set and Desert Gale Set.
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