JWA Weekly Events Dec 13 - Dec 19: Winter Dinosaurs

A Merry Christmas to all and Happy Holidays!!!

Hello everybody and welcome to this weeks addition of “Weekly Events” from the ‘GamePress JWA’ Discord. Kelociraptor and Lucus1355 will be looking at what the following week will hold for us in Jurassic World Alive. This weeks theme will be ...

WINTER DINOSAURS!!

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...!!

With the featured creatures, what to dart can depend on the creature themselves, creatures’ hybrids, working out which hybrid or future hybrids would be a best fit for your team and/or to help you achieve any goals you may have; how far these hybrids are away from being created for yourself and finally, by looking at  the ‘Meta Tier List’ and the creature tier lists found in the GamePress JWA Discord Server.

Here's a break down the weekly event calendars workings.

First, each day is considered started at 10am Eastern on that day. It is possible that wherever you live, it might actually be the previous or next day, so we wanted to help clarify how they determine what day it is. At this time, event creatures & strike towers will be updated as applicable which is noted on the calendar.

The amount of attempts to dart creatures comes down to a simple math calculation based on the rarity and number of options. Take the rarity base number and multiply by the number of options that should be the attempts amount! However, the more creatures that can be darted in a day makes it more difficult to find the creature(s) you want. Below shows the approximate number of attempts assigned to each rarity, which also determines how many attempts you may get. This is the total you are given across all options of that rarity:

• Common = 9 per
• Rare = 6 per
• Epic = 3 per
• Legendary = 1 - 2
• Unique= 1
• Omega = 6

The number of attempts is on the calendar and sometimes strays from the above so check the calendar. Each rarity has a different length of time that a creature will stay on the map for and a different length of time until respawn after de-spawning:

• Common’s and Rare’s spawn for 35 minutes with about 5 minutes between
• Epic’s spawn for 30 minutes with about 5 minutes in between
• Legendary’s & Unique’s spawn for 27 minutes with about 3 minutes in between.
• Omega’s, approximately spawn for 22 minutes with about 2 minutes in between.

(Thanks to Lilikoi of Dom Tuoretto for those cycles)

All Strikes and Trials are represented on the calendar with the level of difficulty (top right) and how many days you have to complete them. The Trials are along the bottom of the calendar in Grey Boxes, with the Treasure Chase at the very bottom (usually Sunday).

 Wednesday - Thursday: 27 Attempts

• Archaeotherium (Monday) (Inostherium, Keratoporcus)
• Brontotherium (Battle Exclusive) (Brontolasmus)
• Eremotherium (Local 3 Day/Dawn/Dusk) (Eremocerus)

Name: Archaeotherium

How hard to dart: 1/10 (V. Easy)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 6 of 6

Arena Ranking: Tier 9 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Keratoporcus = 200 DNA
• Inostherium = 50 DNA

Worth darting: 1/10 (NO)

Name: Brontotherium

How hard to dart: 3/10 (Easy)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 2 of 6

Arena Ranking: Tier 1 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Brontolasmus = 200 DNA

Worth darting: 3/10 (Probably Not)

Name:  Eremotherium

How hard to dart: 1/10 (V. Easy)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 4 of 6

Arena Ranking: Tier 2 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Eremoceros = 500 DNA

Worth darting: 2/10 (NO)

 Friday - Saturday: 24 Attempts

• Arctodus (Local 4 Day/Dawn/Dusk) (Arctalces>Arctovasilas, Segnotherisaurus)
• Cervalces (Event Exclusive) (Arctalces>Arctovasilas)
• Elasmotherium (Local 4 Day/Dawn/Dusk) (Brontolasmus, Mammotherium>Mammolania)
• Marsupial Lion (Battle Exclusive) (Thylacotator>Thylos Intredpidus/Pantheratator, Thylaconyx>Aenocyonyx>Indolycan)

Name: Arctodus

How hard to dart: 2/10 (V. Easy)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 6 of 7

Arena Ranking: Tier 5 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Arctalces = 200 DNA
• Segnotherisaurus = 500 DNA

Worth darting: 6/10 (Probably)

Name:  Cervalces

How hard to dart: 3/10 (Easy)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 6 of 7

Arena Ranking: Tier 4 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Arctalces = 200 DNA

Worth darting: 4/10 (Probably Not)

Name: Elasmotherium

How hard to dart: 4/10 (Easy)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 5 of 7

Arena Ranking: Tier 4 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Brontolasmus = 50 DNA
• Mammotherium = 200 DNA

Worth darting: 3/10 (Probably Not)

Name: Marsupial Lion

How hard to dart: 5/10 (Average)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 6 of 7

Arena Ranking: Tier 4 of 9

For raiding?: MAYBE

• Rend
• Priority Crit Chance Increase

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Thylaconyx = 200 DNA
• Thylacotator = 50 DNA

Worth darting: 7/10 (Worth It)

  Sunday: 1 Attempt

• Panthera Blythae (Event Exclusive) (Pantheratator)
• Skoolasaurus (Event Exclusive) (Skoonasaurus>Skoonametrodon)
• Thylaconyx (Event Exclusive) (Aenocyonyx>Indolycan)

Name: Panthera Blytheae

How hard to dart: 6/10 (Average)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 1 of 6

Arena Ranking: Tier 1 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Pantherator = 50 DNA

Worth darting: 10/10 (YES)

Name: Skoolasaurus

How hard to dart: 5/10 (Average)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 3 of 6

Arena Ranking: Tier 6 of 9

For raiding?: YES

• Priority Team Cleanse and Group Nullify
• Team Shields
• Nullifyfing Counter
• Group Distraction
• Group Attack

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Skoonasaurus = 50 DNA

Worth darting: 7/10 (Worth It)

Name: Thylaconyx

How hard to dart: 5/10 (Average)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 2 of 6

Arena Ranking: Tier 1 of 9

For raiding?: YES

• Group Attack
• Priority Team Damage Increase
• Priority Crit Chance Increase and Dodge
• Devour
• Cleanse Team Reduced Damage and Crit Chance

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Aenocyonyx = 50 DNA

Worth darting: 7/10 (Worth It)

  Sunday: 1 Attempts

• Testacornibus (Event Exclusive) (Arctovasilas)
• Thylos Intrepidus (Event Exclusive)

Name:  Testacornibus

How hard to dart: 6/10 (Average)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 6 of 6

Arena Ranking: Tier 4 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Arctovasilas = 50 DNA

Worth darting: 5/10 (Probably)

Name: Thylos Intrepidus

How hard to dart: 6/10 (Average)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 1 of 6

Arena Ranking: Tier 1 of 9

For raiding?: YES

• Priority Team Damage Increase
• Priority Crit Chance Increase and Dodge
• Devour
• Cleanse Team Reduced Damage and Crit Chance
• Rend Attacks

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• NO Hybrid

Worth darting: 8/10 (Worth It)

  Monday - Tuesday: 9 Attempts

• Koolasuchus (Global Dawn/Dusk/Night) (Skoolasaurus>Skoonasaurus>Skoonametrodon)
• Smilodon (Global Day/Dawn/Dusk) (Smilocephalosaurus>Smilonemys>Indonemys)
• Woolly Rhino (Event Exclusive) (Keratoporcus, Monolorhino)

Name: Koolasuchus

How hard to dart: 2/10 (Easy)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 7 of 7

Arena Ranking: Tier 9 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Skoolasaurus = 50 DNA

Worth darting: 6/10 (Probably)

Name: Smilodon

How hard to dart: 5/10 (Average)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 7 of 7

Arena Ranking: Tier 5 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Smilocephalosaurus = 50 DNA

Worth darting: 5/10 (Probably)

Name: Woolly Rhino

How hard to dart: 6/10 (Average)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 2 of 7

Arena Ranking: Tier 2 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Keratoporcus = 50 DNA
• Monolorhino = 200 DNA

Worth darting: 4/10 (Probably Not)

  Monday - Tuesday: 6 Attempts

• Rativates (Event Exclusive , Currently Available on Map for Limited Time)
• Stegosaurus ungulatus (Local 2 Anytime, Limit 10(?)/wk)
• Cryolophosaurus (Global Anytime, Limit 10(?)/wk)

Name: Rativates

How hard to dart: 6/10 (Average)

Tournament and Arena Ranking: Tier 3 of 4

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• NO Hybrid

Worth darting: 4/10 (Probably Not)

Name: Stegosaurus Ungulatus

How hard to dart: 7/10 (Difficult)

Tournament and Arena Ranking: Tier 2 of 4

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• NO Hybrid

Worth darting: 6/10 (Probably)

Name: Cryolophosaurus

How hard to dart: 5/10 (Average)

Tournament and Arena Ranking: Tier 3 of 4

For raiding?: MAYBE (Level 11)

• Group Attack (Level 1)
• Team Heal (Level 11)

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• NO Hybrid

Worth darting: 5/10 (Probably)

Strike Events & Trials

Strike Events and Trials will be Winter Dinosaurs Themed and will reward different DNA found at Event Supply Drops (with a very tiny possibility of Legendary) along with a possibility of other goodies.

This week, there is a Beta Creature Strike on Friday. Boost Strikes will be on Thursday (Health), Saturday (Speed) and Tuesday (Damage). 

Scents

No basic scent strikes this week but on Thursday and Monday, there will be a Scent of Claws Scent Strike. This scent should draw the following creatures every 2 minutes when activated with one rare guaranteed on the first pull:

• Amphicyon (Common)
• Arachaeotherium (Common)
• Brontotherium (Common)
• Eremotherium (Common)
• Glyptodon (Common)
• Phorusrhacos (Common)
• Arctodus (Rare)
• Argentavis (Rare)
• Cervacles (Rare)
• Dire Wolf (Rare)
• Elasmotherium (Rare)
• Marsupial Lion (Rare)
• Megaloceros (Rare)
• Carbonemys (Epic)
• Eucaldoceros (Epic)
• Koolasuchus (Epic)
• Smilodon (Epic)
• Woolly Mammoth (Epic)
• Woolly Rhino (Epic)

(NOTE: These creatures are an approximate of what the scent will contain and will change (if necessary) Wednesday at reset when it is available to be viewed ingame. Check the "i" button for creatures and their percentage chances)

Treasure Chase 

We're looking to have a Wintery Special Treasure Chase on Sunday where distance doesn't matter. You can collect up to 25,000 coins through each period (Sunday will run 11am Eastern to 8pm Eastern, then it will reset until 11am Eastern Monday) - this allows two total chances at the coins and possible other contents! 

Hybrid Pursuits

One is currently underway.

The Dsungascorpios Pursuit is underway with this week finding Pulmonoscorpius on the Map. 

Name: Dsungascorpios

How hard to dart: 6/10 (Average)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 1 of 6

Arena Ranking: Tier 1 of 9

For raiding?: NO

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• NO Hybrid

Worth darting: 8/10 (Worth It)

Name: Pulmonoscorpius

How hard to dart: 2/10 (V. Easy)

Tournament Ranking: Tier 1 of 7

Arena Ranking: Tier 1 of 9

For raiding?: MAYBE

• Damage Over Time
• Stun

DNA for 1 hybrid fuse for:

• Dsungascorpios = 200 DNA

Worth darting: 8/10 (Worth It)

December is here and this months Seasonal Reward will be Masiakasaurus, Yutyrannus is our Creature of the Month and the Homalocephale Alliance Championship week 2 is this weekend.

The Second of the Four Week Homalocephale Alliance Championship will be a Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary and Omega Advantage Tournament for Catalyst!

(Note: The Championship’s DNA Reward format has been slightly modified since Homalocephale doesn’t have a Creature component.)

December 2023 Catalyst Tournament

REQUIREMENTS

• Dinosaurs

  • Common

  • Rare

  • Epic

  • Legendary

  • Omega

  • All

• Level

  • All creatures are set to default Levels (any)

• Stat Boosts

  • Enabled

• Restrictions

  • None

REWARDS

(Catalyst: Mainly used to Enhance and Upgrade your Level 30 Unique and now, some Level 30 Apex creatures.)

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Welcome to this section called 'Survey Says'. We'll be giving you a survey and then seeing what you Explorers voted for as your answer.

Last weeks article saw the 'OMEGA ODDITY' survey with the question/prompt: 

"Please name the Omega Creature that you believe does not deserve its Omega Status or should not have been made an Omega Rarity Creature in a Jurassic World Alive."

All 23 Omega Creatures received votes and there were a few ties!! With that in mind, below is joint 1st, 2nd and 3rd, followed by a table of results showing all the Omega Creatures, what positions they finished in and the percentage of votes that they received looking at whether they deserve their Omega Status or should not have been made an Omega Rarity Creature in Jurassic World Alive:

This week, we'll be looking at your view as to which "Living Creature" in "Today's World" is best thought of when you think of Winter; with the hope that a Prehistoric Counter-Part would be placed into Jurassic World Alive?

For example, a Owl would be a Prehistoric Owl/Bird; An Artic Fox or a Husky Dog would be a Prehistoric Wolf/Canine.

This will include all creatures currently ALIVE today. 

The results will be featured in next weeks article.

VOTE NOW FOR YOUR SAY AS TO WHICH CREATURE IS YOUR 'MY AGE TO ICE AGE'!!

We would really love to hear about what you plan to dart and why, along with any other opinions that you can share in conversation by joining the ‘GamePress JWA’ Discord Server!!

With that, from Kelly and Lucus1355, and the GamePress JWA Discord, thank you for reading and we hope you enjoy the day!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!