@fantasia agreed. I went through all the cheese I got with Christmas which was over 130 pieces. I used everything from ultimate charms to dragon aura to the base from the school of sorcery (finally got it) and nada. Now to attempt to restock.

Nope, no dice this time around. I had really, really, REALLY hoped to get a heart to drop but it was not meant to be. I'll likely spend the rest of the event rebuilding my supplies so I can at least get some eggs easily during the Egg Hunt, but this was admittedly pretty disappointing. It's one thing to have a rare drop where you just need one. A whole different ballgame when you need 3-5. And for the record I am up to 88 Mythical Dragon Emperor catches. 

Anyone else have any luck? 

I wonder what the ratio is. The rib is hard enough to get to drop. That's like what....1 out of 200 or something. 

The Heart rate is really awful. I'm at over 100 MDE and no luck either. I resigned myself to buying the critical ones I need if LNY wasn't successful, so I'm slowly stocking up gold and SB+ for that. I'll continue to hunt in the area to try my luck at a drop but not at the expense of resources (i.e. if I start needing to pay for more CC or things). We'll see. I made that mistake back in the Queso Gyser and should have switched to gold farming for my rib a lot sooner; so I'm always leery. I honestly may swap to just hunting and selling Geese in the Beanstalk until I can get a heart or two; that is decently profitable if you can manage your CC use.

When they released the new eggs a couple days ago, I took a look and thought "well, this may be the year that I don't finish" because I hadn't prepped any cheese at all for the M1000 mouse, nor supplies for the School of Sorcery. But lo and behold, I had stuff for everything. I couldn't believe it! 

Tonight I got my last new egg, and I now I will work on the map I'm on to help other people get the supplies they need for the M1000 mouse egg as well. 

Well, I took advantage of the lower prices and bought my first Mythical Dragon Heart off the Marketplace; now I have the newest Refractor base; RIP Prestige base; you've served me well!! It'll only get used in Rift areas now; end of an era lol. I will probably have enough resources to buy two more within short order, but I may hold off to see what the pity mechanic is that is coming out at some point this year; I also still have about 100 EE cheese that I'm hoping to work through this event and fingers crossed it will net me some hearts. I just was tired of not having the base!!!

And yeah; LNY and GWH were pretty good at prepping supplies for Easter; I knew I was good with M1000 but I had plenty of resources from the event for SS as well. I read somewhere that the new Folklore Forest area will probably use SS supplies somewhere because they seemed to be really encouraging ways to stock up; so we'll see...

ETA: Just occurred to me that the new pity mechanic to earn the MDH might include a lot of raw resources from all areas of FF...interesting. In that case, it would be in all our best interest to do a lot of stocking up with eggs all over to make sure we have plenty.

What do you think of the modification to the Big Jaq event?

I don't know that I have a huge opinion on the Lil Jill portion of the event other than I love boosts to the collection of supplies. 

I am IMMENSELY grateful for another way to get a Mythical Dragon Heart. Now that dragon trap is attainable for me (though it'll be a while before I get it. 😉 )

I had massive supplies built up and stockpiled for next Christmas and CNY (yes, this far ahead), and I went ahead and used everything to get as many large barrels as possible, as well as a couple large geodes. 

@fantasia I've got a run with the elemental cheese running and it's an amazing way to get dragon embers. I'm about ready to let it run and quit extending it to save some cheese, but with condensed creativity running, I'm getting 4 barrels instead of 1 every time. So I've got 38 large barrels in my cart.

I just wish I could step up the cheese like that! Lol, but it gives me enough dragon embers to help rebuild my cheese after that.

I've been enjoying the Lil Jill event; the permanent changes to the area are nice and it's been fun to use the extra loot to get to EE runs quicker. I am, however, getting increasingly frustrated with the area because I'm closing in at 400 Mythical Dragon Emperors with no looted hearts; which is DARN ANNOYING but I know it's a part of the game. I just am pretty sure that I'm going to shell out some resources to buy the trap outright and will enjoy hunting in the area more when I'm not feeling pressure to get the loot so I can "finish" the area before the next event or release.

One thing that I did not realize (and was explained in a recent FBF) is that you get more Dragonhide Silvers looted the more MDE's crowns you have; sort of the same way that the Absolute Acolyte has increased loot once you get different crowns. I had noticed that my EE runs were getting a little more profitable in terms of loot to burn or incinerate; so that is a nice confirmation to know that your ability to earn a heart via Ashes gets exponentially bigger the more you hunt in the area.