Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=110721&page=2#20 Author: TailsFox12 Time Posted: 11/13/2025 at 12:52 PM I'm aware of the fact that you can stay away from the portal areas. However, I was asking because I want to fight the zone bosses at tier 5 (to have a chance at better drops) but I would rather not risk running into pumpkin minions. I feel that the pumpkin minions are way too tough at tier 5. I can fight the zone bosses just fine at tier 5 but the minions can wipe out my entire team in an instant. And getting to some of the bosses is not possible without passing by a portal area.

Festival Zone Named on Tier 5, while definitely harder than at lower Tiers, aren't typically meant to be all that difficult. They all share the same set of abilities and they are pretty basic encounters. You can pretty easily just mash through the fight with decent pets without much issue.

However, the Festival Zone Event Enemies on Tier 5 are calibrated to be more for end-game Ancient Temple difficulty. It's expected that players are using max stat pets with good Wild Stats, as well as nearly maxed equipment. On top of that, it's also still expected that players are somewhat paying attention to mechanics, or at least running a good team composition. All of these factors can definitely make it very challenging if a player isn't at that point in progression. However, that's why I try to make it very quick and easy for players to go down to lower Tiers and still have a chance to get valuable rewards.

The payoff for being able to handle Tier 5 during the Zone Event is that you get much higher encounter rates for Themed Pets, higher chances of Fabled Themed Pets, higher chances of more Visible Traits, higher chances of more valuable item drops, and some exclusive item drops only for the higher Tiers.

I do understand the predicament you are describing, but unfortunately, there isn't anything I can really do about it. The good news though is that this only occurs during the 20 minute window of Stage 2 of the Zone Event and there's only a few iterations of the event per day. So it should generally be a pretty avoidable situation for players not wanting to deal with it.