Yeah, it's my inner completionist wanting to get all the shinies more than it has to do with the quality of the game itself to be honest. Most of the work in getting a *** rating involves moving all of your troops back all the time for Althea's heal to get off CD before your little lemmings can run straight into the AoE skills of the next cluster of enemies. That, and picking them up and manually dropping them off behind enemy barricades your tank is trying to go around (making it a valid drop location).

It's just that the whole event is just incredibly poorly thought out. I got the legendary wand (50% chance) on my first try so that's 500 gems saved i guess, but failed for the icon twice in a row since it's the only thing i can't actually get by playing the regular game. Going to give it one more go (about 8 torches left) and regardless of the outcome i'll go back to boss farming, it feels like i've been hitting nothing but Stage 11 for days now.

Also, is it me or did they up the blues in the Easy campaign?