Champagne Fair
Two-day server-wide trade event. Convert excess hero shards into Fair Vouchers and spend them on hard-to-reach upgrade materials.
Champagne Fair is a two-day, server-wide exchange event. There’s no combat, no rally, no stamina. You trade in excess hero shards and skill books for Fair Vouchers, then spend the vouchers in a shop full of materials that are otherwise hard to get at scale.
For F2P, it’s the single best path to Hero Widgets — the mythic-hero gear bonuses that you cannot reliably obtain anywhere else without spending. That alone makes Champagne Fair one of the most important events on the calendar.
The shop is the only place a few key upgrade materials — Mithril, Charm Guides, Advanced Taming Marks, Forgehammers — are available at meaningful scale outside of packs you’d rather not pay for. Your epic-and-mythic shard surplus is the input that funds them.
When it runs
Champagne Fair unlocks once the server reaches its third Hall of Governors cycle. Before then it does not appear. After that, it returns on an approximately monthly cadence, running for two days each time.
The cadence matters because the most valuable thing you do for Champagne Fair happens between events, not during them. The 28-or-so days of prep dwarf the two days of trading.
The two tabs
The event UI has two halves you’ll spend equal time in:
| Tab | What it does |
|---|---|
| Obtain Vouchers | Trade in excess hero shards and skill books for Fair Vouchers. |
| Redemption | Spend Fair Vouchers in the event shop. |
Two rules apply to both halves:
- Fair Vouchers never expire. They roll over to the next Fair. You can deliberately bank vouchers across multiple events if you want a single big purchase.
- Trade-in caps reset per event. Each hero’s shards are capped per Fair — once you hit the cap, further shards of that hero do nothing this event, but the cap returns next event.
The widget pipeline
This is the headline use of the event, and it’s worth spelling out as a system rather than a series of tips.
The pipeline runs on a single resource: Diana shards.
Diana’s value in combat is low — her one useful skill is the stamina-save effect that matters in Cesare’s Fury, and beyond the level needed for that, her shards have no further combat use. Excess Diana shards are pure Champagne Fair fodder.
Diana shards are farmed efficiently through Dreadwolf rallies (the event sometimes appears as Desert Trial in-game). Diana is the recommended rally lead for Dreadwolves, and Dreadwolves drop Diana shards as the headline reward. If your alliance hosts and joins Dreadwolf rallies during the four weeks before each Champagne Fair, every active member can stockpile hundreds of Diana shards.
The conversion math is what makes the pipeline work:
500 Diana shards → enough Fair Vouchers to buy 5 Widget Shards → 1 Widget unlock for a current-generation mythic hero.
That’s a Widget every Fair, every month, with no spending. Most alliances either don’t realize this is possible or skip the prep. Both mistakes are recoverable — start now.
Voucher priorities
- After Diana, dump epic shards of heroes you’ll never build — Jabel, Saul, Howard, Quinn, anyone you’ve ruled out long-term. They convert at the same per-shard rate as Diana.
- Spend vouchers on Widget Shards first. Widgets for current-generation mythic heroes are the only mythic-hero gear bonus you cannot get elsewhere.
- If you have spare vouchers after widgets, prioritize: Forgehammers (to supplement Bear Hunt), Charm Guides, then Advanced Taming Marks for pet refinement.
What the Fair is actually for
Most of the things you’d buy with cash also appear in the Champagne Fair shop — usually at better effective rates than packs offer. The Fair is where your shard surplus stops being inventory clutter and starts being a discount on the materials that bottleneck your endgame builds.
The bottleneck materials worth converting toward:
- Mithril — required for mythic gear past level 100. Pack rates for Mithril are notoriously bad; Fair rates are the most reasonable in the game.
- Charm Guides — talent and charm progression at a meaningful scale.
- Advanced Taming Marks — for pet Purple-to-Gold refinement pushes.
- Forgehammers — supplementing Bear Hunt even on a strong alliance.
Farm Diana shards
Diana shards are the easiest to collect, and Dreadwolf rallies drop them in bulk. Joining your alliance’s Dreadwolf rotation in the weeks before each Fair stacks vouchers on top of whatever shard surplus you already have. Skipping the Diana pipeline because “I’m a spender” leaves real conversion on the table.
You don’t have to lead Diana with Dreadwolf rallies if you’d rather slot a stronger combat hero — joining other members’ rallies still drops Diana shards into your inventory.
Voucher priorities
- Shard surplus is your voucher engine. Maxed-out heroes — epic and mythic — keep accumulating shards you can’t spend on them. Jabel, Saul, Howard, Quinn, Yaqi, plus any mythic past 5★, all convert at meaningful rates.
- Farm Diana via Dreadwolf rallies before each Fair. Diana shards are the easiest to collect. Joining your alliance’s Dreadwolf rotation is straight voucher acceleration.
- You probably don’t need Widget Shards. Most spenders pick up current-gen widgets through packs or VIP. Vouchers are better spent on materials that aren’t available in packs at reasonable rates.
- Top spender purchases, in rough order: Mithril (for mythic gear past level 100), Charm Guides, Advanced Taming Marks (for pet Purple-to-Gold refinement), Forgehammers, then hero / governor gear chests only if you have a specific upgrade waiting on the right piece.
- Recycle old-generation widgets. When you’ve moved up a mythic generation, your old widgets are tradable inputs on the Obtain Vouchers tab — extra fuel for the redemption side.
Avoid these mistakes
- Buying Mythic Hero Shards in the shop. Worst conversion rate the event offers. Mythic shards drop from other events; widgets and Mithril do not.
- Buying raw resources with vouchers. Wood, food, stone, coins are always available through gathering or alliance help. Spending vouchers on them is pure value loss.
- Dumping shards of a hero you might still build. Double-check the current hero tier list before clicking redeem. A “useless” hero can become next-gen meta.
- Forgetting that vouchers don’t expire. Some players panic-spend leftover vouchers on low-value items at the end of the event. The vouchers carry over — bank them for next Fair instead.
- Skipping the per-hero cap. Each hero’s shards cap per event. Holding 5,000 of one hero doesn’t help — only the cap’s worth are usable this Fair.
Two more that specifically wreck the widget pipeline:
- Spending Diana shards on Diana past her useful level. The widget pipeline dies the moment you do this.
- No alliance coordination on Dreadwolf farming. Solo Diana farming hits the trade-in cap slowly. Coordinated rallies hit it in days.