Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5833912-20131111170637/@comment-24150076-20131112183104

I think the torches do help with the 4-element monsters. With 10 torches lit, I was 2/2 for 4-element monsters, where I'd estimate that 4-elements are a 20% to 25% chance without 10 torches. My guess is that there is a significant boost when you have 10 torches lit vs partial lighting. It's early going yet, but I haven't noticed much increase in success for breedings with less than 10 torches. I even tried for a 4-element with 7 torches, without success. Maybe it's like feeding where each level is double the last, perhaps 1 torch 1% increased chance, 2 torches 2% increase, 3 torches 4% increase, 4 torches 8% increase up to approximately 2.5X increase at 9 torches and 5X increase at 10 torches.

For maximum success, I'd suggest only having torches on a couple of islands to increase your chances of getting 10 lit. I'd of course gotten all excited and put them on ALL my islands initially, but that led to lit torches being sprinkled around, because how does anyone know which ones you want lit? Fortunately, I did get 10 lit on the plant island and was able to breed a Ghazt, so I sold off my plant island ones for now. Figured no sense in having friends light torches there when my breeding chamber was full for 36 hours anyway. Since you get 75% back, it only costs 25K coins to place and then sell off 10 torches, so I'll be changing which islands I've got torches on when I want to concentrate on different islands.