Whoa! Firstly I gotta say, it's a little addictive if you'd like to get into the game, just giving you a heads up! Don't believe me throughly just yet. I'm no gamer in any way but somehow, this NFT game got me! Defi Kingdom (DFK) on Harmony ONE it is!
When someone told me about it first time, I admit I wasn't too convinced. I mean, the game looked cute, all the UI was pretty much one of the best in Defi space, the yield was juicy.. way juicy than it is right now. Damn it, I wasn't too convinced because I didn't look into it enough or understand it as I was supposed to!
In short, it started as a dex and yield farm just like any other DEXes in DeFi,you earn $JEWEL as yield and later, can spend $JEWEL on some hero NFTs and other in-game items. You can have the hero NFTs do quests to earn more yield, draw items for now. Soon enough, these heros can help you buy land (Yes! Like the metaverse kind of stuff), and lastly, the heros can fight!
Everything is gamefi. It's pre-designed so well that it has pretty good ecosystem if you ask me. Most thing also needs $JEWEL to purchase with so, that helps with $JEWEL appreciate in value pretty good.
People are willing to spend so much of their precious $JEWEL on these hero NFTs.. There gotta be come good use for it or they really know what's cookin' in Defi Kingdom. I'm a little late to the party so I have to buy them off the market for quite expensive. I got a few for 36 $JEWEL and at its ATH, one $JEWEL was over $15 ..
so that's about 540 USD per hero!
Screenshot from https://dfkwiki.com/heroes
I just realized after the fact how expensive that was. I even picked one of the cheaper ones in the market. The most expensive that got sold costs like hundreds of thousands of $JEWEL and people really paid for it so it gotta be gucci! so I asked my personal DFK guru I met online.
because later there will not only be quest, there will be adventure or player vs player
also in the future there will need to have hero to occupy the land and do some quest on that land in order to be in the running to buy the land
Not sure if Nike and Adidas will come in and buy lands in DFK just like in Sand metaverse or not but this already sounds exciting! and because there are actually use cases as mention, people need/want moarrrr heros.
Purchasing at a tavern is easy peasy and I mentioned above I did. Whatever class, profession, level, generation, how handsome and all that, you can go shopping at a tavern and pick the right one for you for whatever price the owners list them.
Now this time, a DFK noob like me want to try something new. Imma summon it! and Summoning a hero in DFK is a little more complicated. You need 2 heroes to do so. You need at least one of your own and the other, you can either hire or not.
There's a little more fun to summoning that you get more excitement. You don't know exactly what you're getting. You gotta pick who's the dad and mom (do they call it that #lol) Which class combine with which class, you will have more chance of getting whichever class you'd like. It's so deep! and maybe that's a charm of it.
I already got a monk! According to the image below, to get to Dreadknight, I would need to summon one with pirate for a chance to get a ninja. Then if I get lucky to have a ninja, I can summon another with a summoner to get a sage. Then! best of luck to try summoning my sage with a dragoon to ta da da.. get a dreadknight!!
Here's a weird fact to note, comparing with just purchasing it right off the market, summoning a hero would also need some $JEWEL as a summoning fee. I paid 63 $JEWEL this time including 1 $JEWEL hiring cost. Let's do a quick math, that's 945 USD! Whattttt? I just realized that after the fact again!
As a DFK noob, I'm not quite sure what's the gucci behind it but somewhat proud of my summon, proud of my uncommon pirate and hope it pays back overtime.
So, your hero can't do much on the mainnet so I suggest you go onto the beta at https://beta.defikingdoms.com/#/professions, there you can do fishing, gardening and foraging quests. Mining quest is still under development.
As my new hero's class is a Pirate and subclass is an archer, he'd better be good at fishing and also foraging as well so I sent him to do the first fishing quest.
He got one big fish, 46XP and his fishing skill increased by 0.2
Funnnnn!
Honestly, summoning was kinda exciting and fun though, would I summon another one? I for sure will purchase at the tavern instead! until I know what's so much better about it as summoning cost so much more.
feel free to let me know or explain a little and I might be convinced.
Come join the fun..!
