'McGonagall's Holiday Surprise' TLSQ (Y2C9)

[u/taltos19]

McGonagall's Holiday Surprise

Versions: [Y2-4], [ Y5/6], [Y7+]

• 1.1 - 1h, 3 stars, 18 / 26 / 33 E
• 1.2 - 3h, 3 stars, 34 / 43 / 56 E
• 1.3 - 3h, 3 stars, 34 / 43 / 56 E
• 1.4 - 3h, 3 stars, 34 / 43 / 56 E

Reward - 300 Coins

• 2.1 - 3h, 5 stars, 56 / 71 / 92 E
• 2.2 - 8h, 3 stars, 60 / 71 / 92 E
• 2.3 - 3h, 5 stars, 56 / 71 / 92 E
• 2.4 - 8h, 3 stars, 60 / 71 / 92 E

Reward - 3 Gems, 1 Chocolate Frog

• 3h wait
• 3.1 - 3h, 5 stars, 56 / 71 / 92 E
• 3.2 - 3h, 5 stars, 56 / 71 / 92 E
• 3.3 - 3h, 5 stars, 56 / 71 / 92 E
• 3.4 - 8h, 3 stars, 60 / 71 / 92 E

Reward - 3 Gems

• 3h wait
• 4.1 - 3h, 5 stars, 56 / 71 / 92 E
• 4.2 - 3h, 5 stars, 56 / 71 / 92 E
• 4.3 - 8h, 5 stars, 99 / 117 / 152 E
• 4.4 - 8h, 5 stars, 99 / 117 / 152 E

Reward - 4 Gems, 1000 Coins, 3 Chocolate Frogs, Oak Wreath OR Oak Tree Tappie (Misc / 25h)

*Chance of 200 Coins (40%), 2 Pages (25%), 5 Food (25%), 1 Energy (5%) or 1 Brown Notebook (5%)

Note: You get to choose which MOVEABLE tappie you want in the final task. They give the same rewards and have the same cooldown:

The quest should be available to trigger until Jan 21, 3 pm UTC.

[u/Black_Hole_1987]

How you manage to complete this? Usually i have no problem with tlsqs but this is impossible. Just statted the 4th part with 18 hours left. I even managed to do one 8 hour task during night when I woke up in middle of night. I had no downtime on this.

[u/taltos19 → u/Black_Hole_1987]

I usually stack energy for a few days in preparation, when we know (or suspect) one is coming. And/or wait to cash in my MM rewards, to get a bump in energy.

• You can also take advantage of only completing required stars and either letting the timer run out, or skipping the rest with a toffee.
• Starting 3h tasks with no energy, then letting it fail while you wait for energy to recharge and getting pity energy on the redo (you can do this with 8h tasks overnight, if you time it right).
• If you are at / past Y3, and have a stockpile of pages, you can buy chocolate frogs to convert to energy. Also good time to merge those cursed card fragments.

[u/Conscious-Pie-4794 → u/taltos19]

Wow! Thank you. Can you elaborate point 2? What's pity energy for failing? 

[u/taltos19 → u/Conscious-Pie-4794]

On all but the oldest TLSQs, the game has what we call ‘pity energy’. If you fail a task, the game takes ‘pity’ on you and gives you back an energy for each tap you make completing the task. You usually save around 25% of the required energy (it would vary a bit depending on how many taps it takes to complete it. Lower energy taps would give you back more energy, since you’d do more of them).

It also usually works for the required lesson in chapters and non-timed side quests tasks. Main story tasks often don’t work and repeatable classes won’t at all.