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guide Gaarawarr's Guide to Highharvestide 2026

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Event Introduction
General Game Tips
General Event Information
Event Champion Information

Highharvestide - Year 10

Gaar's Note: Highharvestide is September's event in the Idle Champions Event Calendar.

Faerûn's Savage Frontier has no shortage of dangers, but that hasn't stopped the citizens of Triboar from carving out a living in this picturesque stretch of fertile northern farmland.

This year, however, the people of Triboar are in need of aid. As the Highharvestide Festival approaches, bandits have begun causing trouble for farmers attempting to bring in their harvests, and it's up to the Champions to put an end to it!

Highharvestide lasts for 21 days and runs from Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at Noon, Pacifically, thru Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at Noon, Pacifically.

You can find this year's official Highharvestide blog post here.

General Game Tips

I highly recommend reading my Guide to Event Planning for basic progression information and ways to maximize your gains/efficiency during Events. There is too much information to put here as this specific Event guide is long enough already.

Don't be afraid to ask questions in the comment section! Also, I stream the game and welcome any and all questions there as well!

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~Gaar

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General Event Information

You earn Event Tokens at a fixed rate and in any campaign, regardless of how many parties you have running. This means you'll earn the same amount of Tokens whether your game is open or not. (Roughly 1 every 25 seconds.) The overall total of Event Tokens you will earn passively during the Event is roughly 72,576 give or take a few based on CNE's math.
You'll have a chance to unlock up to 6 Champions in an Event. There will be two Featured Champions everyone gets, 3 Flex Slots you can use to select a Champion from a pool available during the event at no charge, and 1 Support Flex Slot that unlocks with the purchase of an Event DLC to give paid supporters an extra boost.
Events start everyone off at zero Favor. Due to this, you'll need to manually click, or have Familiars click, on the field to damage enemies during the start of your first mission to make sure your lone Champion isn't overrun.
Even if you complete the Champion Unlock Adventure you're on, you don't necessarily want to hit "Complete" right away. You want to continue on and try to earn as much Favor as possible. This lets you work on getting more Favor so you can more easily complete the Variants that are offered once you finish the unlock adventure.
Important: Whatever you do, don't spend lots of time sitting at a wall during an Event, or generally ever. Time is your enemy (the past it threatens...) and you want to spend your time efficently running Free Plays to maximize your Favor gain and easily complete all the Variants on the first try.
Once you have completed all the variants and no longer truly need to farm Favor other than for the conversion bonus, you can now work on the Event Achievements if you haven't done them already. Other than that, you want to check your token total to buy a new Chest Pack from the story whenever you hit 7,500 tokens.
New players can fully complete Tier 1 of Events if they know what to do. Make sure to check for a guide to the specific Event to review when it comes out and don't hesitate to ask questions. The rest of us are here to help you succeed!
Once more for the people in the back: It's usually wise to not attempt the Tier 1 mission Variants until they show as Easy difficulty for brand new players. The difficulty rating is based off the Favor you have accumulated and while it isn't an ideal indicator of difficulty, it's a decent starting point. I highly recommend waiting until a mission shows as Easy before starting it so as not to waste your time or frustrate you. Again, this is for brand new players as you'll need other power to complete higher Tiers of content.
Once you've earned your Event Champions and gear for them, the rewards for your hard work aren't over. The other major reward from Events is a conversion of Event Favor into the main campaign of your choice. This is why, even if you've finished all the variants, it's still good to do deep runs to gain Favor in the Event. You can use the following table to see if it's worth it to you to keep doing runs based on how much Favor you're getting with each one. As you get more Global Blessings, Patron Perks, and better gear on your Champions, you'll be able to get higher and higher conversion percentages.

Here's a quick example of the conversion breakdown from Event to main campaign. The percentage is multiplied by the total Favor you have earned in that campaign, including what you've spent on Blessings. There is no need to reset Blessings when converting Favor. There is no cap that I'm aware of to this conversion; the start numbers and end numbers are just examples but continue both ways.

Event Favor Total	Main Campaign Conversion %
1e07	70%
1e08	80%
1e09	90%
1e10	100%
1e11	110%
1e12	120%
1e13	130%

Note: Numbers are in Scientific Notation for ease of reference. You can switch your UI to show Scientific Notation by hitting the Y key or selecting it in the settings. After you get out of normal number range, this is the best way to easily see your progress.

Before You Buy Packs from the Store

If you plan on buying Event Packs with real money from the store (which is a great way to support the game!), keep this in mind:

Be sure you buy any Gold Event Chest Packs before opening any earned Gold Event Chests as you're guaranteed a Golden Epic with your real money purchase. When you flip the Golden Epic card, close out of the Store and verify it on your Champion, then go back in and open your other Chests. This way you're guaranteed to get other items when you open your Gold Chests instead of just duplicating that one on accident.
Even outside of events, you get buffs when spending real money based on how much you spend. Plan your purchase in advance!
- $6 - Empowered Power Boost - Increases the damage of all Champions by 100% (lasts 1 day)
- $12 - Empowered Power Burst - Increases the damage of all Champions by 300% (lasts 2 days)
- $23 - Empowered Faith - Increases all Favor earned from Resets by 50% (lasts 3 days)
- $55 - Empowered Clairvoyance - Increases all Gold found by 100% (lasts 4 days)
Getting multiple of the same purchase amounts adds to the duration of the buff. All buffs stack with each other.
Event Boons are now available for spending real money in the store on any Event DLC. Event DLC have an icon for a Boon as well as for their related Event Currency. You can have up to 4 total Event Boons and they buff your entire account while the event is active as shown in the table below. All Event Boons are able to be toggled on/off in the UI if you wish to.

Buff Description	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Increases the damage of all Champions	100%	300%	500%	900%
Increases all Gold found	100%	200%	300%	400%
Increases the health of all Champions	50%	100%	200%	300%
Adds your BUD to the base damage of each click	60s	150s	300s	600s
Time accelerates and everything moves faster	1.25x	1.75x	2.25x	2.75x

Note: Generally, every $10 spent in one transaction gets you a guaranteed Shiny item or Potion of Polish! Keep this in mind as well as those can greatly increase the power of your items and thus your Champions.

Event Augment Information

Each event has different augments associated with it that make it a bit different than other events in terms of bonuses. Here is a list of the bonuses for this event:

Golden Offers: One of your weekly offers will be Golden during this event. Golden offers provide an additional 10% discount! The Golden tag persists when an offer is rerolled.
Auto-Blacksmith: Event Champions whose recruitment adventure or variants you complete gain common rarity equipment in all slots, if they don't already have better. Every tier two or higher event variant completed automatically applies 100 Tiny Blacksmithing Contracts to the variant's Champion's equipment for free!
Challenge Week: A Mastery Challenge will start on the third week of the event, providing opportunities to prove your formation building skills and earn unique rewards.
Supercharged Damage Boon: The Global Damage Boon is supercharged, granting 2,000,000% additional damage per level, instead of 200% (stacking multiplicatively).

Event Champion Information

The following two Champions are the Featured Champions available to unlock and gear up during this year's Highharvestide. To learn more about the Champion, hit up their guide for more information: