The Valentine’s Day event in Last Z is one of those events that looks overwhelming at first, mostly because it mixes spending systems, gifting mechanics, rankings, and random reward boxes all into one package. Once you slow it down and separate each part, it becomes much clearer who this event is really made for and how much value you can realistically get from it.
Last Z Valentine’s Day Event Guide 2026 – Affinity Event
The short version is this: the event heavily favors spenders and social players, but free-to-play users can still extract value if they stay active and don’t expect to finish everything.
Celebration Surprise
The first section most players notice is the Celebration Surprise. This part of the event is purely for spending. Each red envelope costs real money, and you need a full set of them to unlock all rewards. When you do the math, you’re looking at roughly fifty dollars to fully complete this track.
For most players, that price point simply isn’t worth it. The rewards aren’t bad, but they aren’t strong enough to justify that level of investment unless you already spend regularly. This is not a section free-to-play players should worry about completing.
That said, there is one small upside. Even gifting a single red envelope unlocks a Valentine-themed chat frame called Dream Love, which is purely cosmetic but genuinely well-designed. If you like collecting limited cosmetics, that first reward is at least visually satisfying.
If you do decide to buy envelopes, the smartest move is gifting them to alliance members. Doing so helps others progress in the event and increases overall alliance activity, which indirectly benefits you as well.
Gift Box Supplies
This is where free-to-play players actually get to participate. Gift Box Supplies are earned through daily tasks that you’re already doing anyway, such as spending diamonds, using speedups, gathering resources, and defeating zombies.
None of these tasks require special preparation. As long as you’re active daily, you’ll naturally complete them. The boxes you earn here are the foundation for progressing through the event without spending.
Consistency matters more than intensity. Missing days hurts far more than playing casually every day.
Affinity Star
Affinity Star is the social core of the event. It tracks two separate rankings: one for giving roses and one for receiving roses. Both rankings have their own reward ladders, stretching up to the top 100.
This system strongly favors alliance leaders, popular players, and those with coordinated alliances. In many servers, alliances will deliberately funnel roses to a single player to push them into top ranks. That’s not cheating. It’s how the system is designed.
The main reward here is the Golden Rose decoration, which provides troop attack and troop defense bonuses. Individually, the stats aren’t huge, but decorations stack over time, and those small percentages eventually matter.
If you’re not socially active or part of a coordinated alliance, it’s best to treat this section as a bonus rather than a goal. Accept roses when you get them, return a few if you can, and don’t stress about rankings.
Heartbeat Gift Boxes
Heartbeat Gift Boxes come in four rarities: green, blue, purple, and red. Each box gives points when opened, and those points unlock milestone rewards across the event.
Green boxes are the most common and give minimal points. Blue boxes are better and usually come from red envelope gifting. Purple and red boxes are rare and provide massive point boosts, but they are mostly tied to spending or luck.
To fully complete the event, you need 10,000 points, which is unrealistic for most free-to-play players. That doesn’t mean the event is useless. The milestone rewards along the way include a surprisingly good amount of insignias, which are one of the most valuable and scarce resources in the game.
Even partial progress is still progress here.
VIP Benefits and Login Rewards
If you are VIP 3 or higher, you gain access to Affection Vouchers, which can be spent in the event shop. These vouchers add up over time and give spenders and semi-spenders a noticeable edge.
Daily logins also grant gift boxes, insignias, speedups, and resources. This is one of the few Valentine events where simply logging in every day genuinely matters. Missing logins directly reduces your total event value.
Affection Shop
The Affection Shop is the most important part of the event. This is where all your points, vouchers, and event currency finally turn into permanent power.
The standout items here are Sheriff Insignias and Power Cores. Both are critical for long-term account progression, and both are notoriously hard to stockpile outside of events. If you’re unsure what to buy, these two are almost always correct choices.
There is also a Valentine-exclusive Bella hero skin, which boosts hero attack. It’s a clean, well-designed skin, and while the stat bonus isn’t game-breaking, it’s permanent. If you use Bella regularly, it’s a reasonable cosmetic-plus-power purchase.
Resources and speedups are available as filler items, but they should only be bought with leftover currency. They are the least efficient use of event points.
Free-to-Play Reality Check
As a free-to-play player, you are not expected to finish this event. That’s intentional design. What you can do is maximize daily tasks, open every gift box you earn, and spend your shop currency wisely.
Waiting until the final day before spending is often the smartest approach. That way, you can see exactly how much currency you end up with and decide whether pushing further is even necessary.
