Puzzle & Dragons

[cave hermit]

I got Medjedra just now!

The first time I attempted the dungeon (legend difficulty for the record) I died at the mystic masks/ratamadra since I got skill locked and ran out of hearts.

Second time I was lucky enough to have my Dill Sirius's 20% skill bind resist awakening kick in
The isis midboss was extremely tedious for me: basically after an initial fire bind, she keeps spamming the same tech move where she deals a little over 8000 damage and changes the entire board to light, water, and hearts. Ronia initially got bound for 5 turns, which made things a bit dangerous for me since without her RCV multiplier I could barely heal when I got smacked for 8000 something damage every turn. However once she recovered I could heal all the damage taken every turn with a single heart match and a decent combo. Problem was that I was using a monodark team with only two water subtypes, so my damage output was pitiful; not to mention she had a combo shield so if I couldn't get at least a 4 combo she would actually heal a little instead! Still I waited it out and eventually defeated her.

Osiris was initially pretty easy: after initially triggering dark/green skyfall, he alternated between hitting for 4000/converting the middle row to jammers, and hitting for 8000/converting the second most left and right columns to hearts. Problem was that 1: he had 50% dark orb resistance, and 2: once he fell below 30% hp, he began hitting for over 16,000 damage every turn! I got overwhelmed and died, but I decided to use my only magic stone to continue. Almost died a second time from him, but I managed to finish him off.

Finally with Medjedra himself, the first thing he did was swap Lu Bu and my vampire so I had to wait 3 turns until Lu Bu reverted back to leader. In the meantime I did almost no damage (which then got absorbed and healed by the combo shield), Medjedra changed all of my heart orbs to jammers (covering a majority of the board), and blasted me with an attack that automatically took off 99% of my health. After the 99% attack Lu Bu reverted back to leader, so I popped Ronia, Lu Bu, and Hardar and managed to exceed the 5 combos needed, while also managing to pop off 2 dark enhance rows (had 4 awakenings) and a fire enhance row (just one from ronia).

Not only did that 1 hit kill him (had 2,240,666 health), the 40% drop rate kicked in for me and I got the drop!

The hard part is done, obtaining the two descend bosses, now I need to wait for 2 green ancient masks and a green spirit jewel to drop from the PEM...

[Jon]

Congrats man, I never would would have had the balls to continue when the drop isn't guaranteed. Nice to see that it worked out for you.

If your clearing descends like this maybe you don't need to wait on the PEM for the masks. Gift from the Holy Beasts will probably come around again soon enough. That and running Wednesdays mythical will probably get you your Awoken Bastet before that damn machine will.

[Vexorg]

The problem with challenge 5 isn't damage, it's dealing with the absurdly high-defense Piis. My Ronia team can usually handle it just fine as long as they don't get orb trolled on the Pii floors. If you're having trouble, you can bring in a poisoner to take care of them.

Oh, and I finally UEvo'd my Liu Bei for my GZL team, and was able to beat Challenge 6 with that team for the first time. Those three TPAs definitely come in handy. I still don't have a reliable team to beat challenge 5 on my main account though.

[guigui]

Here, medjedra was gotten first try with Chester, the guy with 60%skill bind resist. Rodin , verdandi, echidna, cao cao, urd took care of the rest.
Now Im jyst a dub topalit away from awojen bastet.
As for challenge, I have not tried them yet. Planning to clear at least up to 5.

[Necronopticous]

Medjedra replaced my Awoken Ra with LKali and then immediately wished he had not done that.

[Kaiser]

Hey i'm still a total newb and I haven't made it far in yet (currently fighting through Fire Forest Nerva) but what I can say is that I proudly beat my first lv1/lv2 challenge dungeons today and gained 500k coins and 2000 pal points. I'm saving up as much magic stones as possible for future godfests for when I hit a real wall with this game (which should be in a few dungeons).

My ID is 379,777,340 if you wanna add me and support me with your partner monsters

EDIT: Do Gala specials apply only to rare egg machines?

[guigui]

Congrats for the evolution Kaiser.
Yes, the galas only apply to the REM
You do well to keep stones for godfest, the one that has just finished was pretty good, did you roll ?
Did you sing in to pdx ? This site will help you the most. Also, what is your team now ?
I’ll add you as friend.

Edit : just saw your leader, he looks pretty solid. You can clear a nice bunch of normal and technical dungeons with him.

[Kaiser]

Congrats for the evolution Kaiser.
Yes, the galas only apply to the REM
You do well to keep stones for godfest, the one that has just finished was pretty good, did you roll ?
Did you sing in to pdx ? This site will help you the most. Also, what is your team now ?
I’ll add you as friend.

Edit : just saw your leader, he looks pretty solid. You can clear a nice bunch of normal and technical dungeons with him.

I didn't roll, i'm gonna wait until the absolute worst time to roll during a godfest, my team currently is Shinra Soul Beast Sai (leader, going to max him eventually), Cursed Dragon (planning to evolve him in the future), Blue Carbuncle (I can evolve him but the cost prevents me haha, I THINK outside minor healing he is reduntant), Black Fighter (Can also evolve him but costs) and Amethyst Carbuncle. I should replace Black Fighter with a more useful Dark monster at some point and phase out blue carbuncle for something else.

I'm currently rank 23 so my total cost is barely 37 but I AM LOOKING forward to evolving my set up when the cost is not the issue, basically it's a Dark oriented set up with some extra fire, I pick partners for tougher dungeons with multipliers for Fire/Dark or those that significantly increase HP for Dark, usually picking Sai or Cursed Dragon as a partner tends to break things quite a lot. No I haven't signed up for PDX yet.

Also most important question, when the game needs an update, you just update the APK by installing it over existing APK?

[guigui]

Nice team. You’ll certainly drop carbuncles soon, the fighters are more useful.
You can sign in to pdx, it will determine your group from your id and tell you when the special dungeons will be up. Also, it describes all dungeons precisely.

For ranking up, you can farm Tower of giants, Dragons of the tower. The dungeon gives about 1500xp per run for 5 stamina. It also only costs 3 stamina on weekends, nice.

For updating, you need to get tne newer .apk file and install it, this overwrites the previous one and does not delete your data.

[cave hermit]

Tried sky prison again today;

I managed to stall out all my abilties on the first floor, but I died on the second floor since I didn't have enough dark orbs

Edit: this just happened a second time. I thought I was supposed to save poison for the third floor correct?

[Aisha]

Tried sky prison again today;

I managed to stall out all my abilties on the first floor, but I died on the second floor since I didn't have enough dark orbs

Edit: this just happened a second time. I thought I was supposed to save poison for the third floor correct?

Poison is usually reserved for floor 2. On floor 3 you'll always have 5 turns before the Dub-mythlits blow you away. It's possible to combo floor 3 down, particularly if you manage to pull off a few group attacks, but it's safer to have a delay, second poison, or a defense-bypassing attack like Darkseid or Ra.

[Kaiser]

Having completed entire Castle of Satan yesterday, i'm gonna stop rushing forward and slowly level up my team (which is same as earlier except I replaced the blue carbuncle with a Samurai Goblin (his Heal>Fire Orb changer can save my butt in riskier situation when I have to unleash a final attack but I have low HP), I evolved my Black Fighter into a Black Knight and I don't regret it so far.

So yeah, i'm gonna take it easy for now, play the dungeons I already completed (btw Vampire dropped for me in castle of satan but I have no use for him right now but i'm saving him), play some technical/special dungeons I can do and just level up for a while.

PS. Kaguya and Kobokkle dropped for me in the collab dungeons, both offer interesting replacements for the amethyst carbuncle especially Kobokkle with his big HP (his upgraded version is quite crazy with 1400 hp at lv1 and being able to turn light into dark), we'll see how it goes, both are saved for time being.

[cave hermit]

Just got light and dark Izanami from today's descend!

Looks like dark Izanami has a team cost of 60 though, so probably can't use her on my light kali team for now

[Jon]

Three runs and no Dark Izanami drop. I need her to awaken Kagutsuchi and I guess the RNG knows it. Stuck waiting for stamina to refresh to give it another go.

On a positive note I did finally manage to fuse awoken Horus yesterday. I also managed to snag an Extreme King Metal Dragon to finally ult. evo my green Valkyrie. Once I am able to evolve Liu Bei to his "Restrained Dragon Hero" form next week I will have a pretty formidable Verdandi team.

What do you guys think of the new monster points feature recently announced for the JP servers?
http://www.puzzledragonx.com/en/news.asp?nid=347

[guigui]

Kaiser, you were lucky to have Vampure drop from Castle of Satan, his active is very useful, and easy to skill up,. Just farm the last floor of dungeon of darkness

Jon, this liu bei I’m so jealous of will take you to heaven, go full TPA !

I managed to evo an Awaken Bastet and built a TPA team
Bastet / Verdandi / GZL / Cu Chulain / Artemis
But I suck big time at triggering Bastet multiplication, even the 5 combo one, not to mention multi + TPA ! Any general advices ?

[Jon]

Finally, Dark Izanami is mine! Now it's time to bag me a Wangren. *looks up dungeon info on Legendary Seaway and cries*

Good luck with Awoken Bastet's learning curve, guigui. You seem to have all the orb changers you'd need to keep a steady supply of green orbs coming so you probably just need a bit of practice with your new lead. I wouldn't even think about all those TPA's you've got under the hood until your confident with nailing the required combo count. She's obviously worth the effort seeing as how many of my friends are running her right now.

[Aisha]

Yeah, practicing is really the only thing you can do; there's no shortcut. If you can spare the TAMADRA, load your team up with as many Time Extends as you can and practice in Endless Corridors. As you become more confident, gradually replace the Time Extends with the team members that you plan to use. When I watch videos of Awoken Bastet runs, players tend to line the TPAs up along the edges of the board when reasonable so that they don't get in the way, but I wouldn't worry about activating TPAs at first.

Getting wood cards that have Time Extends and TPA awakenings is ideal, but there are only so few of those around. I'd probably be inclined to use Kushinadahime over Artemis just for her Time Extend, not to mention her active skill.

[beatsgo]

Discuss

TL;DR: God damn it where's our HxH collab?

[guigui]

Been practicing a little with Abastet, comboing a little bettr now. In which order should I generally be building my combos ?

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Or none ? Or rather vertically ? Damn, playing too much attacker full red team is not good when you want to try the real thing, kind of like playing Ikaruga easy.

[Necronopticous]

New gimmick team abusing one of the new farmable bosses, Scarlet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12UKXYnK0kE

When I watched this video it was like that scene in the Lord of the Rings when Grima Wormtongue looks out over the ridiculously large orcish army that Saruman has put together and a tear comes down from his eye at the overwhelming sight that he has just gazed upon.

[Aisha]

Things like that make me wonder if GungHo thought the new haste mechanism through. There are other teams that exploit it similarly too, like Zuoh and four Awoken Meimei.

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Here's a heads-up for NA and EU: Starting tomorrow, all daily dungeons will be on 2x drop permanently. This also applies to coin drops from the weekend dungeon and the king dragon appearance rate in jewel dragon dungeons. Furthermore starting Friday, super metal and jewel dragon dungeons will be merged, so instead of there being two separate dungeons for each color, it will just be one dungeon for each color with two selectable floors. They count as new dungeons so we'll get Magic Stones for completing them.

EU is also being updated to 8.0.1 on Thursday, which is unprecedentedly close to JP. I imagine NA will follow soon after.

[BrianC]

New gimmick team abusing one of the new farmable bosses, Scarlet.

She's more deserving of the title "Scarlet Overkill" than the minions character.

[guigui]

Pretty excited about Durga’s new ultimate, she is sitting in my box for a long tome now.
Dont knwo what to think about monstr points though, trading my 3rd Dandi for 10 Tamadras ? Not quite sure yet...

[cave hermit]

Got a fairly decent haul from star vault yesterday: 9 plus eggs.

Still trying to beat room of the sacred mask, which would be easy if it wasn't for those fucking red masks.

With my default devil team, which is capable of 1 shotting legend descend bosses with an active skill spike and some row enhances, I only have a 20% chance of resisting skill binds. Even worse, there's another skill bind attempt on the 4th floor, meaning I only have a 4% chance (at best!) of getting to the boss floor without being skill bound.

But then if I try and boost skill bind resistance (in this case I swapped out my jester dragon for non-ult evolved bastet, and used awoken horus as a leader), even though I get 80% skill bind resist (which still only means a 64% of not being skill bound at best in the dungeon), I lose out on sub damage (since Bastet can't really do much as she is), I lose access to heart creation (since I'm not using jester dragon), and most importantly I lose access to all the synergistic benefits from Ronia: no unconditional devil multiplier or RCV multiplier, I lose that extra dark row enhance, and I don't get access to her board sweep active for the end floor spike. Basically this means that even if I do get to the boss floor without being bound, I can't deal any real damage to the bosses, let alone one shot them.

[beatsgo]

Row-matching teams like Pandora or Yamato will be a better option since they can block skill bind as well as deal out huge damage. They do require a decent healer, build enough mono orb fields, but once you start rolling it's a difficult train to stop.

[guigui]

Alsl note that evo carnival is coming soon. I got 4 green and 3 blue masks out of this, store pal points for it, I have 15000+ points stored.

[Aisha]

I managed to max-skill my Awoken Venus yesterday. I got three Shynpy drops this month, which is extremely lucky. Now I get to move on to collecting Woodpys for my trio of upcoming Awoken wood cards. I can't imagine how long this will take; hopefully I'll be able to get some of them from future Challenge Dungeons.

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NA is likely getting updated to 8.0.1 tonight, which introduces the Machine type, meaning that Hadar is going to lose his Devil typing. It seems that they're pushing content out to other regions at a faster pace. At their old pace, Machine type and triple typing would have probably been packaged together, but the latter hasn't even been implemented in JP yet.

Cerberus is more or less a farmable drop-in alternative for Hadar, but he has worse stats and can be annoying to acquire.

[Vexorg]

In my experience, Star Vault isn't all that great these days. I generally get better results from Mechdragons with 5x technicals, and the last few Star Vault runs I've done have been pretty mediocre.

[Aisha]

The next event is bringing 3x +Egg drops to Normal Dungeons. I'll probably pass on it because I'm too invested in coin dungeon farming at the moment.

[guigui]

3x +eggs in normal is nice, will make weekend farming more profitable.

Yesterday was 3 failed attempts at clearing legendary seaway, team was
Awoken bastet / Verdandi / GZL / Rodin / Echidna / Awoken Bastet

2 fails when I could not trigger bastet multi, on a five color dungeon, stupid me !
Last fail I managed to get to boss floor, only to discover I could not kill red dragon fast enough due to color disadvantage.
I have to work that team again, maybe putting blue in, but then Verdandi is not that good...