Puzzle & Dragons

[guigui]

Yes, GH sometimes gives those dungeons that can only be cleared once. The main appeal of this one is clearly the 200k rank xp,,ill use it ti refill my bar for more poring tower farming.

About feeding the big tamadra you got, beware : it is not because it is called tamadra that it will awaken a monster. Actually, this one wont, it’ll only give 200k xp. Feed regular tamadras (not babies) if you want to awaken cerberus rider.

[Vexorg]

The one-time dungeons also come with a free stone too for clearing them, same as any other dungeon. Usually it's stuff like snow globes, Tamadras or special freebie drops (like Puzzdroid or the Beams bears), but every once in a while they'll throw in something like a fruit dragon or a Chinese God (for the spirit jewel drop.) Those ones require you to have a team that can actually handle the fight, so be careful with those.

[guigui]

So, Poring Tower is over, did about 15 master runs on friday and saturday, plus 20 expert runs during the 2x drop rate on sunday. I was glad to had that 200k rank xp gift dungeon to help me rank up on sunday ! Results :

- Cu Chulain max skilled, yay.
- Two Liliths max skilled, double yay.
- Berserk max skilled, dont really care.
- Golem gained 2 skill up, might care in the future.
- Valkirie, now that was something ! Skill ups went as follows :
0/5 1/5 0/5 1/5 0/5 3/4 (!!) 0/1 0/1
Damned I was so angry after those crappy results that I could not believe the 3/4 one. Still missing a level though, bad luck on the last one. Was almost ready to finish her with a pii, when I remembered she is actually farmable, maybe I'll spend some stamina in her descend soon.

By the way, it seems that skill up are more frequent when I get a GREAT or SUPER by fusing. Did you notice that too ?
A simple math test could verify this, just need to recolt data such as :
GOOD: x/X x/X ...
GREAT : x/X x/X ...
SUPER : x/X x/X ...
Maybe suggest that on PAD forum.

[Jon]

Your Valkyrie skill up woes remind me running the Echidna dungeon a few weeks back. She'll be maxed someday.

I did run Poring Tower all weekend and had pretty good results:

Angelion - three skill ups
Gigas - max skilled
School Gang Leader, Gigas - two skill ups
Siren - max skilled
Lilith - four skill ups - This one hurt. I still use her quite often due to me lacking Rodin or Neptune. The Ghostrings were easily my most uncommon drop
Berserk - four skills
Cu Chulain - three skill ups
Light Valk - max skilled
Green Valk - max skilled
Kagutsuchi - one skill up (only had three Angeling invades)

I maxed out my Dark Liege some time ago but I also managed 4 skills on a backup Vampire I had laying around.

[Kaiser]

With new godfest coming tomorrow, should I roll all 5 times on day 1, or day 2, or even it out for all the days.

[Aisha]

I'd say it just depends on what you need right now. Notwithstanding godfest exclusives being available on both days, if you are still chasing a real leader, then rolling more on day 2 would be better because Egyptians are good for that. The only duds there are Nut and Set, due to low popularity; Anubis also, but only because the skill level required to play him effectively is beyond most people. Day 1 is better for subs; the only cards that can be readily used as leaders are Lu Bu and Da Qiao & Xiao Qiao.

[beatsgo]

Lu Bu

Greatest P&D WAIFU in the world

[guigui]

Tomorrow godfest is 3 kingdoms, again ! I am still desperate for a Liu Bei, so I’ll roll my 9 times this day, wish me luck.
For kaiser, i’d add that at your progress in the game, any roll of day 1 or 2 will be beneficial to you. Day 2 egyptian gods are better leader for sure, but also harder to play with. Let us know what you get.

Thursday note now : was farming mythical to get green fruits for my lovely Verdandi. Could do 7 runs, ended up with 1 blue and 6 reds, yes, 6 reds ! At least, if I roll Ronia or Urd tomorrow, ill be happy too.

[cave hermit]

I think I might roll twice tomorrow, and then twice the day after that (I have just enough for 4 rolls).

Honestly I haven't been able to do much of anything since hardar was made non-devil type, and my Light kali team still can't deal or take that much damage...

[Necronopticous]

With new godfest coming tomorrow, should I roll all 5 times on day 1, or day 2, or even it out for all the days.

Whatever you do, don't roll the Summer event special REM. That thing is a trap and a half.

[guigui]

^ or you would be too jealous of a pandora roll.

Hermit, roll at the fest, youll get some noce devil to replace hadar. I rolled a Zuoh las time that is pretty good. Also, did you investigate the attackers route ? I cleared motta content leading with chibi cao cao and urd friend. And can you clear king of the gods yet ?

[Aisha]

Speaking of Pandora, the Hero God series is getting buffed. Their leader skills will now deal 3x damage starting at 4 connected orbs and max out at 4x damage at 6 connected orbs.

[Necronopticous]

Hmm, where did you read that? I heard it was 2x at 4 connected and 0.5x for each additional connected after that, maxing out at 4x for 8, same as always. In some ways I actually think this is worse than before since it makes it potentially riskier to stall when dealing damage would screw you over (e.g. pushing phase on a boss).

[Jon]

She's not an ideal replacement, but I found that awoken Hera-Ur does a pretty decent job at filling in for Hadar on a Ronia/Lu Bu devil team.

[Aisha]

Hmm, where did you read that? I heard it was 2x at 4 connected and 0.5x for each additional connected after that, maxing out at 4x for 8, same as always. In some ways I actually think this is worse than before since it makes it potentially riskier to stall when dealing damage would screw you over (e.g. pushing phase on a boss).

You're right. I haven't checked PAD news today yet. The leader skill description doesn't provide the damage multipliers so when the news broke before the patch went live, it was assumed that only the activation requirements were being shifted down.

[Geist]

Can't quit playing this game...

Only 2 pulls on todays 3-Kingdoms:

1st: Liu Bei
2nd: Fire Courier Mitsuki

(I was hoping for Liu Bei or Lu Bu, as I already have the other 3)

Just max skilled my Verdandi (the last 2 tri-fruits, gave me the 2 remaining skill-ups 0/5 last week , 2/2 today ), and Liu Bei will work great with her- or even with my Attacker Leilan; triple TPA is sick.

Finally, I can clear ALL daily dungeons as well, which I am quite happy about.
Also the 150 Stamina bar is approaching fast. "speed-up" @Parodius

Guess it is time to tackle the last 2 "Legendary" dungeons in normal and technical.

I am quite tempted to buy some stones for the Egyptian GF tomorrow but I really mustn't.

[Kaiser]

I got Ruel and Norn Und on Day 1, I think i'll wait with my remaining 3 rolls till tomorrow.

[Aisha]

Liu Bei and Urd. You guys did good - congrats!

I'm undecided if I want to pull today. I would love dark Kali, Cao Cao, Parvati, Indra, a second Liu Bei, and I wouldn't be upset with Lakshmi; but at the same time I don't want to spend all of my stones and I'm also thinking about expanding my box and friends capacity instead.

[cave hermit]

Didn't get a bonus stone today, so only had enough for 3 rolls.

First roll: a 6th grimrock. At this point it is obvious this is some sort of conspiracy.
Second roll: Red Sonia(!)
Third roll: Dino rider

Well 1 out of 3 isn't too bad; Red Sonia should be quite useful to me!

Edit: I did get a bonus stone, I was just really sleepy and didn't notice since I woke up early just to roll before going back to sleep. Rolled a Shiva!

So 2 out of 4 is pretty good!

[guigui]

You guys !!!

- Geist : give me the Liu Bei, NOW !

- Kaiser : the Norn Urd is definitely an awesome leader for you, enjoy. Know that her "scale with HP boost" is actually a 3.3x ATK when at full health, and decreases to "only" 3x ATK when healt is low. Monster.

- Hermit complains about Hadar losing devil type ... rolls ... Red Sonia ! And a Shiva right after.


Meanwhile, I rolled a dupe Fuu, then turned the game off.

[Aisha]

So 2 out of 4 is pretty good!

Make that 3 out of 4. Dino Rider is one of Awoken Shiva's best subs, should you one day choose to take Shiva in that direction.

Congrats on the Red Sonia too. She will really help.

[cave hermit]

Already evolved Sonia to her second stage (before the ult evolution), fully awakened her, and leveled her to level 80.

I need one more red dragon fruit to ult evolve her though.

Is there really a benefit to doing so though? As far as I can tell she gets 200 more health, 50 more attack, a time extend awakening, and a 1.2 attack multiplier for 6+ combos if set as leader. Anything I'm missing here? This just doesn't seem like much for all these top tier evo materials.

Also regarding king of the gods, I'm still stuck at Queen of the gods, since with my devil team (even when hardar was a devil type), I didn't have enough spike damage to kill Hera at the end.

My attacker team is still kinda crap: I got attacker amaterasu, unevolved leilan, Inferno sorcerer Laila, a king flamie, and chibi cao cao.
I rolled a second angelit from the pem, so I was thinking of ult evolving leilan to divine harbinger, and maybe ult evolving a haughty demon lord baal to replace chibi cao cao. I'm sure it might be a good idea to put dino rider somewhere in there as well.

[Kaiser]

- Kaiser : the Norn Urd is definitely an awesome leader for you, enjoy. Know that her "scale with HP boost" is actually a 3.3x ATK when at full health, and decreases to "only" 3x ATK when healt is low. Monster.

Yeah except my main team's all dark with a bit of fire and wood, BUT MAYBE for a dedicated fire team, she will definitely do. Also she's not the upgraded form, same with Ruel.

[Jon]

Yes, definitely go for her ult. The time extend alone is worth it imo and the 1.2 multiplier is more beneficial than you might think. Just make sure you go for it when the red dragon fruits are synched to give you a chance for a skill up or two.

I have only rolled once so far today, I got Green Knight Delgado. A good sub for Verdandi that will immediately collect dust considering the others that I have on hand.

Edit: @Kaiser Not maybe, she will definitely do for a dedicated fire team. Round up a Red Samurai Goblin/Blazing Ice Ogre/Gigas/King Flammie for burst and make lots of friends with people who run Urd and Cao Cao and you just might forget about that dark team.

[guigui]

Hermit, it is definitely worth evolving sonia. She miht also’help yoj clear thursday mythical, so more red fruits !

About queend of the gods, you might try
Cao Cao / Laila / Rider / Flamie / Leilan / Urd
Urd - cao cao - Flamie should provide enough burst to ohko Hera, just gotta get to her...

[Vexorg]

The Norns are pretty great for farming teams, and I've even cleared some mythical descends with my Verdandi team. Working on building up a team for the Urd on my other account now, she could end up replacing Ronia for day-to-day farming.

[Kaiser]

SO I made a third roll (let's say I got enough more magic stones via team challenge mode), and I got the Dino Rider, already lv 30 and +1 to skill. He's gonna make a nice addition to the Urd team (my team is Urd, Sai, Dino Rider, Blazing Ice Ogre atm, I need one more decent fire sub). HILARIOUSLY I managed to fight the super ruby dragons and used them all on the Norn Urd, it was worth it. Saving last 3 rolls for tomorrow.

[Aisha]

Already evolved Sonia to her second stage (before the ult evolution), fully awakened her, and leveled her to level 80.

I need one more red dragon fruit to ult evolve her though.

Is there really a benefit to doing so though? As far as I can tell she gets 200 more health, 50 more attack, a time extend awakening, and a 1.2 attack multiplier for 6+ combos if set as leader. Anything I'm missing here? This just doesn't seem like much for all these top tier evo materials.

There is only one benefit to not evolving Red Sonia all the way, and that is No Dupe dungeon restrictions. I'm not ultimate-evolving my second light Kali for that very reason. Sandalphon is the only descend that comes to mind that has that restriction, but Alt. coin dungeons have it frequently and since Sonia teams are pro at farming them, it would be nice to have two of her board changes at your disposal.

On the other hand, keeping a fully-evolved and (preferably) hypermaxed Red Sonia in your Team 1 slot is a PAL point magnet. And like Jon wrote, the Time Extend alone is worth it. 0.5 seconds doesn't seem like much, but with two Red Sonias you'll have a whole extra second, and that's something you'll definitely feel.

[Necronopticous]

Trying to max skill Sonia Gran is pain.

[cave hermit]

I have successfully beaten friday mythical for the first time.