Puzzle & Dragons

[cave hermit]

I took your advice GuiGui.

+ egg


Going to spend some stamina tomorrow clearing technical dungeons so I can get 3 more stones and get a third roll for the 3K gods on Friday.

The two 3K gods I don't have yet are the ones I really need: Liu Bei for my bastet team, and Cao Cao for my Shiva team.

[Aisha]

I was planning on pulling once or twice on day 3 of the upcoming Godfest, but now I'm thinking about not doing that, and instead using my stones on stamina refreshes to farm +Eggs. Today I managed to get +99 to HP and RCV for my Verdandi and +99 ATK for my Liu Bei. Next up I'm thinking about doing the same thing for my Awoken Bastet and Vishnu. If I get that far I'll stop and slowly fill in the blanks over time, but I don't think I will because this activity eats through your supply of stones really quickly and I don't want to use all of mine up.

[Geist]

I was planning on pulling once or twice...

I pulled 4 times and only got a Hermes, guess his latest UVO can go on my Awoken Karin team, which I never use...
This makes dark Persephone the only missing card to complete the Greco pantheon. Funny thing, the same is true for the Three Kingdome gods.... only dark Lu Bu is still missing...

Really should have gone for the +eggs though.... (Could have scored >=200+ eggs with a conservative assumption of 2,5 +eggs per 50 stamina) ,but the grind is also very boring and time consuming, as we all know too well)

Max-skilled my Awo. Ra but been playing more Awoken Sakuya lately, she is quite the beast (x100) and doesn´t depend on Kalis as much as Ra does... I might even try to max-skill her later, as I am still having 10 light-jewels and 5 Shynpies sitting in the box...

Also Awoken Freyr is back on my Urd team.... I am even considering feeding my +297 Ronia to him.... or at least my +50 Echidna....

[guigui]

Really should have gone for the +eggs though.... (Could have scored >=200+ eggs with a conservative assumption of 2,5 +eggs per 50 stamina) ,but the grind is also very boring and time consuming, as we all know too well)

Almighty God in the current Zeus Challenge gives a steady 4+eggs per 50 sta, and is cleared easily provided you have a dark team capable of bursting a 3.8 millions HP Zeus. This is not that boring, and the joy of seeing a +egg dropping each floor has not weared off of me, yet.

I also had that 6+eggs run from God of the Seaways : both Midgar on floor 1 and Hera on floor 9 dropped, nice.

BUT, I run Seaway with Ceres in my team to deal with preemptive binds and, of course, I forgot to swap her out for GZL when I decided to attempt the 99 sta Rush ! I could clear it nonetheless : great luck on boards all along, Beelzebub on floor 4, Verdandi gave 8 combos with 3 green TPAs on last floor.
Gosh ! Vishnu, Osiris, Ceres and ABastet were ready, but Zeus was already down.

[Cagar]

So day 3?

[Vexorg]

For my teams, day 1 seems to be the most useful. I did 7 rolls (basically all my non-IAP stones) on my main looking for some help for my Shivadra team (really wanting a ROdin on there) and got mostly dupes. All golds, but nothing particularly useful. On my alt I did five rolls, and about the only potentially useful thing I got was a Parvati.

[guigui]

So day 3?

I dont know your box entirely, but I think you could roll day 2, that is today. 3K pantheon gives nice leaders and Greco gives great subs. The oyher sengoku pantheon is nice too, and those do not have an uevo yet, so they will get even better in the future.
Plus, you have a 4x chance at getting norns, sonias, kalis, metatrons and jap dragon callers which are all great leaders.
Roll, and let us know what you get.

[cave hermit]

Nothing but dupes
DQXQ, Ronia, and Persephone.

[Jon]

^^^Its not so bad when they have alt. evolutions and having two Ronias on your KotG devil farming team makes it that much easier.


I rolled quite a bit yesterday and had some pretty good results:

Haku
Mitsuki
Haku - yay, now I don't have to choose between her D/D and awoken form.
Green Odin
Shiva - hell yes, rolling one of your targets doesn't happen very often. Awoken Hino and R/G Cao Cao are max skilled and ready to serve.
Ares
Satsuki

Once again LKali and the Norns elude me but I'm not complaining.

Edit: Damn, Deus Ex Machina is surprisingly tough.

[Aisha]

Finished farming +Eggs. I got Verdandi and Awoken Bastet to +99 HP and RCV each, and Liu Bei and Vishnu to +99 ATK each. I think I spent between 15 and 20 stones doing that, but I lost track. I've decided that I'm not going to spend stones on stamina refreshes during future 10x +Egg events until I have 250 or more stamina.

I also pulled from the REM once and got a dupe Sharon. Sold for MP.

Edit: Did second pull because I'm weak: duplicate Dragon Rider. I'm having terrible REM luck. Of the last 9 pulls I've done dating back to the PCGF, I've pulled one real god (Idunn&Idunna), three troll gold eggs (including the two today), and 5 silvers.

[guigui]

^ Almost the same here, but I only stoned once. I farmed God of the Seaway for the whole week. Got my Osiris up to +297 (this guy is a beast for ABastet) and my Vishnu at +230 atm, hoping to bump him again tonight.

Will you skill Vishnu the coming week ? I will, but dont have that much coins. Here is my plan with 175 stamina : farm King of the Gods until I am some 50k xp from a rank up, wait for 150 stamina, buy Earth Insect Dragon, run mythical 3 times, rank up, run 3 times again. Repeat.

Well, now that I look at padx, I see that Sowilo descends tomorrow ... maybe Vishnu will have to wait, moaaar easy +eggs !

[Aisha]

My Vishnu is already max-skilled. I do have to run Light Insect Dragon for Indra skill ups though. Vishnu wasn't too difficult to skill up because his fodder is a boss drop, but Indra is pretty annoying because his is an uncommon drop. I'm also reluctant to put much effort into it because I feel that Indra is due for an awoken evolution sooner or later.

Actually I think this week I'll focus on farming evolution materials for my Awoken Shiva team. I still have to finish the main team by evolving Shiva himself, Valkyrie Femme, and Cao Cao. I might get around to doing Ame no Uzume and Freyr too, but they're situational subs so they have lower priority.

Edit: Extreme Endless Corridors 7x6 is a ton of fun with Awoken Bastet, especially if you encounter Osiris and he uses his preemptive which increases wood and dark skyfalls for 99 turns. On one particular floor I managed to get more than 8 million damage out of Liu Bei and Vishnu each.

[Necronopticous]

+egg

[guigui]

The Necros’s legend lives to its hype, congrats !
Questions :
- Was that with push button Almighty God farming ?
- Why store by 36 ? To me, 3×36 = 108 > 99, if they are split by HP, ATK and RCV, you could lose some.
- Why store them on chimeras instead of lower max level cards ? Seeing your coins, maybe you dont need them that much.

[Necronopticous]

Was that with push button Almighty God farming ?

Indeed. Roughly 90 stones worth @ around 270 max stamina.

Why store by 36 ? To me, 3×36 = 108 > 99, if they are split by HP, ATK and RCV, you could lose some.

Why store them on chimeras instead of lower max level cards ? Seeing your coins, maybe you dont need them that much.

Blue = HP; Green = ATK; Red = RCV

The most tedious and mind-numbing thing about +egg farming is organizing them. The system I use is geared entirely around getting them sorted out as quickly as possible with coin efficiency being a distant second priority. Chimeras were on the top of the sort in this case (I don't have room for any more options) and so in this case they become the storehouses. This is also why I do +36 because it's just quick +1 with a full feed of 5 other +1s, then a +6 with 5 other +6s. It also happens to be quite cheap to create these +36 cards. You don't see them here, but I also create custom ones (usually with +27 or +26, but whatever equals up to 99 in that stat) when I am actually feeding these to a card for +297. Generally I will feed 4 of these +36s (e.g. +36HP, +36HP, +36ATK, +36ATK) and then a second feed of 2 +36s and 3 +whatevers to finish off each stat (e.g. +36RCV, +36RCV, +27HP, +27ATK, +27RCV). There are probably some super refined strategies that are cheaper/more efficient/both but this seems good enough to me and I'm pretty used to it at this point.

I'm not even sure who is gonna get these plus eggs just yet, but I still want more! I have a couple of discount iTunes gift cards coming to me via snail mail. I'm not sure they will make it here in time for the current round of 10x descends, but if they do you can bet your ass they're getting spent on more plus eggs.

[Vexorg]

Dang, and I thought I spent a lot on this game (I rarely IAP these days, but I'm pretty sure I've spent at least $300 between my two accounts.)

[Aisha]

The most tedious and mind-numbing thing about +egg farming is organizing them.

Is this ever the truth. The first few times I found it fun because I was swimming in loose +Eggs, but eventually it became a chore. I wish there was a feature you could turn on to display little numbers on cards indicating how many +Eggs of each type they have.

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I've been looking ahead and I think after finishing my Awoken Shiva team, I want to make an Awoken Archdemon Lucifer team to retire my Beelzebub x red Sonia team. Something like this, but the glaring problem is that it has no reliable way to clear binds (Pandora isn't bind-proof). Getting a Yomi Dragon to handle that would be best, but I can't afford one. I don't have any other options besides Aamir, and he'd drag the team down. This team is also deficient in Enhanced Dark Orb awakenings and has no way to clear jammers and poison orbs; replacing Zaerog Infinity with Eschamali would be the ideal solution, but she's a 6-star GFE so I'm never going to pull her.

[Vexorg]

For that matter, even if they would color-code the + eggs when they drop (different colors for HP, ATK and RCV) that would make things a lot easier. It always seems like I end up at a point where I'm at something like +99, +99, +91 or something like that and only need one type of egg to finish something off, and have to keep manually looking at stuff to find the eggs with the attribute I need.

[Aisha]

I wish there was a feature you could turn on to display little numbers on cards indicating how many +Eggs of each type they have.

I swear I'm not an insider or anything:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYBDW7NUEAAvgAE.png
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYBDX4lUsAE8SGX.png
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYBDYUCUkAA8KVt.png
(source) https://twitter.com/pad_sexy/status/684621229441990656

[Vexorg]

Finally managed to get one of my two Shiva Dragons (one on each account) evolved. Man, what a pain that was (you need an evo'd Zeus Vulcan and an evo'd Lifive, which itself requires another Zeus Vulcan and a Dancing Queen Hera-Ur, plus a bunch of red fruits and a number of red jewels.). The other one is going to be a lot tougher sincd I don't have quite as good a set of subs. Right now, on my alt I'm running ROdin, Ares, Urd and Set for my Shivadra team, which is working quite well. On my Main I have Set and Ares, but the other two slots are still iffy... My next target is an Awoken Kagutsuchi I have almost all the materials for.

Should make for a pretty beastly team when all is said and done. It's the "said and done" part that's going to be tricky. I can already farm a number of mythical descends with it, hoping I can start goi g for Legend Plus.

I also see that next week in Japan they are reducing stamina regeneration time from 5 minutes per point to 3 minutes per point. Not sure when it will hit US, but I certainly won't complain, since basically everything I'm running these days seems to be a 50 stamina or more dungeon.

[guigui]

3 minutes, where is teh hype ?

[Aisha]

I'm guessing that they're trying to keep up with competing mobile games, some of which already run on 1 stamina per 3 minutes. I'm waiting to see if they'll start introducing dungeons that cost more stamina to enter, or do something else to compensate.

In other news, there's another ultimate/awoken evolution survey running on the Japanese server. Unofficial polls to gauge interest have Urd, Hel, and Indra leading their respective categories. They were pretty accurate last time, but we'll find out the official results pretty soon - in the next live stream I think.

[Vexorg]

Was anyone here playing back when stamina was 10 minutes per point? Getting orb trolled to death on a 50-stamina dungeon was brutal back then.

I didn't hit the 10x descends quite as hard as some people here, but I did manage to +297 the Shiva Dragon on my alt (need to start farming Pys for skill-ups though) with a few eggs to spare. Goemon isn't quite as productive as Hera-Sowilo was, but a consistent 4 + eggs per 50 stamina on Mythical is still pretty good, and Shiva Dragon + Urd + Ares is a guaranteed Instakill on Goemon (and Zeus in KoG, for that matter.)

[Vexorg]

So the latest ranking dungeon (Izanami) is out, and I'm curious what other people are running and how they're doing with it. I managed to break into the 10% range with my Shiva Dragon team on my alt, and around 25% with the underdeveloped one on my main. Didn't have much luck with Verdandi on this though...

[Jon]

I ran Verdandi and landed just above the 75% mark which is pretty pathetic. I just wanted the stone tbh and didn't feel like blowing stamina by rushing too fast and dying recklessly.

I woke up Freyr today and he looks like he will make a pretty good sub for Awoken Shiva. Thinking of running AShiva/AKagutsuchi/RGCaoCao/AFreyr/Valen.
I wish I had a second triple donger to flex in there somewhere but the extra utility makes up for it I think.

It was nice to see so many monsters get extra awakenings with the last update. More than happy to take the extra finger for Verd and a health boost for Osiris. They also changed Grodins active to clear binds which will be an absolute life saver on my green teams (no more bugging guigui to put up his Ceres.)

Godfest incoming this weekend, who rolls? Dupe factor is pretty high for me on both days but I would love Raphael for my AThor/Saria team and Susano for Verd and Bastet.

[guigui]

Congrats on the 25% ranking Vexorg !
I suck at ranking dungeons. Clearly, the only factor that matters is time, forget combos or damage. Thus, one needs to clear the dungeon as fast as possible ; the best way to do this is to take an unconditionnal high ATK multiplier leader (shivagon, yomidra) and one-shot everything.

About Verdandi, she did not get a time-extend awakening. She got an heart enhance, which was reordered to put the old time-extend in last position.

No rolls for me this godfest.

Finally, about skill up, pretty good luck :

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Vishnu skill up (2.5x rate)
1/4 
1/4 
0/4 
2/4 
1/4 
1/4 
1/4 
2/4 

Goetia skill up (2.5x rate)
2/4 

Sumire skill up (2.5x rate)
0/4 
2/4 
2/4
1/1

[Aisha]

I might pull on the second day for a shot at Okuninushi and Perseus, but if I do it won't be more than once since the Kalis are at 1x rates on that day. I also don't want to spend too many stones before Eschamali is added to NA since she's one of my most-desired cards right now.

I also used the nifty MP Calculator and found that I can easily afford an MP dragon. I'll probably buy a Yomi Dragon, but not before Awoken Archdemon Lucifer is available. This will give me time to watch what happens in JP because this guy was added to their MP store recently, and it's unclear to me whether it's the start of a new series or not.

Edit: Oh yeah; skill-ups. Today I went 1/17 on red Kali, and I max-skilled my second light Kali by going 4/16.

[Vexorg]

I did go 2/4 to get the last two skill-ups for Ares, which is nice because it's a pain using a ton of super kings on that.

[Vexorg]

After quite a few runs and several lineup tweaks, here is my final result on the Izanagi tournament. My main (with the unevo'd Shiva dragon and a general lack of good subs) managed to break into the higher end of the 20% percentile with around a 12.5% ranking thanks to a lucky last minute run.

[Aisha]

First Zaerog Infinity clear! My heart is still pounding. Now I have to farm this guy for 11 skill ups.

Also a heads up for NA players: It hasn't been formally announced yet but another round of best friend invites will be sent out very soon, so if you still have an invite that you haven't yet used, do so soon. I think EU is getting a reset too, but I don't know for sure.

@Vexorg that's a very good score! I cleared that with Bastet but I only got ~93k and didn't bother trying to improve it since I don't really have a good speed team; long combo chains and skyfalls take up too much time.