Puzzle & Dragons

[Aisha]

I bought a Tsukuyomi Dragon, and then I bought a Tsukuyomi Dragon.

Working towards an Arena-farming team like this?

[Necronopticous]

Not necessarily for Arena, but certainly something like that. I prefer leading with A.Yomi most of the time, though.

[BrianC]

I have to wait a bit before playing again since P&D no longer supports iPad1, but I plan to get back to the game soon since I'm getting an iPad 4 for Christmas.

[Vexorg]

Voting for the next (US) Player's Choice Godfest is underway here:

https://a.pgtb.me/QLlSTq

So far, it looks like Dark Kali is running away with it, To be honest I have no idea what I actually need for my teams at this point so I just voted for Liu Bei since my alt could use one.

[Necronopticous]

New challenge series is crazy! +30 TAMAs for C8-C10. Looks like you've gotta deal with the Z8/Scarlet level up mechanic. I spent pretty much my entire stone collection on Pure & 2x Yomidra and we should be getting 10x descends any time now (possibly even part 2 of the coming event period) so I definitely can't afford to blow any on anything else. Hopefully I can blow through this challenge series without many losses.

[Aisha]

I'm very grateful that a Snow Globe Dragon Blanc is up for grabs in the current challenge dungeon set because...




Assembled! Sakuya and Indra need to be leveled up, but between the Snow Globe Dragon and the PAL Enhance Carnival, I should be able to get both pretty far. I need 14 TAMADRA for this team, but they will have to wait because I want to get the Evangelion invade and then proceed to skill up Indra with drops from the Light Insect Dragon coin dungeon before they both go away.

I'm still not sold on the inclusion of Sun Quan, but wood is a hard attribute to cover here. One of the cookie cutter Sakuya teams is L. Kali - L. Kali - Awoken Susano - Elia/Kanna, but I don't have any of those cards, and besides that, Elia is probably the hardest card to skill up in the game. Replacing Sun Quan with a mini Valkyrie would be another great option to consider, but I don't have her either.

I also have to think long and hard about which team I want to +Egg next. It's either this one, or my Awoken Bastet team. I'm leaning towards Awoken Bastet, but I'll reserve my judgement for when I am able to take Sakuya out for a spin.

[guigui]

Damned Verdandi went 1/10 skill ups, even with 2.5x rate on. Still not maxed, bah. I almost finished her with a Py but could restrain myself at the last second.

Necro, you mean you spent much of your 300+ stones int the REM, then sold most things for MP and bought 2 Yomidragons ? Damned.
Also, what is exactly the bonus in this "10x descend" ?

Aisha, nice light team. I cant form one myself now, though I do have some nice cards : Lmeta, LValk, Fuu, DQ, AVenus, Ariel who will get her 3 TPAs soon enough. But I fear I missed a good all around leader there.

[Jon]

^^^I fed 5 green dragon fruits to her during the last 2.5 and went 0 for 5 myself. I know its completely random it feels like some monsters resist the skill up process way more than others.

Assembled!

I spent all week leveling/evolving Fagan and Zhou Yu for Awoken Sakuya. I finally thought I was ready yesterday after grabbing a King Emerald Dragon for Fagan and only to discover that I overlooked the fact that he needed yet another damned evolution before he was ready. I had the materials on hand but now I am one yellow jewel short for Kirin.


I completely for got to post but I rolled a few more times in last weeks GF and got a second Vishnu and Meimei. I am really looking forward to working Awoken Meimei into my Bastet/Verd teams. In fact, once I skill her up a few times I am wondering if Osiris will be relegated to bench warmer status.

[guigui]

Good green rolls, again, Jon ! Meimei and Vishnu are really good subs for ABastet.
I tend to think that Meimei is actually better than Verdandi, mainly because of double TPA. Verdandi will be better, though, in no RCV dungeons. Double Vishnu, if skilled, act like a constant orb changer. Osiris is also pretty good because of very low cooldown.
I would go full burst : ABastet / Meimei / Osiris / Vishnu / Vishnu. OHKO everything !

[Vexorg]

I did a bunch of Thursday mythical runs yesterday, and I managed to go 1/3 on Verdandi skill-ups.. The main problem is that 75% of the runs I did dropped blue fruits which are basically going to clog up box space until Sumire comes around on the skill-up rotation again. On the plus side, my Verdandi is up to skill level 5 now, so I only need one more skill up.

[Aisha]

I've only been able to get 4 green fruits over these last two weeks, but with them I managed to get my main Verdandi from skill level 5 to max, and my second Verdandi to skill level 2. My second light Kali also went 1/8, which is pretty bad. Skilling up cards with fodder from daily dungeons is really arduous.

Also, what is exactly the bonus in this "10x descend" ?

Aisha, nice light team. I cant form one myself now, though I do have some nice cards : Lmeta, LValk, Fuu, DQ, AVenus, Ariel who will get her 3 TPAs soon enough. But I fear I missed a good all around leader there.

'10x Descend' is basically a x10 +Egg drop rate bonus in descends. It's pretty nice.

You could put together a decent Sun Wukong team that focuses on light rows: Sun Wukong - DQ - DQ - A. Venus - L. Valkyrie/L. Metatron - Sun Wukong. Although it's probably not worth the effort at this point, especially since the use of Hero gods as leaders seems to be on a downward trend these days.

[guigui]

Isn’t there also a bonus where descend bosses or sub-bosses sell for 100 points instead of the usual 10 ?

Now I seem to be stuck at level 7 on special challenge. Sarting at card level 1 and with about 10k hp is tough.

[guigui]

Good day, I finally finished skilling Verdandi, Artemis and LMeta.
Now I am preparing to spend lots of stamina in water carnival, and hope my second Andromeda will do better than 2/20.

[Aisha]

Nice! My light Metatron only needs two more skill levels to max, but I lost the motivation to work on her since Awoken Sakuya came along. It just seems kind of pointless, because as far as bind clearing is concerned, they're practically interchangeable: they both cover the same attributes and they can both clear the same number of bind turns with their active skills. But I suppose that I should get around to finishing light Metatron while Ancient Blue Sacred Masks have her skill, because it's so much easier this way than having to use Yellow Chasers.

This week I've been farming Water Carnival for Sun Quan skill ups. He has been very stubborn, but is currently only one away from max skill. Along the way I've managed to max-skill Hatsume and Mystic Ice Knight. It's irritating how easily cards you don't care about skill up. I'll resume farming Water Carnival on the weekend because I want to farm Friday Mythical for Kali skill ups tomorrow.

[guigui]

Yes, skilling up LMeta is a pain. Got 4 skill ups from days of farming chasers and material, and the remaining ones from 30 second of feeding her my stock Blue Masks I have no other use for.

I'll also farm Friday Mythical for Devilit, my Awoken Anubis is waiting. Team will be Bastet / Verdandi / Artemis / GZL / Ceres / Bastet.
Plan : mass attack from Bastet will clear 1st floor, and ping Dublits and Tamadra fast enough. Artemis will be ready first turn if needed, Ceres will clear unavoidable bind, and Verdandi will burst last floor.
This is nowhere as fast as Necro's poison team, but better than the "stall first floor like hell" method. Hopefully it will work.

[Aisha]

I'll also farm Friday Mythical for Devilit, my Awoken Anubis is waiting. Team will be Bastet / Verdandi / Artemis / GZL / Ceres / Bastet.
Plan : mass attack from Bastet will clear 1st floor, and ping Dublits and Tamadra fast enough. Artemis will be ready first turn if needed, Ceres will clear unavoidable bind, and Verdandi will burst last floor.
This is nowhere as fast as Necro's poison team, but better than the "stall first floor like hell" method. Hopefully it will work.

I might be missing something, but how do you plan on taking on Floor 2? You often only have 2 turns for that floor.

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NA PCGF announced to be taking place on November 29 through December 1. Two new Godfest exclusives will also be making their debut during the PCGF: Saria and Ryune. Full roster.

Here is the roster for the Japanese PCGF for the sake of interest.

[guigui]

For floor 2, Bastet's mass attack will still be active for 2 turns, which should be enough to ping 19HP Dublits to death, even with only two turns.
GZL's defense break will only be up on the 3rd turn of this floor, though.
If the board does not give me enough green/red orbs, Artemis and Verdandi will be up.

All in all, I have 2 possible bursts, 1 of which I need on last floor. This leaves me the possibility to get orb-trolled once on floor 1 or floor 2. I think this should be ok, unless I am missing something ?

As for PCGF, I only own 9/32 cards and would be glad to roll any of the 23 remaining, except maybe Indra.
So I'll definitely roll all of my 30 stones, again (and hope to get my 5th Verdandi ). Now to resist the urge of buying a pack.

EDIT special bundle : 5 stones for $1 is available, right before the PCGF. Oh you Gungho, did you hire a marketing master ?!

[Aisha]

unless I am missing something ?

As for PCGF, I only own 9/32 cards and would be glad to roll any of the 23 remaining, except maybe Indra.
So I'll definitely roll all of my 30 stones, again (and hope to get my 5th Verdandi ). Now to resist the urge of buying a pack.

EDIT special bundle : 5 stones for $1 is available, right before the PCGF. Oh you Gungho, did you hire a marketing master ?!

Nah, I remember seeing floor 2 cleared with Bastet's active now that I think about it. Those things only have 550k defense, so you might even be able to break through that with a good combo.

I have over 150 stones saved up for the PCGF, but I have 19 of the 32 featured cards. I am getting cold feet about blowing through all of them now. I only really want Susano, dark Kali, and Ra, and in my mind Ra is kind of pointless without dark Kali. I also wouldn't mind Kanna, Satsuki, red Odin, and Kaede, but I wouldn't really have anything to do with them for the time being.

[guigui]

Friday mythical went well with Bastet's active, I love how mass attack on floors 2 and 3 actually amounts to have 18 cards on your team.
That critical floor 2 only gave me 2 green orbs and, of course, a 2 turns timer on a red Dublit. Artemis and good skyfall saved me : GZL dealt 1.3million damage, which is (just) enough to defense break this red guy.

Tough choice for your stones. Plus, those cards you'd like often have 6 stars.
Seeing how this PCGF has 32 gods at 3x rate, the odds of getting DKali, the unfortunate missing cornerstone of your box, are lower than in a regular GF.
Wait ? Or go havoc and roll all ? Considering you just finished your ABastet and light teams, you have some nice weeks ahead to enjoy the game, so I'd just wait. Of course, this is very easy to say in my position.

[guigui]

PCGF rolls :
1) Hattori Hanzo
2) Fuma Kotaro, dupe, what are those Sengoku doing here ?
3) Snow White, this starts bad.
4) Gabriel !
5) Venus, dupe
6) Kagutsuchi !
7) Akechi Mitsuhide

Well, my Shiva is ready with :
- Kagu
- Set
- Freyr
- Dino Rider

My Lakshmi is also ready with :
- Andromeda x2
- Sumire
- Gabriel
- Amberjack
- Blue Odin

Not sure about the use of Akechi Mitsuhide though, maybe his uevo will be good ?
Now I have to gather plenty +eggs, and it seems those special challenge will start giving lots of them. Any general advices on clearing the special dungeon ?

[cave hermit]

Rolled 4 times today and got:
-Shiva (dupe)
-Andromeda (Dupe)
-Sun Quan (Dupe)
-Norn Verdandi!

This Norn should be useful for my awoken bastet team... Should I replace mech dragon Canopus with her, and use her instead of Chu Chulainn?

Also the skill up system is complete bullshit; even with 2.5 times bonus skill up chance, I fed 7 green dragon fruits to Verdandi and only got one skill up!

Edit: got another stone and rolled a 5th time; got Orange Dragonbound Saria. Really don't know what to make of this one.

[guigui]

Nice rolls hermit, too bad for the lot of dupes.

Verdandi is indeed a great ABastet sub, she gives a board that often allows 2 or 3 TPAs and 7 combos. I would definitely take Canopus out to let her in. Keep CuChulain in for now though, it is great to have a low cooldown active to get that 2.25x ATK boost from both ABastet. What does your team look like now ?

Also, no worries about Verdandi skill ups, it took me more than 6 months to skill mine, she went something like 5/30. You'll just come to hate Thursday Mythical, as everybody does. By the way, a team like LuBu / Ronia / Persephone / Lilith (skilled) / Echidna (skilled) / Ronia can farm it very consistently.

[cave hermit]

My current subs are Perseus, Canopus, GZL, and marine rider.
So once I level up Chu, I'll swap out Canopus for him. Who should I replace with Verdandi?

[guigui]

I think Perseus should get out for Verdandi,,mainly because he has no TPA. Then, you shoukd definitely work on skilling CuChu, then Rider and Verdandi when possible. You’ll get a very strong team, be prepared to burst.

[Aisha]

Saria and Ryune are used as modern-day tank leaders. They are often paired with Awoken Thor and Awoken Idunn&Idunna respectively, granting 2x HP, 2.5x RCV, 6.25x ATK (10.56x on turns that a skill is used). e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tzq1cFEuoQ Alternatively, if your pair Saria with herself, then it's very possible for the team to have over 100,000 HP, but this doesn't seem to be preferable to having silly amounts of RCV.

As for Akechi, he's surprisingly very desirable. I pulled him myself a few Godfests ago and haven't given him much thought, but he works on many dark teams - Yomi Dragon, dark Metatron, Typhon, Sonia, and probably more. He also doesn't have an ultimate evolution yet, so he's only going to get better.

[Vexorg]

For my Verdandi team on my main, I'm running:

Verdandi leads (my Verdandi is +297, one away from max skill)
Liu Bei (+214, Working toward +297 Not quite as useful as an orb changer, but you can't argue with triple TPA...)
Valkyrie Elize (+107, Max skill, Heart -> green and double TPA)
GZL (+297, Double TPA, plus burst)
Sasuke (Max Skill, Blue -> Green orb change)

I have some other pieces I plug in as needed (Osiris, Leeza, etc.) but generally stick to this lineup. I could probably do a little better if I had the right pieces, but I have cleared a number of mythical descends with the team as is.

On my alt I don't have nearly as good a set of subs, so I run the following for my Verdandi team:

Verdandi leads
Cu Chulainn (Max skill)
GZL +297
ADKZ (Max skill)
Armored Red Storm Knight, Delgado

I've done OK with this team for the most part, but it's nowhere near as good as my other one.

[Kaiser]

I've completed my first Descended Challenge, the corpse wyrm, using my Urd team , when i received 2 million of gold in a reward mail, I was dancing around like mad . I didn't roll anything interesting outside Liu Bei out of my 3 rolls this Godfest.

[guigui]

I was dancing around like mad . I didn't roll anything interesting outside Liu Bei out of my 3 rolls this Godfest.

Nice clear. Damned, did you know Liu Bei is THE Verdandi's sub ? Work on getting him fully evolved, awaken him, and prepare to clear even more descends.

As for me, I was weak, very weak. Bought a pack, spent 5 stones to increase box space, then rolled :

1) Dino Rider (dupe)
2) Sharon (third)
3) Okuninushi
4) Light Kali !
5) Venus (third)
6) Vishnu !! Damned, green team is done : ABastet / Verdandi / Osiris / GZL / Vishnu
7) U&Y
8 ) Green Wee Jas (dupe)
9) Kagu (dupe)
10) Muse (dupe)
11) Amon
12) Thanatos -> MP
13) Earth Dragon Swordman, does that even exist ?
14) Ra !
15) Gabriel (dupe)

Now you see me busy for the next year building those teams. Also, I removed my credit card from Paypal account, this is safer this way...

[Jon]

Nice rolls guigui. When you have that many lined up do you blow them all at once or a little at a time? I am a wimp and can never bring myself to roll more than a couple of times in a row. I am not sure if this is helping or hurting me.

I used some willpower and only did the 5 stones for a dollar deal. I already had 16 of the 30 feature gods and was afraid of the dupe factor. I had enough for five rolls and received:

Fairy Tale girl dupe trash sold for MP
Amon
Bastet #3 (oh dear )
Amaterasu
Pandora

Nothing I set out for as usual but not too bad over all. Somehow I just knew I was going to get either a third Bastet or Verdandi.

[Vexorg]

I haven't really gotten anything noteworthy out of this Godfest. My alt got a couple of trash rolls and a dupe Verdandi (sold for MP, one is plenty), and my main got some stuff that doesn't really match any of my teams. Then again, I would be half tempted to sell off some stuff to try for a Shiva Dragon, but that would take a lot more stones than I've got.