Puzzle & Dragons

[Aisha]

So, challenge dungeon rewards have changed :

- Lv 5...Latent TAMADRA (Ext. Move Time)
- Lv 4…PreDRA
The PreDRA at level 4 may be sold for 3000 points at the shop. I am inclined not to be happy with this.

First, where is my Snow Globe Dragon at Lv 5 ?!? I understand Latent TAMADRA may be useful in the long term, but damned, I need XP for my cards, now.
Second, you get 3k points at the shop for clearing Lv 4, that is just enough to buy a regular TAMADRA. But you used to gain a +9 TAMADRA for clearing Lv4, where are my 9 +eggs gone ?

I just found out about this and I find it pretty disappointing too. The Latent TAMADRA (Ext. Move Time) is pretty much one of the worst you can get so it's nothing to get excited over; furthermore, Latent TAMADRA in general will eventually become farmable as invades in special versions of existing descends (e.g., Hera-Ur with a 5x4 board). The PreDRA is nice, but 3000 MP won't get you much and buying a plain TAMADRA would be a waste since they can be easily farmed by the handful in Retreat or Village.

I wish they'd come up with another way to distribute Snow Globe Dragons, because I'm working on 3 teams simultaneously and need a pile of experience for them...

[cave hermit]

I just completed the level 5 challenge dungeon without knowing about the reward change. So instead of a snow globe dragon that has a good chance of instantly maxing out a monster's level, I get a tamadra that will add 0.1 seconds to the movement timer? This is dumb.

Also the level 4 reward is a mere grimrock's worth of monster points -_-

[guigui]

I just completed the level 5 challenge dungeon without knowing about the reward change. So instead of a snow globe dragon that has a good chance of instantly maxing out a monster's level, I get a tamadra that will add 0.1 seconds to the movement timer? This is dumb.

Also the level 4 reward is a mere grimrock's worth of monster points -_-

You're actually wrong, the latent TAMADRA adds 0.05 seconds to the movement timer, yay !
A whole team of latent time extend adds 1.5 seconds, which might be nice though, but too long/costly to build imo.

[Jon]

The new challenge rewards are indeed lame. It does seem like the PreDRA's should be going for at least twice their rate at the point shop and the complete lack of Snow Globes or plussed Tamadras sucks.

I evo'd my Vishnu to his new ultimate form this morning. This, along with Osiris's recently announced ult http://puzzledragonx.com/en/monster.asp?n=2386 make my green teams lack of GZL hurt just a little bit less.

God Fest, ahoy! Who's rolling? I am definitely feeling day one over day two.

[Necronopticous]

They won't be getting any of my stones this godfest. I think Indian 2/Egyptian 2 together would be the only combination that would even tempt me at this point. I will just continue to hoard stones.

[guigui]

... my green teams lack of GZL hurt just a little bit less.
...

Says the guy that has the Liu Bei card ? Huuuum, I cant remove that jealousy inside me, sorry.

I'll definitely roll day 1 of the godfest, 15 stones stored. It will also be my 249th day on PAD, otherwise put, I miss one day to get the 5 free stones and a free roll...

[Aisha]

I think I should feel relieved... Indian 1 and Egyptian 2 on the second day would have been IAP-bait for me because I would really like to pull Parvati and Osiris, but dark Kali is excluded on that day so I'm going to hold back and probably not pull at all. Again.

[Geist]

Just granted myself one courtesy pull in today's GF: Izanagi
Was hoping for a LKali, but the AS, ATK x2 for Gods, seems okay.

I really hope that the Norns will get an UVO very soon. Other than that, nothing really happened.
(oh, cleared the first 3 Endless Corridors for the stone)
Guess I should start working on a team that can beat Gaia... I need her for my Awoken Hades... but her dungeon just sucks...

edit: typo

[guigui]

Godfest ?

- Grimrock
- Andromeda, dupe (what the hell is wrong with the RNG in this game, I always roll dupes on consecutive godfest : triple Verdandi, double GZL, double Rodin, double Lubu, double LMeta, double Andromeda ??)
- Salamender.

No godfest.

[Aisha]

A dupe Andromeda is a blessing because she is one of Awoken Lakshmi's best subs. You already have most of a team in

Awoken Lakshmi - Andromeda - Andromeda - Blue Odin - X

You could perhaps stick Muse in that last spot, but his active isn't really necessary. Hatsume or Sharon would suffice, but ideally you'd want an Archangel Gabriel or third Andromeda.

Just granted myself one courtesy pull in today's GF: Izanagi
Was hoping for a LKali, but the AS, ATK x2 for Gods, seems okay.

I really hope that the Norns will get an UVO very soon. Other than that, nothing really happened.
(oh, cleared the first 3 Endless Corridors for the stone)
Guess I should start working on a team that can beat Gaia... I need her for my Awoken Hades... but her dungeon just sucks...

edit: typo

Verdandi will receive an ultimate evolution. She won the Godfest Exclusive category in the previous ultimate evolution survey, which is held by GungHo every now and then. Sakuya won the Pantheon category (for the third time ) and Noah the Descended category.

[guigui]

You're right about Andromeda, I'll finally work on building a blue team since I'm always annoyed by red dungeons. For instance, this could help me clear the Zeus Vulcan we talked earlier.

Also, very good new about Verdandi uevo ! Are more details known ? 3 TPAs or nothing !

[cave hermit]

Just rolled Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao; not really sure what to use them for right now, but should be nice down the road.

[guigui]

DQXQ is a good sub either for LMeta or LKali, which you both have. Congrats.
Oh, do you want my Grimrock :p oops, I just sold it for 1/100th of a Shiva Dragon...

Edit no DQXQ as lkali sub, her active forbids lkzli multi...

[Aisha]

Da Qiao is also a great sub for Sun Wukong and Awoken Venus teams.

Also, very good new about Verdandi uevo ! Are more details known ? 3 TPAs or nothing !

No details yet, but maybe in the next JP stream, which should be later this month. It's typical for winners of these surveys to receive modest ultimate evolutions though. Bind immunity would be very nice, but I think that's too much of a stretch. I'll probably be happy with whatever she gets as long as it isn't more Enhanced Wood Orb awakenings. I think Machine as a third typing is also a strong possibility, just based on her existing art and current trends in new content.

[StoofooEsq]

Made an REM pull and got Ra. Not Godfest, and it's a dupe. Thanks for the 5,000 Monster Points, then.

Last Godfest I got any real satisfaction out of was when I pulled L Kali. Might be the best card I've fully evolved and leveled.

Also, good to see Osiris is getting an Ult Evo (and that the art has a bit of his first form, too). Should give me more of a reason to put him on a team.

[Geist]

3 more pulls:

1: Purple Grimoire, Goetia; good for my potential Astaroth team
2: Amaterasu guess, it is time for a healer team (Amate, LMeta, Valk Rose, Sun Quan, Kushi/Echidna, Amate)
3: Fire Dragon Swordsman; 3000 MP

Now, I need to get four Jewels of Light.... (for Sakuya, Amaterasu and Valkyrie Rose)
*sigh

[guigui]

Welcome on topic StoofooEsq. You've been playing since long ?

Geist, rejoice, Jewel of Light may be bought in the shop ... but dont do that. Challenges come pretty often now and give them.

About that Verdandi uevo again, please dont tell me they'll change her active !? I just spent the last 8 thursdays farming that damned mythical to skill her up.

[Jon]

Verds active is great as is. I would be pretty bummed if they messed with it for her ult. An extra TPA or two would be great though and while I'm dreaming give her a third attacker type to jive with the GZL I don't have.

Five rolls yesterday. All golds but the dupe factor haunted me:

Yomi #2
Gadius #2
Goetia - will probably collect dust along with her light counterpart Ars(e) Nova but at least she's new
Kirin of the Aurora, Sakuya
Scarlet Dragon Caller, Tsubaki - neat, but why couldn't you be Kaede?

[StoofooEsq]

Made another REM pull. Got a Blazing Maiden, Princess Valkyrie that I immediately evolved. Not from the Godfest, but still good to have, and she's cute. Helps that she's not another dupe. She's 4 out of 5 Valkyries I have now.

Welcome on topic StoofooEsq. You've been playing since long ?

Yeah, been playing PAD for a year and half now. I've had periods of hiatus that stop with me getting a key monster or having a breakthrough of an idea and going full steam ahead again. Recently I had some gift dragons of various elements, so I maxed out those, then fed them to other monsters to power level them. Been making much more progress since then.

In between running dragon infestations to level monsters, I'm trying to get my EXP up by running Weekend Dungeon on Master and Lava Tube. Not just to boost my Stamina and Rank up, but also to increase my Max Team cost. Getting the likes of U&Y, Skuld, L Kali, Hera-Is, Ult Evolving them and finally Ult Evolving my Awoken Hera into Divine Queen Hera has made me feel the pressure of high costs. I've got some potentially very strong teams in the works, I just can't fit in the one or two missing pieces yet.

Even then, I've got placeholders for those teams and they still play well. And the oldie but goodie Double Haku setup continues to do work for easy big spike damage.

[Aisha]

Pulled twice, got Shiva and Parvati. I sold Shiva for MP, but Parvati was one of the cards I wanted so I'm happy.

About that Verdandi uevo again, please dont tell me they'll change her active !? I just spent the last 8 thursdays farming that damned mythical to skill her up.

Won't happen. The pattern is to keep the same active skill across all ultimate evolutions, which is what Verdandi is getting. Active skills only change with awoken evolutions.

[Kaiser]

So I pulled a spare Metatron out of the Godfest, anyone want it as a gift? I already have a Metatron (incase I don't have your ID, you can post it here, first one gets it who agrees to it)

[guigui]

? I dont think you can send you metatron as a gift, can you ?

[Necronopticous]

1) Awoken Yomi team

I'm sitting on my last 300,000 monster points. I need to wait until the dark MP dragon is announced since there is a rather good possibility it will wind up being the best Awoken Yomi sub out there. If so, I will save my MP for that, else, it is just enough to latent-awaken the rest of my primary Awoken Ra team with full 6% rainbow resist.

http://www.puzzledragonx.com/en/news.asp?nid=388

Well, the cat is out of the bag and I'm pretty torn on this one. On one hand Yomi Dragon is a very good Awoken Yomi sub that serves a pretty important utility: bindproof bind-clearing heart generator. The problem is that I already have a hypermaxed Dark Kali which serves this purpose, and even covers the bases on the double time extend offered by Yomi Dragon. I'm not too interested in Yomi Dragon as a leader; I think Awoken Yomi is just outright better. I'm sure there are some rare cases where it would be a good option to run DKali & Yomi Dragon on the same team, or Yomi Dragon in place of DKali, but now we're talking about situationals on a B Team (Awoken Ra outclasses basically everything) so I think Yomi Dragon is, sadly, yet another unjustifiable purchase at the steep 300K MP price point. I think I'd sooner go for Pure @ 250K MP who is also very situational, but at least totally unique in her utility, and highly complementary to her MP-eating counterpart, Shiva Dragon, who I still think is the only MP card that gets into "must-have" territory.

[Aisha]

I'm not too impressed by the Tsukuyomi Dragon either -- not at a 300,000 MP price point, at least. If I had the funds I'd be more inclined to buy a Shiva Dragon or Ra Dragon, although I'm less enthusiastic about the latter because I can't field a Ra Dragon team due to having 0 dark Kali cards, and also since I think Awoken Ra is similar and good enough (and in some ways, better).

Now since all of the MP Dragons have been unveiled, it will be interesting to see if they rotate through them again or introduce a new series.

[Vexorg]

Made a few rolls this past Godfest, and managed to come up with the combination of Sumire and Set. Sounds like that (plus some of the other blues I have like BOdin and Andromeda) could make for an interesting team a bit down the road...

[guigui]

This week I managed to awoken both Ceres and Lakshmi, I was crazy about jewels, those things are hard to get...
Now my blue team is on its way : ALakshmi / Blue Odin / Andromeda / Andromeda / Hatsume.
Everyone is uevo and I have some blue pengdras ready to level up a little, but I also need some TAMADRAS, lots of them...

Question about the new Best Friend selection we were given about a month ago. If I use it, will I loose the first best friend I chose (that was Necro) ?

[Aisha]

Question about the new Best Friend selection we were given about a month ago. If I use it, will I loose the first best friend I chose (that was Necro) ?

Nope. You still keep your old best friend when you select another.

[guigui]

Oh, this means you simply get a new best friend, and more Pal Points,? Am I stupid not having done that earlier.

Will you be my new BF Aisha ? I have +297 Verdandi, ABastet, AVenus, ALakshmi I can put up if you like.

[Geist]

Oh, this means you simply get a new best friend, and more Pal Points,? Am I stupid not having done that earlier.<BR abp="280"><BR abp="281">Will you be my new BF Aisha ? I have +297 Verdandi, ABastet, AVenus, ALakshmi I can put up if you like.

Simply, choose someone who has preferably 2 hypermaxed leaders that benefit you the most in slot 1 and 2.
Otherwise, Aisha seems to be a good choice too.
___

At the moment I have 15 Best Friends and I am quite happy about it, as I rarely need one of the other 100+ friends.
The trouble is, most of the time I feel obliged to use-up all of the remaining bonuses, so I end up playing the daily 2 Stamina dungeons for 100 Pal Points each just to be a good BF.

Other than that I managed to farm Hera-Ur for 4 Jewels of Light. (for the cost of 4 stones) which is okayish.
Today, I tried farming Hera-Beorc for ONE green jewel, and after 8 Mythical runs- MeiMei still hasn't showed up....

Good thing that it isn't super urgent since Kaguya-Hime (which I need for Awoken Amaterasu) still has to come over to Europe. Let's hope she won't need to queue for too long, shall we?

[guigui]

15 best friends ! That's a lot, I only have 2 (3 very soon...) How could you find 15 Best Friends ?
Also congrats on the 4 jewels of light, that is a nice farm. I'm not even sure I have you as friend : 318 151 325 if you want to add me.