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Dragon Blaze (iOS/Android) |OT| Looks Like Vanillaware, Tastes Like F2P
- Thread starter Kitoro
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Not gonna lie. I got suckered in by your team. Thought it would be an easy win in continuing my 60 win streak.
NOPE.
ShalashaskaEx
Banned
The Boden's aren't out in global yet and won't be for a while.
ETA: Woops, beat by a mile.
Really? For both Draco and Angel or just Angel? Just for next week or it's a permanent buff? Either way, good to hear.
Yeah, I'm not falling for it, Wapple!
ETA: Woops, beat by a mile.
Really? For both Draco and Angel or just Angel? Just for next week or it's a permanent buff? Either way, good to hear.
Yeah, I'm not falling for it, Wapple!
LordGorchnik
Member
Thanks.
Im a new player, just now got to level 51 and I only have 4 SSS units so far which I gained from combining SS units. Have around 720 rubies to spend right now. Do they ever have a sale on premium summons?
They semi regularly do "Summon 10 / Get 2 Free" and they had a 20% discount on summons as well.
ShalashaskaEx
Banned
Just a heads up for those that didn't see.
Hello Bodens!
We've added ADDITIONAL events!
Take advantage of these NEW events!
Check them out below!
New Happy Hour Events
10/7 ~ 10/8: Ally Summon
10/9 ~ 10/11: [SS] Ally Summon
10/12 ~ 10/15: Ally Summon
10/16 ~ 10/18: [SS] Ally Summon
Also, Deathcrown posted today and said:
"While I do not have set dates yet I am pleased to inform you that Valmut's difficulty will be decreased in the near future. Once this happens you'll have more players queuing up to take part in this raid.
Once I receive finalized details on when this will occur I'll be sure to announce it. From what I've seen a large portion of players are still farming Aqua, which is due to the various issues caused by the difficulty of the Valmut raid.
So we're hoping this will address that."
Hello Bodens!
We've added ADDITIONAL events!
Take advantage of these NEW events!
Check them out below!
New Happy Hour Events
10/7 ~ 10/8:
10/9 ~ 10/11: [SS] Ally Summon
10/12 ~ 10/15:
10/16 ~ 10/18: [SS] Ally Summon
Also, Deathcrown posted today and said:
"While I do not have set dates yet I am pleased to inform you that Valmut's difficulty will be decreased in the near future. Once this happens you'll have more players queuing up to take part in this raid.
Once I receive finalized details on when this will occur I'll be sure to announce it. From what I've seen a large portion of players are still farming Aqua, which is due to the various issues caused by the difficulty of the Valmut raid.
So we're hoping this will address that."
They have done a discounted summon once, and a 10 premium pulls get 2 free a few times. I wouldn't bother saving up waiting for those though. I usually do pulls on sunday during the enhance fail boost to get the most out of it for enhancing purposes. Plus, the rates from premium is a hell of a lot better now than it was compared to release.
How do you know this? Doesn't seem to be any announcement on the official forms.
Its updated under Oct GM Event.
ShalashaskaEx
Banned
Cool, I saw the updated happy hour stuff but not the GM.
New GM Events
10/7 ~ 10/20: Premium Jewel 10+2 Event
10/7 ~ 10/20: Platinum Equipment 10+2 Event
10/13 ~ 10/20: Increased Essences Drop Rate Event
10/13 ~ 10/20: Increased SS~SSS Raid Item Drop Rate Event
10/13 ~ 10/20: Platinum Ally Summon 1+1 Bonus
Receive an additional ally whenever acquiring one through the Platinum Ally Summon bonus.
EXAMPLE) Summon 3 [A] Allies and receive not only the bonus
10/13 ~ TBD: Special Popup Bonus Rubies
Guess I'll go easy on blowing through shoes and tickets this weekend and wait until Tuesday.
oh hell, now im going to hoard rubies until that 1+1 bonus is live. I'm 1 SS pull away from the free SSS.
I have about 850 rubies right now. Gonna hoard some more. I missed even 20% on hydra this week. Rough. My team is just not built for WB. Really need a solid archer. Too many mages.
I have over 400 shoes ready to go for essence drop bonus. Not sure if I should focus on angel or Draco. Draco I need to get my +2 blackaria up more and I'd think getting my max Draco BS to ultimate would be a big boost.
I have over 400 shoes ready to go for essence drop bonus. Not sure if I should focus on angel or Draco. Draco I need to get my +2 blackaria up more and I'd think getting my max Draco BS to ultimate would be a big boost.
If you want to improve your wb scores, I think getting the angel archer is the way. Unless your Draco Brightspark is geared really well, getting her to Ult might not be as big a boost as you think. My wb team is Bloodwind+Max, Blackaria+Max, Ur and DBS+Max+3 and can barely break 1mil(5% rank) on golem and 2.5mil(7% rank) on hydra. It will likely improve a bit with enhancing Ur but the higher scoring wb teams have that angel archer. Also Ravengale if her buff is working now helps wb even more.
I see myself using Llwelyn for the foreseeable future and already ult Blackaria. Will always need a healer right?
I go back and forth on taking Black to ult because in Arena and GB I kinda want her to die first to get the benefit of her death rattle.
I'll never get the essences for taking Llwelyn to ult :\ Stuck at +3.
imo, blackaria is a hell of a lot more annoying if she is alive. A person playing the korean version on reddit did note that arena matches will end up lasting a lot longer in chapter 3, most likely when allies get the full 6 equip slots along with certain bodens and an angel releasing. Doubt relying on her death for 8 seconds will be a reliable tactic moving forward.
That is the right approach to take really if your team is all equally enhanced. There is nothing more hilarious than seeing Blackaria being the last one standing.
That said, does anyone know why Farael is so highly rated for WB (S+/A) in KR? I'm actually toying with the idea of making her instead of Grael but can't seem to see how she will help me.
Passive: Debuff
Active 1: Heal skill
Active 2: Heal skill
Active 3: This looks good on paper. However the def boost + reflect damage would be totally useless in Golem since you will wipe once he enrages. On paper, it looks better for Hydra since it hits pretty hard once enraged and the reflect + def bonus will help rack up your score....However....she is rated higher for golem than hydra.
Passive 1: Sub-par passive.
Passive 2: Again -10% damage seems more useful for Hydra than golem.
Excellent point. I'll take her to ult today
LordGorchnik
Member
Oh wow, so I guess I should save my rubies now until this goes live? Seems like a decent time to spend all the ones I've been saving.
Also out of curiosity, has anyone actually ever pulled a SSS from the platinum summon?
Going just by the numbers I can see how that makes sense. Golem hits harder when enraged and since the damage reflect will only be down every 5 seconds it should be reliable, with the passive that mitigates 38% damage total if its correct to just add it like that. Add in Ravengale stealing 60% atk from golem you could last much longer. She could be ranked lower on hydra since Ravengale alone is probably enough to lower the damage so you can fill the party with more dps allies. But then it also means you have to rely on having Ravengale first, so idk.That is the right approach to take really if your team is all equally enhanced. There is nothing more hilarious than seeing Blackaria being the last one standing.
That said, does anyone know why Farael is so highly rated for WB (S+/A) in KR? I'm actually toying with the idea of making her instead of Grael but can't seem to see how she will help me.
Passive: Debuff
Active 1: Heal skill
Active 2: Heal skill
Active 3: This looks good on paper. However the def boost + reflect damage would be totally useless in Golem since you will wipe once he enrages. On paper, it looks better for Hydra since it hits pretty hard once enraged and the reflect + def bonus will help rack up your score....However....she is rated higher for golem than hydra.
Passive 1: Sub-par passive.
Passive 2: Again -10% damage seems more useful for Hydra than golem.
Now, I don't recall but does Aim on archers negate CC(stun,sheep) or does it have to be ult Aim or does it not work like that at all? My archer is close to 67 and is already doing 20k crits each hit with roa ult(only due to formation boosting crit damage atm need better gear for her), might try using her in gb if aim can deal with sheep.
I don't think they fixed her yet, saw someone complain it still being bugged in-game earlier on the reddit channel.
Looks like we are finally getting raid shop, woo!
I don't think they fixed her yet, saw someone complain it still being bugged in-game earlier on the reddit channel.
Looks like we are finally getting raid shop, woo!
Whats the raid shop?
everytime you finish a raid you get 1 token, you can use the tokens to trade in for the equipment each raid boss drops. The tokens you get are only for that raid boss you did though, so if you get raid tokens for killing aqua it will only work for aqua raid shop.
ShalashaskaEx
Banned
It'd be really nice if they put announcements/updates/news on the banner that pops up every fucking time you login. It makes no sense that they don't use that. It'd also be nice if the "don't show this shit again" toggle actually worked.
Yeah, it'd be a good time to spend some rubies. I believe a few members here have pulled a SSS before. I've pulled 7 or 8 SS but never a SSS.
Yeah, it'd be a good time to spend some rubies. I believe a few members here have pulled a SSS before. I've pulled 7 or 8 SS but never a SSS.
I did once. Just once. But damn if you don't feel like the king of the goddamn world when it happens.
Thanks, I almost missed it!
That's a LOT of grinding though. I did it for awhile but its mind numbing.
I think its far too dependent on RNG to make any kind of categorical statement like that. Unless I'm missing some super efficient manner of getting B rank or better fodder and combining (e.g. its easy to burn through 500 FP, even with the 50% reduction and get none or a bare handful of B's)
i think making 1 SSS free is definetely doable, but friend summons are usually just Cs which are useless for making sss by themselves, you can def make a lot of SS tho lol
RNG is in play but of course that is also accounted for. I made 4 SSS last week, which 2 were without spending any rubies and the other 2 spending rubies. This week I'm on track to make another 2 SSS, just waiting for the enhance bonus. I was at 0 rubies at the beginning of the week and now at 600 rubies and yet to use any. This is all possible with the steady stream of SS they are giving us.
There is still room for margin of error should your RNG not fall your way. I have 13 B, 2 S, and the rest Cs. In my mailbox alone theres still 3 S, 4 A, 3 SS. This is all accumulated only from this week.
A screenshot so far of my enhancing just from using friend points, shoes, and free dailies for this week. I've gotten down the efficiency method needed to make 2 SSS a week so its possible for you too as f2p.
I think Ravengale is a flat out improvement over Belle Snow, with a particular bonus to WB. The Boden Summoner is an improvement over Ravengale in other areas. Of course she's months off, so it depends on whether you want to bank on getting another summoner between now and then I suppose.
WB is my main focus now, I do so bad there.
Who's the Boden summoner and where does she excel?
Any reason to hold onto Porin if I have Blackaria and Mercedes?
Magritte, the goth loli looking one, though I think she's a wave 2 boden so she's ages away. She can summon ascended units and buff them with 102% ATK, 71% ATK SPD, she also has the highest INT out of all the casters and solid AOE damage. She's basically like an upgraded Belle Snow so she's good for most things.
What fodder do you use for your SS, just B's or do you use A and S rank fodder as well?
Magritte, the goth loli looking one, though I think she's a wave 2 boden so she's ages away. She can summon ascended units and buff them with 102% ATK, 71% ATK SPD, she also has the highest INT out of all the casters and solid AOE damage. She's basically like an upgraded Belle Snow so she's good for most things.
What fodder do you use for your SS, just B's or do you use A and S rank fodder as well?
Same as what the guide say but I set limits and adjust accordingly. You just have do with with what you are comfortable with. For me always start with a 1 B then 1 A. Followed by Cs, and if after 10 Cs with no success, put in another B. If after another 5-10 Cs with no success then its cursed and move to another SS and try that one later. Never go over +5 without the decreased enhance cost buff as it will turn costly. I never start enhancing without at least 25-40 B/Cs in stock so you have to prepare accordingly. You should be able to acquire 25-40 B/Cs every day just from shoes and friend points.
Nope, I can't gather more than 5-10 B every day, maybe 10-15 in the week but not the amount you get. Yes even with shoes or friendship points.
I always need to pull rubies to make a second SSS during a week.
Yeah, I'd be lucky to hit 25 B's a week never mind a day.
ShalashaskaEx
Banned
Yeah, same. I don't see how I could reliably make 2+ SSS a week without a lot of luck or much higher rankings in the various events for lots of rubies.
I never have enough B's for enhancing. Friend point summon gives me 95% C's. I end up using a load of A's to enhance SS because I'd never make anything if I waited until I had a ton of B's.
I never have enough B's for enhancing. Friend point summon gives me 95% C's. I end up using a load of A's to enhance SS because I'd never make anything if I waited until I had a ton of B's.
I think its a safe bet to use A's to enhance SS these days. Everyone's aiming for Ascended units where you will usually use S as the minimum. So A are only for normal SSS units. There are only a handful of normal SSS units worth holding on to so you might as well use A's on SS enhancing.
ShalashaskaEx
Banned
Yeah, it doesn't bother me to blow A's on SS's anymore. I just need to up my weekly ruby income somehow.
I just did 33 FP summons and didn't receive even a single B (all C's). I have no idea how one would regularly acquire 20+ B's a day using a normal amount of shoes/FPs.
I just did 33 FP summons and didn't receive even a single B (all C's). I have no idea how one would regularly acquire 20+ B's a day using a normal amount of shoes/FPs.