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Puzzle & Dragons |OT| Pokemon + Bejeweled + Dungeon RPG on iOS/Android
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Same.
My team sucks. I basically have to rely on my top 5 friends to be able to do anything.
Neptune, Verche, and Mandrake are my best and they all suck. I just can't get an ADK or CDK drop or anything. Also pretty sad if I have to start a Dragon Fruit because anything else sucks. Goblins and Golems and shit.
Neptune, Verche, and Mandrake are my best and they all suck. I just can't get an ADK or CDK drop or anything. Also pretty sad if I have to start a Dragon Fruit because anything else sucks. Goblins and Golems and shit.
This. It almost seems like cheating though, if there is no monster to one-shot you with Alarune and you can at least do a few combos to get your HP back.
Evolving my monsters slowly but surely. Almost evolving both my Titan and Plesios. Lil' white dragon is already a white dragon (evo x2) since I wanted to see its form.
Working on Mermaid next since I don't want to be too dependent on Alarune friends/explorers.
Yeah I have a Dryad but I gotta get a green mask first. On my other account I have the mandrake but that team isn't powerful enough yet to beat the keepers..i don't think.
My monsters ....
ADK 5*
Minerva 5*
Tyrannos 4*
Flame Golem 3*
lil red 2*
lil Green 2*
Mermaid 3*
Blue Dragon 3*
Toyceratops 4*
White Dragon 3*
D'Spinas 4*
Ruby Carbunkle 2*
Sapphire Carbunkle 2*
Auqa Knight 3*
Harpie Devil 2*
I am at the first level of Sacred Mt. Bakkes
Not sure where to go now
ADK 5*
Minerva 5*
Tyrannos 4*
Flame Golem 3*
lil red 2*
lil Green 2*
Mermaid 3*
Blue Dragon 3*
Toyceratops 4*
White Dragon 3*
D'Spinas 4*
Ruby Carbunkle 2*
Sapphire Carbunkle 2*
Auqa Knight 3*
Harpie Devil 2*
I am at the first level of Sacred Mt. Bakkes
Not sure where to go now
Mandrake turns into one of the best healers. I know that's not helpful though if you can't beat the easier levels though
Mandrake turns into one of the best healers. I know that's not helpful though if you can't beat the easier levels though
I know, but getting the material to evolve her is going to be a bitch if I can't even beat Fire Forest Nerva. I don't really have any other green team members though so I wish I had something that supplemented my group.
Do the Water defender dungeon with Toyceratops as leader, ADK for orb switching, White Dragon, D'Spinas and then maybe another wood attacker, and a healer as a helper.
for Mt Bakkes I'd go
ADK or healer as leader, lil red, tyrannos, White Dragon, D'Spinas, healer or ADK as helper.
I don't even have a 5* monster yet. 4* is my highest.
MMBosstones86
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Im running a lot of the ordinary dungeons, up around Tower of Flare, with dual ADK's the high damage output usually does the job (thought occasionally a dearth of healing orbs can fuck you)
Yeah, once I switched my leader to a healer, my survivability went up. And, it would appear, my allies as well, as people keep using me as the helper leader
Yeah, once I switched my leader to a healer, my survivability went up. And, it would appear, my allies as well, as people keep using me as the helper leader
Maybe it's because I'm not far enough yet, but I find I die more in 1 hit than I do from attrition, so I haven't found a healer too helpful yet. :X
Damage multiplying leaders + orb changers. Kill it before it kills you.
For nasty boss monsters, you need enough hp and healing to sponge it up (possibly using a hp multiplying leader), a damage % reducing leader, or a resolve leader.
Speaking of orb changers, the green goblin is pretty awesome as an early game changer.
Unlike the other orb swappers, his board reset ability has a few interesting quirks:
It can trigger matches/combos immediately, and
It does count down the skill timers on your monsters if it matches any orbs
It does not increase the turn counter or cause an enemy attack by doing so, and
It also counts towards any on-match monster effects, including healing or enemy nuking
And of course, because it is resetting the board, it can get you out of an otherwise untenable situation. He's a little weedy stats wise to be using later in the game, but I've used him perfectly fine up through Expert level stuff.
Ya I'm currently doing that (burn them before you), but it's getting more and more difficult... especially if my skills are down and there's no dark orbs on the field. But if I get a healer helper and it's DERP easy.
Yea you should be able to download it through your phone browser.
Um .. how do you beat that Fortoytops boss his def is through the roof, back to grinding it is then
Do you have one or two orb changers?
And you can't do it indefinitely, there will be a lull where your offense isn't high enough to overcome the dungeons you're facing, and at that point you need to fall back on healing or defense until you level up/evolve/gain team points to push that offense back in your favor again
It's definitely the way to go for farming easier content
I don't think its meant to be the way you handle expert+ level special dungeons either, most of them have gimmicks (masks, dublits, tough bosses, etc)
Well it says you need Google Chrone as browser ;/.Yea you should be able to download it through your phone browser.
Um .. how do you beat that Fortoytops boss his def is through the roof, back to grinding it is then
Ya I got a Vampire lord for hearts -> dark. A chaos dragon knight for light -> dark. Once I get enough costs to put my siren on the team I can change fire -> hearts... which will help the lord.
There is a link to the apk on page 10.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46069860&postcount=901
In that case you just need to learn better puzzlin'
Knock the enemies down to one remaining, then do single matches to charge up all your skills
Store up piles of colored orbs you need in the corners/in a stipple pattern
And make 3+ combos every single time you match when you're on offense, clearing out colors you don't need
Also know when you should use a five match or if a three and some off color combos will do - it's rarely a good idea to burn 4+ in a single match for extra damage if you're running mono color unless you're going for the aoe
Knock the enemies down to one remaining, then do single matches to charge up all your skills
Store up piles of colored orbs you need in the corners/in a stipple pattern
And make 3+ combos every single time you match when you're on offense, clearing out colors you don't need
Also know when you should use a five match or if a three and some off color combos will do - it's rarely a good idea to burn 4+ in a single match for extra damage if you're running mono color unless you're going for the aoe
Thanks!
There is an awesome strategy guide app for free on Japan iOS app store...in Japanese...I was surprised how good it is
This is my multi-color team: https://twitter.com/gaspode_t/status/288679077332803584/photo/1
I am starting to build up a stable of bunch of 3 and 4 stars (3 are mostly dragons) to do monocolor teams if I need to, but it takes a lot of grinding...thankfully the stamina things forces you to stop playing, or else people would likely just play all day long
This is my multi-color team: https://twitter.com/gaspode_t/status/288679077332803584/photo/1
I am starting to build up a stable of bunch of 3 and 4 stars (3 are mostly dragons) to do monocolor teams if I need to, but it takes a lot of grinding...thankfully the stamina things forces you to stop playing, or else people would likely just play all day long
I assume it uses Kanji? I can only read like 100 kanji plus hiragana and Katakana
I see a lot of people talking about farming and grinding
Here's some quick thoughts on that, keep in mind that I'm still new to this as well so there are almost certainly better ways of handling this
1) When you gain a Rank, your Stamina refreshes. By planning out what dungeons you want to tackle and knowing (or checking on the wiki) roughly how much XP you will gain, you can chain Rank increases. In the 1-40 range or so, it's really, really easy to chain Rank ups and run a ton of dungeons. When I was doing Sky Dragon expert runs on the weekend, I actually stopped not because I ran out of Stamina, but because I was getting tired of fighting the bag of hitpoints bosses with my 'underleveled' team.
Tower of Giants third floor has one of the best xp/stamina ratios out there, and it goes to 1/2 stamina on weekends, making it the ideal place to rank up early in the game.
2) If you enter a dungeon, your Stamina begins refreshing immediately, so you can enter an expensive dungeon and then turn off the game to refill your stamina
3) If you are running early dungeons for evo material or feeding material, don't do this.
Run the Tuesday through Friday dungeons and stock up on evo material (you did expand your box slots, right?).
Run the daily dragon dungeons for leveling food or run Technical dungeons for Pengdras. A good stock of dragon plants from the Thursday dungeon will feed your Pengdras for most/all of a week. Do you want to be putting 1k-5k into your monsters at a time from Stamina draining low level dungeon runs, or 9-30-45k pengdras?
Find the schedule for the daily dragon dungeon on the Facebook group or the p&d forums.
And if you need cash, just run the weekend cashfest dungeon - one good weekend sunk into that and you should be set for quite some time.
4) Do your farming when you have 'spare' stamina and you're about to rank up. Also do it when there's a 1/2 stamina or 1.5x drop rate special on a dungeon that you want drops from.
I'm getting the feeling from a lot of posts in this thread that people are stalling out early in the game and burning up stamina trying to farm up evo or leveling material or grind a specific drop - I don't think this is a good idea. If you're having fun, go for it! It won't hurt anything, but if you want to progress more quickly, those tips might help.
5) Your early game priority should be beating the Castle of Satan which unlocks the Technical Dungeons. From there, clearing the first three Technical Dungeons will give you access to the three colors of Pengdra, which will massively increase your stamina->leveling speed.
By the time you can do that, you should be able to comfortably clear the Expert Sky Dragon dungeons, and be working on the post Castle dungeons/more technical dungeons, which have higher level drops that you can use as food (or new party members, in some cases!)
This game is a slow burner, no need to rush, but you can definitely progress more efficiently if you invest a bit of planning.
Here's some quick thoughts on that, keep in mind that I'm still new to this as well so there are almost certainly better ways of handling this
1) When you gain a Rank, your Stamina refreshes. By planning out what dungeons you want to tackle and knowing (or checking on the wiki) roughly how much XP you will gain, you can chain Rank increases. In the 1-40 range or so, it's really, really easy to chain Rank ups and run a ton of dungeons. When I was doing Sky Dragon expert runs on the weekend, I actually stopped not because I ran out of Stamina, but because I was getting tired of fighting the bag of hitpoints bosses with my 'underleveled' team.
Tower of Giants third floor has one of the best xp/stamina ratios out there, and it goes to 1/2 stamina on weekends, making it the ideal place to rank up early in the game.
2) If you enter a dungeon, your Stamina begins refreshing immediately, so you can enter an expensive dungeon and then turn off the game to refill your stamina
3) If you are running early dungeons for evo material or feeding material, don't do this.
Run the Tuesday through Friday dungeons and stock up on evo material (you did expand your box slots, right?).
Run the daily dragon dungeons for leveling food or run Technical dungeons for Pengdras. A good stock of dragon plants from the Thursday dungeon will feed your Pengdras for most/all of a week. Do you want to be putting 1k-5k into your monsters at a time from Stamina draining low level dungeon runs, or 9-30-45k pengdras?
Find the schedule for the daily dragon dungeon on the Facebook group or the p&d forums.
And if you need cash, just run the weekend cashfest dungeon - one good weekend sunk into that and you should be set for quite some time.
4) Do your farming when you have 'spare' stamina and you're about to rank up. Also do it when there's a 1/2 stamina or 1.5x drop rate special on a dungeon that you want drops from.
I'm getting the feeling from a lot of posts in this thread that people are stalling out early in the game and burning up stamina trying to farm up evo or leveling material or grind a specific drop - I don't think this is a good idea. If you're having fun, go for it! It won't hurt anything, but if you want to progress more quickly, those tips might help.
5) Your early game priority should be beating the Castle of Satan which unlocks the Technical Dungeons. From there, clearing the first three Technical Dungeons will give you access to the three colors of Pengdra, which will massively increase your stamina->leveling speed.
By the time you can do that, you should be able to comfortably clear the Expert Sky Dragon dungeons, and be working on the post Castle dungeons/more technical dungeons, which have higher level drops that you can use as food (or new party members, in some cases!)
This game is a slow burner, no need to rush, but you can definitely progress more efficiently if you invest a bit of planning.
Good advice but you don't also have a stock of evo materials when you need them, it's kind of annoying that you have to wait a week for masks if you missed the last lot for example, limitations are at every corner lol
Plus daily dungeons are very expensive stamina wise.
"3) If you are running early dungeons for evo material or feeding material, don't do this."
Ahhhh, but I just need one darn dragon plant thing for my blue nessie dragon to evolve
I was running the "Tower of fortitude" or whatever it is called (the one that drops lots of dragon seeds and sometimes a dragon plant...) just this morning...it is easy to use up all stamina in a heartbeat with that one because I don't gain much rank...
Ahhhh, but I just need one darn dragon plant thing for my blue nessie dragon to evolve
I was running the "Tower of fortitude" or whatever it is called (the one that drops lots of dragon seeds and sometimes a dragon plant...) just this morning...it is easy to use up all stamina in a heartbeat with that one because I don't gain much rank...
Sone random questions ...
At which points can you pick challeging fights? That lvl 30 monster I got and another 30 helping makes everything so far a joke.
Do you have to have every element on your team later on?
edit: And what is the right wqy to transfuse? I tried same looking ones aswellnas same element but dont see a pattern
At which points can you pick challeging fights? That lvl 30 monster I got and another 30 helping makes everything so far a joke.
Do you have to have every element on your team later on?
edit: And what is the right wqy to transfuse? I tried same looking ones aswellnas same element but dont see a pattern
I too got an earth golem on my last one...it's a trap!
Yea bit of a slap to the face innit.
I am just spending all my stones on box upgrades now I'll just farm the monsters the hard way.
During events the pal machine can give out silver and gold eggs also, im guessing Easter will be the next one though
I am debating doing this. I have 5 stones burning a hole in my pocket. I am waiting for a metal dungeon to pop up for now and starting a new game on my cell (want a decent pull).
Yea bit of a slap to the face innit.
I am just spending all my stones on box upgrades now I'll just farm the monsters the hard way.
During events the pal machine can give out silver and gold eggs also, im guessing Easter will be the next one though
so there is a benefit to hoarding pal points? I've never seen a pal event before.
There was one over Christmas/New Year, according to the facebook page.
DangerousDave
Member
Ok, I got some ruby dragons... what's their use? Extra XP for red monsters?
Yea bit of a slap to the face innit.
I am just spending all my stones on box upgrades now I'll just farm the monsters the hard way.
During events the pal machine can give out silver and gold eggs also, im guessing Easter will be the next one though
I'm doing this now also. I need spaces way more than I need any rares. It would be great to get something sick but I have no room for upgrade materials
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
The lesser of them are also used to evolve Fire Pengdras once you reach the technical dungeons, for even moooore exp
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
SOOO stuck at the Sacred Mt. Bakkes.
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