Septimus Prime
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Speaking of ADK, they should at least give him a Balanced subtype or something. He's completely useless now. CDK, too.
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I'm guessing all the Mystic Knights and the Healer Girls will be getting ultimate Evolutions at some point (the Ripper Dragons could also use one).
Wasted around 150 stamina stupidly dying in the past few days. The board is always against me whenever I play Horus it seems. Now I'm craving the stability of mono-dark, but can't seem to get Spinon even after 12 rolls of that starter dragon machine... Fuck off Brachy goddammit.
MMBosstones86
Member
your best bet is to wait for the colored dragon dungeons. Can't remember which one, but they can drop the starter dragon of that color. Takes quite a few runs though
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
So I just realized I've logged into this game consecutively for almost eight months.
Gaze into your avatar: Eight months, and for what? Eight Siegfrieds.
#GungHoConspiracy
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Bah. Tossed a stone at Universe, but only because GC CRAB showed up. Round 5 and 9 are definitely the ass rounds. If I can get my team to easy clear those floors, I can farm this dungeon for mad XP/stam.
MMBosstones86
Member
Same here. Was going with Horus/Ra, but the board was screwing me up. Going to try with my woefully under powered valk team and see how that does.
atlantaguy
Member
While I agree that the Mystic Knights could use an update, I don't ADK and CDK are anywhere close to useless. I use them both frequently on mono color and Zaerog teams. That 5 turn orb change is super useful.
I was just noticing this myself. I'm at day 244 in a row.
Anyone know the exp/stamina ratio for the Universe/Master of Groove Coaster? Wondering if I should just spend my time there this week waiting for the next event.
Universe was really simple. Any Horus/Isis/Ra team should be fine. Stick with Isis and Echidna delay for the final boss, really simple.
MMBosstones86
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Coins: 24000 - 28000 ( 520 / Stamina )
Experience: 22670 - 27340 ( 501 / Stamina )
very solid if you can easily farm it.
Ive been noticing this trend as well. The problem I've always had with the team is HP but i'm sure all of these players building around her are stacking the heck out of HP in their lineup. I switched to Valk team over Horus to farm Poring, they just burn through levels. Having 2 Siren and 2 max skill Valk every 5 turns is a ton of damage.
Just ran it to test. 50 stamina, 23900 exp (458 exp/stam). Not bad. I just don't have any use for the mobs that drop. I don't have the mobs that benefit from the skill ups. I think I'll try and keep the boss drops for a 2x event. The poor man's goemon team might be worth trying to build at some point.
MMBosstones86
Member
drops give a decent amount of xp from Universe (~7.5k i think?), so it's not a total wash. Keeping health under 10% is a real bitch though. Basically need every high HP sub there is and hope for the best.
I completely overlooked the 10%. For some reason I was thinking the evolved version was 20% health. Yeah, that's going to be really difficult to manage, especially with a dark team.
Edit: I'm starting to think these GC Collab mobs are good to hold onto for the Team cost restricted dungeons. The evolved forms max at 10 team cost. A read green attacker team might work very well.
Edit 2: WTF is going on with the Metal dragons?
atlantaguy
Member
Fuck. I choked on a Horus combo and got stomped in Universe. That hasn't happened in awhile. There goes 50 stamina.
the_log_ride
Member
Good to see that Horus teams can tackle universe difficulty, but has anyone run it with your standard Goemon team?
Tonner Cyn
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What are the other pieces you are using and how leveled are they? I had to use one stone when I cleared universe but I have added some levels since then. I am using: RoseValk (55), Freyja Golden Goddess (max), Echidna Red (max), Siren TE (79), and Lilith Witch (49).
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Round 5 and 9 have high HP and hit real hard. You need to do work so they can't attack. I imagine Horus teams would be fine, though. 9x Healer girl isn't enough unless you've got some beef to your team (which I do not).
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
I keep getting boned on Universe when they drop me into wave 5 and 9 without a Horusable board. The other waves you can just launch a single AOE to clear without actually havin to go the full 16x damage.
For Valk teams you can do the same off color AOE strat and use an orb change on waves 5 and 9 to burst through. As long as you eliminate one of the big aliens the other is guaranteed to use Speed Up giving you free turns to set up and burst.
For Valk teams you can do the same off color AOE strat and use an orb change on waves 5 and 9 to burst through. As long as you eliminate one of the big aliens the other is guaranteed to use Speed Up giving you free turns to set up and burst.
Got it. I did take a hit from round 5 one of the times I tried it. Looked it up and the evolve red guys hit for 12.5k, good to know and watch out for.
Seems like a mono blue team would probably be a good fit for this dungeon if you don't have an egyptian team to run. take the 4x HP and a couple sirens and tank the dmg.
Edit: just ran it again and screwed up on round 9 and invade caused a lot of problems. HP was over 17k and that was the only thing that saved me.
My Rose valkyrie is around level 90. The other members I have are Lilith, Echidna, Siren, and Holy Ceres all between 50-70. Valk is definitely doing most of the damage.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
If you haven't noticed, all attack skills are single-hit so you can theoretically Ammy/Grodin your way through it as long as you eliminate synched mobs.
atlantaguy
Member
With Horus/Ra watch out for the waves with 4 or 5 mobs on one turn counters. It doesn't take much to kill them, but they hit hard, and a mistake can easily be fatal.
Ammy/GrOdin works. It's not completely mindless (on the boss) unless you have +40 RCV on a max lvl ammy though. The mook waves have HP that's easily cleared with 1x attack modifiers and waves 5/9 are pretty easy to deal with.
Tonner Cyn
Member
Just noticed that Holy Ceres has better numbers than Freyja, though not by too much. Still, I wonder if it might be worth me working towards changing my Devil Ceres over to Holy...
This definitely works (has been suggested a few times in the thread) and is a lot safer if you don't trust your damage multiplier teams to get you all the way through. You just need a minimum of 12k hp to survive the final boss' attack every three turns.
LOL. Arcade in Japan bans customers from playing Puzzle & Dragons
http://kotaku.com/japanese-arcade-apparently-bans-smartphone-games-1118647168
http://kotaku.com/japanese-arcade-apparently-bans-smartphone-games-1118647168
MMBosstones86
Member
I was thinking the same for Devil Ceres. Her Devil subtype isn't nearly as useful.
PSA guys. Next event starts on friday. Ignore the daily dungeons today and tomorrow.
Septimus Prime
Member
GC Universe can easily be cleared with a Lucifer team.
You don't really need 2x drop for Keepers, though. But masks, yes.
With all the Lucix2 talk we just had I'm kinda surprised more people didn't say this earlier.
MMBosstones86
Member
^ Only rainbow keeper REALLY benefits from 2x drop as he's not guaranteed.
Tonner Cyn
Member
2x sprites on Friday? I guess I know what I need - 5 dubmythlits to convert Ceres!
I hope it's this weekend, i'm kinda waiting to know how much stone i'll spend on the collab.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
Shadow Waltz ends on Thursday too; wonder if that means they'll dump Murako Collection on us as part of the 1m celebration.
I'm going to try skilling it up since im running universe for exp. Can't hurt, but definitely not a very useful skill. I doubt ill ever use UFO to begin with.
I'm sitting on 25 stones for the eventual Chinese Godfest. Hoping the gods are kind.
MMBosstones86
Member
I'm going to try skilling it up since im running universe for exp. Can't hurt, but definitely not a very useful skill. I doubt ill ever use UFO to begin with.
I'm sitting on 25 stones for the eventual Chinese Godfest. Hoping the gods are kind.
I think the UFOs are worth 10000 exp.
the_log_ride
Member
And mine mirrors yours, too. I really need more Artemis friends, especially for weekend Ocean of Heaven runs.
Looks like that's what I'll be using the extra UFOs for... lol. Thanks Cobalt. Seriously, that active skill is god awful. 300 dmg on 9 turns? ewwww
One minor note about the ability is that it's 300 guaranteed damage, even against high defense enemies. Still incredibly weak IMO, but it does give it some use against high defense monsters with incredibly low HP.
MMBosstones86
Member
outside of metal dragon dungeons and some high level conditionals....meh
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