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Puzzle & Dragons |OT4| Co-op Edition: Stoning With Friends

LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
Maybe it was a Uriel you pulled.

I should have 120 stones for the next godfest. 24 chances for disappointment.

I've been lax on PAD playing over the last couple months, basically only logging in for dailies, a couple runs of whatever to spread some BFF points, and pulling GFs. The only times I've been to PADx over this time has been to look up my pull results and Minerva was one of the pages I remember visiting. Like I said, 99% sure (and probably closer to 99.9% actually) but now it's gone. That's pretty sad, but life moves on.
 

shintoki

sparkle this bitch
Post screenshots of your box and we can help you out. It's not so much about time as where you focus your time. Need to spend your resources efficienty. Or on the flip side, if you spend a lot of money. :)

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Any guidance would be amazing. I've been reading guides, but most seem to be with monsters I don't have outside of Krish and Haku.

I've been using Krish as my lead of a fire team, with Santa Hera, Giglamesh, the sexy devil girl, and then using Green Odin for a heal.

I haven't had much luck in the pull. Girlfriend got 2x Ronanve, DQXQ, Amatuersa, and several other high tier characters. Krish I got in the last godfest which switched me from a Haku lead to her. Been thinking of doing a Green Odin lead with Amaterusa to start cheesing events.

Also, if there is anything I should just trash now. Tell me ^_^
 
bring back blade

Any guidance would be amazing. I've been reading guides, but most seem to be with monsters I don't have outside of Krish and Haku.

I've been using Krish as my lead of a fire team, with Santa Hera, Giglamesh, the sexy devil girl, and then using Green Odin for a heal.

I haven't had much luck in the pull. Girlfriend got 2x Ronanve, DQXQ, Amatuersa, and several other high tier characters. Krish I got in the last godfest which switched me from a Haku lead to her. Been thinking of doing a Green Odin lead with Amaterusa to start cheesing events.

Also, if there is anything I should just trash now. Tell me ^_^

You have some good cards. Krishna definitely looks like your best bet at the moment.

One of Krishna's great benefits is a RCV multiplier, which allows you to heal quite a bit with just a few hearts. You shouldn't need a dedicated healer on the team as long as you're regularly matching hearts. IMO I would swap out Green Odin for Ame no Uzume, who has a great RCV stat and will add some damage with a row of red orbs (assuming you awaken her with Tamadras). She also has two autoheals that combined will heal you 1k every turn (these will need to be awakened with Tamadras, too). Her active skill will allow you to heal like crazy for 4 turns and gets rid of binds, too.


I'm not super fond of Krishna's playstyle but if you're able to effectively stall, hoard 9 red orbs, and make 3 red matches, the damage is enough to clear most content. If one or more of those matches is a row, the damage is even crazier.

Just keep rolling, although if you aren't looking to spend any money then wait for a godfest with cards that would be useful to you and go from there ~
 

J0dy77

Member
Any guidance would be amazing. I've been reading guides, but most seem to be with monsters I don't have outside of Krish and Haku.

I've been using Krish as my lead of a fire team, with Santa Hera, Giglamesh, the sexy devil girl, and then using Green Odin for a heal.

I haven't had much luck in the pull. Girlfriend got 2x Ronanve, DQXQ, Amatuersa, and several other high tier characters. Krish I got in the last godfest which switched me from a Haku lead to her. Been thinking of doing a Green Odin lead with Amaterusa to start cheesing events.

Also, if there is anything I should just trash now. Tell me ^_^

I agree with Secret, your best bet right now is to focus on Krishna as you've been doing. Just keep focusing on leveling the key players for that team. You've got a very nice piece of that team with Elgenubi. Work on getting Krishna at max skill when insect dragon is around in coin dungeon or normal rotation. Uzume just got a nice buff on JP as well. You can farm a cheap Echidna as a delay for the team while you wait on stronger cards. That's a strong start though. You want to hope for a fire card with full board change Leilan or Urd are the top candidates and Yamato for Fire/Heart.
 

NeckToChicken

Unconfirmed Member
I would run Krish/Elgenubi/Shotel/Strawberry Dragon/Bind immune Ame no Uzume evo.

My reasoning for Shotel over Gilgamesh is that higher base attack and an extra two prong will allow you to do more damage when you get one/two matches of 4 and the rest matched 3. With 12 orbs, a row and two 3 matches will probably win out over three prong matches. The active is a good inherit base because of the low cooldown, but otherwise you won't be using it because you want her staying red.

Strawberry Dragon's stats are frankly pretty bad, but you get a nice smattering of rows and orb enhances. Each orb enhance over 5 continues to increase enhanced orb damage, so you're trading the extra individual damage you would get from Santa Hera for team damage on each orb match. Shotel and Strawberry should be first to go when you pull (or farm) something better. I run a Scarlet who does good work. Farming skills ups was a pain but king tans smooth the road a bit. J0dy's suggestion of Echidna is another strong one. Delays can do good work.

Red/Blue would probably be the easier evo. to get for Ame, but I don't see any reason not to go for Awoken if you can.

Note: you will be eating some ugly skill binds, as you only have 3 skill bind resists between the Krishnas and Elgenubi.
 
I agree with Secret, your best bet right now is to focus on Krishna as you've been doing. Just keep focusing on leveling the key players for that team. You've got a very nice piece of that team with Elgenubi. Work on getting Krishna at max skill when insect dragon is around in coin dungeon or normal rotation. Uzume just got a nice buff on JP as well. You can farm a cheap Echidna as a delay for the team while you wait on stronger cards. That's a strong start though. You want to hope for a fire card with full board change Leilan or Urd are the top candidates and Yamato for Fire/Heart.
PSA: Krishna's skill up is available right now in the Wood Guardian Dragon dungeon on the floor before the boss. It's only here for a couple more days so this should be your main focus since Krishna's base CD is stupid long and once maxed you can have perma +15% fire skyfall with two leaders or inherit something over it.

http://puzzledragonx.com/en/mission.asp?m=2628

I'll join in and say Krishna is the way to go and will take you very far. If your Elgenubi isn't skilled make sure you do that when the Heroine dungeon comes back because she's a beast of a sub for that team. Even Strawberry Dragon would be decent on the team. It's active and stats are kinda meh but the awakenings are nothing to frown about.
 

LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
I'm glad they let us pick which latents we overwrite now, but I wish we could reorder them. The fact that my Krishna's rainbow latents aren't in proper box-sort order (RBGYP) is triggering me badly.
 
Hey Guys. I need some guidance.

I want to tackle Arena 1 soon, but i'm not sure which team i should focus on.

Here is my padherder: https://www.padherder.com/user/tricho/monsters/

I'm not that skilled so heartcross leaders work sometimes but combo-bosses are pretty hard for me.

Thanks for your help!
You should use Krishna and go for a TPA build since you have some powerful TPA subs.

Krishna (Useful fire card assist for stats)
Kuvia (Active is fine but Gadius assist for stats and board change)
Shiva (Gadius assist since base skill is meh)
Minerva (Bind clear assist)
Hino (Napoleon assist since base skill is meh)
Friend Krishna (make sure has damage boost assist to help one shot Kali)

With this team you will have plenty of HP and with the RCV badge you can heal it all up easily. If you find the RCV isn't enough then maybe put a Gadius as a main sub since he has high RCV. He has no SBR though and neither does Kuvia so adjust acordingly so you still have 100%.

Also make Revo Hino since awakenings and stats are better.

OR

Use Minerva and pair with a Yamamoto. J0dy77 (I think?) posted a nice write up of this team and its strat a while back.

J0dy77, if this was you could you post it or explain it again? I was really interested in it when you wrote it but never actually tried and have since forgot it haha.
 

NeckToChicken

Unconfirmed Member
If the Krishna suggestion doesn't float your boat, you have exactly the base Myr team I use to run arena minus some inherits:

Myr/Saria/DQXQ/Paimon/ReVenus

I inherit
Hathor/ReIndra/Momiji/Saria/Ars Nova
(gravity)/(shield/haste)/(board change)/(board change/haste)/(light gen/enhance when too many hearts show up)

You could inherit
A.Sakuya/Yuna/Paimon(haste) or Fuu(antipoison)/Saria/Ars Nova or skill of your choice

Saria and Paimon with HP latents and inherits bring the beef to the team, putting you in a good place hit point wise. You have some nice pieces I don't: Kanna, Awoken Apollo, and Sakuya work either in the team or as inherits. Kanna replacing, say, Venus will allow stronger burst at the cost of maaaaybe not having enough rows/light enhances to kill Sopdet. Apollo may be preferable to DQXQ, but I don't know that for sure. Sakuya will give you a slightly weaker gravity vs. Kali but you get the option of more bind resist/clear if you really need it. A glaring weakness of this team composition is you either need to run the skill boost badge or start with no skills available.

If it's any consolation for the combo worrying, I often feel more pressed for time on my Krishna team now that my heart crosses are well practiced. Heart crosses do certainly plop down a zone of "don't get another heart near this augh" that sometimes brings me ruin.

I see your many Amaterasu and approve. Ammy da bes.
 
Blade will be back soon, thankfully.


I tried A1 a few more times, once with Minerva/Ilmina and another with Krish/Krish and failed both runs... A.Hino is almost more annoying than Sopdet for me with the dumb resolve. Skyfall got him to 1HP and he nuked all my cooldowns which ruined me on Grisar.

Then Beezelbub ended me because I had to use my board change to avoid Threedia's timer.

I just want a stable A1 team :( I'll try ReMinerva x Yamamoto when a friend puts a Yama up, but I'm not sure I have the right subs as my Gadius isn't skilled and his CD is crazy.
 

LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
Do reincarnated evos only go thru awoken evos? I've got some reincarnated evos set on PadHerder and it's telling me to go thru lesser ultimate evos, but PADx says I should awoken evo. If I could skip evolving a bunch of descent bosses to get to reincarnated that'd be swell, but I don't imagine that's the case.
 
Blade will be back soon, thankfully.


I tried A1 a few more times, once with Minerva/Ilmina and another with Krish/Krish and failed both runs... A.Hino is almost more annoying than Sopdet for me with the dumb resolve. Skyfall got him to 1HP and he nuked all my cooldowns which ruined me on Grisar.

Then Beezelbub ended me because I had to use my board change to avoid Threedia's timer.

I just want a stable A1 team :( I'll try ReMinerva x Yamamoto when a friend puts a Yama up, but I'm not sure I have the right subs as my Gadius isn't skilled and his CD is crazy.
Hino sucks and I try to always save my delay for him.

Do reincarnated evos only go thru awoken evos? I've got some reincarnated evos set on PadHerder and it's telling me to go thru lesser ultimate evos, but PADx says I should awoken evo. If I could skip evolving a bunch of descent bosses to get to reincarnated that'd be swell, but I don't imagine that's the case.
Yeah, Revos require a max level Awoken evo to do.
 

bjork

Member
My teams are nowhere near being able to do those red technical dungeons, but I'm just trying to level/awaken my characters and go from there.

Slightly unrelated, but I tried a To-Love-Ru game that is basically puzzle & dragons, except you use schoolgirls as your characters, but prior to using them, you dress them up and pose them for photos. The photos somehow determine your stats, I'm not sure how. But the gameplay is totally the same aside from an on-screen meter that shows your remaining time, and a special that builds which gives you like 10 seconds unlimited movement. It's... strange. But I like it, despite having zero reference to the series.

They'll never have a Crows collab though.
 
....ok so I failed A1 twice more tonight but



1st roll: Kanna #2
2nd roll: Uriel (my first)
3rd roll: Sumire #4
4th roll: Silk (my first)

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now I'm faced with the terribly embarrassing dilemma of making another light kanna (my Myr team is lacking) or dark kanna while everyone complains about not having a single one
I also have 4 dark kalis and am using zero of them currently

Also Uriel looks like a really good Krishna sub base, like really good. Idk who of Sanada/Sanada/Urd/Minerva I would replace though... maybe just inherit Urd on Uriel.



I won't whine about not getting any of the new cards! ...Unless my Sunday rolls are atrocious.
 

LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
main:
God damned wood bahn, sold
Marine rider
Stupid Genie dupe, sold
Horus

alt:
Australis, now both accts have the same budget green row lead, will this shithead ever get an ult?
Fucking fruit dragon
Fuma Kotaro

This GF is so trappy with all its 6 stars it ain't even funny. Good luck on the pulls my friends, you're gonna need it.

Is this new pantheon the first that's all 6 star pulls? Seems like a load of horseshit.
 

Kwhit10

Member
My rolls on day 1:

Dino Ryder - new bleh
Red cyber dragon - new bleh
Grimrock - wtf silver
Gabriel - dupe #3
Sima Yi - hell yea!!
Silk - new

I'll save the rest of my stones for tomorrow.
 

J0dy77

Member
Glad to see a new Pantheon in the rem it was badly needed.

My rolls:

Silver crap
Masamune more crap
Anubis (3rd)

Typical godfest for me with the streak I've been on lately.

Last pull...

KANA!!!!!

I'm almost ok with all of the other garbage that popped out prior. Finally something good out of this machine.
 

Ducarmel

Member
I did not get Sima Yi yet! I still got a couple more stones will try tomorrow maybe.

I did pull a Diaochan, why is she sought after for?

Also noticeable pulls are Gan Ning, Sherias Roots, Bladin and a Leeza for my ALB
 

shintoki

sparkle this bitch
I think I did well on today's Godfest.

Got Ronove and Diaochan

The other 5 weren't so hot, with three being silver eggs without skills shared(Skill inherietance right?) so I fused them for their points, but fucked up realizing that each has it's points in ATK, HP, etc.

The other 2 was a Ruku and Red Wizard dude
 

jiggle

Member
Almost didnt want to pull cuz it will ruin my, just achieved, fully evolved boxes

Main:
Dantalion dupe
Ronia #4
Phoenix rider
Raphael
Rizel

Alt:
Balboa
Ronove dupe
Laila
Cinderella
Ruka


Meh
At least no awokenable cards
So these will only gnaw at me for a week before i evolve them

The other 5 weren't so hot, with three being silver eggs without skills shared(Skill inherietance right?) so I fused them for their points, but fucked up realizing that each has it's points in ATK, HP, etc.
Arent most(all?) Of these eggs` skill inheriable?

Better to sell rare eggs for monster points than to fuse them for the +atk,hp, rcv
 

shintoki

sparkle this bitch
Arent most(all?) Of these eggs` skill inheriable?

Better to sell rare eggs for monster points than to fuse them for the +atk,hp, rcv

Is that when you combine two monsters for the same skill to reduce the skill level down one turn? I looked at PAD and the only thing two of them shared a skill with was an enhance dragon.
 

jiggle

Member
Is that when you combine two monsters for the same skill to reduce the skill level down one turn? I looked at PAD and the only thing two of them shared a skill with was an enhance dragon.

That`s call a skill up (fusing monsters with the same skill for a chance to increase skill level)
The game provides lots of trash eggs for this purpose
So it should never be done with eggs you pull from rare egg machine

A skill assist(aka inheritance) is when 1 base monster borrows the skill of another monster
This can be done with any(all?) eggs you pull from rare egg machine
This process is reversable and you never lose any of you monster in the process


So it's beneficial to keep your eggs from rare egg machine
Or sell them for monster points, if you really don`t want it
But never fuse them!
 

W-00

Member
Made a single roll on each account.

Main: Genie (dupe).
Alt: Anima.

I was actually fairly happy with Anima at first since I remembered him being mentioned as a decent fire-row lead, which would finally give my alt something to pair with my main's Yamamoto. But then I looked him up. Even his ultimate form only gives his full boost to devils and dragons? There is precisely one member of my main's fire team that counts as either.

I don't think I'll be wasting any more stones in this GF.
 

bjork

Member
Did 12 pulls:
- Great Earl of Hell, Ronove
- Yamato Takeru
- Moon Dragon Caller Tsubaki
- Sherias
- Cao Cao
- Evil Duchess, Gremory
- Australis
- Denebola
- Cinderella
- Blue Wind Ninja, Hatsume
- Scheat
- Indigo Dragon Caller, Sumire

I have Sumire already, and I've probably sold a Cinderella before, but the rest are all new. Tsubaki is supposed to be pretty good, but idk about the rest. Gonna read up on them.
 

jiggle

Member
Did 12 pulls:
- Great Earl of Hell, Ronove
- Yamato Takeru
- Moon Dragon Caller Tsubaki
- Sherias
- Cao Cao
- Evil Duchess, Gremory
- Australis
- Denebola
- Cinderella
- Blue Wind Ninja, Hatsume
- Scheat
- Indigo Dragon Caller, Sumire

I have Sumire already, and I've probably sold a Cinderella before, but the rest are all new. Tsubaki is supposed to be pretty good, but idk about the rest. Gonna read up on them.
Lots of good stuff there :0
 

W-00

Member
Did 12 pulls:
- Great Earl of Hell, Ronove
- Yamato Takeru
- Moon Dragon Caller Tsubaki
- Sherias
- Cao Cao
- Evil Duchess, Gremory
- Australis
- Denebola
- Cinderella
- Blue Wind Ninja, Hatsume
- Scheat
- Indigo Dragon Caller, Sumire

I have Sumire already, and I've probably sold a Cinderella before, but the rest are all new. Tsubaki is supposed to be pretty good, but idk about the rest. Gonna read up on them.

There's the fixed-team challenge featuring Ronove going on at the moment, so you can easily find out what his playstyle is like and if you like it.
Yamato Takeru is a good general-use fire card.
Tsubaki you already know is good.
Unless you left off "Roots", Sherias is supposedly pretty bad.
Cao Cao is a strong fire-row lead as well as a good fire sub because of all the utility he brings in Awoken form (delay, trash clearing, unbindable).
Gremory is dark's heart-cross lead, so she's pretty great.
Australis is a budget ALB, as well as providing utility for certain green teams.
Denebola... unless you're into the jammer meta, there isn't much nice to say about her.
Cinderella... meh. She's a hard bind-clear inherit that will also produce hearts, which is good if her clear wasn't enough and you have a soft bind-clear on your team.
I suppose Hatsume's killers/jammer-resists might give her a niche use somewhere.
Scheat is a TPA powerhouse, which makes it a real pity that there aren't really any TPA-focused water teams in the meta. Her skill is excellent for inheritance, but she can also fit on a general water team if you just don't have anything better for the slot. I have Scheat on my alt's Meri team, and with a full activation and a TPA (and maybe another combo), she hits hard enough to just punch through a PreDRA's defense.
 

Negator

Member
Godfest rolls on main:
Thuban (Eh, first one)
Famiel (#3, but always good to have more)
Krishna (Dupe)
Ma Chao (Yay!)
Shaitan (Ugh)
Akechi (#3, not sure what to do with him)
Sima Yi (YAY!!!)

Alt rolls:
Napoleon and bunch of trash
 

Silent_Z

Member
4 rolls. Dupes: Raphael, Michael. New: Yamato Takeru (FINALLY. Only short Pandora from a full set of heroes) and SIMA MF YI. Yomidra will be happy now, DAthena will be down the line.
 

Kwhit10

Member
So I've never attempted Arena 3 yet and just gave it a go with optimal RaDra and beat it first shot. Faced Gaia Dragon who skill delayed a bunch of times so I only had a dkali active available after. Luckily I got dkali spawn so the light 2prongs could get her down without a damage boost or shield to take the hit.
 

b33r

Member
I took super Yomi Dragon through arena 1 and it was fast, but Aizen is still better. I'm not mad I spent the time making him because his stats are way better and he is a sub on most of my dark teams.
 
looked at the rolls for each day and decided to do a few more today and 1-2 tomorrow, and I got Sima Yi and Xiahou Dun ;___;

If we don't get D.Athena and soon I'm going to be a wreck ;___;




Also I'm convinced there's some program or something people are using to join co-op farming in Discord. It's super frustrating when it takes 20+ minutes to get into a room (usually for a single run, of course) when I feel like I'm putting in the number fast enough :(
 

Negator

Member
looked at the rolls for each day and decided to do a few more today and 1-2 tomorrow, and I got Sima Yi and Xiahou Dun ;___;

If we don't get D.Athena and soon I'm going to be a wreck ;___;

I've got a great team just sitting around, all I need are Tamas and a few Badpys. Just waiting.

Also I'm convinced there's some program or something people are using to join co-op farming in Discord. It's super frustrating when it takes 20+ minutes to get into a room (usually for a single run, of course) when I feel like I'm putting in the number fast enough :(

Yeah, the highly desirable guerilla dungeons is a mess on discord. You have to be superhuman to get a room in there.
 

LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
Just pulled Napoleon on both of my accounts. Main also got Antares. No dupes for day 2 but got a couple trash pulls in addition to those good ones. Actually I'm not so sure any of it is good. None of it offers me anything. Just cards for the sake of having more new cards to level up.
 

Jagernaut

Member
I waited for day 2.

Creuse
Anima
Rodin - 1st
Spica - dupe of the only mech 1 god I have
Verdandi - 3rd
Fire Swordsman - dupe
Mistrain - trash
Raijin

Not what I wanted.
 

Jonsoncao

Banned
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Saved 150 non-iap stones since last Nov. Here are the results after selling non GFE dupes...still too many dupe GFEs...

I am calling shenanigans on the new three kingdom series. Apparently they changed the based rarity to 6 to force you spend more.
 
I waited for day 2.

Creuse
Anima
Rodin - 1st
Spica - dupe of the only mech 1 god I have
Verdandi - 3rd
Fire Swordsman - dupe
Mistrain - trash
Raijin

Not what I wanted.
You got Raijin, at least. And Rodin.

I wanted some new stuff and the only thing notable and new (to me) I got in 10 rolls was Skuld. Zero pantheon rolls but got a random Artemis dupe and Sasuke dupe. Not even forest gala wtf.
 

Jagernaut

Member
You got Raijin, at least. And Rodin.

I wanted some new stuff and the only thing notable and new (to me) I got in 10 rolls was Skuld. Zero pantheon rolls but got a random Artemis dupe and Sasuke dupe. Not even forest gala wtf.

I made another pull and got Sitri (new). 4 GFE out of 9 pulls, but no 3K2 and no Mechanical Star gods other than dupe Spica.
 

W-00

Member
Looks like this will be the first challenge in a while where I don't beat every floor. I'm just not good enough with Ronnie to beat Zera.

Also, I gave in and rolled again on both accounts. But there was a communications error on my alt, so I thought it didn't go through, and by the time I noticed that the stones had been deducted even if I hadn't pulled, I had tried to pull again on the alt. So, for the sake of balance I rolled again on my main. Hatsume and Thanatos on the main, Shining Dragon Knight and Red Chester on the alt. I mean, sure, my main didn't have Thanatos before, but I should have cut my losses after my earlier rolls. I must remember not to spend stones rolling again until either a GF is held during a Dark Gala or a GF features the Celestials/Greco-Roman2.

On a related note: Is there any team that makes use of three Antares? I suppose I could evo the second into his non-R/G form and save the third for Awoken, but I'm getting really tempted to sell one of them.
 
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