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Puzzle & Dragons |OT3| Come for the rolls, stay for the trolls

ZeroAKA

Member
I've successfully saved up 100 stones for the first time ever (non-IAP). Now I just have to decide how many of those I want to use during PCGF.
 

scottnak

Member
Congrats. Same Light Kali team? Maybe you'll get a lucky red jewel in Gift from the Holy beasts or the PAL evo machine.

Verdandi is quite good, but she struggles some with the farmable options until you can field something better. Also, don't discount the Ceres in your box, her Awoken form works quite well with some of your other green cards.

I hope you are saving up for the PCGF. Any number of the cards there could help you out a lot.


All that complaining about Yomi showing up in our PCGF and look who's sitting pretty in JP's.

Decided to switch Riding Hood for Guan Yinping and it worked out!
I have 11 saved up + Day 250 is coming up soon so I should have some rolls ready!!

Given the mats for Ceres though, probably be a while til I get her to awakened form.... heh.
 

Ducarmel

Member
Only have 8 of the 30 gods in Jp PCGF, Seems like a perfect time to roll but I do have teams that need work instead of rolling.

Got Spinx yesterday and just need Medjedra for my Bastet. Got Liu Bei and Mei Mei to build around her. Just need to figure out the last 2 spots, Got Perseus, Astroth, GZL, Guan Yu, and other green silver egg rem only stuff.

I guess I can try and go all out hoping for Verdandi and other special gods.
 

cw_sasuke

If all DLC came tied to $13 figurines, I'd consider all DLC to be free
Sometimes i forget how strong U&Y can be if played right. Is LKali effectively really better/stronger ? I have played both...and yes im more used to U&Y so combos are easier but it feels like U/Y can be played more aggressive and hits harder ?

Def. need to focus on one of both since playing them back to back screws up my ability to "see" the right board for their activation. I dont have all the subs, max lvl or max skilled but....

UY,UY,Sun Quan,Blodin,LKali,UY

vs.

LKali,LKali,LMeta,Yomi, Izanagi/Sun Quan,LKali

DKali is a key sub missing in both teams, as well as Fuma on LKali.

On paper LKali seems better but without Fuma and enhanced orbs the damage and board is kinda disappointing. U&Y active alone is better to prepare the board for a couple blue/green TPA. Hmm...i probably would have been more impressed if i didnt have a very good U&Y team.

So probably no LKali anytime soon for me....my double down on Awoken Bastet instead since she shares subs with my Parvati/Verdandi teams.
Google video results for Awoken Bastet. For more specific clears, add the JP dungeon name from PDX to the search terms.

Thanks i will watch some of those later.

Should I be saving up stones for the NA Player's Choice Godfest? I have Ra, Bastet, and Ronia. Or is trying to get more at the point I'm at in the game not worth it?

Since you just started right now is the best time to get a couple of key subs for the future during this fest - after this PCFG you will be fine for a long time if you have a bit of luck. I remember getting units like GZL and Yomi on my first PCFG and those carried me for a long ass time xD


This is why I laugh when people complain about skillup rates with fodder that don't need to be evolved. Just wait till you get s couple more 0/5s!

It hurts :-/
 

Azusa

Member
Farming Ronia skillups with Ronia team is so frustrating. Especially this floor:
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Jagernaut

Member
Farming Ronia skillups with Ronia team is so frustrating. Especially this floor:

If you move orbs without matching, the bind counters will reduce by 1. I don't think Ronia is the best team for this dungeon. I prefer Yamato or Ame no Uzume because they handle binds better.

Edit. Yamato makes hearts and each Yamato removes 3 turns of bind when you make a row of hearts. Ame's active removes 4 turns of bind instantly.
 

Azusa

Member
If you move orbs without matching, the bind counters will reduce by 1. I don't think Ronia is the best team for this dungeon. I prefer Yamato or Ame no Uzume because they handle binds better.

Yeah thats what I'm doing, but tamadra keeps binding the same monster all the time. I have only Dmeta and Ronia teams. If only I had Lu bu or Durga I could use Dmeta here.
 

jay23

Member
Anyone need an ancient green mask?

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Also a sighting of my most hated monster
fuck GGY

With all these OP wood cards I feel like there's some hope for him.
 

Tobe

Member
Finally got my third water jewel. Now just need to evolve noah and siegfried. Need blue supers to come back. Any thoughts?
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FZZ

Banned
I had a dream I got my Awoken Ra and I was wrecking shit. Been plying way too much pad, I haven't had a pad dream since last summer lol.

Anyways JP Godfest looks good, more excited about Extreme Tama dungeon returning though since I hate grinding to rank up and it's an easy 7 or so ranks for my low rank JP account which is only at 70 something.

Been playing more of my JP too. Juggler is broken, peaking at 1.6 million with a dub mythlit is just hilarious. Also I still haven't found a good use of Chibi Red Odin...
 

hermit7

Member
Finally got my third water jewel. Now just need to evolve noah and siegfried. Need blue supers to come back. Any thoughts?

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Only thing that you are missing I am sure you're already aware of and that is Andromeda.

I think that one of the weaknesses of a Lak team is the lack of leader bind prevention. Something such as an Isis that has a low cooldown and is bind immune may increase survivability along with emergency heal and huge RCV for a physical monster.

Going to run a similar team when I am able to acquire a Noah, forgot to run it last time it was around.
 

Okamid3n

Member
I had a dream I got my Awoken Ra and I was wrecking shit. Been plying way too much pad, I haven't had a pad dream since last summer lol.

And I just had a dream I fused away Echidna.

...What a random dream.

I'll roll on that godfest, only have 5 / 30 and dupes of Ronia/Shiva/Haku would be fine with me.

Please no more Rodin/LMeta, though.

And if I roll a Bonia or a Skuld, I'm going to cry at all the blue fruits I've fed for box space in my red trifruit hunt.
 
So is Awoken Meimei making waves at all in Japan? 51% damage reduction for some very common colors. A very respectable multiplier. Two two prong. She seems like she'd be able to output some serious damage along the likes of Awoken Parvati and Lakshmi. I suppose the main issue is no RCV buff?
 
So is Awoken Meimei making waves at all in Japan? 51% damage reduction for some very common colors. A very respectable multiplier. Two two prong. She seems like she'd be able to output some serious damage along the likes of Awoken Parvati and Lakshmi. I suppose the main issue is no RCV buff?
I made this same observation the other day. She seems like a really good leader in the Dark/Light/Green heavy dungeons. Maybe not as much damage as the Indian awokens, but the damage reduction acts as a 2x HP and RCV against most enemies. She also has great synergy with GZL which is a huge plus. I'm really excited to try her out.

Also, I'm a fan of any green team that doesn't benefit from Liu Bei. /salt
 

razterik

Member
Finally got my third water jewel. Now just need to evolve noah and siegfried. Need blue supers to come back. Any thoughts?

Not ideal, but solid. Better with skill ups on the Berry Dragon since that you will be using it often with Hatsume. There is potential for Blue Sonia to troll your board with less than five dark orbs, but it's rare. And if she gives too many, you might need to use both Lakshmi's to make six hearts and then Hatsume to fill the board with blue.

Nice team but Blonia has 0 RCV and her skill doesn't generate hearts. You know there are some good farmable orb changers: Siren, Kamui and Amberjack.

I'm also thinking about Lakshmi team and trying to level/evolve this one:

Sun Quan is usually going to be overkill unless you need his delay. No full board change like Seiryuu, Blue Sonia, Skuld or Urd? You might be a little low on HP with all healer subs.

Awoken Meimei is a great sub for some teams, and has an interesting system team with one of the newer Godfest exclusives. But what can she do as a lead that other green teams don't do better already? Verdandi tanks better, Parvati and Bastet hit harder. She's better than she used to be, but a lot of hard content features Hera-Ur, which is her worst matchup. 12.25x damage isn't impressive anymore. And the biggest issue is that she can't use Liu Bei as anything but a stat stick.
 
Congrats LGY - your DMeta team looks so good...
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PS. So this coin dungeon is coming back soon

http://www.puzzledragonx.com/en/mission.asp?m=765

Thinking of spending my orbs on skilling up Sun Quan instead of PCGF pulls...good idea ? I would need to farm some money for the first time this weekend...
Just do your customary 1-2 pulls to get what you want and save the rest of your stones for farming skillups. :p

Looking at the PCGF list more carefully, I have 14/30 but I think I'd be okay with 7 of those dupes. Extra Verdandis/Lkalis/DQXQs/Blodins/Blonias have their uses on teams and I'd rather not waste my max skilled Genbu/Byakko on their awoken forms (especially if their current ultimates still fill a useful niche).
 

Jagernaut

Member
I'm thinking about these Awoken Lakshmi and Awoken Parvati teams.

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Lakshmi and Amberjack need a lot of work. Not sure about last slot, could use Hatsume instead.

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Parvati team looks much better, only Parvati needs to be ultimate evolved.
 

Azusa

Member
Sun Quan is usually going to be overkill unless you need his delay. No full board change like Seiryuu, Blue Sonia, Skuld or Urd? You might be a little low on HP with all healer subs.

Yeah I have Blonia. But What can Lakshmi do with a board without hearts?
 

razterik

Member
Using three actives (or often four with Hatsume) isn't the best, but it does put out a lot of damage. Blue Sonia adds significant HP to the team, making stalling easier. And there are times where a full board switch is necessary.

Lakshmi is a lot like a glorified Blue Sonia team with way more sub options and a much bigger burst that doesn't need a boost like Bubblie. Her base multiplier without hearts can do decent damage, especially with enough rows. She can stall anything that doesn't one hit her. The Lakshmi actives aren't just for offense, the leaders alone give you four healing options. The drain does enough for a mild heal and the heart orbs can be saved for another turn or used right away.
 

mike23

Member
Just went 2/2 on my last skillups for Ronia. I went 2/4 when I ult evo'd her at the beginning of this event. I can't remember how many the other one took, but I think it was <5, so 5/9 or something like that for max skill. Now I just need 2 more levels to hypermax my Urd when the rotation switches.

1/2 on Bonia skillups as well today, though that's like 1/10 I think. I'm holding on to 21 green fruits hopefully for the Verdandi I pull this week.
 

zoku88

Member
If you move orbs without matching, the bind counters will reduce by 1. I don't think Ronia is the best team for this dungeon. I prefer Yamato or Ame no Uzume because they handle binds better.

Edit. Yamato makes hearts and each Yamato removes 3 turns of bind when you make a row of hearts. Ame's active removes 4 turns of bind instantly.

Wait... I didn't know this. I thought you had to match for the counter to go down... Is that only for skills!? O_O
 

Tobe

Member
Not ideal, but solid. Better with skill ups on the Berry Dragon since that you will be using it often with Hatsume. There is potential for Blue Sonia to troll your board with less than five dark orbs, but it's rare. And if she gives too many, you might need to use both Lakshmi's to make six hearts and then Hatsume to fill the board with blue.

my berry was max skilled before the update, its on 8 right now. but yeah awoken lak is the new hotness.
 

yami4ct

Member
No L.Meta and no GrOdin means only triple I can pull is an L. Kali (Which wouldn't be the absolute worst thing, anyway). I'm OK with this. Seems like a pretty OK PCGF overall.
 

razterik

Member
So dartboard choice got Light Tron kicked. That's fine, although worse for new players since she's a great no-dupe roll. The level 50 thing is pretty sweet, everything comes ready to evo.

Some hints that an update may be coming next week. Wonder if we'll finally catch up a bit.
 

cw_sasuke

If all DLC came tied to $13 figurines, I'd consider all DLC to be free
Green Jewel get from Holy beast. That's good.
0/5 on Perseus skills up.... That's not so good. Having to farm green shitty low level materials to evolve skill ups is even worse.


Well...
 

smbu2000

Member
Had terrible luck trying to skill up my Time girls. My best was going 1/8 on my recently acquired Urd (iPad). On my others, Verdandi (iPhone) and Skuld (iPad) I got squat. Didn't use any red fruits on my other Urd (iPhone) as I need some to uevo my Liu Bei #3. I'll try and pick up some more this upcoming Thursday.

Looking forward to pulling in the PCGF. Not surprising that LKali and DKali are 1 and 2. I am surprised that Rodin is #3 though. I didn't realize he was so popular. I wouldn't mind having one on my iPad. I already have 2 on my iPhone.

Yomi is always a popular character. He was probably the first character with 2 time extends. More have them now, but he is still useful and he has 2 forms that you can go with depending on your needs. He will also probably be getting another uevo form sometime in the future.

Well I've cleared all of the Devil Challenges except for Devil Rush.
Also tried out the new challenge dungeons. Tried out level 8 with my iPad Ra (LKali friend) team. Seems a bit harder now. The Angels are out first (Raphael, Uriel, Gabriel, Michael), Twinlits, Awoken Minerva and finally Sandalphon.

I made it through them and up to Minerva. I struggled on her as she turned the center of the board to fire orbs and that made it harder to get at least 6 combos. (She absorbs anything 5 combos and below for 5 turns.)
I made it to Sandalphon with just a bit of HP left over. I used Ra and thought I had a good combo going on...Oh damn, I screwed up my wood combo...Nooooo..... and I got taken out...

I'll have to try again later. I should've been able to clear it if only I hadn't screwed up at the end...
 

razterik

Member
JP Challenge Devil Rush can eat it.
Rewards aren't anything special, but the two stones I spent for stamina refresh are worth the sense of satisfaction alone.

Now I have to decide if it's better to skill up Osiris, Kamui, and fruit dragons or keep 2-3 more rolls out of my 65 stones for the JP PCGF.
 

smbu2000

Member
Congrats on the clear Razterik. That's a tough dungeon to do. I died on Beezlebub last time I tried because I didn't have a board changer on my team. (all poison!)


Oh, I didn't know you could do this. Izanami hit me with her 10 turn reduce movement time by 2 seconds pre-emptive. I used my Awoken Ra skill to increase my movement time by 3 seconds and it overwrote her reduce movement time skill!

I did the same thing when I first tried it with my Awoken Ra team (iPad) and it did it. I threw Ra on the team to see if it really overwrote it and yes it did. Very nice and handy to know.
 

razterik

Member
Thanks.

I saw that same effect trying to clear Awoken Venus a while back. Horus overwrote her time decrease. I'm curious how they coded Izanami, since she recasts every 10 turns. I wonder if she keeps trying if you overwrite or if she goes through her normal pattern.
 
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