Puzzle and Dragons Thread XXVI - Everyday Christmas With Monster Musume

[Dorakyura]

So I did 2 tries and got this far, with Takeru team.



Kind of worked, I guess I have space to improve as well, though its not gonna happen today, have to farm lits.

[Ruka]

I feel so scrub with my 85%....

[commandercool]

Ra is not good for this. The blind resist is nice, but the orbtrolling is unreal. Especially if I cut Kalloween for a poison, I've been getting stopped up by nearly every board. I just did five more runs, and of them I didn't have a solvable opening board once. So that's one Kali active down right away, and another one down for Hermes, so I'm pretty  much fucked right there. And as great as 60% blind resist should be for the ninjas, I only had it trigger one time out of those five. I'm not going to try using Ra again after this. I don't know what else I'll use, maybe Valkyrie? Seems dubious, but Hermes has terrible HP, so I should still be able to easily one-shot everything, and she's much less trollable.

Edit: Actually this might be a place for Kalloween. She's far less trollable and her weak-ass damage should still be enough to kill everything. Really wish I had that Neptune I just pulled finished so I could replace Snow White to get my poison, but whatever. It might work.

Edit edit: Yeah, Kalloween seems like she's better for this. I had a fairly bad run (where I had a coughing attack from this fucking cold that I can't shake in the middle of a combo) and it was still comparable to my best Ra run. Will look into this more tomorrow.

[trancehime]

What's terrifying is that the difference between your rank and mine is a mere 6000 points. :ohdear:

a few hundred points is all it takes from 1 person to get from 10.1% to 10.0%

[Espadas]

I don't have what it takes to score good, i'll simply try to get in the middle ground and be done with it....

I'm more pissed off at 2 other things right now:

1) A. Sopdet in Challenge 6..... i want to use A.Kirin but Sopdet is annoying as hell

2) New Pantheon in the GF, good! Midnight Gala, fantastic! Heroes in the day with the Kalis?....... GH, do you know the meaning of "flipping the bird"?
Of all the pantheons you had to choose the one i already have 4/5 of AND 2 of the dark representative?

Are you telling me you are bringing Juggler to NA and i should go for Pandora system? >_>

[commandercool]

Probably going to do one pull on each day of the godfest. Day one:

-Spica

Oh cool, if I could pick one I probably would have picked her. I might max her out and replace Cu Chu on my Verdandi team. and she's another potential 5x4 lead. That lack of skillboosts is... worrying though.

[Tea Devil]

Day one roll

- Chrono Turtle

are you joking with me mate

[Jq1790]

If anyone cares GungHo PEM data is in NA.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

Did one godfest pull before Christmas just because.

>Verdandi

Finally. Shame I really don't use wood much these days though...

[aUsernameIsFineToo]

I rolled once and got Castor.

[Ruka]

My gambling addiction kicked in and emptied out my stones:

Zweihander (new)
Shotel (new)
Kurone (new)
Thor (new)
Spica (new)

Satisfied with Spica. Though I'm not sure what to do with Zwei and Shotel.

[OverlordChirei]

GEEEEEEEEET




DUNKED ONNNNNN

[Jq1790]

My gambling addiction kicked in and emptied out my stones:

Zweihander (new)
Shotel (new)
Kurone (new)
Thor (new)
Spica (new)

Satisfied with Spica. Though I'm not sure what to do with Zwei and Shotel.

Zweihander and Shotel can be super fast buffing death machimes for Awoken Karin and Leilan respectively if your team is laden with Attackers, assuming you have the respective chinagirl(s).  (Kopis is better for burst turns than Shotel on Leilan if you have him but Shotel is better for nonburst turns.  Though Leilan usually wants rows, Chirei has proven via Kopis that TPA is completely viable if you've the subs for it.  Presumably the same is true of Karin who ALSO prefers rows, wherein the Kopis of her team would be Masamune.)

[commandercool]

GEEEEEEEEET




DUNKED ONNNNNN

Been trying to figure out all week if Gabe can do this. The only real hindrance I think is the first floor. Not sure if I can handle that with my weak-ass number of skill boosts and heavy reliance on skills to do damage. 7x6 certainly makes that math different, but not sure how.

Ra packing an Izanami CAN do it, but Goemon is really sketchy. If he uses his bind and hits anything I care about I probably just lose on the spot. And Shiva is also just a coin flip for the turns I have to spend stalling my skills back up after his delay.

Might just try Gabe later. I think I need to accept that I just suck at PAD and I'm not going to get my ranking score much higher without spending way too much time on it. For no particular benefit no less.

Edit: Oh yeah, trying Challenge 10 would require me to have Gabriel friends. I guess I should just go hunt down a few non-hyper ones, if those exist. The extra ~4k HP probably doesn't matter THAT much at this point anyway. I wonder if I could do with with Gabriel/Ryune with a non-hyper Ryune? Probably actually, since there will be so many hearts on the board. Maybe I don't need 4x RCV for this at all.

[OverlordChirei]

Been trying to figure out all week if Gabe can do this.

Mega Satan was a problem I sat for a while thinking. I actually went and ran the entirety of 7x6 Extreme again with Alraune/Bastet just to get a handle on my damage, and it turns out I had just enough to take him out. I don't know if you will be so lucky though, because it involved lots of shenanigans like not starting with no wood orbs.

[commandercool]

Just did some test runs on Extreme Endless Corridor, and I think I would need to get a little lucky. For one thing I basically have to use a Blodin friend to have enough skillboosts, which sucks because Blodin is not a good lead. Due to circumstances I could only get two rows, and that had my damage ~1-2mil under being able to kill him. But that's also with minimal skyfalls.

So a screen where I can quickly get three jumbo-rows or some skyfall luck would let me do it for sure. Or, you know, if Beyzul had a fucking skillboost I would be able to do it 100 times out of 100, but he doesn't so fuck my team. It might take some luck or a few tries (or maybe a creative friend lead I'm just overlooking) but I'm pretty sure this works.

[OverlordChirei]

So a screen where I can quickly get three jumbo-rows or some skyfall luck would let me do it for sure.

Dear lord, I never even considered the possibility of trying to do rows on 7x6. Good luck...

[commandercool]

Do enemies who have attacks that deal damage and bind do damage first then bind, or bind first then damage? Depending on the order having Gabe get bound the turn before I burst is an insta-loss.

[Jq1790]

Do enemies who have attacks that deal damage and bind do damage first then bind, or bind first then damage? Depending on the order having Gabe get bound the turn before I burst is an insta-loss.

Pretty sure damage happens first, then added effects afterwards.

[Jq1790]

Dear lord, I never even considered the possibility of trying to do rows on 7x6. Good luck...

It's tricky, but 7x6 rows CAN be done.  Much harder to maneuver, at least for me, but it's totally able to be a thing.

[Suikama]

welp guys dont forget to check your scores before ranking ends

i've already fallen below 20%

and i dont have any stamina left to run it because sopdet ate it all (but at least i beat her finally, with ra dragon too)


c10 doesnt look too bad...

aside from goemon... *deep sigh*

[Espadas]

> Chirei and Alraune kick the ass of a lv10 Challenge, with the last 2 bosses being Fire

Ok guys i quit PAD. I feel such a scrub right now is not even funny  :V

Honestly Chirei, the day you clear Arena with Alraune i'll book a flight to wherever you live to come and shake your hand!

Congrats! 

[Suikama]

pad isnt a competition silly

well aside from ranking dungeons lol

[OverlordChirei]

Do enemies who have attacks that deal damage and bind do damage first then bind, or bind first then damage? Depending on the order having Gabe get bound the turn before I burst is an insta-loss.

Just a note, when Goemon binds, he doesn't even do any damage, so if you "dodge" it, you effectively have one free turn to prepare.

[commandercool]

Just a note, when Goemon binds, he doesn't even do any damage, so if you "dodge" it, you effectively have one free turn to prepare.

Oh I don't care about Goemon. I don't even really have to swap to Beyzul on him. I'm just worried about binds from MegaSatan. But if it's damage first, then added effect then I'm cool.

[Emelia K. Fletcher]

i've entered the fray

372,390,342

time for a dandi experience

[Mеа]

So if I want the Kalis, should I be waiting for the 4x exclusive fests? Or was there one? I don't remember.

[commandercool]

First run quickly ended in failure, but it was close. Got Satan down to less than 5%, and I didn't get especially good skyfalls or an especially good board beforehand. So if I broke up my rows a little better and/or got any blue skyfalls at all he would die. Still not sure fucking Blodin is up to clearing the rest of the dungeon, but he might be. I gotta try again, and this might hurt. It's going to cost me some stamina.

So if I want the Kalis, should I be waiting for the 4x exclusive fests? Or was there one? I don't remember.

I don't remember there being an exclusive fest. In my experience you just have to do a lot of godfest pulls and eventually it'll rain Kalis. There might be a better way I'm forgetting though.

[Jq1790]

time for a dandi experience

Oh you.

I think you'll get along just fine here, haha.  Welcome!  Feel free to join us on the IRC at #puzzleandlibrarians, too!

[commandercool]

Okay, so I didn't notice this at first, but PDX is slightly misleading about how Satan works in Challenge 10. They say he uses World Ends "every three turns", which I took to mean that he uses it on the count of three. So Demonic Shield (1), Wave Of Fear (2), World Ends (3). That is not the case, he actually uses Wave Of Fear twice. So either Demonic Shield doesn't count, or he uses it after using three other skills.

That means that I can actually do this with any lead with one skillboost. My team still has to be able to tank infinity Storm Punishers instantly after I kill Satan, so I can't use Neptune Dragon to be guaranteed to kill Satan with no effort, but I can use something with a higher multiplier than Odin has. So U/W I&I might work, and I still have a couple left. I'm not sure what the damage difference in going from x10 with 9 rows to x12 with 8 rows is, but hopefully it makes that tiny bit of difference that I need.

Tanking Athena until I can swap out of Beyzul is still going to be sketchy as fuck, but I feel like I have a better chance now than I thought I did.