Puzzles and Dragons 12: Magic Stones and Loathing in Las Dungons

[KaiserKnuckle]

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Puzzle & Dragons is an ios/android puzzle RPG.  It plays like a cross between Bejeweled and Pok?mon.  It's completely free to play, but has premium features through purchasable "magic stones," the game's premium currency (which can also be obtained occasionally as rewards in-game), which allow increased inventory, pulls from a rare egg machine, and more.  If you're patient enough the game gives you enough stones through special events and rewards that you shouldn't need to buy any.  (It's recommended you don't because you are almost guaranteed to be super frustrated at getting screwed by bad rolls ;_;)

You can control monsters from lowly slimes to mighty dragons to even demons like Mephistopheles (above).  They all have different stats and skills, allowing you to customize your team for any number of purposes.

If you're interested, there's a really useful database of monsters and game info here: http://www.puzzledragonx.com/

A tip for new players: At the end of the tutorial the game will give you one free pull on the rare egg machine.  It's best to "scum" this pull and start over (by uninstalling and reinstalling) until you get something that's really rare, like a 5-star beastie or a god.  Great starters include any of the Chinese Gods, Ares, Bastet, Horus, Isis, Idunn & Idunna, Hermes, Archangel Lucifer, Odin, Loki, Persephone, Parvati, and many others.  Feel free to ask!

List of friends:

hyorinryu: 357.646.299
Suikama: 348.941.282
SuikamaEX: 396.277.239
Soichiro: 389,177,249
triangles: 322.456.235
Nobu: 389,151,231
Arashi: 361,443,282
Chaore: 344,844,286
Ghaleon: 374,256,217
Labuto: 362,441,209
omgkitties: 301,354,227
Twillsky: 320,059,211
O4rfish: 389,956,257
Mode: 384,458,286
Arcorann: 326,368,215
Yukarin: 394.177.213
Jq1790: 396,049,294
Pesco: 328 276 294
MJP: 370,479,279
Dibble: 314,673,283
Matsuri: 358,689,277
Fast Fanatic: 359,184,275
Sacchi Hikaru: 385,394,297
rdj: 338,277,280
Chirei: 326,404,383
En: 351,629,319
commandercool: 312,728,337
Aoshi: 398,822,333
Bonkeror (Conqueror): 331,616,320
Lem: 386.230.369
Espadas: 367,032,362
EspadasEX: 301,335,377

[Espadas]

Copy-paste of my last post in the previous thread:

Ok you won.... you have made me way too much intrigued by this game and now i want to try it.  :V
Unfortunately I am an utter, complete noob about mobiles so i'll need your help.... :blush:

- I live in Spain and i have an Android-based mobile: can i play PAD at all? If so, how?

- Which version should i join, US or JP? (i know almost nothing of japanese) What are the biggest differences between the 2?

[Chaore]

Copy-paste of my last post in the previous thread:

Ok you won.... you have made me way too much intrigued by this game and now i want to try it.  :V
Unfortunately I am an utter, complete noob about mobiles so i'll need your help.... :blush:

- I live in Spain and i have an Android-based mobile: can i play PAD at all? If so, how?

- Which version should i join, US or JP? (i know almost nothing of japanese) What are the biggest differences between the 2?

I'm unsure if Europad actually covers you- Eitherway Europad is stupid and apparently does not support Android.

Your best shot is getting an APK, which shouldn't be hard to find at all, and use it to sideload onto your device.

I'd suggest JP pad just because the resources are far more plentiful overall, and you can just use PDX to find out what everything does, usually.

Alternatively, NA pad allows you to make use of all of us- and everything is in english, so there is sort of that.

[OverlordChirei]

Alternatively, NA pad allows you to make use of all of us- and everything is in english, so there is sort of that.

the strongest resource, more op than any amount of giveaways

[Invisible]

Copy-paste of my last post in the previous thread:

Ok you won.... you have made me way too much intrigued by this game and now i want to try it.  :V
Unfortunately I am an utter, complete noob about mobiles so i'll need your help.... :blush:

- I live in Spain and i have an Android-based mobile: can i play PAD at all? If so, how?

- Which version should i join, US or JP? (i know almost nothing of japanese) What are the biggest differences between the 2?

You should check your Play Store if it has PaD atleast.

[trancehime]

- Which version should i join, US or JP? (i know almost nothing of japanese) What are the biggest differences between the 2?

As was mentioned previously, you'll benefit slightly more from the US version in ways that can't necessarily be replicated in the Japanese version - that's access to pretty much everybody here as friends. Whereas if you play the Japanese version you have more resources since GungHo Japan is a lot more generous about freebies than NA, but at the same time only 3 of us here including myself play actively on the Japanese version (hyorinryu has a NA and a JP account, and Thaws plays on JP, as do I).

As far as I know, PAD EU does cover Spain, but PAD EU also doesn't get supported by Android, so you're SOL there. You'll need to APK up a US or a Japanese copy.

the strongest resource, more op than any amount of giveaways

As far as I know this is true

[Mr. Sacchi]

As far as I know this is true

Especially when you consider things like FFanatic's TAMADRAPurin or Suikama's Best Isis NA

I would say my Horus but that's only a thing if you're already running a Rainbow Team so :fail:

Plus, NA tends to get things from JP after 1~2 months IIRC so it's not like we're horribly behind or something, the freebies are a problem (GungHo NA is really stingy with freebies) but they can be overcome with enough patience.

[trancehime]

Plus, NA tends to get things from JP after 1~2 months IIRC so it's not like we're horribly behind or something, the freebies are a problem (GungHo NA is really stingy with freebies) but they can be overcome with enough patience.

They still don't have some of the anime collabs though, which means NA gets horribly shafted in terms of some skillups (Saint Seiya collab) or just monster subs/leaders in general (DBZ Collab).

In other news, kosuke casually trivializing Kouryu dungeon, Hanzo is 2gud

[Bio]

They haven't forgotten about NA PADW either according to twitter.
Tama Dress Up eventually.

[trancehime]

They haven't forgotten about NA PADW either according to twitter.
Tama Dress Up eventually.

I will cry if NA gets PADW before HK/TW :V

[OverlordChirei]

the freebies are a problem (GungHo NA is really stingy with freebies) but they can be overcome with enough patience.

tbh in about the past 30 days I think only about 5 of those days didn't have some kind of daily giveaway happening. I mean 12 tamadras come on who is gonna use all that instantly

[Conqueror]

You can never have too many Tamadras. I have to get all those resist awakenings for my junk mons.

[trancehime]

tbh in about the past 30 days I think only about 5 of those days didn't have some kind of daily giveaway happening. I mean 12 tamadras come on who is gonna use all that instantly

I'm still laughing at JP giving 8 stones and 9 TAMADRAs in the span of 2 weeks and a bit lol

[Thaws]

Especially when you consider things like FFanatic's TAMADRAPurin or Suikama's Best Isis NA

b-but there's my best bastet in JP... ;-;


2 more rolls on muracore
1 gold egg and it's freaking 5 star Kamui

Screw this muracore its a lie.

[trancehime]

2 more rolls on muracore
1 gold egg and it's freaking 5 star Kamui

Screw this muracore its a lie.

you do not know how tempting it is to buy google play cards downstairs. fuck

[Yukarin]

it's particularly mindblowing how fast we are blowing through these threads

i mean, how many are we actively posting in these threads we're hitting 1000 posts in the span of 1~2 months.

[hyorinryu]

b-but there's my best bastet in JP... ;-;


2 more rolls on muracore
1 gold egg and it's freaking 5 star Kamui

Screw this muracore its a lie.

It's okay man, he didn't mention my Kirin either. _{Maxing skilling Kirin is really hard anyway}

you do not know how tempting it is to buy google play cards downstairs. fuck

After I got a lucky break, I told myself I'm pretty never rolling the REM again. Just the collab, and only if they're not ugly.

[Edible]

A week farming black fairies, four drops, zero skillups.

Fuck this game with a rake.

[Chaore]

A week farming black fairies, four drops, zero skillups.

Fuck this game with a rake.

This is why you farm consistently :v

[Edible]

Pretty much the only thing I could've done to farm more "consistently" would have been to drop stones on stamina refills.

So, uh... no.

[Chaore]

Pretty much the only thing I could've done to farm more "consistently" would have been to drop stones on stamina refills.

So, uh... no.

The fact you're evolving them alone suggests otherwise ;v

Not to mention you went 'yeah I'ma just wait for 1.5x and 2x' a while back, so, uh. Yeahp.

[trancehime]

some dungeons got shifted to Normal / Tech dungeons

drop rates

Legendary 40%
Sky 40%
Mechdragon 100%
Ancient 100%
Zeus 100%
Hera 100%
Hero 100%

[Chaore]

some dungeons got shifted to Normal / Tech dungeons

drop rates

Legendary 40%
Sky 40%
Mechdragon 100%
Ancient 100%
Zeus 100%
Hera 100%
Hero 100%

So in short- Only the two no one really cares about got shafted.

Victory!

Edit: Also, Kapibara confirmed. I'd farm it if the sylph skill up wasn't fucking -stupid-. I want to give my starter some love damnit.

[Edible]

The fact you're evolving them alone suggests otherwise ;v

Not to mention you went 'yeah I'ma just wait for 1.5x and 2x' a while back, so, uh. Yeahp.

I did drop ~40 stamina on other stuff and 50 on holy goddess descended, but otherwise this week has been all farming the same dungeon.  I've just had absolute shit luck.

But thanks for your input, it's definitely good to know I would have magically gotten more than zero drops during a 2x event if I didn't spend a trivial amount of stamina on miscellaenous activities.

Or you could stop being such a snarky asshole all the time.

[commandercool]

some dungeons got shifted to Normal / Tech dungeons

drop rates

Legendary 40%
Sky 40%
Mechdragon 100%
Ancient 100%
Zeus 100%
Hera 100%
Hero 100%

Woo. I'm coming for you, MaxValk.

[hyorinryu]

So in short- Only the two no one really cares about got shafted.

Victory!

Edit: Also, Kapibara confirmed. I'd farm it if the sylph skill up wasn't fucking -stupid-. I want to give my starter some love damnit.

I wouldn't even say that they got shafted since the highest difficulty was master and it was only 40% there too. Hell, I think Heroes got buffed by going from 50 to 40 stamina.

[Chaore]

I wouldn't even say that they got shafted since the highest difficulty was master and it was only 40% there too. Hell, I think Heroes got buffed by going from 50 to 40 stamina.

Huh, I didn't know that.

Probably because we basically never got them >>... i have more legendarys from the rush than anything else. Fuck, I don't even remember when we last had sky dragons.

Heroes getting dropped to 40 is hella nice too. It wasn't really super harder than Hera anyway.

[Thaws]

some dungeons got shifted to Normal / Tech dungeons

drop rates

Legendary 40%
Sky 40%
Mechdragon 100%
Ancient 100%
Zeus 100%
Hera 100%
Hero 100%

Regarding the conditions for Hera to appear
it's
Clear Ocean of Heaven -> Legendary Dragons -> Sky Dragons -> Hera

Difficulty-wise doesn't seem so bad (much better than the starlight sanc we were worrying about), but that's quite a lot of stamina you have to put into to get there I guess...

You can also get stones from all of these dungeons again! And afterwards you can do them in challenge mode for another!
Challenge mode zeus... :colonveeplusalpha: how...

[The Greatest Dog]

Challenge mode zeus... :colonveeplusalpha: how...

Anubis/Sonia/Sonia/Sonia/Sonia/Sonia

Naturally, all your friends will have +297 Sonias so it's not an issue.

[Suikama]

Noah Mythical 2 stone because Kirin is a shitty partner and cant kill low HP chimeras

#Isis4lyfe