Puzzle and Attorneys Thread 31 - 10 combos for all

[OverlordChirei]

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 frequently as rewards in-game), which allow for 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 most things can be obtained/beaten without spending money and some amount of patience and skill.)

You can control monsters from lowly slimes to dragons to ancient gods and even defense attorneys like Phoenix Wright. They all mostly have different stats and skills, allowing you to customize your team for any number of purposes.

Real talk though, the real reason to get into this game is because everyone else here is playing it and has been playing non-stop for the past 2 years, and probably won't stop for a long time thanks to the constant updates to the game and its mechanics, balance changes that never directly nerf anything and are mostly focused on increasing the viability of older monsters, and of course the endless addition of new monsters and collabs that are dished out on a regular basis.

If you're interested, there's a really useful database 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 (a god).  Great starters include any of the Chinese gods, Amaterasu, Isis, Verdandi, Lu Bu, Bestet, Odin, Kali, Shiva, Amaterasu, Sonia, the Dragonbounds. Feel free to ask!

If you need more help or just want to discuss the game, we also have a P&D channel on the MotK IRC network in here. Just type your name and go.
For those using IRC clients other than webchat, the channel is #puzzleandlibrarians on irc.ppirc.net.


List of friends + Main Leaders:
Edible: 328,945,274 (BATMAN !*, Bestet*)
hyorinryu: 357.646.299 (Sakuya*, Perseus*)
Suikama: 348.941.282 (Isis*, Ra Dra*)
triangles: 322.456.235 (A. Leilan, LKali)
Chaore: 344,844,286 (Shiva*, Superman)
Yukarin: 394.177.213 (Haku*, Sakuya*)
Jq1790: 396,049,294 (AShiva, AKarin*, DHermes)
Pesco: 328 276 294 (Yomidra*, ROdin*, Xiang Mei)
Dibble: 314,673,283 (Isis, GOdin)
Matsuri: 358,689,277 (Awoken Astaroth*, Awoken Tsukuyomi*, Xiang Mei)
The Greatest Dog: 359,184,275 (Zaerog∞, Raoh, Fenrir ?)
Sacchi: 385,394,297 (Horus*, Vishnu*)
rdj: 338,277,280 (AA Lucifer*, Minerva*)
Chirei: 326,404,383 (Leilan*, Alraune*_^,Skuld*)
commandercool: 312,728,337 (Gabriel*, Awoken Ra*, NepDra*)
Aoshi: 398,822,333 (School!Athena, Sakuya*)
Conqueror: 331,616,320 (DQXQ, I&I)
MoogsParfait: 313,455,268 (Leilan, Waifuterasu*)
Dorakyura: 347,957,300 (Nephthys*)
Bio: 336,681,244 (Sakuya, Athena)
En: 351,629,319 (Lu Bu, Haku)
moekou: 329,066,242 (Osiris*, Pandora)
Espadas: 301,335,377 (Yomidra*, APandora)
Calamity: 331,737,355 (Ronia, Shiva)
Mea: 380,147,382 (Myr*,  APandora*, ASakuya*)
aUsernameIsFineToo: 347,966,337 (A.Bastet*, GOdin, Kushinadahime)
Ruka: 368,034,352 (Sasuke, I&I Healer)
Zengar Zombolt: 309,400,409 (Sylvie*,  AThor*, Verdandi*)
StarlightHawk: 383,095,393 (A.Venus, Skuld, Wukong*)
qMyon: 320,092,324 (Verdandi, Saria)
Soichirou W.: 323,897,388 (Perseus)
Namusan ♡Yomichiyu: 337,315,379 (A. DQXQ*, ShivaDra*, A. Pandora*)
Hikari: 309,703,434 (Pollux, School Sakuya, Typhon)

(Asterisk next to leaders means "hypermax" - +297, max skill. Glowing leaders have all five latent awakening slots full.)

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[trancehime]

bad news bears, Version 9.3 will be killing off perma-mail storage by attaching expiration dates to System/Management-sent mail.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

That's... fucking stupid. People use their mail as a secondary box because spending money on box space is also, in fact, fucking stupid.

[aUsernameIsFineToo]

People use their mail as a secondary box...

That's exactly what they're trying to prevent with that. Looks like the mail content display update was only leading up to this.

Addendum: This also means I won't be able to keep the "welcome" message i received upon starting the game. Truly the greatest loss of all.

[trancehime]

https://twitter.com/DaikeYamamoto/status/749930533962936320

"Regarding increasing the sales of stones for box space, such a stupid reason isn't why we're attaching time limits to mail (>_<)"

lol we're on to you, YamaP

[Jq1790]

Well then what IS the reason, hmmmm?

[MatsuriSakuragi]

Lies, lies, lies.

I'm starting to genuinely hate what this game has become.

[OverlordChirei]

From Unknown_PC: Apparently YamaP is starting to reconsider the 90 day limit. Unsure if it is that same tweet above.

Either way he's trying to get all his noniap/light iap people to quit in 2017 lol

[trancehime]

From Unknown_PC: Apparently YamaP is starting to reconsider the 90 day limit. Unsure if it is that same tweet above.

Either way he's trying to get all his noniap/light iap people to quit in 2017 lol

proof: https://twitter.com/DaikeYamamoto/status/749930144932900864

"[90 days] is a lot of time to think about things, we'll try to figure something out"

[OverlordChirei]

proof: https://twitter.com/DaikeYamamoto/status/749930144932900864

"[90 days] is a lot of time to think about things, we'll try to figure something out"

Thanks.

May want to add that to the reddit thing too oops

[Hikarin]

On the other hand, what's the expiration period? If it's long enough, then I doubt it matters to most people.

[trancehime]

On the other hand, what's the expiration period? If it's long enough, then I doubt it matters to most people.

90 days for mail after 9.3;

pre-9.3 mail expires after 2017/1/10 11:59AM

[Hikarin]

So pre-9.3 stuff is mostly safe, but post 9.3 stuff is gonna get a little tight. 90 days is still a decent amount of time, though, for people who only take Tamas and Piis when they need them. Or... random +50 Flamies... coughcough

[Jq1790]

Oh, right, not that it matters for a lot if people, but for the high-tier NA players, Arena 3.0 is gonna be a thing(later this week, I forget when) in case you all missed it in the rush of the mailbox debacle.

[trancehime]

So pre-9.3 stuff is mostly safe, but post 9.3 stuff is gonna get a little tight. 90 days is still a decent amount of time, though, for people who only take Tamas and Piis when they need them.

i know people who kept 800 day old mail

[Hikarin]

i know people who kept 800 day old mail

Point noted :V

Arena 3.0 is gonna be a thing(later this week, I forget when) in case you all missed it in the rush of the mailbox debacle.

I wonder if I can manage that... I doubt it, even with 900k consistent damage

EDIT: Waifu List
-Cinderella
-Sopdet
-Lilith (sold for MP)
-Sopdet (sold for MP)
-Bestcat

[Monarda]

-Bestcat

RIP Thaws and User

[Zengar Zombolt]

OK thanks for the stone, game. And chirei, too!

[Hikarin]

Now do it solo in team challenge mode. It's an extra stone :derp:

[aUsernameIsFineToo]

https://twitter.com/pad_sexy/status/750270319764529152

Looks like the mail expiration date has been increased to one year after reception.

[Hikarin]

RIP people who spent last night taking stuff out of their mail.

EDIT: and 9.3 will have awakening organization! That's actually helpful; I don't need to go through monsters to see which ones have five or six Light OEs.

[commandercool]

Oh wow, PreDras are very early today, and only up once. Yeah, won't be around to co-op them I guess.

[Pesco]

I'd like to gauge the interest for a PAD themed board game. I opted for PAD over Touhou because i don't even know the names of the characters in Touhou from the last 2 years. The gameplay and mechanics are inspired from the Witcher board game (Steam link). If there is enough interest, I'll begin designing this to be run in RPG. Post any questions you have over in the general faq thread in RPG so that we keep this thread to actual PAD discussion.

Preliminary faq

When can we start joining?
Minimum 2 months will be needed for me to design this. I'm going to Seattle for Dota early next month so you'll need to wait until I come back and settle back to normal life.

Can we expect the game to be balanced
If it turns out balanced, I expect the game will be rather boring as it means I have not thought through the mechanics sufficiently. I will aim to make playstyles different enough that it won't be so easy to determine what is always objectively better.

Can we play this in Tabetop Simulator?
If the first run is successful, I'm all for letting whoever wishes to port it there go ahead with that. I'm only able to design and run my game on the forums because of downtime at work.

How complicated will the game be?
My rough estimate of game complexity will be:
Basic: Mons have single element, few AS on select mons.
Moderate: Mons have dual element, AS on most mons, LS on player.
Advanced: Mons have dual element, AS on all mons that get used 'combat', LS on player and helper.
Ideal: Mons have single element, dual element on evolve, mon type is a factor, AS on all mons that get used 'combat', LS on player and helper, unlimited number of players can join.

[yomichiyu]

Looks like the mail expiration date has been increased to one year after reception.

It's not too bad I suppose. But still, an expiration date....I guess we'll have to see how it goes. Luckily, I don't have much in my JP mail atm besides the green jewels from the recent green descended challenge (w/e the actual name is).

On a side note, I saw various PAD figurines (pugyutto to be exact) at AX this past weekend. Saw some like Sonia, Metatron, Valkyrie, Lilith, Hera. Think I might've seen Ammy too but I wasn't sure.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

pull #5 merely on collected stones and random cents from Google surveys

now to box her and never do much with her

[Jq1790]

Oh hey I need two blue masks let's do a few Legend runs to get that out of the way!

3 green masks later...

...oh, it's gonna be like this.  Ok then.

[Hikarin]

At least you have something to blame your failures on.

What I do is say, "Oh hey, Friday dungeon. I need stuff.", run it once, get a thing I need, and then forget to re-run it until the weekend, at which point I headbang my wall :colonveeplusalpha:

[commandercool]

Alright, these are the results of a full day farming Water Carnival. The only thing I really care about it Nut skillups, although I vaguely could use Muse skillups I guess.

x9 Mystic Ice Knight
x9 Neneko
x9 Waron
x8 Water Shibamaru
x5 Blue DeviNyan :/
x3 Tunabowl
x1 Blue Fairy

Of course the one I wanted was the least common non-boss drop by a large margin. Good thing I wasn't trying to get Shit Waifu skillups though. :V

[trancehime]

https://twitter.com/pad_sexy/status/751004425120997379

Himura Kenshin is the card which used the new cross mechanic teased at the stream.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

Of course he gets the most broken LS of all time rofl