Puzzle and Dragons Thread XXVI - Everyday Christmas With Monster Musume

[Suikama]

Hey skmr/ccool could you guys put up andromeda/gabe respectively? Trying some silly things.

k 1 blu bae coming right up

[Edible]

I PUT UP THE BEST BLUE LEAD TBH

YOU KNOW, JUST IN CASE

[commandercool]

Hey skmr/ccool could you guys put up andromeda/gabe respectively? Trying some silly things.

Okay he's up.

[Mr. Sacchi]

Hey skmr/ccool could you guys put up andromeda/gabe respectively? Trying some silly things.

If you want I could put up ALakshmi as well.

If you're trying some silly things and all, might as well :V

[Espadas]

Andro up here as well 

[OverlordChirei]

GO TEAM MOTK (+1 random)



Took four attempts. Easily one of the hardest challenge modes to date.

EDIT: I just realized Nut needs five or more combos to proc, and I went in with five MOTK members.

Half-Life 5 confirmed

[Suikama]

Ilsix challenge mode tho

[Mr. Sacchi]

GO TEAM MOTK (+1 random)

Now do it again and replace the random with my ALakshmi. I'm sure she'll be useful for something.

she's max skilled alright

[OverlordChirei]

Now do it again and replace the random with my ALakshmi. I'm sure she'll be useful for something.

she's max skilled alright

The random was another I&I. I don't think it's possible to beat it with this setup unless I use two, so...

EDIT: Upon further inspection, I think you actually deleted me a long time ago, so I don't have you on my list. I guess I'm just too scrub after all.

[Mr. Sacchi]

I'm 100% sure I favorited everyone from MotK, if I deleted you, that's because I (somehow) didn't realize you were you :V

I've sent you a friend request all the same though.

[OverlordChirei]

I'm 100% sure I favorited everyone from MotK, if I deleted you, that's because I (somehow) didn't realize you were you :V

I've sent you a friend request all the same though.

This was way back when I was like Rank 60, and I probably didn't have anyone that was compatiable with Horus, so that was that.

Also unfortunately that last slot I opened was because someone needed Nut friends, so I can't accept the request at the moment. I don't think I run anything you could use still.

[Mr. Sacchi]

Rank 60

* Astrologian Sacchi sees that you're now over rank 500 and he's still in the low-mid 200s.

...My how time flies. Especially considering how I seem to have started playing about 20 days before you or something :V

I should really get around to grinding coin dungeons.

[Ruka]

I posted my ID in the previous thread. Here it is again in case anyone wants it:

368,034,352

Usual leads are Sasuke and I&I Healer.

[OverlordChirei]

* Astrologian Sacchi sees that you're now over rank 500 and he's still in the low-mid 200s.

...My how time flies. Especially considering how I seem to have started playing about 20 days before you or something :V

I should really get around to grinding coin dungeons.

Rank is but an arbitrary number that masks the true skill of that player.

[Mr. Sacchi]

Boy I sure hope there are some 100s that are actually better than me then, I'm still a scrub that can only clear stuff because Vishnu is stronk.

[trancehime]

Rank is but an arbitrary number that masks the true skill of that player.

nah rank just determines how much value a stone gives you on stam refresh  :derp:

[Edible]

[23:48:44] <Edible> pad is over
[23:48:49] <trance|work> PAD IS KILL

[Chaore]

New set is 'fine we'll give you fucks what you want'

the blue one is possibly a stupid good statstick, dark oe one is pretty busted looking since she got good awakenings, green one looks mediocre

damage control probably super imminent still

[Suikama]

ALL ABOARD THE POWER CREEP EXPRESS

CHOO CHOO MOTHER FUCKERS

[trancehime]

yeah I really don't know anymore.

i think they're running out of ideas mechanics-wise

[The Greatest Dog]

I mean
They can't really introduce a new Awoken skill without it being absurd overpowered, while it would be super uncommon and only work with a specific team of only 5 mons

this would appeal to superwhales

they already have monsters that let you spam even more active skills

What else are they supposed to do? Add an active skill that deals more damage as the -enemy's- HP decreases, like Pok?mon's Brine?

I, uh, ran out of Clouds to farm Creek of Neleus, so I tried using Aoshi's Minerva

This was far more stressful than I thought it would be

[trancehime]

What else are they supposed to do? Add an active skill that deals more damage as the -enemy's- HP decreases, like Pok?mon's Brine?

Well they already releasing Machine Hera which has some new awakenings.

[Espadas]

I think this comment in the PDX page says it best:

"ok who has been giving out hash to the developer ?
I don't know what kind of weed the developer down at gungtroll is smoking but I want some."

And i totally dig Eschamali's art.....

[commandercool]

I mean
They can't really introduce a new Awoken skill without it being absurd overpowered, while it would be super uncommon and only work with a specific team of only 5 mons

this would appeal to superwhales

they already have monsters that let you spam even more active skills

What else are they supposed to do? Add an active skill that deals more damage as the -enemy's- HP decreases, like Pok?mon's Brine?

There's a TON of reasonable, untapped design space in the leader skill department. And I think the popularity of Norns has proven that peole do care about leader skills that aren't "x17 attack lol".

I'm surprised we haven't seen a leader skill yet that auto-creates orbs every turn. Like " x3 attack for green, and converts the orbs in the bottom corners to green at the start of your turn". Or maybe "x3 attack for red and creates a heart orb and a red orb at random whenever you use a skill" or permutations of that.

As for actives, I can't see as many options there (I already kind of think Haste was crossing the line) but I'm sure plenty exist. Maybe "Take another turn after this one" on a massive timer as a more expensive, more powerful version of Delay. Or, as sketchy as this might be, some kind of new "excess orbs" mechanic where you can orbchange away any orbs that you have too many of. Like "Changes excess red, green, and blue orbbs to hearts" would randomly orbchange orbs until you only have three of each of those colors left. Or even a mechanic that lets you pick what you orbchange, and/or to what. It would halt the momentum of the game a bit, but I wonder what the lowest cooldown they could get away with making "Change the orb of your choice to the color of your choice" at is?

[Moogs Parfait]

On Actives:  Temporary versions of popular leader skills like Resolve, Regen, and Combo Dmg Boost would allow more variety of leaders.  This is basically what they did with Raphael.

Putting damage boosts in the Awakenings has already let tank leaders start to make a comeback

[Mеа]

Swapping the ATK and HP (or RCV?) stats of the party for 3 turns or so might also be interesting. Might make for some interesting Tank->Glass Cannon mid-battle conversions.
Or maybe new full board awakenings. Would require a team with a lot of board changers and hasters.

[Mr. Sacchi]

> Three new godfest exclusives, because we obviously didn't already have enough of them.

> 5 green rows, even though quad row hasn't been a thing for very long.

> 5 TPAs, when we still only have one card with quad TPA.

> seven fucking orb enhancement awakenings

Right, this is why I lost so much interest in this game, the powercreep has reached overdrive speed and it's not stopping anytime soon.

[commandercool]

Oh lovely, the blue one is arbitrarily rarer again. At least it's dragging the black one down with it.

I'm getting real tired of the "match five orbs including one enhanced orb" mechanic. Admittedly I've never played a team optimized around it, but I haven't found that it gives terribly enjoyable gameplay. It's starting to feel lazy by this point. Maybe there's a ton of nuance to it that I'm overlooking, but even if that's the case I'd rather see it used sparingly.

As for power creep, that went out the window for me with Ra Dragon. Anything's fair game at this point. While that bothers tremendously on a design level it has yet to hurt my enjoyment of the game in a practical way (aside from losing all of my Awoken Ra friends, but I'm getting used to that since I play blue). We'll see I guess.

[hyorinryu]

> Three new godfest exclusives, because we obviously didn't already have enough of them.

> 5 green rows, even though quad row hasn't been a thing for very long.

> 5 TPAs, when we still only have one card with quad TPA.

> seven fucking orb enhancement awakenings

Right, this is why I lost so much interest in this game, the powercreep has reached overdrive speed and it's not stopping anytime soon.

I don't think it's as overpowered as it appears. Yeah, they give a lot of offensive awakenings, but that's all they have. 5 green rows, might seem really good at first, but then you realize she brings no skill boosts to get your actives to make the rows, no time extends to fix those hard boards, and no skill bind resist. All of those things, will need to be made up elsewhere. Also, unlike prongs, it doesn't matter which card brings the rows in a team as long as they're already there. Right now, I can bring in Artemis and Micheal, who might have only 3 rows, but they also bring in skill boosts, skill bind resists, and auto-heals that will help the team just as much if not more than the 2 other rows brought by Austrailis.

The Pentapronger is bit harder to defend, but hey. Even hypermaxed, her small attack makes it so that she only hits a little harder than Vishnu, and without eggs Vishnu will hit harder than her. Of course, she has stats in other areas backing herself up, but Vishnu and Orochi have more variety in their awakenings, with the skill boosts and the skill binds.

As for the last one. We've had 5-orb enhance 4*s on our collab eggs for a while. I don't think a 6* godfest exclusive having two more orb enhance awakenings will break anything. These guys are definitely pushing it, but I think PADs been through worse. II think Godfest exclusives should push things a little though. Makes them more interesting. I don't think these guys have anything on the MP dragons anyway.

[Mеа]

What with the art for these new exclusives and the art for for machina marionette series, looks like the Kali artist is getting more spotlight. Anyone know who the artist is? Any names floating around?