Puzzle and Dragons Thread 24: Attack On Big Flamie

[commandercool]

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 even lowlier dragons to gods that are also dragons like Ra Dragon (above).  They all 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 :V , 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 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 (a god).  Great starters include any of the Chinese gods, Ares, Bastet, Isis, Verdandi, Lu Bu, Bastet, Odin, Kali, Shiva, Bastet, Sonia, and many others.  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 (Ronia*, Bastet*)
hyorinryu: 357.646.299 (Sakuya*, Perseus*)
Suikama: 348.941.282 (Isis*, Nut*)
triangles: 322.456.235 (LMeta*, Santa Sakuya)
Chaore: 344,844,286 (Verdandi, Shiva*)
Yukarin: 394.177.213 (Awoken Haku*, LKali*)
Jq1790: 396,049,294 (Athena, Awoken Karin*)
Pesco: 328 276 294 (Rodin, Ronia)
Dibble: 314,673,283 (Isis, GOdin)
Matsuri: 358,689,277 (Awoken Parvati*, Awoken Meimei)
Fast Fanatic: 359,184,275 (TAMADRAPurin*, Sakuya*)
Sacchi Hikaru: 385,394,297 (Horus*, Vishnu)
rdj: 338,277,280 (AA Lucifer*, Awoken Minerva)
Chirei: 326,404,383 (Leilan*, Alraune*)
commandercool: 312,728,337 (Gabriel*, Awoken Ra*)
Aoshi: 398,822,333 (LMeta*, I&I)
Conqueror: 331,616,320 (DQXQ, I&I)
MoogsParfait: 313,455,268 (Athena, LMeta*)
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 (Ronia, B/G Karin)
Calamity: 331,737,355 (Ronia, Awoken Shiva)
Mea: 380,147,382 (Sakuya, chibi Rose)

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

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[matsuri]done[/matsuri]

[Suikama]

[GERMAN CHANTING INTENSIFIES]


inb4 all the cards suck

hopefully they try making the gold eggs better subs because every time they make leaders they end up weak and disappointing except for a few cases like Kite and Cloud (DBZ doesn't count because they got like a million ulti buffs) and meanwhile there are still a lot of need for many types of sub like machines and specific type/att combinations and stuff

[commandercool]

Challenge 7 is bullshit. Tried it once, died to Ra, not gonna try again. It's not even that anything in it is hard, it's just that everything is annoying and there's too much RNG. Would rather have +eggs with that stamina, not worth it.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

[GERMAN CHANTING INTENSIFIES]


inb4 all the cards suck

hopefully they try making the gold eggs better subs because every time they make leaders they end up weak and disappointing except for a few cases like Kite and Cloud (DBZ doesn't count because they got like a million ulti buffs) and meanwhile there are still a lot of need for many types of sub like machines and specific type/att combinations and stuff

Hey, on the bright side, if they end up sucking we might actually have a chance at getting the collab here

[Dorakyura]

Challenge 7 is bullshit. Tried it once, died to Ra, not gonna try again. It's not even that anything in it is hard, it's just that everything is annoying and there's too much RNG. Would rather have +eggs with that stamina, not worth it.

Ra is pretty hard, you have 5 turns to do 50 attacks. Not much space for errors. You really need a fast orb changer and hope that skyfall will not fuck you up and kill your orbs. (or you just do 451k damage with a dark main colour :3)

[GERMAN CHANTING INTENSIFIES]

Lalilaliloooh, lalilooooh, .....
Oh, hey Wiesn begins this weekend

[commandercool]

Ra is pretty hard, you have 5 turns to do 50 attacks. Not much space for errors. You really need a fast orb changer and hope that skyfall will not fuck you up and kill your orbs. (or you just do 451k damage with a dark main colour :3)

Oh I know it. I've killed him a number of times in a number of dungeons. But given that the sub-elements on my team are scattered and Beyzul doesn't even have one, it's just an RNG contest to see if his increased red skyfalls thing allows me to get my other colors. Couple with the RNG contested of "do you get a bunch of skyfalls on Sopdet?" and the general unpleasantness of Medjed, I think I'm good on this one.

[Chaore]

hopefully they try making the gold eggs better subs because every time they make leaders they end up weak and disappointing except for a few cases like Kite and Cloud (DBZ doesn't count because they got like a million ulti buffs) and meanwhile there are still a lot of need for many types of sub like machines and specific type/att combinations and stuff

ulti buffs are usually standard to make any collab usually great

even then gold leaders are usually solid and also double as useful subs

more than certain pantheons can say really


i hope they suck though i don't have stones on jp

[Mr. Sacchi]

Managed to beat Challenge 7 because Vishnu is like super Balanced. Attacker;

So long as I didn't get super screwed by skyfalls and getting a second green combo, Sopdet was not a problem.

Isis is main water so lol

Ra ain't hard cause out of my team's 12 elements 10 are wood and I have vishnu's active to keep my flow of green going so lol

Medjed was the biggest asshole, it would all come down to "Does he choose to give me leeza/meimei as my new leader?" fortunately he chose Liu Bei so I just chipped him down a little bit and then did big damages, had to blow GZL though cause I really wasn't going to deal with a red sub-element.

Final was Osiris, not exactly hard but his heart-giving attack was a guaranteed hitkill on me, so my only real chance of survival was to murder him immediately, so I popped meimei into double Vishnu active and did 2 TPAs with what I was given and the skyfall gods gave me another 2 so I was good :V

Shynpy get, doubt I can make it through challenge 8 though.

[commandercool]

Challenge eight reinforced my assertion that Awoken Isis is kind of unneccesary on an Awoken Ra team. Obviously it's not fully representative due to being a no-recovery dungeon with kind of squishy enemies, but despite Devil Dragon's white bind locking down my Kalis for much of the dungeon I still didn't really find myself wanting a bind recovery. Everyone elses' damage was plenty until they got free in plenty of time to kill Satan.

Granted, I didn't really need Sun Quan for anything either, but his delay was at least nice to have in case of emergency.. Still not convinced bind clear on a team that's largely bind-immune is great (although I recognize that that's far from her only use).

[Aoshi-shi]

Well that was easy.
Did Mythical too because why not

[Jq1790]

How wonderful, they both dropped too.

Did you have to deal with Ceremony of Rebirth at all, or were you smarter than myself about that? 

Ehe...heh.  *hangs head*  Still gotta make sure to deliver the beatdown later on since no way am I leaving them unbeaten when they really AREN'T all that difficult for me at this point if I don't accidentally off one of em without KOing the other one.

[Aoshi-shi]

Did you have to deal with Ceremony of Rebirth at all, or were you smarter than myself about that? 

I fucked up on Isis and the chaser floor during my Mythical run because somehow I ran out of heart orbs. I knew I couldn't take a hit from both of them so I tried stalling for either Echi or Susanoo by beating up Thoth repeatedly. Thankfully I didn't need either.

[The Greatest Dog]

It's so weird seeing only 18000~ HP when I'm nearing 25,000 because of Big Dog.

Still, I wish I had an LMeta over LZL sometimes. Much better for short term survival and bind clearing, even though the damage dealt is a lot lower. But I'm having no trouble dealing damage when Purin is involved.

Will you be converting to Awoken Susano when he debuts? The red coloring means for me that I don't need to field Amaterasu, which is nice, and the lowish cd haste is pretty sweet...

[Mr. Sacchi]

Just murdered Thoth & Sopdet mythical because, again, Vishnu is Balanced Attacker.

Failed once because I got orbtrolled and green starved despite Vishnu's active, and I barely had enough HP to survive the preemptive at the beginning of the dungeon (as in, I survived with like 300 HP rofl).

But then I bursted pretty much everything down and didn't get heart-starved so big numbers happened.

This team is retardedly easy to play and stupidly good as well, the only thing missing is to replace Leeza with Kaede.

(Also, I got a Best Friend hypermaxxed Vishnu, yay?)

Will be spending the next few days running Earth Insect Dragon so I can try to max skill leeza and Vishnu, after which it's +egg farming time.

(Honestly I think I'll be dumping mine on Vishnu instead of Athena since he seems to be a whole lot better than her in every way shape and form right now)

[trancehime]

Hypermaxed Yamato Takeru. OK, let's move on to the next card.



Here's my team to farm Kanetsugu Descended! for 10x Plus Egg Rate. On Mythical, you are guaranteed 5 pluses minimum, 7 maximum (all floors). Very lucrative.

[Jq1790]

After my failure earlier I spent like thirty turns wearing the duo down, beat their faces in, and got my stone and 10 MP.  Not a HARD stage if one is careful and patient, at least if they have decent RCV to take advantage of Sopdet throwing hearts at you constantly.

Wonder what descend I should tackle next...?

[trancehime]

Paging Thaws:

Next skills up rotation will be Trifruits skill Norns!!

[Edible]

"zzz oh good morning I have 5 stones may as well roll once more on the batcha"



It finally delivers.  Woop woop!

[trancehime]

wow. just... wow.

[Thaws]

Paging Thaws:

Next skills up rotation will be Trifruits skill Norns!!

FINALLY.

wow. just... wow.

...wow

[Aoshi-shi]

It's so weird seeing only 18000~ HP when I'm nearing 25,000 because of Big Dog.

Still, I wish I had an LMeta over LZL sometimes. Much better for short term survival and bind clearing, even though the damage dealt is a lot lower. But I'm having no trouble dealing damage when Purin is involved.

Will you be converting to Awoken Susano when he debuts? The red coloring means for me that I don't need to field Amaterasu, which is nice, and the lowish cd haste is pretty sweet...

I think I'm going to keep him in his Attacker form for my eventual GZL team (when I get around to finishing it).

[commandercool]

Just took a look at Yamato Challenge for the first time, and unless I missed something I thiiiink Gabriel handles it.

All the perserverences are a mess, but if anyone can deal with that kind of thing it's an archangel. With a lot of patience and care and maybe some luck I should be good. Or maybe I just overlooked something that shuts me down I guess.

[Suikama]

i beat c8 but died to c7 osiris


still hate wood types btw

[Dorakyura]

i beat c8 but died to c7 osiris


still hate wood types btw

Oh something the sister can't beat

[triangles]

This is totally random but would anyone be interested in buying this Genbu figure from me?

(I am A+++ photographer)
I really only wanted Leilan for she is MJP's puzzlemon waifu but despite being separate boxes I had to buy them as a set :fail:  And maybe there's someone out there in the reverse situation I dunno.  $20 shipped in the US and uh, that + whatever shipping would be overseas.

[commandercool]

A month ago I probably would have jumped on that in a second, but apparently every inch of my display space is full, because I bought a Reimu figurine that's been floating from surface to surface for weeks without finding a permanent home.

If nobody around here is interested I know a few people who might be that I can check with.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

I took the plunge today.



I'll thank myself later when I'm rolling in plus eggs from 10x descends. For now though, this is a punch in the throat and I could cry just throwing all of those valuable things to the wind. But I'd never do it if I kept delaying. Now I HAVE to commit, or else it's all wasted.

Rest in fucking Piis. T_T

[Jq1790]

My heart hurts for you seeing that. Godspeed, Matsuri!

Meanwhile I beat up Gravis and got my head handed to me several different ways by the criminals of Gotham.  At least I got Chiyome leveled up some earlier as well.

[Dorakyura]

I took the plunge today.



I'll thank myself later when I'm rolling in plus eggs from 10x descends. For now though, this is a punch in the throat and I could cry just throwing all of those valuable things to the wind. But I'd never do it if I kept delaying. Now I HAVE to commit, or else it's all wasted.

Rest in fucking Piis. T_T

Holy, that is commitment.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

Ult ROdin, DIza, and Persephone are out now.

Of COURSE they finally do it right when I've used up all my evo mats. One of these days I'm just going to farm like fifty rainbow keepers and dub mythlits because I'm always out of those.