Powercreep and Dragons Thread XXVII: Making Juggler less OP all day everyday

[Dorakyura]

The ranking preset team is bl isis loooooollllllll

It is time Suikama. You have been waiting for it!

[Jq1790]

Nah, he's a traitor, remember?
= D

I wish she would be easier. I had to try really hard to get her down. Especially since I wasn't able to oneshot her (might be possible now with Ult neph, and a 20% damage increase). Maybe Awoken Haku is easier?
Trance used a Shivadragon to farm her, We don't have the luxus to do so. I'm not sure if I can get past I&I with my row fireteam, even though it has lots of firepower. I could maybe do 7m damage twice in a game (or so). But I won't be able to finish off every stage without getting much damage.
What is your team?

AKarin/Alrescha(needs levels and skillups)/Berry Dragon/SQ or Orochi/DMeta/[AI&I or AKarin] seems to be the most effective variant Ive come up with thus far.

It's not teamcomp issues though, it's entirely user error here.  The team is more than capable of stomping the place as long as I plan actives right and dont puzzle poorly, that latter part being my hangup.  Might just have been an off day though so I wont worry too much.  She's gone now anyway.

[commandercool]

Oh fucking christ, I died to Fat Dragon AGAIN in God Rush this time. I went in with full actives but I got distracted between setting up my burst anddoing it and I forgot to swap to Beyzul. I haven't done that in forever. Between PAD freezing and my own goddamn negligence I just lost a whole day. And does Fat Dragom have a 100% fucking spawn rate? I think I'm 6/6 possible Fat Dragons this week. He's usually the easiest possible spawn, but apparently not when I'm this dumb. Ugh, fuck me.

[OverlordChirei]

Coin Rushes are being removed forever next coin rotation for co-op, so if you want the stones from them, you have about three days...

[Suikama]

Wait so we're actually getting coop soon? Ohshi

[commandercool]

Coin Rushes are being removed forever next coin rotation for co-op, so if you want the stones from them, you have about three days...

Good to know, thanks for the info. I never did get around to doing those. Although I just finished these goddamn rushes so maybe I'm not up to do more right now. I don't know.

[OverlordChirei]

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[commandercool]

Oh god, the comments are so inane. Not that I'm a font of useful input about PAD or anything, but that shit's bad.

Edit: I just did a real quick test of that Awoken Venus team I memtioned, and I would characterize it as "surprisingly horrible". The damage was pathetic. I guess I am still four rows worth of awakenings from the team being done though.

[Moogs Parfait]

I think you have the resources for a Raph/Ammy team so try that. With Sun Quan I still have 40k hp

[commandercool]

What's Amaterasu for? Seems like you wodn't be at full health before attacking that frequently, her auto-recovery should be nearly wasted, and the attack would be even lower. And it would have less rows. I guess it would be lock-proof and bind resistant, but it doesn't solve the damage problem at all unless I'm missing something.

[Moogs Parfait]

I'm not sure what kind of damage you want. Consistently high or spike?

I haven't had trouble with Raphs stalling power clearing waves.  And this test showed I can spike for 4.5 million, my team isn't done either.

[commandercool]

I'm not sure what kind of damage you want. Consistently high or spike?

I haven't had trouble with Raphs stalling power clearing waves.  And this test showed I can spike for 4.5 million, my team isn't done either.

Consistent, but consistently higher than I was getting. My team has far more rows than that one and a higher multiplier, although I don't use a damage boost right now. And I don't even have a suitable one, actually. I guess I could use Sun Quan, Venus does boost him. But as pairings with Raphael go, if I was going to use him (and I don't think I will, since that seems like it would be too similar to Gabriel's niche and he's got that locked down) I don't think I would pair with Amaterasu. Not sure what I would pair with, but I don't know that she adds what I want her to.

[hyorinryu]

If I had to choose, I think I'd look at either another Raph or Saria.

[OverlordChirei]

Tengu first wave. Spams Destroy.

But it refused.

I run out of 7s to clear Diza's poison.

But it refused.

I forgot coin dungeons had invades so Haku tried to invade for seconds.

But it refused.

Heartstarved on Wada.

But it refused.

Accidentally trip Grudge Howl and get all my skills reset.

But it refused.

Accidentally resurrect Goemon once.



BUT IT MOTHER EFFING REFUSED.

[Jq1790]

It's no Yamato Rush, but now that's the only one left.



True Dragon Realm cleared!

[OverlordChirei]

This is by far the strangest event I've ever seen.



If you roll specifically Eschamali in KR, screenshot it, and send it in, one randomly selected submission wins a trip to the Maldives...

Also, not bad for just three tries...

[Jq1790]

The Land of the Rising sun may be closer to me than I thought.  Decided to play once on a whim just because, and while I got good spawns for F 1 and 2(Tengu and DIza, respectively), I still managed to claw my way to Goemon himself.  I will wonder for a while how far I would have made it if I had not failed to knock him under 80% on turn 1, but in any case...I still made it to him, and I still survived Fireworks once.  If I get to where I can tank one from full HP without DMeta's help(Something I THINK I can pull off if I finish plussing my team's HP), that may well prove to be a tipping point for me.

I also find myself immensely happy to have two Orochi, because I think I might want one as B/B for the 5 turn Force since I am seeing some spots where I might need all five turns while in others the faster 4 turns will be helpful.  Learning experiences all around the past couple of days!

[Edible]

Must
Get
Eschamali.

;_;

[Dorakyura]

This is it, I finally have him.  1250 Stamina for the Pirates (get through Technicals), 10 tries on Zaerog8 with stupid mistakes (and getting 6 combo on a team without fingers, wuhu)
I wonder how to skill him up though. I'm so bad at doing Zaerog...

[The Greatest Dog]

This is it, I finally have him.  1250 Stamina for the Pirates (get through Technicals), 10 tries on Zaerog8 with stupid mistakes (and getting 6 combo on a team without fingers, wuhu)
I wonder how to skill him up though. I'm so bad at doing Zaerog...

I'll co-op the dungeon with you to skillup a second Zaerogoo

When Zaerogoo uses his skill delay, does that only affect the active subs? Could you then pass the turn to the other team and not deal with the first phase via poison?

[MatsuriSakuragi]

seconding desire to coop for z8 skillups pls

mine is max level/awoken at the very least???

[Suikama]

im not if i actually want to skill up z8 since i dont really use ayomi and z8 is now evo mat material for stuff

[commandercool]

I was planning to do all of the coin Legend Plus rushes real quick before they disappear from the coin rotation, but when I factor in the time it will take to re-earn 25 million coins it kind of doesn't seem worth it any more for five stones. I liked it when we got a shitload of coins every couple weeks from descend challenges, what happened to that?

[The Greatest Dog]

oh wow
will I have two peers here to use Z8 with after co-op hits?
I don't even mind the idea of running the dungeon so many times because holy shit that rank up exp

[Suikama]

Ugggghhh Sopdet in LV7 7x6 again are you kidding me

I'll probably do LV9 and 10 first it will be less painful even with how ridiculous they are this time around >___>

[commandercool]

I keep getting Fat Dragons (I think I'm 7/7 for recent rushes at this point?) so I decided to throw three spares into Zhou Yu. I have all of the materials I need to evolve him and everything else I need for Awoken Sakuya, so I figured I might as well make her just to try her out versus Ra (and have an outlet for my ridiculously large pile of white orbs). So I fed Zhou Yu, and he ended at level... 51? Descend bosses cap at 50 in their first form, what's going on here? Why does he randomly need twice the experience of any other descend prize? Is this a thing and I just overlooked it? Are they all like that now or something?

[MatsuriSakuragi]

There are a handful of descend golds that need to go to level 70 before evolving. Zhou Yu, Zhao Yun, and Cauchemar come to mind.

[commandercool]

Okay, so how do Vishnu and Awoken Shiva actually work in Challenge 10? Specifically, when do they use their insta-kill abilities? PDX has both of them listed as "above 30% HP", but if that's the case then their odds of using a given move don't add up. Is that supposed to be "below 30% HP"? If it is and they've just been writing it wrong this whole time, I'm pretty sure I can do Challenge 10 with Gabriel.

I know I say that like half the time, but I think it's true like half the time. I just rarely have the excess stamina to want to try it a couple of times to get a feel for it over doing something more productive. And honestly I'm not sure I will this time either, since there are a couple of different sources of +eggs in this event and I want to finish Alrescha. But I think Gabriel/Ryune has a really decent shot at this one. The hardest part looks like it'll be threading the needle on Vishnu, damage-wise, which will be really easy to overshoot on a 7x6 board. But if I can pull that off and keep up my recovery with only a 2x multiplier it should work.

[Dorakyura]

seconding desire to coop for z8 skillups pls

mine is max level/awoken at the very least???

Just fed a dark snow into him, still have 6 light ones to feed , also, I have more than 100 +eggs in him already :V

[Espadas]

Uh, so i was like "oh, free 3k mp today from the gift dungeon!".... then Basilisk comes out..... and i main Dark..... and i lack him.....

Is there any reason to keep him (apart for the great art). especially considering i already have 2 uevo Pandora?