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Puzzle & Dragons |OT4| Co-op Edition: Stoning With Friends

Aesnath

Member
Hello again everyone. I've been off from work for two weeks (University jobs, gotta love them), so I've not been at the computer to post--I also haven't logged in to post on my phone, but I've been lurking.

I rolled quite a bit on the PCGF and got that Pandora I was looking for, but also Ra, Red Odin, Sun Wukong, Sheen, Lumiel, and a few more storybook girls, most of which I sold. I've heard that during new years, all MP creatures might be in the shop. I have about 250,000k MP. Given that I really want a plum, that it would slot into my main team immediately (I have evo mats, piis, and +297 waiting), Should I sell Red Odin? My understanding is that he is mostly a button farming sub, and I am not there yet. He fits OK on Minerva for poison, when I need it, but his active is so very slow, and there is no easy way to skill it up outside of piis. Moreover, Awoken Ra seems like an easier include for Minerva when I need a lazer/poison, and I just got access to him to.


@W-00

I'm not sure if this is directly relevant, but my son plays PAD on a 3 year old Kindle fire just fine. It wasn't one of the $50 ones though, but it is pretty old. Unlike a lot of Kindle apps, it seems to update on time.
 
Could someone give me a hand with my box? I started about two weeks ago, but I've hit a brick wall and don't really know what to do now. I rolled a few times during the PCGF and got some okayish results, but I don't think I've really got a viable team at the moment.

https://www.padherder.com/user/Mast...,4294967295_63,0,,0,0,0,eq,0,0,0,0,;default,0

Any thoughts?
Where are you currently stuck? Acala is one of the best monsters in the game; and even if you aren't able to make wood crosses the flat multiplier is equivalent to that of former "best monsters". Run as many wood monsters on the team as possible.
 

Ducarmel

Member
Could someone give me a hand with my box? I started about two weeks ago, but I've hit a brick wall and don't really know what to do now. I rolled a few times during the PCGF and got some okayish results, but I don't think I've really got a viable team at the moment.

https://www.padherder.com/user/Mast...,4294967295_63,0,,0,0,0,eq,0,0,0,0,;default,0

Any thoughts?

Build an Acala team

subs
Bartz

Farmable subs
Cauchemar, Chu chu, Armadel, Reincarnated Ancient Dragon Knight, Kaguya-Hime,
 

Mastadon

Banned
Where are you currently stuck? Acala is one of the best monsters in the game; and even if you aren't able to make wood crosses the flat multiplier is equivalent to that of former "best monsters". Run as many wood monsters on the team as possible.

Not stuck as such, was more looking for direction. I'm still working through the normal dungeons and early technical dungeons. I tried a descended earlier today and got destroyed, but my Acala and the rest of my wood monsters are underfarmed at the minute and i'm bad at making crosses.

Build an Acala team

subs
Bartz

Farmable subs
Cauchemar, Chu chu, Armadel, Reincarnated Ancient Dragon Knight, Kaguya-Hime,

Thanks man.

What should I be feeding Acala for skill ups?
 
Hello again everyone. I've been off from work for two weeks (University jobs, gotta love them), so I've not been at the computer to post--I also haven't logged in to post on my phone, but I've been lurking.

I rolled quite a bit on the PCGF and got that Pandora I was looking for, but also Ra, Red Odin, Sun Wukong, Sheen, Lumiel, and a few more storybook girls, most of which I sold. I've heard that during new years, all MP creatures might be in the shop. I have about 250,000k MP. Given that I really want a plum, that it would slot into my main team immediately (I have evo mats, piis, and +297 waiting), Should I sell Red Odin? My understanding is that he is mostly a button farming sub, and I am not there yet. He fits OK on Minerva for poison, when I need it, but his active is so very slow, and there is no easy way to skill it up outside of piis. Moreover, Awoken Ra seems like an easier include for Minerva when I need a lazer/poison, and I just got access to him to.


@W-00

I'm not sure if this is directly relevant, but my son plays PAD on a 3 year old Kindle fire just fine. It wasn't one of the $50 ones though, but it is pretty old. Unlike a lot of Kindle apps, it seems to update on time.

Yeah, you need to keep Rodin. He's great for the things he does, and is likely to be kept relevant as the game goes on due to his popularity. I think he's getting a new ult with a dickload of rows. Farming for MP sucks, but when you're this close I'd say go for it.
 

Ducarmel

Member
Not stuck as such, was more looking for direction. I'm still working through the normal dungeons and early technical dungeons. I tried a descended earlier today and got destroyed, but my Acala and the rest of my wood monsters are underfarmed at the minute and i'm bad at making crosses.



Thanks man.

What should I be feeding Acala for skill ups?

We have not gotten her skill up dungeon yet, probably around jan/feb we will get it.

I see you just started so try to get Virgo as a sub from Wood & Flame Metallic Star Dragons she has a good active skill.

For now just work on leveling the team with exp and get tamas and materials to evolving, try hitting up a discord group for those. When those descends come for those farmable cards try doing it multiplayer first with another Acala player.
 

Mastadon

Banned
We have not gotten her skill up dungeon yet, probably around jan/feb we will get it.

I see you just started so try to get Virgo as a sub from Wood & Flame Metallic Star Dragons she has a good active skill.

For now just work on leveling the team with exp and get tamas and materials to evolving, try hitting up a discord group for those. When those descends come for those farmable cards try doing it multiplayer first with another Acala player.

Awesome, will do.

Is it worth feeding the snow globe dragon to Acala? It will waste about a million exp, but would save a lot of time I guess?
 

Ducarmel

Member
EXP is really cheap these days for high ranked players. I would be hesitant as a low rank to waste a million exp, but again coin dungeon/multiplayer makes EXP almost a non issue.
 

Mastadon

Banned
EXP is really cheap these days for high ranked players. I would be hesitant as a low rank to waste a million exp, but again coin dungeon/multiplayer makes EXP almost a non issue.

I'm rank 85 at the minute thanks to the numerous experience of a lifetime dungeons that have been popping up! Might just use it, doubt I'll get a better green monster any time soon.
 

smbu2000

Member
I haven't checked this thread in awhile. Been playing off and on with both of my accounts.

I got Aten on my sub account and it has really made things much easier when I'm trying to S rank dungeons on the 7x6 board paired with my RaDra (still haven't uevo'd him).

Tried out the Eva collab. with him and, hehe:
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It seems like they are making the challenge dungeons harder and harder. I managed to clear up to the regular Lv10 on the current one with my Tensei Minervas, but I'm not sure if I have a team for Lv10 (no awakenings). Maybe Youyuu or Xiang Mei... (edit: just realized Youyuu wouldn't really work as I wouldn't have any enhanced drops)
 

Bladelaw

Member
I wish jewel invade rates were better. I'm super short of fire jewels and I really want to restock. Sandalphon is quick to run at least.
 

Jagernaut

Member
Aten in the upcoming GF but I'm not sure if I'm going to blow any stones on it. I already have Minerva and don't really want Venus.

If we are getting the same GF as EU (we usually do), it's a 3 day Godfest with only 1 pantheon a day. Day 1 - Greco Roman, Day 2 - Japanese 1, Day 3 - Wisdom Kings. Aten is featured on all 3 days.
 

Jagernaut

Member
Just finished evolving and hypering Awoken Ichigo and he is really strong. I did over 60 million dmg with A Pandora + Akechi. I'm trying out this team since I don't have Eschamali:

Ichigo
A Persephone - poor man's Eschamali
A Pandora
Akechi
Grisar
Ichigo friend

11 dark rows total.
 

W-00

Member
Thanks for the responses, Bladelaw and Aesnath. Looks like I'll be picking up a Fire soon.

Aten in the upcoming GF but I'm not sure if I'm going to blow any stones on it. I already have Minerva and don't really want Venus.

I'm definitely not going to waste any stones on this GF. Minerva and Venus are the only ones from the Greco-Roman series I don't have, and I have dupes of Neptune and Hades (which is useful with the Revos, but I really don't want a third of either of them). I've also got the only cards I want from the other two, as well (Orochi, Ama, and Acala).

Fewer stones wasted now means more stones for the Heroines. Stay strong.
 
Fewer stones wasted now means more stones for the Heroines. Stay strong.

Yep, although I could probably use some convincing to blow some on the heroines. 10x per pull, right? I did some shameful, marine mammal-related things during the GFE-only REM and although I'm now flush with Tsubakis and Ronoves, looking back it probably wasn't worth it.

So unless one of the days looks REALLY good I'm going to pass on this GF. I have Hades/Minerva and the Wisdom Kings that are good/fun/interesting, and I'm not a fan of rainbow combo leads so I'm happy to hold off on Aten.
 

W-00

Member
Yep, although I could probably use some convincing to blow some on the heroines. 10x per pull, right? I did some shameful, marine mammal-related things during the GFE-only REM and although I'm now flush with Tsubakis and Ronoves, looking back it probably wasn't worth it.

Yeah, 10 stones per pull. The difference between the GFE REM and the Heroine REM is that you could pull members of the GFE REM in any Godfest, but the members of the Heroine REM are only available in it. At the very least, your free pull will be something new. And even though they are largely based off of existing GFEs, some of them are very different in useful ways. It deserves at least a few rolls. The only thing to really watch out for is Mito. Caution:
Everyone will pull Mito.

The important part right now is just to save your stones. The more you have saved, the fewer shameful marine mammal-related things you'll be tempted to do.
 
I knew Meridionalis was strong from this thread but lol @ x100 without a skill use conditional for a blue blob lead. Also some of them look bonkers, like Ilm's normal, amazing active PLUS a 100,000 laser on top of crazy leader skills. I'll look at some others when I get time as work is slow this time of year.

Surprised that I haven't seen many of them pop up on JP tier lists.
 

Bladelaw

Member
My main has the perfect Meri farm team so I'm just kind of hoping I get her and damn the rest. Not sure what she opens up for me that ALB doesn't already get me but more options are never a bad thing.
 

W-00

Member
I knew Meridionalis was strong from this thread but lol @ x100 without a skill use conditional for a blue blob lead. Also some of them look bonkers, like Ilm's normal, amazing active PLUS a 100,000 laser on top of crazy leader skills. I'll look at some others when I get time as work is slow this time of year.

Surprised that I haven't seen many of them pop up on JP tier lists.

Keep in mind while looking at them that each and every one (that comes from the REM) has an Ult Evo coming in... February, I think, so they'll be getting even better.

Heh, it would be so funny if Mito got an awesome ult just to make people who thought "Dammit, not another Lmeta!" and sold her regret it.

My main has the perfect Meri farm team so I'm just kind of hoping I get her and damn the rest. Not sure what she opens up for me that ALB doesn't already get me but more options are never a bad thing.

Are you talking about using Toshiros as Dios, or is there a different perfect Meri team?
 

b33r

Member
So glad Kuramitsuha Descended! is tomorrow.
d/w ichigo here i come

He's really strong, his multiplier is a bit weird. A row does ok damage, unless your on a 7x6 board the next multiplier is 8 orbs and he hits like a truck. He'll be great in multiplayer too. I'm really liking him.
 

Bladelaw

Member
Keep in mind while looking at them that each and every one (that comes from the REM) has an Ult Evo coming in... February, I think, so they'll be getting even better.

Heh, it would be so funny if Mito got an awesome ult just to make people who thought "Dammit, not another Lmeta!" and sold her regret it.



Are you talking about using Toshiros as Dios, or is there a different perfect Meri team?
Toshiro in place of Dios. Mori = avalon drake for combos. Also plenty of solid all around water subs work. Sharon is an instant water row, sadalemek works too. She can also sub for khepri if you're crazy.
 

b33r

Member
She is a great sub on water row teams, floods the board with water orbs and that +2 is so helpful for combo shields.
 

ccbfan

Member
Whats the best way to get a Zeus Dios with my alt?

I was sick monday so I missed my chance to get one then.

I'm planning to run Hera B like crazy for Green Jewels and Skill ups.
 

b33r

Member
Looking to get some advice on a potential team to invest in for my JP account. I want to invest my time into one team to help carry this account to mid-late game. This account will be non-IAP for now, I may only buy one pack if the GF is extremely high value.

Should I buy Yomidra or save the MP for future powercreep?

Looking at your box briefly, I think Nobunaga can take you pretty far. Make Akechi his row ult, throw on Ronia for her active, farm a vampire and hope you get a few more dark devil subs. Or awoken cao cao, you have a fair amount of good fire orb makers and he doesn't have a type restriction.

Bladelaw is good at this stuff, so maybe he'll chime in.

Other than that I would definitely hold onto the mp until your box fills out a bit more. You don't have an ideal team for any mp monster yet. You do have a great sub for Yomi Dragon with Akechi, and her best inherit with Ulquiorra, but that's not enough to use your mp yet. Wait and see where your box goes.
 

Ducarmel

Member

Yomi is strong right now but I would not invest I imagine it will be very costly for you to get the mats for her ultimate evo and you have no Eschamali also the best Yomi Dragon team also has herself as a sub. I doubt your ready to buy 2. I would totally bet that she drops from the meta again in a couple of months.



Work on Nubo the Pandora army on jp server is large you can pair with her and crush a good amount of the games content.

Devil subs you got are Akechi, Red Sonia, Ulquiorra, Ceres

farmable you can get are Vamp, Grisar, Izanami, Devil Dragon, Lilith, etc.
 

Bladelaw

Member
Yomi is strong right now but I would not invest I imagine it will be very costly for you to get the mats for her ultimate evo and you have no Eschamali also the best Yomi Dragon team also has herself as a sub. I doubt your ready to buy 2. I would totally bet that she drops from the meta again in a couple of months.



Work on Nobu the Pandora army on jp server is large you can pair with her and crush a good amount of the games content.

Devil subs you got are Akechi, Red Sonia, Ulquiorra, Ceres

farmable you can get are Vamp, Grisar, Izanami, Devil Dragon, Lilith, etc.

This. All of this. He's your strongest lead, you can fall back on Kuvia/Elgenubi if you're going after a dungeon with serious dark hate (Sandalphon for instance). But save the MP for now. She's the best thing in the MP shop for your box, but like my JP account there's just too many missing subs to really make the investment worth it.
 

divusrex

Member
Yomi is strong right now but I would not invest I imagine it will be very costly for you to get the mats for her ultimate evo and you have no Eschamali also the best Yomi Dragon team also has herself as a sub. I doubt your ready to buy 2. I would totally bet that she drops from the meta again in a couple of months.



Work on Nubo the Pandora army on jp server is large you can pair with her and crush a good amount of the games content.

Devil subs you got are Akechi, Red Sonia, Ulquiorra, Ceres

farmable you can get are Vamp, Grisar, Izanami, Devil Dragon, Lilith, etc.

This. All of this. He's your strongest lead, you can fall back on Kuvia/Elgenubi if you're going after a dungeon with serious dark hate (Sandalphon for instance). But save the MP for now. She's the best thing in the MP shop for your box, but like my JP account there's just too many missing subs to really make the investment worth it.

Thank you both! I figured that it'd be worth my while to invest in to Nobunaga first, but I was tempted with the free MP and the fact that I got Akechi and Ulquiorra. I'll work on getting farmables and see how the next few GFs treat my box.

I'm THIS close to resorting to Pys for this Aizen, I hate this collab skillup crap so badly.

I'd save swords and wait for the King Tan update to NA. It'll help reduce the amount of suffering and rage that skill-ups has caused for everyone these past few years.
 

b33r

Member
I'd use pys but then I farm Arena all the time when I'm bored and I just use pys on everything. YMMV.

Yeah I have finally gotten to that point. Sadly, awoken Ichigo disappoints in arena, probably better in co-op though. Dark Kanna is like 100% if I don't mess up, I think ult Yomi Dragon might be faster, we'll see. Combo shields and rcv are rough for Ichigo.

It does feel nice to finally farm arena easily, it was such a wall for the longest time.
 

b33r

Member
Thank you both! I figured that it'd be worth my while to invest in to Nobunaga first, but I was tempted with the free MP and the fact that I got Akechi and Ulquiorra. I'll work on getting farmables and see how the next few GFs treat my box.



I'd save swords and wait for the King Tan update to NA. It'll help reduce the amount of suffering and rage that skill-ups has caused for everyone these past few years.

You can also pair Nobunaga with awoken Ichigo as a heads up, there is a lot of him on my friends list atm.

Grats Bladelaw, haven't even tried that dungeon yet. So have a Grodin now, so maybe I'll look into it, probably not lol.
 

Bladelaw

Member
You can also pair Nobunaga with awoken Ichigo as a heads up, there is a lot of him on my friends list atm.

Grats Bladelaw, haven't even tried that dungeon yet. So have a Grodin now, so maybe I'll look into it, probably not lol.
It's not hard with the cheese team but I just couldn't deal with the time investment. I went with pys because it was way less painful. Next big Py target is khepri.
 
So, I'm in dire need of some tamas and unfortunately they don't really rain down during guerrilla days because 50 stam can net you as few as 1 and after 4 runs I'm spent.

Is there any way to know about the supposed "timings" for tama invades in the Castle(s) of Satan? I'd be much more willing to grind for 6 stamina.
 

Silent_Z

Member
So, I'm in dire need of some tamas and unfortunately they don't really rain down during guerrilla days because 50 stam can net you as few as 1 and after 4 runs I'm spent.

Is there any way to know about the supposed "timings" for tama invades in the Castle(s) of Satan? I'd be much more willing to grind for 6 stamina.

I haven't found any good resources for that after almost 3 years playing. Better to run Tamadra Infestation, even if you're only getting 4 runs. You'll usually net 1-2 awakenings per run on the low end, and with 3 minute stamina you're generating 480 per day. Exp/stamina on CoS is terrible; 3 runs of KotG plus one run of Tama Infestation nets more tamas and exp per stamina.
 

Ducarmel

Member
Anybody has experience taking on Myr with ROdin for Coelacanth, and Susano for defense. I know Susano is only 50% I would have rely on rng healing.

My alt needs to get carried I don't even have liu bei but a decent enough Dios squad with lazer inherit.
 

Bladelaw

Member
Anybody has experience taking on Myr with ROdin for Coelacanth, and Susano for defense. I know Susano is only 50% I would have rely on rng healing.

My alt needs to get carried I don't even have liu bei but a decent enough Dios squad with lazer inherit.

Neither side has ALB? it'll be tricky especially on Wee Jas without a dragon killer. You're probably better served bringing a tanky team. What options do you have on your alt?

If your main has ALB it's doable but RNG as you noted can royally fuck you, especially on Myr herself.
 

cw_sasuke

If all DLC came tied to $13 figurines, I'd consider all DLC to be free
Not interested in the upcoming Godfest so i pulled once on Bleach for Rukia...got Ichigo. Anyone here playing him ? Also pulled Lightning a while ago and she seems to be the better Rainbow Lead...any aspects were Ichigo could be the better option ?

I haven't checked this thread in awhile. Been playing off and on with both of my accounts.

I got Aten on my sub account and it has really made things much easier when I'm trying to S rank dungeons on the 7x6 board paired with my RaDra (still haven't uevo'd him).

Tried out the Eva collab. with him and, hehe:

It seems like they are making the challenge dungeons harder and harder. I managed to clear up to the regular Lv10 on the current one with my Tensei Minervas, but I'm not sure if I have a team for Lv10 (no awakenings). Maybe Youyuu or Xiang Mei... (edit: just realized Youyuu wouldn't really work as I wouldn't have any enhanced drops)

Hah...oh there you are - i was wondering where your Progress posts went. Good that you are still enjoying the game.
 

Bladelaw

Member
Not interested in the upcoming Godfest so i pulled once on Bleach for Rukia...got Ichigo. Anyone here playing him ? Also pulled Lightning a while ago and she seems to be the better Rainbow Lead...any aspects were Ichigo could be the better option ?



Hah...oh there you are - i was wondering where your Progress posts went. Good that you are still enjoying the game.

B33r and I have him hypered. I don't keep him up all the time but just shoot me an ingame message if you want to take him out for a spin. He's really strong.
 

b33r

Member
Yeah his awoken form is very strong and great for farming. RcV and combo shields are the only hiccups he has. Basically an unbindable Pandora with higher damage and a ridiculous spike active.
 

Ducarmel

Member
Neither side has ALB? it'll be tricky especially on Wee Jas without a dragon killer. You're probably better served bringing a tanky team. What options do you have on your alt?

If your main has ALB it's doable but RNG as you noted can royally fuck you, especially on Myr herself.

My main has ALB I would inherit Susano on it and the Dragon killer would be GL Liu Bei on my main with ROdin inherited on it.

My alt has lazer i will have to check the dungeon again to see if its safe to inherit it on my Dios who will lead my alt since he can get binded.

I just want to farm it enough to awaken her on my alt so 10 runs. I guess I could just do legend but if i could do mythical to get the max mp out of it I'm willing to do it.

My team is not complete need to 297 2 dios on my alt, still got a few Dios skill ups needed and ROdin is not max yet. I will probably wait for the tan update hopefully we get it by end of jan.

I will probably be in a better place if my Alt manages to get Liu Bei from green carnival when I roll all of its stones on day 3.
 

Jagernaut

Member
Yeah his awoken form is very strong and great for farming. RcV and combo shields are the only hiccups he has. Basically an unbindable Pandora with higher damage and a ridiculous spike active.

I tried out Awoken Ichigo on True Endless and A Pandora + Akechi + Ichigo did over 265 million damage.
 

Bladelaw

Member
Yeah his awoken form is very strong and great for farming. RcV and combo shields are the only hiccups he has. Basically an unbindable Pandora with higher damage and a ridiculous spike active.

Also if damage isn't a problem then pair with Nobunaga to bridge the RCV gap. it's a solid compromise and unless you need the extra HP to tank stuff it should work well enough.
 

Ducarmel

Member
Decided to yolo eva before I forget and it goes away.

Rei Myr on my jp main. I'm not sure if i will ever use her. I got subs to field a team, not optimal team but good enough. To bad i did not farm skill ups, maybe i'll try to get a few and use tans.

Misato Leilan on my JP alt, I love me some tri color girls.
 

Bladelaw

Member
Decided to yolo eva before I forget and it goes away.

Rei Myr on my jp main. I'm not sure if i will ever use her. I got subs to field a team, not optimal team but good enough. To bad i did not farm skill ups, maybe i'll try to get a few and use tans.

Misato Leilan on my JP alt, I love me some tri color girls.

Friend me, I'll BFF you if you keep her up
Blade@JP ID: 347,550,688
 
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