Puzzle and Dragons in the Playground XVIII - The meta changes, but waifus are forever

[obryn]

But you need to have pulled Kurama and Hiei for that (or some combination of the other 2.5% chance guys).

If you click the +, there's a lot you can trade for him, including 6* GFEs you may have dupes of.

I have pulled 5 DKalis and I am currently using 0 of them, so three of them and a dupe DMeta paid the admission.

GungHo is dumb so you may need to reverse some evolutions to trade.

https://mantasticpad.com/2018/05/15/...ng-for-yusuke/



Yusuke is crazy good if you can combo, and his subs are basically "any light that doesn't eat water orbs." His absolute best subs are rare collab pulls with multiple 7c awakenings. For me, I'm using Blue Cotton, Ameno, NY Yomi, and DQXQ. Far from ideal (literally, Ideal is ideal) but solid enough.

[Starwulf]

I have enough cards to trade for him, but I unfortunately just recently stepped into the realm of hitting 7 combo's somewhat reliably, so I don't think I'll be getting rid of the cards necessary to get him, as I don't foresee my combo ability going up enough to activate him with any regularity, so I'd just be a dead fish in the water with him too often.

[obryn]

I have enough cards to trade for him, but I unfortunately just recently stepped into the realm of hitting 7 combo's somewhat reliably, so I don't think I'll be getting rid of the cards necessary to get him, as I don't foresee my combo ability going up enough to activate him with any regularity, so I'd just be a dead fish in the water with him too often.

Yeah, if you can't 7c reliably, he's not so great. Still tanky, but not strong.

[Jurai]

I had a midaccount crisis, guys. Went from 2 Yogs, Rodin, and Raijin, to one Yusuke.

[obryn]

I had a midaccount crisis, guys. Went from 2 Yogs, Rodin, and Raijin, to one Yusuke.

Overall a good trade, good sir.

[Jurai]

Day 400 is today, so I got two pulls on God Fest: Paimon and Evil Knight Monster Points Creuse.

[obryn]

Day 400 is today, so I got two pulls on God Fest: Paimon and Evil Knight Monster Points Creuse.

Nice :)

My GF pulls were terrible, all around. Hooray.

[Anarion]

You’ve probably seen that I have Yusuke up now. So that’s done. Kinda feels like PAD is nearing its limit though. The expectation with Yusuke is that I’ll combo nearly the whole field every turn. And I can. So...there’s not much left to do.

[Erloas]

I don't think I'm bad, I'm not sure if I can hit 7+ combos every turn, but I'm at least close to that. But it seems like there is so much content that I'm not even close to being able to clear with my teams. I'm not sure what I'm missing, but it seems like the game only has two difficulty types, trivially easy and can't even come close.

[Anarion]

I don't think I'm bad, I'm not sure if I can hit 7+ combos every turn, but I'm at least close to that. But it seems like there is so much content that I'm not even close to being able to clear with my teams. I'm not sure what I'm missing, but it seems like the game only has two difficulty types, trivially easy and can't even come close.

PAD is set up so that the highest tiers of content require both consistent skillful execution and a team of the best subs available for a few specific leaders capable of doing the clear. For example, Alt Ultimate Arena (currently the hardest dungeon) can be cleared by Rushana, but you also need top quality subs (used in that video are reincarnated Meimei, light lance Odin Dragon, and two copies of Yuna ulted for her multiple time bonuses and 7 combo awakenings). I didn't look at all the inherits, but typically you also need a particular set of skills and extra awakenings as well to make sure you can cover all situations. Also, getting a fully maxed out and evolved Rushana is quite time consuming, since she's not a REM monster and needs a ton of materials to get her set up.

Typically, the dropoff happens because they keep upgrading leader skills to follow along one or two levels of content behind the top tier. So, like, regular Ultimate Arena used to be really hard and basically only Anubis, Ra, and Ra dragon could clear it because none of the reincarnations or better awakenings were out yet. But now a bunch of the reincarnated leaders can do it and it's hard but not that hard to clear it. Ultimate Arena 3 with the radar dragons was similar for a while, with the leaders who could do the damage to bring down something with 100 million hp being pretty small in number, but now with the gemstone princesses and various extremely high damage leads (like Yog, Yusuke, even the new Sonia ults), it's within reach for several teams.

And if you have a leader that was optimized for a tough tier of content, they'll sail through everything easier because PAD tends to move in factors of 10 or thereabouts (i.e. the toughest enemies in the game over time went from around 3-5 million hp, to 30-50 million hp, to 300-500 million hp where we're at now).

[Starwulf]

Ultimate Arena 3 with the radar dragons was similar for a while, with the leaders who could do the damage to bring down something with 100 million hp being pretty small in number, but now with the gemstone princesses and various extremely high damage leads (like Yog, Yusuke, even the new Sonia ults), it's within reach for several teams.

Even more than those, my non reincarnted version of Vishnu can push out 100mil in a single turn fairly easily without a 2.5x multiplier(and I have access to a 5x, though the creature that gives it is pretty meh as a sub itself aside from the 5x). It's the reason I've stuck with Vishnu over the last year or so, he's really damn strong, and really easy to build a team for that can push out ridiculous amounts of damage. And while it doesn't have a lot of HP(39k with another Vishnu lead, or 57k if I grab a Dagda friend), it has pretty decent rcv, and with Reincarnated Susano as a sub I get 3 turns of half damage, and ReSus is pretty powerful damage wise in his own right. And then I also have a regular Susano as my assist on my Vishnu, so I can get 5 more turns of half damage if the fight lasts long enough to the point where his assist skill shows up.

I have a few other leaders I've been toying with and trying to build teams for that can also push out that kind of damage, but I haven't perfect their teams like my Vishnu team(My Vishnu team has amazing synergy, while I can't tackle the toughest stuff, I've been steadily moving forward/upward in terms of what it can do).

[Jurai]

Hexazeon is mine. Now I just need to do Annihilation for the stone and get the Augites.

[obryn]

Oh yeah that's a hell of a dungeon. I did it back when there was a quest for it. :)

[Jurai]

I have both an Orpharion and a Deathpharion, go me!

[obryn]

This MtG collab is soooo good. I bought stones for the first time in forever, and managed to pull a Jhoira, who's all I really wanted anyways.

[gooddragon1]

I can't even imagine what Jiren's stats will be in the next collab...

[Klaatu B. Nikto]

So there's a new Collab now: Persona.

More importantly, they've made a few changes. You can sell monsters you don't want and bank the +'s and reapply them to other monsters. So I sell those +99 slimes and bank +297 (or whatever) which can be applied however I wish, at a gold cost. I could do the same with a +50 Griffin Rider, losing the Griffin Rider but gaining the gold, MPs and +'s it was worth.

Also, you can exchange some monsters for appropriately colored gems to use as evo material.

Example: I'd like to evo Awoken Sun Quan, a large water gem, large fire gem, 2 water jewels and a fire jewel are needed.

To get a large water gem, I can exchange Cruel Frozen Hell Demon, Indigo.
To get a large fire gem, buh-bye Awoken Hephaestus or Awoken Sphinx.

Tamadras are stackable but baby Tamadras are no longer evolvable. However, 2 baby Tamadra = 1 Tamadra.

Also you can automatically awaken a critter fully instead of feeding it up to 5 Tamadras at a time.