Puzzle & Dragon (PazuDora)

• Shanghai wrote on 2014-04-18 18:40

  Quote from Chihaya;1215597:

  These kinds of games are really common in the Japanese iOS store, so I don't think it's that special. I mean, another game called "Kamirensa Jewel Heaven" has a system where all cards can reach maximum rarity/strength, and that depletes the pay-to-win feature quite a bit. I would rate that game slightly superior to P&D.
  
  ...And why the hell are these considered "puzzles"...?

  
  
  P&D was developed by Gungho, the people who published Ragnarok Online a long time ago. It's had sweeping success on the Japanese scene compared to those other match-3 combat games, and they do quite a bit of collaborations with other franchises and companies which bring variety to the monster collection(HunterXHunter, Evangelion, Batman Arkham Origins, Clash of Clans, to name a few). The game does stay true to it's name by releasing consistent varieties of dragons and other monsters to collect(admittedly, they aren't as powerful as the ones you could get from spending real money for a rare monster), but they're very free to giving out the premium currency of the game during events which do happen every other week or so.
  
  The art style is colorful and cheery, which I kind of prefer compared to other apps that more or less play the same way like Tower of Saviors or Angel Salvation and the like.
  
  Plus, there's a non-IAP version of P&D already: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/01/matters_of_import_drop_matching_and_dragon_evolving_in_puzzle_and_dragons_z
• Sedia wrote on 2014-04-18 19:55

  Quote from Shanghai;1215781:

  P&D was developed by Gungho, the people who published Ragnarok Online a long time ago. It's had sweeping success on the Japanese scene compared to those other match-3 combat games, and they do quite a bit of collaborations with other franchises and companies which bring variety to the monster collection(HunterXHunter, Evangelion, Batman Arkham Origins, Clash of Clans, to name a few). The game does stay true to it's name by releasing consistent varieties of dragons and other monsters to collect(admittedly, they aren't as powerful as the ones you could get from spending real money for a rare monster), but they're very free to giving out the premium currency of the game during events which do happen every other week or so.
  
  The art style is colorful and cheery, which I kind of prefer compared to other apps that more or less play the same way like Tower of Saviors or Angel Salvation and the like.
  
  Plus, there's a non-IAP version of P&D already: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/01/matters_of_import_drop_matching_and_dragon_evolving_in_puzzle_and_dragons_z

  
  
  I saw the 3DS version's commercial a few days ago on YouTube. Doesn't look as fun as the iOS version.
  
  Also, something I learned:
  Puzzle and Dragon? More like, make one wrong move and it's over. That's what it's like with the harder dungeons, especially the fire-type ones. Oh and the bosses are awful.
• Shanghai wrote on 2014-04-18 20:03

  Quote from Sedia;1215796:

  I saw the 3DS version's commercial a few days ago on YouTube. Doesn't look as fun as the iOS version.
  
  Also, something I learned:
  Puzzle and Dragon? More like, make one wrong move and it's over. That's what it's like with the harder dungeons, especially the fire-type ones. Oh and the bosses are awful.

  
  
  You're using an Ame-No-Uzume team right? Yeah, one mistake or not having any fire orbs on the board places her in a situation where it's very hard to climb back to her threshold range to keep laying out the damage. The dungeons do get exponentially harder, and some teams will get through faster than others(Ame X Odin just cheeses through all the normal content), but most teams can make it to the very end with the right amount of levels and luck. Try waiting for the Metal/Jewel Dragons to level up your monsters.
• Sedia wrote on 2014-04-18 22:00

  Quote from Shanghai;1215800:

  You're using an Ame-No-Uzume team right? Yeah, one mistake or not having any fire orbs on the board places her in a situation where it's very hard to climb back to her threshold range to keep laying out the damage. The dungeons do get exponentially harder, and some teams will get through faster than others(Ame X Odin just cheeses through all the normal content), but most teams can make it to the very end with the right amount of levels and luck. Try waiting for the Metal/Jewel Dragons to level up your monsters.

  
  
  Yeah, that's my team. Though I also recently acquired this strange-looking monster that converts all current orbs to water/dark orbs. Tons of good combos with that one. Even with Taikyou and Shoukyou who convert certain orbs to healing tiles and light orbs, it's still difficult.
• Shanghai wrote on 2014-04-19 00:17

  Quote from Sedia;1215823:

  Yeah, that's my team. Though I also recently acquired this strange-looking monster that converts all current orbs to water/dark orbs. Tons of good combos with that one. Even with Taikyou and Shoukyou who convert certain orbs to healing tiles and light orbs, it's still difficult.

  
  
  I'd suggest farming the Tower of Giants for a Gigas if you don't have one(Sorry, not sure what the Japanese names would be for those dungeons). He's a beast when it comes to stats and he changes the excess heart orbs you don't need into fire orbs. There'll be a certain special dungeon that has a relatively easy-to-obtain Mystic Fire Knight, which would also help with orb changing orbs into fire. You can also gather materials to evolve your Ame-No-Uzume to her ultimate evolution, which greatly reduces the threshold range for activating her attack. The evolution materials should be obtainable with an Odin friend or an evolved Amateratsu friend with an ogre as your leader:
  
  [SPOILER="Big useless image"]

  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/kAdnlt9.jpg]

  [/SPOILER]
  
  Now that you have Haku(Your lovely tiger god), you can start building a team for her. An Echinda/Naga is a staple for both Haku and Ame-No-Uzume as well as a variety of a lot of end-game teams, so you can try spending your stamina on the normal dungeons that have her variants as bosses to see if you can get a drop for her. Delaying the enemies' attacks gives you a lot of breathing time to do a lot of things.
  http://www.puzzledragonx.com/en/monster.asp?n=88
  [SPOILER="My Ame team looks like this for farming"]

  [Image: http://puu.sh/8eisz]

  [/SPOILER]
• Sedia wrote on 2014-04-19 01:38

  Quote from Shanghai;1215847:

  I'd suggest farming the Tower of Giants for a Gigas if you don't have one(Sorry, not sure what the Japanese names would be for those dungeons). He's a beast when it comes to stats and he changes the excess heart orbs you don't need into fire orbs. There'll be a certain special dungeon that has a relatively easy-to-obtain Mystic Fire Knight, which would also help with orb changing orbs into fire. You can also gather materials to evolve your Ame-No-Uzume to her ultimate evolution, which greatly reduces the threshold range for activating her attack. The evolution materials should be obtainable with an Odin friend or an evolved Amateratsu friend with an ogre as your leader:
  
  [SPOILER="Big useless image"]

  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/kAdnlt9.jpg]

  [/SPOILER]
  
  Now that you have Haku(Your lovely tiger god), you can start building a team for her. An Echinda/Naga is a staple for both Haku and Ame-No-Uzume as well as a variety of a lot of end-game teams, so you can try spending your stamina on the normal dungeons that have her variants as bosses to see if you can get a drop for her. Delaying the enemies' attacks gives you a lot of breathing time to do a lot of things.
  http://www.puzzledragonx.com/en/monster.asp?n=88
  [SPOILER="My Ame team looks like this for farming"]

  [Image: http://puu.sh/8eisz]

  [/SPOILER]

  
  
  That's the one I always run. It's Kyojin no Tou (巨人の塔）
  
  Okay, sounds good. Thanks for the advice!
• Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2014-04-20 02:36
  I got a Water Mechwarrior Midgard and a Freyja during the godfest today. So hopefully that's good enough to actually play so I don't have to wait another few weeks for another one.
  
  Of course at rank 10 I only have 26 team points so if I use either of them the only other things I can use are slimes. <<;
• Shanghai wrote on 2014-04-20 03:47

  Quote from Space Pirate Nithiel;1216096:

  I got a Water Mechwarrior Midgard and a Freyja during the godfest today. So hopefully that's good enough to actually play so I don't have to wait another few weeks for another one.
  
  Of course at rank 10 I only have 26 team points so if I use either of them the only other things I can use are slimes. <<;

  
  
  On the beginner side of things, fire and dark teams are the most easiest to obtain the necessary team members for. Freyja will undoubtedly be a great asset as a team leader, but she doesn't shine in comparison to the other Norse Gods since their elements have arguably better subs with way better skills.
  
  Which leads me to a point I have to make: The elements aren't very balanced. Wood and Water for numerous updates have usually gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to God series and other essential subs as they lack core skills that are invaluable to survival or beating a dungeon. Fire, Dark, and Light(to a degree) are seen as the easiest elements to create teams with because they require little effort in getting their core members(The Heart-Breakers are available in Normal Dungeons while Wood/Water/Light counterparts are only obtained in end-game dungeons.)
  
  Some gods which were originally exceptional have fallen to trash tier status because the meta of P&D is having a very heavy power creep right now. Spike teams(Teams that are built specifically to OHKO a boss with heavy ATK multipliers, and not much of anything else) are favored right now because killing a boss in one turn means not having to deal with it's annoying and deadly skills. There also isn't much of a middle line between completely spiking and turtling(stalling with high HP/damage reduction for -%HP skills). This is where the Norse/Greco-Roman gods stand right now. Don't get me wrong, they're still great at what they do, but a lot of effort has to be put into their teams before they become end-game worthy.
• Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2014-04-20 05:22

  Quote from Shanghai;1216115:

  On the beginner side of things, fire and dark teams are the most easiest to obtain the necessary team members for. Freyja will undoubtedly be a great asset as a team leader, but she doesn't shine in comparison to the other Norse Gods since their elements have arguably better subs with way better skills.
  
  Which leads me to a point I have to make: The elements aren't very balanced. Wood and Water for numerous updates have usually gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to God series and other essential subs as they lack core skills that are invaluable to survival or beating a dungeon. Fire, Dark, and Light(to a degree) are seen as the easiest elements to create teams with because they require little effort in getting their core members(The Heart-Breakers are available in Normal Dungeons while Wood/Water/Light counterparts are only obtained in end-game dungeons.)
  
  Some gods which were originally exceptional have fallen to trash tier status because the meta of P&D is having a very heavy power creep right now. Spike teams(Teams that are built specifically to OHKO a boss with heavy ATK multipliers, and not much of anything else) are favored right now because killing a boss in one turn means not having to deal with it's annoying and deadly skills. There also isn't much of a middle line between completely spiking and turtling(stalling with high HP/damage reduction for -%HP skills). This is where the Norse/Greco-Roman gods stand right now. Don't get me wrong, they're still great at what they do, but a lot of effort has to be put into their teams before they become end-game worthy.

  
  
  Well, the only other ok things I got were wood Odin and a Viper Orochi. And both of those were still in the "Eh, I guess use this if you have no choice" category on the wiki. xD
  
  This game is very picky. Lol.
• Conor wrote on 2015-10-25 03:52
  more ppl pley pad plz
• Invisible wrote on 2015-10-26 03:11
  But there's nothing to talk about.
• Aubog007 wrote on 2015-10-27 02:54
  I got like 30 games to play and several phone games to take away idle time
• Conor wrote on 2015-10-27 14:02

  Quote from Invisible;1289041:

  But there's nothing to talk about.

  
  
  Could talk about achievements, things you're looking forward to, frustrations (which there are always plenty of), etc.
• Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2015-12-16 02:11
  I am still awful at this game. I just have like, this big box of monsters and I have no idea which ones are good or bad or what I should use together. xD I just kind of throw things on a team and hope it doesn't get one-shot.