Puzzle & Dragons (Arcade/3DS/Android/iOS)

[Qalbert]

is Guardian Dragon, Avalon Drake any good? if not ill keep rerolling
im using this as a guide and it's only 'solid' so im leaning towards rerolling
http://pad.wikia.com/wiki/New_Players'_Guide

[Anakron]

It has its uses, but not great in a general sense, no. You need a green or light-heavy god team to make use of him, and those aren't really that powerful these days.

The norns aren't getting the 4x rates today, so your chances of getting one are really, really low today.

[Tricen]

Day 1 was the best day to go far starter leads. Day 2 is ok. I kinda like day 3 better but no norns on day 3.

[Qalbert]

I tried all day 1, from like 10am til bed lmao. but it's okay. dreams do come true.

[Qalbert]

I'm planning to spend a bit of money on pulls since I got a bit of christmas cash, best days to pull/things to hope for?

[Kamil]

Only yesterdays lineup had desirable leads, the current and upcoming lineups contain pretty mediocre leads. The Norns as leads will help you get pretty far early on, but won't take you through most endgame content. If you plan on spending money you could always just reroll for a mandatory/powerful sub monster that fits on a S tier+ team. i.e Dkali/Lkali, they'll take you through the early game as leads, and have utility in the endgame as subs.

You'll want to roll for Bastet, she's a good lead, and Verdandi is a pretty good sub for her.

[Tricen]

If you are going for verdandi subs, liu bei is today as well as cao cao. If you are aiming for bastet subs, then today is liu bei but tomorrow is vishnu and susano. So perhaps maybe a couple today and a bunch tomorrow?

[Qalbert]

idk anything about the meta/endgame, I just looked through ones my friend recommended and verdandi looked cool, sorry, total noob

[Tricen]

Oooooooh, if that's the case then just roll when you want to roll and collect whatever monsters you get that are decent (we can always help you out). At some point you will be able to figure out a team and build towards it. The Norns are pretty good starters. Verdandi is the better one because she has pretty much perfect subs in her colors. Liu Bei, Susano, Cao Cao, another Verdandi. Usually for starting out, the 3 kingdom monsters are always good. The Gredo monsters are usually very good as well. I'm a big fan of the sengoku series, but I have not rolled any of them. I feel like they are pretty strong to have. Any of the GFEs are good. Tomorrow has a lot of good monsters as well.

[Qalbert]

if I go with the 85 stone option how many should I use today/tomorrow/expand inventory/save for future events, in your opinion. also I'm 368, 891,360

[Tricen]

That is really up to you. You could do half and half with the larger half being today. This is really the best opportunity to roll the rarer things since 4x GFE happens like once or twice a year.

[Qalbert]

lol got another verdandi, nothing much else stuck out

[Anakron]

Grats, and a second Verdandi is great on her own team, so no problem there. How many more rolls did you do? List them out and we can help see if any are good.

[Qalbert]

red dragon caller sonia, jade dragon caller sonia, belial, ares, sadalmelik, guivre chimera, andromeda, neptune, archangel metatron, purple grimoire goetia x2, persephone. 40 stones left, planning to use tomorrow I guess

[Anakron]

red dragon caller sonia, jade dragon caller sonia, belial, ares, sadalmelik, guivre chimera, andromeda, neptune, archangel metatron, purple grimoire goetia x2, persephone. 40 stones left, planning to use tomorrow I guess

Those are some great rolls. Red Sonia was hugely popular for a while as a leader, and has only been recently power-creeped out of meta. But she can still do all but the newest dungeons and is still good as a sub.

Ares and Persephone can make very serviceable newbie teams, with their unconditional stat boosts, and they'll remain useful even at endgame. What does suck a bit is that your colors are everywhere, but if you can pull some more tomorrow, you'll hopefully get a bit more focus.

Make sure you run this dungeon before it expires on the 6th. I gives you 200k account exp, and will boost your stamina and team cost by a lot.

The game can be pretty overwhelming for a new player, feel free to post if you have any questions.

[Qalbert]

how do i go about doing that dungeon lol

[-Zer0-]

Jade Sonia isn't bad since she's got a new ultimate coming out in due time along with Blue Sonia. Andromeda and Persephone are solid cards.

[Anakron]

how do i go about doing that dungeon lol

You need to get 30 max stamina before it'll show up in the "Special Dungeons" section. Leveling up comes really quickly in the beginning, so you shouldn't have any problems with that before the 6th.

[Qalbert]

should I be grinding dungeons over and over? im up to neptune's something or other and it's pretty hard, I take a looot of damage and idk if I'm doing something wrong or what

[Kachiko]

If you're not ~ level 100, you should be farming level 3 of Trial of Giants on 1/2 energy, during the weekends. Neptune pretty much needs a good spike damage team to get past his 96K Defense and 62K HP pool.

Eventually, the normal levels become a game of stall/kill on a monsters last turn, so you can charge up skills, to one shot the bosses. When you get stuck on higher levels, and then it's usually time to start going through Technical dungeons, and opening up more content for either better fodder, evolution material farming on demand, or better leveling content that has good drops (Healer girls, mostly) Legendary, and higher, Dungeons generally require specific teams and/or max skilled/leveled units to get by them. All along the way you need to get really good at the games combo system, or you'll hit a ceiling that units alone won't pass.