Strategy, Tips, FAQ


• The five fundamental puzzle patterns
  
  Memorize this and be able to recognize these patterns on the board. These are the basic 3-orb patterns that will pop up and you need to be able to quickly string them all together to create sick combos.
  
  
• The timer does not start ticking until you move an orb
  Take your time to examine the board and plan out your point of attack and where to go from there.
  
  
• Advanced Matching
  
  
  

  Nendil posted:

  Hi guys, your local savant weirdo Ra enthusiast here. I saw some people asking for guides on how to make Egyptian rainbow combos, so I thought I'd do a little writeup to de-mystify it a bit.
  
  - Walk Like an Egyptian: Basic strategy -
  

  
  
  
• Which starter should I pick? Fire, water or wood?
  Pick whichever you want. Pick the one you always or never take in pokémon, or the color you want your user badge to be. There are minor differences between them like the fire starter has a higher ATK(Attack), the wood starter has a higher RCV(Recovery), and the water starter is balanced between them but it really doesn't matter. Although fire teams are easier to create than water or wood teams.
  
  
• Favorite all your important monsters
  Go to monster box and favorite all the stuff you don't want to accidentally sell and fuse when you go drunk puzzle and dragoning. (Never drink and puzzle)
  
  
• How do I get magic stones?
  
  Otherwise, you get a magic stone for beating all the stages in a given dungeon. You also get magic stones for logging in x amount of days like 3 stones after playing for ten days and 5 stones after playing for thirty days. There are also special occasions where everybody gets a free magic stone from the devs.
  
  
• How should I spend my magic stones? Should I replenish my st-
  NO!!! Unless you are a :thousandbux: player do not spend your stones on stamina refills until much, much later when you are getting ~70+ stamina out of the deal, or special cases like crazy events.
  
  That said, the five major uses of magic stones, ordered from best use to fringe (though these are all valuable depending on circumstances):
  1. 5 stones for a rare egg roll (during 3x and 4x events)
  2. Expand your monster boxes by five
  3. Expand your friends list by five
  4. Refill stamina
  5. To continue a battle when you die
  
  You should really be saving your stones for the rare egg pull. Don't just freely spend stones on the egg machine though, save them for GodFests or other high profile events which massively increase the likelihood of picking up certain monsters. Expand your boxes only ~as needed~. As needed means you have just enough space and then some for evo materials for the monsters you want to evolve. As for continuation, if you need to read this OP then you are not in a situation where you should use a magic stone to continue after dying and won't be for a long time. Once you get a cool monster that's all maxed out and you can't add any more people you would like to, feel free to toss a stone towards friend list expansion every once in a while. Refills and Continues are pretty much only for special circumstances.
  
  
  
• My team sucks. I'm rank 40 and it takes me forever to kill things. Can you take a look at my team and tell me whats wrong?
  
  Yeah, your team is trash. You got 90 monster boxes even though the only things of value on your team are your water starter and a lil black dragon. Also did you fuse/sell all your rare egg pulls or something?? You should reroll.
  
  Since you're reading this OP I hope you wouldn't end up in that situation. I highly, highly recommend that if you find out that you really like this game and can see yourself playing for a long time to then 'reroll' until you have a good rare pull. Now what do people mean when they say reroll? We are saying that you should delete the app, reinstall it, and play through the tutorial again and see what you get with the free rare egg pull. Yeah it's tedious, watch a movie or a hockey game or something while you do it. Additionally, there's a way to get around the uninstall/reinstall: Android users can go into settings and clear the app data, and iOS users can connect their device to their computer and use iFunBox to delete data48.bin.
  
  Some people will say you should reroll until you get a God type monster, others say 5 star monsters or even certain 4 stars monsters are good enough, however they are babies and you should almost definitely reroll until you obtain a qualifying God. It depends on your tolerance and how much you are willing to keep rerolling to become the PADmon Master Nerd. Rolling a good starting monster will literally save you weeks of time at the start, and become a valuable asset that could save much more additional time farming later on when you can properly utilize it inside/outside of the leader slot. A good starting God will carry on through the entire game, so don't waste the opportunity.
  
  REFER TO THE SECOND POST FOR GODS AND HOW TO USE THE ONE<S> YOU ROLL
  
  
• What are these Evo Material? Enhance Material??
  
  Evo materials are monsters used for evolving your other monsters. Enhance materials are monsters who give a lot of experience when fed to your monsters.
  
  
• Help I'm broke. How come it is so expensive to power up/enhance my monsters?
  
  You're broke because you're dum (and haven't read this OP). Monsters need more and more experience as they level while that flamie you are using to feed will always give the same amount of experience points. The idea is that you have to start feeding better monsters as your monster level or you will stay broke.
  
  An early strategy once the monster you want to level is over 10 and up to the second set of normal dungeons is to feed your 'feeders' to evolved carbuncles, and then feed your carbuncles to your monster. Evolved knights are also accepted. Around 30 you want to switch to evolved pengdras. Red/Blue/Green Pengdras are found in the technical dungeons, which are unlocked after the Castle of Satan. Light and Dark Pengdra come from the "Pengdra Village" dungeon which has similar appearance conditions to the metal dragons (see next paragraph). All Pengdra also have a chance of dropping from the PAL Machine. They max at level 10 with exactly 2556 experience points and will give 9000 experience points when fed to a monster of the same color. But if you evolve them with 1 dragon plant and 2 same colored metallic dragon they will give 45k exp to a same color monster. The exceptions are Light and Dark Pengdra. Light Pengdra only require 1 gold, and Dark pengdra require 3 metal.
  
  There are also special metallic dragon events that appear three times a day for an hour and are spaced five hours apart from one another. They are super easy dungeons that cost 15/20 stamina and will give you a chance to get metallic dragons that can give 1500+, 15000+, or 75000+(!) experience points to the same color monsters. It's these same events where you will find the small metallic dragons to evolve the pengdras. Unless you got other more pressing needs for your stamina, I recommend you spend your stamina on these events when they appear. Check puzzledragonx for the schedules.
  
  Also if you haven't unlocked technical dungeons yet then don't stress yourself out too much trying to level up that sweet god you got from your first pull. You'll go broke and not have much to show for it.
  
  
• Where do I farm xxx Evo Material?
  
  Rubylit, Sapphilit, etc: Dungeon of Fire to Dungeon of Dark. Recommended to do it during a 1/2 stamina bonus.
  Red Evolve Mask, Blue Evolve Mask, etc: Volcano of Vulcan to Pluto Valley.
  Crimson Demon Mask, Indigo Demon Mask, etc: Fire Forest Nerva to Twin Temple Diana. Recommended to do it during a 1.5x item drop bonus.
  Divine Carmine Mask, Divine Indigo Mask, etc: I recommend farming them in the second stage of the first set of the technical dungeons. Wednesday on Expert is also an option (bring a Shiva/Poison!)
  Keeper of Fire, Keeper of Light, etc: The red, blue and green keepers are the bosses of their level in the Tuesday Dungeons. The light and dark keeper are random encounters in the tuesday dungeons.
  Dub-rubylit, Dub-sapphiiit, etc: Friday Dungeon on expert.
  
  Dragon Seed: Thursday Dungeon. Otherwise Departure Tower.
  Dragon Plant: Thursday Dungeon. Otherwise The Tower of Trials.
  Dragon Flower: Thursday Dungeon. Otherwise Tower of Giants.
  Dragon Fruit: Thursday Dungeon.
  
  
• Where do I get the ~special~ evo materials?
  
  Mythlit: He's the boss of the Friday dungeon on Adept. Otherwise he appears onwards from the fourth set of normal of dungeons and also in the technical dungeons.
  Mystic Mask: Wednesday Dungeon on Expert.
  Keeper of ~Rainbow~: He has his own special Tuesday Dungeon.
  Dub-mythlit: Friday Dungeon on Expert.
  
  
• Extremely valuable and farmable monsters
  
  When you don't have anything better to do, I recommend you fill out your rosters by farming for one of these:
  
  1. Colored Resist Dragons, AKA "Rippers". These are the little dragons that will pop out of the PAL machine. You definitely want all 5, and fully evolved at that. Try to get a bunch of friends so you have a steady stream of PAL points to roll the machine with.
  2. A Healer who at 5 stars will heal you every turn for three times their RCV as long as you matched an orb: Cupid(light), Dryad(wood), Mermaid(water). Cupid and Dryad at 5* will have an active skill that heals you for 10x team RCV. Mermaids have an active skill that will change fire orbs to heal orbs. The 5* Mermaids aka Siren the Enchanter are the choice healer of the three by the pros and so you are highly, highly recommended to get one, even if you got one of the other two already. Mermaid's active skill is also 'easily' leveled up by fusing the evolved water goblins to her. You can farm these in the second and third set of dungeons where they appear as bosses.
  3. Naga, the fire 'Healer'. She has the valuable active skill 'Menace' which delays all enemy attack by 3 turns. Her leader skill is trash though. Like cupid/dryad/mermaid, naga is farmed in the second and third set of dungeons.
  YOU WILL WANT AT LEAST ONE MAX SKILL NAGA Farm them for skill ups during Dragon events (Legendary, Sky, Mech) and hang on to them for 2x Skill-Up Events
  4. Succubus, the dark 'Healer'. She has the active skill 'Poison Mist' which is a key to dealing with gimmick monsters who have extremely high defense but low hp as it deals her ATK on every enemy for every turn until it dies. Her leader skill gives you more time to drag the orb around. Like the other four female healers, she is farmed in the second and third set of dungeons.
  5. Vampire. He's a dark monster with a leader skill that 2x dark attacks and an active skill changes heal orbs to dark orbs. Orb changers are highly regarded in this game and the evolved vampire, Vampire Lord, is a key anchor in all dark teams. Their active skill is also 'easily' leveled using big baddies. They are an random encounters in the Castle of Satan. Farm for one during a 1.5x item bonus.
  6. Titan. He has the leader skill 'Resolve' which allows you to survive with 1hp if you get killed while you have 70% hp or more, similar to the one ogres all have. Note it only works once per turn so you will still die when fatally hit twice in the same turn. Their active skill changes heal orbs to fire orbs and are 'easily' leveled up by using the evolved fire goblins. Titans are farmable in the Tower of Giants and the Tower of Trials.
  
  
  
• I just got a lil dragon from the PAL machine. What are these? Are they any good? They don't even give good exp so should I just sell them?
  
  Lil dragons start out at 2* but when they are evolved three times and into their 5* form their leader skill gives a 50% damage reduction to their color and their active skill is a 20000 colored nuke to all enemies. Their stats are also very good. In fact having a full squad of all five colors is recommended.
  
  
• Friends? I don't need Friends! Friends, What is it good for?
  
  Absolutely everything. Friends will be a key part of your team composition because your friend's leader skill will activate and in almost all cases, stack with your own leader skill. If you followed my advice to reroll until you got a kicking rad elite monster then everyone in the world will want to be your friend. In that situation you will have to be selective in choosing who are your friends (because you have limited friends slots). Don't just look at the attack stats but also their active skill, leader skill, hp and rcv. Note that you can't reuse a friend until they log back in. Another note, they have to first accept your friend request and be your friend before their leader skill will activate.
  
  
• What is this gift trading people are talking about?
  
  Once you hit rank 20 you can choose one friend to give a present to. You and your chosen friend will each get one of the three starter dragons or the equivalent light or dark dragon. The idea is to do this with someone who will also use their present on you so you will both have two chances. So just ask to gift trade with someone in this thread by posting your friend code (find it in Friend->ID Search). By the way there's no way to actually trade stuff between users.
  
  
• What is this about leveling your skill?
  
  When you fuse a monster to your monster that both have the same skill, there is a supposedly 20% chance it will get a skill up. When you evolve it the skill levels will stay the same if the evolved form have the same skill. It does not matter when you are fusing whether you use one or five at the same time. Leveling your skill level reduces the active skill's cooldown by 1 turn per level.
  
  
• I just got an egg with a big plus sign on it, what is this?
  
  That means that monster has a stat bonus on one of their stat. You can see which one it is by looking at their stats; +1 in hp gives 10hp, +1 in atk gives +5atk, and +1 in rcv gives +3rcv. More importantly, you can transfer this stat bonus to one of your more useful monsters by fusing it to them. I recommend fusing your +1 hp bonuses to monsters you use the most. I recommend fusing your +1 atk bonuses to monsters who are part of your main attack team and/or has an active skill that is based off of their atk stat like dragons and poisoners. It is recommended to fuse your +1 rcv to your healer and if you have multiple, prioritize all of them to Amaterasu >>> Mermaid > Cupid/Dryad. The maximum +1 bonuses a monster can have is +99 to each stat to a total of +297. Note that fusing plus bonuses increases fusing costs dependent on how many pluses the monster you're fusing to already have.
  
  A cheaper way to handle this is to stockpile different +eggs on things that don't level up past ten; base form carbuncles, slimes, etc. Keep 3 around, one for atk, one for hp, one for rcv. Every additional +egg costs 1k gold to add, on top of the current level cost. It saves a fair bit of money to stock up 10 or 20 pluses on a single mule monster and then feed to your target.
  
  
• I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know who or where I am. Please recommend me a team formation.
  
  A good, classic, and basic team is a team of the same color where you and your friend's leader have a leader skill that boosts your color of choice's attack. Some sort of orb changer in these teams are a must at advance levels. Mystic knights, the orb changer who changes your color's weakness to your color (for example fire to wood) are farmable in expert and master levels of the special dungeons. The second type of orb changer is the Attack Stance orb changers who changes heal orbs to your color, and they are either very easy or hard to impossible to get depending on the color. Fire and dark (Titan and Vampire) can farm for theirs in the normal dungeons. Water, Wood, and Light (Berserker, Highlander, Valkyrie) are only farmable through endgame dungeons.
  
  Another good basic team is basically just one that has either you or your friend's leader as one of the four fully evolved autohealers (Alarune, Amaterasu Ohkami, Archangel, Siren the Enchanter). Get some attacking power or maybe a leader with a 30/50% colored damage reduction and you'll be set for a good part of the early and middle game.
  
  
• When do the metallic dragons appear? Is the time each day always the same?
  
  1. Use this stylesheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...bGxYQTFUTUZEWFE (Edit your own id in to get the correct times.)
  2. Check puzzledragonx, they keep a schedule on the right side of the layout.
  3. Join the unofficial facebook group, http://www.facebook.com/groups/PADGlobal/, and look at their pinned post for the US dragon time tables. Now go to Friend->ID Search and look at your own ID. The third digit of your ID to the left tells you which 'group' you belong to. For example mine is 303,936,292, so I belong on the D group. Now that you know your group, look at the time table to see when dragons appear for you. The time may change from day to day so just check daily. Note that no matter what they always appear 5 hours apart for a total of 3 times daily.
  
  
• What am I even doing?
  
  As a new player, you have a few immediate objectives:
  1. Clear Castle of Satan to unlock Technical Dungeons
  2. Obtain 1 of every Resist Dragon from the PAL machine (Li'l Red, Li'l White, etc)
  3. Complete the first 2 technical dungeons.
  4. Start evolving everything you can, starting with those Dragons. Get them to their 5* forms.
  
  Once you unlock technical dungeons by clearing CoS, clear the first two dungeons so that you have access to that first set of 3. This will give you the chance to participate in Red/Green/Blue Pengdra farming. Collect Pengdra as you go, and start collecting as many Jewel Dragons to evolve them as you can carry. Run Tower of Giants on the weekends for Dragon Plants and chances at earning Titan/Ranking up (if you're just concerned about ranking up, Dragons of the Tower is the best and will take you up to Rank ~66 without ever needing to stop, that is a total of 50 stamina), or Tower of Depature for Dragon Plants. Run Thursday Dungeon for more Dragon Plants.
  
  
• What are some mobs that I can use to fill out my team early on?
  
  1. Big Slimes. Every color of Big Slime (that isn't green) has a useful orb change, and they all have relatively high HP. Don't focus too much attention on them, but when you're still trying to just fill every slot, this is easily one of the better choices.
  2. Samurai Goblins for Fire, and Marine Goblins for Water are both decent orb changers that are low-effort to snatch up.
  3. Devils. Devils have a really short XP curve and hit really hard when leveled up. They are also fairly cheap to evolve in both stages. Keep in mind they have some of the lowest HP stats in the game. Obtainable from the PAL machine at the very start, but are otherwise farmable after Castle of Satan.
  4. Dragon Fruit, from Thursday Dungeon. They are Wood element, with 300 in their stats across the board.
  5. Chimera are like devils. Easy to farm with high ATK, but they peak faster than devils do, so they require less effort to run. Access to these requires having cleared Castle of Satan, as they are the fodder mobs from Technical dungeons.
  6. Keepers of Fire/Woods/Water/Darkness/Light, from Tuesday Dungeon. With your God starter and an appropriate buddy, these should be fairly easy to farm. [Rainbow Keeper is also an extremely solid Dark team member, but it has 25 Cost and is also a significantly harder dungeon in general that you wont be able to complete at the very start as it requires special ~stratz~]
  7. Dublits/Dub-mythlits, from Friday Dungeon, are a great early game team buffer mob, as they are relatively easy to obtain and have 1 Cost. Requires 25 stamina to access the dungeon. Run a team with an Ogre and 4 small -lits, all of the same color. Bring along an autohealer buddy who can heal you for most or all of your HP. Combining this with your God starter will make early game even more of a breeze. http://ggftw.com/forum/1790008-post371.html details how this works in practice.
  
  These mobs are something that you can immediately focus on as a new player before moving on to bigger and better things. A couple of other monsters of note:
  
  1. If Tri-Color Whiskey Dragon Dungeons are live, you can farm the easier difficulties for Barley Dragons. These little things are basically like Pengdra that don't evolve. They take about 1k more EXP to max out but are worth more than unevolved Pengdras when fed (18k to same color).
  2. Titan is arguably easier to farm than the Healer girls because of an easier dungeon, combined with the weekend stamina bonus and the relatively high XP/Stam ratio means you can pretty much continually run Giant Guards until you are rank 40 without stop. This is also a great source of stockpiling Dragon Plants/Flowers.
  
  
  
• What's the endgame?
  
  
  
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD_vSO1YJ-I
  
  
  
  Backup
  
  Remember to back up your app data files, REMEMBER TO BACK UP YOUR DATA, REMEMBER TO BACK UP YOUR loving DATA JESUS CHRIST (Especially data48.bin). There is no login or anything so if you uninstall this game or wipe out your phone then you would not be able to access your old account anymore. iOS users should backup with itunes and use a 3rd party tool like iFunBox just to be safe. Android users should backup with a 3rd party tool like Titanium Backup (or Carbon for unrooted users).
  Backing up is relatively simple as it only ever needs to be done once. The only things stored on your phone is the actual account access information, and your monster book. So if you back up as soon as you finish the tutorial and get your choice starter, you wont have to worry about it ever again.
  
  
• Resources
  
  http://www.puzzledragonx.com/ - English database, includes the metal dragon schedule. Contributed to by our own Unknown_PC!
  http://zh.pad.wikia.com/wiki/Puzzle...%BB%B4%E5%9F%BA - The Chinese wiki that everybody uses
  http://www18.atwiki.jp/pazdra/pages/35.html - Japanese wiki (@wiki is garbage to navigate through, you're better off using the chwiki unless you actually speak japanese)
  Both of them have information and numbers on all the monsters and dungeons so just use whichever you find funnier translated through google babelfish or whatever but do use one of them.
  http://puzzleanddragonsforum.com/ English forum community. Has a bunch of helpful guides spread around in the Q&A/Tips and Tricks sections.
  http://www.facebook.com/groups/PADGlobal/ - English facebook group, has a work in progress english monster book, FAQ, and metal dragon time tables.
  http://puzzledragonsus.blogspot.ca/ - English blog about the game, has advanced strategy on the special dungeons
  
  ~~SIKK CHEETZ~~ (don't use these unless you're like, doing Hell Difficulty poo poo or something)
  Cheaty-rear end Android App, generates an on-screen overlay when you take a screenshot of your board.
  BigCombo (Android, iOS) Other cheaty rear end app, allows for multiple different solutions instead of just one. No overlay. Works better on iOS, costs $1.
  
  Finally here's a ten minute video of what the real end game looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZUJtJoxbE
  It's not obvious but there are moments where in safe situations he did useless combos to charge up his skills which he needed later on or he would've been killed in 1 turn.
  
  Here is an hour long video of one of the endgame 5.0 dungeons. This guy went in almost completely blind and bet the company he could 0-stone it. It is the most dramatic PAD video you will ever see in your life.
  

Emalde fucked around with this message at May 15, 2013 around 05:13

Egyptian Pantheon (the ones worth keeping)

• Isis - This is probably the #1 roll you could ever make starting out as a new player. If you get Isis, keep that poo poo, laugh your way to endgame. Isis' gimmick is that if you attack with 3 different colors in the same turn, you gain a 3x multiplier to attack with all of your combos.
  
• Horus - Horus is hardmode Isis. Same deal, but you need to attack with 4 different colors simultaneously and you gain a 4x multiplier instead. Active skill is also better than Isis'. More or less useless for Tri-Color dungeons, but this is not relevant to you as a new player. Accept this god if you want more of a challenge in your stompfest.
  
  These two gods completely change the way you would normally play the game, as they rely on attacking with as many colors as you can at once instead of just matching your own relevant color and whatever else. For these, you would generally build "rainbow" teams, AKA teams with one of every element. You'll also want to remember to make friends with people who have the same god as you in these cases for stacking bonuses (multiplicative, so Double Isis is 9x, Double Horus is 16x, Horus/Isis is 12x), although if you are using Horus you can befriend Isis for a slightly easier time of things.
  Keep in mind that while Horus is absolutely stronger than Isis, Isis has a fair bit more utility with the fact she is easier to use and can be run in Tri-Color dungeons, which are pretty good things to be able to do (but a good enough team will sweep Tri-Color dungeons without you having an Isis regardless, so don't sweat the fine details here too much). If you're on android or have a japanese itunes account, check out this app for practicing with Horus.
  
  
• Bastet - Still very solid. If you hit 4 combos or more in a turn, your attack multiplier is raised to 2.5x. Active ability turns every attack into a multi-target attack. Does not rely on multiple colors like the two above.
  
  Ra and Anubis are very niche and gimmicky use gods, it is not recommended to start out with them at all because they are basically impossible to utilize correctly. Also, if you get any of the above 3 Gods, don't bother evolving any of the Starter Dragons you get. You won't need to.
  
  
  
  Greek Pantheon (every one is great)
  Nearly every Greek God is an absolutely fantastic starter, so if you get one of these you're probably set.
  
  
• Persephone/Apollo - Dark/Light equivalents to each other. At base, they add 1.5x ATK/RCV to monsters of their respective element. When evolved, they add 1.5x to every stat to monsters of their element. Collect a bunch of monsters that share their element, and make some friends with people who have the same god for double the bonus.
  
• Ares/Artemis/Hermes - Fire/Wood/Water triangle. Their base forms are 2x ATK to mobs of their element, when evolved that becomes 2x ATK/HP. Befriend people with the same god or their Nordic counterparts (Freyr/Freyja/Idunn&Idunna respectively).
  
  These 5 gods all have a very powerful active ability on top of their leader abilities: When activated, all Heart orbs and Weakness orbs (EG. Ares will turn water orbs into fire, Apollo will turn dark orbs into light, etc) are changed into orbs of their primary attribute. This will make running dungeons significantly easier on you.
  
  
• Hades - He's not as good as the first 5 above, but he's not bad by any means. His active chunks out a percentage of one enemy's HP (15% base, 30% when evolved). His leader ability makes you take less damage from Dark element attacks, so you'll have an easier time with certain event dungeons later on. Go ahead and stick with him if you're tired of rerolling for something better. Buddy up with something that powers up Dark types.
  
  
  
  Roman Pantheon (couple of highlights but otherwise average)
  Basically half of the Roman Gods are something you stick with if you're tired of rerolling for better Gods. They have their uses, but don't remain useful for your entire play period.
  
  
• Neptune - One of the two top pulls from this group. Neptune's active ability is very powerful poison attack. At base form, the poison is only 2x his ATK, but after he evolves it becomes 5x. His leader ability is Water damage reduction, and when evolved further you can either add Light or Dark resist to that as well. There are still better Gods to start with, but Neptune won't do you any wrong and you will use him for most of your playtime. Buddy up with anyone really, his active is the main benefit.
  
• Venus - The other top pull from these. Venus' active ability is what's important, at base form it's 5 seconds of free orb movement/placement. Once evolved, this changes to 10 whole seconds. If you can't clear an entire board in 10 seconds of free placement, well, you should probably reroll. Her leader ability is Light damage resist, which can expand to include Dark at one of her final evolution stages. Goes well with Apollo, or you can build a rainbow team and buddy up with some Egyptian gods instead.
  
  Neither of these Gods demands a very specific kind of team makeup, but Venus' active ability means utilizing Egyptian God partners will be fantastically easy. Keep in mind that both Neptune and Venus transition very well from Leaders to regular Team Members once you've acquired some better leaders. The next two are Gods that aren't great starters but if you're sick of rerolling, they're serviceable.
  
  
• Ceres - Ceres is nothing particularly special, but she has long-term application. Ceres is basically a healer unit, her RCV is quite high. Active ability is a long-charge skill that completely heals you. Her passive is Wood resist, which eventually expands to include Light or Dark. When fully evolved, her stats are all above average and distributed well. Partner with Gods that increase Wood abilities, focus on a wood type team.
  
• Minerva - Minerva also isn't anything special. She's very attack oriented, with high offensive stats and active abilities that do straight damage. In her first 2 forms, it's a long-charge nuke that does 15x her attack to one target. In her final forms, this changes to an ability that takes a third of the time to charge but only deals 10x damage. Her leader ability is Fire resist, with Light or Dark added on in the final forms. Partner with Gods that increase Fire abilities, focus on a fire type team.
  
  
  
  
  Japanese Pantheon (Free of restraints)
  Three of the Japanese Gods are really good, the other two are complete garbage you shouldn't really bother with unless necessary.
  
  
• Amaterasu PROBABLY NOT A GOOD STARTER ROLL IF YOU ARE LEGITIMATELY NEW! WILL BE WEEKS BEFORE SHE CAN CARRY YOU! - Amaterasu is the ultimate healer... when evolved. Her active ability is a long-charge full heal, but more importantly, her leader ability is a passive Auto-Heal that heals you whenever any orbs are matched. In her base form, this heal is only equivalent to her straight RCV stat. When evolved, it becomes 5x that stat, which is a higher multiplier than any other autohealer in the game. You should probably hang on to this one if you roll her, but just be ready for a rough start as she's only marginally better than an evolved slime in her base form. Autohealers are generally team independent, and her attack value isn't high enough to bother focusing on anyway.
  
• Yomi - The dark equivalent to Venus, except slightly different. Yomi is more offensively oriented, with higher ATK in general. Her active ability in both forms is the 10 second free placement that evolved Venus acquires. Her leader ability is that you have a longer timer to move orbs with, and this extends when she evolves. Goes extremely well with a rainbow team and Egyptian god buddy, but also works with a dark team so feel free to buddy up with Persephones or Vampire Lords/Archlords and run her that way.
  
• Viper Orochi - A good, but depressing pull. Orochi is one of the best "buddy" Gods, as his leader ability is that you cannot be killed by any single attack so long as you are above 50% HP. Generally this means you would not level him however, as that makes it harder to utilize the leader ability when he has more HP. Not leveling him means you're going to have an even harder time, so you're better off just leveling him and if you happen to get a second, leaving that one unleveled. His active ability is one of the strongest in the game, as it delays enemy attack turns by 5 (does not stack with itself or Menace). It's your call whether you actually level him up or not, just keep in mind people prefer these to be unleveled. Team independent, if you decide to run him as your leader, buddy up with evolved Auto-Healers (Sirens, Archangels, Alraunes, Amaterasu Ohkami)
  
  These are the top 3 Japanese Gods. All of them are good. However, do keep in mind that Amaterasu is basically playing handicap mode until you get the EXP and Materials to evolve her, which may be too great a task for a new player to undertake if you started out with the base form instead of the evolved form. Kagutsuchi and Susano are garbage starters, don't even bother.
  
  
  
  
  Indian Pantheon (three out of five isn't bad, right?)
  The Fire/Water/Wood trio are fantastic, the Light/Dark are consolation prizes.
  
  
• Shiva - Fire God. Extremely powerful, with high HP and ATK even unevolved. His active is super fantastic, it is a 1-turn defense nullification, which will last for as long as you can continue to wipe out waves in single turns. His passive is 1.5x to ATK/RCV unevolved, 1.5x to all stats when evolved. One of the top pulls, will last you for your entire career. Build a fire team, buddy up with other Shivas, or Ares. Be wary that if you want to evolve Shiva, stock up on some feeding materials as once evolved he needs roughly another 40 levels to regain the lost stats.
  
• Lakshmi - Water God. Her active ability is an attack against a single enemy, 50% of the damage dealt is then restored as HP. Her passives are identical to Shiva's, except for water. Same deal for team building/buddying, focus on things that power up water types.
  
• Parvati - Wood God. Her active ability is an orb change (Water -> Heal) and thus makes her extremely useful. Her passives are identical to the former 2, just for Wood. Again, partner up with gods/monsters that power up wood types and build your team around it.
  
  These three gods are easily some of the best possible pulls and will never stop being useful until you actively score different/better Gods by spending stones. The following one isn't awful, but is only worth keeping if you don't wish to continue rerolling.
  
  
• Vritra - Dark God. Active ability is a nuke based on your remaining HP. If you have Full-51%HP, this nuke deals 10k damage. If you have 50%-11%HP, it deals 20k. If you have <=10%HP, it deals 100k damage. Leader ability is a 1.5x modifier to Dragon/God ATK, 2x when evolved once, and upon final evolution becomes 2x ATK/RCV to Dragons only. Team composition will involve your Starter Dragon and the 2 more you will receive from exchanging rank 20 gifts with other Goons/friends. Buddy up with Isis-users (as long as you didn't pull 2 dark starters with your gift rolls) and other Vritras/Indras. Pick up some Orochi friends along the way, as they will turn Vritra into a good sub once you have an autohealer.
  
• Indra - Light God. Active ability is a 3-turn 75% damage negation. Leader ability is 1.5x HP to Dragons/Gods, 2x when evolved once, and in the final form is 2x HP/ATK for Dragons only. Team comp is exactly the same as Indra, except your priority for buddy leaders shifts to Isis, Vritras and Ancient Dragon Knights early on. Fully evolved Indras are also acceptable buddy leaders.
  
  Indra and Vritra are difficult to start out with because they require focus on Starter Dragons, which are normally not something you focus on entirely. Obtaining a Mystic Stone Knight and a Mystic Dark Knight and evolving them should be a high priority if you rolled either of these.
  
  
  
  
  Nordic Pantheon (Vikings and Greeks 4eva)
  Almost all of the Nordic Gods function identically, the exception being the two Odin variants. These used to be really subpar, but with the advent of 5.0 Norse Gods are now super viable.
  
  
• Freyr - Fire.
  
• Freyja - Wood.
  
• Idunn & Idunna - Water.
  
• Thor - Light.
  
• Loki - Dark.
  
  All of these gods do the exact same things for their relevant elements, which is that they have an active which provides a 1.5x ATK modifier for 1 turn to their element. Their leader abilities are also the same, where the base form grants 1.5x ATK/RCV to monsters of their element, their evolved forms grant 2x to ATK/RCV. Build mono-type teams based on thier color, and buddy up with the relevant (evolved) greek/indian counterparts for HP boosts.
  
  Note that starter dragons, when fully evolved, can achieve the same leader effects, so if you don't start with a decent god you can evolve them later on and still have something that can keep up with the harder stuff.
  
  
• Green Odin - Wood God. Extremely useful, his active is a 20x ATK single-target nuke that is dealt as Light damage. His leader ability is the real prize though, which is an 80% reduction in damage if you are hit while at full HP. Not only will this service you for the entire game, but many other people will want to be your friend as well. He is relatively team independent, especially since you want to partner up with Auto-Healers. One of the best pulls in the game.
  
• Blue Odin - Water God. His active ability is similar to GrOdin's, but it's a 50x ATK Dark-element nuke instead. His leader ability is a 2.5x ATK modifier to God Types, and then Water Element once evolved. This is a very massive singular boost for an entire element of monsters, and he is an intensely strong unit by himself. Evolve him as quickly as possible. Build a mono-water team and seek out Hermes or other Blue Odin users for your buddy leaders.
  
  
  
  Judaic Pantheon (It's all downhill from here)
  There is only really one here worth mentioning as a starter, however I will include one extra.
  
  
• Archangel Lucifer - Dark/Light God. Don't confuse this for the Dark/Dark Demon version, Angel Lucifer is very special. All of the Archangels have leader abilities that are 2xHP/RCV to their respective primary element, but that's only half of the fun. Not only do Dark teams have some of the highest potential HP in the game with Archangel Lucifer, his active is a 300,000 Damage Nuke to any one target. This is an instant boss killer in most parts of the game. The penalty of this ability is that it reduces your current HP to 1, and cannot be used consecutively as long as you only have 1 HP. Build a mono-dark team, and the objective is to find other Archangel Lucifer (or Persephone if you're feeling a little on the weaker side with normal attacks) buddies and just roll through everything by sitting on your rear end and instantly killing the boss when the time comes.
  
  
• Baal - Light/Dark Demon. Baal doesn't garner much mention, he is a permanent 2.5x attack boost so long as you have 70% of your HP or more. His active ability is a counter-attack that lasts for five turns which deals 3x his ATK back at the enemies. Scroll up to the Egyptian Pantheon and follow the team advice listed under Bastet. He's not the most amazing, but certainly not terribly awful in any respect.
  
  
  
  
  Everything Else
  This is the rest of the crap that doesn't belong to a specific pantheon and all of them are final choices you settle with when you are sick of rerolling.
  
  
  
• Valkyrie HARD START- Light Healer. Valkyrie isn't a God but still ends up in this list because it still happens to be one of the better pulls in the game. Her active is an orb change (Heart -> Light), her leader ability is a 2x ATK boost to Healer-type monsters at base form, 2.5x when evolved. She is farmable, but it is the endgamest of endgame kind of stuff so don't count on just picking one of these up outside of Gacha. Your team needs to be comprised of Healers, which include: Carbuncles, Naga/Echidna, Mermaid/Siren, Succubus/Lilith, Cupid/Archangel, Dryad/Alraune, other Valkyries, and Kyoku (Kyoku is gacha-only). Early on, you'll want to just focus on building a mono-light team and befriending Apollo-users (while befriending Valkyries along the way), until you get your hand on some healer girls (don't use carbuncles). Once you have another couple of Healer girls, then focus on friending and running with other Valkyries.
  
  Valkyrie is hard because you need to farm up the healer girls, which takes a lot of time and effort to do so. There is also the matter of health, as a Healer-based team has very low max HP naturally so you wont be able to use this team in later dungeons. She will easily breeze you through much of your early-midgame and farming escapades though, so she's worth hanging on to.
  
  
  
• Siegfried/Kaiser Siegfried - Water Attacker. Also isn't a God, but is a serviceable "I'm tired of rerolling" starter. His active is an orb change (Heart -> Water), and his leader ability is a 2.5x ATK boost to Physical-type monsters. Physical types include the Ogre, Golem, and Titan families (also Kotaro but he is gacha only). Early on, focus on mono-water teams and befriend Hermes/Lakshmi users and any and all Berserk/Siegfried users you can find (they're rare). Golems aren't easily farmable until midgame, but they are potential boss drops.
  
  Siegfried and his Wood counterpart have their uses, just realize that they are limited in scope to you. Do not start with his base form (Berserk), as it will take far too long for you to be able to farm the evolution mats without some serious assistance.
  
  
  
• Cu Chulainn/Great Hero Cu Chulainn - Wood Technic. The Wood counterpart to Siegfried above. He functions identically (active is a heart -> wood orb change) to Siegfied with his passive, except that it applies to Technique-type monsters and is for HP instead of ATK. Technique-type monsters include Slimes, Fighters, Mystic Knights, Vampires, and Chiyome (gacha only). This selection pool makes him slightly easier to build a team with. Early on, focus on mono-wood teams and befriend Artemis/Parvati users and Fenrir Kight Kamuis or other Highlanders/Cu Chulainns you may spot. Chulainn has an easier time building a team because of Mystic Knights, which can then transition into being built into their own teams later.
  
  For the same reasons as Siegfried, you do not want to start with Cu Chulainn's base form (Highlander). Both Berserk and Highlander are technically farmable (for additional subs), but they come from dungeons that you will see probably once every 3 or so months (and are extremely difficult).
  
  
• Ancient Dragon Knight - Wood Dragon. I know it says "Knight" in the name but his classification is of Dragon. His active is an orb change (Fire -> Wood), his leader ability is a 2.5x ATK boost to Dragon type monsters. If you scroll up to Vritra's description in the Indian section, early ADK teams can be run the same (using starters dragons and running with Isis users). However, thanks to his typing, you can also befriend other ADKs while running a team of starter dragons. Alternatively, due to his orb change, he fits right at home on a mono-wood team, so you can build like that and befriend Artemis/Parvati/Freyja users. You will always want to friend any ADK you meet though.
  
  ADK is absolutely farmable, and is why he is left in this section for things to run when you're tired of rerolling. He's still good, but you're really better off with something that can't be farmed normally.
  

Emalde fucked around with this message at May 15, 2013 around 05:11

• Hella events, all of the time.
  
• Always has the latest content.
  
• Tons of extra collaboration/promotional monsters, several of which are used to skill up certain Gods that you would otherwise have to spend a million dollars on.
  
• Free stones are passed out like candy.
  
• Far more pubbies who will probably have the gods you need to recruit

• Hella events, all of the time. Enjoy never seeing jewel dragons except for once a week.
  
• Enjoy synchronizing your clock to Japan's for said events.
  
• It's in japanese, you won't be reading poo poo unless you're fluent.
  
• If you can't read japanese, you will have a permanent pair of tabs open for the chinese wiki and google translate.
  
• Requires extra steps to get the game downloaded/running.
  
• If you're on iOS, you will need to purchase japanese itunebux for magic stones. (Some people on Android also have problems with the IAP, but this varies per user)
  

BACKING UP IS GOOD BUT NOT ENTIRELY NECESSARY NOW, HOWEVER SETTING UP AN ACCOUNT IS SUPER IMPORTANT

• Nordic Pantheon adopting dual types (eg. Loki will now be God/Demon, Freyja God/Healer, etc)
  
• Evolutions for the 5 main Nordic Gods. Images here!
  
• "Demon"-type classification. Confirmed monsters for type change: Devil Families, Drawn Joker, Dual Elemental Ogres, Fully Evolved Vampire/Lillith, 5* Dark Ripper, and various others.
  
• Monday Dungeon, which is Pengdra-centric. Includes new Dark and Light type Pengdra.
  
• Blue Odin buff. His passive is now 2.5x to God AND Water.
  
• Account systems for iOS (password) and Android (gmail sync)
  

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