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Money comes fairly quickly later on, especially with the weekend dungeons that are just coin rewards. The only thing to keep in mind with a weekend dungeon is that it has no light and dark orbs, just health, green, red and blue. While money is tight one way to level stuff up is to fusion up a unit like a carbuncle etc to level 5-10 using the smallest & crappest units and then feed a set of those to the target unit, it saves a lot of coins as level costs are basically "level x 100" per unit you use for fusion. Keep an eye out for metal dragons as well, they mostly come in purple/dark but occasionally a different colour dungeon appears and they are worth 1k xp/coins for normal, 10k for high and 100k for the top end.

Most people run with a single colour set at least some of the time to take maximum advantage of the +damage leader etc skills and skills that change orbs from one colour type to another. I use a single colour fire team for almost everything at the minute but despite being rank 50 I'm not as far along as I could be, I spent a lot of time farming a particular dungeon for one unit I wanted which was being rather stubborn about dropping.

If you have SomethingAwful membership I highly advise reading the dedicated P&D thread on there, I picked up most of what I know from that thread and it's rather busy - generating almost 1700 posts in less than 3 weeks.
 

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Is this game free, based on micro-transactions, need premium to really play, or do you need to purchase currency?
 

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I need a new Ipad game, anyone play anything good recently?

I have:
Baulders Gate
P&D
The World Ends w You
Great Big War Game
Monkey Island
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Need for Speed MW
Walking Dead
 

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Plague, Inc.
Pudding Monsters
Dungeon Village (any of the Kairosoft games, really)
Pocket Planes
Tiny Tower
Cut The Rope (and the experiments one)
Solitaire
Minesweeper (Mines is the name of the free one I have)

BattleNations isn't bad, as you can actually PVP other people, TradeNations is the non-pvp/non-war farmville clone in the same nature.

I'm downloading Puzzle Craft right now (as recommended here:http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/03/be...picks-of-2012/) as well as Puzzles & Dragons (based on this thread).
There's a new game called "Hundreds" out that seems good but might get absurdly hard at the end. It's $3 so I figure I'll try it out sometime soon.
 
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Knights of Pen and Paper is pretty fun. I'd recommend it, but with the caveat that you play it on a phone and not an iPad. It's the kind of game best dealt with in smaller bursts.
 

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Spaceward Ho! was just made (i)universal, so I picked it up for my iPhone. Had been checking on it every few weeks since I had noticed it for iPad, and played the everliving fuck out of it as a kid at school.
 

Fazana_sl

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Do you want to stick with using your guy you choose at the beginning of the game?
Only until you get better units, eventually you will probably mix and match your leader depending on what you need. Ogres and similarly skilled units are very useful later on as they have a skill that lets you survive with 1 hp if you are hit for 70% of your total in one turn. Hook that up with the right team and a Siren friend unit and bam, you can never die.

Is this game free, based on micro-transactions, need premium to really play, or do you need to purchase currency?
It's free to download and they make their money from selling the stones you use to buy rare eggs or extra monster boxes etc. However, normal gameplay gives you a reasonable supply and the IAP really is optional. I actually tried to give them some money at christmas due to how much I'd played it but as my credit card details aren't US they wouldn't take my money! They really do need to launch this worldwide asap.
 

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Beastie Bay

This is another one of those Kairosoft games, but I found it to have much more depth than their typical fare (plus it's free with a banner ad, removal costs a few bucks).

It has a "gotta catch 'em all" beast battling system on top of the classic Kairosoft style sim stuff. There are a good amount of secrets too. Definitely worth playing.

Also they have a pay4currency system, but the coins are also received randomly from doing dungeons, and rarely if one of your beasts harvests a 5 star land square. Later in the game you can set up beast houses surrounded by 5-star environments, which can allegedly net 100+ coins an hour (45 beasts equipped with +work bandanas surrounded by eight 5-star squares. It is NOT pay to win, the coins are needed to do some content, but by the time you really need them, you can farm them.
 

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^^ Been waiting for that to show up on IOS, along with the horse racing sim. Android is deffo their platform of choice.
 

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I started playing Puzzle & Dragons after reading this thread, and it's some addicting shit.

I can't figure something out though-sometimes when i match gems, i take damage seemingly at random. It's not from the creatures attacking me on thier turns. I had a fight a few minutes ago where i was half dead, fighting one creature, and his turn timer was at 4. So i matched 3 hearts, gained 250 life, and then immediately lost 350 life, and the creatures turn timer went down to 3 so he didnt hit me. So i ask, wtf is going on, why do i take dmg sometimes for matching gems, and other times i don't?
Is there some kind of intro for this? I see one of my carbunchle's flashing "+1" all the time, and have like 6 dragon eggs or something sitting in my spot. I managed to evolve (I think) my starter red dragon/t-rex with one, and have been cannibalizing my other monsters to power up my current lineup.
 

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Is there some kind of intro for this? I see one of my carbunchle's flashing "+1" all the time, and have like 6 dragon eggs or something sitting in my spot. I managed to evolve (I think) my starter red dragon/t-rex with one, and have been cannibalizing my other monsters to power up my current lineup.
I've asked permission to copy/pasta the OP from the main thread I use for P&D, if I get it I'll start a new thread for that game alone.

Until then though, if you see a +x number flashing on a new drop, go look it up in the monster box. One of the three stats (HP, ATK or RCV) will have a + next to it. If you feed that unit to another using enhance fusion, it gains that extra stat. +HP is best used on ogres/tank types, +RCV on your healers like Sirens etc etc.

I managed to evolve my Titan to a Gigas at the weekend, I will probably spend the next week or so bumping up the levels of my main team bigtime. Once you start to unlock the technical dungeons (after Castle Of Satan) you can get the Pengdras that give 9k is when max levelled BUT if you evolve them with 2 metal dragons and a dragon plant you can use the level 1 version of the evolved form for 45k xp.

I'm trying to skill up my Titan/Gigas but after 15-18 or so goblins with the same skill fed to it it's still only level 2, stupid random number generator.
 

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wait what? I have like 8 dragon eggs a dragon plant, a metal dragon, and some elemental (fire water light) "evo material". What do I do with all this shit?
 

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The dragon Xyz items are used in different tiers of evolve fusion like masks etc. You can preview what stuff needs by just going into evolve fusion in the monster menu and checking out whichever units have an evolve option. Anything listed in there as ? is something you haven't come across in your travels yet.

For example I have a 4* Volcano Dragon (which started out as a 2* 'lil Dragon iirc) and to evolve that to 5* I need to boost it to level 70 and then collect Dragon Fruit, Dragon Flower, Mythlit, Rubylit and an item I haven't found yet which probably drops in the expert or master daily dungeons.

The 'lil dragon series can be handy as when they get to their 4* forms they have 50% resist against their own colour type as well as a large 20-25 turn nuke.
 

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do I need to wait to max level for that form to evolve?
 

Fazana_sl

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do I need to wait to max level for that form to evolve?
All units need to be max level before they will evolve if you have the right mats in stock.

I've bumped my monster box up to 60 capacity atm, I'm at 4 stones currently and will probably use the rare egg machine when I get 5 then use the next few to get even more capacity. I fucked up and missed the emerald metal dragon dungeon runs yesterday so I need to wait quite a few days to either use pendras properly or miss out on a lot of extra xp.
 

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I picked upSilverswordafter reading the review at Pocket Tactics. It's an old school RPG in the vein of the original Bard's Tale. 7 adventurers facing multiple enemies and whatnot.

Here'sthe review. I'm enjoying it. The controls leave something to be desired at times, and it's anything but easy, but I'll be damned if it doesn't scratch an itch I didn't know needed scratching.
 

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That looks exactly like A Bard's Tale, which is a game I loved. Does it auto-draw maps, though? I don't see the point in buying a portable game I'm going to need graph paper to play.
 

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All units need to be max level before they will evolve if you have the right mats in stock.

I've bumped my monster box up to 60 capacity atm, I'm at 4 stones currently and will probably use the rare egg machine when I get 5 then use the next few to get even more capacity. I fucked up and missed the emerald metal dragon dungeon runs yesterday so I need to wait quite a few days to either use pendras properly or miss out on a lot of extra xp.
just used 5 stones on the machine and got a "Super Rare" Gryps Rider. Dual Light/Dark element, level 30. Did I just jackpot or is this thing the nagelring of superares?