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Intrinsic · Jan 1, 2014

With all the new players, and I'm sorry for not reiterating it earlier, but you really should be spacing out your rolls over a period of time. Most of us use the roll once, if a god roll again, if not wait X minutes to roll again. There is a lot of debate about the seed and pool of Gods available based on your initial roll. Waiting to get a new 'seed' seems to work better. I ended up with a Ares, Freyr, SoD Luci, Venus, Thanatos, 2x Karin (one 5* one 6*). Still no DTron =(

Evo'd my Yomi D/L and my Vamp B/D. Going to try a couple runs today and maybe get my Hera or Zeus but not going to kill myself or buy stones to do it.

Vorph · Jan 1, 2014

Haku is what I use. She's great, most of the best subs are farmable and all you really ever need from the REM is a Yomi. She doesn't have the highest multiplier (12.25 with a Haku friend, while other spike leads can get from 16-25x) but being able to change all the orbs on the screen to the correct colors makes up for that when it really counts.

Definitely stick with her to the second REM pull and post what you get/got before you think about rerolling. Unless you get something truly awful I would recommend sticking with her.

You can add me as a friend, my Haku is Lv.50 evolved and fully awakened. 325,188,272

Crone · Jan 1, 2014

Vorph_sl said:
Haku is what I use. She's great, most of the best subs are farmable and all you really ever need from the REM is a Yomi. She doesn't have the highest multiplier (12.25 with a Haku friend, while other spike leads can get from 16-25x) but being able to change all the orbs on the screen to the correct colors makes up for that when it really counts.

Definitely stick with her to the second REM pull and post what you get/got before you think about rerolling. Unless you get something truly awful I would recommend sticking with her.

You can add me as a friend, my Haku is Lv.50 evolved and fully awakened. 325,188,272

Jumped the gun and already deleted and restarted. Oh well! I'll get something good again, I know it! Will add you as friend.

Antarius · Jan 1, 2014

Myst_sl said:
I just went through 11 rolls and got zero gods. Since i started playing the game, all I have been getting is duplicates. I got 4 Echidna, 4 Lilith, 3 Shiva, 4 Ares, 4 Genies, 5 Pierdrawn, 4 Lakshmi and 4 shaitan. Why such a high rate of duplicates? Is it a normal thing in this game?

That said, I am still having a blast with the game and I am at rank 82 right now with 236 monsters. Where can I go to create a list of all the monsters I have? I feel quite lost with such a high number of them, that I can't seem to focus on one team. I am slowly leveling every single of them up and I have finally hit a wall. I can't seem to beat Hera no matter the combination/strategy i use.

Errr i'd consider Ares a great starter... A) Red is the most bursty Mono-color B)you can form the entire team non-IAP if you had an ares or freyr starter. C) He makes for a great sub on Dark Metatron teams (if you decide to go IAP) as well as a good friend for Lucifers, Lokis and Persephones later on, all of which are in large abundance as friends, so you can easily clear primarily blue dungeons as dark (ie: sea god). His starting team cost isn't as bad as Lucifer, which lets you form a full team that much sooner. D) Red non-iap is capable of many descended dungeons, including many of which you might like as you move deeper into the game, such as 2 heroes, hera, and Athena (while others, like Hera-is or Goemon are beatable using either blue or green noel dragons. E) Groove Coaster Collab is one of the easiest skill-up dungeons in the game for Artemis, I&I and Ares. F) His awoken's are pretty good.

Also, Indian gods are confirmed as the next set of gods to receive busty evos... That means Shiva theoretically could become a FoTM god.

edit: just reread, noticed you're not just starting off... disregard

Ao- · Jan 1, 2014

is 16x enough of a spike dmg team to clear twinlits?
or is it going to be 25+?

Vorph · Jan 1, 2014

Looks like a lot of JP clears used double-Bastet leads. Mono-red (Ares/Freyr) is really common too.

I watched a few videos that used a fairly standard Haku setup (Haku/Haku leads + two echidnas, Hera-Is, D/B Vamp) and zero-stoned it, so 25x is definitely not required. I expect to be ready to do it next time it rolls around.

Intrinsic · Jan 1, 2014

You'll still probably want a delay for the Lits b/c Heart Maker and Poison will take away colors you need. So unless you stall and can do 5M or whatever damage on the opening. I'd be willing to give it a shot with my U&Y again this evening. Probably do U&Y, Viper, Hera-Is, D/D Hades, something... And friend

Did one run this morning again with Luci with one stone. Really should have zero but they did leader bind followed by heart breaker which was insta death. Ended up dropping Jester Dragon for Hera to have three gravities and easier to get dark lit dead.

Tried a second run and screwed up the first round again, then fat fingered a combo on the second round, then just quit. If 16x is good enough would love to take my Horus team in rather than U&Y.

Ao- · Jan 1, 2014

Well, I think I'll just try bastet with some big hitters and echidna then.

pulled 3 more times with a gift card and spar stones... fuck.

Shaintan lvl30, Yomi +HP, Sharda

Brand · Jan 1, 2014

Ao-_sl said:
Well, I think I'll just try bastet with some big hitters and echidna then.

Just accept that you are going to be burning stones to get it done...A perfect run could end up 0 stone, but that would be the exception and not the rule.

littles · Jan 1, 2014

Ran it again with my kirin/orochi/echidna/LWotN/RoseValk and a Zeus friend, breezed through for 0 stone. Any 15-16x+ team should work as long as you have double delay/ its nice taking a zeus friend just for the 35% gravity. If you have amazing matching skills or some kind of OHKO setup you could probably just do 1 delay + poison. The first stage is by far the most important as you need to sweep to 2 mythlits, 3 could work if you make sure to kill the 3rd the next turn.

Raign · Jan 1, 2014

Yeah, double delay is the key. You just can't get it done with a 16x and a single delay even with solid matching. Wishing I had an Orochi :/. Ahh well, I will just luci grind it next time it comes around... my 8 star hera and zeus will have to wait

Intrinsic · Jan 1, 2014

What is the double delay for, Twin round?

littles · Jan 1, 2014

Yeah, if you delay and burn down the angellit first, the dark one does a power up so you can delay him again.

Kirun · Jan 1, 2014

Well, I'm probably done with this game, unless I can find some sort of "breakthrough". After watching multiple videos, it's very apparent to me that I'll just never have the "skill" needed to succeed at the game. I "understand" how to solve the 5 basic patterns, I very rarely have problems pulling off an Isis team. However, when it comes to more than 4 combos/colors, forget it. Unless I get lucky with drops or a really good setup, I just can't get past that 3-4 threshold consistently. After watching the videos and seeing people sweep their boards nearly every round, it's just insanely disheartening. I don't know if it's a lack of speed, lack of planning, or just "uncomboing" a solved set, trying to make a new one, but ever since attempting Hera, this game has been one giant ball of frustration. There seems to be something so obvious that I'm missing, but I just can't figure out what is..

Grimmlokk · Jan 1, 2014

Kirun_sl said:
I "understand" how to solve the 5 basic patterns

Then it's time to work on pattern recognition for the bigger ones

Tell ya one thing that's helped me a little bit lately is forcing myself to make moves a bit more...herky jerky. Like straight angles to make sure I don't clip corners when moving fast. Every time I tag a stray orb trying to move fast I freeze up because my planned move is ruined.

I get pretty frustrated when I watch Paprika or other mutant players, I will never be able to pull of 8+ combos on command like them. Just have to accept that and work on maximizing the pathetic tools God gave me.

Raign · Jan 1, 2014

Thing that helped me the most honestly, was practising doing angle moves consistently. You can open up a lot of combos for yourself if you can get good at it. The above is excellent though, bunch on there I had never even thought of!

Intrinsic · Jan 1, 2014

Yeah that chart is awesome, thanks Grimm!

Vorph · Jan 1, 2014

Raign_sl said:
Thing that helped me the most honestly, was practising doing angle moves consistently. You can open up a lot of combos for yourself if you can get good at it.

I wish. I've tried while doing trivial stuff like Pengdra Village and I don't think I'd ever be able to count on that unless I was playing on a tablet, or at least a Galaxy Note 3 with its stylus. My phone's screen is only a little smaller than the Note and I still find it nearly impossible to do a diagonal with my finger. I'm thinking about about getting a stylus anyway though. I'm really tired of my hand blocking my view every time I make a right-to-left move (left-handed), and for some reason the past few days I've had a horrible time with the bottom row and my phone thinking I've moved off the edge and it releases the orb. The tricky part is finding a fine-tip capacitive stylus that glides smoothly and won't scratch the protector up, or wear out so fast that it becomes an annoying expense.

Edit: One thing that does help me though, is playing with sound effects on. Something about being able to hear when the orbs move lets me know it's safe to change direction better than just looking at the screen. I definitely do my combos more accurately when I'm playing somewhere I don't have to mute the game.

Brand · Jan 2, 2014

Playing on a iPad definitely provides an advantage for making combos...I refuse to play on the iPhone...It simply isn't fun.

Crone · Jan 2, 2014

Got marine rider on first rem and at first I was like sweet finally got a good one because it's all big and stuff. Then realized I'll have to do it yet again! Haha

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