Puzzle and Dragons M-1 Grand Prix - 9th Season

[Janitor Morgan]

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Puzzle & Dragons is an ios/android puzzle RPG.  It plays like a cross between Bejeweled and Pok?mon.  It's completely free to play, but has premium features through purchasable "magic stones," the game's premium currency (which can also be obtained occasionally as rewards in-game), which allow increased inventory, pulls from a rare egg machine, and more.  If you're patient enough the game gives you enough stones through special events and rewards that you shouldn't need to buy any.  (It's recommended you don't because you are almost guaranteed to be super frustrated at getting screwed by bad rolls ;_;)

You can control monsters from lowly slimes to mighty dragons to even gods like Genbu (above).  They all have different stats and skills, allowing you to customize your team for any number of purposes.

If you're interested, there's a really useful database of monsters and game info here: http://www.puzzledragonx.com/

A tip for new players: At the end of the tutorial the game will give you one free pull on the rare egg machine.  It's best to "scum" this pull and start over (by uninstalling and reinstalling) until you get something that's really rare, like a 5-star beastie or a god.  Great starters include any of the Chinese Gods, Ares, Bastet, Horus, Isis, Idunn & Idunna, Hermes, Archangel Lucifer, Odin, Loki, Persephone, Parvati, and many others.  Feel free to ask!

List of friends:

hyorinryu 357.646.299
Suikama 348.941.282
SuikamaEX 396.277.239
Soichiro 389,177,249
triangles 322.456.235
Nobu 389,151,231
Arashi 361, 443, 282
Chaore 344, 844, 286
Ghaleon 374, 256, 217
Labuto 362,441,209
omgkitties 301,354,227
Twillsky 320,059,211
O4rfish 389,956,257
Mode 384,458,286
Arcorann 326,368,215
Yukarin: 394.177.213
Jq1790: 396,049,294
Pesco: 328 276 294
MJP: 370,479,279
Dibble: 314,673,283
Soichiro 365,853,281
Matsuri 358,689,277
Fast Fanatic 359,184,275
Sacchi Hikaru 385,394,297
rdj 338,277,280
Chirei 326,404,383
En 351,629,319

[Yukarin]

I just noticed that I haven't added you yet rdj so I just did.

E: also holy shit we're on our ninth thread that's like 8000 posts of pure PaD.

[OverlordChirei]

Throwing ID in here because I can.

326,404,383

[Suikama]

man we go through threads quickly :v

[Janitor Morgan]

I just noticed that I haven't added you yet rdj so I just did.

E: also holy shit we're on our ninth thread that's like 8000 posts of pure PaD.

I think I posted my code at like the tail end of the fourth thread and it never made it into the OP, so I just added it myself this time.

...granted I probably could have done it at any time anyway because Shrine Janitor :fail:

[Yukarin]

On a completely unrelated note:

DO you guys play with your fingers or with fancy styluses when playing PaD?

[Yukarin]

double post gg

[MatsuriSakuragi]

Thumb, since I play it on my phone.

[Jq1790]

Indekkusu modo.

Tried a stylus once, it sucked, back to pointer-finger orb-moving for good.

[OverlordChirei]

Finger b/c phone not fancy enough to have stylus

Finger is probably more accurate in the end anyway.

[The Greatest Dog]

Fingers. Thumb if I'm lazily holding the phone with one hand, though I prefer to use my index.

I've been trying to use my left hand to move the orbs but not being ambidextrous makes it a challenge...

[Yukarin]

I guess the usage of index fingers doesn't surprise me.

I use a stylus myself (because the phone has a built-in one) and my fingers don't glide very well on the screen so I find the stylus easier to use.

I'm really interested on the answers on combo-god/rainbow god users here (edible and suikama i'm glaring at you)

[Edible]

WE ALREADY USED AME NO UZUME YOU TERRIBLE RDJ

[Jana]

I have a new phone I can use to play this game on! rdj told me that I should wait for some kind of special event to take advantage of newbie status or something, so I will keep an eye on the thread.

[Janitor Morgan]

WE ALREADY USED AME NO UZUME YOU TERRIBLE RDJ

BUT HER ULT ART IS AWESOME SO IT'S OKAY

Jana: Specifically you should probably wait on a godfest, which increases the chances of you getting a good starter from the free REM pull. Generally there's two of them per month, at the middle and at the end, and they usually do get announced in-thread too.

[Mr. Sacchi]

Though Isis is generally considered the best newbie starter and the Gala of Tides -is- active.

Or does the Gala of Tides not affect REM drop rates?

[MatsuriSakuragi]

It raises the odds of getting water pulls, which will be at level 30, iirc.

[Shizumarashi Mayuzumi]

Or does the Gala of Tides not affect REM drop rates?

It does but not enough to be worth bothering with unless you reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally want something that's on-gala but almost never gets fests (like DMeta players wanting Hanzo). Even then you're still probably better off waiting for a fest so the inevitable pulling everything else under the sun is less likely to be crap. : V

[MatsuriSakuragi]

oh man so I was listening to a playlist of pazudora music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzsJIYl7694 please bring the crystal defenders collab i'd play it just for this music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JOiYjepsko same for taiko no tatsujin

[hyorinryu]

To the guy who asked, I got 0 rainbow keepers.

[Janitor Morgan]

would this be better as the poster monster Edible

because it's *edible*

(more seriously I'm considering Gaia simply because she's recent; thoughts?)

[Edible]

dohohohoho

[Janitor Morgan]

Decided on something else instead! HEY CHAORE

[Chaore]

Decided on something else instead! HEY CHAORE

yessssss

<3

[hyorinryu]

I main Meimei on the JP account. I can live with this.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

Hmm. I wonder if my TAMADRApurin light based team could handle Hera-Ur. At least four members of the team are bindproof, and two of them capable of healing...

Just tested the team and I like the synergy. I'm running:



This way I have a solid light foundation, orb changers, and good healing to balance the RCV cut. All three of my major stat sticks are there. Odin and Metatron provide emergency healing. The tamapurins and Odin and Metatron are bindproof, leaving only valk and Suzaku open. Suzaku is there because her active supports all members of the team.

Thoughts?

[The Greatest Dog]

If only Metatron was ult'd to eat water binds for free, I'd say it's plausible. You need an answer to Green Flame Ifrit, though, because he'll eat up your HP before you can hit it 44 times.
Damage -shouldn't- be an issue, I think?

[Mr. Sacchi]

The Carmine Mask has finally dropped.

Which means that all I need now is Ruby Dragons so I can spend all of these goddamned Pengdras.

Next up: Horus

[hyorinryu]

Thanks to supers, Valkyrie is maxed out.

[The Greatest Dog]

six more hours
my stones cannot wait

and I didn't -really- need sleep at 1 a.m.