Anyone else think that THE EPIC BREEDING CAVE HAS RUINED THIS GAME THAT WAS SO CHALLENGINGLY FUN!! I mean, the whole thing to the game was that there are certain dragons that aren`t easily breedable, and the challenge and reward of breeding them successfully. Now, in a trade off of a blatant cash grab (most users must buy gems to get) for taking away the entire challenge, fun, reward of the game, you can get all the previously tough dragons with ease, taking away the whole point of the game for $$$. I hadn`t spent gems in a really long time so I just saved up to the 125 needed and bought the EBC, 1st breed, Sandstorm, 2nd breed, 48 hour breeding time. SO STUPID And for all those posting their excitement over getting `rare`dragons in the EBC, I say sthecku, it`s nothing special now and didn`t take any effort or labor, and for those who weren`t around playing before the EBC, you missed out on what this game was all about.
We I think you may just be getting particularly lucky. As I said before I'm running even between both breeding areas when it comes to epics. And with both cave and island breeding air and mud at the same time it still took me almost two weeks of constant breeding to get sandstorm. So I think it still requires a certain amount of luck. However just having twice as many breeding areas doubles your chances of getting any particular dragon.
Here is my experience with Dragonvale! I've been playing for about 3 months now. I'm Level 22, my park value fluctuates in and around the $43 million range. I have 1 sun dragon that I got in the normal breeding cave with blue fire/crystal. I now have another 48 hour timer on my EBC with cold/lightning I got the blue fire with Fire/Ice I got the Reindeer with Cold/Willow I got the sandstorm with Air/Mud If this 48 hour Cold/Lightning combo gives me another Sun I'm going to switch it up to Firefly/Seaweed since that has given many people Rainbows. Since Ive been breeding Cold/Lightning for a few days straight now I've accumulated a bunch of Storm dragons (5 hours). My biggest problem is making money, I make a good chunk of it from my cold/earth habitats but it's not enough to support the amount of dragons I need to feed to get 50/50 on all my statues. Does anyone have a solid set of dragons to breed to accumulate money quick? It's got to be some kind of air hybrid because they make 500k-1m
I have to say my epic island wasn't so epic so I don't feel I missed out on any challenges having it. I've been playing the game since its inception which is over four months or so. Worked my a$$ off trying for all the rare dragons. Spent hours and hours of frustration. The epic island did give me a moon but that's it. And that was after a few days of fails. It only happened when I switched to a new dragon so I think it would have happened in either cave. The only advantage I find is the double breeding. Feel free to disagree. On a different note, after two weeks my daughter finally got a reindeer! Bred a cold and new swamp. She's going to be thrilled when she comes home and sees the egg. She was kind of losing hope at this point.
Unlocking shrines Has anyone unlocked and completed all the shrines yet? Does anyone know what unlocking them all does? I have unlocked the plant shrine and got most of plant mix dragons up to lvl15, just wondering whats lies in wait when we get all dragons to lvl 15!
Has anyone a nice decoration for 1 air 1 plant 2 fire a colosseum and a water habitat on 1 island ? Looking for something like that
when you get 50 dragons on your bronze statue it turns silver and allows you to level up your dragons of that element to level 15. Once you've got all your dragons to level 15 and all your statues to silver I believe they all turn gold. I'm sure it was answered earlier in this thread. There was a member that did a complete review of the breeding and money times involved in accomplishing this feat.
This guide will teach you everything you need to know about dragon shrines in DragonVale, It'll also show you the fastest way to activate ALL statues, saving you almost HALF the time it'd take otherwise. And also saving you millions of dragonvale dollars.AND possibly even save your hand from carpal tunnel syndrome from tapping "feed" a million times on 7 different dragon elements, instead, you only need to breed 4 different dragons to unlock ALL statues, saving you lots of tapping, heaps of time (DAYS) , and money (MILLIONS) , your hand will thank you ! & then you can use your hand for more important things! NOTE- If your relatively new to dragon shrines, please read entire article, if you already have experience with dragon shrines and already know the basic ins & outs, just read the bolded paragraphs, ( if you dont want to read a wall of text of information you already know.) ACTIVATING A DRAGON SHRINE To activate a dragon shrine, you need to have had 50 dragons of that element to have reached level 10 at some point of time, you don't need to have all 50 dragons at once, and if you had leveled up a dragon a while ago, even before dragon shrines came out, it still counts it. Leveling up, then deleting the dragon right away is the easiest way to accumulate the 50, and allows you to keep all your habitats and dragons. A plant shrine needs 50 dragons with the plant element to be leveled to level 10, it doesn't have to be plant element alone, it can be a poison dragon (plant/fire) or whichever other element combination you'd like. NOTE: Previous dragons are also included in that total, even if you levelled up those dragons before you bought the shrine. The average level 20 user will probably have approximately 10 dragons from each shrine already done from previous breeding and leveling up. Most of mine started out as 10/50, but some were lower, such as cold dragon, only had 6. You can check the dragon tally by clicking on the statue and clicking the "?" icon. All statues start of as bronze, then when you activate a statue it'll turn silver, and it'll allow you to level up that particular breed to level 15. (it takes alot of food so i suggest activating all the statues first by feeding 50 of each elements to level 10) then when that's done you can leisurely start upgrading all your dragons to level 15. Once you activate a statue, and you feed a dragon past level 10, (even just one food bite) your dragon in question will then have a colored orb above it's head,the color corresponds to the element of the dragon and shrine (plant is green, fire is red, etc) There are 7 shrines to unlock in total, which are- Fire, Plant, Earth, cold, lightning, water, air. In that order. The first 3 are unlocked at level 20, then cold is unlocked at 21, lightning at 22, then lastly, water and air by level 25. All statues are bronze to begin, then silver after singular activation, then gold once all statues have been activated and all dragons in your park are level 15. (will not spoil what happens next) The quickest, cheapest and least food consuming way to activate all shrines are by leveling up these 4 dragons, instead of individually leveling up all 7 individually. Poison - fire/plant - 30 mins Sandstorm- wind/earth- 2 hours Water- alone/egg- 4 hours Storm - Lightning/cold = 5 hours Time it'll take to breed all 50 dragons: Note- this process can be sped up with gems, & this guide is for 50 dragons, the requirement, though many of you won't need 50 as like I said earlier, you'll probably already have about 10 dragons already completed, so youll probably only need to do about 40, it can be shorter then these times so don't get turned off at the hard work and patience it will take! It's worth it in the end! It'll take an even shorter amount of time If you own the "epic breeding cave" & can have 2 lots of dragons breeding at the same time, I'll abbreviate "epic breeding cave" to EBC below. Times Storm-250 hours -10 days or 5 days EBC Poison- 25 hours -1 day or 12.5 hours EBC Sandstorm 100 hours 4 days or 2 EBC Water-200 hours-8 days-4 days EBC TOTAL for all dragons= 23 days, or 11.5 days with the epic breeding cave. If you have 10 dragons of each element already made beforehand, like I had, the time will be reduced by 100 hours, or approximately 4 days Which will then bring the total to: 19 days or 7.5 (with EBC) If you bred all the dragon elements Individually it'd take: = 42 days or 21 days with the epic breeding cave. So you will be saving HEAPS of time! 19 days to be exact! DRAGON TREATS you will need alot of food to do this.. It takes Approx 10k food per dragon to level it to level 10 I prefer buying "Beanstalk" treats, which is 100,000 treats for 5 million dollars. Its the quickest way, It only takes 1 hour to make 900,000 treats. But it'll cost ya! (45 million to be exact!) You will need 2 million treats to level up all 50 of each dragons I mentioned earlier (storm,poison,sandstorm,water) Which will only take 2 hours to make if you select "beanstalk" in each of your 9 treatfarms, harvest, and repeat once. You won't exactly have 2 million treats, you will have a few hundred thousand less but that most likely won't matter because again, you probably already have leveled up some dragons in the past, so you probably won't need to level up 50 of each dragon with treats, probably more like 40ish. And if you don't have 10 already complete you can always make more later TOTAL TREATS COST-$90 million (for ALL the treats) You don't have to buy them all at once, just make food as you can afford it, if you want to do it fast like me, you'll buy beanstalks for 5 million, but of course you COULD do it the tediously slower by cheaper way too,(by making pumpkin treats instead or whatever) but that would take many many hours, each to their own though! If you don't have the money maybe you should breed a bunch of air dragons and keep selling them for profit, I'd personally rather do that then spend multiple days/weeks on end making food the cheap way (5 minute treats ) Even though the treats sound like ALOT of money, you still save ALOT of money doing it this way. if you did each of the elements individually- it would have set you back 3.5 million treats, which would cost around 175 million dollars **shudder** Your saving 1.5 million food Which amounts to a $85 million dollar saving. (if you were to compare it with the amounts if you were to breed each elemental dragon individually instead of doubling up in the time-saving way I mentioned) The time reduction is the most lucrative thing in this guide in my opinion! I'm SO impatient, that's what drove me to work out the quickest combinations of dragons in the first place, and after I had already written it all up, I thought i may as well share it, though it turned into alot more text then I originally thought it would! EXTRA Please remember you DO NOT need to have every statue to do this, it doesn't matter if you have bought the statue or even unlocked the statue yet, either way the dragons you level to 10 are still accounted for no matter what[\B] if you don't believe me, level up a plant dragon to level 10 before you buy the plant shrine, then buy the plant shrine and click the "?" on the shrine and it'll say at least 1/50, probably more, since most people would have leveled up quite a few dragons to adulthood even before this update came out! Even if you deleted that dragon, even if it was months ago IT STILL COUNTS ON THE TALLY Which means, if you really wanted to, you can start working your way through your 50 dragons of each element very early on, possibly even if your only level 1, but I doubt anyone would be interested in shrines already at level 1 anyway, I'm just making a point! You don't need to have unlocked shrines yet to start working to activate them, you could level up 50 plant dragons at level 10, then by the time your level 20 and you unlock the shrines, and build the shrines, then your shrines would be immediately activated! That would be nice! It'd be nice to have leisurely worked at this for months leading up, rather then to desperately try to do it as fast as you can now, it gets tedious, I wish I had leveled up all those failed eggs now! NOTE: don't ever just sell eggs straight of the nursery, even if your only level 16, place them in a habitat, level them to level 10, it'll save you a lot of heart ache later, trust me! It'll make it easier in the long run! (but only level them up if they contain one or more of the statue elements, plant, fire,earth,water,air,lightning, cold) That way you'll have less eggs to have to breed later on Try to Breed two of each of the dragons I listed (Poison, storm, sandstorm) not water dragons as you can just buy the egg directly, but try to get 2 poisons, sandstorms, storms to avoid failure dragons, making it as quick as possible! Especially if your not ready for shrines yet, it would be good to just be prepared early on so you know not to sell a failure storm dragon as it can do you good later on. To level up from level 10 - 15 it takes#317,440 dragon treats Which costs approx 15 million, if your using beanstalk treats In total, leveling a dragon from 1 to 15 takes 330,000 dragon treats. Fun fact- once you activate all 7 shrines, you can raise 30 different dragon breeds to level 15, If you wanted a dragon of each element to be leveled to complete adulthood, it'd take almost 1 billion treats, (9990000 to be precise) which would cost 500 million dragonvale dollars bonus tip: Easiest way to get a reindeer is to breed bluefire and plant, the only failures are 30 minute poison, or a 1 hour flower, and if you get a failure poison keep it anyway, as you'll need it for shrines Bonus tip #2 - the easiest way to get bluefire is to breed reindeer with a fire
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So all you get from spending every minute breeding, feeding and levelling up dragons is that they all reach lvl15! I was hoping it would be something rewarding like a fourth island! Thanks for the amazing guide though!
Got 4 crystals in a row there trying for a moon, gave up on the second Sandstorm,, and you're the ONLY one not [censored] at the fact that the epic cave is a complete waste. You got lucky, be happy. The consensus is that it's benefits aren't noticeable. F.
Important tips: Bloody sandstorms might make a breeding pair difficult ( I gave up on getting a second one after maybe a week of trying) The Air shrine only counts the level 10s you currently have at activation, so air hybrids are a waste until you have that shrine. So expect you won't be able to pull it off as described . F.
thanks for digging that up Jornpod! in 7 hours i'll learn which rare my cold/lightning has produced. Right now i'm gathering resources aka breeding airs and selling the eggs every 2 hours for 500k. I'm so broke! Then once my EBC is done with cold/lightning i'm going to do air on both breeding caves to stack money all day. tomorrow I'm going to go back to cold/lightning on one and firefly/seaweed on the other, hoping for a rainbow!
Wow, that's a pretty full on opinion you have there. I, for one completely disagree with a few of your comments. Even with the epic breeding cave, I STILL haven't been able to get sandstorm, or sun and many regular posters know how hard and for how many months I have been trying continually for these! So, if or when it happens.....I WILL be one of those "posting my excitement over getting both the 'rare' and not so rare dragons, and I won't be shutting the heck up about it. I also saved my gems and brought the epic cave, but unlike yourself, not so lucky, so please consider where others are at before you start dictating what we should or shouldn't be saying
