Puzzles and Dragons

Caliane · Mar 7, 2013

Has anyone noticed this game SIGNIFICANTLY drains the battery on their tablet for some reason? Like my android 7. when playing the game. 6hour tops. It actually will slowly drain the power, if its plugged into the pc via usb even. and even in sleep mode, will drain the battery in a day.
Normal use with the game not installed. 2 days of use before drain, or a good week in sleep mode.

hey, I'm not super well versed in tablet gaming... really just this on a puzzle game.. I don't know of this is a normal thing.

Fazana_sl · Mar 7, 2013

The battery life used to come up a lot on SA, they still recommend on the Android platform to logout to the start screen when you've finished playing or even make sure the task is closed.

It's quite a battery hog on IOS as well, I always logout to the start screen when I've finished playing, if for nothing else it triggers a serverside update so my team will reappear if I've only logged in for 10 seconds to check dungeons or simply refresh my leader for PAL points.

Composter · Mar 7, 2013

Neph_sl said:
I get healer+resist, but what's a zombie team and 6.25?

6.25 is a 2.5x damage leader and helper. They multipy, so each attack is worth 6.25...very fun for huge damage combos. I regularly break 50-100k damage in a single round with my valk team.

Zombie is a resolve team, where you don't die if your hp goes to zero. With Viper, any hit that would kill you from 50% or higher health just reduces you to 1hp. Pair that with a healer who can heal at least 50% on combos, and pretty much the only thing that can kill you are mobs on the same timer or doublestrike.

Cutlery · Mar 7, 2013

I have to force close it on my android phone or it will kill my battery in about 2 hours. It's irritating for sure.

In other news, got my Mermaid evolved into a Siren, which is pretty badass and changing a lot of my options for doing shit. After that though, was kinda feeling pretty meh on the game, grinding something else up to the next evolve. However, got a white ripper from the pal machine this morning, so hey, thanks for the new motivation, P&D!

Intrinsic · Mar 7, 2013

So far this morning has been miserable for Dragon Plants, out of 7 runs think I have 5. Just started leveling Pengdras with the Dragon Fruits and Dragon Seeds.

Thengel · Mar 7, 2013

Same here. 6 runs, 3 plants. More green carbuncles than you can shake a stick at though, and 4 dragon fruit! .....

Composter · Mar 7, 2013

Gungho change drop rates or something? 2 plants in 7 runs. NONE of the final waves dropped a single egg. Previously I thought the final round always dropped something. This combined with the 3 no drop mask runs yesterday has my hackles up. RNG is one thing, but this is turning into a pattern.

Ao- · Mar 7, 2013

Cutlery_sl said:
I have to force close it on my android phone or it will kill my battery in about 2 hours. It's irritating for sure.

In other news, got my Mermaid evolved into a Siren, which is pretty badass and changing a lot of my options for doing shit. After that though, was kinda feeling pretty meh on the game, grinding something else up to the next evolve. However, got a white ripper from the pal machine this morning, so hey, thanks for the new motivation, P&D!

Mine's the other way... I've got so much shit to do, it's sort of hard to keep focused on it.
level and evolve 3 Dragon Knights
level and evolve Red Ripper just below max evolve
level and evolve just evolved blue ripper
finding a green ripper
level venus to next evolution so I can final evolution
final evolution for Hades (black/white, as I don't think black/black is in yet)
level and evolve 2nd mermaid
level and evolve naga
level and evolve Chaos Knight
level secondary rippers (two blue, two black, 1 red)
level 2nd & 3rd poisoners
level golems (sitting on white, black, blue, and red with green "done")
level toy dragons (white done, rest all in 2nd to last form)
level and evolve dual color techs

it's just a ridiculous amount of leveling material, evolution material, and time. And I'm always looking at the special dungeons thinking "I really want to go get that." At least with the sky dragons, I'm not to set on getting them (though the stam/rank and stam/feeder ratio is decent enough that I blow through expert a couple times to buff up the siren).

Green dragon runs so far: 6
10 dragon plants, 3 fruits, 3 flowers , 8 carbuncles, 6 seeds. :|

Fazana_sl · Mar 7, 2013

Composter_sl said:
Gungho change drop rates or something? 2 plants in 7 runs. NONE of the final waves dropped a single egg. Previously I thought the final round always dropped something. This combined with the 3 no drop mask runs yesterday has my hackles up. RNG is one thing, but this is turning into a pattern.

I just got 5 plants from 3 runs although I did notice there were no drops on the final round on 2 of those 3 runs. However we've just come from a period of double daily dungeon drops so I guess anything less than a drop per round is going to seem noticeable.

Df~_sl · Mar 7, 2013

Hope the dude with the psych major gf reads this and can explain why 6.25 teams are more fun to play than healer/resist.... what is it about throwing up big numbers thats more rewarding than surviving big numbers?

Composter · Mar 7, 2013

Df~_sl said:
Hope the dude with the psych major gf reads this and can explain why 6.25 teams are more fun to play than healer/resist.... what is it about throwing up big numbers thats more rewarding than surviving big numbers?

The big attack numbers bounce around on the screen more!

Intrinsic · Mar 7, 2013

Df~_sl said:
Hope the dude with the psych major gf reads this and can explain why 6.25 teams are more fun to play than healer/resist.... what is it about throwing up big numbers thats more rewarding than surviving big numbers?

lol my fianc?? She's a licensed psych that does clinical substance use disorder / PTSD therapy (most of her post-doc and graduate she was research though, just switched to clinical professionally). Will run it by her tonight. As long as I'm not pawning our cat for stones she pretty much just laughs. Her brother and his wife were visiting last weekend and as we were walking out the door to go climb Pinnacle "Mountain" (they're from Denver / Colorado Springs, didn't feel right calling what we have here a Mountain when they've got real ones...) my Succubus finally dropped and I made a loud exclamation of excitement! She was just like, "don't ask.." But then her brother and I got in a long conversation about P&D and his addiction to Galaxy on Fire 2, and how he's spent some cash on microtransactions there. His wife gave him "the look" and is apparently not nearly as understanding as my better half.

*edit: grammar are hard

SorrowsEnd · Mar 7, 2013

Something is fucked with the Thursday dungeon.

No drops at the last stage...

I have changed my goal for dragon plants from 120 today into fuck you.

This needs fixed.

Composter · Mar 7, 2013

9 runs, a first drop on final stage- fruit. FML.

Thengel · Mar 7, 2013

How far has anyone actually progressed the tech dungeons? On the Chinese wiki, I'm seeing evolved pendras dropping in the 3rd tier of dungeons. I'm on the 2nd tier now, and it does have dub-lits and high dragons, which is nice, but they aren't exactly common either.

SorrowsEnd · Mar 7, 2013

Thengel_sl said:
How far has anyone actually progressed the tech dungeons? On the Chinese wiki, I'm seeing evolved pendras dropping in the 3rd tier of dungeons. I'm on the 2nd tier now, and it does have dub-lits and high dragons, which is nice, but they aren't exactly common either.

I've cleared out all of them. We do not get the evolved drops. Just level 4 babies.

Teddite · Mar 7, 2013

12 Thursday Dungeon runs, 4 god damn plants. I've never had a problem like this before. I'm spending more time selling off the junk drops than I am actually running the dungeon.

velk · Mar 7, 2013

Over time I'd say thursday dungeon drops have averaged out to about 1.8 per run for me. I think people are just feeling the pain of not having double drops ;p

The people that talk about the 100+ plants they got are typically feeding a bunch of stones into stamina.

In related news, I evolved kagutsuchi because I am lazy and like quick metal dragon runs, and he is actually a lot better than I thought vs crap like thursday dungeon. The thing I wasn't counting on is that his leader ability has no blocking animation at all - so where sweeping a round with a regular attack goes:
match orbs
animate orbs falling
count up numbers on pets
animate the leader damage buffs
count up more numbers on pets
fire orbs at mobs
bounce up damage numbers on mobs
start moving to next round

A kags kill with off color orbs goes :
match orbs
mobs die and you start moving to next round
orbs fall while moving to next round

If you are quick you can clear the round before it even finishes drawing the creatures in it.

Grimmlokk · Mar 7, 2013

velk_sl said:
In related news, I evolved kagutsuchi because I am lazy and like quick metal dragon runs

I didn't think he'd work on them. Whenever I've used an Enchilada on metal dragons her ability hits for 0.

edit: Also, 2 straight days of purple metal dragons? Horseshit! I need reds damn it.

foddon · Mar 7, 2013

Yeah, it's definitely a nice luxury to have an evolved Kagu. Just match any set of orbs and immediately clear all trash.

Grim, I think hellfire is a step above what echidna has which I guess puts it over the top for metals.

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