Awoken Artemis vs G/D Artemis: A Comparison and Analysis

April 11, 2016 Mantastic 17 Comments

GungHo is slowly releasing monsters with multiple evolution paths that fulfil different roles and purposes. This is also making it harder to choose the best fit for your team and is somewhat encouraging you to keep duplicate monsters. With the release of Awoken Artemis , we are once again presented with two viable evolution paths and I wish to weigh the pros and cons of each to help you choose which Artemis is best for you.

	AWOKEN Artemis	G/D Artemis
Type	Attacker / Devil	God / Attacker
Stats	814.00 Total 2540/1965/501	735.33 Total 3040/1705/271
Active	+ wood skyfall for 2 turns 8 turn CD	8 turn CD
Leader Skill	2x HP & ATK for Wood Att. 2x ATK when matching WT & WD	2x HP & ATK for Wood monsters
Confusing artwork?	Yes	No
Awakenings
Fits on which teams?	+ Freyja Astaroth Spica Awoken Bastet Verdandi Awoken MeiMei	+ Sylvie Perseus

At a quick glance, it would seem that Awoken Artemis is superior in most aspects. This is true for the most part as she comes with a superior active, base stats, leader skill, and artwork (although I still struggle to tell what exactly is happening). However, the skyfall buff does compete with Australis’s active (and Vishnu ) as the two will override each other and thus diminishing their potency. You may also feel hesitant to use any of their actives as you would have not fully benefited from the entire skyfall duration. Continue reading Awoken Artemis vs G/D Artemis: A Comparison and Analysis →

+ Eggs

Efficient Plus Egg Feeding Strategies

April 7, 2016 Mantastic 22 Comments

10x plus eggs in Descends is in full swing and with the advent of 1.5x drop rate Tengu-30 stamina from the coin dungeon, players of all skill levels should be rolling in the pluses. However, you may find yourself running short on in game gold as plus egg feeding can become a costly affair. As such, I wish to show you my method for minimizing the coin cost as you are already overburdened by the cost of entering coin dungeons.

Sort your plus eggs

Firstly, you need to organize your plus eggs and thankfully, GungHo has implemented a means to sort your pluses by HP, ATK, and RCV. You have to go into Chng Ordr-> Special -> choose:

Form +6’s of the same type

From here, you can see all of your pluses sorted by HP, ATK, and RCV Continue reading Efficient Plus Egg Feeding Strategies →

Ranking Dungeons

My Crowning Achievement?

April 5, 2016 Mantastic 4 Comments

So I said I was going to wait till the weekend before retrying the ranking dungeon in my previous results POST, but patience is a virtue I may or may not posses. I spent some time theory crafting my run and where was the optimal place to use my actives. I also realized I could utilize dark TPA on every floor except Neptune (8) and Athena (10) as a means to conserve dark orbs. Of course I had to move VERY fast while avoiding heart matches except for the first floor and once between floor 2-6.

Durga on floor 1 and 10
Claire on floor 3 and 8
Lilith on floor 4 for the PreDRAs
Persephone on floor 10 for guaranteed 2 rows to hit damage cap

For the first blind attack, I revealed 2/3 of the board and made a TPA match, then revealed the remaining portion on the next floor. Floor 9 I revealed the entire board so I could see where my 5 combos and 2 rows could be placed.

I am quite happy with this result as there are most likely very few non-Shiva Dragon teams in the top 1%. This should safely secure a top 1% placement as the cut off for 1% was ~98.5k (at time of posting) which is over 4,000 points lower than my score.

Hopefully this ranking dungeon allows you to hit a new personal best.

Happy Puzzling!

Ranking Dungeons

Athena Ranking Tournament Top 10% Scores

April 5, 2016 Mantastic 3 Comments

GungHo has kicked things into overdrive by overlapping Athena Tournament, Bleach Collab, and 10x Plus Eggs in Descends. Even with 480 natural stamina every day, it may feel overwhelming as there is so much to play! With that being said, I only spent a few runs in Athena Tournament to ensure my top 10% placement. Perhaps there will be some movement as more people participate, but I am confident my place will be secured. For full reading of my initial strategies in a previous posting, please click HERE.

Due to no restrictions for Athena, I decided to mirror my success I had in the Izanami Tournament by using Dark Metatron for Mantastic. It only took a few attempts to safely secure my top 10% and I am on the verge of 1%.

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+ Eggs, Videos

[Video] Plus Egg Farming with 30 Stamina Tengu Descended on 1.5x Drops

April 5, 2016 Mantastic 14 Comments

With the advent of 1.5x drop rates influencing coin dungeons overlapping 10x plus egg drop rates in descends, we are given a new (and highly lucrative) opportunity to farm plus eggs. The 30 stamina Tengu Descended from the coin dungeon tab is now one of the more viable places to farm plus eggs. In fact, it is the most efficient place to farm in terms of stamina/plus egg (7.03 stamina/+ or 4.27 pluses per completed run) and only loses value due to granting very low rank experience.

Descend	Floors	Average +’s	Stamina/+	Exp/Stamina
Tengu 30 Sta.	5	4.27 (3-5)	7.03	212

Full breakdown of all the descends can be found HERE. However, Tengu is incredibly easy to clear for players of all skill and progression levels along with having the opportunity to be push-button farmed. Clearing the dungeon faster does not yield more pluses, it simply lessens the mental capacity required and eases your sanity. Below is a video of my pseudo push-button team:

My team has just enough skill boosts to allow me to use Red Odin on turn 2 as the auto kill from Awoken Ra and Lu Bu do not reduce the cooldowns of my other team members. Yamato is purely used for the 3 skill boost awakenings. Your team can differ and you do not need to push button every floor, it just simply saves a couple of seconds here and there.

Full mathematical breakdown of Tengu’s efficacy was compiled by Michael Yano, Jeffrey Lee and An Do:

Best of luck in your plus egg endeavours.

Happy Puzzling!

+ Eggs

10x Plus Egg Descend Chart and Strategies

April 3, 2016 Mantastic 26 Comments

With another round of 10x descends coming up, it is worth planning ahead on which dungeons to repeatedly farm. You should have 100% success rate in clearing the descend as any failed run will set you back and make even the most efficient dungeon unideal. Everyone has different goals in terms of number of plus eggs they wish to farm along with the number of stones used to refill stamina and the chart prepared below should help you plan out your next event. Please read my Plus Egg Fusing Guide for more information on how to quickly form +297s with minimal gold usage and thinking.

The chart assumes the highest level of difficulty and on regular 1x drop rates. Number of pluses increase with enhanced drop rates. This also applies to coin dungeons and these become the best to play with 1.5x or 2x drop rate as you are more likely to hit the higher number of pluses per run.

**Do note that the 30 stamina of Tengu from coin dungeons on 1.5x drop rates is amazingly efficient and has a follow up post HERE to better discuss it.**

Star Den	5	5	10	172
Descend	Floors	Average +’s	Stamina/+	Exp/Stamina
Tengu 30 Sta**	5	4.27 (3-5)	7.03	212
Kanetsugu	7	6 (5-7)	8.33	571
Hera-Sowilo	10	5.5 (4-9)	9.09	591
Deus Ex	7	5 (2-7)	10	753
Aamir	8	5 (5-8)	10	313
Tengu	5	4.5 (4-5)	11.11	193
GYP	6	4.5 (4-6)	11.11	332
Zhang Fei	6	4.5 (4-5)	11.11	414
Hel	6	4.5 (4-5)	11.11	480
Grimoire	7	4 (4-5)	12.5	378
Zhao Yun	6	4	12.5	266
Zeus Mercury	10	4 (4-7)	12.5	685
PAD Z	6	4 (3-6)	12.5	413
Goemon*	5	4	12.5	193
Zeus*	5	4	12.5	202
Valkyrie*	5	4	12.5	125

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Ranking Dungeons

Athena Ranking Dungeon Strategies and Planning

April 2, 2016 Mantastic 6 Comments

Athena Tournament is the next instalment in the ranking dungeon series and offers players a chance to farm 10,000 MP and various coloured py. The goal of these tournaments is to test player’s skill by imposing a scoring system to determine your percentile ranking.

In these ranking dungeons, we are scored based on 3 criteria:

Average combos made: 5,000 points per combo
Time Remaining: 500 points per second remaining
Maximum damage: up to 10,000 points if you hit 40 million.

Dungeon overview

Floor	monster	hp / Defence	comments
1	x3	76,350	Random colour spawns of same HP
2		357,358 215,025	1,497 preemptive Blind attack preemptive
3		565,673 580,923
4	x2	45 / 10,000,000	10 million defence means you must bring a poison or true damage monster
5		1,608,819	4 combo shield. FIre teams may wish to bring a wood sub for this floor.
6		31,618 32,635 35,685	Possible floor to poison/true damage or kill via sub colours due to very low health
7		820,415	9,172 preemptive
8		280,544 / 188,889	188,889 defence along with half damage from light and dark monsters greatly favours wood teams.
9		772,137	Blind attack preemptive
10		2,226,875	5 combo shield. God typing means your god killer awakening monsters will shine

Dungeon summary

10 floors favour speed oriented teams (aka less combos)
With 10 floors you can use certain actives multiple times
No restrictions opens up team compositions that were not allowed before (aka Dark Metatron )
Wood based teams have a significantly easier time on floor 5 & 8
Fire based teams may wish to bring a single wood sub for floor 5 & 8
Dark teams have a favourable place to pad their damage on floor 9 & 10
Floor 4 requires poison or true damage to bypass the . However, with 10 floors, our overall scores will be lower (due to more time elapsed) and true damage -5,000 penalty will be more detrimental.
- (Active skill CD) – (3) = awakenings to be ready in time. Eg. 10 turn CD requires 7 awakenings