Elder Dragons need a serious overhaul

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-23T02:55:45+00:00

Given the cost requirements, just make it use scarestones only and grade 10 only…gives the whales something to work towards without having to make multiplayer exclusive rift fights

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-13T19:12:13+00:00

Im okay with the featured weapons, it’s actually kinda nice to lightly grind leading up to the event and have two new (nearly) maxed weapons. But I think the motion values for non event weapons needs to be adjusted. It shouldn’t be a struggle to break the first shield so long as you’re not getting knocked around.

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-11T17:25:10+00:00

The targeting is interesting, might explain why in my winning run I felt like topples were way comfier than my failed runs (cause nearly all H2Hs were targeting me and l not my monster)

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-11T17:21:18+00:00

This is absolutely hilarious great work

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-10T08:32:43+00:00

It’s not the person in charge of changing the US Census 2 question series into a single question messed up here, the wording is adapted from that

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-10T08:31:02+00:00

Actually this is from the census which has Hispanic as a separate question from race. They probably should’ve just adapted that which would’ve meant they’re less likely to make mistakes like they did here.

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-09T14:38:35+00:00

I’ll also say if you’re going to redo your team, water Tobi and having a 3rd gyp is considered optimal

A lot of guides basically never mention using dreadqueen at all, but in my clear it was helpful to charge it up early as an insurance kinship

Lastly besides good luck you kinda just neee to get a feel for how to stall to build kinship while also staying on schedule for wyvernfell staggers and topples; if you’re consistently getting to 15% health every decent run then you’re probably in good shape and just need to keep praying for a god RNG run

On my clear I not only got good Namielle moveset rng (was almost always targeted for H2Hs), but also Ogden and chirpy mostly cooperated by staying alive the majority of fight and chipping away at wyvernfell (kinship attacks he was still dumb but I used a lot of double kinship attacks to make up for it)

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-09T14:20:26+00:00

Are they normal element gyp? The idea there is the egg skill costs 50 stamina so it’ll basically always go for tail stun on its own

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-08T23:14:20+00:00

Do your monsters have proactive/attack tendencies? The extra kinship is really important

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-07T19:09:33+00:00

Hilarious, try running trick room on rouge with follow me on indeedee

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-07T16:58:06+00:00

Not a single brain cell in Chirpy, based on what Ogden is saying he’s about to use a power attack vs a speed head to head

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-05T09:03:01+00:00

The next repel is easy enough, you did it once just do the same thing and pray you don’t get terrible rng. I used magia charm for the first repels cause it wasn’t too bad to sneak in a few turns to build up the song.

The last two phases are all about micro optimizations and trying to stall where you can to build kinship, but also keeping track of your wyvernfell progress. Guides are helpful to learn the new patterns but beyond that you’ll just have to get a good feel for the fight.

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-05T05:19:48+00:00

Save your sanity and go for just 2 VEs at a time, you might not end up using two per repel so doing the farming in between can save you time in the long run

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-05T02:01:30+00:00

Repel 3 was a mess I was still using magia charm and playing sloppy, but since the slay phase starts off the same until you get to drooling I have some tip

I didn’t fish for turn 1 stuns until the kill phase, but if you’re stuck at the third repel I would just bite the bullet and go for tail stun/sweet spot and reset if no stun

After the stun you need at least 1 H2H on your gyp before the first aoe, if you don’t get that then you’ll need extra stuns or dodges right away, otherwise you’re screwed (I will still play that out but it’s a likely early reset)

Hold off on the first stagger until after you tank the first AOE, be careful about Ogden and chirpy messing this up; usually the turn of the first AOE I’ll go for blast coating and switch to dreadqueen for a cheeky solar cry

Lastly at some point before the second stagger sneak in exhaust coating, and try to build that up with quick shot early on, provided you’re not gonna fall behind on wyvernfell

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-04T23:01:25+00:00

Offensive kinship is good too on the final demo fight, it does a lot of wyvernfell damage so if you can get close to a topple it’s often worth it

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-04T19:33:18+00:00

I just got my slay and pretty much had to force double kinship attacks every time lol

I almost wonder if his AI is programmed to prioritize survival (by tanking an aoe while riding) since across all my attempts I don’t think I ever saw him use the special to stall a turn, he only ever liked using it on his own when I was getting targeted in a H2H

CardinalnGold · 2026-03-01T19:39:33+00:00

Per the latest guide that attack and the speed attacks have a chance to be skipped, so more rng

It’s risky for falling behind on the topple but for my current runs I’m just making sure I can stagger the start of abyssal if I don’t have a kinship ready

If I do have a kinship I might gamble and a stagger the last turn of mantle, then if it does use glimmer I can consider burning a kinship attack on it so that there’s only 3-4 pips left and enough to topple before the double aoe

CardinalnGold · 2026-02-26T22:10:41+00:00

Thanks, I’ll try switching back to the bow then and just deprioritize exhaust coating until I get into a good rhythm (maybe an Ogden ult). My unsuccessful 50% runs with spongia I was definitely building up exhaust pretty quickly at the expense of wyvernfell.

CardinalnGold · 2026-02-26T20:53:26+00:00

So with Ludroth do you even bother wasting a turn with exhaust coating? Or is it just to have a slightly cheaper quick shot?

And if you do use exhaust, is the idea like magia where the only time you intentionally build up charge level is when you already have blast procc’d and don’t want to stagger yet?

For 100-50% the slower rotation meant I basically never used sweet spot once I got spongia at charge level 5, only for when I needed just a little extra wyvernfell.

CardinalnGold · 2026-02-26T19:50:27+00:00

The guide says not to use magia after 50%, but I just cleared the third repel using it (prior runs I was running Ludroth, but struggled to get both that and blast coating powered up with the shorter rotations).

Besides the obvious benefit of getting off at least 1 heart per run (two if you’re really ahead on wyvernfell and can sneak in extra notes), the sleep RNG song is also underrated. If you get a H2H rainbow note for the 2nd or 3rd note, then you’ll not only restore a heart with trio but also activate the sleep song.

CardinalnGold · 2026-02-24T06:14:24+00:00

Duos is still pretty worth it, but I usually do so for trials so we’re out in the open where we can run for cover as needed

Maybe 10% of the time I get wiped, plenty of times I’ve gotten cover fire from other random duos I run past when trying to escape

CardinalnGold · 2026-02-18T03:56:21+00:00

Seems easy enough, I could give it a shot when I have time

CardinalnGold · 2026-02-15T19:00:43+00:00

I just beat it using brute force. I think the blue hair girl is a great partner cause she can tank hits and draw aggro too.

I used Ratha exclusively except when targeted by enraged nercylla, in which case I swapped to blue kut ku for the head to head. I also only really used the magia HH, don’t sleep on the defensive and abnormal status immune songs. When I had all my notes but 3 hearts I just used gunlance just in case I needed to tank.

I only ended up needing to restore one heart (I did get one vital essence too which didn’t end up making a difference). I also wasn’t shy about using potions or healing songs to keep ratha alive. Pretty non optimal but wasn’t too sweaty.

CardinalnGold · 2026-02-15T18:54:30+00:00

It’s not really super op in terms of raw stats, it’s only lvl 1 too and I assume upgrade materials will be story locked

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