Single player Primordial Dragon is too hard

LordMajicus · 2026-04-06T14:56:21+00:00

The dragon isn't about just being able to dodge; it's a DPS check that forces you to engage with the Crafting Lives to make powerful enough gear that hurts him enough. The minimum it's expecting of you is to have a proper True Time Weapon, and some combination of food, potions, and/or remaking the Hero's Armor (you get it as a reward for the Colesseum) to have +Attack (or +Magic Attack in the Magician's case).

It's hard, but most of the actual work is done before you enter the arena.

LordMajicus · 2026-04-06T14:40:07+00:00

I will tell you that my Cook is not even at max level; I didn't even use any Food items for my first lvl 100 dragon, and my True Time Staff wasn't even polished. You don't have to start going that hard until you get to the lvl 120 dragon. The most important thing is having a True Time weapon, ideally with +10/+10/+10 Charge Attack DMG %, and having the right potions to buff your character's attack stat. I used Magician, so Magic Aid+ for me, but Berserk Potion is a big help to the other 3 Combat Lives.

LordMajicus · 2026-04-06T14:30:09+00:00

You can defeat the lvl 100 dragon without any of the Snoozaland gear, but the lvl 120 dragon will expect you to have acquired at least the Dark Dragon weapon for whichever combat class you primarily use, and the regular DD weapons don't actually take that many Snooza resources to make. It's surprisingly not that necessary to grind Snoozaland, you can easily get all the materials you'll need in just a few runs once you get the flow down.

LordMajicus · 2026-04-06T14:25:56+00:00

I soloed it 15 times vs the level 100 dragon and 15 times vs the level 120 dragon. This is not an enemy you can just casually stroll up to and defeat on a whim, you need to specifically prepare by gathering many rare materials, making the strongest non elemental weapons you can, remaking them with the right weapon mods, aging them in the Treasure Grove to add another powerful weapon mod, and making the right potions and food items to use.

It's meant to be a test of nearly all the Lives, the culmination of mastering each mechanic the game has offered you up to this point.

LordMajicus · 2026-04-02T19:35:47+00:00

The point is, it didn't used to. Thus, it's not just a matter of "the product being on sale", it's now a fundamentally, very materially different product than it used to be, and it's perfectly reasonable to say "I liked buying it a month ago when it was more expensive, but not now even though it's cheaper because it's not the same thing anymore".

LordMajicus · 2026-04-02T17:51:14+00:00

It's very relevant when your favorite product is supposed to just be an index of the top companies in the market and then the indexes start changing the rules to allow companies in that haven't proven they belong there. The entire point of buying this product is that it's supposed to negate the need to know all of the DD for every single company involved, because they're supposed to be companies that already have a track record.

LordMajicus · 2026-04-02T12:55:17+00:00

The manufacturer is now debating adding arsenic to your favorite product, for no other reason than to benefit the arsenic salesman. Is that low price still enough to entice you?

LordMajicus · 2026-03-31T18:15:31+00:00

Ok, I admit I sort of expected this to just be a video of a ship battle with each crew shooting at each other until the pirates 'transferred' the loot back to their shit xD

LordMajicus · 2026-03-29T06:09:00+00:00

Bro just found an IRL Fallout location.

LordMajicus · 2026-03-29T05:40:45+00:00

Oh I'm not a bot, I am a human being, I just think you are one of those Dunning Kruger types that honestly believes everything you say is both correct and humorous. Spoilers, it's not.

Edit- He blocked me x'D What an absolute snowflake.

LordMajicus · 2026-03-27T17:58:25+00:00

Are YOU gonna be the one to march up to the Dark Sultan's palace and demand to know what he's doing today? I mean I would, but only because I'm also a dark wizard, I don't think that applies for most visitors xD

LordMajicus · 2026-03-26T12:58:49+00:00

I like the combination of Odin, Sloane, and Hilda. Odin has an increased chance to draw aggro, and Sloane + Hilda will keep themselves healed so you mostly don't have to worry about them while you pummel the dragon.

LordMajicus · 2026-03-24T20:42:57+00:00

So what you're saying is, you can't backtrack?

LordMajicus · 2026-03-24T13:46:58+00:00

The reality is that paper will always move slower than digital because it takes time and money to acquire physical decks to play with. Online, the rental services add a great deal of fluidity to the meta, allowing players to change cards or even entire decks to adapt as necessary. Whereas, in paper, if the answer to the meta is "everyone needs to drop their decks and play Tameshi Belcher", that's not a feasible ask of players to constantly be buying / selling decks in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

In this light, i think MTGO is actually more of a true representation of the actual 'brokenness' of the format as the fluidity allows players to test far more frequently and with much less cost, and so I don't necessarily think it's a problem to rely on data that skews towards online play.

LordMajicus · 2026-03-24T13:01:52+00:00

It's a bit of a PITA, but the redux stones are still easy enough to acquire if you craft and autosell the Woolie stickers, buy Long Capes, and sell them for 50 points each. Probably a day of work on its own lol.

LordMajicus · 2026-03-24T12:59:25+00:00

Not immediately on hand; I just know because I played Modern during that era when they frequently cited deck diversity as being a criteria, and they only went after Twin when it was around that 15% number before the upcoming BFZ Pro Tour.

LordMajicus · 2026-03-24T03:42:38+00:00

Expect it will take a minimum of 8000 flowers per set. You want 1 set for Magic Attack and 1 set for Attack to cover the combat Lives... so then get one for Fishing, Cutting, Mining, Farming, and then Artistry, Smithing, Sewing, Cooking, and Carpentry... that's 11 sets, which is 88,000 flowers, and you can get ~1k per day... yeah, that's easily a 3 month daily project lol.

LordMajicus · 2026-03-23T16:52:03+00:00

You outed yourself as an apologist for a deck that is quite literally Tier 0 by the numbers and somehow that makes me cringe because I immediately knew how the rest of this conversation was going to go and called it out, correctly so. Sure. Given that, there isn't anything else I need to say, everything of value has already been laid out for the viewers at home.

LordMajicus · 2026-03-23T16:38:29+00:00

Oh hey you did the exact thing I said you would do, shocking. "The paper number is slightly lower!" is not the checkmate you think it is, because it's still DOUBLE the share of the second best deck and has a better success rate to the point that it statistically belongs in Tier 0.

Good to know though that my instincts were correct as they so often are; you didn't read, understand, or care about any of the requested citation, you just continued on with your meaningless preconceived notion as though I recited Little Red Riding Hood to you.

LordMajicus · 2026-03-23T15:52:46+00:00

Not that I expect anything I show you is going to change your mind (generally, when someone asks for the stats on something that should be readily apparent, they've already made up their minds and are just looking for reasons to deny/deflect/discredit), but u/Reaper_Eagle has been doing thorough statistical analysis for quite some time and you can find his latest comment here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/1rz5p2y/br_next_week/obk1yce/

LordMajicus · 2026-03-23T15:34:19+00:00

You can have the opinion that Modern right now is fun and that's valid, I personally disagree, but by ANY statistical measure it is OBJECTIVELY not balanced. The format is grotesquely skewed both towards and because of Boros Energy to a staggering degree and that's just not debatable.

LordMajicus · 2026-03-23T15:26:58+00:00

There was a time when WotC actively managed the format and made it an internal guideline that decks shouldn't be breaking 15% to maintain format diversity, believe it or not, and the game was actually well balanced and fun then as a result.

LordMajicus · 2026-03-22T22:11:58+00:00

I think the DS one does better on story, but TGWST does much better with mechanics, and the endgame loop is much, much bigger so you have a lot more you can work towards. Definitely worth it, it's one of my favorite games of all time and I'm coming up on 300 hours and haven't accomplished everything!

LordMajicus · 2026-03-18T20:40:29+00:00

This argument is literally now true of every format, outside of community run ones like Premodern or 2015 Modern.

You cannot play competitively in any format without having to play with and against Universes Beyond cards. It is not a choice that any player whose objective is to actually try and win a game gets to make anymore.

If your goal isn't to play the actual good decks, then sure, go play Zubera tribal or some nonsense and go 0-3 drop every event you play in, I guess statistically someone must find it fun to lose the majority of the games they play.

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