Bred a rift Thorn and Darkling just now! Darkling is a beauty while Thorn is sadly pathetic. Meanwhile Thistle, the other riftified dragon I bred, I can say, why not riftify this thistles fully?
Bred a rift Thorn and Darkling just now! Darkling is a beauty while Thorn is sadly pathetic. Meanwhile Thistle, the other riftified dragon I bred, I can say, why not riftify this thistles fully?
You can put 'X' in the plant / water / fire / etc columns and it'll keep track of the counts, and highlights the name of dragons you're still missing. The elements are listed in the last column, colored light green if a hybrid, gold for goldens, and red for opposites.
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You can put 'X' in the plant / water / fire / etc columns and it'll keep track of the counts, and highlights the name of dragons you're still missing. The elements are listed in the last column, colored light green if a hybrid, gold for goldens, and red for opposites.
You can put 'X' in the plant / water / fire / etc columns and it'll keep track of the counts, and highlights the name of dragons you're still missing. The elements are listed in the last column, colored light green if a hybrid, gold for goldens, and red for opposites.
I made a copy and made one change -- I changed the L for light at the top of the column to I so when I see I in the Element list of a dragon it can help me remember that is "Light"
I still haven't got a Darkling in the rift after 2 days of trying. Are you sure that dark rift + wraith will eventually produce a Darkling?
And Thorn = plant rift + spore?
Yes those are the pairings I used the first day of breeding and got both dragons. 😊
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Okay, so, a page ago I advised care when mixing elements if you're targeting a specific Rift dragon. There's one thing I need to clarify though: This does NOT apply to the new Golden hybrids.
I strongly believe that adding elements to your breeding combo does not substantially affect your chances of getting a specific Rare or Epic dragon, unless you add like 7 of them and overload the combo. As the Goldens (and the opposites, this applies to them too) are Rare quality, you should be able to double up for them as much as you like.
The rest of this post comprises the reasons why I believe this, spoiler tagged because they're not particularly interesting.
{Spoiler}Right, so, I believe this is the case now because it seemed to be in the past and I can't think of any reason why it would have changed over the last few years, breeding hasn't changed in any manner that would be relevant to the old data.
This is a testing thread from this forum a couple of years ago. It contains a spreadsheet with data from a lot of breeding results. The ones I find interesting in this case is the Firework dragon incidence, from Air and Fire as well as from Butterfly and Bouquet. The first is a two element combo with two common hybrids, the latter a five element combo with eighteen. Both combos give on the order of 140 Fireworks over the course of 1000 attempts. I believe that were Rare dragons to decrease in result rate as the number of results increases, there would be noticeably fewer Firework dragons from the five element combo.
This would be the case regardless of whether the Rare breeding rate decreased either with the total number of results or the number of Rare results in the combo. My conclusion is that that neither factor affects the chances of getting a rare dragon as a result, and the net chance of getting a common hybrid must decrease instead to accommodate this. I suspect that this will hold at least until the point where the cumulative breeding chances exceed a certain threshold where the Rare chances then have to begin adjusting also.
This can be seen if you consider the Ovalith dragon combo, with seven elements, and the number of rare results available from it. Evidence (from my own breeding) shows that it not only possible to get common hybrids from it but reasonably common; were the total chances to get a rare dragon not capped at some non-100% number this would not be the case.
The golden hybrids appear to behave identically to the other rare dragons in breeding, so I believe the Firework example to be relevant to this current state, provided that there has been no large mechanical changes to breeding dragons that has occurred since the data was gathered. As it was after cloning stopped being guaranteed, I can't think of anything. Can you?
Bred a rift Thorn and Darkling just now! Darkling is a beauty while Thorn is sadly pathetic. Meanwhile Thistle, the other riftified dragon I bred, I can say, why not riftify this thistles fully?
Combos?
All three were bred with the same over Lvl 16 combo. Spore and Voltaic.
I still haven't got a Darkling in the rift after 2 days of trying. Are you sure that dark rift + wraith will eventually produce a Darkling?
And Thorn = plant rift + spore?
Well, you have a friend in the Darklingless and thornless realm. No luck for me either and I have been trying those, then slightly different pairings with no luck.
Though, I did have luck in that I managed to get a rift Snapper and Dandelion...have no idea what combo out of the thousands (I exaggerate...slightly) I was trying.
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All I've managed to get was quicksand, Bramble, and frostbite (but the frostbite was from mystery eggs). I've bred several combos, each day up to 5,000 E3M, and bought a variety of regular and blue mystery eggs. Not much luck. And just dark rift + lightning rift gave me every other option EXCEPT for darkling so far, which is particularly frustrating. But I know it'll take patience and I'll get them when I get them.
Quicksand and Bramble were from harvest + mirage, in case anyone wanted to know.
I don't mind it either but I hate how it ruins the flow of my dark pedestal line.
OR does it add detail and interest? a needed sense of bespoke exceptionality? have i been watching too much grand designs?
Not sure about detail and interest but it sure does glaringly standout. And mostly because every time I see it my inner mean girls kicks in and I shout you don't even go here. The same way I shout to the bramble pedestal.
Main park GCID: purple-jale Lost baby park Working on my seconds and pedestals.
Ok, please someone tell me.....do we need a pedestal of each rift dragon???
Need?? Like another hole in the head, maybe but no you don't need them. But are you a perfectionist or collector?? Then maybe you do. There is the benefit that when making it a pedestal you keep the trait if you don't have said trait yet. They sure are neat with the shimmering they do but in some you can hardly tell unless you really zoom in.
Right now I have 3 sets of pedestals going. Regular, twins, and rifties. But the more I add the more I'm thinking of just keeping one set and getting rid of the rest. Mostly because of the amount of space the 3 sets will take.
Main park GCID: purple-jale Lost baby park Working on my seconds and pedestals.
Ok, please someone tell me.....do we need a pedestal of each rift dragon???
Need?? Like another hole in the head, maybe but no you don't need them. But are you a perfectionist or collector?? Then maybe you do. There is the benefit that when making it a pedestal you keep the trait if you don't have said trait yet. They sure are neat with the shimmering they do but in some you can hardly tell unless you really zoom in.
Right now I have 3 sets of pedestals going. Regular, twins, and rifties. But the more I add the more I'm thinking of just keeping one set and getting rid of the rest. Mostly because of the amount of space the 3 sets will take.
This is what I was thinking. Im not doing twins. Rifts, I’m not going to obsess over or I’ll go crazy. It confuses me how to tell if you already have a rift pedestal when you breed a dragon because it will always say 1 pedestal and 2 if you have a twin. My head is spinning lol
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