Sorry for the delay!! Here's September! With the new month, comes a new installment of POTM. It works like this:
You find a post you like and you nominate it for Post of the Month. You do this by quoting the post and adding the comment "Post of the Month" or if you think you can't pull it off, simply "POTM". A Mod will move your POTM Reply to this thread. Conversely you can right click on the "Link to Post" at the bottom of each post and Copy Link Location. Then post in this thread with "Post of the Month" (or "POTM" if you think you can), right click in the thread and Paste. You cannot nominate your own post ... I mean c'mon ... that's just really lame ... no matter how cool/funny/clever/poignant you think you were. Each post can only be nominated once. The first person to do so gets the nod. On the 1st of next month (or thereabouts, I mean, we're all working folks here, well most of us) we'll make a Poll with all the nominated threads and everyone here will be invited to vote for their favorite thread. You'll have about a month to vote. So at the end of next month we'll have a winner, or more accurately, two, because the original poster AND the person who nominated them wins. What do you win? Gems of course. The mods will pay the winners.
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So I'm buckling down and stoping myself from going on shopping sprees and so far I've been able to breed an Elysium and I think a Daydream. So now all I need is a Portent, Nightmare, and two Deliriums to finish off my second and pedestal for the dream dragons.
On another note that Noel is just very wordy whenever we find him roaming around the island. I honestly think that the other wizards got tired of old Noel wizardspaing everything, banded together to open the rift and shove him in but miscalculated.
I splurged and bought Dream and Daydream (might use a wish to get Portent later on) then named them Morpheus and Neo. I mean Morpheus seemed appropriate because he's the god of dreams and I wanted something special for my first Dream dragon. And then Neo came to be because I've been binge watching the Matrix trilogy.
*puts on sunglasses*
This is your last chance. After this there is no going back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in DragonVale. And I show you how deep the rift goes.
Assuming I understand them correctly myself (which may be a bit of a stretch), I have a suggestion for how to look at the traits which may make things easier: think of them as Dragon Accessories. It's as if they can now wear necklaces, earrings, bracelets, watches, shoes, etc., though only one item at a time. Once you breed a dragon with a particular accessory AND HATCH IT, it now has that accessory in its "accessory closet" available for it to use. You can sell the particular dragon that was born with the accessory, but the item is still in the closet for other dragons of the same type to wear. You use the Transfiguration Tower to "change outfits."
So, for example, I just bred a Rain with an air trait, hatched it, then sold it. My Dragonarium still shows the Rain dragon as having the air trait in its closet, and if I bred another Rain dragon in the rift that had, say, the water accessory, I could use the tower to switch it to air.
What I don't know yet, since I don't have the tower myself (and maybe someone else can answer this?) is what would happen if I bred a normal Rain in the rift without a trait - could I use the tower to give it an accessory that I already had in the closet? Or do you have to be born into the "accessory club" in order to have access to the closet at all? Clearly you can't bring over plain dragons without a trait into the rift from your normal park, but they can be born there, so what happens then?
At any rate, for all you completionists out there, the goal would now be to collect all the accessories a given dragon type can have so they can be properly dressed for any occasion. If they need a particular outfit for that "special date" (i.e., a trip to the breeding cave when a specific trait is needed), they can stop off in the tower first to make sure they're wearing it. If neither of the parents you're using has access to the accessory in their closet, you can get it from the rift itself, provided that's the accessory it's offering that day (or you pay to switch it). Of course, you can always dress your dragons with a trait for purely aesthetic reasons. But you don't have to keep all these different dragons around just to have access to their bling.
DISCLAIMER: I'm as new to this as everyone else, so if I've said anything obviously wrong here, please do correct me.
This helps me so much! Thank you, thank you!
I'm nominating this post for POTM & for inclusion on the FAQ page at the beginning of this thread.
Fern, the Plant Dragon, says "blurbble blurbble...Someone grab my SCUBA gear, quick!"
😂😂😂 POTM!
This is one of the few things I like about the glitch from the recent update. Today I put in my fire dragon into the colosseum when it looked like it was set up for plant and Rei my fire dragon was burning everything to the ground!!!
I went a bit silly buying Rift habitats :-) I stopped at #20 (5000 E). FYI #21 is 7000 E.
Then, having 2100 E left, and suddenly realising my rift was aligned to Earth, and realising Earth alignment is a prerequisite for Antumbra, and realising I had already used up all my lower E breeding opportunities today (including both 1500 E ones), I said "stuff it" in my best Aussie accent, chucked a Dark Rift + Alpenglow in to breed, and got an Antumbra!
Woot! And potmR contender for OTT spendings for the E stuff 😜
*sigh* - I thought these days were behind me, but apparently there's more step work to do...
Hello, my name is EuroKnuter, and I'm an E3M addict.
I've been rifting for several weeks now. It started innocently enough - I was sure I wouldn't be one of "those" players who check and re-check to see if my air ship is ready, my habitats were ready to collect, my stash nice and full for the next expenditure. I would just keep it social, you know? Casual usage of e. Now, in the last week, I dunno, it's just been so much easier to e. I e when I wake, all during the day I need to e, and then I top off right before bed with e, too. With double e for the next week or so I haven't slowed down any. We're 2 hours into it and I can't stop checking my notifications to watch my e level. And new e dragons. And e traits.
I know this does wonders for my creative side (shh, please don't burst that fantasy right now) - but I also know where this will lead: Picking up random devices around the house looking for e, searching the dark web for postings about e, how to get an easy e score and what strategies to use.
Wish me luck, the e dragon is on my back
POTM!!!!
I know what you mean. It's the first thing I check when I wake up and the last thing before I go to sleep.
Mostly English, some Dragon. I think Google or someone offers an app for translating that now.
(Fair warning: The following was written while slightly delirious due to sleep deprivation and the point may have gotten lost along the way somewhere.)
Step 2 is a fine place to be! The Rift isn't going anywhere, there's plenty of time to get the dragons. A fire-breathing dragonarium is going to be very difficult to get for a bit, but it's the same for all of us. If you're finding it confusing, take a step back and just play around in there, breed for random traits, get more dragons in the Rift. Have a look at what you get and see if you understand why they were what you got. And when you start to get it, take another look at the Rift exclusive dragons and go for the less complex ones first.
Kampos and Plumewing are magic and will probably pop up at some point just by breeding randomly. Antumbra, Ghast and Thunderbird are the nice, intermediate level ones. Normal elemental combos with one slice of Rifty shenanigans each. Lacuna, Viridian and Zaffer are a whole multi-tiered wedding cake of shenanigans and I'd be surprised if more than a few people had actually bred them legitimately at this point. They take time, effort and good RNG, but you get there in stages and we're all working towards them piece by piece.
And hey, if all else fails, you can try your luck to get them in the mystery eggs! So, yeah. You're not alone here. I've been literally drawing diagrams for some of this and despite that some of the best things I've gotten in the Rift have been from just throwing spaghetti at the breeding cave. Metaphorically speaking.
Thank you!!! I've been letting myself get stressed 😩 & frustrated over all of this. I like the rift but it is so complicated and this doesn't come easy so when I read the multiple posts of info that are flying onto the forum pages I feel overwhelmed. Your post reminded me once again to just breath! Don't allow my OCD / perfectionist / I want it yesterday! Nature to make this game a time stealing stressor!! I started this game for the relaxing 😎 escape. I stayed because of the people in this forum and I am going to force myself to relax.
😫Breathe in.....look at the pretty dragons 🐉 😖Breathe out......look at the fun decorations 😣Breathe in....hmmm what will these 2 dragons produce 😟Breathe out.....oh well more E / DC / pedestals 😯Breathe in.....what info does the forum have today 😏Breath out.....YAY!! I'm not alone in this confusion 😅 😊Ahhhhhhh That's better! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 Utterly Rifted is becoming Thoroughly Rested!! Wooohooo New event coming !!!!!! 👻 🎃 Koala all
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I mean Morpheus seemed appropriate because he's the god of dreams and I wanted something special for my first Dream dragon. And then Neo came to be because I've been binge watching the Matrix trilogy.
If they need a particular outfit for that "special date" (i.e., a trip to the breeding cave when a specific trait is needed), they can stop off in the tower first to make sure they're wearing it. If neither of the parents you're using has access to the accessory in their closet, you can get it from the rift itself, provided that's the accessory it's offering that day (or you pay to switch it). Of course, you can always dress your dragons with a trait for purely aesthetic reasons. 
But you don't have to keep all these different dragons around just to have access to their bling.
