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Oh yes. But even so, $1 per cookie isn't bad since they increased it to 9 days from 7. Same here, I'm not willing to use the lab ray on my peophin. Peophin morphing potions are pretty pricey still, and I like his customization and such. Plus my Freezer is species specific, if he changed species, I would need to get a new freezer. Anyway, as far as training goes. You could try for the boosts if you want, though your HP would be kind of low still then. Though, if you did Kitchen Quests, you might get some extra stat points there. I think I've gone over them in this thread before, but you can complete 10 on-site quests per day, (Kitchen, Edna, snow faerie etc.) all count towards the 10. So you can do 10 Kitchen Quests per day, if you get a stat boost, it'll be 1 point and I do believe it goes to your active pet. So, while you train your Ixi you could also try Kitchen Quests for a few extra points. I think I read somewhere that HP is one of the more common stats awarded. It can give you Strength, Defense and Agility too. KQs can be pricey and their quest timer is pretty long, usually 2-3 hours. So if there's one you don't want to do, you end up waiting a bit for it to run out so you can try a new one. That being said, I tend to only do them if the total quest price is around 5k or so. Cheap for a stat point at my peophin's level, but the items you get sometimes are often not worth much, and sometimes you only get under 1k in NP back. So, there's that possibility too. Still, it's a relatively cheap way to try to get some extra stat points. If I were into heavy training, I'd do all 10 quests probably regardless of cost, but since I'm only casually training, it's not such a big deal to put a lower limit on the NP on each quest. I'm trying to save up for some stuff too, so there's that.

Ah ok. I've pulled a few "vanishing acts" too while playing this game. Though I've been back steady since a little bit before the Obelisk War, about maybe 10 years ago now? The first plot I took part in was an old one, not Meridell vs Darigan, but the one after that, but before the Hannah and the Ice Caves plot. lol I don't even know what it was called, but it was the first battle plot I took part in, and it was pretty fun. Been hooked on those ever since. But they've been few and far between. I think TNT will make sure of that. You might have to pick a team, battle or support, or something like that. We won't know the rules until TNT releases them unfortunately. But you probably won't be working directly with anyone, just like the Faerie Festival 2023, it'll be a group effort for points or prizes. You could train if you want. you may be battling too. You've got a few months according to TNT's reply to an editorial question, so there's time to raise your stats a fair bit. Yeah, I think selling would be the way to go. Even 10 Bri Codestones, at say, 3200np each, would be 32,000np. And you might turn those in and get a Mag or Sho red codestone, which are not worth that much. So you'd have lost out on value there. As for the NC stuff. If you buy NC items, the Faerie Quest Fortune Cookies are 100nc. Basically $1 per cookie, and they last 9 days. 9x24hours from the time you open them. Or, you could always get the lab ray. It has some down sides though. You can gain and lose stats. It does increase the Strength and HP quite often from what I've read. Though it can decrease Defense, change your pet's gender or species. Even reduce it's level back to level 1. So there are trade-offs in using it. I've never used the lab ray though. So I can't say anything from personal experience, just what I've read about it.

Hmm, that's interesting. When I view your pet pages, the only stats in color are their genders and their HP, being full they are green. The rest I see as black text.

Honestly, I think this could've been a new topic. Anyway, Colors for the stats? When I look at my Peophin or my Vandagyre, the only colors for stats I see is HP, and that's green when full, and red when very low or at 0. I think there is information on that somewhere, but I don't know where exactly as it's been pretty much the same (I think) since before i joined TDN. The names for the different stat-ranges do exist, but the names are very misleading. The stat boosts for both Strength and Defense end at 750. So training those stats beyond 750 is currently meaningless. Level and HP, as far as I know, don't have a cap, so training should never stop. If you're curious about the list of Strength and Defense boosts, along with the various named classifications for various levels/ranges of stats. Then this webpage should answer your questions. https://thedailyneopets.com/battledome/strength-defense-boosts

12 hours for max tier in the Secret Ninja Training Academy. But I agree on the cost. Not really worth it. I use Cookies almost exclusively too. Better turnover provided you get the type of faerie you want/need. Strength and Defense stop impacting those stats at 750 points. I don't think there's a cap on level or HP. HP can still be trained to 3x your Level at the Secret Ninja School too. I've seen some pets with around and over 15,000hp. Some of the oldest and legendary. Good luck with your standings from the tourney! I hear that a lot for Koi Warrior, and regular stones can be converted to random red stones at Techo Mountain. But it takes 10 random regular to make 1 random red. So it's usually not worth it NP-wise, imho. I read in the latest editorial, I think, that TNT is planning on having things for those pets who may not be able to battle all opponents to do as well. MY hope is that they will be parallel, so that everyone can do both types of things. Unlike the Curse of Maraqua War where you had fighters and supporter roles. But, it might be like the Curse of Maraqua War, I don't know. Nobody but TNT does.

Sounds like a good plan! I'm glad I was able to be of some help. As far as the plot. According to a reply in the NT Editorial section I saw, TNT replied that it will be a "few months". Without giving away any exact details. So we've got time to train up a bit more. For your pet, since you've got the max Strength and Defense boosts, if you train anything, train HP so you can last longer in battle. It sounds like TNT might throw us some troublesome challengers from things I've read. No idea HOW troublesome of course, but, it can't hurt to be prepared. I'll be trying to work a bit on my pet's HP too. It can only help anyway. lol

Don't feel bad about Snowy. My pet can't beat Snowy on Medium either. If I had a few thousand more HP maybe I could then. lol Just do your best with Snowy, you may even get lucky and get a Frozen Negg drop! I'm glad the last 2 opponents are opponents you have. Good luck with the rest of the tournament standings! And you're welcome, I'm glad I was able to help you refine your equipment. This tournament is a good workout, like a practice run before the battle plot. I'm sure that is probably one of the reasons the JNBP staff came up with this event, to give people a good reason and even maybe some guidance of various opponents to help people try out different opponents and test their sets and mettle against a variety of foes? Just a thought. I wish I had remembered to sign up, oh well. lol Maybe their next tourney. LOL Good luck with your final ranking!

I don't have Mutated Chia, I don't remember how it was gotten, but it's not in my list. I have the others. Sabre-X and Tax Beast are a pain because they are random events, but the Tax Beast... I don't recall HOW much NP he took from me, but I think it was around a week or more worth of gaming back then. A bit more than 100k I think. Or maybe I HAD 100k and the random event took MOST of that. It's been years since I had that r/e. I don't know if I've had it since though. Good luck NOT having either of them as a challenger tomorrow! I would imagine that they would have stronger opponents than they had today for the last day. So hopefully that will be the case. Good luck tomorrow!

Awww man, that's too bad @granny63020. Hopefully the other 2 opponents you don't have will not be in the last day's mix! After the tourny is over, maybe try to get those missing 3 opponents in case you ever need to fight those opponents again. Maybe even by the next time JN has their next tournament. Best of luck tomorrow!

The old IDB site, back when it was around and before it's leftovers merged with JN would have tournaments on occasion. Sometimes there'd be a storyline, and you'd have to fight opponents, or other players at certain points. It was like a battle plot, only NOT put on by TNT and the only things you could win were trophies for your forums account, or you could display the graphic on your petpage or something like that. Those were the OLD days, before I even knew TDN or JN existed. lol I even helped test a few peophin items back then, I was just a lender or participant though, still too new to the BD to know how things worked, but I poured over their entries trying to learn what I could about the BD. Loved that site. lol Wow @granny63020, that's a LOT of Refreshing! I hope you are able to get it before time runs out! Good luck in the tourny! And congrats on beating the Slug Monster! Snow Beast has a couple brutal weapons, but I'm sure you'll be able to win once you can challenge him!

Hi Granny. After reading JN's article on him, as well as our own article. https://thedailyneopets.com/battledome/snow-beast-challenger It seems (according to TDN's article) that you can sometimes get him as a challenger while playing Cliffhanger, otherwise, you simply must keep refreshing at the Advent Calendar page and hope for the best. You can just mash the F5 key on your keyboard, and periodically check your challenger list, or you can just click the refresh button like crazy too. I don't think you need to wait for the page to load up entirely between refreshings. Man, I meant to sign up for that event, but I completely spaced on it, I didn't realize they were so far into it already. lol I hope you're doing well with it so far, good luck getting the Snow Beast to appear!

Currently playing The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. The HD Remaster for the Nintendo Switch, on my Switch Lite. It's a pretty good game so far. Dunno how far I am into it, but it's pretty involved. I hate the timing for the Goddess Harp though, I don't know if it's because I'm on a Switch Lite, but my timing is terrible. It's like when there ARE visual guides for the timing/rhythm, to get it to work I seem to have to be slightly behind the visual guide, instead of right along with it. This throws me off something fierce. So I'm avoiding a couple side-quests that require harp-playing until I figure something out. Otherwise, it's pretty good. Sword controls with the Switch Lite's right joystick are a little iffy, but vertical slashes seem to work the easiest. Too bad some enemies are pretty smart at blocking almost regardless of which side I attack from. LOL

Not that I'm aware of. What's "not playing fair", is that 1p opponents can sometimes use once per battle items and abilities more than one time in a battle. This means they can freeze or heal more than once. It's against the rules for US, but TNT makes the rules, we just have to deal with it. This started in the old BD, and I THINK it got carried over to the current version. Honestly, I don't recall if it got carried over or not, because when I battle it doesn't usually take more than one turn. That being said, when the battle plot starts, I would think there might be more fixes/changes to the BD that will be released at that time. I think the battle plot is, similarly to my thoughts on the Obelisk War, a reason to roll out a major battledome update and stress test it.

I'm toying with the idea of the Awakened. 2nd best odds according to the prediction, and if they win, there might be a chance at better boons than the Order or the Thieves offer. But, I don't know, I'm still uncertain.

Yeah, most freezers, bombs and healers are either one use (gone forever after used) or once per battle (gone but will be back your next battle). So with those you have to predict when they would be the most useful and hope that you're right. Knowing what your opponent can use, using TDN's 1-player profiles page, which can be found here, https://thedailyneopets.com/battledome/secret-challengers under the Active Challengers heading. Can help you decide what defensive items you may want to use, depending on what weapons they can use. In the case of Holiday Memories. You'll get the 20% heal not matter what, but whether or not you block any damage when you use it, depends on what your opponent uses and if they have those icons that can be blocked. So yeah, it's basically luck and insight.

Holiday Memories heals 20% of your max HP and blocks 100% of Dark, Physical, and Fire, once per battle. It's an interesting Healer that could be quite useful, but the 20% heal isn't as great as say, Feel Better Soup's 50% heal. Feel Better Soup, as a refresher, also blocks 100% air when it's used once per battle. But, if you're up against an opponent that uses Fire, dark, and physical and you don't have a better healer, Holiday Memories isn't bad. Especially if it keeps you from taking damage from those icon types on the turn you use it to heal. Also, Fire is one of the harder icons to block, as fewer items do it or block great quantities of it. So Holiday Memories would get a point for that too. I would stick with a 50% healer, but against the "right" opponent, I can see it being somewhat useful.

Ah! Well that's fine then. I'm glad you've got a plan. lol They've been giving out some interesting items in the Advent Calendar the last couple of years, actual DECENT battle items. lol Good luck with your future battles!

First off, I'm glad this thread was helpful to you! LOL Secondly, that's fine, you should see my peophin's stats, ALL of his stats, except for movement and level, are over 3,000. Like you, I use Faerie Quest Fortune Cookies, and I've only been ignoring the Air Faerie quests. At these stat levels, that your pet and my pet have. The only stat that really matters is Endurance/HP. I do the non-HP, non-Air-faerie quests, as long as they are not very expensive, just to kind of keep things somewhat balanced and JUST in case TNT extends the Strength and Defense boosts beyond 750/16. Given the power of some opponents, like Snowager even on Medium difficulty for example, they really should give us an increase in the maximum boost, imho. But it's far more economic (in NP) to only do those that will or might increase your pet's HP. Though, you might complete only a couple of quests per cookie then, making it's overall value (NC-real money) lessened, imho.

Congrats! Ryshu can be tricky! I see that you've got a Purple Scorchstone for your Healer. I would recommend selling it and getting a cheaper, but more effective, Feel Better Soup. The cheapest I saw on the Super Shop Wiz is 655,555 NP. What it does: Feel Better Soup, heals 50% of your MAX HP, and defends against ALL air icons Once Per Battle. Actually, at your level, the new advent calendar healer would be good too, if you don't want to spend any NP on the Feel Better Soup. The Holiday Memories item heals 20% of your max HP, blocks 100% of Fire, Dark and Physical once per battle. Not sure what it's selling for on the SSW if you don't have one, but I saw one in a shop for around 180k the other day. So probably still around there.

Your set looks really good like that @granny63020. The Bundle of Burning Birch Branches is weaker than your current equipment so you don't have to worry about it.

No problem! I'm always glad to help. For understanding most of JN's entries, for an attack-only or defense only equipment. I recommend paying attention to JN's "Actual Icons" and "Notes" sections. As their actual rating seems based on scores given by the staff reviewers, and the reviews are mostly based on what the weapon does, availability, and cost.

Hi @granny63020! I actually didn't realize it was a weapon. I just got home from visiting family and I didn't have time while I was gone to check out the items from the Advent Calendar. I checked out JN's entry for the weapon, and apparently it does fractal icons with a total of 13 icons. This makes it decent/good for beginners, but if I recall correctly, it's too weak for your set. So you don't need to equip it.

So, I thought I'd share my latest animation. A manticore that is based on a bit of writing that a friend of mine did. It's part 1 of what should be several more sequences though. This sequence is 12 frames, and my first time trying to animate a manticore. I'm using 6"x8" index cards because otherwise I'd run out of sketchbook pages too quickly. lol I'm HOPING to get started on the next part soon, maybe after Christmas, possibly New year's too. Not sure yet. Still looking for some references on Lion movements, especially when they are running, at different angles. XD Anyway, hope you guys enjoy this gif.

Just finished watching Babes in Toyland, a 1961 Disney production. I haven't seen it in AGES, but watched it tonight on Disney+ on a whim. Ah the childhood memories of watching this on The Disney Channel when I was a kid in the 80s. lol XD

You're right. The Maraquan Commanders Helm only defends 3 water and 3 dark icons. Your tablet is definitely better! Some of these weekly prizes aren't very good, the one I'm currently working toward is a White Ixi Plushie, only worth about 10k, maybe less by now. lol