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That's WEIRD! I get the Full Pockets boon as well and I haven't had any trouble with mine the last time I was part of the winning faction, so a few weeks or so ago. I guess you'll have to wait for the ticket to be replied to, unless someone else here has any ideas? I think the boon adds 1000np to each card's win. I can't confirm this, but when you win an item, it gives you 1000np as a bonus to the item. But yes, it's best to wait to play them until you're part of the winning faction to scratch your Space Faerie Scratchcards.

Frankly, I prefer the Order's boons to the Thieves boons. Though I prefer the Seekers above the Order's. lol Odd that the Thieves won this round. Oh well, there's always next time!

OH! LOL Freezing Potion, right. lol Yeah, well Moehog Skull is a rare scratchcard prize, not sure if it can be obtained elsewhere, as a event prize or something. Thundersticks, cost 3500 AC prize points. I'm annoyed because I could only get 1104 AC prize points last year. The tedium is my least favorite part about the AC. If our goals for YYB counted for our own prize points, and not just team rank, I think that'd get more people to play for more quality, than just quantity of games. On top of that, they released multiple stamps and such besides the Thundersticks. After the AC I remember the stamps were going for around 25mil PER stamp! Eclipsing the value, by a lot, of previous years' AC stamps. It was utterly insane! If you want to reach the highest boost/multiplier of 16, then yes. Getting both Strength and Defense to 750 is the way to get there. There aren't many ways to reduce stats for a pet. The Lab Ray and Coincidence can do it, and some wheels can reduce your INT. But, most R/Es and quests increase stats. I recommend working on Strength, Defense, and HP. Agility/Movement, is only needed for a couple of items, but if you want a good stealer, when TNT fixes Stealing, You'll need a movement stat of 201 for the Heavy Robe of Thievery, which is a 100% chance of a random steal from your opponent. Some opponents have junk items like Red Apples, so that you don't steal anything good. lol Sneaky TNT. Anyway, once your strength and movement reach 750 they will have no further effect on your attack or defense, so you can then focus on Level and HP. There are several other ways to train besides using the training schools that require dubloons/codestones. Kitchen Quests and Random Faerie Quests are both your best bets to supplement codestone training. For Random Faerie Quests, if you buy NC, you can purcahse Faerie Quest Fortune Cookies, the pink and gold ones, that allow you 1 faerie quest per day for 9 days from the moment you open it, you have to go to where you turn them in to accept your daily quest. Then you can either complete or cancel it. Though the amount of stat points you get is a bit higher than the training schools. I do recommend this method if you are able to do it. Sadly, you need to activate defense items as well. As you know, each round you can choose 2 items to use for that round and 1 faerie ability. This is why Dual-Duty weapons, weapons that can do more than just attack, are so useful. But are intentionally not super powerful, or have certain limitations on them because otherwise, if they were multi-use, they'd be far too strong and give the player the advantage over whomever they were fighting.

Hmm I believe the Magical Marbles of Mystery have 3 Physical icons only, besides the 100% freeze. But you are right that the Marbles have some attack, while the H4000 Helmet does not. Regardless of type of icon, your opponent will still take 3 icons of damage from the Marbles if you use them with either Lens Flare or Warlock's Rage abilities. The only thing you'd have to worry about with the Marbles/Trident combo, would be if they used Shhhhhhhhh.. and had something that blocked a lot of physical, such as a Winged Scarab or Altadorian Swordbreaker My freezer, the Golden Peophin Harp, has 3 icons of dark defense. Not not as useful as often as the Marbles would be, but it's saved my rear when used against the right opponent at the right time. Yep! You're right. If you used a freezer and Lens Flare, then your next turn will see your opponent also frozen for that round as well. So using them together does basically give you a 2-round freeze. If you use Lens Flare, then the combo of Warlock's Rage and 100% Freezer, you can get 3 free turns. At least the way the BD is currently working. If TNT fixes it so the ability "Shhhhhhhhh..!" works for use by the 1p opponents. Then that strategy won't be as foolproof as it is now. If your gut tells you to go for the Marbles, then it's fine to go with your gut! If you ever want a freezer that is a greater dual-duty, you would have to shell out a LOT more NP. Moehog Skull and Thundersticks are both the BEST in the dual-duty freezer department that I can think of. Did a little looking and Moehog Skull has 15 icon attack, 10 icon defense as well as 100% freeze once per battle. Thundersticks have 1 more icon of attack and block all Physical for it's defense. Gotta say, I'm kind of amazed with the Thundersticks, given it being a prize from the AC and all. lol Wishing I had been able to earn one from last year's AC. lol Your strategy is fine, so yeah, if you want to go after the Marbles, go for 'em!

Hi @GillyTook. I was confused by the whole battle-system when I first started playing Neo. Heck, I thought you could fight without a weapon because pretty much EVERY game has a no-weapon way to attack. Except Neopets, though in the old BD there were some species attacks you'd auto-learn based on your pet's level. Those no longer exist. For training. You can train your stats to double the level that you're at, except HP, which can be trained to triple your level, but if a stat goes over that formula, from a random event, visiting Coltzan's Shrine, or certain quest rewards, then you'd have to train level to train other stats. TDN's Fast Training Guide might be of use to you. https://thedailyneopets.com/battledome/fast-battle-training Ah yes, the icons and boosts. A tricky concept from the beginning, imho. Basically, weapons and defensive gear focus on different amounts of icons of different types. Elemental types and then Physical. If you have a weapon that does a constant number of icons, it's easy to figure out how much damage you'll do if you know your boost. See, your strength and defense stat numbers are pretty much meaningless unless they reach certain milestone marks, called Boosts. The boost is a multiplier. If you have a weapon that does a constant 5 icons of damage, and your strength is where your's is, between 125-200. Then your boost, or multiplier, is 3. So you would do 15 points of damage if none of it is blocked. No matter where you are in that numerical range, your boost is 3. Getting Strength and Defense to 750 maxes out your boost with a multiplier of 16. Some of us train BEYOND 750, but really, that's unnecessary at this point because a pet at 750 strength, will do the SAME damage with the same weapon as a pet with 7,500 strength. It's a unique system, to be sure. ONLY system like it that I've come across. It's pretty bizarre. You MIGHT find TDN's introduction to the battledome article series helpful. The articles are actually pretty short and there aren't a lot of them. https://thedailyneopets.com/battledome/introduction-to-the-battledome Yeah, I prefer to avoid single use, or Fragile equipment too. Semi-Fragile or Once per battle I'm ok with because you don't have to buy them again. To answer your question on Training or Equipment. I'd say training. Equipment is pretty expensive right now that it has been revealed that there will be a battle plot this year. If you want to check out the list of boosts we have a page for that too. It'll show you each boost and what the minimum requirement is for each strength/defense boost. I hope this helps! https://thedailyneopets.com/battledome/strength-defense-boosts @Duma lol Same here, I've got pages of junk BD equipment too. I forget how many, but it was a lot the last time I checked! lol The H4000 Helmet might be cheaper for you as a freezer. It looks like the Marbles are going for 7mil on the TP right now. The main difference is that the Marbles give you a 3 icon attack besides freezing once per battle. 17 Cookies? Nice! I'm glad they increased the duration of the cookies to 9 days from 7. Makes the price a bit more worth it. I'm glad this topic helped get you in the mood to train and battle again! I was hoping these topics would help people out with that.

Would love to see return, two games I used to ROCK at! Mootix Drop and Hubrid's Hero Heist. I have the gold trophies for both games. But they were decently entertaining games to earn NP from. Definitely 2 of my favorites! When Mootix Drop comes back, I hope they fix the levels in the Insane difficulty.

*nods* Sure, a lot like me. Keeping some equipment out unless it's needed. Hopefully you can max out your strength and defense before the war plot. Do you use any Fortune Cookies from the NC Mall to help speed up your training? Yeah, with Lens Flare and Warlock's Rage even freezer weapons can be kind of a moot-point, Unless you're up against someone who you need 3 free turns to beat. lol Or testing out an all-offensive weapon that you don't want to be blocked. If you don't have one already, you MIGHT consider a freezer for the battle plot, depending on what type of plot it is. Maybe even just a Scroll of Freezing or two, since they can perma-break after some usage. I'm surprised to see some as low as below 40k on the Super Wiz. But I think that's GOOD! They could certainly help in a pinch. Especially if there's a Boss opponent with MASSIVE HP that all the players have to work together to tackle. That's why I HOPE the next battle plot will see Stealing fixed. Fighting Envy during the Obelisk War, the chance of Stealing his Prismatic Mirror was just TOO FUN! Especially when it worked! It bought me a few extra turns per battle, (even though they were all losses), being able to use that.

Hey @mewthree21 Hrtbrk is right. Earning your prizes from non-Obelisk opponents first is fine. I do it all the time. The Ugga-Dome prizes are so over-awarded that they are mostly worthless, except for the codestones of course. lol I always battle a different opponent before I do my Obelisk skirmish battles. So yep! If you battled your obelisk opponents 32 times and your faction wins you'll be fine! Since you only need 10 wins against your faction's opponents to qualify for a prize, win or lose. If you don't clear 10 wins before the skirmish is over, then the screen you get is like you didn't even join a faction for that round. There've been a few times I've forgotten to battle after joining, so I've seen that screen for myself. lol Good luck and happy battling!

Thank you @luckyhelen, it's always nice to see someone comment on this thread, especially positively.

Hey all, thanks for posting! @mewthree21 Sounds like you've got some sound strategies! I use my freezer with Lens Flare (or Warlock's Rage as well) sometimes for extended damage without getting hurt. Helps with some of the trickier/stronger opponents. @GillyTook The stronger your pet gets, the less likely they are to get "hurt". Keep getting stronger! TDN's 1p opponent profiles also have prizes listed, including some that are exclusive to fighting certain challengers at certain difficulty levels. They can be fun to go after and a good challenge. @Duma I've heard Koi Warrior is popular for Codestones too. That's cool you conducted your own test and found that you can get more from him than Walein. Oh yeah, I eagerly await the return of Defenders of Neopia! Those were fun challenges! Sometimes they took a LOT of thinking to figure out how to beat the opponents, especially since I was always underpowered with a low budget back then! lol I used to really enjoy going after Jelly Chia. I mean sure even on MIGHTY he was easy, but in testing to see what he dropped for his profile, I got a TON of spooky food, and for awhile, the book and Stamps he dropped were good NP for me. (He can drop Jelly Mysteries, Jelly Pop Stamp and Jelly World Stamp). I also enjoyed battling Tekkitu, even in the old BD before there were prizes for winning. Just a fun character to beat up on. lol From DoN, Commander Garoo took a LOT of thinking to figure out how to beat him. I don't have a screenshot of that battle, only the comic-aftermath. BUt, Garoo was tricky because of his Brown Clockwork Grundo doing MASSIVE earth damage. Took me quite a while to formulate a defense and beat him with a tiny budget! Below in the spoiler, is a screenshot from when I beat Tekkitu the Witch Doctor, which was the DoN challenger after Commander Garoo. My pet was weaker when I took on Garoo. lol These days, before battling for the Obelisk Skirmishes, I like to battle the Shadow Usul, for some of it's potential-themed prizes, and just because it's fun to one-round win. Well, usually it's one-round. If G-bomb and Blazing Embers have a low damage from their variable offense then it can sometimes be 2 rounds. lol I don't battle nearly as much as I used to. I did a couple events/tournaments in the old days of the idb.finalhit battlepedia site that used to exist. They were fun, but it sometimes involved 2p battles, and that could be tricky to meet up with someone online with differing timezones and all. I really prefer 1p battling, but for weapon testing, I'll do a 2p battle if I have to. lol Oh and unless there's a specific reason not to, I prefer battling on the Mighty difficulty. lol

Hi @mewthree21 Nice work updating your set! As Duma suggested, when stealing gets fixed in the BD, it will definitely be something you could look into. With your agility I'd recommend looking at a Heavy Robe of Thievery. It's a 100% steal once per battle that steals a random weapon/item. And yes I'd agree that your set is Advanced. Hi @GillyTook! Wow! Your set has weapons that are a real BLAST from the past! They are fun to see! XD But some of those I haven't seen since they came out. If you don't mind me asking, what about battling confuses you? On your set, you've got a LOT of offensive weapons. But not much on the Defense. Looking at your set, I would Keep the Sword of Malum, and for another Constant, you could choose from among Winged Palm Blade, Reflecting Vanities,or Fiendish Key since they do about 11-16 icons of damage. Or, you could stick with the Yooyu Knuckle Duster since it does a constant of 14 icons, a little more reliable in that sense of not doing variable damage. Your bomb, the Thistleberry Pingrenade is fine, and Oasis Tonic is good for your healer for now too. I'd rate your set as a beginner set right now, just because it's all offense and your pet's stats are balanced, not set up for an all-offensive pet. Duma gave some great advice, if you have Blazing Embers, it's basically like having a duplicate Sword of Malum. For defense, it does kind of depend on who you fight, but Downsize! (Not "Downsize Power Plus!") is a good and cheap defender as it blocks 50% of damage Once Per Battle, and only costs a few thousand NP either in the Defence magic shop or in the player market via the Shop Wiz. If you'd like full set help, please post a topic in TDN Forums Battledome forum with your current set, like you did here. Please include a rough budget estimate for how much you'd like to spend on equipment upgrades, and if you want to fight only some specific enemies, those opponents, and we can help tailor some equipment recommendations for you. "Budget" Battling is my specialty. @Duma, not a bad set! Not much on Defense, but with the way Lens Flare and Warlock's Rage work now, there's not as much need for Defense if you've got a strong pet and/or a strong offense. You're getting really close to maxing out your Strength and Defense, so I'd recommend focusing more on that than buying new weapons. Blazing Embers and the DoM weapon could be swapped for some defensive gear, which might benefit you greatly in the next battle plot. You could also use those slots for your variable slots. Same with the slot for the Heavy Robe of Thievery if TNT doesn't fix stealing before the next battle plot. I don't know what your budget might be. But with a strong defense, even mediocre shields like Leaf Shield or Flaming Oven Gloves could be helpful. Of course, those items are on the real cheap end of things for shields. I'd rate your set at Intermediate. THANKS for posting in this new topic! Let's keep it going and keep it fun and helpful! I'll post my set soon. So be prepared to be underwelmed! ;D EDIT: MY Intermediate set! My Faerie Abilities lean more toward the defensive side of things, and I edited the screenshot so my last ability would show up. The bottom two items, Roxton's Trusty Bowie Knife and The Moar Blade are there for testing purposes. Normally, one of those 2 slots would be taken up with a Mysterious Red Potion, that has a weak 5-icon attack, but heals 25% of your max HP when your current HP is below 25% and it can be equipped with other healers. Bag of Healing Dust cost me the most, around 11mil at the time. Then G-Bomb that I traded for to replace my honey potion that I actually earned early on from Illusen's Quests, then Golden Peophin Harp about 2 mil + a PB though I forget which one at the moment, and then Downsize! for the things I BOUGHT. Blazing Embers and Sword of Malum were plot prizes, so they were free. lol I have some cheaper shields and reflectors stashed away depending on what opponents I might want to face, or in a war, have to face. I also have a Heavy Robe of Thievery for whenever they fix Stealing in the BD. I have been trying to save NP for my dream weapon, Skarls Sword. Not the most powerful, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's a very decent dual-duty weapon and I've loved the graphic for it since I first saw it many many years ago. Sadly the older it gets, the higher it's price-tag gets. Last one I saw on the TP was looking for 1,700,000,000np for it. It was from the Neopets TCG code. So there are very few of them around. For SOME people, who can restock like the wind, that's not much, but for me? That's more than I've probably collectively earned in the entirety of my time on Neopets. Games and events are the main ways I pull in NP. That and now Trudy's Surprise, as well. So yeah, I'm frugal, because I kinda have to be. lol But that's fine, this is how I got so good at "budget battling" and this is the approach that I take when helping others with advice for building their sets.

Battlers often have one or more favorite opponent(s) to fight. Whether it's the character itself, the prizes that can be won (for whatever reason), or maybe it simply fits their current or preferred battle-set? So here we invite anyone and everyone to share with us all which 1p opponents you like to battle and why. Do you like to battle against other Neopians in 2-player battles? Tell us about that too! You can either simply say which 1p opponents you like to battle and why, or you can link to their profile from the list of Active Challengers here. https://thedailyneopets.com/battledome/secret-challengers RULES: Respect people's decisions as to whom they fight. In regards to 2-player fighters, do NOT post the usernames or pet names of those you battle in 2p without their permission! It's OK to say if you are open to 2p challenges from other players or not.

Do you think your Battle-set is HOT?! Post and let your fellow battlers rate it! Tell us about your pet and show us how AWESOME your set is, or isn't, and we'll tell you what we think and give you insight on how you might improve it, if you want! RULES: NO Derisive/insulting comments! If you want to trade an item, please post about it at this thread! Please back up your ratings with more than just 3/10! Just leaving a basic numerical rating doesn't actually help anyone improve their set. So give some REAL feedback too! ALL set-levels are welcome! Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Elite, Legendary!

Going with The Order this round. Not my favorite boons, but they were the faction I backed in the Obelisk Plot. So it's cool to join up with them again. lol Hopefully they win!

You're welcome! The yellow overlay over that shade of brown does make it look rather mottled, so that might be why you saw it as green, albeit probably a different shade. I haven't decided whom I'm going to select. But I'll probably go with the consensus and join the Order. I always check with my guildmates first. Very few of us are active, but I like them to know the info and hear their thoughts too.

HI @Granny63020, judging from where the colors are. I think it's Green for the Order because it is highest predicted to win, Yellow for the Thieves because it's their choice to rank 2nd, and the Seekers are in red, probably because they have the lowest chance to win. Kinda like a traffic light with that color scheme.

You're very welcome @Granny63020! I'm glad that I could help figure it out!

Happy belated birthday! LOL I usually have rotten luck on Neopets on my birthday. Either few to no random events, or bad random events, and virtually no good luck at the dailies. So you're not alone. As to poisonous jelly. If you get a really expensive-to-cure illness, eating something that is poisonous to your pet will give you a specific but different illness, sometimes that one is cheaper to cure. Depending on which one it is. This was popular during war plots where opponents used poison snowballs or poison-tipped daggers. Because the cures for those items' diseases got so badly inflated. Of course, the cures for poisoned foods, like the jelly, or the Poisonous Lollipop (from Jhudora's quests) also soon inflated as well.

Hi @Granny63020, I haven't, but I just checked the Super Wiz, and tried to duplicate that. I succeeded. You need to uncheck the box that says Search Prices Only.

Even if the BIG guild(s) battle, it doesn't necessarily mean their chosen faction will win. This is a good reminder for all of us on that. I was TEMPTED to fight for the Awakened, but the polls here and Oxbridge's predictions looked too good to buck the stat. I fought a bit more than I usually did as well. It's Disappointing that the faction we went with lost, but as I said in the guild I'm in. There's always next time. We shouldn't be too down about it, especially since Thieves and the Order don't have all that great boons, imho. Like, mid-tier boons as far as usefulness or popularity seem to go, again imho though. I like Seeker and Sway boons the most, mainly bank bribery, gotta love a free boost to interest. But there are some useful ones in all the factions. Although, the least useful are probably the boons in the Brute Squad's selection. Even though I enjoy battling, just... I think TNT was scraping the bottom of the barrel with those boons. They could've added one that reduces training time (thought that might impact sales of the training cookies) or increases the chance of bonus stat point gains when training is over for a pet. But, nope. lol Something like that would make the Brutes VERY popular with a battle plot promised.

I don't do much photo-manipulation, but many art programs can also be used to clean or manipulate photos. I'm sure there are plenty of art programs as well you can use for iOS/Android. I typically do photo sharpening before printing photos out, since it's not a top-quality photo-printer. Just an HP Envy. That being said, I use a really ancient art program for some basic photo sharpening and clean-up. Paint Shop Pro 6. From before it was bought by Corel. I think they're up to Paint Shop Pro x7 or so all these years later now. lol The programs look more... photography based than typical digital art. I don't care for the Corel brand, or the trial period of their changes to the software since they bought it from Jasc. So I don't use the updated stuff. I'm just saying, that you don't necessarily need a specific photo app/program to make a photo shine.

Just starting Season 1, episode 5 of the anime, Bleach. Thought I'd do a major binge in my free-time.

Yeah, I really get frustrated when I get several "useless" quests in a row like that. Air Faerie and Kaia in my case. lol Good luck when you use your FQC!

Do you mean the Refreshed Quest Request boon? Well, if the Order wins, you're in luck, because they DO have that boon. I usually go with Cartogriphocation for the Faerie Caverns. But that's a really good idea to go for Refreshed Quest Request since you were gifted a FQ cookie. I would guess that the Awakened, would be the faction that would be 2nd most likely to be popular with this selection. Since they can have any of the boons show up. So I'd recommend fighting them a bit extra to hedge our chances of winning with The Order. Happy battling once battling begins.

Phew! Glad I didn't miss sign-ups this week! Going with the odds-on-favorite, the Order.