A few pointers on Evolving and Enhancing

I'm sure you've all played around with enhancing and evolving, but are you getting the most out of your strongest cards?

Terms-

  MAX: Enhancing a card to it's highest level

  Catalyst: A card of lesser evolution used in the process of evolving.

  Final Form (FF): The 3rd evolution, 4th stage of a card's progression.

When you evolve a normal card, it will level up and retain 5% of the ATK and DEF of the catalyst cards. But, did you know if you MAX a catalyst card, it will contribute 10%? Sure, 5% more doesn't seem like a game-breaker, but after you add all that bonus ATK and DEF from leveling, it turns out to be a significant chunk. After I learned this, I went maybe a little overboard, and started evolving MAX Dark Elflings, and not using 4 catalysts, but using 8 catalysts. The process took quite some time, but I ended up with a FF Dark Elfling with 6597 ATK and 4526 DEF, not insignificant numbers for a 11 PWR card. The process looked like this. My archive shows an un-enhanced FF Dark Elfling having 2232 ATK and 1530 DEF.

[Night Forest] Dark Elfling (High Normal)

/                                         \

lvl 20 Dark Elfling++ (Normal)        lvl 20 Dark Elfling++ (Normal)

/                     \                          /                   \

lvl 20 D E+        lvl 20 D E+       lvl 20 D E+       lvl 20 D E+

/        \               /         \                /         \               /         \

lvl20DE  lvl20DE  lvl20DE  lvl20DE  lvl20DE  lvl20DE  lvl20DE  lvl20DE 

I honestly have no idea how many cards exactly it took to enhance all 8 catalyst, all 4 calalyst+, both catalyst++, and the FF to MAX levels, but I do not recomment doing it for a card of this quality, it was my beginners mistake, but a great learning experience, as I am working on a Gold Fox at the moment. I would recomment doing this process for any super rare cards, but the problem with that is getting 8 super rare catalysts instead of 4. Keep in mind, that you cannot evolve a card with any card that is further in the evolution. I had tried doing this with a Dark Elfling + evolved with a Dark Elfling ++, but alas, there is no infinite evolving.

I hope that helped some of you, I would recommend doing this with Lady Gunslinger for a high attack power card early on if you can obtain these cards through an event, or from fellows or order members.

I will be attempting to determine the best methods for enhancing, but it will take time as there are not many resources out there to expand on, I will basically be performing thousands of enhancements and recording results and comparing to determine if there are differences in how much experience and ATK/DEF is gained from enhancing between normal, high normal, rare, and if using more cards at the same time increases stats more than fewer cards at once. If anyone is willing to assist me, please leave a comment, or email me at mcnpandroid@gmail.com. Email me screenshots of your maxxed cards too if you'd like, I'm working on a catalog of Max / Evolved cards and their artwork, an online archive if you will.