It's been a while since I've given an update for RobGuide, and I have my new employment to thank for that. I will still keep the site up, and will try to add information when time allows.
I just recently landed a great job at a mechanic shop in town. I've been working 12+ hour days due to the remodeling I'm performing on the shop after we stop working on vehicles. I also want to thank everyone for checking in on the site frequently, we're just a handful of hits away from 15,000 pageviews! That is pretty impressive I feel considering I have never attempted anything like this before, and I have RobGuide's faithful followers to thank for that!
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Alt accounts on Rage of Bahamut
Happy Memorial Day to players in the U.S!
I'm a little strapped for time this week for a guide, so I'm going to let you know a few things you can do for an alt account, and what an alt account can do for you.
If you have 2 or more android devices, you probably already know you can have multiple accounts on Rage of Bahamut, and hopefully you chose your accounts to be different realms (ie: Humans, Demons, Gods). Different realm accounts will obtain specific treasures from quests, and with 2 accounts you will be able to collect treasures much easier, and with 3 accounts you won't even have to battle for treasure if you are set up right. But also think of this, you can complete treasure on each account, allowing you to evolve treasure cards, and event cards that you normally wouldn't be able to without trading.
I personally have my Motorola Triumph which has my Akzel5 account, and my Iconia tablet with my primary account, which is where I take screenshots and whatnot for the site from. I have 1 more account, on my computer. No, Windows, Linux, and IOS cannot run Rage of Bahamut natively, but you should check out bluestacks.com for their android emulator. Keep in mind though, you cannot do terminal registration on bluestacks, so you cannot claim verified treasures or friendship points card packs. This account may seem limited, however, I have found myself using it just as much as my other accounts since I can still send and receive gifts, evolve and enhance, and since I "care a little less" about the account, I can build it in a way that I wouldn't make sense for a primary account, and it is now a hardcore defender in Holy Wars, and a pretty safe "bank" for treasures and whatnot.
I am currently playing around with rooting and modifying bluestacks to allow terminal registration, I have to assume there is a way to do it, and I would love to get my hands on the 200+ presents/rewards that require verification on the account.
Another potential benefit of having a bluestacks alt, is if you get a new android device, you don't have to start from scratch.
Have fun alting if you choose to do so!
I'm a little strapped for time this week for a guide, so I'm going to let you know a few things you can do for an alt account, and what an alt account can do for you.
If you have 2 or more android devices, you probably already know you can have multiple accounts on Rage of Bahamut, and hopefully you chose your accounts to be different realms (ie: Humans, Demons, Gods). Different realm accounts will obtain specific treasures from quests, and with 2 accounts you will be able to collect treasures much easier, and with 3 accounts you won't even have to battle for treasure if you are set up right. But also think of this, you can complete treasure on each account, allowing you to evolve treasure cards, and event cards that you normally wouldn't be able to without trading.
I personally have my Motorola Triumph which has my Akzel5 account, and my Iconia tablet with my primary account, which is where I take screenshots and whatnot for the site from. I have 1 more account, on my computer. No, Windows, Linux, and IOS cannot run Rage of Bahamut natively, but you should check out bluestacks.com for their android emulator. Keep in mind though, you cannot do terminal registration on bluestacks, so you cannot claim verified treasures or friendship points card packs. This account may seem limited, however, I have found myself using it just as much as my other accounts since I can still send and receive gifts, evolve and enhance, and since I "care a little less" about the account, I can build it in a way that I wouldn't make sense for a primary account, and it is now a hardcore defender in Holy Wars, and a pretty safe "bank" for treasures and whatnot.
I am currently playing around with rooting and modifying bluestacks to allow terminal registration, I have to assume there is a way to do it, and I would love to get my hands on the 200+ presents/rewards that require verification on the account.
Another potential benefit of having a bluestacks alt, is if you get a new android device, you don't have to start from scratch.
Have fun alting if you choose to do so!
Sunday, May 20, 2012
The Roar of the Dragons
Roar of the Dragons Event is over! This guide is no longer applicable to current gameplay, but will remain on the site if the event happens again next year!
Roar of the Dragons is the current event from 5/17/12 to 5/27/12, and involves 10 full Event Quest chapters, in which Dragons will descend and attack randomly as you participate in quest events. There are multiple loot systems involved, and multiple combat systems including basic questing and Boss encounters, and a 'new' method of combat when attacking the Dragons. First, let's cover some terms for this event.
Roar of the Dragons is the current event from 5/17/12 to 5/27/12, and involves 10 full Event Quest chapters, in which Dragons will descend and attack randomly as you participate in quest events. There are multiple loot systems involved, and multiple combat systems including basic questing and Boss encounters, and a 'new' method of combat when attacking the Dragons. First, let's cover some terms for this event.
Progress Reward: These rewards are obtained by defeating a certain number of Dragons during the event. Your first reward is obtained after 3 victories, your second after 7 more, and a reward for every 10 victories until you defeat 60 Dragons.
Order Progress: Your order is also competing as a team and will give rewards to every order member with at least 100,000 damage done to Dragons in the event.
Rank Rewards: These rewards will be distributed depending on your rank at the end of the event. You will compete in rank individually and as a team within your order. Rewards can be viewed within the game.
Party: This is the system which allows you to defeat strong Dragons. After you attack a Dragon for the first time, you may call for help from your order or fellows, and any order member or fellow that is not already attacking another Dragon will have a chance to be added to your party, and will be able to attack the Dragon.
To the right is a picture of the Roar of the Dragons top page with the Rewards Panel and Ranking Panel highlighted and labeled. Located within the Rewards panel, you will be able to see your next progress reward and how many dragons you need to defeat to claim the reward. This panel will not show you the progress of your Order in progression rewards. In the Ranking Panel, you can see your own and your order's current ranking, total damage, done, victories etc. For yourself, Damage done is the only factor for your ranking and the only thing really worth keeping track of. For your order, seeing the number of Dragons defeated will let you track how soon your order will unlock another progress reward.
When you encounter a Dragon, or when you are chosen to participate in a party to defeat a Dragon, there will be a flashing banner with the text "A dragon has appeared!!" and below will be a button labeled "Prepare for Battle".
To the right is what you will see when you click on "Prepare for Battle". The first panel contains the Dragon info. You will have 2 hours after finding the Dragon to defeat it, and Dragons grow more powerful every time you defeat one. This is, I believe, the final Dragon, with 1 million health!
The panel below this contains your Deck info and options. Keep in mind that ATK PWR is used differently in this event than normal, and cards cost lest to use, so you can use more powerful Decks if you have them. Card skills cannot be used on the Dragon with the exception of very few special "Event Skill" abilities. Below this panel is the actual ATK PWR formula, 5+(DeckPWR/2). So, for example, say you have 5 cards that use 10 stamina in your Deck, your formula would like like 5+([10+10+10+10+10]/2), simplified 5+(50/2) or 5+25=30 ATK PWR used.
The last panel is the Party Panel. Here you can see the order/fellow members participating in the battle, and see their progress. Dragons drop a chest of cards when defeated, and the cards are distributed to the Party Members who did the most damage, and in the event of a tie, the person who finished attacking first will be preferred by the loot.
Updates and whatnot
I know updates to the guide have been trickling down the blog a little slow, but rest assured I am still here and still dedicating time to expanding the site.
I am running into some problems with features I wish to release on the new site, so the new site is on hold until I can resolve the problem.
I will try to release at least 1 comprehensive guide a week still! Keep sending me questions and ideas!
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Chat is up!
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Winning Question 1: When enhancing a card, does it matter what card you use to enhance? I've been sacrificing my low lvl normal cards to enhance my stronger cards, but is it better to use stonger cards to gain more stats?
When enhancing a card, does it matter what card you use to enhance? I've been sacrificing my low lvl normal cards to enhance my stronger cards, but is it better to use stonger cards to gain more stats?
This question really requires a lot of research to completely answer, but I do have enough information to have a pretty good idea on how to best enhance your cards.
First off, let's talk about the archive bonuses. The more cards you discover, the more cards you can carry. This includes the evolved forms of cards, so this makes evolving cards you may not use rewarding to some degree. The other bonus, the more cards you MAX out, the faster your Stamina, ATK, and DEF recovers. This bonus only counts when you MAX a card of a certain name once. an example would be, if you have a Fighter, and you MAX it out, it will count towards the archive bonus whether you have the card, or have used it to enhance, evolve, or even sold/traded/gifted it. If you evolve a Fighter to a Fighter+, MAXing the Fighter+ will count towards the archive bonus as well, and so on and so forth. Keeping track of what cards you have maxed will prove useful down the road, keep that in mind. Improved recovery time can be very useful.
Now, actually enhancing cards, does using rarer cards give better results? Yes and no. Using rarer cards will improve your chances of "Excellent Improvement" and more importantly, "Skill Up". However, using lower rarity cards is far more practical.
Enhancing your primary ATK and DEF cards should follow some general rules to save you time and suffering. Don't waste your Angel Queens on cards that are not Final Form, and never waste Devil/Demon Queens on cards that are not Final Form who do not have Skills. Skills can be leveled up to level 4 (to my knowledge). So stop using Devil/Demon Queens once you reach max skill level, and only use 1 per enhance.
Enhancing lower rarity cards you will reach MAX faster than higher rarity, as they require fewer levels to MAX, this balances out the benefits of leveling out different rarity cards, a higher rarity card will become more powerful but requires far more cards than a lower rarity card. Just because a card is Normal or High Normal does not mean it is not worth using over a Rare and up. It appears that using card skills in combat is limited in some way, so maximizing your Attack and Defense per point of ATK/DEF takes a bit of work.
Personally, I choose the rare cards I wish to enhance based on their skills, ones that grant "Big boost to....". I use 2 or 3 cards with skills like this, MAX them out, and level up high ATK or DEF High Normals or Normals that these skills affect. My main account has 50 ATK, yet can pump out over 35k attack power with 3 normal/high normals and 2 Rare and UP cards by utilizing the types of cards I use in a hand.
So, keep using those low level cards to enhance cards you want to use or to enhance towards the archive bonus.
This question really requires a lot of research to completely answer, but I do have enough information to have a pretty good idea on how to best enhance your cards.
First off, let's talk about the archive bonuses. The more cards you discover, the more cards you can carry. This includes the evolved forms of cards, so this makes evolving cards you may not use rewarding to some degree. The other bonus, the more cards you MAX out, the faster your Stamina, ATK, and DEF recovers. This bonus only counts when you MAX a card of a certain name once. an example would be, if you have a Fighter, and you MAX it out, it will count towards the archive bonus whether you have the card, or have used it to enhance, evolve, or even sold/traded/gifted it. If you evolve a Fighter to a Fighter+, MAXing the Fighter+ will count towards the archive bonus as well, and so on and so forth. Keeping track of what cards you have maxed will prove useful down the road, keep that in mind. Improved recovery time can be very useful.
Now, actually enhancing cards, does using rarer cards give better results? Yes and no. Using rarer cards will improve your chances of "Excellent Improvement" and more importantly, "Skill Up". However, using lower rarity cards is far more practical.
Enhancing your primary ATK and DEF cards should follow some general rules to save you time and suffering. Don't waste your Angel Queens on cards that are not Final Form, and never waste Devil/Demon Queens on cards that are not Final Form who do not have Skills. Skills can be leveled up to level 4 (to my knowledge). So stop using Devil/Demon Queens once you reach max skill level, and only use 1 per enhance.
Enhancing lower rarity cards you will reach MAX faster than higher rarity, as they require fewer levels to MAX, this balances out the benefits of leveling out different rarity cards, a higher rarity card will become more powerful but requires far more cards than a lower rarity card. Just because a card is Normal or High Normal does not mean it is not worth using over a Rare and up. It appears that using card skills in combat is limited in some way, so maximizing your Attack and Defense per point of ATK/DEF takes a bit of work.
Personally, I choose the rare cards I wish to enhance based on their skills, ones that grant "Big boost to....". I use 2 or 3 cards with skills like this, MAX them out, and level up high ATK or DEF High Normals or Normals that these skills affect. My main account has 50 ATK, yet can pump out over 35k attack power with 3 normal/high normals and 2 Rare and UP cards by utilizing the types of cards I use in a hand.
So, keep using those low level cards to enhance cards you want to use or to enhance towards the archive bonus.
New site underway and forums are available
I've begun migrating information to a new site format! I have some work to do on banners, backgrounds, and other such aesthetics before it is ready for viewing, but I have opted to open up the forum. Please feel free to join and post, get your name out there!
I will be deciding soon whether or not to do a chat-room. If anyone knows a chat-room host that can be accessed from PC or from android / Iphone devices please let me know!
I will be deciding soon whether or not to do a chat-room. If anyone knows a chat-room host that can be accessed from PC or from android / Iphone devices please let me know!
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