Lucas wasn't hard to obtain, he's double-obsidian and I think I got him before or just after the color wheel update. But he's definitely my most expensive because he didn't start out as a Wildclaw. He started as a Ridgeback, and then I got him his other genes and changed him to Mirror while I waited for scrolls to cycle in, and THEN changed him to Wildclaw later.
Farlander languished with no tert for multiple
years. When I first got him I made sure I had the tert color I wanted, but there was no gene that really had the effect I wanted. Gembond and Runes were close, but had too-big blobs of color. Finally Firefly came out, and then of course I had to go through the process of getting all the materials for
that because I'm stubborn and don't buy Swipp stuff directly.
Viridian wasn't a whole lot of work for me because I outsourced his breeding project to the Dragonwish Foundation, but I hear he was quite the annoyance for DWF. Being a Wildclaw project he of course took ages to breed down through a couple generations, down to a pair with 1/8 chances of giving the right dragon but took sixteen eggs to actually get it.
Do you know how hard it is to get even close to either of these color combinations?? I didn't expect Lin Chung, with his yellowrange/greyrange/purplerange, to be particularly easy, but the project still gave me a couple generations' worth of frustration and I think I settled on a 1/40 chance on the pair I finally got him from. Pasha I was more surprised by. He's XYX! But most XYX Gold or near-Gold dragons have a secondary that's a) black, b) yellow, or c)
sometimes red. Getting to the right secondary took a few false starts, including one dragon that I bred down for at least two generations only to throw out and a mishap where I somehow didn't realize that two dragons I had been checking every few days were
the same gender until they were RTB and I was about to rent a nest for them, and eventually I settled on a different secondary that turned out to be a better color anyway. I didn't even try breeding for genes - breeding for his colors was pain enough as it is.
