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Rook56 wrote on 2024-12-18 09:46:12:
Are these eliminate things that important? Been seeing them mentioned.
They're basically an immense speed boost because they deal around 3x the damage of Scratch and you lose
no breath if the enemy it's used against is killed by that blow. So you can essentially end up doing near-constant 3x damage hits as long as you plan things out so you can kill the enemies each time instead of having to pause to build up breath in between hits.
They're important in that they are required for things like trainer builds (in which one level 25 dragon can go into a specific venue with two level 1 dragons and basically solo the fight to get the level 1 dragons trained up faster than usual) and they make things much faster for general farming.
But they're not necessary— everything
except trainer builds you can feasibly do without them (and at the height of Elim price, back before the initial drop adjustments, when they were 700g+, there were some slow-working trainer builds theorized that just never got super heavy testing due to the drop rates being adjusted).
That said, if you spend a lot of time in Coli, they will absolutely be worth purchasing and can pay themselves off, especially if you have a dragon designated to train other dragons for the purpose of exalting.
Sorry for the long reply, I wanted to be thorough and explain why a lot of people will default to "Eliminate is necessary" (since it speeds things up so much) but why it isn't if you don't feel comfortable spending that money before knowing whether you even like Coli! Perfectly fine and feasible to test Coli out on a very limited budget— the main pitfall is not "lack of Eliminate" but instead "Coli stat distribution is extremely unintuitive even if you come from RPGs that require individual stat distribution." And also "lack of Ambush." I would argue from my own experience that Ambush is, in fact, necessary.