Sorry- I've posted this before but I can't find it. =/
Hey! So I know a lot of this info can be found in the stickied notes at the top of the forum, but I've had quite a few people message me with questions so I thought I'd copy down a few things I've mentioned to newbies over the last few months.
Find out how to make treasure, to adopt and trade dragons, to train and breed them, to get Dominance, and to play in the Coliseum.
@AngelaMyrna @DarkDragonwolf @OBNIXOLIS
Terms: (added some from Mizamazu)
RTT= Ready to Train refers to adult dragons
RTB= Ready to Breed
H= Hatchling
EXD= Exalted
Cryface= Crystal primary gene/ Facet secondary gene
Irishim= Iridescent primary gene/Shimmer secondary gene
xxy/xyx/yxx= The "x" refers to the same color. For example, an xxy dragon will have the same color for its primary and secondary genes and a different one for its tertiary gene. (See breeding below)
AH= Auction House
CR= Crossroads
WC= Wildclaw breed
PC= Pearlcatcher breed
There are two types of currency: treasure and gems. The exchange rate is about 1 gem: 650 treasure. I am going to speak only about treasure, the main currency.
How to make Treasure:
1. Visit your familiars every day to get treasure and chests.
To get cheap familiars, go into the Auction House under Shop, select Familiars, put "1" in the Price Range slot next to coin (so you'll only see familiars being sold for treasure), hit "Search", then, next to "Sort By" near the top, select "Price" (instead of Expiration). This will show you the cheapest familiars that are up for sale. There should always be some for under 4,000. You also get familiars by playing in the Coliseum and you can see which ones you get from each level here. Very rarely you will also find them by digging.
2. Play in the Fairgrounds (I prefer the Coliseum but this is a great starting point). Shockswitch and Artifracture give you the most treasure for your time, but see if you like the other games better. My favorite thing though is Higher/Lower, because it resets at the top of every hour and takes like a minute to do. Even if you only get half of them right, that's 650 treasure and it adds up.
3. Visit Pinkerton's Plundering Pile in the Trading Post for one free item each day. (This one's kinda obvious but thought I'd share anyway)
4. Visit Crim's Swap Stand in the Trading Post, which also resets at the top of every hour. Not all of her trades are good trades, so check the Auction House if you're not sure. She might offer you 500 for something that you could sell on the AH for a lot more. You won't have a lot of stuff in the beginning, but you'll get there.
5. Visit Tomo's Trivia every day and you can find the answers to her questions.
6. When your Flight achieves Dominance, go to the Marketplace and take advantage of the discounts. You'll make a ton of money just by buying and selling stuff on the Auction House. (More about Dominance below.)
7. Take advantage of Dom raffles! (See my section below on Raffles)
8. Sell cheap dragons. You can sell them on the Auction House by going to the dragon's page and selecting Auction on the top right. If you wait until they're grown, you can also sell it to trainers in your flight forums typically for 7-8kT.
9. Go to the Adoptions page if you haven't already to get lovely breeding dragons. Keep in mind you are not to resell or exalt these dragons! Or at least not until you've had them for a while.
10. Use the dragon trading thread to trade your fodder for nicer dragons. As a player with a lot of pretties and not a lot of fodder, I am often the person going yay! I got an ugly one! So it's fine.
11. Gather items every day. Once you have enough food, make sure to Scavenge and Dig every day. With Scavenge, you might get an unhatched egg worth quite a lot of moolah.
12. Convert cheap food, apparel, and materials into goo at Baldwin's Bubbling Brew in the Trading Post. Either keep it to make more stuff or sell it.
13. Play in the Coliseum, which leads me to...
Playing in the Coliseum
1. The Coliseum is the only way to level your dragons. The highest level is 25. I'm not the best at explaining this process so see my favorite guide for more information. (thank you culex for being awesome)
Click here for my guide to beating the Coliseum with two level 25s!
2. Borrow higher-level dragons in order to level your own. Basically just make a post with the title "Newbie needing lvl 23-25" and someone will come along with a dragon you can borrow. Emphasis on BORROW. Do NOT make permanent changes to these dragons without permission!! (I have several level 25s I can lend, as well.)
3. The Mire Flyer build is awesome for leveling fodder but that's for another time.
Striving for Dominance:
There is a good explanation of dominance at the top of the Forum but I'll summarize here: Within the context of the game, you are sending a dragon to serve the patron deity of your respective flight to fight against the Shade and the Beast Clans. (Go look that up if you're interested.)
What it means to you is that you take the dragon completely out of the game. That dragon is no longer in your lair. You cannot get it back. You can no longer breed it, etc. So, choose dragons you don't care about. But the nice thing is you get a little treasure for it. The higher the level of the dragon, the more you get. (Remember, the only way to level a dragon is to go to the Coliseum. I would recommend going for at least level 3 in the beginning, and level 6 later on.) To exalt a dragon, go to its page, remove all familiars, apparel, and skins and click Exalt to the top right next to Auction.
Whichever flight exalts the highest percentage of dragons for that week, they achieve Dominance for the next week and get sweet perks. See Dominance under Play to see who's winning!!
Basically, the three flights with the highest average of exalts per player get these benefits for the following week.
First place gets: 15% off Marketplace Treasure items, 5% off lair expansions, +1500 treasure each day, and 3 extra gathering turns per day.
Second place gets: 7% off Marketplace Treasure items, 1% off lair expansions, +750 treasure each day, and 2 extra gathering turns per day.
Third place gets: +375 treasure each day and 1 extra gathering turn per day
The biggest perk is the discount in the Marketplace. Buy a bunch of stuff and sell it for a profit in the Auction House. I've made a million treasure in a week doing that. You've gotta have coin to make coin, though.
Raffles:
So, this one will also be a bit difficult for a little while. Basically, go under the Forums page, select Raffles and look for one that says [DOM] in front of it. When a Flight pushes for dominance, there are two things they might do: host a Public Buy and/or a Raffle with some awesome prizes. You can't go wrong with either of these. Basically, the Flight wants fodder ie cheap dragons you don't want to breed or keep and they will give you money and raffle tickets for it! Have patience. Once you get a higher level dragon, leveling fodder will be a lot easier, and then you can exalt and sell a lot more.
For more help, see these awesome programs:
Mentor Program & the Family Flyers
Part II is below.
Hey! So I know a lot of this info can be found in the stickied notes at the top of the forum, but I've had quite a few people message me with questions so I thought I'd copy down a few things I've mentioned to newbies over the last few months.
Find out how to make treasure, to adopt and trade dragons, to train and breed them, to get Dominance, and to play in the Coliseum.
@AngelaMyrna @DarkDragonwolf @OBNIXOLIS
Terms: (added some from Mizamazu)
RTT= Ready to Train refers to adult dragons
RTB= Ready to Breed
H= Hatchling
EXD= Exalted
Cryface= Crystal primary gene/ Facet secondary gene
Irishim= Iridescent primary gene/Shimmer secondary gene
xxy/xyx/yxx= The "x" refers to the same color. For example, an xxy dragon will have the same color for its primary and secondary genes and a different one for its tertiary gene. (See breeding below)
AH= Auction House
CR= Crossroads
WC= Wildclaw breed
PC= Pearlcatcher breed
Part I: TREASURE AND DOMINANCE
There are two types of currency: treasure and gems. The exchange rate is about 1 gem: 650 treasure. I am going to speak only about treasure, the main currency.
How to make Treasure:
1. Visit your familiars every day to get treasure and chests.
To get cheap familiars, go into the Auction House under Shop, select Familiars, put "1" in the Price Range slot next to coin (so you'll only see familiars being sold for treasure), hit "Search", then, next to "Sort By" near the top, select "Price" (instead of Expiration). This will show you the cheapest familiars that are up for sale. There should always be some for under 4,000. You also get familiars by playing in the Coliseum and you can see which ones you get from each level here. Very rarely you will also find them by digging.
2. Play in the Fairgrounds (I prefer the Coliseum but this is a great starting point). Shockswitch and Artifracture give you the most treasure for your time, but see if you like the other games better. My favorite thing though is Higher/Lower, because it resets at the top of every hour and takes like a minute to do. Even if you only get half of them right, that's 650 treasure and it adds up.
3. Visit Pinkerton's Plundering Pile in the Trading Post for one free item each day. (This one's kinda obvious but thought I'd share anyway)
4. Visit Crim's Swap Stand in the Trading Post, which also resets at the top of every hour. Not all of her trades are good trades, so check the Auction House if you're not sure. She might offer you 500 for something that you could sell on the AH for a lot more. You won't have a lot of stuff in the beginning, but you'll get there.
5. Visit Tomo's Trivia every day and you can find the answers to her questions.
6. When your Flight achieves Dominance, go to the Marketplace and take advantage of the discounts. You'll make a ton of money just by buying and selling stuff on the Auction House. (More about Dominance below.)
7. Take advantage of Dom raffles! (See my section below on Raffles)
8. Sell cheap dragons. You can sell them on the Auction House by going to the dragon's page and selecting Auction on the top right. If you wait until they're grown, you can also sell it to trainers in your flight forums typically for 7-8kT.
9. Go to the Adoptions page if you haven't already to get lovely breeding dragons. Keep in mind you are not to resell or exalt these dragons! Or at least not until you've had them for a while.
10. Use the dragon trading thread to trade your fodder for nicer dragons. As a player with a lot of pretties and not a lot of fodder, I am often the person going yay! I got an ugly one! So it's fine.
11. Gather items every day. Once you have enough food, make sure to Scavenge and Dig every day. With Scavenge, you might get an unhatched egg worth quite a lot of moolah.
12. Convert cheap food, apparel, and materials into goo at Baldwin's Bubbling Brew in the Trading Post. Either keep it to make more stuff or sell it.
13. Play in the Coliseum, which leads me to...
Playing in the Coliseum
1. The Coliseum is the only way to level your dragons. The highest level is 25. I'm not the best at explaining this process so see my favorite guide for more information. (thank you culex for being awesome)
Click here for my guide to beating the Coliseum with two level 25s!
2. Borrow higher-level dragons in order to level your own. Basically just make a post with the title "Newbie needing lvl 23-25" and someone will come along with a dragon you can borrow. Emphasis on BORROW. Do NOT make permanent changes to these dragons without permission!! (I have several level 25s I can lend, as well.)
3. The Mire Flyer build is awesome for leveling fodder but that's for another time.
Striving for Dominance:
There is a good explanation of dominance at the top of the Forum but I'll summarize here: Within the context of the game, you are sending a dragon to serve the patron deity of your respective flight to fight against the Shade and the Beast Clans. (Go look that up if you're interested.)
What it means to you is that you take the dragon completely out of the game. That dragon is no longer in your lair. You cannot get it back. You can no longer breed it, etc. So, choose dragons you don't care about. But the nice thing is you get a little treasure for it. The higher the level of the dragon, the more you get. (Remember, the only way to level a dragon is to go to the Coliseum. I would recommend going for at least level 3 in the beginning, and level 6 later on.) To exalt a dragon, go to its page, remove all familiars, apparel, and skins and click Exalt to the top right next to Auction.
Whichever flight exalts the highest percentage of dragons for that week, they achieve Dominance for the next week and get sweet perks. See Dominance under Play to see who's winning!!
Basically, the three flights with the highest average of exalts per player get these benefits for the following week.
First place gets: 15% off Marketplace Treasure items, 5% off lair expansions, +1500 treasure each day, and 3 extra gathering turns per day.
Second place gets: 7% off Marketplace Treasure items, 1% off lair expansions, +750 treasure each day, and 2 extra gathering turns per day.
Third place gets: +375 treasure each day and 1 extra gathering turn per day
The biggest perk is the discount in the Marketplace. Buy a bunch of stuff and sell it for a profit in the Auction House. I've made a million treasure in a week doing that. You've gotta have coin to make coin, though.
Raffles:
So, this one will also be a bit difficult for a little while. Basically, go under the Forums page, select Raffles and look for one that says [DOM] in front of it. When a Flight pushes for dominance, there are two things they might do: host a Public Buy and/or a Raffle with some awesome prizes. You can't go wrong with either of these. Basically, the Flight wants fodder ie cheap dragons you don't want to breed or keep and they will give you money and raffle tickets for it! Have patience. Once you get a higher level dragon, leveling fodder will be a lot easier, and then you can exalt and sell a lot more.
For more help, see these awesome programs:
Mentor Program & the Family Flyers
Part II is below.