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More fish!!! That's the funniest reply remembering at the beginning we were over flooded with too much fish!!! You commend more than me, I usually have enough fish. It would be great if we could commend with Dragonstone as well, since I am a bit tired to craft battle items I will never use only not to waste it.

Since it started I commended a lot, about as much as I could since it's the "best" option to level your dragon which can take up to a year to do. For the first time ever today, I got a chalice. The one thing that was missing to level my sixth dragon. So was wondering who else got one? Bcs it sure was earned not given. And I am sure most are still earning! So drinks on me!

Personally, I hate Hotm, they take space and if you pull a lot you can have too much. There a way better heroes and it's not worth it to level them. That being said Mystia is my favorite bcs useful against Bearnadette but even then I never brought her to level 90, missing AA, and it's a risk to use her. Although if she can fire first what a relief! For sure they should keep costume for Hotm. I always wanted Perseus, and I finally got him, not sure how long it will take to level though. I also Maxed May but it would have been better to keep her at level 85. It was my first growth hero but now I have much better. It wouldn't have hurt the game to make her better. With the dupe thing it's tempting to level just to level fast but then you're stuck at level 70 bcs don't waste your ascension mats on that. I get that for other rosters it's not the same, and SG thinks of all it's players. But if anything they should make it fully leveled. This way it could be really exciting for most players giving it a reason why it's And for others it would be a leveling boost and 10 gems for the museum without wasting your precious mats. SG would not lose profit (for spenders it's a small by-product) and probably keep more players playing. Win/Win IMO

A rush to get over with it, and have the week free. Not a fan! Somehow it's the enemy's dragon that is getting the fast mana and heals all damage before I can kill anything. I got sick of it and fled for 3 of them and one I simply lost. One of my 5* wasn't fully leveled since purple is missing but the whole thing was a drag-on for me. I did fight the dragon with minion cats that was a bit funny... I also find that all raids you do there should count in your profile bcs they sure can take time, and don't bring much in return.

Before I fought in low top 100, what's harder and different in top 50 is that the "easy" defense teams to farm are hard ones for my lower teams. Sometimes there's one really easy but that's it, and it's a popular hit lol! In our last war it was full of hard cats. I felt overwhelmed. It was full of Salome, Ustad with cats, and cats with cats, Lane if he goes in his ghost form can be so annoying. (One time I had a ghost fight between Lane and Vernix and I lost. I thought "ghost fight! What's next?) I ended up doing better than I thought and be better prepared mentally for the next one. At first, I was hesitant to log in, while usually I welcome the challenge, lol! We ended up winning by more than everyone expected. I used to be able to predict who wins and lose just by seeing the defense teams but I can't do it in top 50 yet, the unknown makes it more interesting. And you definitely need to take your time bcs you can turn things around with a bad board, but you can also lose your nerve! and miss. I am not the strongest so many of the other players have 6 strong teams to take down cats, but there's no guarantee - so the luck and skill factor plays a big role on who will win too. And who cleans, or switch to cleaning. We play smart and have a great team, and it's not all alliances that have that. I love the idea of beating the 50% win ratio, and track data on that aspect of the game. The things I learned about the war score too, lol!

Fighting in top 50, and keeping track of what happens in top 10 I have to say Bearn is still a major threat. Even more so in Rush where she is top tank. There are more counters yes, but pair her with Ustad or Thaffer and glass needs to kill her fast, and your other heroes can't become paintings or it's over. And glass often fails to reflect the first time. Even somewhat easier (7800) Bearn can be tricky, one time we told players to hold off until later and they hit all 3 teams anyway. And they all failed with the first flag. And it wasn't Rush! I don't have so many counters myself. I have been leveling Aramis for months always getting other purple, I have Ahmose unleveled. No blue glass. One time in Rush I failed a hard Bearn with my best two teams. It was a 8200, I dare use Mystia at level 82, it was a 7300 team and just bcs of her finally killed it. I had just nicked it before and Bearn was intact. It's so much about luck. Meta heroes I have Freawaru, that one improved my defense team a lot. I have two Veer, the dodge is very useful even a Thaffer counter. Devyani, she is a Salome counter for me other than Freawaru. I hate Salome! It's the hero I want to kill ASAP! Elsbeth, I did win battles bcs of her alone. Vernix and Bhima are my other two heroes I swear by. Otherwise I love Ragrim but so often I have no green when I use him. I have Laurent but I find he dies too easily and often before cats which makes his passive a bit useless. Dularfur is still an amazing healer, so useful she is fast and a great Vernix counter. And one of my favorite hero is Li Kui. I have 3 Regin so that used to be my go to hero for a long time, but I didn't get the costume and now I find he dies too easily so I keep him for easier teams and recently, he dies too easily there too.

I have 11 5* dragons. 4 fully leveled, and soon I will have a rainbow team. I will only be able to fight rainbow for a long time still. I overcommend as much as possible... And still I am missing mats. I have 3 Dragonstone pendant but 0 chalice. For purple that's the only thing I am missing but all the others it's a lot more. When you commend you so often only get a legendary token. Usually I pull right away hoping for a 4* to overcommend more. One time I pulled the hotm and it was a dupe but fun for commending. I have this theory that if you commend successively you'll get better rewards. It worked once but usually I don't bother to wait to have enough of one color. I should wait for pulling especially with the ancient dragon, but don't care enough to want another impossible 5* to level. I never pulled an ancient 5* dragon. I got Primula thanks to the bug with the training camps. Even if I did pull one no excitement there. In Sky Fire the dragons still don't bother me too much although now there's one that reduce mana. I didn't attack it in the last war, and now I am warned about it. Even then, can't say I would cheer getting it... There will be far better out there when I finished leveling.

I like all mimics and would love to have them all. One amazing improvement would be if we could use ten mimics for farming at once, I find it hard to know which one to use. Or have a "Double Loot Day" mimic since many times they come back empty. Until yesterday, I only had one Ascension Mimic, which I’ve been using in all my farming teams. I was lucky to get purple as it's the color I have the most heroes of. Despite that, I’m still missing tabards. For emblems I have two and the one I need the least Monk! Having 13000 emblems, lol! But we can never have too many ME. And I do need the others. I have one troop mimic and started to use it today. I did get a two star trainer with 3 WE I think. I do need to level more troops so I might use that one a lot. I have 4 experience mimics and I used them a lot until the aether mimic came out. But I was lucky with aethers mimic, I got 4. All but red. What I need the most and find the most exciting to get are AA so I prioritize those. And since they are so scarce I do keep track of how many I get and from which color. Up to this point. Yellow: 2 Blue: 1 Purple: 0 Green: 0 “Yellow keeps winning… guess I’m the biggest lemon in Alpha Aethers ” I’d love to hear about your results! Which colors do you prefer? Which mimics do you swear by?

Today I hit the 300 summons milestone and got my 15 gems. Then the game hit me with the next mission: 500 summons for 30 gems. At first I panicked… then I realized: 300 summons → 15 gems 500 summons → 30 gems Clearly, the rewards are improving. This is a totally sound investment. By my calculations: 1,000 summons → financial freedom 5,000 summons → legendary riches 10,000 summons → retirement package from Dragonspire. Honestly, at this rate, I’m pretty sure I’ll soon own Dragonspire itself. The system is flawless. So my question to everyone else: How deep into this summoning rabbit hole have you gone? Are you already a gem billionaire, or still climbing the “totally reasonable” mission ladder with me?