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Welcome initiate. Dark Summoners conjure powerful monsters and use them in against CPU players in missions and events and in battles with other summoners. Your monsters have several important characteristics:
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Welcome initiate. Dark Summoners conjure powerful monsters and use them in against CPU players in missions and events and in battles with other summoners.
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==Player resources==
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*[[Energy]]
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*[[Battle Points]]
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==Monster Characteristics==
   
'''Attack: '''This shows how much damage they will do in battle.
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*'''Attack: '''This shows how much damage they will do in battle.
   
'''Defense: '''This modifies how much damage is done to them in battle.
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*'''Defense: '''This modifies how much damage is done to them in battle.
   
'''Hit Points: '''Lose all these and the monster will no longer participate in the battle.
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*'''Hit Points: '''Lose all these and the monster will no longer participate in the battle.
   
All three of these characteristics are renewed at the beginning of any battles.
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All three of these characteristics are renewed at the beginning of any battles. 
   
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''Additional info: ''[[Agility]]
In addition, monsters have level, battle point cost and a letter grade. The battle point cost indicates how many battle points will be required to use the monster in a formation. The letter grade is an indication of a monster's rarity (C is common, while AA+ is rare), it also indicates the potential maximum level of the monster. You will be able to raise monster levels by sacrificing uneeded monsters to give the monsters experience.
 
   
 
In addition, monsters have level, battle point cost and a letter grade. The battle point cost indicates how many battle points will be required to use the monster in a formation. The letter grade is an indication of a monster's rarity (C is common, while AA+ is rare), it also indicates the potential maximum level of the monster. You will be able to raise monster levels by sacrificing unneeded monsters to give the monsters experience.
Finally, some monsters have special skills. These skills can also be leveled (by sacrificing a single monster with the same skill).
 
   
 
Finally, some monsters have special [[Skill|skills]] . These skills can also be leveled (by sacrificing a single monster with the same skill).
Throughout your journey as a summoner, you will need to manage two important resources, energy and battle points.
 
'''Energy '''is used to do missions, attack raid monsters and to do event missions. These are the basic uses of energy. The amount of energy you consume doing a mission is stated, but the cost tends to rise the more you progress in the missions or in the events. Although there are some points when the cost decreases, the general tendency is for it to rise. Investing in energy currently is one of the most efficient ways to level up, gain monsters and gain power, this may change in future meta changes.
 
   
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==Selling==
Note: Energy regenerates every 3 minutes (180 seconds), this can be further decreased, causing it to regenerate faster, by expanding the number of monsters catalogued. The best regen is 180-33 seconds, or 147 seconds, or about a 20% improvement.
 
 
When selling a monster the gold you receive is proportional to the monster's BP. For example, selling a monster with 10 BP will result in a sale of 1000 gold while a 1 BP monster will net only 100 gold. This does not aply to gold golem or silver golems which are sold for 2012 (silver golem), 4024 (silver golem+), 8048 (gold golem) and 16092 (gold golem+); other golems sell for the normal amount. In addition, this does not apply to spirits of wisdom and enlightenment, who sell for 100 gold despite having 100+ BP. When selling a monster which has a skill and/or is rank A or higher the game will warn you if you are sure to sell the monster, even though you will be presented with a overview of the monsters selected to sell before any transaction is made.
 
'''BP (battle points)''': Works the same as energy but its only used in PVP battles, or in certain events. It can be increased like energy. The amount you consume is equal to the amount of BP your formation has. Having a high BP generally shows you as a potentially tougher opponenet, which may help to discourage other players from farming your gold through attacking you. The BP of your formation is solely determined by the sum of the BP's of all the monsters in your current formation, which cannot exceed your BP cap. Mainly is just for meeting the BP requirements for your formation the rewards from battling isnt as high as missions, although some battles could reward you with a much higher gold reward than from missions, but since it regenerates so fast its use now is only for battle related events.
 
 
Note: BP regenerates every 60 second, it can be further decreased like your energy, but is more difficult to decrease, since it requires cataloguing A rank monsters, which are more difficult to find. However, it should be noticed that a maxed out achievement for cataloguing A rank monsters can increase BP regeneration by almost a factor of 2, doubling BP intake in an hour.
 
 
 
'''Selling''': When selling a monster the gold you recieve is proportional to the monster's BP. For example, selling a monster with 10 BP will result in a sale of 1000 gold while a 1 BP monster will net only 100 gold. This does not aply to gold golem or silver golems which are sold for 2012 (silver golem), 4024 (silver golem+), 8048 (gold golem) and 16092 (gold golem+); other golems sell for the normal amount. In addition, this does not apply to spirits of wisdom and enlightment, who sell for 1000 gold despite having 100+ BP. When selling a monster which has a skill and/or is rank A or higher the game will warn you if you are sure to sell the monster, even though you will be presented with a overview of the monsters selected to sell before any transaction is made.
 
 
When you are low on gold try selling your high BP monsters and leave the lower level BP monster for sacrificing. Note that sacrifising is only recomended for monster which have rank B+ or higher, the lower rank monsters are for either gold or victims of the sacrifices. Sacrifice rank C,C+, some B and B+ to level up your rank B+ or higher monsters.
 
 
 
 
'''Acheivements''': Are earned by collecting certain numbers of various types of monsters. The achievement levels can be found in collections or in the help area under acheivements. The rewards rise the more levels you accomplish in these achievments which can range from faster energy regeration or gold per hour to higher exp gain from sacrifices.
 
   
 
When you are low on gold try selling your high BP monsters and leave the lower level BP monster for sacrificing. Note that leveling through sacrifice is only recommended for monsters which have rank B+ or higher, the lower rank monsters are for either gold or victims of the sacrifices. Sacrifice rank C, C+, some B and B+ to level up your rank B+ or higher monsters.
   
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==Achievements==
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*[[Achievement|Achievements list]]
 
Are earned by collecting certain numbers of various types of monsters. The achievement levels can be found in collections or in the help area under achievements. The rewards rise the more levels you accomplish in these achievements which can range from faster energy regeneration or gold per hour to higher exp gain from sacrifices.
   
 
When you created your account you should have received a number of various types of summons, if you didn't use them, do so now. These will give you an initial group of monsters to use.
 
When you created your account you should have received a number of various types of summons, if you didn't use them, do so now. These will give you an initial group of monsters to use.
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After this you'll want to sacrifice your newly found low level monsters, and may want to do a battle.
 
After this you'll want to sacrifice your newly found low level monsters, and may want to do a battle.
   
A few general strategy tips:
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==General strategy tips==
 
You'll probably receive some My Energy Point Potions and My Battle Point potions as well as regular energy potions(EP) and battle potions(BP). Be cautious in using your "my" potions right away, since your timers will refill both quickly and you're likely to level (and refill both) quite frequently in the early game. '''DO NOT USE EP OR BP UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND THEIR VALUE'''. When you do start using them pay attention to your experience meter, as it's somewhat of a waste to use a potion when one is only a short way from leveling up.
 
You'll probably receive some MyEnergyPoint Potions and MyBattlePoint potions. Be cautious in using them right away, since your timers will refill both quickly and you're likely to level (and refill both) quite frequently in the early game. When you do start using them pay attention to your experience meter, as it's somewhat of a waste to use a potion when one is only a short way from levelling up.
 
   
 
Once you begin receiving A level monsters, try to level them to A+ level before sacrificing too many additional monsters to them, as their level and skills with both be reset to 1 when they are evolved.
 
Once you begin receiving A level monsters, try to level them to A+ level before sacrificing too many additional monsters to them, as their level and skills with both be reset to 1 when they are evolved.
   
Once you have more than 4-5 A or A+ level monsters you'll want to start thinking about how to earn combos and guild achievements with your formation. This is an excellent time to begin trading for mosters you can use. Evolution is generally expensive for newer players, so make sure you want to use the evolved form of the monster as you'll generally not earn a profit on the evolution cost in trading. Almost everyone who plays for a decent amount of time has more than enough A and A+ level monsters.
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Once you have more than 4-5 A or A+ level monsters you'll want to start thinking about how to earn [[Combo]]s and guild achievements with your formation. This is an excellent time to begin trading for monsters you can use. [[Evolution]] is generally expensive for newer players, so make sure you want to use the evolved form of the monster as you'll generally not earn a profit on the evolution cost in trading. Almost everyone who plays for a decent amount of time has more than enough A and A+ level monsters.
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 09:45, 23 August 2014

Welcome initiate. Dark Summoners conjure powerful monsters and use them in against CPU players in missions and events and in battles with other summoners.

Player resources[]

Monster Characteristics[]

  • Attack: This shows how much damage they will do in battle.
  • Defense: This modifies how much damage is done to them in battle.
  • Hit Points: Lose all these and the monster will no longer participate in the battle.

All three of these characteristics are renewed at the beginning of any battles. 

Additional info: Agility

In addition, monsters have level, battle point cost and a letter grade. The battle point cost indicates how many battle points will be required to use the monster in a formation. The letter grade is an indication of a monster's rarity (C is common, while AA+ is rare), it also indicates the potential maximum level of the monster. You will be able to raise monster levels by sacrificing unneeded monsters to give the monsters experience.

Finally, some monsters have special skills . These skills can also be leveled (by sacrificing a single monster with the same skill).

Selling[]

When selling a monster the gold you receive is proportional to the monster's BP. For example, selling a monster with 10 BP will result in a sale of 1000 gold while a 1 BP monster will net only 100 gold. This does not aply to gold golem or silver golems which are sold for 2012 (silver golem), 4024 (silver golem+), 8048 (gold golem) and 16092 (gold golem+); other golems sell for the normal amount. In addition, this does not apply to spirits of wisdom and enlightenment, who sell for 100 gold despite having 100+ BP. When selling a monster which has a skill and/or is rank A or higher the game will warn you if you are sure to sell the monster, even though you will be presented with a overview of the monsters selected to sell before any transaction is made.

When you are low on gold try selling your high BP monsters and leave the lower level BP monster for sacrificing. Note that leveling through sacrifice is only recommended for monsters which have rank B+ or higher, the lower rank monsters are for either gold or victims of the sacrifices. Sacrifice rank C, C+, some B and B+ to level up your rank B+ or higher monsters.

Achievements[]

Are earned by collecting certain numbers of various types of monsters. The achievement levels can be found in collections or in the help area under achievements. The rewards rise the more levels you accomplish in these achievements which can range from faster energy regeneration or gold per hour to higher exp gain from sacrifices.

When you created your account you should have received a number of various types of summons, if you didn't use them, do so now. These will give you an initial group of monsters to use.

Once you've summoned all the possible monsters, it's time to put them in a formation for battling. Scroll down to the bottom of the home page and find the formations button. In the beginning auto-arranging your monsters is probably the easiest way to get started, but feel free to experiment with your group. The leader monster has increased stats which should prolong its survival in battles.

Now it's time to use your monsters. The first thing you will likely want to do are missions. Clicking the missions button will take you to the first mission area:

The Eerie Breezy Plains. The first mission will be selected (indicated with a knife in the map). Click on the do it button to begin the mission. You will advance the mission and may receive a reward. Continue until you've done enough missions to use all your energy or tire of doing missions.

After this you'll want to sacrifice your newly found low level monsters, and may want to do a battle.

General strategy tips[]

You'll probably receive some My Energy Point Potions and My Battle Point potions as well as regular energy potions(EP) and battle potions(BP). Be cautious in using your "my" potions right away, since your timers will refill both quickly and you're likely to level (and refill both) quite frequently in the early game. DO NOT USE EP OR BP UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND THEIR VALUE. When you do start using them pay attention to your experience meter, as it's somewhat of a waste to use a potion when one is only a short way from leveling up.

Once you begin receiving A level monsters, try to level them to A+ level before sacrificing too many additional monsters to them, as their level and skills with both be reset to 1 when they are evolved.

Once you have more than 4-5 A or A+ level monsters you'll want to start thinking about how to earn Combos and guild achievements with your formation. This is an excellent time to begin trading for monsters you can use. Evolution is generally expensive for newer players, so make sure you want to use the evolved form of the monster as you'll generally not earn a profit on the evolution cost in trading. Almost everyone who plays for a decent amount of time has more than enough A and A+ level monsters.