Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33060987-20170912224208

For new players,

I have been a dragon ball fan for over 25 years. This game is great for all dragon ball fans, people who aren't, or maybe just curious, or maybe just like these kind of games. Why am I making this guide; it is because I see a lot of misinformation out there, lots of crap advice that would send any player up the wall, and A LOT and I mean A LOT of people who feel like you have to spend money on this game in order for it to be good or get stuff. I want people to continue to play this game for a long time. I don't want people to abandon it because they don't have money. Look this is a free game, yes you can spend money if you want, but if you are like  most of us you don't have a lot of extra money to be spending on games, especially an app game when you can go buy by a way better game with your hard earned money. So what is this guide for? It is for you to maximize your experience with this game, to get you to keep playing it for as long as possible, and to do it for as cheaply as possible.

You are probably wondering why you are wanting to listen to me in the first place, and that this is a fair question. After all why is my advice better than anyone else out there? I'm going to show you all the characters that I have acquired in this game. I started playing this game this year towards the end of february.

All the characters I have with the exception of LR Gohan are availabe for anyone to get. Some are harder than others, but all these characters can be yours too. Even LR Gohan, that was just a lucky draw, there is no advice for luck and I have only ever seen his summoning event once, but everybody else on this list is available and not needing a super amount of luck or money.

WHAT TEAM SHOULD I FORM? WHEN SHOULD I DRAW?

These are important questions and the first that every new player asks. What are the best characters, and what team should I form? When the best character is SS4 Goku when he is his own leader or a leader that will equally give him a 150% attack increase along with his passive skill attack increase and this character is easily hitting for a million damage without any other enhancements. ss4 vegeta can get close and than ss4 gogeta. These characters easily hit for a million damage or close to a million damage on their own without links or other power ups, with links and such they are hitting for much much higher.

But these three characters are new they just came out, so you don't need them to be successful, I didn't. This was my team when I first started this game and knew nothing about it, i had a kid gohan sr was strongest awakening

some krillin that goes SR

Tien my best character at SSR

Piccolo at SSR

and I honestly don't remember the other crappy cards I was using. But I didn't know they sucked, I played as them and leveled them and didn't cry about it.

Here is the thing, if you are a new player or around a new player it doesn't matter if you get all the best cards in the game you can't use them because your team cost is so low and they are so high, so why even worry about these cards in the beginning? My point is you shouldn't. Worry about leveling up, learning the game, the attacks, the links, the ins and outs of dokkan.

Your dragon stones are your most important asset in this game, dont waste them or you will have to buy more, and the point is not to buy anything but to continue to play for free. If you have to buy stones than you have too, the next part is to keep the purchases to a minimum so you don't go bankrupt. So using your stones to summon of pointless banners is going to cost you stones in a hurry.

THE ONLY BANNERS you should be summoning on are special banners that involve multiple characters. NEVER summom on single banners, examples like TEQ, INT, STR, etc, or banners like Cooler that is currently going. The reason is that the cards offered in these banners are limited, not that cooler isnt a great card or that you won't find great cards in the TEQ banners and so on, its that you will find all these characters and so much more in special banners that come all the time, so be patient and save those stones for when it matters.

Now the time comes to summon and you are unsure if you shoudl summon MULTI or SINGLE. You should be summoning SINGLE as to save stones. There is no better draw rate in the multi summons. When you should summon multi are on special banners that cut the cost from 50 to say 30 or 40 and than offer you a free spin too. These are helpful and great way to get lots of great characters, After though return to single summoning at a cost of 5 crystals as opposed to 50. Like I said the drop rates are the same, but you can run out of crystals really quickly multi summoning. About 90% of the characters have come from single summominig but again it comes to luck, if you are lucky in multi summoning go for it, my guide isn't to tell you  how to play to maximize your crystals and chances.

NOW TO BUILD YOUR TEAM

There is no ultimate team in dokkan. If you look at my characters and you take your favourites and put them together you are probably going to get destroyed. Do they link? If they link what kind of links do they do? Can all your characters link together no  matter the order they go in? These are important factors to consider.

The next factor is type. Type matters, opposite types are going to get worked over hard and fast. Use this to your advantage for both offence and defence.

A common thing I see all the time is, what team should I make to use in this event or that one? This is easy the game tells you what characters you need to take into the events. Read the event descriptions, they are not lying to you or keeping things from you. The game wants you to play and keep playing and collect characters so they are literally telling you the characters you need or the skills that you need. Think of these events like a megaman game. You can form a team and beat the event but it is a lot easier to beat the boss with the skill you need to kill him, like megaman, so don't waste unnecessary crystals on events that you think are extremely hard that if you had the neccerassy characters with the skills the event is crazy easy.

The best example is the Broly event. I can do this event with ss4 goku, vegeta,ss4 gogeta, normal goegta and super vegito, none of them has the skill you need to disable brolys rampage, but each character I listed above can kill broly in one move when his rampage isn't activated and he doesnt hit them hard enough for me to worry about dieing so I can wait him out until rampage is gone. Now you probably don't have these characters and neither did I when I first played the event. Get the rampage disabling characters, they are given out in events and through the summons, and yes they suck, but agianst broly they destroy him and the event is ridicously easy. All events are like this, use the proper characters even if you dont like them or they suck because hey spending zero dragon crystals is better than spending 10 on continues.

That takes me to my last point. You will here lots of people say get the free cards or the free cards suck or use terms F2P cards. Well there is no such thing as a free card and a non free card or a F2P card and a non F2P card. You CAN'T buy cards in this game. Some cards will come from the summon banners, and some will come from events. But the ones that come from events are no less "free" than the ones you get from the banners. For example Goku Jr the latest F2P card apparently. Sure he is given away in the event but get this. My stamina is 145 as you see and it took me 4 crystals to fully level this guy up and get him 100%, that is a lot of stamina to be used, for people that arent as high as me, obviously they will have used more dragon crystals to complete this character. So does this sound like a free character? I would much rather have summoned the character and saved the endless grind and crystals. So every character comes at a cost.

Don't let people put your cards down. Every card is going to be good for some kind of event or another. Be smart with your Kais, use them on heavy hitters, and not just characters you like. Beyond SA 6 you don't need to go further unless you have duplicates or the character gets super stronger from having a maxed SA, the reason is, Kais are limited and you want many characters to be able to go along the hidden potential grid. These characters should be maxed special attack, gogeta, ss4 goku, ss4 gogeta, ss4 vegeta, super vegito, these characters are massively destructive and can single handly win.

Take advantage of quest mode when it gives extra experience. Team cost and stamina are your best friends. More stamina equals less crystal use which means you can play the game longer.

I want you to keep playing for as long as possible and not go broke doing it. Use my guide, use your characters to their max potential and you too will be playing for a long time and for as little cost as possible.

NOW FOR THOSE A-HOLES THAT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS GUIDE, go spend as much money as you want, im not telling you not too, if you are rich and spend copious amounts of money on an app game, than really all I can say is that Im jealous, because I'm F'n poor and can not spend what little money I have on this game, but I still like it and want to play it, and as such I'm sure most people are like me, poor and can not take what little money they have and spend it on an app, but they still want to play. I want them to have the best experience and I will help them get there, you guys apparently need to spend lots of money to get these results, or worse, but for the rest of us, you can get results like I have for no money or little money and have a great time playing and learning this game. Keep at it, have fun, form all sorts of different teams. Good guys can go with bad guys, mix it up, go wild, all that really matters is the skill links, good luck have gun guys and girls. 