Day 28 - 4 weeks gone

I decided to write an update about how things are going with my alt.
The account is still exciting, but progression slowed down and also luck dropped a little.

I did a lot of farming for runes and essences.

This is my current status:
- Reached lvl 31 yesterday
- Can farm UG5 essence dungeons, UG6 Hall of Magic
- Cannot pass UG4 giants and UG3 dragon, however these stages are really easy now

This is my box as of today at lunch time:

My plans for the next weeks are:
- Evolve Magic Knight, Succubus, Undine, and Joker
- Level up fusion food, Sharon, and Bernard
- Perform Veromos fusion after October rune removal day

P.S. Later that day, I pulled a fire Monkey King from a single glory shop MS :-D

DAY 18 - today's the day ...

... I need to write an update :-D

Today's premium pack revealed my first nat 5* - Raki, the fire Hell Lady.
I am really pleased, existed, whatever :-D

In addition, the pack contained a water Pirate Captain, who is rated very high!

I just need to share my joy and document this glorious day!

Achievements since previous post:
- Chloe evolved to 5*
- fire Succubus within MS - all 4* fusion food for Veromos is now complete ;-)
- first island hell mode completed
- Megan evoked

I farmed enough wind to evoke the vampire (magic essences missing). Dragon UG3 runs on auto.
All mons exept the very new are runed.

Day 14

DAY 14

Two weeks now. This is the last day, I will give you daily reports of my achievements. I expect that the progress will now slow down.
I will do a lot of EXP and rune farming for all of my new monsters.

Today started with giants. Still not able to do UG4 reliably with one low level monster in the group.
I switched to Telain Forest hell mode. Many of the new monsters need tempo runes, so this is killing two birds with one stone ;-)

I foddered some of my angelmons into Megan and Ahman. Ahman went to 4* just before lunch ;-)

Megan and Bella went to 4*, Bella also got evoked and runed (violent focus :-D)
Chloe, wind Samurai and fire Joker got there runes, too.

By the end of the day, I completed Telain hell mode with some friends.

Tomorrow will be first EXP boost time. You will see weekly updates in future.

Day 13

DAY 13

Sunday - Hall of Light
Time to comb through all chats to find open secret dungeons for the light trio (Ahman, Belladeon, Darion).
I don't like spammming... really awful. Farming these three dungeons made me sleep terrible, having bad dreams.

The day started fine - Bearman dungeon in my current chat, friendship request accepted, Bearman farmed within one dungeon time (with help of my friends). :-)
Additionally, the collected cristals were enough to buy a premium summoning pack.
Water Epikion Priest - next one, okay; lots of fodder - well, I need them to evolve my light trio anyway; water Mystical Witch - hey, nice, need her; lightning .... and .... CHLOE - YESSS - I will now not waste time to level water priest, but fodder them all to Chloe :-D; fire Griffon - Bernard is thankful.
Last MS again showed lightning - evoked wind Mystical Witch. Just fodder :-/

Inugami dungeons hardly showed up. I managed to get into one, but only 35 min left. This was not enough to farm him completely, ended up at 28 of 40 pieces.

The following hours were like I suspected ... hardly any Inugami dungeons (I had an overview of 3 channels at least, together with my boyfriend. And my gildies also helped me.)
In case of a dungeon, the spam was hard  - in the majority of cases, they already had no space left or the leftover space was filled with lvl 35+, not with me low level 24 with Ramagos rep....

In the meantime, I accidentally looked into the secret dungeon place and noticed, one of my friends just found a Vagabond SD (56 min left).
Waiting for any Inugami SD or farming the Vagabond? Inugami is more important, but farming Vagabond without searching SD is a real chance.

I decided to farm that Vagabond. No AOE friends left, so I did it all alone. Usually, completed stage 6, sometimes only stage 5. All auto mode to save time, which is more important than energy for light SD.
I completed 40 pieces 1:30 min before the end of the SD :-) all alone :-)

Afterwards, I had to wait for some hours, before I eventually got accepted into Inugami SD again. The remaining pieces could be farmed in short time.

Finished my light trio after approximately 8 hours!

This was my SD team: Teon (L), Ramagos, Tagaros, water Magic Knight, Raoq

In between the SD, I farmed Hall of Light (essences and rare chance to find SD by myself) at UG5. I did some energy refill in the evening after completing the light trio, to collect enough light essences for all of them.
I was therefore able to evoke the Bearman today, lacking magic essences for Vagabond and Inugami.

Arena was not my focus, but ended up above 1100. That's okay. Chloe will make life easier in future.

Achievements day 13:
- Light trio completed - no further SD farming on Sundays, unless I need a fairy in future.
- Bearman evoked
- first top tier 4* CHLOE :-D

Day 12

DAY 12

The daily reward MS showed lightning .... wind Samurai. Not too bad!
I was able to finalize Siz hell mode today.

The day went by with farming magic essences, runes, and levelling fodder.
Raoq went to 5* that way :-)

Nothing special that day.

Day 11

DAY 11

Starting with summoning pack, which dropped Fire Inugami (5-starring Raoq fodder), fire Fairy (not sure about her) and wind Harpy (keep?).
Later, a shop MS showed lightning.... water Lich *noooooo*

My friends helped me to finalize Faimon hard, so I can start leveling with them in Faimon Hell now :-D
I also completed Garen hell mode with some friends' reps, but I should be able to do that alone in the case I don't want to level up fodder at the same time.

Farming magic essences allowed me to evoke Tagaros in preparation for SD farming on Sunday.
By the end of the day, the magic essences were enough to also evoke Rina and Bernard.

A single MS dropped a fire Joker - I own half of Veromos and half of Sigmarus now ;-)

Achievements day 11:
- Faimon hard and Garen hell completed
- Tagaros, Hina and Bernard evoked

Day 10

DAY 10

Hall of Wind today is really important., especially for Shannon, but also for Bernard and the wind Amazon.
It took some time to evoke Shannon and even more to gather further wind essences. I could not decide, who to evoke first, Bernard or Hina (should start remembering her name). Maybe, Hall of Magic will drop further wind essences.
What I got - lots of power-up stones, US, MS (fodder), summoning stones, and lots over lots of SDs.
And, really surprising, I got 5 high essences, too o.O

By the end of the day, I had Shannon evoked and enough wind essences to evoke either Bernard or Hina. Hmpf.

Day 9

DAY 9

Again, cristals for wishing :-D
Summoning pack revealed wind Golem, fire Drunken Master and wind Harpy (skillup for fire).
Started farming water essences during breakfast. Lots of US and some power-up stones again.
One US gave me wind Beast Hunter. So, who to build first, Beast Hunter or Amazon?

Water Garuda could be evoked by the end of breakfast however :-D
I ended up farming water after getting enough water essences for the water fairy. However, she will only get evoked in the case I got leftover magic essences.

Achievements day 9:
- able to farm giants UG4 now
- Konamiya evoked
- Konamiya and Colleen evolved to 4*
- Ragamos can now farm Hydeni 5 hell (I only got there by friends' reps)

Day 8

DAY 8

This experiment started one week ago. For me, it is both shorter and longer than that ;)

Wishing Well was nice and spent some cristals, so I took a summoning pack again.
Resulted in water Golem (food), water Barbaric King (another water DD, but nice) and fire Griffon (skillup).

Goals for today: At least evoke Roaq and Colleen.

Colleen was not an issue, as she has low requirements. Made Hall of Fire UG4 without reps and evoked the fire Harpu right after breakfast :-)
Raoq took a bit longer, as Hall of Fire kept dropping Angelmons, Summoning Stones, Power-up Stones and US...

After investing all of my energy backups, I could also evoke the Inferno with help of fusion (and after farming magic essences). I stipped that, no need to do any fusion before the weekend starts. Maybe Hall of Magic will drop further fire essences.

One US appeared to be wind Amazon. This could probably be the wind DD I was waiting for. Nice leader skill, too.

Today was the day I realized that the coming weekend should be all attributes o.O This is hard for farming light trio...

Achievements day 8:
- Harpu and Inugami evoked
- Inferno will follow later by fusion

Day 7

DAY 7

One week of summoning ... time went fast.
Started again with a small summoning pack. LIGHTNING... showed a water Ninja ... again.
Seems that I should keep one and use one for fusion.
The other ones were fire Amazon and wind Penguinknight. Amazon is fine because of her leader skill. But its a fire DD again. And it needs to be awakened for the leader skill.
As I was not yet interested in dark essences, I kept farming giants and magic essences today.
I managed to max lvl the last fodder for the evolution of Ramagos. So Ramagos went to 5* around lunch time :-D

The afternoon showed up with a nice MS dropping water Undine. Wow, I do have half of Veromos now *g*  I also got 5 power up stones inadvertendly, while my main account was farming Faimon normal for hours without one...
US summoning gave me fire Taoist (food) and water Epikion Priest (nice in the beginning).
That seemed to consume all of my luck, as there were only shitty runes all day.

I now have 5 water healer type mons: Elucia, Rina, Vigor, Konamiya, and Mikene. Should I keep all of them?

Fire is manned by several good DDs so far. No need of further DDs (therefore Taoist food).

Wind is difficult. Two support type 4*, Bernard, Ramagos and Shannon. And the Vampire. Will he be able to fulfil the role of a DD?

I went on farming magic essences, which went fine. My mons were able to farm UG5. Got 2 highs together with a good amount of mids and lows. The energy rewards of the power-up stones event helped ;-)

Achievements day 7:
- first 5* Ramagos
- Hall of Magic UG5

Day 6

DAY 6

Sunday, day of the holy Hall of Light ;-)
Maybe, next week I would be one of those players again, hunting for SDs in chat rooms like crazy...

In the morning, I proceeded leveling with the remaing EP boost. I took a small summoning pack for 225 cristals, which showed water Martial Artist, Water Inferno, Water High Elemental.
Too many water mobs again.
Martial Artist could be nice. Inferno is food for fire. High Elemental ... well, I need to evolve a lot.

After the end of the boost, I farmed light essences to awaken the light Garuda. More heals and revive is very useful. I could do light dungeon UG 1, 2, 3, and 4 (manually), so farmed at 3.
One drop was a pixie SD, which I decided to try once, just to get a feeling how far I would be away from farming Bearman and Inugami SD.
I was really suprised to proceed to stage 6, where I died. Seems legit to say I can start farming next week.

I got 2 Pixies out of US today. To serve 3* fodder, I started leveling them to evolve Shannon to 4*.

After reaching lvl 21, I had to notice that this is the end of limited arena... Now there are lots of lvl 40 players farming me :-( What a pity this happens at the arena evaluation day. I dropped from 1200 to 1030 in the course of the day.

Achievements day 6:
- Light Garuda awakened
- Shannon as well as 2 fodder evolved to 4*

Conclusion: I am a little bit disappointed that Ramagos could not fulfil his role as my farmer yet. On the other hand, I see progress every day.

Day 5

DAY 5

24h EP Boost at my main ... so I decided to do EP Boost also at my alternate.

A cristal summoning in the morning gave me fire Inferno, which is nice with some AOE.

I started working through all the hard modes after Kabir. With the help of some friends I was able to finalize the complete first island :-D

Unfortunately, my Ramagos could not farm Hydeni 5 hard at 4* close to max lvl. I guess the reason is he had no skillups at second and third skill.
In default of a fix farming stage, I tried Garen hell. Managed it quite easily o.O. Siz hell was not hard either. This helped me a lot to raise Raoq, Bernard and the fire inferno to 4*
I decided to invest into some fodder to allow me to evolve Ramagos to 5* soon. 

Achievements day 5:
- Hard mode first island completed
- Hell mode first and second scenario completed
- Raoq, Bernard and the fire inferno 4*

Conclusion: I am now at level 20. The achievements I made in five days had taken months on my first account.

Day 4

DAY 4

I started the day with a premium pack :-D

Noticable summons: Wind griffon (yeah, no tamor farming for me), wind epikion priest (keep for skillups) and wind vampire (mediocre 4*, but take it and then use it up for Veromos fusion later...)

Not very impressive.

I decided to level up my mons at faimon hard 1 using friends reps. Starting to farm for Raoq slowly.
Maybe I should look at it as a compensation: Raoq dropped at the second run :-D

He was - of course - a staple right from the start.

I managed to finalize Kabir Hard (searching for good runes), leveling both Ramagos and Raoq.

Some giant runs dropped two MS besides of some useful runes (UG3 showed a lot of 3* runes and some 2* and 4* runes up to now).

A lot of US later I had few skillups for Ramagos - who only went to the first skill *grrr*. However, because of very frequent use he went to 3* max and then to 4* this day.

At the end of the day, the shop was nice and finally gave me Shannon :-D

Achievements day 4:
- Kabir Hard finished
- Raoq, Bernard and Shannon obtained

Conclusion:
I obtained all the key farmable units (Ramagos, Shannon, Bernard, Raoq, Konamiya) within the first 4 days. That's amazing! 

Take a look at my monster box of day 4 (without clear fodder):

Day 3

DAY 3

Wind dungeon day! Really important due to Ramagos and Shannon, which I will hopefully own soon.

I proceeded with the scenarios of the second island as soon as good reps were available. I was therefore able to finalize Faimon normal in the evening.
LD scroll gave me light lizardman. Could have been better... but also worse. Seems to be a good damage dealer, versatile because of its element.

The intermediate pack was offered to me. I decided to take only the cheaper one with the awakening scroll and some cristalls. Together with the daily cristalls, the next day would give me my first premium pack :-D

The remaining energy went into hall of wind and giants keep. My goal was to have enough wind essences to awaken Ramagos as soon as I got him.
Essence farming was weird. I received 2 highs at stage 2 o.O

The shop only showed runes and boring mons. Also no shannon, no ragamos out of US.
Not until the evening, just after finishing faimon, when several things happened in a short period:
- Ramagos in the shop, YES
- Mystical scroll in the hall of wind - awakened fire charger shark Ingnicus (lucky me that I hadn't invested too much in the unwakened one)

I had to invest all my daily energies to get enough essences to awaken Ramagos. Just because I got soooo many US. The fodder allowed me to evolve Ramagos to 3* very fast.

Achievements Day 3:
- Faimon normal finalized
- Ramagos found, awakened and evolved
- Runes improved


Conclusion: Still very nice, although little sad about the LD scroll....

Day 2

DAY 2

Day started fine: wishing gave me a mystical scroll.
Yeah, the next 4*! Wind neostone agent
Nobody knows whether she is good as she is really new. I will take her anyway ;-)

Daily cristals of the starter pack together with Cairos achievements gave me further summons:
Lightning again! Water joker.... mäh, first 4* fodder :-(
Remaining summons were fire charger shark, water grim reaper, and fodder.

I started running the first scenarios on hard mode. Went well until Kabir 3. I decided not to use rep mons here, because I needed them for the second island.
First and second scenario on hard mode gave a good amount of usable runes, 3 water inugamis and 2 fire golems, lots of US. Inugamis = keep for Raoq, golems = fodder.

I decided to expand my shop using some of my cristalls. This should help me find Konamiya, Shannon and Ramagos.

No Shannon or Ramagos this day, but Kona.
An US gave me a fire harpu, which I like a lot. Keeper.

Achievements Day 2:
- Garen and Siz Hard completed
- Tamor and half of Vofragus normal completed using friends reps
- water fairy and Sieq evolved to 4*, water garuda and fire harpu evolved to 3*
- fairy, Sieq, mermaid, ninja, magic knight, harpy equipped with accepteble starter runes (mixture 1* to 4*)

Conclusion: Still exciting, even more than my lvl 40 ^^

Welcome to my Blog!

Welcome, Dear Guest!

First of all, I would like to give some background to this blog.
Summoners War is a mobile game I got addicted to in October 2014. I don't want to tell too much about the game itself, as the majority of guest will know enough ;-).
I started an account at my tablet first, only playing at home. I had no clue of the strategic challenges of the game, although I was quite lucky from the beginning.
In December 2014, just some days before christmas, I received a new iphone at work. As I thought it could be nice to play once in a while during breaks, I decided to download the game to my iphone, too. Nice try - I immediately started a new account.
Since then, I was not able to decide between both accounts, as both had some luck with summons. Unfortunately - some say lucky me - I got quite the same monsters at both account. Just to name some: Lushen, Chloe, Chasun, Arnold, Verdehile, Fuco, Lumirecia, ...
Both accounts have got one nat 5* until today, which are both not game changing (Rica and Pungbaek).
I think some time around christmas holidays, I started reading guides and forums. I realized that I hadn't performed very well ...
Of course, I tried my best to direct both account the right way then.
My current status is:
- Both accounts lvl 40 with auto GB10 team
- Cleared DB10 and started building speedy DB10 team
- Stuck at TOA normal 60 and hard after 30
- 11 6* Mons each
- First account is not able to get past F3 in arena, second reached C1 after server change (Europe).
- First account performs well during GW, second performs better

Last weekend I found myself getting bored by two very similar accounts with one account that had a lot of mistakes to straighten after quite a while of playing...

Due to the fact that I am very virulent with things that exite me, quite a lot of friends started playing, too. I answered questions over and over. And I saw them making progress in a way not in any case comparable to what I had at the start. I summarized my advices in a guide, which I spread within my group of people.

On Tuesday, 11th of August, I decided to lay the first account to rest (just participating GW, as we lack good members) and start an alternate account. I was curious how I would proceed using my own guide's advices right from the beginning.

This blog is my tool to document the proceeding. I hope you will enjoy reading. Maybe you will also learn something :-D

Happy Summoning
Alara

Day 1

DAY 1

I managed to create a second account in the evening and immediately startet playing.
What a long intro... this was not really fun...
Well, after a while I got my usual team of 4 monsters and - what a gamechanging advancement! - the water magic knight.
The first scenarios passed by very fast.
My nice guildies allowed me to add them as first friends. Nice to have lvl 40 monsters in your list from the beginning.
I tried to only level up with low to no energy. Quite a challenge at the beginning ;-)
Arena and Cairos got released and I was able to do my dailies.

The starter pack was offered and I decided to invest some money. I never did at the start, so I was curious how this would change my progression.
Hell, what a difference!
What I got out of the mystical scrolls and cristals on the first day:
- water ninja
- wind mermaid
- fire harpy
- water lizardman
- water werewold
And some food ^^

Reaching lvl 7 with the chat beeing released, I decided to make the ninja my rep just to differentiate from most of the other beginners using magic knight.
I implemented a nice picture for my account (laughing sunflower).
Then I started searching for more friends. Lot of friends. Hopefully some with better mons than mine.

As an experienced player, I knew about the boring "lf friends" posts in every channel. To be different, I decided to write something fresh.
"ambitious new player looking for friends"
"newbie looking for some nice people to help me progress"
and so on, always adding a smiley to the text.

Hey, it worked really fine :-D
Of course, I got a lot of requests by newbies (which I accpeted), but I ended up with a list half full of intermediate to endgame players.
Some of them commented it in the channel - they made an exeption, because I was different.

My first day achievements (approx. 5h playing time with interruptions due to lack of energy):
- Finished first island normal
- Matching set of runes for 3 mons
- Hellhound awakened (Fire day and really important buff ...)
- Mysterious Plant and Sanctum of Energy bought by glory points.

Conclusion: Very exciting so far!