Beginning (level 1-10): slowest progression Dragons/Breeding: If able to connect to facebook and receive prairie do so Level fire and wind dragons to level 4 Buy Earth Dragon and Habitat If Prairie was not available breed Earth with Smoke/Bee until Tribal results * Place all Salamanders, Lavas, and Dusts that may result in Earth Habitats Once Tribal is finally bred follow instructions as if Tribal=Prairie Once Prairie/Tribal is available breed based on this table, it will result in the highest possible gold income until the next element is reached Type Available
Breed Spot 1
Breed Spot 2
Possible Money Earner
Where to put each
Earth
Earth
Bee
Salamander(250) Lava(240)
Earth Earth
Water
Earth
Bee
Salamander(250) Lava(240)
Earth Earth
Plant
Plant
Salamander
Orange(420) Sunflower(340) Tree(270)
Plant Earth Earth
Metal
Metal
Tree
Venom(315) Cyborg(325) Minotaur(285) Armored(295)
Plant Plant Earth Earth
Energy
Energy
Cyborg
Golden Crow(535) Honey(340) Tesla(355) UV(365)
Metal Plant Energy Energy
Void
Void
UV
Aurora(615) Shard(395) Witch(420) Doom(430)
Void Void Energy Energy
Habitats: Level Prairie as high as possible/skills may wait because waste of money at this point Buy as many Earth Habitats as possible and upgrade to level 2 no further, fill with basic earth dragons level 4, as time goes on replace basic earths with Lava, Salamander, Tree, Minotaur and level these to level 7 Only buy one Wind and one Fire total
Wind and Fire habitats should be upgraded to level 5 once money from redoing campaign matches results in about 15000 per battle for vip this is around match 35 Place Fire, Smoke, Bee in Fire Habitat Place Wind, Prairie, Tribal in Wind Habitat Until level 5 fire and wind habitats are possible us level 2 to hold Fire, Smoke and Wind, Bee keeping the Prairie and Tribal in Earth Habitats which you should have lots of Food: Purchase sour cone only and keep farming sour cone continuously *If continuous farming of sour cone is not possible because of short turnover time, upgrade farms and farm Dragonlantic Berries Team: 1.Prairie (Earth, Wind, Fire) level max 20 2.Any level max 10 3.Any level max 10
Middle(level 10-20):Should go by pretty quickly Dragons/Breeding: Continue breeding according to the table You shouldn’t be selling any dragons unless there are no possible dragons with lower income I personally wanted one of every dragon so during this time I was trying to breed all the possible dragons I could which resulted in lots of dragons being sold, however if the table is followed very few dragons would need to be sold Dragons should all be at least level 7 by now, take a break from feeding prairie to level any dragons below 7 to 7 even if later down the line they will be sold Also if you have dragons you know you will never get rid of (ie if you are doing one of every dragon) level these dragons to level 10 Habitats:Preparation for the purge In order to better prepare for endgame conditions I would advise buying no more than: 1 Fire 1 Wind 2 Water 3 Plant 5 Metal Amount of Earth Habitats does not matter because this is set by the level cap By level 20 you should at least have your fire, wind and 2(no more) ground habitats to level 5 while everything else is level 2 Legendary Habitats should only be purchase if you have a legendary dragon, even then I would only really recommend it if you are able to have two legendary dragons just because legendary habitats can only hold 2 dragons max
For purposes of progression I would not recommend trying for a legendary dragon until later on Food: Time to start making some real progress The sooner this is started the faster you will be able to progress Begin by upgrading a single farm begin planting a single sweetroot This process should be started once habitat limit is hit Team Prairie level max 20 Any level 15 Any level 15 Once Prairie reaches 20 use remaining food on secondary battle dragons If food still remains save it Purge(20-25):Time to sell Dragons/Breeding During this time period it is important to get ready for the soon to come void element Breed in this order Energy and Plant=Honey level to 15 will be important in next phase Energy and Metal=until UV level to 15 also will be important in next phase however no rush on leveling the UV to level 15 Once UV is bred I would recommend Energy with any Epics one may have available Orange for example would result in: Geiger Brick Plasma Meteor Honey Emerald Ruby Tiger Habitats: Finally time to upgrade habitats and start selling excess Earth habitats that are left over Best way I found to upgrade all habitats was to wait until I grew a level, and increased the total number of habitats available then buy an energy habitat which I would put anything with energy element in it. In short you will now be moving all your dragons into the best possible habitat they can live in. A perfect set-up would look like
Fire Habitat
Ground Habitat Water Habitat
Plant Habitat
Fire
Earth
Clownfish
Plant
Smoke
Lava
Boiling
Orange
Bee
Salamander
Ice
Melon
Wind Habitat
Ground Habitat Water Habitat
Plant Habitat
Wind
Prairie
Cloud
Seed
Dust
Snow
Elemental
Candy
Tribal
Mud
Water
Agave
Plant Habitat
Metal Habitat
Metal Habitat
Metal Habitat
Sunflower
Metal
War
Razor
Tree
Toronado
Venom
Cyborg
Leaf
Minotaur
Armored
Mercury
Metal Habitat
Metal Habitat
Energy Habitat Energy Habitat
Rust
Coral
Energy
Eel
Regal
UV
Plasma
Honey
Black Armor
Tesla
Geiger
Rainbow
Energy Habitat Energy Habitat Energy Habitat Energy Habitat Meteor
Geyser
Ironcast
Tiger
Brick
Clay
Emerald
Golden Crow
Lightning
Ruby
Banana
Witch
Void Habitat
Void Habitat
Void Habitat
Void Habitat
Void
Nightshade
Doom
Magnet
Lumino
Mist
Jaws
Blueflame
Rain
Shard
Prickly
Aurora
Void Habitat
Void Habitat
Void Habitat
Radiant
Swamp
Jelly
Toxic
Alien
Phoenix
Storm
Dracula
Raganrock
It is easiest and fastest to move anything from a fire habitat out, however if you followed the previous instructions of only having one fire and one wind habitat all should be good 1. If not start by upgrading a single fire habitat to level five and move the 3 dragons who go in it there 2. Next do the same for wind For Earth Habitat it gets a bit tricky, but the best thing to do would be to upgrade two to level 5
3. the problem with earth habitats is that you probably have been breeding earth dragons like crazy up until this point which means the majority of your dragons are earth ● This means that you’re going to have to sell some dragons, good news though, you don’t have to sell anything yet, just keep waiting for the habitat cap to increase with every level increase and buy a new energy habitat 4. Water Habitats should only be relevant if you are trying to have every dragon otherwise they are very detrimental to gold income, even if you are getting every dragon you should only have two water habitats which should now be upgraded to level 5 5. Plant Habitats if you don’t have four by now purchase until you have 4 and then upgrade to level 5 6. Metal Habitats buy until you have 5, not necessary to upgrade to level 5 yet since minotaur and Armored are still throughout your plentiful earth habitats Food: At this point in your journey I would recommend that all money be used on upgrading habitats and buying energy habitats, If it is possible use 800,000 to buy a single sweetroot every two days Team: Prairie Level 20 Any Dragon level 15 if common/uncommon 20 if epic Any Dragon level 15 if common/uncommon 20 if epic
Once level 25 is reached:The Real Fun Begins (Skip to here if you somehow already have a dragon with the void element like radiant for example) Dragons/Breeding: Right before turning level 25 save up enough gold to buy void dragon and its habitat After the Void has hatched level it to 15 Breed void with the honey from earlier that should also be level 15 Breed the honey and void until a doom or Toxic is produced At this point you decide between breeding more 4 Toxic which help speed up gameplay in the long run or breeding a certain set of epics which will have the same effect however you will need to breed 6 epics instead of the 4 toxic, but if you are trying to get every dragon it makes sense to take the epic route which can be made by following this breeding setup UV+Void until Aurora for better gold or Doom+Metal for speedier breeding Water+Honey until Banana Water+Doom until Jelly Shard+Plant until Alien Plant+UV until Golden Crow Earth+Prickly until Swamp Once all these have been bred return to UV+Void in order to increase income Habitats: At this point it is important to make the decision between an excess of void habitats and energy habitats, I personally choose energy because of the decrease in price compared to void,
however in the long run void may be better, it really just depends on how often you log into the game. I would say as a rule of thumb if you log in more frequently than every 5 hours go energy but if you only log in once or twice a day go an even split between void and energy Again you don’t necessarily need to sell all of the previously purchased earth habitats yet, however at this point it becomes advantageous to sell earth habitats as long as they are immediately replaced with an energy or void habitat, or you could just limit yourself to only buying a new habitat whenever you level up. Rule of thumb for selling and not selling would be how much cash you have left over buying food Food: At this point it is extremely necessary to make sure every farm is upgraded to level 3, before spending money on literally anything else buy sweetroot, you won’t be able to buy a full set of sweetroot at first, so find out how much you can buy in a day and buy it. You may be “stuck” for a few days while everything evens out but spending all your money on food is the best option at this point. The only exception would be buying a habitat necessary for the final collection, like for example you only have 2 plant habitats but need 3. Other than that use all your money on food. Now on to the important part where to spend all this food. If you haven’t gotten toxic from breeding yet you can use any food you get from the farms in order to level up the lowest level dragon you plan on keeping, if multiple dragons are at the lowest level give food to the one that makes the most gold (ie at this point they should all be level 10 so find your highest gold producer and level it to level 11, next find the new highest gold producing level 10 dragon and raise that to level 11, continue this process until all dragons are level 15 or until toxic is born) When Toxic is born every morsel of food should go to it, only exception is when a new dragon is born level said dragon to match the lowest level of your remaining dragons only if you are going to keep it though, otherwise any dragon that you know you will eventually get rid of leave at level 7. Team: Toxic level max 60 Skills should all be level six (burnout, Infection, Pay It Forward) Prairie level max 20 Any Dragon level max 15 Temples: One annoying part of this game is the temple system. Essentially in order to have a level 30 dragon one must first have 3 level 15s of the same type, for toxic I will assume that you already were able to achieve this just by leveling up the dragons you plan to keep. Then in order to have a level 40 dragon one must have 4 level 20s of the same type, heres where breeding actually has a use besides providing an increase in income. When you're toxic reaches level 30, the best possible combination of epics to level to level 20 in order to unlock the next level of the temples would be
Theoretically the fastest way to do this would be to just breed 3 more toxics, however if you are trying to complete the dragon codex I would use the following combination, breeding steps have been placed under breeding for this section Once all these dragons have been bred it is time to raise each one to level 20 which will raise the level cap to 40, then use all your food to train your toxic until it is level 40 then you basically have to rinse and repeat however now you need 5 of each type. The best way to accomplish this would be using this set of epics, however you could just have easily bred 4 extra toxics instead, which decreases the amount of food need to spend leaving more food for your toxic. Toxic Jelly Banana Alien Aurora Golden Crow Swamp Once all of these dragons have been raised to level 30 it is time for the final stretch Use all food you get until Toxic reaches level 60
Endgame:Finally able to quit this addicting game This is a look at what the best possible setup would look like Islands (50 level 3 habitats-X Boss habitats-Y Legendary Habitats)*3+2Y=# of dragons Since there are only 6 available ingame legendaries I don’t believe anyone needs more than 3 legendary habitats but even then it is still a negative because they would fill up at only 30000 gold Food You should easily be able to support constant sweetroot, may even have moved on to just doing spring cherry Team Toxic level 60 maxed skills Rust level 60 maxed skills Storm level 60 maxed skills Strategy: Start with rust and put up stone shield Next use storms a brewin which will ensure that the opposing team does basically no damage Use Toxic Burnout skill to knock stone shield or vengeful sword the have set up Rust uses restoration Storm Uses stun Toxic uses Burnout
Temples: After Toxic reaches level 60 it would be helpful to level another two dragons to level 60, one at a time though because it is more efficient that way So in order for the Temples to be unlocked most efficiently one should use this order to grow epics to level 30 Toxic Jelly Banana Alien Aurora Golden Crow Swamp Prairie Regal Elemental Black Armor Blue Flame Tribal Tribal Once all of these dragons are level 30 every temple should be able to be upgraded to level 4 allowing for any dragon to reach level 60 I would say once you have a team of level 60s there is not much of a point to playing the game anymore, I would almost argue that once you beat Heroic and get the steampunk dragon the game is over, but I’m sure by the time anyone reaches that Gameloft will have expanded the game
Final Words: While all of this information should help you progress through the game the quickest, one bit of information left out was the use of a legendary as opposed to toxic. Toxic was chosen for its attack power, I personally use Phoenix as my main because its attack power is the only one higher than Toxic’s at 70 compared to 69. However using a Legendary as opposed to toxic has multiple advantages and only one real disadvantage which is that breeding legendaries is hard. The advantages to using a legendary are mainly that you do not have to level up other dragons in order to break the level limits because the temple of legends only requires one legendary dragon. Secondly unlike toxic Legendaries are at the hands of low health, with their insanely high stats plus their skill which basically is compounding damage legendaries are the obvious choice for tackling the campaign. This guide could have been so much shorter if it were based around legendaries but I understand that not everyone has had luck with legendaries. If you were curious as to how to beat the game with a legendary basically all you have to do is feed
the legendary all your food, while maintaining as many high end habitats (energy and void) with dragons that have both those types. Theoretically the best gold mining island would be one completely covered in void habitats each of which is full of Aurora’s. In my mind 3 auroras would have a higher gold output, however maybe into the upper levels legendaries might produce more gold, I haven’t been able to look into it.
