Rage of Bahamut

[Pinky]

It's a MMORPG/TCG app for mobiles that's been around for a few months. You collect cards, enhance them to raise their LVL, evolve them into more powerful forms, battle against other players, create/join guilds, and there's a simple "quest" system for farming exp, cards, and gold. It gets more in depth, but the first major choice you make is what race you will be: Man, Gods, or Demon. Cards aligned with your choice get a boost. Once you make this choice and register your phone with the server, you cannot go back.

At the end of the tutorial use referral code ddv33220 to get 50,000 gold and a Rare-type Gods card that can boost your deck's attack strength. If you don't know what race to choose, go with Gods to get the most out of that referral card. I'll also get prizes if you make it to higher levels.

There's a "3+ Million Players" event going on . Once per day, when you sign into your personal game page you get a prize of gold, items, or special card packs. On the 10th day you get an SRare-type Demon card that can't be traded, so if you're going to play long term you might want to be Demon. The event ends on the 15th, so need to start playing today if you want that card.

[Kaden]

Keep getting the apiErrornull, which is a known thing they're working on, apparently.

Regardless, I'm going to keep trying. Sounds like a cool game.

[Pinky]

I think there's a droid emulator for PC. But yeah there's a lot of log in issues. They've fixed a bunch, but more remain.

[Kaden]

Referred you. This looks pretty interesting. I'll definitely be playing around with the app.

[Pinky]

i'm addicted already. thought i'd quit playing last week, now the first thing i do when i wake up is look for my phone and start farming for cards and gold before i get out of bed.

[Pinky]

There's an Excellent Enhancement campaign going on, starting today and going on through Sept 20. Excellent Enhancements give +50 percent more exp to cards that you enhance, it's a great chance to get rare cards to high levels.

There's also a Puppet Master Strikes Back event coming down the pipe. Dunno when it starts but now is the time to get ready.

[Pinky]

They reinstated a form of trading. Its not quite what it used to be, a public bazaar that allows five transactions per day. You also need to be Fellows with other players for two weeks before you can make direct private trades. Its designed cut down on hacks and thefts. Good change overall.

I was finally able to trade for three High Ninja cards. Only cost me 5 holy powders.

[Pinky]

Whew, the restart of the Bazaar was chaos but it seems to be quieting down. At first, most Rare cards were being sold at 5 Holy Powders. Now they go for 1 or 2. Here are some ground rules for anybody not yet playing or familiar with the public trade network.

You get 5 "bazaar tickets" per day that are used for both buying and selling. Normal, High Normal, and Rare cards will take 1 ticket; High Rare takes 2; S Rare, SS Rare, and Legend take all 5. An item will be posted at the top of the list once it's put on sale, and gets pushed down as more items enter the market. After 48 hours the sale will be canceled.

Do not use any Holy Powders or Cure Waters. They are the most popular currency. Go ahead and use "personal" versions of those items, but only those versions since you cannot trade them.

Holy Powder is the gold standard. It recovers ATK/DEF power and it's always in demand at the upper levels of the player v player battle arena. Do not sell or buy Normal or High Normal cards that can be farmed from the quest using HP as currency, they aren't worth it. Non-quest HNormal cards can be found and sold for 1HP, like the Dragon. Again, Rare cards are common for 1-2HP (you'll see some priced at 3HP or more, but only new players buy those because 2's are common). High Rares sell at 10-30 or more, depending on the card's utility, evolution and maturity. The S Rare and up market is still chaotic.

Cure Water is the silver standard. It recovers stamina for questing, it's in high demand by anybody still farming the quest. Non-quest Normal and quest-able High Normal cards will sell easy for 1-2 CW, or it's used as a secondary currency along with HP for higher rarity cards. (Rares can get priced at 1HP+1CW, and they tend to sell faster at that price compared to 2HP)

The in-game currency, Rupies, are the bronze standard. You use it for evolutions and enhancements. Few players trade in Rupies because you can farm it from the quest and get it from battling but when they do, it can be absurd amounts like 100's of thousands or millions.

Cards can also be sold in exchange for another card. If you want to directly and easily get a card, put up a card of equal rarity. This is the simplest price point, and you can trade cards you get from booster packs for the stuff you want without spending any HP.

Also, just become knowledgeable abou a card's real value. When a card evolves to its final form it will go up to the next rarity, and Bazaar searches for a certain rarity level will return those cards as well. They can be identified by their special title inside brackets, like [Death Shade] High Ninja. These cards should be cheaper than regular cards of the same rarity, unless it's been matured very carefully. It takes at least four regular cards to make a final form card, and it's common for players to not mature any of the lesser stages which means a final form card being sold in the Bazaar will likely only be able to reach 86% of its max potential.

[Pinky]

So, the log-in campaign will continue until the end of the month. Since today is the 20th that means it's still possible to get the SRare demon card. After the tenth log in, you'll get 1,000 Friendship Pts (used for buying cheap card packs) and an Angel Queen rare card (enhancing w/ Angel Queen automatically gives +3 levels) for continuing the campaign. The Bazaar is flooded with cheap AQs (usually sell for a few Holy Pwders, now I see some for 1 Cure Water) and I've maxed a few High Rare cards.

The Puppet Master event started today and will end on Oct 1st. It works the same as the ordinary quest, except you get better cards and double the Rupies. A few more cards have been added just for the event: a Puppeteer (man, normal) and a series of Homonculus cards. Baby (normal), Adolecent (high normal), Adult (rare), in addition to the existing Elder (high rare).