How to Win Battle and Mission | Dragon Coins
Introduction
Team Make Up and Monster Placement
Combat Basic
Specific Battle Techniques and Tricks
Urgent Missions
Introduction
As a coin dozer rpg game, Dragon Coins require certain strategies for you to excel and advance through the missions. In this guide, we will go over these strategies to help you pass the levels.
This best battle and mission strategy guide will discuss in detail of all the factors in missions. First we will discuss how to setup your team and where to place your monsters. Second section goes over combat basics. Then we move to coin dropping position techniques and tricks. Lastly, we will go over general mission completion strategies.
Please note that this guide will focus mainly on the techniques and tricks to help you pass the stages. However, you still need to have the proper fusion levels and team make up to pass most of the missions. Please feel free to share your tips too by leaving a comment.
Team Make Up and Monster Placement
We will first discuss the proper way of setting up your team to beat the missions easily. You will first learn how to set up your team and why, and then which slots to place them at the end of this section.
Monster Skill Matters – Attack over support
First of all, the monsters skills really matter in missions. By using the right skills, you will have a much easier time of beating the levels. In general, any active skills that boost your damage either via combo or special attack is good.
Supportive skills that raises walls, drop coins, pusher effects are all bad. The only time you want to use support skill monsters is when you are doing gem or coin farming. But even then they are not at all effective. Thus, you want to minimize the numbers of supportive skills unless you have no better replacements.
Healing is important – Have a Healer in Your Dragon Coins Team
You will need a monster with healing skill for your team as you move through the stages. You want the strongest healer that you can find either by having instant heal skill or heal via coins. We personally like instant heal as can save it for the boss stages.
Hopefully you are lucky enough to receive a healer during your early stages, if not, farm friend coins to see if you can draw one. Healers are much needed for you to face bosses as they deal significant damage.
Combos and Charges – Use low charge monsters.
Combos are where the awesome damages come about. To create combos, your team of monsters have to attack often. Now, you can get a higher attack rate by hiring low charge monsters. You typically want to stay away from three charge monsters because although they hit hard, they have a much harder time racking up the combos attacks in missions.
Leader Skill in Team Setting – Team Meta Focus
Leader skills can double the power of your teams. After you have evolved your first or second monster. It really depends on which R or SR’s that you get in the beginning. Setup your team accordingly. For example, if you have Ifirit’s team leader skill which boost all Celestial race’s combo attack, then gradually shift your entire team as celestial race. You want to take full advantage of your leader skills.
Note that you can activate friend’s leader skills too in Dragon Coins. They do stack with your leader skill. So that by having a certain meta group, combine that with your friend’s team, you can beat stages that are normally impossible or very hard.
Where to Place Your Team and Why
We will go over general guidelines to help you place your monsters in the right places.
Healer should always be placed in center. Unless you are way over level for the mission stage and is farming. The center slot has the highest probability of receiving skill blocks, and you want to constantly have healing power available to access the heal.
Monsters with Support skills should be placed to the far left or right. You typically do not need the support skills so you want them to activate the least amount of times.
For the slot to the right of the middle, you will have to make a decision between placing a 1 charge monster or a monster with useful skills. However, you generally want to place your strongest non-healer card in that place.
Combat Basic
Before we go in deeper with the specific battle techniques and tactics, we will first go over basic of combat in Dragon Coins. You should skip this section if you know how the game works.
Missions and Stamina
You start combat by taking in missions. Different missions require different stamina and offers different kind of experience gain. One point of stamina takes 10 minute to refill in Dragon Coins. In general, higher chapter missions offer better rewards and exp ratio.
Attacking
Your team of monsters each attack when they receive coins through the coin dozer drop. Each monster has a “charge” threshold appeared as the gray icon. They will attack whenever the coin drops are charged.
Combo
Combo attacks in Dragon Coin are consecutive attacks done by your monsters before the combo attack chain “breaks”. The combo damage is capped at 10th combo at 250% damage. Your goal is to get to combo cap as often as you can to maximize your damage output.
1 Combo – 100.0% Damage
2 Combo – 105.0% Damage
3 Combo – 115.0% Damage
4 Combo – 130.0% Damage
5 Combo – 150.0% Damage
6 Combo – 170.0% Damage
7 Combo – 180.0% Damage
8 Combo – 190.0% Damage
9 Combo – 200.0% Damage
10 Combo – 250.0% Damage
Skills
Your monsters can activate their unique active normal skill when they receive a lightning box.
Critical
Critical attacks deal double damage to enemies.
Coin Loots and Drops
Other than dropping coins yourself, attacking monsters or defeating them result in coin drops too. These coins include Gold Coins (Gold), Heal Coins (Green), and more Silver coins. Throughout the battle, gems drop that contain feeder monsters to level up your main through Dragon Coins Fusion.
Enemy Coin Counter
As you drop coins, the enemy’s coin counter goes down. When the enemy counter reaches zero, they will execute an attack on your team.
Bonus Gem
If you collect all the gems of a given stage, you can receive a bonus monster. The bonus monsters are typically pretty weak and generic in the beginning missions. However, as you move across the missions, you can get some potential strong rare monsters. However, these bonus gems are one time bonus only.
Monster Target and Elemental Affinity
By tapping on the monster, you can preselect which monster to attack first. You can check to see if you can deal additional damage through elemental advantage by checking out the arrows on your monster’s icon. Below is a damage adjustment of elemental attacks:
Advantage Element: 130% damage.
Disadvantage Element: 25% damage.
Wood, Water, Fire against Light or Shadow: 70% of damage both ways.
Null Element: 100% damage to all elements.
Specific Battle Techniques and Tricks
Time Your Coins Insert
Do not blast them all without strategy.
During the initial rounds, there are usually some skill blocks lying around. You do not have to time much during this round. Blast your coins to kill the monsters fast.
However, as you move through the rounds, the monsters get potentially harder and they can kill you if you do not time your coins. You usually do not blast all of your coins at the same time, especially if you see that they are all going to attack at once.
Drop coins until you land on the last count, to see if your team can take out of the enemies so that your damage intake is less.
Best Coin Placement
The best places for coin insertions are balancing of the two sides.
The best places to put your coins are to balance between the left drop and the right drop. The reason is that the majority of the gem drops in the middle. By trying to leave the middle line open, you are more likely to receive the monster gem drops in your battle.
You will have to take into account of monster coin drops after you kill them. For example, if you are targeting to kill the monster on the left, drop coins to the right first. If you are killing the right side enemy first, do coin drops to the left.
Combine Monster Skills Together
Use the power of skill synergy.
Your monster’s attack skills usually work the best in junction of one another. For example, a skill that boost combo damage works great with skills the increase coin dozer speed. However, if you simply use the dozer speed increase by themselves, they are pretty much worthless.
Avoid Wasted Coins
In between the rounds in Battle, all coins that are dropped are wasted, meaning that you will not land any attacks with those coins. If you do not plan the transition well, you may end up taking more damage in the following round. In most cases, avoid losing big chunks of coins at the end of the rounds by halting your coin drops.
Save Your Heals for Boss Fights
A well timed and placed heal can save your life in boss fights. Save those heals to when it actually matters. Usually one round before the boss, save those heals unless you see another skill box is going to drop. Sometimes boss stage monsters all hit at the same time and can effectively take out 80% of your HP, having the healing skill reserved can help you survive and win.
Urgent Missions
Urgent missions are special random missions that are spawned during your normal questing. The urgent missions let you loot hero coins which can be used for hero summons. When you fail an urgent mission, the mission information is then relayed to all of your friends, they can then join and help to defeat the boss.
You use “courage” points to participate in urgent missions. Each point of courage takes 10 minute to recover.
Full Assault or Cautious Strike
In general, if you think you can defeat the urgent mission by yourself, use Full Assault to get the most hero coins. However, if you have leveled up the urgent missions too much or you are simply help other players, use Cautious Strike.
In Full Assault, you have a full 10 minutes to battle the boss and the boss cannot run away. For Cautious Strike, the boss runs away after taking about 25% damage.
Chained Combo
You can do extra damage if you continue the battle right after your friends. This can help you to beat otherwise unbeatable bosses.