Along with Fire and Ice island and 4 temporary quests!

We need RoL dragons for the temp. quests and we will win orbs and keys. The latter are required in Rescue.

We also need to do our Rescue battles with RoL dragons.
1st battle on hard path requires 4 RoL to be present in the team. I keep looking for 150 million food to feed my RoL to a decent level, but haven't found it yet.

After the 1st battle on Easy path, there weren't any dragon requirements. Cooldown on Easy 4h.

We get blue keys from both Freebies Island (mobile-only) and temporary quests.

The special keys which open doors on Hard path can only be found on Easy and Medium path. We can't progress on Hard unless we grab all 4 key chests from the other paths!

Info courtesy of Dragon City Players Facebook group

So it looks like there will be enough Darksteel orbs to be empowered, it is for him alone that I am trying to see how far I can get in this one. Though I am not going to stress myself for them, I am not interested in the skins and I already have 2 Kennys.

And once again SP added Quests that are needed to get keys, and they throw in a 18 hour Virtue breeding event. Skipping that. Plus it looks like yellow and red keys are only obtainable in the Fire & Ice and Castle events.

Guess I can kiss off this rescue thing. I don't have the Empathy Dragon. Never had any luck with these rescues anyway.

@dragonista said in Dragon Rescue for Kenny Part II - Mar 26th - April 2nd:

Guess I can kiss off this rescue thing. I don't have the Empathy Dragon. Never had any luck with these rescues anyway.

I say try it for as far as you can go, if nothing else you can get some resources.

Very disappointed in the prizes for this Rescue quest. The only level with a dragon prize is the Hard which I can’t do as I don’t have the Empathy dragon. I have no interest in armor (the prizes for Easy and Medium). Guess I can take it easy and save my gems.

Any posts about the Fire & Ice Island and the Quests stage cooldown timing?

For Fire and Ice Island, I think we can get Depth and Icewind for free. I have Clarity, Reason and Virtue. For some reason I’m closer to Loyalty than Empathy!

I find it interesting that it doesn’t really matter how strong the RoL dragons are, just that you have them. The fights which need them are scarce so far (seems like 1 per door) so you just need to use your 5 best dragons on that one and make sure to win first go.

Unless the hard path requires them on one of those fights that take dozens of attempts. That would just be impossible.

Quite annoyed that there are 5 fights with 2-3 hour waits for the depth dragon in the fire and ice island. I'm waiting a long time to do these and can't progress on the rescue because I can't get to the keys beyond depth. It seems they are making this event difficult after the last puzzle island being so easy.

@susan-mclaughlin said in Dragon Rescue for Kenny Part II - Mar 26th - April 2nd:

Quite annoyed that there are 5 fights with 2-3 hour waits for the depth dragon in the fire and ice island. I'm waiting a long time to do these and can't progress on the rescue because I can't get to the keys beyond depth. It seems they are making this event difficult after the last puzzle island being so easy.

I did some quick tests in airplane mode. In order to finish the Easy path, you need, from beyond Depth, at least two of the yellow chests (or if they're randomizing the colors again, the one right behind Depth) and two of the red chests (or the other color on the island, if randomized). And the two reds can't be the ones close by, one of them needs to be the ones over near Icewind.

I can't get to three chests near Icewind with my current coins, hence "at least." If the yellow over there is a +3 and the reds +2, then no more than that (and you can skip one of the yellow chests before Depth). If the yellow's only a +2, you need all the yellow chests before Depth. If the reds are all +1, then you need three of the red chests past Depth.

So the time for the fights isn't going to be the limiting factor, it'll be getting the coins to collect the keys.

Hopefully the boss fight on easy isn’t going to require the relics. It would take me ages! I don’t have Empathy or Loyalty, so I think I can settle for getting some Snazzy Armour for Clarity, Reason and Virtue. Kenny is definitely not obtainable for me. After the Virtue Armour, My goal is those Legend Joker Orbs at the end of Medium, but I bet it will start requiring Empathy before that.

@nynaevelan ... that’s my plan ... in it for the resources only too many things happening in too many places with too long wait times ... the worst part is watching my dragons get wiped out and being unable to control who fights who and when ... ugh

You can set your line up for every dragon to critically hit the next dragon in sequence and tap on the next dragon after every attack. I’ve become accustomed to doing it and now I can fight on speed level 3 and still hit my targets. U have to strategize critical hitters for every dragon. Another tip for these fights is always start with your stronger dragons. If you plan on using one heroic dragon for the fight and u put him in the five slot. He very well may be dead before he even fires an attack. Strongest dragons go first to maximize their attacking.

@jimmbo-slice ... thanks for the strategy; much appreciated!

Might I also add more to my dislikes about this event ... on an EASY path ... one is REQUIRED to have particular dragon(s) to use?? Am at the point where Clarity AND Reason are needed...just lost that battle and rather than be able to fight with remaining dragons, must WAIT the 4 hours to renew those TWO particular dragons in order to continue fighting? On an EASY path?? SP...what are you thinking??!!

How does one breed/hatch enough Clarity AND Reason dragons DURING an event to be able to have multiple dragons stocked/on hand to fight a series of times to move forward on a path ... ugh

(I sooooooo dislike these ... unsure why I continue to torture myself by participating in these...🥴)

I can confirm that the Easy path can be completed with just Clarity and Reason (actually now my memory's nagging at me that maybe there was a Virtue fight?). The node just before the boss requires both, the boss itself does not (and it's not hard, he didn't even manage to kill one of my A-team). You can skip the three key chests along the top of the Ice & Fire Island, as long as you get the rest of the pre-Icewind keys (and enough from quests/freebies - I had 5 extra).

@DragonLove - Make sure you save your best dragons for the few fights which need the Relics. On other fights, use dragons just strong enough to win, even taking a couple of rounds to do so. Then go all-out on those specific fights. But don't sweat the cooldowns too much, they're irrelevant in comparison to the key collection times!

Update - the second door on the Medium path, to be completed from Fire & Ice, will need the key chest just beyond Icewind at least. It may require the top-row chest of the same color too. That looks readily doable with the available free coins, but I wouldn't count on picking up any more keys beyond that.

@scott-clark ... ty ty ... am keeping all of these tips ‘n tricks so NEXT time, maybe I won’t get quite so frustrated with this type of event ... maybe...

I got excited to see a breeding event for the Empathy dragon (needed for the Hard path) but had my hopes dashed when I saw that it needed the Empathy dragon to breed. Seriously?! That’s just cruel. Not to mention the other dragon needed is acquired in the Castle Town event which hasn’t even started yet. Who comes up with this?

@stark said in Dragon Rescue for Kenny Part II - Mar 26th - April 2nd:

I got excited to see a breeding event for the Empathy dragon (needed for the Hard path) but had my hopes dashed when I saw that it needed the Empathy dragon to breed. Seriously?! That’s just cruel. Not to mention the other dragon needed is acquired in the Castle Town event which hasn’t even started yet. Who comes up with this?

This is no different than the Virtue one, though you must be new because neither are using "new" dragons as parents. I did the Virtue one using my wizards and was able to get 3 to use to empower him.....after the event and collection ends of course because I am not using gems to rush it. TBH so far this is the only way I was able to get a meaningful amount of orbs in order to empower. This won't help me this time but I am hoping they are featured in something else in the future.

Does anyone know when it starts requiring Empathy Dragon? That’s where I have to stop.

@_thespacebeing_ Haven't seen one up to the second Medium door. Which does, by the way, require that top-row chest I mentioned earlier. Might still be able to pick up another set of reds after, going to have to see.

On the loading screen, between T and Y there is a very tiny Nigiri Dragon. I don’t know why that’s there.

I FINALLY have the last door open on the Medium path after buying coins for the limited path on the Castle Maze. And of course in that last battle before getting the last Orange Key chest my Charity died so I have a 4 hour wait before killing that last remaining opponent.

I must say I am really debating my participation in future rescues I do not like all these restrictions forcing me to wait and wait and wait.

The complaints on a 4 hour wait time are trivial to me. When you need a certain dragon to do a battle. Make sure you win that battle. And there is 3 plus days remaining in the event. I don’t like waiting two days to train a dragon but it’s part of life. You can be picky about your selection in other battles. In the battles where you need the Relics. Use some heroics and win!

@nynaevelan ... just GETTING keys is sooooo frustrating; am currently stuck trying to figure out how to get 5Y / 3R keys, have 1Y / 2R on medium path ... ugh

@dragonlove said in Dragon Rescue for Kenny Part II - Mar 26th - April 2nd:

@nynaevelan ... just GETTING keys is sooooo frustrating; am currently stuck trying to figure out how to get 5Y / 3R keys, have 1Y / 2R on medium path ... ugh

Tell me about it, I got all the keys from the Lava island, plus the exclusive pack and the entire Pyroness path and I am still waiting 13 hours for the Blacksmith island in order to continue on the hard path.

It is official, this is my LAST active rescue. These things are too costly. All this trouble and it is unlikely to yield 100 Darksteel orbs.

@nynaevelan The previous one wasn't as bad. You just had to focus on the Atlantis path and that got the job done wrt keys. The battle structure still didn't work - like I've noted before, auto-selecting a couple dozen times to gradually wear down one fight is just plain tedious - but the keys did OK.

This time, the keys don't work in any reasonable way without spending lots of money. The battles are no better than previously. And the restriction of doing the paths in order, instead of in parallel, makes the effective duration of the event MUCH shorter.

The one and only reason I'm still trying to get it done is the fact that it seems like opportunities to get Kenny will be really, really rare. I don't even want to know how many other new dragons on the Castle Island I'm giving up for the mere chance at that one.

@_thespacebeing_ said in Dragon Rescue for Kenny Part II - Mar 26th - April 2nd:

Does anyone know when it starts requiring Empathy Dragon? That’s where I have to stop.

The fight for the second set of keys on the Medium path. So without Empathy the first three skins can be obtained, but no Hard doors can be opened.

Edit: That fight, I should add, is the single worst point about any event I have seen since I started playing (shortly before the High Celestial race). You are FORCED to take C/R/VR/E into a fight with 6 L/H, all over L40, and the two other decent dragons you might bring act LAST. The weakest have to act first, and even if you somehow managed to get Clarity up to 5 stars and L70, it's still just a Common. You don't even have any choice of elements.

So you have two meaningful fighting dragons, at best, and the entire enemy team gets to hammer on them before they get to act. And you have to wait 4h between gradual grinding-down attempts, because even if you had the best Heroics possible, they'd definitely lose that. Repeatedly. And you can't then try again until your Relics are back up.

WTF was SP thinking?!?!?! This event has now officially earned negative 6 stars from me.

@scott-clark what node are you on, are the RoLs required after node 18? Lost the first try and since my Pungent only killed 2 I am thinking it will take me at least 2 more tries to get past this node which means 12 hours minimum for 1 fight. Yeah I am OVER these rescues, I am too disgusted and pissed with this disaster of an event.

Well I am truly disgusted with 11 of 20 on the Hard Path. You are required to use Common dragon Clarity, Rare dragon Reason, Very Rare dragon Virtue, Epic dragon Empathy and Legend dragon Loyalty - giving you only ONE dragon of your choice. The problem is the opponents are all Legend dragons level 46 to 48 some with one or two stars. Weak common, rare & very rare can't compete. Gonna take many, many rounds with 4 hour cool downs in between to complete this battle. This will probably be the end of the Rescue Mission for me.

@teamterrier said in Dragon Rescue for Kenny Part II - Mar 26th - April 2nd:

Well I am truly disgusted with 11 of 20 on the Hard Path. You are required to use Common dragon Clarity, Rare dragon Reason, Very Rare dragon Virtue, Epic dragon Empathy and Legend dragon Loyalty - giving you only ONE dragon of your choice. The problem is the opponents are all Legend dragons level 46 to 48 some with one or two stars. Weak common, rare & very rare can't compete. Gonna take many, many rounds with 4 hour cool downs in between to complete this battle. This will probably be the end of the Rescue Mission for me.

I am stuck with the exact same on nodec18, I just hit my second 4 hour wait with three more dragons to beat. If nothing else I wanted to get the last chest with Darksteel orbs but at this point I really don't care if I go further, I received enough legendary orbs for me to summon him without using any of mine. This was by far the worst rescue ever.

@nynaevelan I'm on hard 11, like @TeamTerrier. But my High Superstition killed 5 of the enemies, leaving a half-strength Bomber which I can readily take on the second pass.

I've noticed that, as long as your sixth dragon isn't crittable by any of the enemies, they'll actually tend to focus their fire on the Relics. Which is good for two reasons - your big hitter will live longer, and get to make an increasing share of your attacks.

Since making that tactical tweak, I haven't had to wait more than one cool down on any of the nodes. Use my best Heroics on the Relic nodes, swamp the others with waves of weaker dragons. Mostly I've just been key-limited. Will have to see how bad the second half of the Hard track is.

SP have screwed this up, just not enough Red around, waiting over a day now to get enough, need 3 got 2. Stuck on hard 8. What a joke finished first time limited path, did buy small,pack of coins. Refuse to buy any keys.

Well I am on my 4th wait, 5 tries just for my Pungent to kill one dragon at a time. If the last 2 fights require the Relics I am done up with this. The current fight will give me the chest for the Darksteel orbs, my only goal for this disaster of an event.

The only good thing I can say about this entire event is I was able to get orbs from quests and breeding to empower 4 of the 5 dragons at least once.

Here ill add some fuel to everyone’s fire. Kenny Rescue is complete, I received a burglar dragon. All the skins for my Relics blah blah blah. But why would I only receive 90 DARKSTEEL ORBS? They won’t even give you enough to summon him? Lil salty about this I’m not gonna lie.

@jimmbo-slice said in Dragon Rescue for Kenny Part II - Mar 26th - April 2nd:

Here ill add some fuel to everyone’s fire. Kenny Rescue is complete, I received a burglar dragon. All the skins for my Relics blah blah blah. But why would I only receive 90 DARKSTEEL ORBS? They won’t even give you enough to summon him? Lil salty about this I’m not gonna lie.

Well that I expected, this time I checked the chests and counted them, but you can still summon him I got more than 10 legendary joker orbs so what I need to use will not come out of my existing inventory.

Btw does the last 2 fights need the relics?

And one more round to go to get past this node.

The last two fights do not require Relics thankfully

@jimmbo-slice said in Dragon Rescue for Kenny Part II - Mar 26th - April 2nd:

The last two fights do not require Relics thankfully

Thanks, good to know.

@nynaevelan took me 5 rounds and 16 hours to finish one node, still disgusted with this rescue but my Darksteel is being summoned. Now to work on recalling and empowering to make this wasted effort count for something.

@nynaevelan

How many darksteel orbs did you finish with?

@jimmbo-slice said in Dragon Rescue for Kenny Part II - Mar 26th - April 2nd:

@nynaevelan

How many darksteel orbs did you finish with?

90 same as you, the node right after it had 10 legend orbs. I saw in a fb group that others got more than 10 in some chests but I didn't.

4 passes for me, but node 18 complete. Onwards!

Update: Yeah, 19 and 20 are not challenging. Kenny is mine!

I'll be **!! I spend $$ to buy coins to walk the Blacksmith path and get the keys I needed for the last gate on the hard path. Now I' stuck on 18/20 and my poor little Common dragon Clarity, Rare dragon Reason, Very Rare dragon Virtue, Epic dragon Empathy and Legend dragon Loyalty don't stand a chance in hades of defeating level 50+ Legend and Heroic starred dragons in the time left.

THIS IS THE WORSE EVENT EVER!!!!

Edit: language per forum rules...but I concur with your assessment.

@teamterrier At least they moderated the difficulty of the fights otherwise, and shortened the cooldowns. I don't think the RoL tie-in structure really worked, but I'm happy there wasn't fight after fight where you had to use a hundred dragons each.

Fundamentally, I don't think they've found a structure for Rescues that works yet. They've been either mind-bogglingly tedious, or massively frustrating.

On the back of this event I have just about decided to give up DC, just not worth it , shame good game bad management.

@Kevin-N-Scott goodbye. It’s a shame I agree and so many good players are leaving...

@kevin-n-scott said in Dragon Rescue for Kenny Part II - Mar 26th - April 2nd:

On the back of this event I have just about decided to give up DC, just not worth it , shame good game bad management.

Sad to see you go, good luck finding a replacement game.

@kevin-n-scott ... have felt the same but decided to stay and enjoy the parts I like and snag some dragons along the way; still frustrates me incredibly at times yet am not letting it make me mad dog crazy anymore ... will miss you if you decide to leave.

I also sometimes wonder why I keep playing this game. It is frustrating to not be able to win as many league battles as I used to. They were my best source of gems. I could get 6 from them almost every day. I still get 1/day from Jewelem's Tower & 30/month from the Daily Help, but I really got spoiled from getting all those easy gems from the leagues. Even the arenas aren't as easy as they used to be depending on what dragons I am allowed to use. The rescues useless to me. I rarely have the keys that I need to unlock anything past the first couple of doors. The only prize I have won in a rescue is the skin for one of the RoL dragons. I can't even remember which one.
I don't plan on leaving anyway soon. Just needed to vent a little.

@nynaevelan
SP SUPPORT ended up giving me 10 DARKSTEEL Orbs and 10 Legendary Joker Orbs to compensate for their mistake. Still no word on my ORIGIN ARMOR however.