Music Festival Island
Startbonus 400
Collection 600 every 8 hours
Total: 20200 coins
Collectingtimes are explained here.
Maze tips are here.

Keys for Rescue are on Disco-Ninja's path.

Costs to get all keys from there: 14.400 coins

Dragons:

1. Big-Rockstar #248

2. K-Pop #1.145 (NEW!)

3. Nineties #669

4. Diva #505

5. Psychedelich #1.147 (NEW!)

6. Samba #381

7. Supersonic #116 (breedable)

8. Super Star #511

9. Disco-Ninja #601

10. Rap #1.148 (NEW!)

11. Black-Metal #1.146 (NEW!)
    
    We can get K-Pop, all rescue keys and Black Metal for free.

Dragon Rescue

Keys can be found on the path of Disco Ninja in the maze and in the key quest and on the easy path. Later we will also get them for watching trailers in the cinema.

Cool down times: Easy 6 hours; medium 10 hours; hard 24 hours.

Keys needed for the first doors: Easy 5xred; Medium 5xblue; Hard 2xyellow.
Second door: Easy 10x red;Medium 10xblue; Hard 2xyellow.
Third door: Easy 20x red; Medium 12xblue; Hard 3xyellow.
Fourth door: Easy 50x red; Medium 18xblue; Hard 3xyellow.
Fifth door: Easy 65xred; Medium 30xblue

Black Metal Dragon is required on the easy track fight #5 and fight #11; on medium track fight #2 , #4, #8

Once we have more informations we will add them here.

Have SP been listening "We can get K-Pop, all rescue keys and Black Metal for free". Not sure I need any of the other dragons anyway.

I’m not feeling like another rescue. I’m just going to sit back, relax and focus on the maze. I’m planning to get Psychedelia and Black Metal. I might go for K Pop, but if I decide to do the Rescue I will spend the remaining coins on the Disco Ninja path instead.

What should I buy guys? Mystic island with few maze coins or some maze coins? I do want all new dragons and Participate in the rescue

I am calculating my costs and what I am going for. As usual I am going for it all, so now I am trying to figure out, which I want Pscychedela, Rap or both.

Ok I just had a thought, I see that you can get the Rescue done for free but to get the 15000 for the keys you need 15000, which will take 8 days, roughly. The rescue is for 7 days? Will you be able to get the keys in time to do the rescue, especially assuming long wait times on the medium and/or hard paths? Have I miscalculated? Misjudged? Hmm that way seems to mean you will not have any time to "lose" any fights on those nodes with specific requirements.

I think I will stick with my original plan to buy coins so that I can do the DN path right away. I am not going through that fiasco again to feed up unnecessary dragons and/or hatch doubles.

@nynaevelan
That's not the only problem. We are meant to need black metal for the rescue as well. Even if we can get all keys and black metal before the island ends, the rescue ends days before the island. There is no way to get all the keys and get black metal in time before the rescue ends.
Maybe they will have a generous maze coin quest too.

Here is what I planned, if I were to buy 11000 coins then
My total coins:- 31,200
My goal:- get the new dragons and some keys.
It will take days for me to complete hard path, plus I want to complete the easy and medium paths as well.

But if I need all keys in disco path, then I would need around extra 5000 - 6000 coins.

I’m going for Psychedelia, Black Metal and then spending all spare coins on the Disco Ninja Path. If I get spare coins after the DN path ends, I’ll pick up K Pop.

What are the 500K followers? I've found one chest on the Rock Star & one on the Black Metal paths. I don't see anything about them anywhere.

@dragonista said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

What are the 500K followers? I've found one chest on the Rock Star & one on the Black Metal paths. I don't see anything about them anywhere.

There is a banner in game about them and a post in the updates section.

@bettina-löffler I am a bit confused about how we participate in the Music Arenas. Where are they, and do you have to be a certain level to access them?

@captainmarvel said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@bettina-löffler I am a bit confused about how we participate in the Music Arenas. Where are they, and do you have to be a certain level to access them?

You have to already be at the top to access them, so if you are in the arenas below the legend arenas, you will not get them. Well not unless you do a lot of fighting to climb up to them.

You could get first 4 heroic chests free 8n hard part and 4th battle needs a heroic.

Also looks like we can get lot of red and blue keys but seriously SP , why yellow keys are only in maze and that too you need to complete half of it to get the yellow keys.

Good thing is that we can get followers in easy and medium paths

I added this to Dragon Rescue: Keys can be found on the path of Disco Ninja in the maze and in the key quest and on the easy path. Later we will also get them for watching trailers in the cinema.

Cool down times: Easy 6 hours; medium 10 hours; hard 24 hours.

Keys needed for the first doors: Easy 5xred; Medium 5xblue; Hard 2xyellow.

Black Metal Dragon is required on the easy track fight #5.

@bettina-löffler I started on the hard path, 1 heroic needed starting on the 2nd fight, one more is added for each step you make until you need 6 per node. Which means if you have every heroic you are still going to need @3 cooldowns not assuming any losses, so if you want to make it to the end you are not going to be able to do the disco Ninja path for free, you will need to do it more quickly to gain some time.

The heroics are 10 orbs per node. I just hit my first cool down, 6 nodes done. Now going to the medium path.

@amogh-sai said in Dragon Rescue Tips and Discusions:

You could get first 4 heroic chests free 8n hard part and 4th battle needs a heroic.

Also looks like we can get lot of red and blue keys but seriously SP , why yellow keys are only in maze and that too you need to complete half of it to get the yellow keys.

Good thing is that we can get followers in easy and medium paths

We are discussing this rescue in the music festival topic, moving this.

@bettina-löffler I need Black Metal on the 2nd node of the medium path, which I don't have yet so heading to the easy path for 2 hours until my wizards are ready.

@nynaevelan said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@bettina-löffler I need Black Metal on the 2nd node of the medium path, which I don't have yet so heading to the easy path for 2 hours until my wizards are ready.

What means second node? What fight number is it?

@bettina-löffler said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@nynaevelan said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@bettina-löffler I need Black Metal on the 2nd node of the medium path, which I don't have yet so heading to the easy path for 2 hours until my wizards are ready.

What means second node? What fight number is it?

The second one, I only did 1 fight before needing him.

@nynaevelan So that is the one right behind the first door.

@bettina-löffler said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@nynaevelan So that is the one right behind the first door.

Can anyone confirm, are the keys coloured red for the easy path, blue for middle, and gold for hard? Or do they mix them around?

@susan-mclaughlin said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

Can anyone confirm, are the keys coloured red for the easy path, blue for middle, and gold for hard? Or do they mix them around?

So far i used red on easy, blue on medium and yellow on hard, but I only opened 1 door each on easy and medium and 2 on hard.

it's official ... i'm out of this Rescue ... knew that last one when I got the Medium path was a fluke ... refuse to pay gems to get dragons and to speed up hatching ... have yet to complete building Broodby Tower ... ugh ... guess i'll focus on the Music Festival Island dragons, upgrading habitats, and trying to get that hatching Tower built ... LOTS of ice cream for the next 5 or 6 days ... slurp:

move over @_thespacebeing_ ... i'm sitting this Rescue out, also ... have some ice cream with me:

@bettina-löffler I like how SP put the followers only on the easy and medium paths.

ugh.....one heroic per fight. i'm new so only have 2 heroics and the cooldown is 24 hours. this is ridiculous. almost 300 dragons and i can't use them.

@michael-lon said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

ugh.....one heroic per fight. i'm new so only have 2 heroics and the cooldown is 24 hours. this is ridiculous. almost 300 dragons and i can't use them.

Too bad, you will only be able to do three fights on the hard path. I am thinking the hard path along with the master arena are for long term, vet players. It's actually nice that for a change they did something to our advantage. They usually do things geared towards newbies.

@nynaevelan arena is pretty doable. i might not finish top 10,but i'll get the points for all three tiers.

@michael-lon said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@nynaevelan arena is pretty doable. i might not finish top 10,but i'll get the points for all three tiers.

Yeah but you are already in the top arena, this is not the case for many people.

@bettina-löffler Black Metal is needed again on 11 on the easy path and 4 on the medium path. This is going to take the entire 6 days.

Right now I'm planning to buy 7000 or 11000 coins when there is an offer and skip most of the disco path . Also planning to buy keys
Should I go for yellow keys because to get them from maze we need lot of maze coins

@nynaevelan said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@bettina-löffler Black Metal is needed again on 11 on the easy path and 4 on the medium path. This is going to take the entire 6 days.

Thanks for the info. I thought it would not be easy.

@nynaevelan I don’t think this is for veteran players it’s for players who will buy keys.

I dont see how we can get through without buying moves or keys.

@michael-lon
We all start small. You can still do a couple of the steps on the hard path for some heroic orbs. But you can probably complete the easy path and do part of the medium as well. As you play longer term and get more better dragons, you'll do better on the events. Just be patient!

After a few fights on hard path needing all 6 as heroic and I have 25 heroics, means max 4 fights a day if no loss, this will be tight.

@susan-mclaughlin no worries. i'm quite competitive in arenas and fairly easy to beat heroics in there. it's the uber empowered legends that are sometimes an issue. for playing only 6 weeks and not spending a dime yet, and a few level 35 dragons, couple of heroics, i'm good.

@bettina-löffler The Disco Ninja path does not give you enough keys to do the entire. Rescue, I am shirt red keys for the easy path.

@nynaevelan said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@bettina-löffler The Disco Ninja path does not give you enough keys to do the entire. Rescue, I am shirt red keys for the easy path.

... yup ... easy path did not look easy when I had to have Black Metal hatched and fed at that second door on the 1st day ... have some while you wait for red keys ... and some to cleanse your palate afterwards

this rescue is looking more like a ploy for a gem and food dump.

@michael-lon said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

this rescue is looking more like a ploy for a gem and food dump.

This rescue is looking like.....all the others. I am almost finished Easy,and still in the beginning of Medium and Hard but I am not seeing much changes. Actually that is not true, positively I like that they did not randomly add keys to Freebies. And so far it seems that 90% of the keys were all on Disco Ninja's path. I had to go all the way through the Key Quest, except the last one to get the keys needed to open all the doors on Easy. Since I am on a cooldown on Medium I am hoping I already have all the blue keys needed for this path. My biggest question is since I have so many doors left for the Hard path, where will I get the keys needed since there are none on the Medium path?

I honestly do not understand why they program these to be so spread out but knowing them, they programmed the first one and are too unimaginative or too lazy to change the format so we are stuck with these taking the bulk of the limited time to finish them.

As far as gem sinks, I plan for the max I am going to spend on them and I do not go over it, which is @75 gems. A food sink, no because I am not feeding anyone past their normal feeding levels. It doesn't really seem to make a difference in the battles, the lose just as fast at 21 then they do at 40.

@dragonlove said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@nynaevelan said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@bettina-löffler The Disco Ninja path does not give you enough keys to do the entire. Rescue, I am shirt red keys for the easy path.

... yup ... easy path did not look easy when I had to have Black Metal hatched and fed at that second door on the 1st day ... have some while you wait for red keys ... and some to cleanse your palate afterwards

I used gems to rush the quests so I have opened all the doors, unfortunately I am two fights away from finishing and surprise, surprise another cooldown. Now I am enjoying and while I wait for cooldowns on all three paths.

@nynaevelan been to 3 rescues,this is the first i've seen quests requiring heroes linked to the maze ad a level requirement (food dump...already had to level kpop from 16 to 18,not a big deal,but still). then requiring a semi token heavy heavy metal dragon requirement on easy mode, and from what you posted, looks like on 2 nodes he is required. that means rush him to hatch, then level up (gem and food dump). if you don't have enough heroics, then hope u get some from freebies or rescue and then rush to summon, hatch, feed. and again, haven't seen heroic requirement from the previous 2 rescues and as you pointed out earlier, you were glad they did it this way for te "older players"...hence, this is not looking like "all the others".

final thoughts...easy is hardy "easy". i can understand hard mode to be difficult, but many aspects of this race is just a head scratcher. i don't even want to know about the keys...they'll probably rush that in tha last few days.......but i get it,they have to make some sales....but whatevs.....time to slow down anyways.

@michael-lon said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@nynaevelan been to 3 rescues,this is the first i've seen quests requiring heroes linked to the maze ad a level requirement (food dump...already had to level kpop from 16 to 18,not a big deal,but still). then requiring a semi token heavy heavy metal dragon requirement on easy mode, and from what you posted, looks like on 2 nodes he is required. that means rush him to hatch, then level up (gem and food dump). if you don't have enough heroics, then hope u get some from freebies or rescue and then rush to summon, hatch, feed. and again, haven't seen heroic requirement from the previous 2 rescues and as you pointed out earlier, you were glad they did it this way for te "older players"...hence, this is not looking like "all the others".

final thoughts...easy is hardy "easy". i can understand hard mode to be difficult, but many aspects of this race is just a head scratcher. i don't even want to know about the keys...they'll probably rush that in tha last few days.......but i get it,they have to make some sales....but whatevs.....time to slow down anyways.

I guess it is different perspectives. As to your first point, previous rescues (not all) have had specific requirements, the last one required the Summer Party dragons. The one in June I believe required the Pets. There was a legendary one that didn't require event dragons but it did require legendary dragons. Memory is drawing a blank on the others I would have to dig through screen shots to pull up notes on others.

Most events usually require some kind of rush, either in the rescue or in temp quests. It is up to you to participate or not. As to the easy or hardness of these, I've mentioned this before but I see the Easy path for newbies at a minimum, the Medium path for medium level players and the hard for the advanced players. Now this does not mean others cannot participate in them but these will require more resources, either to hatch or feed to prepare for them. Whether or not you do that is your CHOICE, no one is required to participate in them or do use up resources to do them. This is a game with many different types of players and many different levels of players, every event and every stage of events cannot be programmed the same for everyone, otherwise it can lead to boredom which could lose them players. Based on some of your comments I get that you are a ""newer" player and as such I do not think that you should get or expect to progress as much as a more advanced player. If you try that you will end up costing yourself more, not only in gems but possibly real money and resources as well. You need to think about what you want to accomplish and how much you are willing to spend to accomplish it. Take a look in the previous Rescue topic and you will see there are many players both new, mid range and advanced who do not fully participate in these because they made the choice to not pay so high to do them. Haha in fact I am probably in the minority of players who regularly post here who continuously participates on all three paths. With that said, even I have set myself a gem limit of what I will spend on them. Food wise it is not an issue, because the feeding usually falls within my given parameters, when it doesn't then i make the decision whether I will sacrifice the food or give it up and so far none have required a large amount of food. If food resources to get a dragon to level 20 is a hardship then you really need to re-think participation in these. As to the new feature of the entire path for the heroics, sorry if you do not have at least 12 heroics already I suggest you just go as far as you can get and then leave that path alone, that would be a bad decision to try to progress on that one by buying and rushing dragons. From the sixth fight on you need all heriocs and with a 24 hour cooldown if you only have 6 you are not going to walk the entire path. Just take what you can get and build up for the future.

So far every fight node that has had followers that I have reached are the ones where my Black Metal dragon was a requirement so if that holds true that means he is needed on the following nodes of each path:

Easy - *5th, *11th and *17th
Medium - *2nd, *4th, 8th, 12th, 17th, 19th

The ones with the * are ones that I can confirm he is needed.

@nynaevelan i never said i "expected" anything...was pointing out the obvious of a food/gem dump, which it is. never discouraged anyone from participating, just pointed out an obvious detail. expecting anything is silly, but the details of this race is a head scratcher.

i know it's "voluntary" which is why i said i'm gonna slow down. if the intent of the devs is to "slow down" some players,mission accomplished. but like i said, this is hardly like any of the other races i've been in so far......heroic dragons are significantly different from legendary in terms of acquiring. that is simply not "like any other race."

getting a dragon to 20 is a big deal for many newbies (not me) and if the point of"easy mode" is for newbies and that requires a level 20, then what's the point? (don't know if it does cause i'm still waiting on my heavy metal dragon) i remember 2 weeks ago when getting a dragon to level 20 "was" an issue....so like i said, easy mode is"hardly" easy.

@nynaevelan said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

So far every fight node that has had followers that I have reached are the ones where my Black Metal dragon was a requirement so if that holds true that means he is needed on the following nodes of each path:

Easy - *5th, *11th and *17th
Medium - *2nd, *4th, *8th, *12th, 17th, 19th

The ones with the * are ones that I can confirm he is needed.

As with the previous rescue on these nodes make sure you put him with dragons strong enough to win so that you do not have an additional cooldown, there are already enough of them without adding more due to losing the fight.

... interesting @Nynaevelan ... “...I am not feeding anyone past their normal feeding levels. It doesn't really seem to make a difference in the battles, the lose just as fast at 21 then they do at 40.” ... ty ty for this info (had overlooked it on a first read) ... will keep in mind now

@michael-lon said in Music Festival Isalnd Aug8-19 ; Dragon Rescue Aug9-15:

@nynaevelan i never said i "expected" anything...was pointing out the obvious of a food/gem dump, which it is. never discouraged anyone from participating, just pointed out an obvious detail. expecting anything is silly, but the details of this race is a head scratcher.

... IMO ... MANY details about SP’s DC events cause one to scratch the head ...
SP’s definition of “easy” is not my definition of “easy” thus the early decision to declare myself officially out of this Rescue event ...
... always wondering when looking at grids for dragon paths ... for instance, why did SP set it up that new Epic (Psychedelia) path is 9,000 plus 6,275 in paths to get there making it 15,275 total ? makes it more expensive to pick up an Epic than waiting for the new timed Legend (Rap) at a cost of only 10,000 ... always scratching my head over SP’s math skills
well, am off to organize/log my dragons/eggs, upgrade habitats, build Towers during this Rescue ... and, of course, eat more ice cream ...