Hi,

I'm just curious what people think it a good exchange of food for orbs.

Currently I feed legendaries to lvl20 before exchanging for 60orbs. I think its around 300k food.

However I've got second mythical and second herioc. How do you guys decide what amounts of food are worthwhile to level the dragon before doing a recall for a couple of orbs?

@gilberto-silva For breedable legendaries I feed to level 20. Because I can repeat the progress. I never recalled double dragons if I only have one. What sense does that make? Nowadays a dragon with one star is like having one with no star. Perhaps I would do if I could use the orbs for trades.

For breedable legends I feed to 25, lower rarities like Epics and Very Rares I feed to 15. Lower rarities I rarely recall, I just throw them away For hard to get dragons I feed to 30. For those really valuable ones like heroics, titans, vips and mythicals I feed to 30.

Thank you very much guys.
@Nynaevelan your numbers give me something to work with.
lvl30 feeding = 4.2M food, 80orbs (descent opportunity cost to be close to 120orbs for empowering)
lvl25 feeding = 1.13M food, 70orbs

I think I'll do the lvl30 for my 2nd Celestial wind and 2nd ngiri. Only takes a couple of days to make that food back.

Time to update this.... in my opinion with new feeding chart and orb recalls, level 30 is a must. It’s fairly cheap and gives you the max 100 orbs.

@michael-lon said in How far to feed dragons before recalling opinions.:

Time to update this.... in my opinion with new feeding chart and orb recalls, level 30 is a must. It’s fairly cheap and gives you the max 100 orbs.

Is it 30 that gives 100 or 35? I thought it was 35?

Edit: You were right, 30 it is which is better. My strategies will change to feed up all epics and higher to 30.

@michael-lon said in How far to feed dragons before recalling opinions.:

Time to update this.... in my opinion with new feeding chart and orb recalls, level 30 is a must. It’s fairly cheap and gives you the max 100 orbs.

It sure does, and I fully agree with @Michael-Lon - Level 30/100 orbs is a must for ~565k food.

I'd actually like a discussion on the course this Empower Reborn is taking and everybody's view upon it. ... and particular, what you all see in the next phase. For me it is relatively welcome. I'm still noob and my only real "tank" is a 5star/level70 Kratus. I'm brewing on an Abyss, so for this, the change is welcome.

I'm guessing that the next phase will put some kind of restrictions on use of dragons. It could be a "retirement", when a sufficient number of fights are reached. ... or hopefully just a "cool-down" period.

@nynaevelan said in How far to feed dragons before recalling opinions.:

Is it 30 that gives 100 or 35? I thought it was 35?

I'm "promised" 100 orbs for all my non-star'ed dragons level 30 and above.

@profboennestage they are making it easy.... my guess is we’ll be introduced to more specialty abilities like titans and high tectonic that makes cat 9 five stars not so special.

Titans were a game changer when introduced because it takes away the first attack from your opponent or gives you two first attacks.

High tectonic, a guaranteed 5 hit attack (granted it was a 600 base per attack) is a very powerful attack, nit to mention the two legendary dragons released at the same time with a 4x guaranteed attack.

@nynaevelan yes. i just leveled my extra electric titan to 30 very cheaply and the recall page says 100 orbs.

@Michael-Lon That's a good point. I'm always thinking as a F2P and forget that SP may not be fully content with their income from me watching commercials

So, the objective may well be to make the "free" dragons more accessible to a larger group, increasing the incentive to purchase upgrades on those dragons with special skills or attacks. Upgrades that are hard to come around as F2P.

Really glad this new Empower Reborn came around. So I played around.
Max orbs for 0 star dragon= 100 orbs (@lvl30, it stays at 100 orbs even for lvl31 and above)
Max orbs for 1 star dragon= 220 orbs (120 extra)
(I guess the next one will 200extra for 2star lvl30 dragon)
Max orbs for 3 star dragon= 740 orbs

It costs 749k food to get dragon from lvl1 to lvl30.

So the good news is it took me many months to get my Abyss to 3star, it should take me a couple days to get it to 5stars now.
Total recall time for the guy is under 1d12h

I do the feeding and recalling based on the rarity.

Common = 12
Rare = 15
Very Rare = 17
Epic = 19
Legendary = 22
Heroic = Never. I have never gotten more than 1 of a heroic (except for the High Virago )

is the new feeding table somewhere online?

tolvl click tot cumul recall
1 0 0 0 40
2 5 20 20
3 10 40 60
4 20 80 140
5 30 120 260
6 35 140 400
7 45 180 580
8 50 200 780
9 60 240 1020
10 65 260 1280 59
11 145 580 1860 61
12 230 920 2780 63
13 310 1240 4020 65
14 390 1560 5580 67
15 475 1900 7480 69
16 555 2220 9700 71
17 635 2540 12240 73
18 715 2860 15100 75
19 800 3200 18300 77
20 880 3520 21820 79
21 3190 12760 34580 81
22 5510 22040 56620 83
23 7815 31260 87880 86
24 10130 40520 128400 88
25 12440 49760 178160 90
26 14750 59000 237160 92
27 17065 68260 305420 94
28 19375 77500 382920 96
29 21690 86760 469680 98
30 24000 96000 565680 100
31 45600 182400 748080
32 67200 268800 1016880
33 88800 355200 1372080
34 110400 441600 1813680
35 132000 528000 2341680
36 153600 614400 2956080
37 175000 700000 3656080
38 196800 787200 4443280
39 218400 873600 5316880
40 240000 960000 6276880

hi yes, that would be nice to have.

@apoli said in How far to feed dragons before recalling opinions.:

is the new feeding table somewhere online?

tolvl click tot cumul recall
1 0 0 0 40
2 5 20 20
3 10 40 60
4 20 80 140
5 30 120 260
6 35 140 400
7 45 180 580
8 50 200 780
9 60 240 1020
10 65 260 1280 59
11 145 580 1860 61
12 230 920 2780 63
13 310 1240 4020 65
14 390 1560 5580 67
15 475 1900 7480 69
16 555 2220 9700 71
17 635 2540 12240 73
18 715 2860 15100 75
19 800 3200 18300 77
20 880 3520 21820 79
21 3190 12760 34580 81
22 5510 22040 56620 83
23 7815 31260 87880 86
24 10130 40520 128400 88
25 12440 49760 178160 90
26 14750 59000 237160 92
27 17065 68260 305420 94
28 19375 77500 382920 96
29 21690 86760 469680 98
30 24000 96000 565680 100
31 45600 182400 748080
32 67200 268800 1016880
33 88800 355200 1372080
34 110400 441600 1813680
35 132000 528000 2341680
36 153600 614400 2956080
37 175000 700000 3656080
38 196800 787200 4443280
39 218400 873600 5316880
40 240000 960000 6276880

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