I want to know the specific time it will take to empower each dragon so I can time if I want to wait a certain amount of time and how many gems it will take to speed it up.

This used to be the formula but I don't know if they are still accurate with the changes that were recently made in the tree.

Empower Time Formula =
1st star: hatching time x 1.1
2nd star: hatching time x 1.5
3rd star: hatching time x 2.0
4th star: hatching time x 2.5
5th star: hatching time x 3.0

I just noticed 2 or 3 months ago:

Terra Dragon Hatching Time:
15 seconds

But...

Terra Dragon Empower To 1 Star Time:
10 seconds.

Is there a point in empowering common or rare dragons? I have some extras of some now and have recalled some for orbs - I have enough to either get a second cactus (which I don't want) or empower him but do I want to? Does it matter or just sell the extras?

@tante It's your opinion, but I recommend to recall all of your duplicate dragons, empower them, feed them a little more (if you have lots of food left), and use them for battle. There is a point for rares also. The Shadow Dragon was offered in lots of events and it's only a new dragon since 2017 or 2018! But if you have lots of aztecs, you should recall them. Besides battle cups, you can also get it in the shop for 1500 gems and the best part is, you can breed it with level 15 Flame + Terra. Terra + Flame really doesn't work (for me). But the main question, it CAN matter in these dragons. I'm recalling my blizzard, but in my strongest account (which is my level 24 account), I have a 2-star flaming rock.

@zarif-bin-kaiser said in How Long Will it take to Empower each rarity?:

@tante It's your opinion, but I recommend to recall all of your duplicate dragons, empower them, feed them a little more (if you have lots of food left), and use them for battle. There is a point for rares also. The Shadow Dragon was offered in lots of events and it's only a new dragon since 2017 or 2018! But if you have lots of aztecs, you should recall them. Besides battle cups, you can also get it in the shop for 1500 gems and the best part is, you can breed it with level 15 Flame + Terra. Terra + Flame really doesn't work (for me). But the main question, it CAN matter in these dragons. I'm recalling my blizzard, but in my strongest account (which is my level 24 account), I have a 2-star flaming rock.

I disagree, unless your levels are very low. Honestly I wouldn't waste my time or resources on anything less than an epic. And I would only do epics until I got some strong legends and heroics. And I certainly wouldn't clog my tree with these low leveled dragons. And seriously you are suggesting buying it in the shop for 1500 gems?

@nynaevelan You can also do Hydra, Ivory, and Sad dragons for three reasons:

1. They are both vr's (Very Rare dragons) and vr dragons actually have the same empower stats as an epic.

2. Hydra and sad dragons are technically EPIC dragons! Hydra and Sad dragon might be VR's and have 2 elements but they are category 5 and category 5 is the most COMMON category for an epic.

3. Ivory is a 11 hour vr breedable!
   Now, I just found out today that ivory is still a breedable dragon with a 11 hour breeding and 17 hour hatching time. You can breed it by terra + pure!

@tante
There really is no point in using R and VR dragons for battles once you get to higher player levels. So as Nynaeve said, you don't need to waste your time hatching extras, recalling and empowering them.
That said, if I have nothing else more important to recall, I actually do recall C R and VR dragons of which I have doubles hatched, these are mostly from puzzle hatches and misses from my breeding sanctuary. However, I have such a backlog in my empowering list, I will not be empowering these dragons anytime soon.

@susan-mclaughlin I think that r's and vr's are good for battle for low level. I never use legendaries because I don't have a lot and I did use them sometimes but in the sea arena, they already have a 70 minute 5 second cooldown time.

@susan-mclaughlin There is a point, it actually worked for me because my flaming rock 2 stars had from 7623 (when it was empowered to no stars) health to around 9400 health and it did 4500 atk damage. But I sell mine to give a teeny-tiny boost to my gold when I really want to upgrade my dragon roost and I have a lot of food to throw to my commons, rares and vr's. And that's probably the actual reason why I sell all my exclusive dragons that are epic and legendary. I'm still surprised that an equinox dragon (common) (and is the only dragon i've ever summoned) can have a sell price of a whopping 1,200,000 gold!

@zarif-bin-kaiser you have much to learn in this game.
Do as you wish, of course, with your own game. I have given my advice as an experienced player of 3.5 years, who has 3.71 billion gold and can grow 15 x 20million foods on my farms.
If you are a collector, you should not be selling dragons that you cannot breed. If you are a fighter, you should not be selling L dragons.
You would be wise to keep all those E and L dragons, hatch them and feed them, because not only will they be more useful than R and VR dragons for fighting (third time saying this), but they also will earn you more gold just by being in your habitats.
You would also be wise not to level up too quickly, as you will find the game, especially battles, will become more difficult, and you may not be able to grow your dragons to match.
But to each their own.

@susan-mclaughlin My legends usually get fed to level 15, no more. My techno dragon was the highest but still only level 18. But how do you get more gold? I'm trying really hard to get 10m gold.

@susan-mclaughlin said in How Long Will it take to Empower each rarity?:

@zarif-bin-kaiser you have much to learn in this game.
Do as you wish, of course, with your own game. I have given my advice as an experienced player of 3.5 years, who has 3.71 billion gold and can grow 15 x 20million foods on my farms.
If you are a collector, you should not be selling dragons that you cannot breed. If you are a fighter, you should not be selling L dragons.
You would be wise to keep all those E and L dragons, hatch them and feed them, because not only will they be more useful than R and VR dragons for fighting (third time saying this), but they also will earn you more gold just by being in your habitats.
You would also be wise not to level up too quickly, as you will find the game, especially battles, will become more difficult, and you may not be able to grow your dragons to match.
But to each their own.

Good advice.

@zarif-bin-kaiser said in How Long Will it take to Empower each rarity?:

@susan-mclaughlin My legends usually get fed to level 15, no more. My techno dragon was the highest but still only level 18. But how do you get more gold? I'm trying really hard to get 10m gold.

Time.
In early levels, just spend gold on food and habitats and expansions. And save gems for new islands. Build habitats, place dragons, and gold will be produced. It really is the limiting factor for beginners, but just be patient.

The new empowerment times are:
1st star = hatching time
2nd star = x1.25 hatching time
3rd star = x1.5 hatching time
4th star = x1.75 hatching time
5th star = x2 hatching time
I calculated them myself. Also recalling time is x0.5 hatching time

@bonnie Oh!

Thanks for all the replies. I was leaning in favor of @Nynaevelan and @Susan-McLaughlin - I play another game with a recall type option for dragons and while it goes into a general pool, saving (and taking up that habitat space) opposed to selling or recalling - selling is often just the same option as recalling due to the low value in recalling.

I am keeping some of my duplicates for now since they are helping with the missions for building the towers.

As far as fighters go - I got the High Devastation during the last heroic race and he's a B+ at level 35, though not empowered (no orbs). I work on building up him, the Legendary ones I get, an the Epics. I do have a Friendship dragon that's pretty good and use him in battles but lately I have been avoiding the Leagues unless an event calls for it and using mostly the quests and some time in the arenas building up my dragons.

I would fight in the arenas more often but work has been busy!

PS - I had tons of food before I started trying to get my dragons from level 30 to 35 and now I'm concentrating on hoarding food again!

@zarif-bin-kaiser You sound like a new kid on the block who wants some attention by posting as much as possible in the forums.

There are many very experienced dragon masters here to learn from. They are very patient and have given you good advice. I suggest you read and learn more from them. If you have nothing meaningful to say, it may be better to keep quiet than to post the little bit that you know, okay?

I'm going to offer a differing opinion here. And I believe that @Nynaevelan will agree that I have the knowledge and experience to back up my opinion here

TLDR: get lots of 5-star Terra dragons as early as possible to maximize your gold production in ways that will definitely pay off later.

Details below...

I believe that if you are in the position of having a reason to ask this question, then it can benefit you to recall/empower some common dragons, and in very extreme cases, some at other rarities under Epic as well.

Specifically, I recommend newer players recall their Terra dragons in order to empower others. Terra dragons end up serving two purposes as you get deeper into the game:

1. Their rapid breeding and hatching means they are great for use in all of the events that require a lot of indiscriminate breeding or hatching.
2. They are an easy way to farm gold up until the point that you no longer have gold as a key concern for your development in the game. Terra actually has a very high gold production rate when compared with most dragons that are easily accessible in large quantities. A tactic that can advance you in meaningful ways toward later game play is to set up a lot of Terra habitats in order to farm gold. I didn't get this going in my own game until I was in the mid 50s in terms of level. Starting earlier would have helped a ton!

Early on, you don't have a huge backlog of things to recall and empower. That will change. But while that is the case, it can produce meaningful aid to your gold generation for the rest of the time you play if you use this time to get lots of 5-star Terra dragons. They will produce 141% more gold, bringing their gold production up to the point of matching Legendary rarity dragons. Pair them with Terra Crystal towers and you can be generating in excess of 600 gold per dragon per minute.

A ring of six level-2 Terra habitats, each filled with four 5-star Terra dragons, surrounding your four Terra Crystals will produce just under 15k gold per minute. Further, these will fill to the 10k max every five minutes, meaning that you can collect from them very often for all of the times you get rewards from getting max level gold.

Taking the math above a bit further, that is 60k gold every 5 minutes. 120k gold every ten minutes. 1.2M gold every 2 hours (if you're actively collecting during those two hours). As you can, you will probably want to upgrade these habitats to give them a 50k+ max so that you're not missing out as much during the times you can't collect every five minutes.

@zarif-bin-kaiser See my long post above for details.

Get to 10m gold in a few days max, by building all four Terra Crystals in a group together, surrounding them with Terra habitats that are at least level 2, filling them with Terra dragons, and empowering those dragons to 5 stars. You will generate millions of gold every day.