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Then I don’t even make a scratch on them

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@Jun-Zhi You aren’t going to beat 3 lvl 40 Heroics with lvl 20 dragons. Skip the fight.

Definitely skip it!!!! I've been skipping for coins about any fight it's pretty sure I can't possibly win. I don't skip if it would cost me coins.

Sometimes if you just don't start the fight and wait a while the opponent shuffles out to a different one without paying to skip. I don't remember how long that takes though.

@LilCricketPa but spending gems on it isn't worth for just skipping this, producers should block low level players meeting really high level players........ like a 33 level player as me facing a 100 level player.....

@TeamTerrier said in Should I face these dragons?:

Sometimes if you just don't start the fight and wait a while the opponent shuffles out to a different one without paying to skip. I don't remember how long that takes though.

I notice the same. I've wondered if they reset every 8 hours like other features in the game. Or if it's simply timed.

@Jun-Zhi said in Should I face these dragons?:

@LilCricketPa but spending gems on it isn't worth for just skipping this, producers should block low level players meeting really high level players........ like a 33 level player as me facing a 100 level player.....

I've never spent gems to skip. I've only spent coins to skip the entire fight and be matched with a different opponent.

I think the gems are just to renew a defeated dragon without waiting for it to regenerate in a couple hours.

@Jun-Zhi You can skip the battles for gold or as someone else noted you can just wait it out until they automatically swap out.

I also encourage you all to send in feedback. On the right side of your screen where all the icons are check to see if you have one that says “talk to us”, if you don’t have it look in your settings for the “contact us” or use the instructions in my signature line.

They do listen to feedback, and although they like experimenting they will eventually make it a little more balanced.

@TeamTerrier
I've only started spending to skip battles since this alliance chest started. And I've gone thru gold food and gems. But I've been matched up with level 40 dragons for the last 6 matches. That's the gold food and 1 gem, then I waited for the battle to change only to have the same again. I don't know whether to keep spending gems to try to get past these high level dragons or to wait it out, but I feel bad that I haven't helped the alliance at all today. Level 27 to 31 dragons simply can't compete against level 35 to 40 dragons. Or else I just do the fight and lose the dragons for 3.5 hours. Getting annoyed now.

@Susan-McLaughlin I would not spend the gems. This is the first Alliance event so I’m sure any help is appreciated. As long as you contributed, you will still get the rewards.

The changes in the battle system are a bit much and very unfair to players. My Heroics are all lvl 30-40, trained, and have 3 gold stars and I am losing battles when facing similar opponents if they get the first strike. It’s a bit crazy and hopefully they will fix it.

It would be so awesome if they would stop “fixing” and rebalancing what doesn’t need fixing and work on things that need it.

@LilCricketPa
I've only spent 4 gems and it was partly to see if there was a better match. Completely agree about the devs stopping making 'improvements'.
But I've only just now thought of a way around my problem: to put expendable dragons from the bottom of my list into these impossible fights and save my best dragons for the possible ones. Too bad I didn't think of it 20 minutes ago though!

@Susan-McLaughlin said in Should I face these dragons?:

@LilCricketPa
I've only spent 4 gems and it was partly to see if there was a better match. Completely agree about the devs stopping making 'improvements'.
But I've only just now thought of a way around my problem: to put expendable dragons from the bottom of my list into these impossible fights and save my best dragons for the possible ones. Too bad I didn't think of it 20 minutes ago though!

That is a great plan!!! Plus I've kinda seen that if I lose a battle or two I get a few fairly easy ones afterwards

@TeamTerrier
Yep I gave the new plan a try just now and after the initial sacrifice battle with low level dragons, I got a good run. Using the winstance tower and skipping only a few matches, i was finally able to win the other 5 battles. First time since 18 hours that I could contribute to the alliance, and we have the level 2 chest done now! Which is all I expected for this time around since we're still recruiting.

@LilCricketPa said in Should I face these dragons?:

They do listen to feedback ...

... and do exactly the opposite of what they hear back from players.

"Fixed that for you"

@Stilor After the Alliance chest event, I’m inclined to agree. Guess no one ever told them “if it ain’t broke...”