Grade Explained and How to Train your Dragons

You are in the dragon village...and you are not just a simple villager. You are given the task to save Yutakan, Metal Tower and Elysium. You have finished the story quite easily and you are met by reality -- the next step is to battle other players and join a guild...and you keep on getting rejected. You ask yourself why?

To cut the story short, your dragons suck. S-U-C-K. They all suck. Because they suck, you suck too. You fail as a dragon tamer. 

I know you know that because you have a losing streak in colosseum. You merely scratch Balrog. That's bad isn't it? Considering you were playing not just for days, but months and maybe, year.

Worry not, I'm here to help. But first, the basics.

Rating Explained (skip this if you don't like maths)

To avoid confusion, let me tell you what grade is. It is also referred to as rating. It is not to be mistaken with stars which refer to "rarity." (Note: Stars affect the base stats of a dragon. Dragons with higher stars are stronger than lower stars.) Grade refers more to "power." In the picture below, that is the 0.0 and 7.5. The perfect grade is 7.0 but could go up by upgrading eggs and when leveling up with max plus. The highest I have seen is 8.5. Note: Blessed nest and guild buff (on hatch grade) does not guarantee 7.0 hatch grade.

Difference -- The image above perfectly shows the difference between a dragon with low grade and a dragon with high grade. The table below shows the different stats/abilities of Valefor on different grades. A perfect grade (7.0) has a world difference against a 0.0 grade: HP is 91 points higher, ATK is 55 points higher, and DEF is 42 points higher. That is a really BIG difference.

I would also note that basic abilities affect buff effect of items. Look at the effect of buff in the image above. for atk it is 90 on 0.0 grade and 96 on 7.5 grade. That is because buffs depend on BASIC stats.

ABILITY	GRADE
	0.0	7.0	7.5
HP	577	768	770
ATK	168	223	224
DEF	132	174	177

So, the real question is how to raise a dragon with perfect grade?

1. Buy blessed nest: One of the items you need to get as soon as possible. ASAP because it costs 300 diamonds. This doesn't add another cave slot. Instead, it converts all your nests to blessed nests. Effect? Increases your hatch grade by 0.6. Verdict: Must have. (The golden stuff in the pictures below is the blessed nest.

2. Upgrade your egg: Having blessed nest does not guarantee a hatch grade of 7.0. You can get 7.0 but it is very rare. So, upgrade your egg. Go to laboratory, choose upgrade egg. You need to have normal spirit stone, normal stone heart, crystals and gold to upgrade egg. Blessed nest + +1 upgrade almost guarantees perfect hatch grade. Verdict. Great! (The +1 beside the name means the dragon egg was upgraded.)

3. Always aim for triple max: Use level downs when you don't get triple max. That's basic. Verdict: Basic.

4. Use diamonds when necessary: If you don't know what diamond reset is, you have been playing ignorantly. When your dragon does not get triple max, you can just press reset to reset stats.

Warning: The only thing good about diamond reset is you don't have to explore an area again to level up. It also has opportunity to give you purple max or max plus which raises the dragon's grade. This is really really costly though and does not guarantee you anything. Verdict: Use with caution.

5. Use dragon's, maia's, dersa's and amorrus blessing. Contrary to popular belief (also known as item description), these items can give you triple max. Other players prefer to sell them, but I say, why not use them? Verdict: Sell them if you're desperate for gold.

6. Raise your dragon when it matches the element of the Tower of Light. This is the best tip I have come across. When your element in the tower of light is on, you will need less diamonds to get triple max or better yet get triple max plus. Caution must be taken though as you need the time on your phone to be set in Korean time otherwise the Tower of Light will show the wrong element color. It happens to me but I don't know if it is applicable to you.

What do you say? None of this, of course, are sure way to raise perfect grade dragons. But better than being clueless right?

Some clarification: Based on experience, the maximum grade that can be achieved without amorrus blessing is 7.5-7.6. That means, once you upgrade an egg and hatched it 7.5, basically, you just have to maintain its grade to level 47, then use amorrus at level 48-50. Also, Amorrus blessing can only be used 3x on a dragon.