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As the 0.88 update alters the Dance with Dragons arena, it's time to retire the old Post Your Stats on DwD thread and start a new one.

Although it's impossible to truly verify a result, I'm going to try to keep a list of records, with links to posts. This can help new players find data about each style, and we might be able to learn more about how to play different styles better.

Please post your results for any of these battles on PFUDOR, along with your style, your level, and any other information you want to share (Monsterbation logs are best):

Level 300 Arena (Dance with Dragons, DWD)
Level 400 Arena (Post Game Content, PGC)
Level 500 Arena (Secret Pony Level, SPL)
100-round Item World
Grindfest

To qualify for a record you must be level 500 and provide adequate information about your clear (including your tower damage bonus if you know it!), however anyone is welcome to post and discuss their playstyle in this thread. Records will be ranked by turn count, not real-time. Links to posts will be given. Gum/vase runs do not count (but can still be interesting to share).

I'll probably also add links to other interesting & useful posts in a 'see also' bit for each record, since DD9, high-tower bonus clears aren't necessarily great data for everyone...

Clears should be done on persistent HV, not isekai. (You are still welcome to discuss isekai here, just make sure you clearly say it's isekai in your post!)

This post has been edited by Nezu: Sep 24 2021, 23:34

Records

Note: PGC/SPL records set before Tenboro nerfed SG HP are omitted, but DWD still counts

1H
Level 300 Arena (Dance with Dragons) - 1,952 turns (Nezu) See also: Greshnik (2,491 at low level)
Level 400 Arena (Post Game Content) - 2,241 turns (Nezu)
Level 500 Arena (Secret Pony Level) - 2,431 turns (Nezu)
100-round Item World - 1,592 turns (SPoison)
Grindfest - 15,097 turns (lololo16)

2H
Level 300 Arena (Dance with Dragons) - no data
Level 400 Arena (Post Game Content) - no data
Level 500 Arena (Secret Pony Level) - no data
100-round Item World - 2,007 turns Pretty anon
Grindfest - 21,680 turns Pretty anon

DW
Level 300 Arena (Dance with Dragons) - 1,899 turns (Nezu)
Level 400 Arena (Post Game Content) - 2,048 turns (Nezu)
Level 500 Arena (Secret Pony Level) - 2,401 turns (Nezu)
100-round Item World - no data
Grindfest - no data

Niten Ichiryu
Level 300 Arena (Dance with Dragons) - 2,537 turns (lololo16)
Level 400 Arena (Post Game Content) - no data
Level 500 Arena (Secret Pony Level) - no data
100-round Item World - no data
Grindfest - no data

Fire/Cold Mage
Level 300 Arena (Dance with Dragons) - 1,191 turns (lololo16) (fire)
Level 400 Arena (Post Game Content) - 1,348 turns (lololo16) (fire)
Level 500 Arena (Secret Pony Level) - 1,550 turns (lololo16) (fire)
100-round Item World - no data
Grindfest - no data

Elec/Wind Mage
Level 300 Arena (Dance with Dragons) - 975 turns (OnceForAll)
Level 400 Arena (Post Game Content) - 1,085 turns (Nezu)
Level 500 Arena (Secret Pony Level) - 1,233 turns (Nezu)
100-round Item World - 535 turns (Nezu)
Grindfest - 5,730 turns (Nezu)

Holy Mage
Level 300 Arena (Dance with Dragons) - 774 turns (youshi1)
Level 400 Arena (Post Game Content) - 827 turns (youshi1)
Level 500 Arena (Secret Pony Level) - 959 turns (youshi1)
100-round Item World - 396 turns (youshi1)
Grindfest - 4,367 turns (youshi1)

Dark Mage
Level 300 Arena (Dance with Dragons) - 808 turns (Nezu)
Level 400 Arena (Post Game Content) - 908 turns (Nezu)
Level 500 Arena (Secret Pony Level) - 1,076 turns (Nezu)
100-round Item World - 497 turns (Nezu)
Grindfest - 5,631 turns (Nezu)

1H Mage (any element)
Level 300 Arena (Dance with Dragons) - 2,382 turns (Nezu)
Level 400 Arena (Post Game Content) - 2,625 turns (Nezu)
Level 500 Arena (Secret Pony Level) - 3,283 turns (Nezu)
100-round Item World - 843 turns (Nezu)
Grindfest - 9,124 turns (Nezu)

This post has been edited by Nezu: Sep 17 2022, 15:13

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Arena Post-Game Content


What's the terrible hell?

My set:
[207795470] Legendary Tempestuous Willow Staff of Destruction (Lv.Soulbound, IW 10, forged 100, MDB 65%, EDB 72%, EProf 11%)
[270383791] Legendary Radiant Phase Cap of Freyr (Lv.Soulbound, IW 10, EDB 19%, Evd 88%, MDB 62%)
[126807550] Legendary Zircon Phase Robe of Freyr (Lv.404, IW 10, EDB 56%, Evd 37%)
[235113849] Legendary Radiant Phase Gloves of Freyr (Lv.Soulbound, IW 10, EDB 39%, Evd 0%, MDB 50%)
[265869221] Legendary Radiant Phase Pants of Freyr (Lv.Soulbound, IW 10, forged 1, EDB 40%, Evd 4%, MDB 41%)
[269355048] Legendary Frugal Cotton Shoes of the Elementalist (Lv.Soulbound, IW 10, forged 50, EProf 89%, Evd 65%, Mana C 58%)

There must be some problems with me or with Tenboro

400 Arena, 2 Cotton 3 Phase


500 Arena, 1 Cotton 4 Phase

The last round is quite tough.

Friday, DD8

This post has been edited by qr12345: Jul 23 2021, 17:51

5+0 dark with 10.2% tower buff:
400 arena: 1342 turns
500 arena: 2032 turns

4+1 dark (oops):
300 arena: 1042

Wonder how fast it'll be on Monday, and now with the title buff...

Edit: 1,878 turns on the new DWD as DW (since it's Friday!), but hoping to improve that next week so no point adding much more info... I fucked up by not putting haste/sveil back on autocast after some 1H tests in that persona yesterday. The 3SG rounds starting on an even round instead of odd is also a little unfortunate for me due to OFC timing.

This post has been edited by Nezu: Jul 24 2021, 16:15

Style: Wind mage
Hath perks: All
Title: Godslayer
Enchantments: Suffused Aether, Featherweight Charm
Scrolls: Gods and Avatar (not in DwD)
Infusions: All the time
Gum & vase: No
Day of the week: Friday
Isekai: Truck-kun is for other people

Any other info that would be helpful?

100 round IW: 563 turns / 3:40
Dance with Dragons: 1130 turns / 6:17
Post-Game Content: 1714 turns / 9:29
Secret Pony Level: 2442 turns / 13:49

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I wonder whether using magnet on the PFUDOR +50/100% schoolgirls would help. They seem to resist a lot.

Please sell me more peerless radiant phase of freyr.

This post has been edited by kamio11: Jul 23 2021, 18:33

Fisrt Try. And Today is Friday.

Elec Mage with Radiant Set


A Dance with Dragons: 1277 Turns


Post-Game Content: 1968 Turns


Secret Pony Level: 2854 Turns


Not optimal, just explore, so I use Sroll of Life and Scroll of Protection in in last Round in Secret Pony Level to reduce the Chance of defeated. Because the Titile Dovahkiin has the same Bonus as Godslayer, I use the FUS RO DAH in Secret Pony Level. In the first Round, I clear all the normal Monsters, use Staff to hit the SG left to collect 240 OC, in the last Round I use FUS RO DAH first to stun all the Ponies, and the I can use MagNet, Slience and Weaken without Danger (I can even use Focus). Since FUS RO DAH is also available for the new Title Ponyslayer, I will try to use the same Strategie in Post-Game Content tomorrow, maybe I don't need Elixir then.

Any other info that would be helpful?

100 round IW: 563 turns / 3:40
Dance with Dragons: 1130 turns / 6:17
Post-Game Content: 1714 turns / 9:29
Secret Pony Level: 2442 turns / 13:49

I wonder whether using magnet on the PFUDOR +50/100% schoolgirls would help. They seem to resist a lot.

Those are pretty good times, but are you using 5+0 or 4+1?

MagNet probably still isn't worth it on the SGs (besides, it has a cooldown so you'd only be able to hit one at a time).

Those are pretty good times, but are you using 5+0 or 4+1?

MagNet probably still isn't worth it on the SGs (besides, it has a cooldown so you'd only be able to hit one at a time).

5+0 all peerless (but not all radiant). Maybe not optimal (legendary radiant could be better for some pieces) but it just would not do to be caught in merely legendary gear.

Yeah, the cooldown is annoying, but it should recharge by the next round. And often you can get 2 of the 3 schoolgirls with a magnet (and I can ignore Konata for it as a wind mage, since she dies fast with just imperil). Might test it this weekend.

5+0 all peerless (but not all radiant). Maybe not optimal (legendary radiant could be better for some pieces) but it just would not do to be caught in merely legendary gear.

Yeah, lacking proficiency will hurt you a lot

5+0 works fine for holy/dark here, but for wind, the only advantage you're getting is against Konata - you're doing less damage against everything else.

Yeah, the cooldown is annoying, but it should recharge by the next round. And often you can get 2 of the 3 schoolgirls with a magnet (and I can ignore Konata for it as a wind mage, since she dies fast with just imperil). Might test it this weekend.

Mmmmmaybe, yeah - it's worth considering for some rounds, as long as the non-Konata SGs aren't spread apart. But magnet can be resisted too, and you can't recast, so against 2 SGs - unless it hits both of them, the advantage is largely wasted, I think.

Ok, now that the cute OP mages have done their rounds it's time for some reality check with melee.

2H/Light, basic battle perks, DD1, lvl 416

A Dance with Dragons:




Post-Game Content:




So basically PGC takes more or less as much time and turns as old DwD, but with double the credits and maybe more exp, nice! Played the arenas again, I failed to notice the extra credits were due to the first time clear. It gives a puny amount of credits, and the real income comes from the trophies.

But a thing to note is that old DwD felt pretty "smooth" lately, as in I could even last for a while without casting Regen as long as I had a health draught active, and I could last for a lot of rounds without curing with just Regen, hell every once in a while I didn't even need to cure at all in the arena, but PGC feels really different, a misstep costed a lot of health and sparked a couple of times.

It also feels slow, like all my gains have been lost and I'm back to myself from 85 levels ago. And the last monsters made for an uncomfortable last round, thankfully I had prepared a Fus Ro Dah binding beforehand to play around and it came handy on that last fight, but I can already feel it's gonna be a pain to play this arena when I'm not in the mood. Then again it pays more for the same time invested so...

This post has been edited by Pretty anon: Jul 24 2021, 16:10

pony at 3342 turns in 28 minutes lol
seems as hard as 800 rounds of GF

This post has been edited by Null2Null: Jul 23 2021, 20:54

Dualwield,
Lv. 500
DDV
+ 5%? damage from isekai bonus

300 Ponyslayer


400 Godslayer


500 Godslayer


last two can be better

Dark mage, DD7, tower buff ~3%, Friday
400 Arena: 1698t
500 Arena: 2528t (scroll used at last round)

DwD, Void Day
Lv. 369 Style: 1h
Weapon: Shortsword
Infusion: Dark + Aether Shard
Perk: DD I, Evil Enchantress
No Isekai buff

Result: ~2.5k


well, it require 1k less turn than the legacy...
Finally I could finish DwD in ~45mins...

Persistent, Lv. 392, Cold Mage, DD6, Friday, no Tower buff,
Enchant: Suffused Aether
300 Arena (DwD): 1,629 turns

2823 turns DwD
1h rapier/power, lvl 381, 5% tower boost, DD1, dark infusion, voidseeker

1H
12609 abd / 52.2 % crit chance / +70 % damage / Dark Infusion
Godslayer / DD VI / 4.1% Isekai Bonus

PGC

SPL

1H (Rapier) + Power Slaughter
DD 7 (No Isekai Bonus)

Arena Lv.400



Arena Lv.500



Honestly, I did not like it very much. SGs are very sturdy and takes too long to eliminate them.

I think I'm doing something very wrong.

I wonder if I'm going to get Manehattan Project before DD 8.