[Dragalia Lost] Alliance vs Dragon Trials

Frem

Welcome to Dragalia Lost! DL is Nintendo's first original mobile IP. It's a free-to-play action game with co-op multiplayer. Hack and slash gameplay, dungeon crawls, and transforming into dragons. Woo! It was made in cooperation with Cygames, the developers of Granblue Fantasy, a gacha of some renown.

The game has released in the United States, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Err. Sorry everyone else!
Download: App Store | Googe Play

• Penny Arcade friend codes
• Add your friend code to the list
• Nintendo Direct (Jump to 2:37 for gameplay)
• Official website: https://dragalialost.com/en/
• More videos, some with lore: https://dragalialost.com/en/special/movie/
• Wiki: https://dragalialost.gamepress.gg/
• There are also relationship charts, if that's your sort of thing: http://www.siliconera.com/2018/09/18/dragalia-lost-pores-over-the-lore-of-alberias-history/

BlueBlue

This is available for download now (on iOS at least), though all you get is the opening song and a message saying servers come up tomorrow morning

Axen

I am looking forward to giving this a go. From what I have seen of it it looks like it is actually trying to raise the bar a bit on what mobile games can be. If true I'll be more than happy to support it.

Lucascraft

About a month ago or so, the iOS app store ran one of their little front-page ads for this game. I saw it, and the name Nintendo caught my eye.

I was like "bwaahh?!" because I somehow missed their announcement on this during the Nintendo Direct. So the first I heard of this was directly in the app store. It looked neat, they had a cool video for it and a synopsis, and so I "preordered" it which seems weird since it's a free to play download game.

But anyway, they delivered the download automatically to my phone last night since I had it preordered. And yeah, logged in to see that it isn't actually available yet. Looking forward to trying it tomorrow!

Feldorn

I’ll be giving it a shot.

It will break up the Diablo 3 grind nicely.

BlueBlue

So my screen says will start 0300 on the 27th, and I’m US Eastern Time, I wanna know does everyone’s say that and if not, 0300 where?

I am reading that yes that is local time

Axen

Yeah I'm EST and it is 0300 on my screen too.

BahamutZERO

oh wait this isn't an RPG like granblue? does it have gatcha elements?

Polaritie

BahamutZERO wrote: »

oh wait this isn't an RPG like granblue? does it have gatcha elements?

It's action RPG with gatcha.

BlueBlue

Here's the rates
https://www.reddit.com/r/DragaliaLost/comments/9j511c/psa_if_you_want_a_specific_5_character_it_will/

Axen

I for one look forward to lunching with gachas tomorrow.

BlueBlue

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tjLK4qJTwSAYam8xwXF7ItRGJZR2R5XI7XU3yC3sp6M/htmlview#gid=0
here's the rankings for characters people know about

Polaritie

BlueBlue wrote: »

This is available for download now (on iOS at least), though all you get is the opening song and a message saying servers come up tomorrow morning

Download is up for Android too now, same screen.

Shadowfire

Appears to be online now. I'm downloading the 1.25GB content.

dporowski

This thing is weaponised adorable.

a nu start

I... do not like the way this controls. Let's see if I can explain.

Say I'm going in a northeast-ish direction. Tap the screen, pull in that direction. But now I want to go straight north. When I move my finger back a little, it basically changes my center point (where I originally tapped) and all of a sudden I'm headed southwest.

Feels weird to me.

Darkewolfe

It's always a challenge to decide whether to reoll. I got a 5* dragon in my first 10 pull, Poseidon, so I feel like I should be happy with that.

Neurotika

Here's my friend code - 67493336001

bloodyroarxx

Super annoyed its not available in Canada

BlueBlue

Darkewolfe wrote: »

It's always a challenge to decide whether to reoll. I got a 5* dragon in my first 10 pull, Poseidon, so I feel like I should be happy with that.

I’m deffo going until I get a 5* - none in first 20, let the rerolling begin~

Darkewolfe

BlueBlue wrote: »

Darkewolfe wrote: »

It's always a challenge to decide whether to reoll. I got a 5* dragon in my first 10 pull, Poseidon, so I feel like I should be happy with that.

I’m deffo going until I get a 5* - none in first 20, let the rerolling begin~

Till a 5* character only, or any five? Can't decide if a five dragon is less valuable.

BlueBlue

It took one reroll to get ezelith so character is where I’m stopping~

Though it would have depended on how my rolls went, the longer it took for me to hit one, the more likely I’d just take whatever

Since you can upgrade stars I’m not entirely sure if it even matters in the long or short run

a nu start

Guess I was lucky. Mikoto 5* character and Jeanne D'arc 5* dragon both on the first draw. No need to do the reroll rigamarole.

urahonky

I don't have the time to keep rerolling so I'll stick with my bad starter unit. I hate starting these games with "min/max" in mind because it sucks the fun out of it already and turns it into a job.

Lucascraft

How do we know what's worth rerolling for? The game is like 6 hours old.

BlueBlue

My code’s 97371851397

Polaritie

Lucascraft wrote: »

How do we know what's worth rerolling for? The game is like 6 hours old.

Rarity, mainly.

Shadowfire

Polaritie wrote: »

Lucascraft wrote: »

How do we know what's worth rerolling for? The game is like 6 hours old.

Rarity, mainly.

And which character looks cool.

Cruor

My first tenfold pull got me the 5* fire dagger lady. My second got me a dupe of her, so that's a lot of dew I got, still unclear what the dew is for. I'm sure the game will tell me, I'm still in the tutorial type area.

Reigner

First run gave me a lot of nothing, gonna probably go until I get a 5* that's not a plate and call it a game. Seems real fun so far.

Edit: I also can't get over how a) catchy the menu song is and b) how cute it is that all the sprites sway in time with the beat of that song.

Edit Edit: 1st Reroll got Jeanne D.Arc, Phoenix, Juggernaut and Lindworm. That's a 5 and 3 4 star Dragons, those are supposed to be the hard (and thus probably better) things to summon right? Think I'll keep this roll.

Tulabelle

My plan was just to reroll until I got at least a 5 star. Nothing on my first run, but on my second try I got Julietta, Hildegarde, and the dragon Agni. That's good enough for me.

Now I'm just clicking everything on the screens to try and learn my way around. This game is waaaaay cute!

Shadowfire

urahonky wrote: »

I don't have the time to keep rerolling so I'll stick with my bad starter unit. I hate starting these games with "min/max" in mind because it sucks the fun out of it already and turns it into a job.

I gotta say my roll luck has been crap. Lots of five stars, but almost every one has been ability cards. At the very least, it convinces me that I'll never spend money on the game for random pulls.

Cruor

Shadowfire wrote: »

urahonky wrote: »

I don't have the time to keep rerolling so I'll stick with my bad starter unit. I hate starting these games with "min/max" in mind because it sucks the fun out of it already and turns it into a job.

I gotta say my roll luck has been crap. Lots of five stars, but almost every one has been ability cards. At the very least, it convinces me that I'll never spend money on the game for random pulls.

Ya know, 5*ability cards might be a good investment for the future. As newer and newer units get released and powercreep becomes an issue, those ability cards can be transferred to the new hotness units and make them even better. Same goes for Dragons, so I'd probably say priority in 5*s goes Dragons -> Weapons = Ability cards -> Units.

I could be completely wrong, however. It's fun having a new game where there isn't a Japanese version we can look to to see what's coming.

Frem

My only 5* so far is Ezelith, whose design I’m not crazy about. Also pulled three 4* Juggernaut dragons.

I dunno. This seems okay, I guess? I don’t feel like playing through the intro repeatedly. The default followers everyone gets; they’re generally pretty okayish in Fire Emblem Heroes. Hopefully that design philosophy continues here.

Artereis

I've rerolled a couple times. First time I got Ezelith and a 5* print, second time I got Jeanne and a different print. Rerolling doesn't seem to take too much time so I may as well do it a bit more.

Polaritie

Is there a way to reroll without reinstalling? Because that first data download...

Artereis

Not on IOS.

BahamutZERO

Hope I get some 5 star waifus on the first go then

Polaritie

Will have to see if I can do something on Android when I get home then. It takes longer for that download than to get to the pulls (at least for me)

Drascin

Decided might as well poke it a bit, but it's not actually out around here, seems like. Ah well.

Renzo

Got a 5* character on my first pull. Not like I was going to reroll, but cool.