how long does it take you to get a dragon to epic?

[feonalily]

ok i'm getting to that level where I should have a few epics but I don't because of how much food I need. the first dragon i'm trying to get to lvl 10 is my porcelain but I need about 50,000 food I think.

what's your food strategy? how long does it take you to get a dragon to epic?

I'm currently planting buffbeets every 3 minutes since that yields a lot of food for cheap. still going to take forever to get ONE DRAGON to lvl 10 though

[Clark_Wayne]

if you got a champ, better feed your champ than porcelain : more useful in tourney.
or save your food for tales event
i use to plant diamondates or rushroom if i got time : faster to feed dragons

[DeeDe99]

I plant Diamondates. Sometimes I'll plant a mixture of Diamondates and Pumpwings when I'm short on coins. Back when I was short on coins and didn't have enchanted farms, it was harder. I concentrated on feeding up the dragons with higher earning rates so I could afford more food. Not necessarily to epic, but to where they earned a reasonable amount.

[feonalily]

if you got a champ, better feed your champ than porcelain : more useful in tourney.
or save your food for tales event
i use to plant diamondates or rushroom if i got time : faster to feed dragons

unfortunately, I don't have any champ dragons. I thought I can only get those by winning tournaments?

and omg diamondates and rushrooms cost so much coins

[DeeDe99]

unfortunately, I don't have any champ dragons. I thought I can only get those by winning tournaments?

and omg diamondates and rushrooms cost so much coins

I know. It used to freak me out. Now at level 90 something it is OK. I keep a stash of 4 million coins on hand. I'm about to take Glitter to epic - it has taken me a while, she needs 50,000 to go from 9 to 10 and I've had a few others I needed to feed up at least to 7. Has taken me months to get Fireflower and Glitter to epic.

[MaribouMay]

unfortunately, I don't have any champ dragons. I thought I can only get those by winning tournaments?

and omg diamondates and rushrooms cost so much coins

If you don't have many coins then you are right to plant buffbeets or impruberries.

When I was first deciding which dragons to level up, I kept track of the dragons that often came up with high odds in the battle arena (based on an external battle arena calculator). I made lists of dragons I have that regularly came up as good battlers. I then balanced that against how much it would cost to level up each of these dragons. I would then choose dragons with good odds and low food costs.

Keep growing the food and feeding those dragons; you'll get there eventually.

[amerirish]

I always plant Diamond Dates during work and overnight and Rushrooms in the evening when I'm sitting around watching TV. I find that planting the 5 hour DD's give me a much better yield (800) as opposed to worrying about them sitting there for a couple of hours. If I planted the 8 hour crop (Eliteleeks) I would only get 325 overnight. That's just my strategy, and not while there's an event like there is now. In that case I plant the 20 hour Scalypears so I get the max pieces.

As for which dragons to level up to Epic (which is level 15 these days) - I started with Angelfire & Angel as they are my best fighters. I'm working on RS and Lollipop next. Much like MaribouMay's strategy above, I'm going after my best fighters first.

[PinkBubbles75]

Normally I just do the 20 hour crop so I don't have keep checking the game throughout the day (even though I still do so). Right now I have 9 million something coins so I'll probably start doing diamondates 3x a day until I feel the need to save up coins. It all depends on how much coins & free time I have

[hon3ycomb]

When my level was >80 there were times when i used the 20hr crops, and times when i used 8 & 5 (the cheaper one) and it depended on whether Id be free to harvest or no. Now I plant diamond dates (5hr) and dont have to worry about the cost.

[bakerystoe]

About 3 weeks! the strategy is always PLANT DIAMONDATES! You will easily get to 50000 ! I often do that when a Tales come out