It actually takes a LOT of patience to breed an army of Quetzals or Infinities. I don't try to breed Quetzals during Dragon Tales, I just do them during World Events and Leaderboards. Quetzal has the shortest breed time of any diamond type when using the diamond/Forest or diamond/fire strategy. The results of doing the quick diamond hybrid theory would be Quetzal (32hrs), Ridgeback (41hrs) and Crusader (44hrs). You can also breed diamond/quetzal or diamond/crusader or ridgeback to add the 40 hour Infinity to the mix. On average it does take about 4 days total to incubate, hatch and evolve a Quetzal to where it can be disenchanted. The other dragons take about 6 days. On average I score about 800-1200 essence in about 4 weeks employing that strategy but it takes a heckuva a lot of patience. After all, Quetzal is an ultra rare dragon.
It seems that our thread has gone a little off topic (which I don't mind), but I will say that I don't have any strategy toward getting Essence. I just breed for whatever I need during an event or what a Bingo task tells me to do, or, if neither of those is in play, I just breed for a dragon that I want. I wind up with a wide variety of duplicate dragons that I then disenchant - I do everything that gives 10 Essence or more. I don't bother with the ones that give only 2 Essence. I never seem to have any shortage of Essence on my older accounts. My baby account doesn't have enough dragons to be getting duplicates yet (except for that Beryl dragon!), so I haven't had much to disenchant from it yet, so I only have 621 Essence there, which is still enough to get a Gilded Knight if I want one for that account (I have one on one of my older accounts, and he is my best fighter, so I am considering getting him for my baby account, too).
for battle arena, i was just battling something ( i can't remember the dragon sorry). but it was a level 8 rare. black and blue i think. i tried my level 15 diamond. lost. miserably. healed him. went back in & knocked the same dragon out in one bash.
-shortdanzr aka wicked red
[Though she be but little, she is fierce]
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I heard that a dragon that has three colours is weaker than one that has one colour not sure if that?s true. With three colours it makes them weaker because of the multiple split.
That is true only if it's opponent is a Champion.
If not, use the battle chart posted at the start of each battle thread to choose the best candidate to fight the battle arena dragon. The chart lists the known strengths & weaknesses of many of the Dragon types but does not have info on all the newer types.