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Dragon Fortress Guide by yakksoho

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Game Basics & Attack Table Dragon Evolution Guide Drakes Serpents Wyverns Naga Legendary Dragon Fortress Tips Regarding the Prioritization of Upgrades Review of Dragon Fortress Send me your tips

Basic Information about Dragon Fortress

Types The four types of dragons are Drake, Serpent, Wyvern and Naga. There are five different eggs you can get for each of the four types, making 20 starting dragons in all. Each of these dragons can evolve into two types, which can in turn evolve again, for a total of 10 Tier 3 dragons in each type.

Excluding Legendary Dragons, there are 40 Tier 3 dragons, 40 Tier 2 dragons, and 20 Tier 1 dragons in the game, for a total of 100 dragons.

Traits Each egg you hatch will have a unique Trait. This determines the passive effect of the dragon. The Traits are Healthy, Powerful, Defensive, Swift, and Skillful. The passive effects are Health Up, Power Up, Defense Up, Speed up, and Resist up respectively. When you evolve the dragon its passive effect may change from Tier 1 to Tier 2; but it will remain unchanged from Tier 2 to Tier 3.

Attacks There are six groups of attacks based on different elements; one affects a single enemy and one affects all enemies (excepting Light Beam, which heals all of your own dragons.)

A Tier1 Dragon will carry over his attack to one of his Tier2 forms; the other form will use the complimentary attack in that element (exception: Ryujin.) A Tier3 dragon will have the same attack as the Tier2 dragon he evolved from (exception: Guivres.)

The six attack elements are: Fire (Fire Breath/Flamespiral); Earth (Tremor/Quake); Lightning (Lightning Bolt/Thunderstorm); Light (Light Arrow/Light Beam); Ice (Iceberg/Blizzard); and Wind (Tornado/Tempest.)

Dragon Evolution Guide

If you want to avoid getting stuck with a really ugly dragon by mistake for the majority of the game, you can refer to this guide to avoid the really hideous ones. I myself was dismayed that my starting dragon, who started out quite nice looking, turned into one of the ugliest dragons in the whole game (Venom Mist Jormungandr.) Since he was also my strongest dragon, I had to use him for about half of the game until I had enough resources to replace him.

Now you can avoid this unfortunate situation by studying the images below.

Drakes

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Serpents

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Wyverns

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Naga

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Legendary

Fafnir the Imperial Drake
Illuyankas the Tyrant Serpent
Tiamat the Empress Wyvern
Azhi Dhaka the Majestic Naga

If you want to see the Legendary dragons you will have to play the game for yourself!

Dragon Fortress Tips by Yakksoho

Early Game

• Magic Barrier is the single most important upgrade there is in my opinion. Focus on upgrading your Magic Barrier before researching other techs. This will give you a huge buffer that will assist you more during your invasions than any other upgrade.
• Level up your Watch Tower right away - it will shorten the countdown for your Catapult and Medic!
• Upgrade your Warehouse early in the game and keep it much higher than your mills. Then you can idle or explore until you reach to your warehouse maximum and go on a spending spree.
• It's a good idea to get the Warehouse up to Lv50 and the mills to Lv30-40 as soon as you can, then leave them that way until late in the game. This is important to afford your Magic Barrier and Catapult upgrades, and prevents tedious incremental upgrading - just set it and forget it.
• Upgrade your Catapult as high as possible, as soon as possible. It is invaluable as a weapon, dealing as much damage or more than your strongest dragon. You can also apply it on the Ancient Dragon to interrupt his stomp attack. Strike the catapult just when he takes off from the ground and he will not complete the attack.

Mid Game

• Level up your Gemstone Field as soon as you start using crystals. Crystals are obtained in the Gambling House (only in Jackpot.) I don't recommend using crystals early in the game because it is too expensive to gamble and obtain them; instead spend your money on upgrading your Valley until each of your mills is around level 30-50.

  Note: You don't really have to use crystals until mid game. It takes a lot of time (and money) to win them so it is better to wait until about half-way through the game.

• The reward for each achievement in no way equals the cost of obtaining it - don't try to get achievements as a strategy for generating money. Do it later in the game when your Valley mills are well over level 50, or after you beat the Ancient Dragon.

In General

• On the evolve screen, the icon for the talismans does not always match the color of the talisman you need to use. If you cannot evolve your dragon, look at the top and make sure you have the correct number of talismans. Ignore the colors. From left to right, the talismans are Drake, Serpent, Wyvern, and Naga. If you don't have enough, you will need to explore the relevant dungeon.
• Later in the game when you are generating lots of gold it is easier to just use the gambling house to get talismans.
• Don't bother to upgrade your Spy Team past level 3. It is not necessary to know what is coming up. Just keep your dragons at a high level and Invasions will be no problem.
• Most of the time you will not need to pay much attention to types if you keep your dragons at a high level. But if you are having trouble beating something remember that Drake beats Serpent beats Wyvern beats Naga beats Drake. (Weaknesses apply in reverse order.)
• If you are having trouble beating the Ancient Dragon at any time, check the Watch Tower to see what types he is (they are the same every time you battle him.) Then choose your dragons accordingly. It is a good idea to have a healing dragon in slot 3, and some drakes or a naga to deal damage. Serpents don't work well against him.
• You CAN idle this game by leaving the game running after defending against an Invasion. Leave up the screen that says Defeated or Victory (Don't click "Back to Village" or you will get stuck again as soon as the Watchtower detects the next Invasion.) Obviously, you can only reach your Warehouse maximum, so set it quite high.
• A note about Buffers You can choose to play the game with buffers or without. Personally I prefer not to bother with them. They aren't really that helpful. I'd rather spend resources on my Defender dragons and expensive upgrades. Instead you can use your Buffer for decoration to display your more attractive dragons.

Upgrade Priority

Since fighting is automated, your strategy in this game is largely your choice of what to upgrade first (how to spend your money.) Here are some suggestions, in order of highest priority. My reasoning is explained in the foregoing paragraphs.

1. Dragons (obvious)
2. Warehouse (to afford the important higher upgrades)
3. Magic Barrier
4. Watch Tower (decrease countdown for catapult & medic)
5. Catapult

1. Mills (you can more easily get money by exploring Caves)
2. Medic (level up dragons instead)
3. Gem Field
4. Castle (focus instead on mills for resource gain and dragons to prevent defeat)
5. Upgrade Attacker (helpful if you are collecting eggs)

1. Spy Team
2. Upgrade Defender
3. Upgrade Buffer (unless you are using Buffers)

Yakksoho Reviews Dragon Fortress  

Feel free to send me your own reviews or opinions about the game.

Dragon Fortress is a really solid game with a unique combination of idle, exploration, and fighting elements. It draws from games like Pokemon but does away with the tedium; both exploration and fighting are fully automated. Like an idle game, you can choose which resources to emphasize and spend them on upgrades for your dragons. Dragon Fortress has many idle elements that eliminate tedium but preserves enough choice-making and interactivity that the player still feels involved.

The really novel thing about Dragon Fortress is that your exploration takes place automatically at the bottom of the screen, leaving you free to do other things simultaneously. This is a great feature that I have never seen in another game. Other games, like Caravan Beast, have implemented automated fighting, but the player has to sit through it bored stiff. Dragon Fortress avoids this problem elegantly.

Dragon Fortress is also mightly in its complexity. There are many areas to upgrade, and a town with a gambling house and trading post, in addition to the normal training, evolving, and fighting elements of the game. Part of the fun is exploring all these different options and learning about the things you can upgrade, then choosing how to spend your resources for the best outcome.

Still, Dragon Fortress has its faults. The town could be a little more interesting. I would have liked to see a traveling merchant unlocked after level 50, where you can trade potions, talismans, and dragon eyes (at a high cost.) It was unpleasant and tedious to farm talsimans later in the game, when trying to earn all the achievements. I never had enough talismans, but I had literally dozens of every other item. I had to go to the gambling house for long periods of time, sometimes only to get one of the talismans I needed.

Another problem with the game was fighting strategy. The battles just weren't very difficult. The dragons have 4 different types, with 6 different families of attacks. This could have been used as a strategy element - but in the end it just didn't really matter which dragons you chose as long as they were at a high level. It made the game too easy in a way.

My last complaint is about the attack families. I think there should have been only 5 (to match the 5 different subspecies of each dragon type.) I see no reason for the Lightning Bold/Thunderstorm attacks at all. The whole Ryujin family should have had Iceberg/Blizzard attacks, and the Bolla family should have had Light Beam/Light Arrow. This would have made a more elegant arrangement for the attacks.

These small criticisms aside, Dragon Fortress is an excellent and very polished game. The graphics are excellent and the game never lagged. It does not take too long to complete but is still satisfying to win. It did not get tedious and there were no back-tracking moments of annoyance (like Caravan Beast.) You could play it in one day if you wanted to. It also has many achievements if you feel like it, that are in no way essential to winning the game. It's not very challenging but is still fun because the player feels involved in their choices and it is interesting to collect all of the dragons.

I would give rate this game 4 out of 5 stars. It is definetly the best game of its type, and as far as I know is the only one to really provide good idle elements and collect-em-all fun. and is much better than all similar games that came before it (Caravan Beast, Awesome Happy Monster, etc.) With a little more strategy implemented, it would have been a 5 star game.

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Last updated on April 6th, 2017.

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