MergeDays Guide to Stage 301

## Summary

Well we all love to hate the Evil Dragons and any tool in our arsenal against them is needed. Thanks to a very talented woman who has provided video guides for every stage created in the Merge Dragon & Elfs game to date, many players have been able to succeed in fighting off these very challenging Evil Dragons. Stage 301 is a particularly nasty one and is very difficult to complete. MergeDays has managed to do it repeatedly (show-off). She has provided a narrated video as well that will be a sure help for many players. Here is the link to the narrated video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpCiJyHlpSE

The following is a quote provided by Ms. MergeDays regarding this stage.

## Screenshot and Written Guideline

1) 4-merge the Golden Bushes, merge them and unlock the cloud key. Immediately start harvesting for Orbs and merge them up. Do not use them, save them. Merge up the Evil Dragon Bones.

2) 4-merge the Life Flower Sprouts, 3-merge the Bushes and then 3-merge the Life Flower Sprouts. Open the Big Bushes cloud key at the top if not already done. Keep harvesting for more orbs.

3) Wait to merge the Life Flowers until the Evil Dragons appear. Evil Dragon Bones are needed for merges at the blue circles (see image). Merge up to the level 3 Evil Dragon Bones at the dark blue circles(see image).

4) This is one of the very few times to direct the Elf to a one-on-one battle, saving the orbs for later attacks.

5) Once the Evil Dragons are destroyed, merge the Evil Dragon Bones at the blue circles 1 & 2 (see image). Then do a a 3-merge for the red Twin Life Flower where the red circle with the number 3 inside is located (see image).

6) 3-merge the purple Succulent Life Flowers for a Shiny Life Flower (yellow tulip flower) & open the cloud key just above it. Collect the level 3 Evil Dragon Bones, you'll need 3 of them soon.

7) 5-merge the level 3 Evil Dragon Bones together (see image).

8) Tap the level 4 Evil Dragon Bones for Dragon Blood Tree Seeds and 4-merge them on the left and then again in the middle. Merge the Dragon Blood Tree Sprouts.

9) While it’s easy to merge up to one Dragon Blood Tree Seedling, a level 2 Evil Dragon Bone (green arrow in image) is needed before getting the 2nd tree, **this is crucial for the 4 merge of the Dragon Blood Trees on the left (purple in image). Hence, I purposely 5- merge the group of Venom Dragons (long horned dragons). But if there are already more Evil Dragons roaming around waiting to be killed, take those out first.**

10) And the Evil Dragons never disappoint, there should be more coming out at this point and you should welcome them. The aim is to get two more level 1 Evil Dragon Bones to release the blue circle on the right (see image), away from the merge near the Dragon Blood Trees. Continue to merge on the right side.

11)Now focus attention on the Life Flower Sprouts, two of them are needed in the area of the green circle (see image). Get two Life Flowers (yellow) for a 4-merge and then for a 3-merge. If there are not enough Life Flower Sprouts at this time, no worries.

12) 4-merge the Dragon Blood Trees on the left, then 3-merge them.

13) As long as the Dragon Blood Trees can be merged to free up the space for the merge of the Shiny Life Flowers and subsequently the merge of the Big Bushes in order to get the Luxuriant Bushes (the one with yellow flowers on it) which is needed to open the top left cloud key, there are 2 Life Flower Sprouts there for you to merge to get 3 Twin Life Flowers (red) and subsequently to merge up to 2 Tricolor Life Flowers.

14) Quickly merge the 3 Tricolor Life Flowers together.

15) By now the Evil Dragon attacks are going to start intensifying. Open the cloud key, then merge at the bottom.

16) Keep merging up the Life Flowers as these merges will help tame a few Evil Dragons.

17) I purposely place a few of the Petrified Evil Ice Dragons (short horned dragons) into a corner so that I know where to grab them to do a 3-merge or 5-merge if doing the quest level. Ignore the other roaming Evil Dragons for now.

18) Merge to get the After-Rain Bushes (the one with red roses on it), open that cloud key at the top right of map.

19) Quickly merge up the Life Flowers, this gives the highest level Life Flower, the Enchanted Life Flower (Ancient) – level 10. Keep it in a safe corner out of the roaming Evil Dragon’s reaches.

20) There is an Elf Flower Seed in the top circle (see image), merge it with those on the bottom of the map, also freeing an Elf Defender Portal. Then merge up the Elf Flower chain, follow the yellow arrows (see image).

21) The orange arrow (see image) shows where the next merge goes.

22) Now, pay attention to those Evil Dragon Bones, 5-merge the level 3’s and level 4 to create two level 5’s.

23) 4-merge at the top left.

24) I do need to point out. I only have that one single elf all this time. 😎

25) Do the Bushes next while at the same time continuing to merge up the Dragon Blood Tree and the Elf Flower chains. Tapping the Elf Flowers along the way to tame the Evil Dragons.

26) Now full attention on the Dragon Blood Trees, do a 4-merge of the level 5 Evolved Dragon Blood Tree on the bottom left, then a 3-merge a little higher up.

27) 4-merge the red level 6 Adult Dragon Blood Tree in the top left then do a 3-merge in the bottom left.

28) 4-merge the green level 7 Terror Dragon Blood Tree in the top left. By this time the Bushes can be merged to eventually release the 1st Withered Life Tree. Blast it to unlock when you get more Elves.

29) After the level 7 - 4-merges, you can 5-merge the Elf Portals & merge whatever elf eggs you have on the board, do this when you see the opportunity. I purposely played in a way that leaves me being handicapped with just 1 Elf until this point just to show that it can be done. 😂 😂 😂

30) NOW, no matter what the Evil Dragons are doing, just drop 3 Elves onto the level 10 Enchanted Life Flower (Ancient) and harvest **five** level 4 Rukh Orbs (Large) \*the grey ones).

31) Merge them to get two level 5 Rukh Orb (Very Large) - the blue one & merge them with the one on dead land to create a level 6 Rukh Orb (Giant) purple one. You'll want to heal the level 7 Terror Dragon Blood Tree (green) nearby too so that you can 3 merge them for the 2nd level 8 Dark Dragon Blood Tree.

32) You'd have freed the second Withered Life Tree as well. Direct the Elves to blast it. Bring the Dark Dragon Blood Tree - level 8 down To release the third Withered Life Tree. Blast it and then merge them & DONE!!

### NOTE

If playing the star quest version, a little modification would be to harvest the Life Flower like there is no tomorrow, merge the Evil Venom Dragons (long horned dragons) in 5's in each of the groups, then burst all of your rukh orbs at them, let your Elves have a field day doing their blasting until you heal all the land. Anytime you're in danger of getting overwhelmed, just merge the Withered Life Trees & call it a day

I hardly needed to really battle much with the Evil Dragons & purposely played with just ONE Elf until I freed up the land to 5-merge the Elf Portals together. By then I have my level 10 Life Flower that’ll harvest a grey Rukh Orb (Large) level 4 & that can take the attacks. But by then I totally ignore the Evil Dragons & concentrate on the crucial merges.

Give it a try, you might still come up short but you’d know where the merges are & know that for the beginning, getting a bunch of rukh orbs can help when the higher level Evil Dragons come out to play.

This is one stage which I don’t mind having the sound on. I tend to zoom in when making my Elf concentrate on the rukh orb harvesting & it’s easier to control when zoomed in. But the sound of the Evil Dragons coming out will put me on alert….. sometimes you need to send your Elves to battle some of those dragons who decide to play havoc on some areas you don’t want them messing with… especially the shadowed cloud keys of the Bushes on top. It’s troublesome when they mess with those areas & you need combo bubbles to pop & heal over those areas which slows down the process too much.