Getting Started

An informal beginner information.

Let’s start from the beginning. You all probably already completed the ingame tutorial (otherwise I don’t know what are you doing here). So you supposed to know the most basic “click there – receive that” interaction. But let’s understand the game a bit more. The game’s name is Summon Dragons, so let’s start with the most important thing – Dragons.

There are tons of them and you sure will find one to your liking. But the looks are not the most important attribute of the dragon(sadly). All dragons are split into factions (elements) and all dragons have their “role” in the team. Later on that.

There are 6 Factions in Summon Dragons:

Earth – Sturdy dragons, more focused on armor and stunning the opponents.

Wind – Dragons that usually fast and attack first, but they are quite fragile.

Water – Elegant (not you Flog) dragons, that mostly focused on regeneration and freezing opponents.

Fire – Fierce dragons that are preferring raw damage and damage over time.

Darkness – They can curse enemies and lower their stats.

Light – They have an ability to avoid death and heal allies. Also the faction that has the most overpowered damage dealer in the game. Have fun with that.

All factions are pretty balanced and they all have they own unique quirks, so, in theory, you can easily create an all faction squad. Why do that? Because the more dragons of the same faction you have in your squad, the bigger buff you receive. This buff is given to all dragon in the squad.

Because there are not that many of them, Light and Darkness dragons have their own buff and one dragon is enough to activate it, although you need at least 2 to get their special buff.

IDEALLY you should have an all faction squad or 3 dragons from *one faction* and 3 dragons *from another*, then you will have a maximum buff, that you can get.

Also, there is a thing called “Faction Restraint”. Imagine simple rock paper scissors game, but with chaotic elements. This is kind of the same. Advantageous faction receives +30% damage and 15% accuracy if they are attacking the “restraint” faction. To be honest, I don’t know why I am explaining this – if you seen this picture, you already know what is happening.

The only thing that is important - is that most people forget about this feature after some time. Just try to keep in mind which faction counters what and remember that upper faction will receive only damage and accuracy bonuses, there are no defence bonuses applied.

Alright, now that we are done with the factions, let’s get to team roles. Each dragon has one and it is made so each dragon has specific purpose in your team.

There are 4 specific team roles:

Strength – These are your tanks and protectors. Eating damage for breakfast and suppressing masochistic thoughts are two favorite activities of Strength dragons.

Agility – These are your damage dealers and heavy hitters. They are quite fragile so take good care of them. You need one or few of them in your team if you don’t want to wait 5 minutes for every fight to finish.

Magic – Magic dragons are unique bunch. They usually have specific buff\debuff\stun skill and deal large amount of damage. But also they are very fragile and require strong protection.

Mercy – Mercy dragons are just magic dragons, who were not that sadistic in school. These usually have some strong abilities, that are focused on protecting your team. They can work as a secondary tanks in your team, as they are much fragile than your main tanks, but capable enough to eat some damage.

Keep in mind , that all dragons are *unique* and not all of them are completely one-sided. For example: some Agility dragons have enough armor and health to tank some hits, but their damage cannot be compared to some other Agility dragons and vice versa.

All of this will give you a rough idea of who to put on your team and find some interesting combinations.

So you have your dragons, now you need to make them stronger! To do this you will require 3 basic resources – Gold, Dragon Experience and Evolution Stones.

Gold – basic game currency, can be acquired almost everywhere.

Dragon Exp – basic game currency, can be acquired by completing main stage, from dungeons and by completing “acquire “x” amount of dragons” quest up to a certain point(after you acquired a lot of dragons this quest will just give you diamonds)

Evolution Stone – When your dragon level ups at 10/20/40/60/80/100 e.t.c. it will require evolution stones in order to get to the next level and also to unlock the new skill, or upgrade the already existing one. Those stones can be found in dungeons and in trial spire. You can also get a portion of them from retiring a dragon in the Tree of Life (fly away, sweet prince =( ).

Equipment

Now your dragons are strong…But... maybe not strong enough for you? So how to make them even stronger? Oh, I know! Let’s give your dragon a giant knife! This sounds completely logical and cool. Also, it actually makes your dragons stronger, so don’t question it.

All dragons can wear equipment , but each class\role have their own preference. For example your magic dragon would not like to have a mace for a weapon. It will be too heavy and unsophisticated for that dragon. So in short – each role has their own set of equipment, that they can wear.

There are all kinds of equipment and there are different quality of it, from common to legendary. You can get this equipment from dungeons or from different shops. The rarity of equipment is increasing as you progress the game’s main stage.

Feel like it is still not enough? Do not worry, starting from rare(blue) you can upgrade your equipment to make it even better. You can do that by just sacrificing other equipment or by using Essence.

But what about those two slots in the middle? Those are slots for Halidoms and Ascension Items. A very rare and unique equipment, so if you give it to your dragon, he or she will feel very special. Also it gives some very good stat boosts. As of now, it can only be found in the special one-time dungeons. You can find them in the green portal in the middle of the main screen (opens after completing 6-4).

Hope you enjoyed and, maybe, learned something new from this guide.