Mobile game: Summoners War: Sky Arena

Ahh, Summoner wars. Been on this one for some time. 1.5 yrs roughly, longest game i had on my mobile game history up to date. Very decent game with good animation and superb effort by developer team. Kudos and good job to Com2US.

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By far the most updated games i experienced, will see at least 1 event every alternate weekend and new updates balance coming up and or some festival related event.

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It's a pretty (graphics) game that puts you in a role of a summoner, so kind of like cool pokemon-type with pretty graphics. Add on Runes system to make things really interesting.

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Daily rotation of Dungeons to hunt for essenses needed to evolve monsters, farm better runes or even secret dungeons that allow users to collect pieces of summoning stone for a new monster.

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Story mode is pretty good to help beginners get up to speed with game mechanism. What keeps me playing on is the replayability and passive play mode - autoplay (once you setup your Monsters party and rune them properly- all these makes the big difference in game).

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Game play: Puts monsters in front of your screen (player as summoner perspective) to control turn based fight. A little bit like tactical rpg game or hit autoplay- the AI gets a little better nowadays with developers taking in feedbacks from players actively. It's a free to play with in game purchase. Don't worry i still can get by without buying any in-game cash so far.

But be warned that drop/summon rates are really low ~1 digit% for 4* summon and <0.x% for 5*. Up to date only have a Fire dragon-knight as my sole summoned Nat5*. However, those who are patient can go the fusing route for Dark Ifrit/Wind valkyrie/water phoenix and also get ifrit stones from Guild war points exchange, which is pretty fair to me. Achievable, just don't give up! :)

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Combination of monster skills makes this game tick uniquely- attacker, defensive, support, utility type, healers. Try to observe the buff and debuff in game, which can tip the tide of battle to your side. Attack bar movers/remover, speed/atk/def buff,armor/attack/slow debuff, leader skills , dispels and attacks proportionate to def/hp/current hp etc..

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Other game mode is Trial of Ascensions, World boss and Guild wars all for lucrative rewards in game. Don't forget to clear daily arena challenge for free gems. The gem system is pretty fair in this game.Do all these game mode to get free gems. Of course you can speed up by using cash but not a 100% guarantee since summons are all random.

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Again would stress that nothing makes the game much better than developers working around the clock, dropping players events on almost every festive seasons, consistent balancing updates and new exciting monsters addition constantly. Link of googleplay here.

gotta get em all! LOL

Tips for beginners: 
a) Run story mode up to Faimon and farm for Fire Inugami. This guy is a great farmer, but don't bring him up to 6*. He is probably useful enough till you get better monsters.
b) Collect gems and buy special mystic scroll package. 10x scrolls + 1 each of element-mon
c) Check the daily shop - buy mystic scroll if you are rich enough
d) Do the daily missions for free 10 gems.
e) Keep and hold on to 4* above till you find out more. Each have their usefulness..i fodder'ed Lumirecia on the 3 month of play without knowing she is one of the best healers in game... *face palm*
f) Keep an eye out for good % runes at position 2,4, and 6. I initially ran up some monsters to 4* naively with numerical atk, def, hp and was wondering why they are so freaking weak. ROFL.

after you get started a while you will be able to relate to & understand this funny video:

some fan arts below :)

roaq

Akhamir & Ice Queen.

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