Talk:Emerald Dragon/@comment-108.72.245.78-20120522025957

I remember when getting a 48 hour breeding time was a good thing lol but not anymore when i have 2 breeding caves going full time trying to get an Emerald, and every suck dragon I get takes half a day or more. It wouldn't surprise me if every future gemstone dragon requires a crystal dragon or other earth dragon as half the breeding pair.

Even though the new island is hovering there taunting me, I've decided to hold off until closer to the end of month before burning through my gems faster than an heiress turned crackhead at a pawn shop. But close to the end of the month if I still don't have one that will be a huge temptation... but, I have 300 gems now and want to upgrade my regular breeding cave (Epic Fail Breeding Cave not worth extra wait for) and to blow most of that to get what'll earn me at most 52 gems a year would be a big setback.

Of course, there is another way, I could spend $50 to buy the 1500 gems needed to just purchase the dragon, and then he'll earn them all back for me sometime in January 2041 by my rough estimate. Which would put me about on par with people who shop at Rent-To-Own stores.

So, I'm just going to stick with breeding the crystal and lichen dragons for now until either I get one or it's too late, and give the rest of my dragons a break- at this point most of them have spent time in a breeding cave with almost all the others, and batting for both teams has got to be exhausting for them. I'll probably spend a few gems here and there at night when it means shaving off the last couple of hours so I can try again instead of waiting until next day. When it all comes down to it, it's not the number of gems I'd get from it I really care about anyway, I just want to continue being a dragon hoarder.