Talk:Bronze Olympus Dragon/@comment-98.65.226.175-20120729181836/@comment-67.241.240.177-20120729223203

Check the breeding sandbox for his estimates of the percentages of getting an Olympus dragon. Hint: they are not 50%, but far lower since tests show that bfs'does not assign "random" odds for any given dragons in a combo, but rather bfs designates certain percentages for certain dragons across all combos. So, in your sun dragon example, it has been shown that there is approximately a 4% chance of getting a sun dragon in the regular/enchanted breeding cave, regardless of the number of possible "other" dragons that combos with cold and lightening might produce. Therefore, even thought firefly and storm have only three possible results other than sun/moon, you have the same odds of getting a sun/moon if you used flower and bloom, which has eight possible results other than sun/moon. Consequently, the recommendations given by the sandbox are based on which combo has the lowest average failure times, which will then allow you to breed more frequently in hopes of getting your desired dragon!