Talk:Malachite Dragon/@comment-5098300-20120710153809

A lot of folks are asking what's the BEST combo for Malachite. I think it's Metal + Willow. It has to be a Metal, and it has to be a plant hybrid. With Metal/Willow, your fails are a 5-hour Chrome (sells for 1M DC and gives you 200,000 xp, a massive amount), 7-hour Pollen (also sells for 1M DC if you already have one), an 8-hour Willow (1M DC but only 2K xp). So your longest fail possibility is the 8-hour Willow, which is also the lowest xp. The other fails will give lots of xp to help you advance to the next level. If you try Metal/Moss, you could get a 12-hour Moss, which you wouldn't know until you saw the egg. With Metal/Cactus, you risk a 20-hour Copper fail. With Metal/Willow, you'll know right away if you have it or not. Took me 5 tries to get Malachite. I think I'm on about 10 tries for a Dodo and still don't have it, so I felt lucky to get Malachite in 5 tries.