Talk:Strategies/@comment-4775325-20120122013551

After spending way to much time trying to get all the shrines to turn silver i've come to a conclusion.

As far as I can see beyond completion-ism the only dragons that you really want to level up beyond level 10(or level 15) are those which can earn you maximum cash (originally being just Bluefire but now also Frostfire and Panlong). Since hybrids only require the shrine for 1 of their types to be fully levelled this means that the only shrine that you really want to level to silver and gold is the Fire shrine since Panlong and the two Cold/Fire hybrids share the fire element.

Another conclusion I've come to is that while it's possible to level the shrines to silver by feeding dragons to level 10 and then selling them off, when it comes to levelling to gold this is way too wasteful so levelling and keeping the levelled dragons is the only real option. Luckily Bluefire/Frostfire and Panlong can be stored in the large fire habitats(which allow 4 dragons) so the best way to do this is with 11 large fire habitats(or large water habitats in the case of Panlong) and a combination of any 3 large cold habitats(for Bluefire/Frostfire) or large earth habitats(for Panlong). This allows you to breed and keep 50 Bluefire/Frostfire/Panlong dragons and raise them up to level 15(getting the gold fire shrine) while taking up only 14 habitats(the minimum necessary to do so). Which since you can now get a maximum of 28 habitats leaves you with 14 other habitats which should be enough to store at least 1 of each other dragon to get the 1 of every dragon award.

If you do this and then store the cold hybrids on an island with the cold boost and the Panlongs on an island with both fire and water boosts you should be able to earn maximum cash.

Of course this only works if you're at a high level already and have been lucky enough to get a couple of Bluefire/Frostfire/Panlong so that you can breed them together to get the full 50 dragons required.