Talk:Equinox Dragon/@comment-67.161.162.87-20120926045931/@comment-4775325-20120926053334

Breeding in DragonVale is based on random chance, there are no combos outside of really basic one like Water + Fire = Air that work 100% of the time.

With limited/epic dragons all combos which meet the breeding requirements have the same fairly low odds of working. That means that there will be really lucky people who get things first time with a certain combo and other unlucky people who will take a hundred of more with the exact same combo. It's like rolling dice, you've got 2 dice and you want to roll 2 sixes, some get lucky quick some take a long time, but everyone has the same chance on every attempt.

The only things you can do to improve your odds are to pick a good combo which has low average breeding times if you fail - Blazing + Water/Fog/Rain are good or Blazing + Seaweed/Swamp (if you don't mind risking Rainbow or Seasonal), because low fail times means that you'll be able to breed more in less time or for less gems (improving your chances). Using combos like Blazing + Quicksilver are usually a bad idea since they risk a lot of fails with long breeding times.

Having the Epic Breeding Island/Sanctuary also helps, it gives you a very small increase in odds when breed and more importantly gives you a 2nd place to breed letting you breed twice as much in total.