Talk:Emerald Dragon/@comment-5017970-20120529134505

Hmm, I just tallied up the total number of tries for the emerald at my blog here and to my surprise I'm only sitting at try 44 in the EBI (700gems worth of speeding up) and 27 tries in the NBC. It feels like I've been breeding forever because I started breeding non-stop since day one. I think the odds of getting an emerald is actually higher than what most people expect, but because of the horrifically long fail times (average being over 14hr. About one in four of my breedings resulted in a crystal or 48hr rare) it FEELS like 100 tries. Backflip really outdid themselves this time with such spectacularly long breeding combinations - in fact the longest times in the game barring the opposite element dragons.

It took me more tries for the plasma - 34 before I got it. It took me a week to get the plasma from breeding non-stop, but it didn't feel that long because (at the time) the fails were rust and magnetic, all very short breedings.

Good luck to all those who don't have it yet. I myself have been unable to breed my second emerald and it's made me very frustrated and stressed out. My suggestion is to just go and download some other games from the app store while you wait; if your energy is not directed at one particular game then you won't feel so disappointed when you fail to achieve anything in that game.