Talk:Panlong Dragon/@comment-65.27.186.150-20120217024545/@comment-4830404-20120217233808

On average, it's 8 hours per failure attempt towards a Panlong. 500/8 = 62.5, so call it 63 attempts. That's roughly 21 days. If you're lucky, you'll get it one of those attempts, but it's not guaranteed. Personally, I would just save up and keep 500 gems in store until I'm sure I wouldn't be able to breed a Panlong in time, then buy it if that's the case (hopefully this doesn't happen as there is one whole year to try). Otherwise, if I get two Panlongs before I have to buy them, I would rather use the gems to speed up breeding the Panlongs together and incubating the egg (once it's for certain).

That's just my preference though. I think of gems as rather valuable - there are other things that they can be spent on (EBI if you don't have it, extra nursery space, extra hibernation cave space etc.). I feel like speeding up breeding on an uncertain thing is a waste. So I would rather just wait and save up in the meantime.

As for the Sun/Moon/Rainbow, you're right - you're most likely going to get one from breeding before you save up that many gems. But again, I wouldn't spend a single gem on speeding up random breeding unless you have nothing else useful to buy with gems. I would still rather just use the gems to get the rare out of the breeding cave/nursery faster once I actually got one.