Talk:Strategies/@comment-67.177.196.179-20120121034808/@comment-4850619-20120121041149

Unless you have unlimited budget, those 5 hours should be used for you to gather money/food for leveling your dragons to level 15 afterwards. I have 5 shrines completed so far with no "cheating" or buying. Here's my thought process about it:

-Earth has the most potential to use the extra money brought by the new levels. It had to be the first element. There is 7 elements so 1 of them has to be done alone. Earth gives very long reproductive time with everything except Sandstorm(2hrs) but alone is a 5 min. I chose do it alone for my first shrine.

-For monetary reasons, Cold had to be the next element. Cold also give long reproductive time but Lightning is reasonable with 5 hours wait and the possibility of getting a Sun/Moon dragon(Iwas still trying to get them at that point).

-I wanted to do Water next but the Frostfire dragon came out and I decided to kill 2 birds with one stone(or 2 pigs with one bird?) and breed Reindeer and fire togheter (possible outcomes: Poison 30 min, Flower 1hr, Bluefire 12hr but rarely happens, Frostfire same as Bluefire). I ended up completing the plant and fire shrine(without getting the Frostfire unfortunately).

-Now I am breeding Fog dragons for my last shrine, but I am doing so with Mud and Blaze in an attempt to get the Panlong dragon.

Hope this helps...