Shadow Storm Clan - Members Only!!

This is the official thread for shadow storm clan members. If you are not a member of shadow storm please do not post here. In fact if you are not a member, don't even look at this. STOP READING NOW! But if you would like to be in our awesome clan or have any non-clan business you'd like to discuss, please send it to me in a message.

Shadow Storm is currently an Elite Clan, level 34 with 18/27 spots filled.
General: hoseramw
Lieutenants: dudeinator, cpeagle, maldo408
Members: nick5643, Jotde, Death5643, Downpourz, rendezvoodoo00, tripodunit, Raithe76, Ashkram, famous Dude, dudeinator2, jaredadams, XxHuskerxX, Jigga, cbone471

Our only joining requirement is that you actively donate to the clan. We are more than happy to help new members and give them the advice they need to succeed in the game and in life (although we're probably better at the first). Please feel free to ask any questions you have on here.



"Be awesome instead" -B. Stinson

Hey guys (and gals?) we are going to start offering some incentive to donate gold. Any starting right now, ending next Sunday at 7pm, Shadow Storm will gift an AA Impulse Demon, Red Light Soruluna, to whoever donates the most gold over the next week. In an effort to level the playing field with newer people and stealing an idea from psychosis clan, the formula for calculating the winner will be as follows....

(total gold donated on 3/10 at 7pm)-(total gold donated up to now)
player level (now) X 5,000

Highest number wins, so for example mine (assuming I donate 2 mil this week)will be.... (5,121,000-3,121,000)/(61x5000)=6.55.

Good luck and have fun!

Jigga, do you have any other specific questions? It's easier to answer them on here w/o a character limit.

Building a formation, be sure to read the whole thing before you start. It's important to build an idea of your final team as you go along.

1. First get all members of your formation the same color (red, purple or grn). Don't just pick grn cuz you have one A+ lv 70 jade beetle. Think it through....typically you pick the same color guild that you chose. There are bonuses for you in certain missions like 4x or 6x for having this. Almost our entire clan is red, so you should be aiming for impulse monsters (red=impulse=sin). Also the game sometimes will give you a prog card based on your mission (simple terms: when you do good in a mission, your 'progress' reward will automatically be suited to your team unless you decide to be a rebel and make a purple team when you're in sin guild. Getting all red cards will then be your first combo. You will receive in automatic 10% increase in atk and 10% increase in def.

2. Second, make all members of your formation A+ monsters. Evolution, sacrificing an monster with a replica of itself, can only be done on A or AA or AAA monsters. Once a monster has a + on it (be it A+, AA+...) it cannot be evolved anymore. (Also note sacrificing a B monster to the same B monster will not get you a B+) Example sac A, lv 1, cruel black wings to A, lv 1 cruel black wings costs like 29,000 gold. Instead of saying sacrifice, the button will change to evolve. You will then have get A+ lv 1 cruel black wings. If you have upgraded the level or the skill of your monster before you evolve it to A+ they will both be reset to lv 1, so don't waste much time/money or especially skills on that. Getting all A+ cards gives you a rarity combo, this is an additional 10% inc in atk and 10% inc in def.

3. Third priority, which you should have been working on simultaneously with the previous two, is leveling up your monsters. As I mentioned earlier, it's not worth putting too much effort into this until your monster is evolved (A+) as they will be reset when you do this. Once you get an A+ monster in your color, focus your attention on upgrading that monster first. Level combo adds 5% atk.

4. Finally, start collecting all the same type of monster (demon, brute, undead, wyrm, creation, mystic, crawler, or brute). As you get one, make it A+ lv 70 then add it to your formation. Once all members are same type you will receive a 'demon' combo = 15% inc atk, 15% inc def.

5. Modifying into the awesome team you really want: You will spend a considerable amount of time and energy on these monsters so as you can, pick ones that are powerful and have good skills. ***No skill, repeat team skills, and slumbering breath are a waste of time and energy. Don't do it! Example of each, A+ lv 70, two faced devil is a sweet monster 6288 atk. But no skill, it's a great team builder, but you will eventually want to change him out. Blood blob, had one on my team for a while, he's not terrible. But slumbering breath wastes a turn putting a monster to sleep rather than trying to kill them. Several skills do not stack. Do not be confused there are two types of stacks in reference to skills. Building/selling stacks is making B, B+ or low A level monsters with skill of (4) with the intention of sacrificing to a monster with a higher skill level. Skills that don't stack refers to most team skills like (IPA, IPD, DEA, DED) only the monster with the highest level skill uses his skill. So if you have two people in your formation with increase party attack, only the one monster with the higher quantity will help your team. The other will fight as though it had no skill.

Read this to learn more about the different kinds of skills
http://darksummoner.wikia.com/wiki/Skill

Read this to learn get a better understanding of how to upgrade skills
http://darksummoner.wikia.com/wiki/Monster_List

Read and use this to help plan your team (monster type w/ skills & combos you want) also note other types of combos (winged, horned, lord...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0An83-jX5WrS4dEdJR0t6YlF1OFExWE5aZ091SWZpNGc#gid=0 or
http://darksummoner.wikia.com/wiki/Monster_List

Add this to your reading list
http://www.ds-forum.com/t11268-what-to-keep-and-what-to-get-rid-of and this
http://www.ds-forum.com/t8316-whats-a-more-effective-way-of-making-ep

Congrats cbone! Here's the official results. Jigga came in a close 2nd. Due to the overwhelming success (2.1mil gold in 1wk) the next clan give away will start tonight. Next time we will do a level multiplier of 3000 to help even the playing field. I'm definately open to any feedback regarding the give-aways and/or the forum.

hoseramw	330000	0.88
cpeagle	50000	0.15
dudeinator	0	0.00
maldo408	0	0.00
death5643	0	0.00
downpourz	0	0.00
rendez	0	0.00
nick5	0	0.00
tripod	0	0.00
famous d	200000	0.77
jotde	0	0.00
dude2	150000	0.55
ashkr	0	0.00
cbone	729000	7.29
raithe	0	0.00
jigga	645000	5.38
xxhuskerxx	30000	0.08
jared	0	0.00
team total	2134000

Nice work on all the posting so far! I'm trying to see if I can post in here or not.

Great to see I'm not the only one writing on here! Sorry it took so long for me to start this, I got distracted by the new mission. It's awesome! I highly recommend everyone tries to get through at least 20 sets, even if you have to earn them via 1 battle at a time. There's lots of my energy potions (i burned through and at 20 sets I was up 2 ep!)

The second weekly give-away starts now and goes until 9am on thurs 3/21. Shadow Storm will gift an A+ lv 70 cruel black wings ded (6). This is a great prize to anyone how's building an impulse brute team. Whoever donates the most gold over the next week will win, but again in an effort to level the playing field with newer people and stealing an idea from psychosis clan, the formula for calculating the winner will be as follows....

(total gold donated on 3/10 at 7pm)-(total gold donated up to now)
player level (at start) X 5,000

I'm not going to change the formula as hinted i might; this prize is more helpful/intended for newer members, so let's keep the advantage in their court. If you're not interested in the cruel black wing, we'll see if we can work a deal to get you something else helpful. I'll try to keep my store updated so you can see potentially available options. Good luck.

http://www.ds-forum.com/t11713-cpeagle-s-monster-dumpster

Nice work everyone. Below are the official results. As a clan we came up with almost 32mil over the past 8 days. The famous dude hit the black cards hard this week and ran away with this competition leaving myself and jigga in a very distant 2nd and 3rd. Famous Dude's running sin brutes too, so you get first choice of the lv 70 A+ cruel bw+(6), lv 1 AA+ Aura Fist Gulph+(1), lv 1 A Spear Hunter, Ardeyuna (1), lv 1 A blazing dragonoid (1), lv 1 A cruel bw (1) or a crit stack for your leader. Jigga same options, but select a first and second choice (you gotta get that ladon out!!!). I'm going to wait to start the next round because there will be 2 gold funded lottery options, 1 running now and 1 in a few days.

	total gold	result
hoseramw	1750000	4.375
cpeagle	6500000	19.403
dudeinator	2000000	5.970
maldo408	1000000	2.381
death5643	780000	2.364
downpourz	0	0.000
rendez	0	0.000
nick5	0	0.000
tripod	0	0.000
famous d	15700000	55.088
jotde	0	0.000
dude2	1000000	3.448
ashkr	0	0.000
cbone	80000	0.552
raithe	0	0.000
jigga	2298000	11.785
xxhuskerxx	131000	0.359
jared	550000	1.774
team total	31789000

As far as the winner goes I can help u guys out and send whoever wants the dragonoid I'll gift u the second one to + I believe I can do the same for the spear hunter and I can for the cruel black wings

Correction I don't have spear hunter

Well at least we have a place to write stuff. Too bad it seems like none of the clan people are coming here to check stuff out. It is a good set-up

Ya, it appears my monster rejects were not motivation enough