(Future Event) Ragnarok Collaboration - Poring Tower

As promised to my Facebook group Puzzle & Dragons Global, since I will be out of town for around 9 days for Christmas, I will be posting a future event - a guide to the Ragnarok Online Collaboration PAD Dungeon - Poring Tower, just in case this tower actually comes on Christmas.

So what is so important and popular about this tower? There are three major points:

#1 - Rare Same Skill Monsters
You can pretty much only find Berzerker's, Highlander's, and Valkyrie's skill in porings in the whole game. Meaning that this is the ONLY chance (unless re-cycles) to level up their skills. Each of these porings also gives 15000 exp to same attributes!

Marine has the same skill as Berzerker

Poporing has the same skill as Highlander

Drop has the same skill as Valkyrie

Poring has the same skill as Dark and Light Machine Golem

Ghostring has the same skill as Lilith

However, Poring is too rare to be fed to Machine Golems... so I would prefer saving them up to evolve Mastering.

#2 Common Same Skill Monsters

If you haven't skill-leveled up your Vampire Lord, Siren, Titan or Fairlio yet, then this is a really good chance to max them out. This dungeon (Adept / Expert) drops the evolved version of the slimes (Big Flamie, Big Bubblie, Big Shynee and Big Baddie)

#3 The RO Miniboss - Mastering!

The one and only monster that has HP x2 for Physical Type Monsters. To get him, you will need to evolve from Poring - from using one of each of the porings, meaning you will need to hunt down TWO of the Porings (boss drop), and one of Marine, Poporing, Drop and Ghostring. The drop rate of Expert is also extremely low. 

MASTERING!

General Tips:

1. If you are purely aiming for skill up, then go with Expert. If you are aiming for getting Mastering though, I would highly recommend Master Level.

2. If you encounter a group or a few porings, always kill them in this order: Drop, Poporing, Ghostring, Marine. Drop attacks every turn (4520 per turn) and is really dangerous. Then Poporing come second because he hits 6020 per 5 turns with only 5 HP but high defense.

SOOOOOOOOOOO... Let's check out the data: (ATK, TURN, HP, DEF)

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Adept Level (Stamina/Round: 15/5)

Big Flamie 690, 3, NA, 50

Big Bubblie 720, 3, NA, 50

Big Woodsie 780, 3, NA, 50

Big Shynee 810, 3, NA, 50

Big Baddie 900, 3, NA, 50

Miniboss (Round 3: random any ONE of the following)

Marine 3770, 3, 10063, 13

Poporing 6020, 5, 15, 130000

Drop 4520, 1, 1063, 1300

Ghostring 2999, 2, 20063, 1300

Boss (Round 5)

Poring 770, 1, NA, 130

For Adept Level, there will only be one random encounter of any one of the porings in Round 3 (appears with one of the big slimes). The only one you have to watch out for, if you are low level, would be ghostring and poporing, since they will do some high damage if you do not kill them in time. Note that Poporing only has 5 HP but 130000 defense.

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Expert Level (Stamina/Round: 25/10)

Big Flamie 690, 3, NA, 50

Big Bubblie 720, 3, NA, 50

Marine 3770, 3, 10063, 13

Big Woodsie 780, 3, NA, 50

Poporing 6020, 5, 15, 130000

Big Shynee 810, 3, NA, 50

Drop 4520, 1, 1063, 1300

Big Baddie 900, 3, NA, 50

Ghostring 2999, 2, 20063, 1300

Boss (Round 10)

Mastering 6201, 3, 485936, 0

For Expert Level, Round 1-9 will have any random chance of encountering some/all porings. At boss, Mastering has quite a lot of HP, and if you are not careful you will get killed. Recommended team will be x4 Dark with one Siren and one Echidna as subs.

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Master Level (Stamina/Round: 50/10)

Pyro Demon 5460, 2, 46650, 2200

Frost Demon 5490, 2, 48150, 2200

Marine 3770, 3, 10063, 13

Tavy Demon 5670, 2, 49650, 2200

Poporing 6020, 5, 15, 130000

Harpie Demon 5550, 2, 51550

Drop 4520, 1, 1063, 1300

Bloody Demon 5580, 2, 52650, 2200

Ghostring 2999, 2, 20063, 1300

Boss (Round 10)

Mastering 11570, 3, 906597, 0

For Master Level, this is when things really flip around. Instead of big slimes, they are now all Demons (remember the high defense demons in Hera? YES they are exactly the same ones). Recommended strategy would be:

1. Meteor Volcano Dragon AND Megalodran/Fortoytops/Angelion/Crown Joker Leader with Vampire Lord, Chaos Devil Dragon, Gatekeeper of Rainbow, Siren as subs. The problem with this team is that if you encounter a different attribute Demon not the same as your damage reducer, then you will have to kill him ASAP.

2. Meteor Volcano Dragon OR Megalodran Leader with Vampire Lord as the other Leader, then Chaos Devil Dragon, Gatekeeper of Rainbow, Siren/Echidna as sub. This team uses a Dark x2 to try to kill Demons and Porings with one left so that you can charge skills. However, it will still be really hard to sweep any demons, you will have to keep using skills every round to keep the demons killed.

3. Valkyrie Team with Orochi (The Hera Team) - play it like how you would play Hera Dungeon (See Goddess of Darkness post). Use two Sirens and two Echidna, or with one Lilith (for Poporing)

I usually do with #2 or #3 strategy; but any will work fine as long as you are comfortable with your team's skills. Make sure you calculate how much you can recover from 50% reduction damage. Siren / Megalodran Max Skill is recommended.

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You can say I'm annoying, repetitive or you name it, but I still have to remind you guys to remember the Master Level basics. Remember, there's no Miniboss check point in Poring Tower. So you will have to play really careful and, be a good boy, charge up skills every round with one monster left. Play patiently. And Mastering should be defeatable and obtainable! Don't forget! To get Mastering, you need to hunt down TWO Porings, because he evolves from a Poring, which needs another Poring to be part of the ingredient.

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I hope you guys a Merry Christmas and Happy New Years. Enjoy the beautiful great holidays; whether with PAD or not; and I will update this blog after I come back and will see you guys again in facebook / blog in New Years 2013!