Talk:Diamond Temple/@comment-25860154-20141212203200

Ok, here is a DEFINITIVE ANSWER to whether Diamond Temple is worth buying or not. If you want to know just the answer, not the details, slip to the CONCLUSION below.

PREPARATION: It took me 3 weeks altogether - clear LOADS of spaces for habitats and pre-buy as preparation. You will need more than you think. I needed over 15 diamond field habitats, 3 blue lagoons, a green, 2 pinks, and 3 purples.

PLAN your pairs. Check the other dragons available from your match. You will get loads.

SAVE DS coins - about 2 Million. You will need it for sudden habitat purchases and maybe a bit of even more clearing. Better safe than sorry.

Save 30% and buy gold ON SALE and store up for the 'diamond push' - I spent 4734 gold and spent the rest on evolution accerlation. FUN.

PAIRS I (speed)BRED:

Diamond & Stone (prism on 48th try, also 2 quetzals), Diamond & Nightstalker (Anubis on 48th try, also Mercury), Diamond & Rainbow (32 tries, Gold & 2 Mercury but no diamond prism), Diamond & Kitsune (19 tries, got crusader & angel), Dark Angel & Water (26 tries, Black diamond & dark angel), Angel & Kitsune (32 tries, crusader, angel, and a unicorn). Also, Forest & Diamond (breeding quetzals like rabbits while the temple is still active)

STATISTICAL INFO: The diamond temple increases the chance of ANY hybrid by 6x, which means that if there is a chance of more than 1 hybrid from a pair (e.g. 4), the chance of any particular hybrid is lowered (e.g. to 1.5%). Without tons of acceleration you could walk away with nothing.

RESULTS SUMMARY:

233 breeds total and have 17 diamond hybrids incl quetzals. That's lucky at 7% instead of 6% overall. Also, masive amounts (59 total) of cool rares (38 of them) and super rares (21) (2 black swans, 2 deeps, mistmoths, celestial, etc)

Total market value (ultra-rares, super-rares and rares together): £2k! Spend in real cash: £95.

CONCLUSION: If you have barely scraped the Gold together to get the Temple and are hoping to get some Diamond dragon just by natural breeding with minimal or no gold accelration, then - forget it!!! If you're prepared to spend 1000s of Gold (namely, 3000-6000 Gold) for speed breeding, than the benefits can be massive: specifically, you can get most if not all Diamond hybrids plus loads of Rares and Super-rares to a total Market value of about 10 times whatever Gold you spent. And it is LOADS of FUN! : )

You also get loads of dynamite and get a huge amount of food and land pieces if you stay on top of it- they max out at 25 lots of dynamite for the mines and 999 land pieces.

I'll do it again next year for the Astromancer and Diamond Prism. : )