Okay, here comes another big infodump on what to do in Raid Run: Part 1 - Level up your skills, please Raids are long, and the bosses have lots of health. The higher the level of your skills, the more damage you do. More damage you do, the faster you can win. Plus you'll get more chests(I think). You're likely not gonna use every skill, but those you are going to, get to minimum Lv 7, the point where you can equip them to other cookies. Part 2 - Upgrade Ingredients You level up skills with specific magic ingredients. Grinding will take horrendously long(ironic and unfortunate as this is the stage where grinding is necessary), so just buy with magic powder. Buy hundreds; the A-rank variants cannot be bought, only crafted(we do not talk about the S-rank ones). You will also need silver and gold sugar crystals; buy and craft if you don't have enough. Part 3 - Buffs and Skill Charges Raid Skills are divided into 2 main groups: Attack and Support. Basically, attack skills for actually dealing damage to the boss, and support skills for other effects. Nearly every Support skill has different effects, so READ THEIR DESCRIPTIONS. But for the most part, I use support skills for buffs. Attack buffs increase the damage of every attack done while in effect. In Raids, you can hold 5 charges of any skill to use, meaning you can fire off multiple attacks during a single buff. Buffs themselves however, won't stack their effects if you activate multiple at the same time. If you have a "spare" skill, wait for the buff to end and then "refresh" it. *Snow Sugar's skill takes quite a bit to actually hit the boss and deal damage. Activate it just a little before the buffs themselves, if you can time it right. In solo mode, you can assign buff-granting skills to the Skill Helpers, while stockpiling your own Attack skills to use when the buffs activate. I usually try to act as a buffer in Team mode, applying the same logic of only attacking during the buff(or if you're close to maxing out your skill charges). *this is my own strategy. no one I run with seem to get it, but that's a different topic. feel free to use your own strategy. Part 4 - Special abilities(a.k.a. why Blue Slushy is good) Many skills, especially the last few, have very unique abilities. Again, read their descriptions for more details. In particular, I want to talk about Pink Choco, Starfruit, and Blue Slushy. Each of their skills require very certain conditions to perform optimally. Without those conditions, they perform considerably worse than other skills. *as calculated by me, but I do not claim infallibility. try doing the math yourself Pink Choco's skill requires copious amounts of pink bear jellies. There's no reliable way to generate them, so it depends on the map. The Custard Queen Bee boss was patched to replace almost all its yellow bear jellies to pinks, so that it could be used there. Starfruit's skill requires bear jellies, specifically ones created by bear parties. It's tailored to the Poison Jelly Toad boss. Blue Slushy's skill creates additional attacks when an attack buff is applied. The damage is small, but attack buffs are applied to everyone on a team. The ideal situation is to have everyone on the team equip this skill, and activate it during the buff itself. Everyone deals extra damage, and the chip damage from the special ability adds up. Part 5 - It's worth doing, but not all that important Raid Run isn't some crazy money farm. You can get some small amounts of coins/crystals/magic powder, but that's about it. The main thing I use it for is to try and get the Special Raid Chests. They give Diamond sugar crystals, and Legendary Candy Ingredients, but the rates aren't good. The other main thing is the gold gems. You can get over 15,000 over the course of a whole update, but that's about it. It's not a compulsory game mode by any means(no Gold Ticket missions require it ever), but it might be worth your time.
Okay, here comes another big infodump on what to do in Raid Run:
Part 1 - Level up your skills, please
Raids are long, and the bosses have lots of health. The higher the level of your skills, the more damage you do. More damage you do, the faster you can win. Plus you'll get more chests(I think). You're likely not gonna use every skill, but those you are going to, get to minimum Lv 7, the point where you can equip them to other cookies.
Part 2 - Upgrade Ingredients
You level up skills with specific magic ingredients. Grinding will take horrendously long(ironic and unfortunate as this is the stage where grinding is necessary), so just buy with magic powder. Buy hundreds; the A-rank variants cannot be bought, only crafted(we do not talk about the S-rank ones). You will also need silver and gold sugar crystals; buy and craft if you don't have enough.
Part 3 - Buffs and Skill Charges
Raid Skills are divided into 2 main groups: Attack and Support. Basically, attack skills for actually dealing damage to the boss, and support skills for other effects. Nearly every Support skill has different effects, so READ THEIR DESCRIPTIONS. But for the most part, I use support skills for buffs.
Attack buffs increase the damage of every attack done while in effect. In Raids, you can hold 5 charges of any skill to use, meaning you can fire off multiple attacks during a single buff. Buffs themselves however, won't stack their effects if you activate multiple at the same time. If you have a "spare" skill, wait for the buff to end and then "refresh" it.
*Snow Sugar's skill takes quite a bit to actually hit the boss and deal damage. Activate it just a little before the buffs themselves, if you can time it right.
In solo mode, you can assign buff-granting skills to the Skill Helpers, while stockpiling your own Attack skills to use when the buffs activate. I usually try to act as a buffer in Team mode, applying the same logic of only attacking during the buff(or if you're close to maxing out your skill charges).
*this is my own strategy. no one I run with seem to get it, but that's a different topic. feel free to use your own strategy.
Part 4 - Special abilities(a.k.a. why Blue Slushy is good)
Many skills, especially the last few, have very unique abilities. Again, read their descriptions for more details. In particular, I want to talk about Pink Choco, Starfruit, and Blue Slushy. Each of their skills require very certain conditions to perform optimally. Without those conditions, they perform considerably worse than other skills.
*as calculated by me, but I do not claim infallibility. try doing the math yourself
Pink Choco's skill requires copious amounts of pink bear jellies. There's no reliable way to generate them, so it depends on the map. The Custard Queen Bee boss was patched to replace almost all its yellow bear jellies to pinks, so that it could be used there. Starfruit's skill requires bear jellies, specifically ones created by bear parties. It's tailored to the Poison Jelly Toad boss.
Blue Slushy's skill creates additional attacks when an attack buff is applied. The damage is small, but attack buffs are applied to everyone on a team. The ideal situation is to have everyone on the team equip this skill, and activate it during the buff itself. Everyone deals extra damage, and the chip damage from the special ability adds up.
Part 5 - It's worth doing, but not all that important
Raid Run isn't some crazy money farm. You can get some small amounts of coins/crystals/magic powder, but that's about it. The main thing I use it for is to try and get the Special Raid Chests. They give Diamond sugar crystals, and Legendary Candy Ingredients, but the rates aren't good. The other main thing is the gold gems. You can get over 15,000 over the course of a whole update, but that's about it.
It's not a compulsory game mode by any means(no Gold Ticket missions require it ever), but it might be worth your time.
I immediately thought those math things are just like the mobile games ones AKJSNDOCJDNE