#Karoot Dragon

[jacquirebriggs]

I've doodled these creatures a month ago and never bother posting it publicly back then until now.DragonVale is what reared my shy head out of the bunker. Back in 2015, I was pulled into it while I was playing Birzzle Fever (Any remmeber?) and found an ad with the glorious, unique dragons from the game.

 As soon as I download it, I got addicted. Hatch, Breed, expanding my entire dragon park. It was amazing. I was pretty stoked during the middle of first event and I joined the (now-quiet) wiki community. Until Halloween 2018, which I got burned out with Evolutions and Ghostlies. In February 2021, after getting real bored of college and stuff, I felt nostalgic and decided to return to DragonVale and golly, did everything had changed since I've quit.

As a result, I missed so many amazing dragons I wished that came out before like Void, Ocular, and Wendigo... But on the downside...

Events which used to come on occasions while Backflip (the company that got shut down by Hasbro in 2019!) was around have became way more frequent! And in these never-ending events, limited dragons spawned every week after one week of each event. And to make matter worse, most of these have ridiculous locked combos that really required you to get lucky to breed dragons that are already have a terrible chance to breed or binge on Mystery Eggs and pray you don't get garbage. Example, You need Snowball to breed Zumi which is easy enough considering the number of elements its combo has but Snowball itself is very extremely difficult and it's been hindering players who wanted to get a fire-breathing Dragonarium who aren't lucky enough to be a long time player or waste time on Plant Grinding.

This message from the DragonVale Discord sums it up a lot:

"Early Dv: Dragons are huge! Even as babies! You’ll breed them! Their combos are these easy to obtain dragons you probably already have! :3

Modern Dv: You want a dragon? HAHAHAH! You’ll need 17 dragons before it just to breed it, and some of them you can’t even get right now! Even if you have the right dragons the odds of you breeding it is you winning the lottery!"

This comment sums up about what DragonVale is now. Remember stuff like when you need only elements or a permanent dragon to breed it? Well, you are barely getting that now...

Sweet Dreams went way underwhelming with lackluster dragons needing nearly impossible combos that don't even fit well! The limiteds has only one dream element in the first place! And most of them has underwhelming trait placements! That was back when three of the dragon doesn't have a dream element... but when it finally got added, they now contribute all elements! When the reps ask them to revert them back to what they used to contribute, DECA replied "That's the game's spaghetti code overreacting when adding the Dream element and changing the combos." But Delirium and Elysium works fine despite needing Dream. Not buying that, DECA. You did this on purpose. Don't deny. You decided to make evos in stupid combos after all. Karroot for Huddle. Jadice for Glitz. Both which can be easily replaced with just elements or a permanent dragon. Maybe even pick the limited dragons with more simpler elements! Not cool. Yes, it'll be less fun to do that, but where is the fun if you failed to breed the dragon after a whole week. What did they do? Just pick a random dragon selling in the event market?

Hyperion is amazing, but it comes with a cost. Fury and Narcis? Seriously? And the 70 hour timers is wow. Unless you have Gaia or the rift to spare.

(Un)Luck of the Vale isn't any better. Wolper is needed for the first one and Flipping Cotton isn't available which Bilby needs. Fae is even worse. A pseudo combo that's available for one week?! DECA just sure do love their pseudo Dreams...

Dragon Draw, the "new, exciting" feature after nothing for two years of endless events is super unreliable. DECA decides to kill off BEB and spin the fortune wheel on which dragons to include for "Dragons Week", the "replacement" for BEB. There's no rift expansion and probably never be. I would even take 5 more rift islands. DECA have plans, but it seems they won't bother...

And the Vale never ends. Some of the dragons are carbon copies of each other with Sounds, elements, earning rates or even Holiday themes (Looking at you, Mesmer and Dargon... These two should not exist. Pronto.). The app horribly lags in my iPhone. Too much content will be added and my iPhone won't be able to go for even 5 minutes before kicking me out. Too many evil ads like the ones stretching the screen or having no close button being more persistent to stuck up like head of a hydra and DECA never bothering removing them. The eventual permanent status of Triple Rainbow, this will worsen these horrid Rainbow fails. At this point, the rarest type of all dragons are essentially Motleys.

I couldn't find a good reason to continue playing other than looking forward to new silly dragons. I believe this was also eating my time I could spend on something else.

So, final goodbyes DragonVale. I'm just gonna stay away for good. Not in a "I'll just uninstall for a bit and then come back because I was addicted" moment. Thanks for the carnival of one year back in the Vale. But it's time to end this bondage for good.

I understand why older players like LilDragonHeart8 (Now Synthyx) has quit now.

Even with the poll regarding them, nothing changed at all. Yes, there's a tie for Valers who wanted more Events and people just wanting a one-week break between events, but still nothing changed. I also really miss DragonVale World and I think I would take it over regular DV. Who knows that DragonVale will eventually shut down in about four to five year due to overwhelming amounts of event and ridiculous combos with every single golden and permanent epic crammed in it?

Dragons pictured here: Darcowl without Spellforms, Fire-traited Whimsical burning (definitely caused be the trait), an unpolished Fire Dragon mistaking baby Fire-Traited Karroot as a Chili Pepper (That's my first thought while looking at at, lol), Crouching Ocular, Burning Zumi, the thrilling sequel to Burning Whimsical, an Unpolished Baby Rain.  

Bonus: >:) https://www.deviantart.com/jacquirebriggs/art/Just-my-I-hate-April-Fools-doodie-for-2022-911683584