Combining 101 for Noobs

not now man the other thread are made to be a whole set of guide for newbie.... this one is just for the headsup knowing what you are facing when combining

If you're trying for a Fire monster, then yes. Another great option is Fire+Earth.

Efficient combination can save you a lot of attack. The idea is to try to use low risk combinations for a high reward result, use combinations where the monsters have the lowest possible attack sum (I'm assuming you don't give a damn about defence, since you really don't need defence until like level 200). Holy+Water is probably the best example of this. Sacing a Blue Dragon and Holy Dragon risks only 4600 attack, and rewards you with an Asura with 14300 attack. Even if you fail, you could still potentially gain Attack if you get a Diablo , 5400 attack, or Wind Dragon, 4750 attack. SGod combinations and above is a whole other story though, since leader effects come into play and suddenly Water/Earth are a lot more valuable and Air is a lot less valuable.

Earth monsters in particular are an oddball. Earth+any element=the second element. Earth monsters themselves aren't very good, but they're fantastic for combinations. Chances are you wont have many in your army, but they're extremely valuable nonetheless. You know that time you got 3 King Kongs from world boss and got pissed? Don't be. In fact, I'd actually be pretty happy about it, Earth is low supply, high demand. Unless it's an SGod or higher, feel free to go crazy with those "lame" King Kongs in combination. It's sometimes a good idea to keep slamming Earths together to get a Druid King, then use that to get whatever SGod you want, or just simply make a Giant King Kong for the massive income boost.

My take on all the possible combinations:

Fire:
1A. Fire+Earth: This is the most efficient.
1B. Air+Holy: More practical since Earth monsters are in high demand. You'll mostly be doing this until you've farmed Salamanders/
3. Fire+Fire: Only do this if you've farmed a bajillion Salamanders and are trying to get a SGod or something.
4. Dark+Water: Don't do this, waste of attack.

Water:
1. Water+Earth: This is the most efficient.
2. Water+Water: Again use this if you've got a bajillion Undines.
3. Dark+Holy: Don't do this unless you're desperate or going for SGod.
4. Fire+Air: NEVER EVER do Fire+Air, you lose attack even if this combination succeeds.

Air:
1. Water+Holy: Most efficient non SGod+ combination in the game, the SGod and above Airs have crap abilities though, so you'd be better off aiming for Fire/Water/Dark.
2. Air+Earth: Don't do this unless you're desperate.
3. Air+Air: Don't do this period.

Earth:
1. Earth+Earth: This is the only combination that is acceptable, one of the reasons Earth has such high demand for combinations, but has such low supply.
2. Fire+Holy: Please don't do this, like ever.
3. Dark+Air: Disgusting, absolutely disgusting. horrifyingly repulsively disgusting. This is the second worst combination in the game. You should never, under any circumstance, even think about doing this.

Dark:
1. Fire+Water: Dark types give the highest attack in the game, so this is definitely worth it.
2. Dark+Earth: Risking a Dark stings, but sometimes you need all your Salamanders and Undines to make a Hell Phoenix or Storm Road, so this will have to do. Again emphasizing how valuable those King Kongs you despise so much really are.
3. Dark+Dark: Please don't risk this, this combination is what leads to those stories of top players losing 5 million in 1 day.

Holy:
1. Holy+Holy: Holy monster suck. This is the only one that you should even consider, and even then you're usually better off using those Holy monsters to make Air/Fire.
2. Holy+Earth: At first glance this isn't that bad, but this is a complete waste of an Earth monster. NEVER EVER do this.
3. Air+Water: Terrible, you're losing attack even if this succeeds.
4-5906703587021. Pretend Holy monsters aren't a part of this game
5906703587022. Dark+Fire: Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Why did Gamevil even make this combination possible? You're wasting what most consider to be the two most desirable elements to get by far and away the worst. Words cannot describe how awful this combination is and slap yourself across the face every time you even think about it. Absolutely nothing good can come out of this. It's the most inefficient, highest risk:lowest reward combination possible, and you lose attack no matter what happens. Hell, the Dark monsters themselves have almost equal attack as the Holy you're trying (but shouldn't be) to make. To rub salt in the wound, Fire has arguably the best leader ability as well, while Holy has probably the worst. Oh and don't forget the fact that with the gold you just wasted for this abomination Gamevil mistakenly calls a combination, you could literally buy enough monsters that they give higher total attack than the new Holy. This is by far and away the worst combination in the game, and justifies its own tier of suck.

Hope this helps everyone.

That doesn't work at all. In theory it should, but probability doesn't work that way, it's still a 30% success rate no matter what. Not to mention that assumes a perfect random number generator. I personally feel the RNG in this game to be terrible. I've found that if I do 5/6 combos and more than half of them succeed, I'll start combining my Chaos/other valuable monsters because chances are they'll succeed as well. This is because the RNG tends to "hover" around a certain mark.

For example, if there were 100 numbers, the first 30=successful combine. A perfect RNG would give 28, 94, 57, 14, 48, 61, 86, 31, 4, 79 where the numbers are really spread out. Gamevil's RNG would give 28, 14, 41, 23, 35, 19, 36, 42, 24, 38 or 52, 66, 58, 49, 71, 53, 62, 64, 49, 53, where the number are really close together.

Wow.....maybe the trick doesn't work?

and even when it pays out, the house still wins. when you're combining for the big gods (im going for elder). you'll have to expect to lose a few mil atks. you have to have the mindset that "im gonna lose atk and def, but im getting an elder. my atk dropped from 10mil to 9.5 now. and i bet its gonna go down even more as i continue the experiment

In general there's no trick or strategy in combining. A clear fact is, that you will always loose more damage than you gain when combining without using jewels.
Of course it's recommended to combine because of the leader effect from sgod+
Please refer mwsol.freeforums.net/thread/89/any-recommendations-get-ultra-god
To minimize the loss from combining these are the only helpful tricks:
- set a goal what you want to reach, e.g. a storm road as first sgod. 
- analyze what you need to reach your goal, if storm road is the goal and you start from anciant you need 4.29*4.29*4.29*4.29 (anciant to chaos;chaos to ulti; ulti to god; god to sgod) = 340 anciants (factor is 4.29 (10 combines = 3 success 7 fail = 3*2 + 7*1 /3) with success rate 30%, with artefact plus 3% it's 33*2 + 67*1 / 33 = 4,03)
- if you invest jewels only invest in final combines, it's saving more anciants to use 300 jewels for combining 2 gods than for 2 ultis
- only start combining if you have enough monsters to reach your goal because then you get the leader effect for sure as reward for loosing damage.
- try to avoid using dark and air monsters, you'll loose most damage if you use them

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