Thread:RedReaper83/@comment-5042919-20120422212736/@comment-4962005-20120426235213

Sorry, I've been busy with exams and such, but I should haven gotten back to you sooner. I'm not sure how helpful I'll be, but I can explain the tactics I've used.

One suggestion would be to increase your defense points. With only 138, if you get attacked, fewer cards will be available to defend you on subsequent attacks since each attack lowers your defense points. I worked on getting mine up to 170, and then when I had extra points I brought it up to 200. This helped when people would attack me 4 or 5 times in a row.

The next thing you can do is increase your defense strength. There are a couple ways to do that (the following advice will work for both attack and defense)... The easiest way requires you to spend real money. You can buy chests, trade the bad cards and keep the good ones. If you do that, don't buy the single chests, only the "mega premium chests" (the ones that give you 11 cards a pop). The single chests can sometimes have worthless N or N+ cards, but the mega chests will have all rare and rare+ cards. Occassionally, (about 1 out of 5 times) opening the mega premium chests will give you a super rare. Like I said, that's the easiest way, but if you don't want to spend money, you can check on the GREE support forums for cards for trade. Like I mentioned, generally people keep the good ones, but if you keep looking, eventually you should find something decent. Check the card database to see which cards are good and which aren't. To get tokens for trading, obviously you can quest, but battling people who are lower level than you can help too. To give you an example of my cards, my attack deck contains mostly panthers (R+), some Tiger Sharks(R), a child+ (R+) and a super rare. I can beat "most" people in battles at my level as my attack is 39k. As for my defense... it's not as good. Not terrible, but not as high as my attack. I decided to use all Great Egret, Runner+ and Alligator cards. I've heard the Great Tortoise is good too, maybe better than the ones I have, because it levels up really fast.

In regards to gems... sometimes they're just hard to keep. The best thing is to use traps and try to get the gems as quickly as possible. If you take longer than a day to complete a collection, most likely you're going to have to re-find certain gems.

Let me know if you have any questions!