Hi Marie, I have 3 metal dragons to get before gold, and 3 plant before my plant shrine turns gold. If I leveled up three plant, I still need to level up 3 metal. If I breed 3 malachite as that is a plant and metal dragon that is all I need to breed as it will cover both my metal and plant shrines as the malachite covers both elements.
I always recommend going for 2 panlong dragons so you can start breeding them. Keeping in mind that once you get a panlong dragon to level 10, you will also add one extra to your other shrines as panlong has 4 elements, so that counts for earth, fire, water and air all at the same.
I have added the food and coin count for the shrine grind. It costs a total of 16 million, 383 thousand coins to level up one dragon to level 15. If I did 3 plant and 3 metal, I would need to multiply that figure by 6. Breeding 3 malachite means I am only multiplying that number x 3, and I still get 2 gold shrines.
Once I get all gold, I will work on my other egg pedestals and also level up a few dragons so I can get a few crowns. I'm thinking, one panlong, one clover, one frost fire, one reindeer - mostly cold and earth as those habitats hold the greatest amount of money.
So, just to shock you - here is the shrine grind.
To Level Coins needed
2 20 1,000
3 40 2,000
4 80 4,000
5 160 8,000
6 320 16,000
7 640 32,000
8 1,280 64,000
9 2,560 128,000
10 5,120 256,000
11 10,240 512,000
12 20,480 1,024,000
13 40,960 2,048,000
14 81,920 4,096,000
15 163,840 8,192,000
Total Coins (1-15) 16,383,000
16 327,680 16,384,000
17 655,360 32,768,000
18 1,310,720 65,536,000
19 2,621,440 131,072,000
20 5,242,880 262,144,000
Total Coins (1-20) 524,287,000
