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Hence the quotation marks I'm not talking about the real triple turbo dryer.

This is a strategy I came up with the other night while looking at air reflectors.
Basically this tactic will allow you to reflect up to the same amount as the triple turbo dyer does.

You need a couple things for this to work. For one thing, you need 2 open BD slots. Ok, now buy a double dryer. This will reflect 50% of air damage. Now buy a Basic Dryer.

What's that? You can only equip 1 dryer at a time? True, but now comes the loophole and I bet some of you can see it already.

Go to either the Gift Shop, or search the shop wiz for a Bubble Blower. This is not a weapon and not in the idb archives unless you look under Cooking Pot Recipes.

Yep, go to the Cooking Pot and combine your Basic Dryer and your Bubble Blower to recieve the Bubble Blaster! Yep, this one does have an IDB profile.

Now you can equip the Double Dryer and the Bubble Blaster at the same time. This would be a good strategy for opponents that deal in the G-sword or other high-air weaponry.
However it isn't a perfect strategy. The downside is that both the Double Dryer and the Bubble Blaster are Fragile. In the about 10 times I've used it, the Double dryer hasn't broken yet, but the Bubble Blaster broke 3 times.

And also, if your 1p opponent has the Prismatic Mirror, it can send that reflected damage right back at you such as this battle screenshot against the Giant Ghostkerchief.


This is however a cheap way to get past not having the Triple Turbo Dryer. And with that being r99 and costing millions, it would take a long time for the cost of this tactic to catch up to the cost of the TTD.

Now, if you equipped the Triple Turbo Dryer with the Bubble Blaster, you could reflect 100% of Air! That's almost like Jhudoras Wand only it just reflects all air instead of blocking it.

This would be good for the budget battler and the conventional battler alike imo.

I guess your tecnique has a flaw. Is a percentage reflected so i' not sure but i guess second reflectro would reflect % of the icons not reflected first. Then in the add you shoud be reflecting less than 75%

Looking at your screenshot, I'm thinking double-dryer reflects 50% of the air and then bubble blaster reflects 25% of the the rest of the air. If I'm right, you're only reflecting 62.5% of all air.

50% + 25% reflector = 62.5% reflector
75% + 25% reflector = 81.25% reflector
75% + 50% reflector = 87.5% reflector

still, that's pretty cool!!

Yes, it is pretty cool scheme.

On a strategy basis, consider also you'll be using 2 slots in each round. Meaning that if your opponent is not a complete fool, he wont keep using the air based weapon and use any other weapon and leave you right open (you give up any other defense you might have). What i mean is, using 2 slots to do one job means you give up doing any other thing (defending against something else,healing, attacking, freezing, stealing, etc.).

Evenmore, having those two leaves your choices on your overall equipment to 6 weapons instead of 7 if you just use one.

Besides, on my experience, just one double dryer is enough to scare GSword users out of using it

raziel_03, BloodyScarab and Phoenix; You guys could very well be right. Never did catch on to how to read icons and damage other than more isusually better.:whistle: Maybe this new screenshot will clear things up and maybe even confirm your calculations. Perhaps if the Bubble Blaster were clicked first and the Double Dryer 2nd it would reflect more overall?

Glad some of you think it's a clever scheme and thanks for that. My newbie healing combo was more clever imo, before they killed the Magic Berries ability with a 3hp limiter, I suppose Great Feast's magic apples would work though too. Anyway, moving on before I get further onto that tangent. Being a budget battler due to my primary source of NP come from games I look at the cheaper items and work out how they could be used to give a battler an edge.

Kemwek, yep, I know you have to use up 2 slots. And yes anyone with a good secondary weapon wouldn't rely on air when faced with this defense. However, 1-player opponents are often-times fools. But also the person using this tactic would have 6 other slots, presumeable 5 since this would most likely come into play after the use of the freezer and they're on the defensive. Tactics are best used under certain circumstances, otherwise they could blow up in one's face.
It sounds like you're mostly talking about 2-player opponents. I'm talking about mostly 1-player. Though if I had come up with a similar tactic to this earlier I'm sure I would've made it further in the IDB tourney. Though it wasn't air I had to think about reflecting so much.

Just had a thought, don't most people usually leave a space or two open for snowballs or muffins? So this would be taking up one of those slots and not a primary weapon or defense slot, replacing a 1-use item with a multiple use item seems like an ok exchange to me, even if the multi-use item is fragile.

In 2-player, say someone just spent all their np on a g-sword, selling off most of their offense because they don't think they'd need it, this tactic would have them scared stupid. Combine it with the ability Burrow and you come out clean as a whistle while they take almost all of the damage. Now that would just be pure fun!

This new screenshot shows my pet using Firey gaze while using double dryer and bubble blaster. I lost the fight, but reflections did deal a nice chunk of damage to the Giant Ghostkerchief.

I think if you use a dryer and a bubble blaster.. the dryer will reflect 50%.. then the bubble blaster will reflect 25% of what's left.. not of the oringinal 100%..

Quote:Perhaps if the Bubble Blaster were clicked first and the Double Dryer 2nd it would reflect more overall?

Nope.

Quote:I think if you use a dryer and a bubble blaster.. the dryer will reflect 50%.. then the bubble blaster will reflect 25% of what's left.. not of the oringinal 100%..

Correct.

Like kemwek said, although the theory of blocking over 50% for a cheap price is good. Your still not getting the same as the triple turbo dryer and most people in today's bd and with the weapons available on the market, no one person carries that much air unless you expect them to use it. For 1 player opponents using up 2 weapons slot is very pointless unless you run out of real moves to do and you need some defense while still doing damage.