how do you find coli captcha dragons?? like what's your process for searching for them?
It’s quite simple actually! :> First I just grind through the training field, and when a captcha pops up, I check carefully for any interesting dragons. (Hint: you can go through 4 captchas before coli boots you out! After the first three, just click on the dragon on the fourth captcha to keep grinding.) If it looks like a design I can actually narrow down (visible apparel, discernable genes, etc.) then I take a screencap.
Next, open the screencap in an image editor like gimp if you can. Try to match the dragon to the correct position for that breed’s gender/ pose. This really helps later, since the image is so stupid tiny that any simplification helps here! :p Here’s a F!SD example I took, cropped, and flipped.
After this, you’re gonna wanna enlarge the pic because it’s just too hard to pick out details at the original size- I use waifu2x to do this. Much better!
While this lady is a bit hard to see because of the forest rogue set she’s wearing, we can still pick out some helpful details. Like on her wings, you can see the shape of a green opal tert. It seems to be a green/ blue gradient color, and the wings are a cool-toned green with some spotting around the edges. Her primary is also a yellow-green color, with what appears to be stripes or spots around the shoulders. Zooming in, the eyes appear to be a lighter, cool color- maybe nature or lightning? (Eyes are not always visible however, though this isn’t a gamebreaker!)
From this, I messed around in the scrying workshop. Primary could be something like moss or crocodile, with either tiger or jaguar (apparel makes things difficult, but that isn’t really a problem overall!) Secondary could be something like green or avocado, either clouded or rosette maybe? The green/ blue gradient on her tert really helps narrow it down- it perfectly matches crocodile opal!
Next we take to the dragon search. From here we just input our best guesses (female skydancer, adult, opal tert, etc.) with some wiggle room for error. Because of the apparel in the captcha, I first checked for unexalted dragons… and got nothing! :( Shame, it looks like this girl isn’t active anymore- though we can still find out her history!
Aaaand that’s a match! ^^ Got lucky on this one, there’s only one possible dragon that fits our narrowed search. (Though if the first try doesn’t work, just expand your parameters and keep looking!) While it’s a bit more exciting to find a dragon kickin’ around somebody’s lair, there’s still a fun challenge in tracking down a long-lost, exalted dragon that’s been forgotten by everyone else (RIP Hakari- thanks for serving as my example. She looked very cool as a forest witch while she was still around!)
(PS: beware! Some coli captchas can also be hue-shifted… though you can use hue balancing to find the real colors of the dragon! This is certainly easier when you have apparel to cross-reference to the correct colors though. Otherwise, it can be very, very hard to tell the true colors of some captcha dragons. More are un-shifted than not, though, so this method still works! Here, the navy aviator set and wavecrest accent matched perfectly when changed to blue tones.)
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