Lava3 Success!

My guild has been working up to Lava3 for a while.  Some of the early planning I posted here. 

Lava in progress.

We did our first runs this week, resulting in success for the guild, but not me personally.  In two runs I had some bad crests on, so my own stupid fault.  But in the other two tries... dunno.  I think was just unlucky.  In any case, I booked my Treantaur a level boost, and kept trying.  Last night...

Lava loot!

Nice treasure.  For the evening I was 2 for 6, and before that, 0 for 2 (excluding the two with the wrong crests).  2 for ~8; it might be better to stick with mesa4.  Of course, I won't do any such thing.  I'll be pouring all experience into my Lava team.   Maybe better skills?  Better crests?  It's really hard to draw any conclusions since the key part happens so fast.  I can tell you, though, that the Vlad in the starting location really hits hard.  I can see why maybe Arctica would help: she'd freeze him.

Speaking of experience, I finished Medusa for now:

Stick a fork in her.

She is evo1, so there's more work to do, but I have no dupes for her.  I have enough shards that I can afford one evo2 without dupes, but if I were to do that it would be DD.  And I don't even feel it's worth it for him.  Medusa will stay as she is indefinitely.  She'll get the next talent pretty much no matter what it is.  In fact I rolled a Scatter 3 last night and gave it to a Ninja without thinking.  Oh well.

I am now training up my Phantom King, for the Lava team.

PK moving up

Here's a Lava heartbreaker.

Heartbreaker