darkSpyro

If so, can you tell me the name of the hat you received?

The strategy guide says at Portal Master Rank 40, the reward is the "Frostfest Hat", but I don't see a hat with that name listed in the 3DS game.

I'm thinking the guide may have used placeholder names, as it mentions at Rank 34 or so you receive the "Oracle Hat" which I think is the Octavius Cloptimus Hat in the game.

What is the highest portal rank? For some reason I thought it was like 5.

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What is the highest portal rank? For some reason I thought it was like 5.

You cannot even finish the main Story, without reaching rank 10 or so.

Not sure what the highest Portal Rank is for Trap Team. The list of rewards in the guide goes up to 40, so my guess would be that's the highest. I know in Swap Force it was 80.

40????? Dear Lord, I'm only at 7

I'm at 26!

33! But that's until I can get a Life and Magic Trap master, and the mystery elements are official revealed (And mirror of mystery, curse you release dates down here.)

18 as of now.

I'm at 20 right now

i'm at 32 5/6 with 45/88 chapter stars, 30/30 arena stars, 50/50 kaos mode stars and 12/12 story mode stars.

so my maths says yes, 40 is the max portal master level.

I'm rank 33 with 50/50 for Kaos Challenges, 28/30 for Arena, 12/12 for Story and 139/180 for the chapters (61% of the main game complete). Just need a Magic Trap Master as well as the Dark/Light Trap Masters.
Plus: trapping the mystery villains so I can do their quests, having a hard time on the Time Challenges on a couple chapters, and getting the hat in Crawler Canyon.
I just found out Australia and New Zealand won't get Wave 2 until 11/27. God only knows when Wave 3 comes out.
Honestly, they should have staggered the waves like they did for SF.

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I'm rank 33 with 50/50 for Kaos Challenges, 28/30 for Arena, 12/12 for Story and 139/180 for the chapters (61% of the main game complete). Just need a Magic Trap Master as well as the Dark/Light Trap Masters.
Plus: trapping the mystery villains so I can do their quests, having a hard time on the Time Challenges on a couple chapters, and getting the hat in Crawler Canyon.
I just found out Australia and New Zealand won't get Wave 2 until 11/27. God only knows when Wave 3 comes out.
Honestly, they should have staggered the waves like they did for SF.

....11/27? You've got to be kidding me. Where'd you hear that?

I'm rank 34
54/88 Chapter
30/30 Arena
50/50 Kaos Mode
12/12 Complete story
This rank is with 3 glitched "collectibles" stars, and every other star I could possibly earn right now, earned. I highly doubt anyone is any higher of a rank atm. (May have more stars than me, but thats because theres 2 other gates I don't have the patience to break into, but others have broken into them)
We wont know for certain until the Light/Dark/Magic trap masters hit shelves, as by looking at my stats, you seem to only hit 40 when you've already achieved 100% completion (barring side stuff like legacy hats and skaletones).

I'm at Rank 10 and its all thanks to arena challenges, I haven't even finished have the story mode yet.

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I'm rank 33 with 50/50 for Kaos Challenges, 28/30 for Arena, 12/12 for Story and 139/180 for the chapters (61% of the main game complete). Just need a Magic Trap Master as well as the Dark/Light Trap Masters.
Plus: trapping the mystery villains so I can do their quests, having a hard time on the Time Challenges on a couple chapters, and getting the hat in Crawler Canyon.
I just found out Australia and New Zealand won't get Wave 2 until 11/27. God only knows when Wave 3 comes out.
Honestly, they should have staggered the waves like they did for SF.

....11/27? You've got to be kidding me. Where'd you hear that?

a reliable source of Ebgames info over on Ghostroaster forum passed along the info

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i'm at 32 5/6 with 45/88 chapter stars, 30/30 arena stars, 50/50 kaos mode stars and 12/12 story mode stars.

so my maths says yes, 40 is the max portal master level.

Does 40 presume you have to get ALL the stars, or is it like Swap Force where you can reach the max LONG BEFORE getting them all?

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i'm at 32 5/6 with 45/88 chapter stars, 30/30 arena stars, 50/50 kaos mode stars and 12/12 story mode stars.

so my maths says yes, 40 is the max portal master level.

Does 40 presume you have to get ALL the stars, or is it like Swap Force where you can reach the max LONG BEFORE getting them all?

Yeah, it might max out before it reaches 40.
level 40 is the Max it can potentially be, like the hundred and twenty something that was theoretically possible in SF
the 88 chapter stars include 4 from each of the MoM, Dark and Light Adventure packs(which i don't have)

I believe you have to get all the stars.
30=arena challenges
50=Kaos challenge
12=story mode completion
80=completing each part of the chapters of the main story
16=completing each of the adventure packs

Total=188 stars to reach rank 40

Easier said than done, especially when you're down 3 elements

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I believe you have to get all the stars.
30=arena challenges
50=Kaos challenge
12=story mode completion
80=completing each part of the chapters of the main story
16=completing each of the adventure packs

Total=188 stars to reach rank 40

Easier said than done, especially when you're down 3 elements

your 8 stars over, there is only 180 total, 72 in main story chapters.

I am rank 28. I just need to collect things in levels and do time challenges.

rank 24

Rank 30

No, because you'll eventually have Midnight Museum (4 stars) and Sunscraper Spire (4 stars) later on.

Here's the current math to rank up:

30=Arena Challenges
50=Kaos Doom Challenges
12=Completing Story Mode
80=Completing all the chapters
8= Completing NE & MoM

Total=180

As for where I heard about 11/27, it was on SCL. It's not guaranteed, but with the way things are going it seems that way.

The calculation is with what we have already, since they haven't added the other 2 Packs. Where I got my info. Straight from the official strategy guide published by Brady.

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No, because you'll eventually have Midnight Museum (4 stars) and Sunscraper Spire (4 stars) later on.

Here's the current math to rank up:

30=Arena Challenges
50=Kaos Doom Challenges
12=Completing Story Mode
80=Completing all the chapters
8= Completing NE & MoM

Total=180

As for where I heard about 11/27, it was on SCL. It's not guaranteed, but with the way things are going it seems that way.

The calculation is with what we have already, since they haven't added the other 2 Packs. Where I got my info. Straight from the official strategy guide published by Brady.

there is still 8 extra there, there are only 18 chapters not 20, so 72 stars. Chapters 19, 20, 21 and 22 are the adventure packs.
the 88 chapter stars listed in the portal master menu includes the stars earned in all four of the adventure packs.

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No, because you'll eventually have Midnight Museum (4 stars) and Sunscraper Spire (4 stars) later on.

Here's the current math to rank up:

30=Arena Challenges
50=Kaos Doom Challenges
12=Completing Story Mode
80=Completing all the chapters
8= Completing NE & MoM

Total=180

The calculation is with what we have already, since they haven't added the other 2 Packs. Where I got my info. Straight from the official strategy guide published by Brady.

You're right about the number of stars available in Midnight Museum and Sunscraper Spire, but there are only 72 from completing the main story chapters. (Not "all" of them, as the 4 adventure packs are chapters 19-22.) 18*4=72, not 80. The total number of stars only add up when including Midnight Museum and Sunscraper Spire.

EDIT: I spent way too much time writing this (couldn't get the wording quite right) without checking that someone beat me to in in the meantime. At least I'm not alone on this side of the matter. XP

So far, I've reached up to Rank 35 and got all the Trinkets except for the Cyclops Spinner.

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So far, I've reached up to Rank 35 and got all the Trinkets except for the Cyclops Spinner.

Do trinkets count towards your rank?

Trinkets don't actually count towards ranks, but they do serve as rewards for ranking up. Sometimes, it gems that are worth more than 1000 and level-up bubbles with stars in them. The level-up bubbles don't work on those who are already maxed out to 20.

But can the level 20s collect the bubbles? Or do they just go right through?

I like the fact that you pretty much have to wipe up all the stars to reach the rank. That's one adjustment from Swap Force that TfB actually addressed well.

Actually, the bubbles remain until any Skylanders whose level are much lower than 20 can collect them.

I'm now Rank 34 with only 37 stars to finish. 69% of the game finished with nearly all my Trap Masters maxed out but my two Jawbreakers and my WFLS. As soon as I get Blastermind, I'll put him through a Kaos Challenge, fully upgrade him and rid myself of the five Magic Gates. I'll upgrade Tuff Luck, Ka-Boom and the rest as well.

I did but lost all my data due to a crash so now replaying it to get it back. Annoyed.

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Just got to it, it's an ice cream hat.

You have 1337 health!

My portal master rank is 32

Nice Job TTD! i love that hat!

I'm at rank 29 now!

I'm at 39
Chapters:88/88
Story:12/12
Kaos Challenge:50/50
Arena Challenge:28/30

I'm at 34 and I just need all stars in 12 levels.

TTD, Where did you get that SHEEP MAGE HATE AND THAT ORACLE HAT? MUST GET!!!!!

Well, I did it. I finally managed to reach Rank 40 for all four game files, including Game File 4 in permanent Nightmare difficulty.

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I did but lost all my data due to a crash so now replaying it to get it back. Annoyed.

My son got a crash that corrupted his save file as well. Luckily he was only on chapter 2. What was going on when it crashed? For us, Buzzer Beak was moving inside the trap.

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Nice Job TTD! i love that hat!

I'm at rank 29 now!

It's usually customary to have a regal hat for completing the hardest challenge. That hat is ridiculous and my guys won't be caught dead wearing it.

i get so tired/bored of the game after a while. so i have never reached max portal master level on any skylanders games. there just aint enough game content and endless grinding i dont do.

Note: For those of you who own either the Wii, Wii U or other consoles that do allow memory drives to be inserted into them, you can save all the data from the game you've been playing to avoid losing everything. I use the 8GB flash drive and save everything about STT from the Wii U.

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I did but lost all my data due to a crash so now replaying it to get it back. Annoyed.

My son got a crash that corrupted his save file as well. Luckily he was only on chapter 2. What was going on when it crashed? For us, Buzzer Beak was moving inside the trap.

For me, I was trapping the Scrap Shooter villain on Nightmare chapter 11 I believe. Was just at the moment I put the fire trap in the portal and he the swirly thing was coming up and it just stopped. I always figure the time when a game is most suspectible to crashing is when you have another villain on the portal already and you swap out to the one you want to trap it with.

Am not going to trap villains in nightmare, technically you do not need to trap them to get your 4 stars.

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Quote: lamoracke

I did but lost all my data due to a crash so now replaying it to get it back. Annoyed.

My son got a crash that corrupted his save file as well. Luckily he was only on chapter 2. What was going on when it crashed? For us, Buzzer Beak was moving inside the trap.

For me, I was trapping the Scrap Shooter villain on Nightmare chapter 11 I believe. Was just at the moment I put the fire trap in the portal and he the swirly thing was coming up and it just stopped. I always figure the time when a game is most suspectible to crashing is when you have another villain on the portal already and you swap out to the one you want to trap it with.

Am not going to trap villains in nightmare, technically you do not need to trap them to get your 4 stars.

Trust me, I'm instructing everyone not to trap unless we need him on the trap. We want to see the trap moment for all of them once--after that moving in/out from the villain vault is fine. OK, so we're 2 for 2 with crashes involving trapping...any others?

Also, some of us don't know about the Difficult Dares yet...

LMAO @ 1337 health.
I'm only 26, but haven't tried to like 'clear' any levels, and I haven't done any of the arena challenges, I was waiting for the Light/Dark/Wave 3 stuff to hit, and now that I have it, I just haven't had the time. At this rate I should just hold off untill Wave 4 (got a baby on the way soon so I'm doing all the prep/nesting stuff).
- Unreall

Congrats on your new future addition. You'll have lots of time to get the game caught up while you get the newborn to sleep