Cloning

Here is an interesting aspect if the game that people always get confused about: reinforcement of your digimon aka cloning. Cloning is a tool that helps make your life easier when grinding levels and is almost mandatory to be successful  in places like gizu,maze and b2. It also is handy for when you're farming mc for that one last evo you need.

Now when people ask you what you cloned on your digimon you report it in a #/# fashion. If I were to clone my attack six times and my evasion 4 times I'd respond 6/4.

Why would you ever want to clone? Take this for example, my herculeskabutarimon had an f2 with a base damage of around 1800 if I'm not mistaken, which is not enough to kill a gizu in one hit (which is around 2100-2300 hp). I could wait until i can use the skill points that the digimon gains from fighting but if I want to go kill some gizu right away I can clone attack which will not only increase the base attack damage for my digimon's attack stat but will also increase the power of the f1/f2 skills. So can clone until about 6 and start killing gizu right away instead of waiting for the skill points to increase my skill power (which is about 50 attack points each time you upgrade a skill in mega).

To see if your mega needs cloning look at the site below. If you have an f2 with a base of 1600 cloning attack until about 8 or 9 should allow it to 1 hit a gizu and probably level 6 if you upgrade the skill to the max.

http://gdmo-guides.blogspot.com/2012/08/list-of-digimon-evolution-all-attribute.html

Auras
There are 4 types of auras in DMO, these are the result of getting to a certain level,cloning, the size of your digimon or buying a tamer aura from the cash shop.

Level Aura- No matter what, you will get these types of auras. They surround your digimon and change color as you level. They start off around level 40 as very faint sparkles (they're kinda hard to see). when you get to level 46 you gain a green one, 51 is kind of a teal-light blue color, 60 is a dark blue, 70 is purple which will slowly progress to a pinkish color until you hit 80 where its a bright red, which is the last aura change you'll see.

Size Aura- These are auras that are directly under the digimon and are due to the size of it. Generally any digimon that is over 120% will have a purple size aura so these are generally 5/5. The 4/5 will have a blue aura and are usually bigger than 110%-112%. 3/5 sadly get nothing, but can get size auras for some reason after you fought with it for a while. They will disappear as soon as you digivolve,die or switch digimon. This does not mean they've become a 4/5 or 5/5. 

Tamer Aura-These are white auras that surround the tamer that you can buy from the cash shop. This aura makes sure that your tamer ds doesn't drop, which is handy if you're training with a bm.

Cloning Aura- These are swirls of different colors that are around the digimon. To get these you have to clone to a certain level, if you where to clone attack and evasion successfully 3 times each then you get a very faint light blue swirl, 5/5 or 6/6 will give you blue swirls, 9/9 will give you purple swirls  and the only way to get red swirls is cloning 12/12 or two stats to the max reinforcement level which is 12.

Cloning and the materials needed
There are several important things about cloning:
You can clone only to a total number of 24, and each stat can only be reinforced/cloned up to 12. What this means is if some one where to clone all their stats to 6 will not be able to clone further because the total of successful reinforcements is 24 (6+6+6+6=24).
It is highly recommended to pick two stats and clone those to 12 each, bringing out the full potential of your digi.
Once you use a clone or a back up disk it's gone, even if it was an unsuccessful try, you won't get those materials back.
Back Up Disk do not guarantee that you'll be successful at your cloning attempt, they just guarantee that you won't decrease in cloning level.
If you fail too many times at cloning you can go down in cloning level, so be careful.
You must go in order when you clone, so you must first use clone d from level 0-3, clone c from 4-6,clone b from 7-9 and clone a 10-12.
Some people say that you get better results when you clone your digimon when its level 41, I'v cloned at all levels and haven't seen much of a difference. But there is not much of a need to clone until 41 because the digimon aren't that hard to kill. Once you leave to go to higher training grounds after getting mega, it's a good time to clone.
Cloning is mostly based on luck
If you fail twice in a row and you're not using clone d, its best to back off and wait because you will probably will go down in cloning level if you try and fail again.

Materials

Clone D- This is the lowest level cloning material, they can be bought from the cash shop/silk users, but you're better off buying them from the core shop ( the booth with the turtle) in dats for 1 core each. These will take you from level 0 (no reinforcement) to level 3 reinforcement. These are very easy with over a 90% chance of succeeding

Clone-C-They can be bought from the cash shop/silk users, but you're better off buying them from the core shop ( the booth with the turtle) in dats for 2 cores each. These will take you from level 4 to level 6 reinforcement. These are still easy and have a 80% chance of succeeding

Clone-B-They can be bought from the cash shop/silk users, but you're better off buying them from the core shop ( the booth with the turtle) in dats for 3 cores each. These will take you from level 7 to level 9 reinforcement. At these levels is when you start seeing major improvements to your digimon. These get pretty hard to do successfully, they drop to about 50-60% chance of success.

Clone-A- This is the highest level cloning material and can only be bought from the cash shop/silk users or dropped in maze. These are statistically the hardest to do with a less than 20-30% success rate. The best advice I can give is load up on bu and click on the corners and occasionally the middle  A decent price to pay for them is 90-105m. These will take you from level 10 to 12 reinforcement.

Back Up Disc- This guarantees that you won't go down a cloning level but won't stop you from failing. They can be bought from the cash shop/silk users, dropped from mc and are usually given out as prizes for events. When I started playing a decent price for a bu was 125-150m now it's jumped to 200m. I suggest using these at levels 8 and 9.

Reset Capsule- Will reset one stat one level, so if I had level 5 reinforcement on attack and use the capsule, it will put me down to level 4.

Reset Capsule A- Will reset one stat all the way to level 0. If I had level 12 reinforcement on attack and use the capsule I'll be put down to level 0.

The Cloning Process

Now to clone you must go to the dats center and talk to the commander. Select enter dats center and you'll be inside the cloning chamber. There are 4 stats that can be cloned.

Attack-Cloning this will raise you physical attack and power of your f1/f2 skills, this is a must for all tamers to clone, if not than you're a very interesting soul.

Evasion- Cloning this will raise the chance that you won't get hit by attacks, is handy for going against big bosses/digimon that are stronger than you or if you like to run solo against huge mobs (ie the diablomon in gizu). I'd personally clone this if your digimon has a low defense to help it last a little longer, but it all comes down to preference. This stat can get to a large percentage; one of my digimon has a 70% evade rate and its at cloning level 10.

Critical- Increases the chance of a critical hit, is helpful for killing stuff quicker if you're lucky. If your digimon has high defense and can take a few hits (or you don't mind shoving tons of chicken combos down it's throat) then this might be more ideal for it. The percentage for this stat doesn't go as high at evasion, but still gets to useful levels of a critical happening. Once again this is all personal preference.

Block- Increases your chances of blocking an a attack. Not many people use this because evasion does the same thing practically and has a higher chance of happening while block has a very low base percentage. I do not suggest 

Once in the chamber select a stat to clone, the material that you're using, and the back up disc if you're using one. When you click clone, 2 rows of cards will appear and there will be a count down. You can click a card if you choose or just wait for the time to run out and a random card will be chosen for you. My suggestion for cloning once you get to b and c range is after you see which row has the most success (it'll show you all the cards once you choose) and then pick the opposite row the next time. This method has seemed to work for me but cloning is all luck. 

Now when you clone you notice that it will give you a range of increase of the stat if you were to be successful. For example for the first level of cloning you can increase your attack power from 1-3. If you land on 3 then the nest increase will be between 4-8 when you clone again, but if you land on 2 then the next chance of increase will be between 2-5 next time you clone. This is where the reset capsule comes in, if you where to get a 1 for example then you just use a regular reset capsule and go down one level and maybe try again for that 3. Reset capsule A is usually for people who've decided that they want to clone an entirely different stat or wish to start from scratch in the stat they had cloned before and try to get better increases this time around. I don't suggest a stat for the latter reason, cloning is expensive and time consuming. If you want to reset a stat there is a little tab that says "reset" and you choose the stat you want to reset and the capsule you're using.