| Gummy United States. April 15 2012 10:28. Posts 2169 | Profile Blog # |
On April 15 2012 10:19 iGrok wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 10:17 Gummy wrote:
On April 15 2012 08:48 ItsMeDomLee wrote:
On April 15 2012 08:43 Deltablazy wrote:
So what you're saying is that Crux is the worst race because they rely on self buffs and snowballing and can be countered by a swap?
I play Crux and I can say that at least half of my losses have come via swaps.
That's why you have to play your beast in slot 3. Leave slots 1-2 for spells. It doesn't take very long to farm the single-rare brilliant brain which counters any attempts to swap. One thing I've realized about this game is how luck-centric it is. There are NO targeted abilities or targeted spells. Everything is triggered, or worse, random. Since there's no meaningful direct damage or non-glitching victory conditions in this game (you can auto-win by decking yourself it seems) this game revolves around getting huge hulking beasts and then hoping you can land a swap/brain. Aggro is the only viable deck right now.
Stall/recycle decks seem very common as well. I wouldn't say Aggro is the ONLY viable deck.
You can't effectively stall without a rare character card... In 1 turn, Crux gets strong enough to 1hko any <10 size follower. Also, since your dudes are forced to attack the level 1 stacked 20/3/20, you can't just "stall" like you can in MTG. You have to aggressively use spells to keep the dude not only disabled but out of play.
Also, I've noticed the AI is retarded and uses a lot of buffs without playing any followers...
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| iGrok United States. April 15 2012 10:31. Posts 4298 | Profile Blog # |
On April 15 2012 10:28 Gummy wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 10:19 iGrok wrote:
On April 15 2012 10:17 Gummy wrote:
On April 15 2012 08:48 ItsMeDomLee wrote:
On April 15 2012 08:43 Deltablazy wrote:
So what you're saying is that Crux is the worst race because they rely on self buffs and snowballing and can be countered by a swap?
I play Crux and I can say that at least half of my losses have come via swaps.
That's why you have to play your beast in slot 3. Leave slots 1-2 for spells. It doesn't take very long to farm the single-rare brilliant brain which counters any attempts to swap. One thing I've realized about this game is how luck-centric it is. There are NO targeted abilities or targeted spells. Everything is triggered, or worse, random. Since there's no meaningful direct damage or non-glitching victory conditions in this game (you can auto-win by decking yourself it seems) this game revolves around getting huge hulking beasts and then hoping you can land a swap/brain. Aggro is the only viable deck right now.
Stall/recycle decks seem very common as well. I wouldn't say Aggro is the ONLY viable deck.
You can't effectively stall without a rare character card... In 1 turn, Crux gets strong enough to 1hko any <10 size follower. Also, since your dudes are forced to attack the level 1 stacked 20/3/20, you can't just "stall" like you can in MTG. You have to aggressively use spells to keep the dude not only disabled but out of play. My IGN is GummyFlame. Add me plz
Sure, but getting a rare takes like... 3 days without even using tokens.
I'll add everyone tonight, got to head out for a bit. Glad we're getting a lot of people interested! |
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| Gummy United States. April 15 2012 10:45. Posts 2169 | Profile Blog # |
| I've noticed that when farming common drops, it is often faster to tank missions by exiting to lobby so you can go down a few levels. Character cards get a lot more time consuming the higher up the dungeon you go, but they still drop the same common crap. |
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| BrTarolg United Kingdom. April 15 2012 11:00. Posts 2498 | Profile Blog # |
fffuuuck
ok i managed to spend until 3 am playing this
add me to the list
my ign is gonna be Utreskis since i fucked up my first acc and i'm gonna re-roll the other ones to check out their starter decks etc. |
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| Gummy United States. April 15 2012 11:15. Posts 2169 | Profile Blog # |
On April 15 2012 11:00 BrTarolg wrote:
fffuuuck
ok i managed to spend until 3 am playing this
add me to the list
my ign is gonna be Utreskis since i fucked up my first acc and i'm gonna re-roll the other ones to check out their starter decks etc.
Crux is easiest to farm dungeons with. The only card that ever stops you is Spell Swap, and you can counter it before you get a Brilliant Brain (which is single rare) just by having a dummy in the first two slots while building your snowball in the 3rd slot. |
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| Hesmyrr Canada. April 15 2012 12:19. Posts 4202 | Profile # |
On April 15 2012 05:59 iGrok wrote:
The ingame chat system isn't great, so I'm sitting the room #TLSwordGirls on quakenet, TL's favorite IRC. I know there're other IRCs for SG, but this way we can all hang together
Should put that on OP. |
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| killa_robot Canada. April 15 2012 13:39. Posts 1008 | Profile # |
I got to the boss of the first dungeon with ease, then got my ass handed to me.
It's fun, though I think in-game goes by a bit fast, especially when you're just facing a computer. I can see limiting time in PvP, but for PvE we should get a bit more time to plan things out, at least in the first dungeon. It seems I'll have to memorize the cards in my deck and what they do, in order to actually play properly.
Also think my character's ability should be used after new cards are put on the field, as half the time my opponent has 0 cards left, making the ability useless. |
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| Shinshady Canada. April 15 2012 13:46. Posts 1185 | Profile Blog # |
IGN: Espard
I play Academy and have been playing since closed beta. The whole game is based on luck can be a bit of a turn off (as well as how their servers are holding up atm...)
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On April 15 2012 07:59 atombombforpeace wrote:
IGN is 5z6z7z, playing crux. I think its quite possible to play without spending cash, but it takes a lot of grinding for rares/double rares. I've finished my morning character and 4 rare followers (1 from each episode) without spending any tokens yet.
Seen you on before on channel 4 all the time. Knew you were a SC player ;D |
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| Cel.erity United States. April 15 2012 14:29. Posts 3642 | Profile Blog # |
On April 15 2012 10:17 Gummy wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 08:48 ItsMeDomLee wrote:
On April 15 2012 08:43 Deltablazy wrote:
So what you're saying is that Crux is the worst race because they rely on self buffs and snowballing and can be countered by a swap?
I play Crux and I can say that at least half of my losses have come via swaps.
That's why you have to play your beast in slot 3. Leave slots 1-2 for spells. It doesn't take very long to farm the single-rare brilliant brain which counters any attempts to swap. One thing I've realized about this game is how luck-centric it is. There are NO targeted abilities or targeted spells. Everything is triggered, or worse, random. Since there's no meaningful direct damage or non-glitching victory conditions in this game (you can auto-win by decking yourself it seems) this game revolves around getting huge hulking beasts and then hoping you can land a swap/brain. Aggro is the only viable deck right now.
No offense, but I don't think you're qualified yet to say what's viable or not. 
At low DP, most people don't have removal spells, so games play out that way, but on the Korean server control decks dominate. Even ~400DP which is relatively low, you can build a deck (probably Academy or DL, or some hybrid) which does a good job of controlling the board. Also, it is fairly hard to determine exactly what "aggro" is in this game compared to traditional CCG's, since basically every deck needs to achieve victory through its followers. I don't think of buff- and Kana-based Crux decks as aggro, they are more like ramp/combo decks. Kana is currently the strongest strategy in 300DP ladder however. |
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| ChrisXIV Austria. April 15 2012 18:51. Posts 2119 | Profile Blog # |
On April 15 2012 10:17 Gummy wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 07:23 ChrisXIV wrote:
God, the starter Crux deck is so random...it all depends on getting Pintail on the field, then not having her die so she can get big. Had a few hilarious starts though, with 2 Flag Knights and Pintail or something similar, where I just stomped.
Loving this game. :D
If you're dying to anything other than swaps, you need to farm some more basic ores. Just filter for all the 2/3 size spells. Fast forward and education are critical. Pick one of those buffs that is graveyard dependent. The 2 size field-based buff is also pretty decent if you don't have enough for the rares. There are a bunch of useful ones that get your pintail really buff really fast, though a marksman is typically good enough with the base 3 armor.
Thanks for the advice, I'll try to farm for those cards.
Oh, and my IGN is ChrisXIV, just like here on TL. ^^ |
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| SpaceFighting New Zealand. April 15 2012 19:29. Posts 681 | Profile # |
haha i signed up.. nicknames Synthos .. pretty interesting, although i dont get it.. i just grnd thru the dungeon things =.= picked vita... will i gain any tokens thru the dungeon stuff? O_O
edit: is there a way to increase the screen size? ctrl+scroll wont work.. im straining my eyes here tryna play this game >_<Last edit: 2012-04-15 19:31:11 |
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| nyxnyxnyx Indonesia. April 15 2012 20:08. Posts 1216 | Profile # |
what's the best/most time efficient way to farm up cards to improve my deck?
my aim is to be able to go against players as soon as possible. (i have a crux deck) |
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| [17]Purple United Kingdom. April 15 2012 22:01. Posts 1948 | Profile # |
Is there any other way to play this game besides turning off my Firewall?
Edit: Nvm, found out that my firewall was only allowing Google Chrome outgoing access.
Playing under alias PrePurple as DarkloreLast edit: 2012-04-15 23:52:25 |
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| Blasterion China. April 15 2012 22:25. Posts 10268 | Profile Blog # |
IGN Blasterion
Academy of course who doesn't like Oujo and maids |
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| Lucumo April 15 2012 22:28. Posts 4520 | Profile # |
On April 15 2012 22:25 Blasterion wrote:
Academy of course who doesn't like Oujo and maids
I don't, that's why I'm not playing the game |
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| Blasterion China. April 15 2012 22:38. Posts 10268 | Profile Blog # |
On April 15 2012 22:28 Lucumo wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 22:25 Blasterion wrote:
Academy of course who doesn't like Oujo and maids
I don't, that's why I'm not playing the game
But they are maids!
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| Zeke50100 United States. April 15 2012 22:41. Posts 2181 | Profile Blog # |
On April 15 2012 22:38 Blasterion wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 15 2012 22:28 Lucumo wrote:
On April 15 2012 22:25 Blasterion wrote:
Academy of course who doesn't like Oujo and maids
I don't, that's why I'm not playing the game
omg we're maid bros.
*maid fist*Last edit: 2012-04-15 22:42:04 |
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| Dandel Ion Austria. April 15 2012 23:11. Posts 6220 | Profile # |
Started playing (IGN Dandeli0n) with a Vita deck.
The battle system makes me kinda angry. So much randomness, it really sucks if you lose because your spells go off wrong and your followers focus the worst possible enemy.
Then there's fights were I just steamroll with my first stack because the opp plays 3 spellcards, or lets one of my followers stack def.
I haven't tried PvP yet, since I can't even clear the 2nd dungeon. Yeah, I'm that bad. |
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| ExSaint Canada. April 16 2012 00:28. Posts 63 | Profile # |
Started last night after seeing this thread IGN: MyGarden playing as Academy
loving the maids so far we will see if the game holds up
clearing the second dungeon as we speak
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game crashed on floor 11/15 not pleased at least I saved on floor 8 :\Last edit: 2012-04-16 00:52:10 |
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