Guest posts by TheMonolith

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The Arena / Re: Someone please explain?

« on: July 28, 2011, 09:59:21 pm »

I have 6 SoD's, so that means an extra 240 HP on my deck which is set to 190 already.  Nice total of 430 HP, unless I decide to add Stone Skin also.  LOL  You could get like 1000 HP.

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The Arena / Re: Someone please explain?

« on: July 28, 2011, 09:55:13 pm »

So does it just give you 2 copes of every card or what?  It won't let you actually build a 120-card deck.

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The Arena / Re: Someone please explain?

« on: July 28, 2011, 09:45:00 pm »

Dexterity only says it doubles draw speed.   OK, so you can have up to a 120-card deck? 

LOL ludicrous.  whatever, though, just makes my deck even better....

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The Arena / Someone please explain?

« on: July 28, 2011, 09:42:11 pm »

How is it possible for a silver-level APvP deck to have over 60 cards?  I was unaware there was a way to increase deck size.  Did I miss something?

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General Discussion / Re: Top 500?

« on: July 12, 2011, 12:43:37 am »

I have only enough common cards to support the deck I like.  At one point in time, I sold dozens of rare cards because I needed the cash to overhaul my deck after one of the drastic rule changes.  I have always believed that people should profit from a high win % vs. good opponents, not from grinding for months.

What's wrong with playing the same decks consistently if those decks win consistently?

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General Discussion / Re: Top 500?

« on: July 11, 2011, 11:45:09 pm »

OK, you guys win.  The T500 is totally fair and a really awesome idea.  Have fun with it. 

Maybe I'll see you guys in another month or so...

(the last time I played a PvP game that didn't crash due to bugs was years ago - and it took over 1/2 hour.  Not a viable alternative.)

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General Discussion / Re: Top 500?

« on: July 11, 2011, 11:38:10 pm »

the old T50 was (when it didn't produce a farm deck) the best way to compare my deck vs. other players' decks of comparable power.  How do I do that now?

To me, this wreaks of a scheme to get players to grind, grind, grind instead of using their intelligence and skill.  If you don't have nearly a full set of 6 of every card, you are most likely to get shafted by the T500 system.  I have a very good deck that wins most of the time, but not when I get 5 random cards thrown into it. 

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General Discussion / Re: Top 500?

« on: July 11, 2011, 11:34:15 pm »

It's ok... Every so often big changes are made to this game that fark everything up.  I'm sure in the next couple weeks level heads will prevail and this profoundly broken system will get remade better.  I'll just take a break from Elements for a while.

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General Discussion / Re: Top 500?

« on: July 11, 2011, 11:23:20 pm »

Is this a way of making the T500 about players with a lot of cards instead of decks that are actually consistently good?  Because that's the effect.

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General Discussion / Re: Top 500?

« on: July 11, 2011, 11:20:00 pm »

I don't understand what you mean that a person's deck will be close to 0 HP by the end of the week...

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General Discussion / Re: Top 500?

« on: July 11, 2011, 11:06:48 pm »

I have no way of knowing if the retarded deck I am forced to build will even be effective, since I can't test it at all except vs. my usual deck.

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General Discussion / Re: Top 500?

« on: July 11, 2011, 10:56:52 pm »

Lemme see if I get this...

Today, I went into the Arena for the first time.  I built a new deck (which includes catapults against my wishes) and I enter it in (probably bronze) APvP.  I'm fairly sure it's going to lose, since I don't have -or want- cards that support catapult.  So, tomorrow, I can either modify my crappy deck or take a shot at a different set of 6 cards I probably won't use.  Repeat ad nauseum until the lucky day the oracle gives me cards I want, at which point I can have the deck I've been using for months, only super-buffed because of all the skill pts I have?

The players who will nearly always win are simply the ones who spammed the Oracle every day enough to get the seed cards they want...  I'm sorry, I know how much work must have gone into this, but it seems really stupid to me.