Best Unupped elder/halfbood farmer?

[mradamant]

Can someone point me to or explain to me a good deck for farming elders and halfbloods?  I've been looking around on here, but it seems like most of the posted decks are out of date.  Looks like people still use RoL/hope decks but that is ineffective unupped if i'm correct.  Thanks in advance for your help.

[Xamuel]

For elder, use a modified grabbix with fewer phoenixes (due to immo nerf), just replace a few phoenixes with whatever you want (extra nova, extra graboid, gnome rider, black hole, chrysaora, blessing, firefly, devourer, lightning...  it doesn't really matter, it won't be as strong as pre-nerf grabbix but it'll still rock at AI3).

Unupped half-blood is hard, but you could do it with minimal upgrades if you used Day Traitors, upping nothing but the 6 RoL and the 2 Animate Weapons.  The 6 RoL could be replaced by 5 RoL to reduce upgrades further.  RoL is good to upgrade anyway.  You could even leave the animates unupped but you'd need to add some air quanta to the deck, which would hurt it a bit.  All in all not worthwhile, though--  AI4 sucks whether you're winning or losing.

http://elementscommunity.org/wiki/decks/rainbow-decks/grabbix-rainbow/
http://elementscommunity.org/wiki/decks/duo-and-trio-decks/day-traitors-light-darkness-air/

[furballdn]

Probably a good immorush will do. Mono death or shrieker rush also work quite nicely.

[KeeperofDreams]

Also there was just an unofficial competition on this forum on that very topic, go look there and you also know the win stats too...

[RagidyRock]

Here ya go; a half-blood  competition (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,34573.msg466270#msg466270)

(It's over, mind you; but there's some ideas in there.)

[KeeperofDreams]

Here was the winning deck with a greater that 50% win rate in the Unupped Competition:

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[mradamant]

Thanks for your help guys.  That deck is great so far except I don't have an eternity.  Can someone tell me a good place to farm for it?  ai3?

[mradamant]

Nvm got one from Halfblood.  Upgraded too.  Freaking awesome.

[mradamant]

OK so now that I have eternity and I'm using this deck.  I can only win roughly 1/6.  But using a straight aether deck I can win 1/2.  I'm either doing something wrong or the statistics for this deck are hella bad.

[salox]

OK so now that I have eternity and I'm using this deck.  I can only win roughly 1/6.  But using a straight aether deck I can win 1/2.  I'm either doing something wrong or the statistics for this deck are hella bad.

I don't know how many times the decks were tested to obtain those statistics, but surely enough to be reliable
so you should keep trying, to compensate xD

[mradamant]

With that deck I played 20 half-bloods and won only 3.  With a simple aether staller deck I played 15 times and won 7.  So I either am horrid at my timing with this deck or it simply isn't the most effecient unupped ai4 farmer.

[mradamant]

I was  thinking about making a RoL/hope deck but I don't have lobos.  Can anyone point me to the right place to farm them?