Early christmas

[kev]

Incidentally I've never understood the thought process behind biting farms. You punish noobs and reward the capable in an opposite-of-robin-hood kind of way. It's like passing up the soup kitchen to do volunteer work at Starbucks.  I guess it's nicer than a normal deck... but why half ass being nice?

[Shantu]

Incidentally I've never understood the thought process behind biting farms. You punish noobs and reward the capable in an opposite-of-robin-hood kind of way. It's like passing up the soup kitchen to do volunteer work at Starbucks.  I guess it's nicer than a normal deck... but why half ass being nice?

One justification is that if the deck wins a few games, it may stay around longer, thus providing rares for more people.
Another is that the farmers will have to work a bit for their rares.
Biting farms are more fun to build and have.
And I just can't bear seeing my deck going 0-3 then drop out of the top 500.

At least, these are the things going on in my mind. I've been putting up biting farms for the past week or so. It's so fun to see them going 6-0 (then lose 4 in a row, but that's alright). They are not the most efficient farms but even then players have a much higher chance to get a rare from it than from a usual ghostmare or other common deck found in the Arena.

I know it's evil and not quite what the OP had in mind, but don't know.. it just feels better.

[Foraker]

Incidentally I've never understood the thought process behind biting farms. You punish noobs and reward the capable in an opposite-of-robin-hood kind of way. It's like passing up the soup kitchen to do volunteer work at Starbucks.  I guess it's nicer than a normal deck... but why half ass being nice?

If the noob looses against a deck with 5 daggers and 6 SoV, then he has to gather more ingame experience.
Reading tutorials in the forum, try to handle every card in the trainer and so on.

I did it that way when I started with elements and no one gave me free rares.
But some ppl start to play elements and think after 100 games, that they
know the game and deserve every rare.
Then they should farm bronze and not plat.

I still need a few unupgraded shards.
Do I trust in a few players out of 500, that put farms up or
do I build a silver or bronze farmer and start grinding?
The farms out of this thread are in my oppinion for the more experienced players.
So a biting farm is ok.

[Laxadarap]

Just had a 35 card, impossible to deal damage deck, with no arena points invested in it whatsoever, go 2-3.  I'm going to start making my decks all look like ghostmares, just to see how many ragequits I get right off the bat

[MystiK_]

Made a SoB/SoFr BL Fractal deck. Enjoy the farm!

[Rutarete]

I've been encountering several biting farms in plat recently. I could tell you all how I had this epic battle, but it's not, really... *sigh*

[Elbirn]

Got a SoD farm up at the moment (pendulum oracle card ftw), hope it helps the cause. ^_^

[Laxadarap]

I am now on a 3 wins from nonbiting farms in plat XD.  Current deck has Max Demon as card, Sop, and a bunch of time pillars.

[Zso_Zso]

In the name of Xmass spirit, let's help people build Instosis:

pure non-biting farm submitted: 6xSoR + entropy pillars + light mark + black dragons from Oracle (no quanta to play them).
no skill points assigned (in plat arena), so 100 hp single draw.

[takezoido]

people seem to auto-quit a lot...i've put bone pillars and water mark and didn't realize it would look like poison deck. they also auto-quit when seeing sofo. if they only knew it was a farm...

[kimham8a]

I think those sow-quint decks have trouble killing farms lol.

[Naesala]

The real early christmas spirit http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?action=post;topic=45197.24;last_msg=1023437