Guest posts by Yardof

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General Discussion / Re: Ryan666's goodbye. :(

« on: February 13, 2011, 01:35:20 am »

Well I'm new here and don't really know the point of the masters, but this thread made me vote for xdude.  It doesn't sound like you have time adn it seems a bit over dramatic.

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Trio & Quartet / Re: The Newby Half Blood Farmer. Anti... Bolt? No Rares, No Upgrades

« on: February 11, 2011, 12:51:28 am »

For upgrades I went for the shields first as it cuts 2 fire quanta out of each shield played.
 
Pillars and Pends could be another good place to start, giving you a little boost in quanta right off the bat.

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General Discussion / Re: Discuss about Aether

« on: February 08, 2011, 11:41:05 pm »

Mindgate play can be pretty brutal if you have the patience for it.  And the dragon and immortal are fine as they cant be targeted, so you get less hit power, but the cards are staying around for a while.

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Trio & Quartet / Re: The Newby Half Blood Farmer. Anti... Bolt? No Rares, No Upgrades

« on: February 08, 2011, 07:41:00 am »

I'm using the pendulum version now and it is better.

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Trio & Quartet / Re: The Newby Half Blood Farmer. Anti... Bolt? No Rares, No Upgrades

« on: February 07, 2011, 04:26:57 am »

he Bolts are for direct attacks only. DON NOT attack the creatures with this unless its desperate and you are doing REALYL good on Only use a maximum of 1 otherwise your success will be very small.

I have been saving them and following that rule.  But I either cant get enough time to build fire quanta, get stuck against a spell reflect shield, or get killed before enough firebolts come out.

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Trio & Quartet / Re: The Newby Half Blood Farmer. Anti... Bolt? No Rares, No Upgrades

« on: February 07, 2011, 02:11:36 am »

Hmmm, I need to try the pendulum variant.

I had a rough time with Half Bloods and and getting the quanta before decking out so I modified the deck a little:

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Still had a rough time but decided I needed to work out some numbers.

With the above version I played 50 games against Half Bloods and 50 against the T50.

My results:

HB games played:   50
Half Blood wins:   19
Amount of EMs:     5
Unupped cards won: 2(both rare)
Upped cards won:   3

T50 games played:  50
Top 50 wins:       29
Amount of EMs:     16
Unupped cards won: 6(3 relics)
Rare  cards won:   13

The problems I encountered were:

Life and Light spell reflecting shields.
Discord/Pulverizer/Trident weapons - Either losing quanta, pillars, or my shield.
Explosions/Steals - Taking away my shield, lead to high amounts of incoming damage.
Mindgates/Catapults - Mindgates beat me at my own game, bolting me or reversing antimatters, catapults removed antimattered cards before I could really heal up.
Forest Spirits/Lava Destroyers/Steam Machines - Its hard to effectively use antimatters on them and tough to kill.
And then a couple times against Half Bloods I was just out rushed by a Life deck.  About 3 turns in and the AI had a mix of 6 or 7 frogs and cockatrice.

A bunch of my losses to half bloods were long games where I had tons of fire quanta saved up, around 150-160, both only 3 or 4 bolts and couldnt finish the AI off, if I had a Fahrenheit I'm sure I would have won those.

The spell reflect shields came up pretty often as well, but twice the AI changed them out!  That was so great, most times it didn't though.

I'd like to find a way to add in an Enchant Artifact, to keep my Fire Shield alive, and a Reflective Shield to drop in last second and get around the reflect of the AI, but I guess that means adding a Nova and either upping the Nova or the Enchant.  But I don't know what to switch those with, and I don't think I want to go too far over 30 cards.

I'm kinda stumped, but I feel that if I can keep the shield from being removed I could do a lot better, or if I ever get a Fahrenheit, protect that too, or instead.

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General Discussion / Re: How to Farm Half Bloods in About 5 Minutes

« on: February 05, 2011, 04:02:58 pm »

everyone knows theres a link to the deck to discuss it right....

My bad, didn't know there was another thread for this, I don't see the link though.

EDIT:  nm, I found it.

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General Discussion / Re: What Card do you think you win the most?

« on: February 05, 2011, 07:00:52 am »

Against AI3 its Empathic Bond, no question.

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Half Bloods / Re: Half-bloods Are they worth it now?

« on: February 05, 2011, 04:41:16 am »

I've started grinding HBs with the deck in the general area, thread title is "How to farm Half Bloods in about 5 minutes"

Win rate feels over 50%, not sure exactly as I've been altering some cards.

Only won 2 cards so far after say... 25ish games, but the cards I won were Miracle and Arctic Squid, so thats cool.  Against some HBs the deck allows you to stall pretty well to make sure your win is an EM, which is nice for the cash.

I'll have to keep track of the drop rate.


EDIT:  Just played 20 games against HBs.  Won 10, of which 4 were EMs, got 3 upped cards, and 2 unupped cards.

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General Discussion / Re: How to Farm Half Bloods in About 5 Minutes

« on: February 04, 2011, 11:38:44 pm »

Wow, this is great against decks with vampires or minor vampires as they drain HP after they're hit with antimatter.  Very nice since it lowers the amount of firebolts or fire quanta needed.  Generally I get my shields stolen in the same match ups that have the AI dropping vampires so it balances out some.

I've had issues with weapons like pulverizer and titan, either losing pillars or just damage that I can't antimatter.  Also a few times I've run out of cards before I had enough quanta, due to earkquakes.

So to handle those issues I added 2 more pillars and 2 deflagrations, and took out 1 antimatter.  The deflags can be handy against catapults too.

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General Discussion / How many copies of rare weapons do you keep?

« on: February 04, 2011, 04:07:16 am »

I've gotten lucky recently and got 3 lobos and titans, and 2 Owl's eyes and Morning stars.

I've thought about selling a lobo and titan since I dont even use them now and 2 of each makes sense, 3 seems a bit over the top, but then they could always be used with flying weapon too.

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General Discussion / Re: How to Farm Half Bloods in About 5 Minutes

« on: February 03, 2011, 10:58:25 pm »

Ya fire shield helped until explosion or steal entered the picture.

Its interesting how the AI seems to not play character cards when you dont either though.  I end out waiting turn after turn to use an antimatter and end up having to discard 1 or 2.