Anyone else find level 5 AI to be way too easy?

[MYF]

If luck is with you then grinding AI5 is fine, howeverl its nothing compared to if luck is with you grinding ai6. http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,11830.0.html The rewards need to be increased imo. As whitetigershiro pointed out, theres hardly a good reason to grind them.

True true. I often find that if I'm going to win anything for the day it will be within my first five or six matches. Just the other day I got five upped cards from AI5 in a 4-5 matches (I scored a double on one of the HBs). Later on in the day I played like 10 FG matches winning 6 and won nothing, so I quit and did something else  .

Winning 6 FG matches without any card rewards isn't uncommon. I beat about 9 FGs yesterday with 0 card winnings.

Yeah. I hate it when that happens. I wish FGs were worth a bit more electrum. In any case, HBs are a mixed a bunch, I think some are quite easy though and may need their decks revised a bit.

[JChace029]

I fought level 5 AI about 10 times today and beat him every time using a 40 card rainbow that has only 7 upgraded cards. And when I say beat, I mean absolutely destroyed. It was like fighting level 3 AI.

Most of the matches AI 5 was doing almost nothing. I don't know if he had cards that he couldn't use or was there a problem with the code, but I do know that he was very inactive.

Have you had similar experiences where level 5 AI did almost nothing?

Care to post that Deck please?

[geekz_always_win]

I fought level 5 AI about 10 times today and beat him every time using a 40 card rainbow that has only 7 upgraded cards. And when I say beat, I mean absolutely destroyed. It was like fighting level 3 AI.

Most of the matches AI 5 was doing almost nothing. I don't know if he had cards that he couldn't use or was there a problem with the code, but I do know that he was very inactive.

Have you had similar experiences where level 5 AI did almost nothing?

Care to post that Deck please?

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,1615.0.html

It's actually better suited for FG though

[LongDono]

I have no weapon problem, the FG's and top 50 gave me enough. Got electrocutor as well. The other cards may be unupped? I got only a single elite phase dragon. I prefer the rainbow anyway, every game is different

Btw, that mono aether deck is CRAP. A single gravity shield blocks all damage except the lightnings.

How about no?
Mono Aether is far from "crap".
It can beat A false god and any deck that can do that is not crap.
Gravity shield eh?
Lightnings?
A. Why run lightning in a 30 card Mono Aether deck? You will have Phase shield or something out so a little creatue removal is pointless.
B. Will AI5 use Gravity shield, if so how often?

[Ryli]

B. Will AI5 use Gravity shield, if so how often?

Nearly always against Massa. If you're unlucky against Gravity dominant decks. Almost never against recessive Gravity decks.

[grindpower]

Yes, way too easy. I even had a good win rate with an un-upped shrieker rush!

[diocane]

It depends,
some are easy other are very hard.

Anyway it depends a lot from the starting hand, the cards and how often you play.
If you are planning to re-tweak AI5 I'd suggest to take a look in both directions.

[Captain Scibra]

They are ridiculously easy.  I use a fully upgraded 40-card Gravity/Earth control with 95%+ win rate and 60%+ EM rate at a guess.  The Half Bloods having random composition decks just don't have the capability to dish out anything too specific, making them incredibly weak to control decks.  I only usually lose when it's something like a one-Pendulum starting hand and with no Towers or Pendulums in the next few draws, early immaterial spam, etc.

[rosutosefi]

the 30% upgraded cards reduces the # of cards won from the spins. like when you get 1 upped and 2 unupped of the same card from the spin, you don't get the card. i'd rather prefer t50

[Norbert Hawk]

Lvl 5? It's my hobby... no... DUTY to Hunt 'em down! ALL 144 HALF-BLOODS!!!!! And yes.. They ARE pretty easy. Beated 26 of them with Elemental Mastery with a Vampire deck! XD From 32 battles won... From 37 fought battles ( with that deck )

I won lots of cards, but my only upgraded card was a Schrödinger's Cat.. 

But the battles take too long for grinding, so I just go with lvl 3.

[918273645]

I have no weapon problem, the FG's and top 50 gave me enough. Got electrocutor as well. The other cards may be unupped? I got only a single elite phase dragon. I prefer the rainbow anyway, every game is different

Btw, that mono aether deck is CRAP. A single gravity shield blocks all damage except the lightnings.

How about no?
B. Will AI5 use Gravity shield, if so how often?

You have a 1 in 12 chance, if i can du teh mafz.

[Essence]

If anything Half-Bloods aren't easy enough.  As-is, fighting them is more trade-off than gain.  You compare them to AI3 in ease of defeat?  Yeah, let's go down that comparison:

100 Health vs 200 Health
~20 Electrum vs ~40 Electrum
40 Electrum for EM vs 80 Electrum for EM
1 Quanta from Mark vs 3 Quanta from Mark
Draws 1 Card per turn vs 2 Cards per turn

So in other words... so what if it's the same difficulty as the AI3?  It's the same reward, too.

Except you completely ignore the now-30% of a card win being upgraded.  You've got to figure that if you win a card in roughly 5% of all AI5 spins, and 30% of those cards are upgraded, that's .3*.05*1150, or 17.5-ish electrum per win on average, nearly doubling the reward for winning without EM.

That's not insignificant.