Section One - Recovery 0AIDE50

[MyNameIsJoey]

Ah, my story, ( Btw nice thread )

I was playing around on kong, searching fun multiplayer games when i fell on elements. As soon as i found it, i fell in love with it. I chose fire has my first element and loved it, but after a while i got bored of it and instead i rested my account, i did this a couple times, i even had built a god deck once ( SGs one) and deleted after, because the decks bored me. I kept making decks and resetting all the time because i couldnt ever seem to find the deck that fits me. Thats when i tried to go with EMs, not with monolife, but with monodarkness. I loved my deck so much that i played with monodarkness for months and months, grinding ai3 and ai5. And then i found this community. I started making new decks, being a lot more familiar with the cards that i was before, when i heard about war. Since ICB was the only general i only knew in the war, i started playing a lot with aether, trying to prove i was worth his bidding, but it seems like it wasnt enough. Then, later on, Mrblonde has put a bid on me, so i thought i wouldnt disappoint him and i started to play a lot with death, and its a wonderful element.

Darkness is still my favorite though, even though i love death, aether and all the other elements.

[Kuroaitou]

Here it goes...

 

I remember having a very severe hatred of many card games, simply because my skills in playing them were so bad. Pokemon cards were frustrating, Kongai's just confused me to no avail (not to mention, some of the players were incredibly rude), and Yu-gi-oh was only enjoyable via a Gameboy.

Then (as I was enjoying my time 'badge farming' in Kongregate), I realized that Elements was promoting their badges and I decided to give it a shot, initially thinking it was some sort of highly-intense elemental RPG. When I saw cards, I sighed, and prayed that I could get that Impossible "Spaghetti Monster Killer" icon for 60 points as quickly as I could. Oh yeah, I was one of 'those' Kongers. With my account (Deseis), I initially chose Time as my first element, and partially understood the tutorial, figuring out how Steal worked, what Scarabs could and couldn't eat, and how quantum pillars generated the energy needed to play creatures or use special abilities.

I forgot my password to Deseis/didn't change it, so I instead created a whole new one and ditched my old IGN - I was now Kuroaitou.

My infatuation with Time really started off with me actually creating my own 'theoretical' video game (I'm still "Working" on it ), and where my character stumbled upon a rare mechnical-device that altered time-space. His personality was also reflected by the object (maturity/age, daydreaming to ignore future consequences, having felt like he had altered memories, etc.), so I decided to embody that feeling with Elements, hoping that it would lead me to closer to my goal.

I then found these forums, and my head exploded (metaphorically speaking).

It was there that I found the beauty of the typical shrieker rush - Graboids evolved into Shriekers for fast damage potential, all with (of course) the Time Mark. I didn't have to pay a ridiculous 100 electrum to change my mark. Instead, I just bought some Stone Pillars, Graboids, and Shriekers, and began grinding every single day against the 'Elders' until I got my score and electrum up to finish the quests. Now I was hooked - I started searching for FG killer decks and found SG's, noting the important use of Sundial AND Eternity, which made me even happier on how Time had all of these awesome cards (I forgot to note the date of when the deck was made though). Upon upgrading all of my other cards won by AI3, Half-Bloods, and even the T50, I decided to fight my first False God: Rainbow.

And oh did I get my ass handed to me on a golden platter.

I started to fight Half-bloods to figure out the A.I. strategy, and also ask others for advice when reading the decks of the false gods. I wanted to beat Rainbow - I wanted to own as many Hourglasses as he did, and I still wanted to win and get my Impossible Badge on Kongregate.

Then, for the first time, I won - I got the 60 points after being Destiny, winning both an Electrum Hourglass AND an Eternity... but for some reason, I couldn't leave the game. It was more than just the badges. It was more than just the reaping of additional new cards (Pharaoh). It was the community - and everyone who loved Time in addition to that.

While I do still have dislikes towards some elements (Fire mostly, damn those Explosions!) from fighting several False Gods, I've found new respect in a lot of the other elements, including Darkness (which I suppose represents my more... 'regretful' personality in real-life). But regardless of what happens to the game or to me, I feel that fate has a funny way of sweeping people into and out of situations and opportunities...

...just as how Time swept me into the world of Elements.

[Toimu13]

I found this game on Kong.  It looked like MtG, but I haven't played MtG in 15 years, and that was only a few games.  I started off with because it sounded cool.  I love the idea of randomness in PvP!  Took a Discord as my weapon, but spending some time in T50, I saw a few decks I wanted.  I went to the forums and started reading about what new people should do.  I started a new account here (that is how I got the number at the end of my name) and chose and built a Graboid rush because I wanted to use a Pulverizer.  I didn't care for it, so I saved up to build a FFQ deck.  That was even slower.  So I started reading about rushes and speed decks.  I restarted as and built a No Land Stompy deck.  I played about 500 games with that deck and started hating bad draws.  So I built a rainbow rush with Precogs taken Eternity as my quest reward and liked it very much.  Not as fast, but more reliable, and had fun in PvP1.  I started doing Weekly Tournaments and Beginners League while grinding T50 and AI3. 

I ended up building a combo of Puppychow's and SG's FG Rainbow grinder fully upped.  Spent some time fighting HB/FG with it.  I even built a mono deck to grind HBs with, but that was painfully slow.  Then I heard RoL/Hope was MUCH faster, so I saved up and built it and used my left over upped cards for a T50 grinding Rainbow.  Spent the next 100+ games grinding FGs.

I got tired of rainbows and wanted to get into Duos/Trios.  War was going to start in about 4-5 weeks, so I went back to grinding T50's for rares, I didn't have many, 2-3 of each.  BL got locked down and I joined a few people to help count the 30+ pages of fights.  That got me League Organizer.

Once the bidding start, I wasn't sure I would get on a team.  I thought I would get 1 or 2 cards bid on me, but not sure if it would be enough to make a team.  I wanted to be on Team the most.  I had over 1000 games played with a few Fire decks with over 100 being PvP1 (between all the restarts).  In most games I go for hard hitting and who cares about defense once the enemy is dead?  Once and started to bid on me, I wanted to be on Team more.  I had not played either very much in PvP and mono wasn't my style when I was grinding HBs.

Team got me and I'm having fun.  Some great people on this team.  Unfortunately it is taking up WAY too much of my time.  Well, War isn't taking it, I'm giving it   But I don't think I'll bother with War 3.  Back to Weekly Tournaments, Leagues, and random PvP for me.

[TheCrazyMango]

well about a month or so ago i was playing on kong and saw elements in the top 5 for multiplayer games. the picture thing of it has the light dragon i thought it looked cool so i tried it. when i first loaded the game, it took me about 10 minutes to choose my first element(ironically it was light) i chose it because imo, it was the most powerful dragon at 10/10. within 2 days i had reset my account like 10 times and i finally tried darkness(the only other option i hadnt tried was water so yea....) and i played around with the darkness starting deck. i fell in love with devourer and the fact that you could take their quanta and they couldnt play anything at all. before i joined the forums, i was playing a 45 card fractal devourer deck. i joined the forums, and i clicked unread topics, and there was something about war, so i clicked it. the first thing i saw was Kael Hate saying that darkness needed a rookie. i joined at the perfect time and now thanks to my other team members, i have found out that there are other darkness decks besides fractal/devourer, and my love for darkness has only grown since

[Malignant]

I liek Death Element, cuz it's great.

Uh....

I like Death since I had fun playing around the trainer with it, getting massive vultures and bonewalls was fun. I am not really sure about what element I started with but I think it was....TIME. When I started, Time looks really fun, seeing how...the text at the start was slightly convincing XD.

[Boingo]

Warning: Long and rambling post.  Don't feel obligated to read.
I first found Elements on Kong and loved the idea of winning allowing you to gain cards and use different decks.  So cool.  I initially chose and had some fun with chrysaora and pufferfish, but I had no idea how to build a deck, and I chose Trident as my weapon reward.  I regretted that decision for a long time and soon fell out of favor.  Everyone was telling me to go rainbow, so I naturally resisted and stuck with mono-/duo- decks for a very long time.  Mind you, I did not get to play PvP much since I was playing the game in between tasks at work and so couldn't commit to any length of time for a game, though I could return often to play a turn or two.  So, playing lots of AI, I didn't need to use rainbows until I was ready to finally take on FGs.

At that point, I wanted a deck that could kill HBs--I had no upped cards, very few rares and hated losing to FGs.  I saw the awesomeness of and went with a fairly standard dragon/dim shield mono-deck. Back then, there was no thorn carapace and fireshield didn't affect immortal creatures (not sure if even permafrost affected them)--essentially once your creature was played, it was a permanent menace.  It was so much fun finally beating a 200 hp AI, though I eventually added so I could steal a few shields/weapons/whatever.  But as often happens, things became boring.  This was before fractal, of course, so didn't have a lot of the flexibility it has now.  And if you've ever gone grinding with , however, you'll find there's nothing fast about .  It can drive you mad.

I wanted something fast and flexible, so I went with .  The first deck I ever made on my own was a mono deck with fahrenheits, firebolts and deflags.  It was so fun to play.  I added flying weapon and just loved watching my fahrenheits act as "growth" creatures laying down more and more damage each turn.  It had crazy PC and CC.  The creatures were OK (no phoenix at the time) and I hated the no healing option so I left it for something new.

At this point I went with , and had crazy fun with vampires healing.  Steal, devourers + vampires were my favorites, add in dusk mantle and nightfall and you had a decent deck.  I dabbled a bit in rainbow decks at this point, but when fractal came out, I built my own fractal/devourer deck and ground AI3 till I upped the whole deck.  I was so proud and having so much fun with the newly discovered forum, I even kept a log of my winnings, and tracked the changes when steal/stiletto got nerfed/buffed.   I later found Terro's Pesty Deck (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,6020.msg67983#msg67983) and was pleased to find I could beat FGs with a duo-deck.  It felt like I was coming home by going back to , even if it was really just a tool to exploit pests.  A short while later, with the dark fractal deck grinding away I managed to up some phoenices and just love fractal phoenix type decks.  (If there are 2 cards that fractal seems built for, it's the pest and the minor phoenix.)

So, I don't know which is my current favorite element.  It changes by the week (or maybe by the hour!)    are all pretty awesome, though I think my next stop will be with .  (I had a lot of fun with great deckbuilders jmdt and Sal working on Maxwell's Silver Buckler (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,10966.msg164481#msg164481) deck, for example.)  I'm still journeying through the elements at this point.  I might even give a second chance, though Trident will never be forgiven.

[lava golem]

Well, very nice discussion, I've actually considered making a thread like this before... 

So, it all started 2 years ago (around this time too) my friend, another player in who participated in this game before. You may have seen him posting some stuff, his username's binde22. He was my IRL friend and persuaded me into playing this game. My first chosen element was aether, as I saw that it was my favorite color and it seemed to have the coolest stuff (dim shields and immortals). I thought the game was actually quite boring during my first few days of playing, I saw it as boring grinding with pointless decks... Until my friend Binde22 came here on the forums (I didn't know there was a forums yet) and saw the FFQ deck, we both found it amusing that such an awesome deck concept could be made. Then came the shrieker rush and Essence's AI5 grinder, as the deck varieties got wider and wider, the game got better and better. I found myself leaning towards fire and entropy as entropy had discord and maxwell's demon and fire had fahrenheit and lava golems. I loved growth creatures back then (spirits & golems) since most of the game I played were long and growth creatures had potential to deal massive damage. Me and Binde found ourselves in a competition to find how big we could grow our creatures...  . One of my big hates was the devourer, it took away quanta I needed for my growth creatures, so I later decided to use it against AIs, it proved to be really fun. I then quit for a year, only coming back like 6 months ago from now to find the game had changed ever so much (purple nymph from the oracle got me to play again). I saw phoenix as part of fire and decided it was almost a perfect match for immolation decks, which further increased my fondness of fire since phoenixes could be reborn and cremated again (immo-lava golem decks weere my favorite). I then decided to see what the elements community was like, so I joined the forums and began posting my ideas on other people's threads. Soon, I found RoL/Hope deck somewhere on the forums (unionruler's RoL/hope control deck) and sold my upped shrieker deck for the RoL/Hope deck. I then realised RoL/Fractal/hope were pretty much made for each other back then

So now, my favorite elements go like this: 

Now, just because light, water and gravity are at the bottom, I don't hate them. I like all the elements and they each have their different advantages and disadvantages, I just think fire and entropy have more advantages than the others XD (immolation, fahrenheit, Fire Bolt, Discord, Maxwell's Demon) Just to name a few.

[Hyroen]

I'd firstly like to point out that I do not post on this thread to state what element I'm aligned to, or which element I've grown to love.

I post here to point out my reasons for participating in the Trials that I have, even for as brief as my participation may have been.

Air has always been, in all honesty, one of my favourite elements in general. The rage of a hurricane, a gentle zephyr, or a headache-inducing chinook, it's all in one indescribable force of nature. I would relate it most to elegance and poise. A fluttering butterfly, with a strong bee sting. It's what pushes your hair back and makes you feel on top of the world and what can hold us back and test our strength.

And while the element of liberty has always been close to me, wishing to have the superpower of flying ever since I was little, it was not my first element in this game.

The first mark I had, I do recall it being the Mark of Aether, due to my playstyle. I tend to go for the rogue or mage character, always keeping trump cards up my sleeve as a Gambit if you will. The description of Aether sounded most like me, but after a while it began to bore me and I began venturing into the other elemental realms.

Most people I've seen, go for pure and sheer power, mindlessly grinding to be better than, faster than, richer than others. I cannot say I'm the same. Call it a lack of strategy, but I joined this game because I wanted some fun, and that's what I found. But I also found an amazing community as well.

But is being amazing what's most important? In my opinion, no. The bigger picture is lost in the race of superiority. Faces, faces, lost among the rushing races.

I've come to the belief that all the elements must work in balanced harmony, and as in reality, they must be for the way of the world to subsist. Each comment that provides more truth to the theory that the elements in-game are not balanced hurt me a bit. I seek to prove that a balance exists, and that a strength lies in each element.

[Higurashi]

Hm.. I found Elements on Kongregate along with some really nice people like hrmm, jmdt, kartis, Miathewolf and so on. The main pull of the game was exactly this; neat people to discuss it with. I chose Death for my first Element, because I loved playing White/Black in MTG, and wanted to see if Death was anything like that. It wasn't. It seemed too stall-y for me at the time, and without good damage output, so I switched to my second pick, Aether.

The concept of divinity and immortality certainly attracted me, and as I started playing a basic Aether stall against Half-Bloods, it was better than I had thought. Aether is the element of the gods. It's literally what the divine realms are made of, just as the base of our world is made from Earth, Fire, Water and Air. Aetheric energy is also the portal to other dimensions, perhaps all of them divine and unchangeable by outer circumstances. Suffice to say, I was charmed.

Getting a 190|20 win ratio against HB's, a 20|0 win ratio in PvP 1 and a 20|5 win ratio in T50, I noticed it wasn't a fast way to farm. Aether really lacked speed and versatility. Interestingly enough, I then switched to the classic Chrysaora deck. Yes, I was back to a focus on Death, and I loved it to... death. I farmed T50 with it for so long, upping the deck and my RoL/Hope. Huh, I was back to Aether again. Now, I've always been a bit of a zealot for good causes, so the concept of perpetual light (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,14312.0.html), was alluring to me.

Making tons of cash with that, I soon noticed the popularity of golem rushes. Personally, I found golems to be boring and clumsy. The Phoenix, on the other hand, has always been my absolute favourite among mythological animals. Its symbolism has always been relevant in my life, since I truly changed my way of living not 5 years ago.

And then there was Water and Air, my favourite real-life elements, for the serenity, prosperity and feeling of freedom they present. Whenever I see someone's hairdo being ruined by a gust of wind, I close my eyes and enjoy its cleansing sensation on my skin. They bring about the natural state of things, which is the only state in which real beauty can be sensed. The only kind of beauty is the natural kind. I've always been calm and collected, and Water certainly grasps that concept.

Darkness and Death? Yes, I've always fought them, but they remain a fundamental part of us humans nonetheless. If you deny things like these, you lose a lot of what you can be. I've accepted my dark, murderous, psychotic side. I've accepted that life demands death, and that I have had to face that as well. I accept that I've brought much of both death and life. Darkness and Death may be an easier path, and it may have been natural for me back then, but we can all change. What matters in the end is that I decide to pursue the Light (virtue), Life (positivity), Water (serenity), Air (freedom), Fire (passion), and, most of all, the Aether (aspiration) in me.

Without motivation, there is nothing else. We can always, always, always improve.

[kev]

I guess I'm not surprised at how similar my tale is to others who've posted here.

I'd played other card games including mtg.  I'd been playing another webgame when the developers made a significant change to the game and then disappeared for a month.  The community there was good (though nothing compared to elements) and they begged the developers to reappear and fix the unbalance they'd created.  After a month I started looking for another webgame; a member there recommended elementsthegame.

I started with darkness and figured the game would allow me to change it.  I remember playing my darkness/death deck versus a vet with a fully upped deck in pvp and winning.  He complimented me in his loss, and I think it kind of all snowballed from there.  First time on forum -----> SG's FG deck w/pre-nerf dials -----> upped cards -----> new deck ideas -----> getting used to other elements.

I really didn't have a favorite element until the scramble for respectable players before War1.  The Master of Fire was happy to have me because I was active and had made a splash in Champions League.  I was happy to be on Team Fire because I knew it had a great chance to win.

Through War1 preparations and Trials preparations, my love for the element grew.  There's simply no other like it.  Now I can't imagine having a different favorite.

FIRE

[RavingRabbid]

One day I found out Elements on Kongregate.

I picked aether because it looked something "different". After an hour, I was on the fullscreen game, already.
I farmed AI3 with a very strange life-aether deck, Parallel Universed Phase Dragons, with Druidic Staff and Heals.
Days passed, and I was very angry when Phase Dragon was made immaterial, and then its cost raised. At that point, I decided to switch my Aether-Life to Water-Life. (Forest spirits, anyone?)

Days passed, and 1.14 came. And Sundial, too. I seen on the wiki the SG's god-farming deck, the one that used to kill everything by breathing. I was a very grindy person, and one night I couldn't sleep and I always thought of Sundial, Sundial, Sundial! A nightmare for me continuing that way, so I made a thing I'll regret for a long-time, I reset my account. I picked water as starting element.

Then, I came back after I found out sundial was nerfed (and I also found out the trainer).  At that moment, I started wasting my life hanging on forums. On first war, I tried to get into team or team . Then, came the trials. I decided to get a shot at my "redemption" element. That way, I got into Team PVP #1 with Nilsieboy, and then all those nice things about success and blah blah blah.

[Wonder]

This is a pretty cool question [: lots of in-depth answers

Well i'm fairly new to Elements and i've had about 2-3weeks of actual play. At first, I didn't even know there was a forum and all these really good decks posted. So i kept restarting my account and trying all the different elements. After a while of messing around, i decided to stick with darkness. I made a pretty standard devourer, black dragon deck and started to grind AI3s. After a day or two, i found the chatroom and forums. I got to know all the different decks and strategies and made a shrieker rush deck, which is now almost completely upgraded. I didn't make a forum account until well after I made my deck.

So i don't really have a "favorite" element right now... but i did like darkness a lot