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Messages - Mainiak (30)

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What if you use crimson dragons instead?
That would mean less damage and more quanta costs.

And you need the growing, as it's not uncommon to have only 1 spririt the first 10 turns or so.



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if you're playing Grabbix and CC is a problem, you're not doing it right.  A huge part of Grabbix' strength is it's resistance to CC in the form of burrowing Shriekers and immortal Phoenixes. 
That's not what I meant - you're resitant against most CC, right. But it also halves your damage output - which is deadly. Additionally, Shriekers are often targeted right after evolving them - and often there isn't enough quanta quanta to rebirth - not to mention things like lobo and reverse time.

Maybe I'm not playing Grabbix completly right and skilled enough, but I'm sure, I do most of the things right and never got more than 75% win pct. in Bronze.

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With the implicit understanding that Gold and Silver are largely out of reach, I'd like to set a goal of coming up with a very effective entirely unupped Silver League deck.  I'd like to earn a rarespin about one in every three runs, which means the deck has to have an overall win percentage of 85% or better.
Maybe taking one step back. I would have been happy with an unupped deck that wins 85% in Bronze.  ;D

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Silver League Decks / Re: Silver League better than Level 3?
« on: August 08, 2011, 03:31:47 pm »
The silver league gives more electrum than AI3. It is a quick source of electrum.
Per game, but not per minute. AI3 is faster to grind - even with an ununpped deck.

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You'd be surprised at Grabbix's win rate in silver.
Well. Then surprise me.  :D

In Bronze, its around 70%. So the chance to get a spin in Bronze with Grabbix would be higher anyway.
that's not entirely true. The decks may be harder to beat in silver, but you also need one less spin. Sometimes it's easier to beat 5 harder opponents than 6 easier opponents. Luck also has to do with it and what types of deck are currently active in a certain arena. So if you have a hard time in bronze arena, maybe you should go for silver.
I don't think so. I tried a few in silver. Just a mess. And the difference between 6 and 5 games isn't that high.

I play a semi-upped JMZ Calssic in Arena now and I still play Bronze to get some rares - the difference is 95%  (Bronze) to 55% (silver) wins.
Really? Maybe your luck is just bad, I won 500 in 20 min.
500?  :o

Please explain...   :)

I went 1-10 in ~12 min. and the win was against an old 37 HP-deck ... 2 games were close though. CC and Shields kills you easily.

We're talking about this Grabbix (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16828.0), right?

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You'd be surprised at Grabbix's win rate in silver.
Well. Then surprise me.  :D

In Bronze, its around 70%. So the chance to get a spin in Bronze with Grabbix would be higher anyway.
that's not entirely true. The decks may be harder to beat in silver, but you also need one less spin. Sometimes it's easier to beat 5 harder opponents than 6 easier opponents. Luck also has to do with it and what types of deck are currently active in a certain arena. So if you have a hard time in bronze arena, maybe you should go for silver.
I don't think so. I tried a few in silver. Just a mess. And the difference between 6 and 5 games isn't that high.

I play a semi-upped JMZ Calssic in Arena now and I still play Bronze to get some rares - the difference is 95%  (Bronze) to 55% (silver) wins.

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You'd be surprised at Grabbix's win rate in silver.
Well. Then surprise me.  :D

In Bronze, its around 70%. So the chance to get a spin in Bronze with Grabbix would be higher anyway.


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You can get weapons from AI3. I just tried, i got a Lobotomizer on a AI3 spin! And i'm also sure i saw Titans and Vampire Daggers in AI3.
Not sure about Pulvys.
I got a bunch of owls but hundred of games, so the arena is the only place to get some rares. So grinding the Bronze Arena is essential.

And about the unupped deck vs FG, is one of the fastest way to get upped cards. Other than that, you have to get money and up some cards by yourself. You can't call it farming only because you can do it once a day, but when i was a starter that "once a day" was goldmining for me.
Do you have upped cards? How did you get them?
Grinding AI3 and alternately playing Bronze with my unupped deck with FSpirits/DS and the LS-AM for a few FG-Runs until the score went down and back to grinding AI3.
But this takes really long until you're able to get ~12 upped cards for a solid Arena/FG-Deck.

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I don't know, maybe new players need only suggestions on how to do things.
I mean, the steps are:
grind AI3 to get almost every unupped card you can buy in bazaar.
Then start farming FG thanks to Oracle predictions.
Then you build your first RoL/Hope or CCYB.
It's not that hard, but someone (maybe the oracle?) should tell it to new players.
And where do I get that 3 Lobos for RoL-Hope and the 2 Pulvys for CCYB?  ::)

I wouldn't call the use of unupped decks for daily oracle predictions "farming".  :)

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Tutorials / Re: Money Management
« on: August 04, 2011, 03:20:44 pm »
Please note that it has historically been very important to get a fully upped AI3/t50 grinder and a fully upped FG Grinder.  To reach these goals you probably shouldn’t feel bad about selling currently useless upgrades to up cards and make the decks you grind with more effective.  After that point, though, you enter a wealth accumulation phase.
D'accord. So why is this thread located in the newbie area? It's a bit confusing for newbies.

At least I'd recommend to highlight this sentence and put it more prominent on the top.

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I played this:

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4vd 4vn 52r 55l 55v 58v 590 5c2 5f5 5if 5ll 5oj 5rl 5up 5up 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6rn 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 7dq 7q5 80b 8pj


Still not balanced, but runs solid, about 50% win after +50 games with 2 Spins. Equals easily electrum/score per min. compared to Grabbix fast AI3 grinding.

But I went easily 17-1 in Bronze with two spins and with very unlucky bad-draw-loss - 90-95% in Bronze isn't bad for rare farming.  ;D

I'll upgrade the deck as you all suggested, so thanks for the advice. The game now starts to get smoothy with this semi-upped JMZ in Arena and the same ups in my CCYB for FGs.

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Duo-Decks / Re: Unupped fg farmer! Liquid Antimatter 1.28
« on: August 04, 2011, 01:28:01 pm »
P.S. Gemini is, I think, in the "Impossible" category. He starts PU'ing his 8/3 spiders with 8 turns left. I don't see a way around that. Each spider is only worth 26 points. If you use all 6 Liquimatters on spiders, you'll only do 156 points of damage, which is 44 short. Massive Dragons are 8/30. You basically have to luck out and get a massive dragon early, then get all your AM and LS cards, and then spam the spiders before turn 8. I don't think it can be done!  ???
He can be hard, but definetly not impossible and never ever a skip. His dragons came mostly early when I played him.

For me, Neptune is harder, as you need dragons/crawlers 2/2 (rare), 1/4 (hard in time) or even 0/6 which needs a lucky early AM/LS draw.

But since I don't know what "medium", "hard" a.s.o actually means (win %), I can't say Gemini is hard or medium.  ::)

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