Guest posts by draven848

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Darkness / Re: Darkness deck upgrade suggestions/Advice

« on: August 29, 2010, 10:43:17 pm »

Awesome.  I have a few other decks, mainly rush type decks, and the first thing(s) I upgraded was the pillars, but they are rush deck after all.  I was thinking pillars but to be honest I was lost as to what I should up after that. 

Thanks for your advice... Any comments/suggestions about the deck?  I think it is very strong but I might be missing something.   

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Darkness / Darkness deck upgrade suggestions/Advice

« on: August 28, 2010, 10:38:27 pm »

Ok so here is the deal. I have been running a this darkness deck for a while now and I now have about 7,000 coin.  I am wondering what I should upgrade and/or if I should wait till I have more money.

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I know in most decks the first thing you should upgrade is the pillars into towers but I wanted to get other points of view here.

As ever comments and suggestions about the deck are welcome, but I should mention that after 311 battles I have only lost 25, and at least 7-10 of those were before I made/found this deck.

To give credit where it is due here is where I got the idea for this deck.
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,1198.0.html (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,1198.0.html)

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Aether / Re: The Essential Halfblood Farmer

« on: August 18, 2010, 03:15:05 pm »

added 2 lobotomizers and 4 shards of grace?

I know I am still new to this forum and have not gotten all the abbreviations down yet, but when you say shard of grace do you mean shard of Gratitude? Hey for all i know it might have been called that before I started playing. 

In regards to your question however, it might. I am not sure if the 2 additional lobos would help or hut the deck. When I was testing it the lobos seem to come up fairly early in the battle. Thery is no question that more healing is a good thing, but this deck is already at 34 cards, and adding more might slow it down.  Feel free to build the deck (in trainer so you don't waist money) and see how it draws. I'll be the first to admit I am not the best at deck building, and I am not very good with aether cards (im running a darkness deck atm). But who knows.  Build the deck and test it... then let us know what you think. 

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Aether / Re: The Essential Halfblood Farmer

« on: August 16, 2010, 02:37:29 pm »

NOTES:
Titan is still a problem, as well as black hold. Thankfully I didn’t run into a discord card, but it too is a very real danger, seeing as this deck is limited by quatra most of the time. 

Gravity shield really hurts your dragons by keeping them from attacking, but it is still a good idea to summon them, cuz more than likely your opponent will play gravity pull, and your dragons will finally have something to do. The biggest problems you will have with this deck are shields and the fact that this deck has no way to destroy permanents. However, i will say that 4 immortals can bring down an HB, given enough time. Course lobo's 5 damage helps out a lot.
If you play an HB who uses gravity, just pray to god that they don’t use chimera, or if they do, that you have lobo out already. Momentum can be a real pain in the butt, but lobo can take care of it, if you get it out in time. 

Thorn shield is also a problem, seeing as it has 75% chance of infecting your creatures, immaterial or not.

RESULTS:
So after a 50 round test (in trainer cuz i don’t have enough $$ to build this deck) i won 35 matches and lost 15.  I got EM on 8 of my wins, and came out ahead money wise. Didn’t bother to record cards won (its trainer after all), but i did win 2 upgraded cards (sadly not rare).

THOUGHTS:
IMO, this deck is very strong, BUT it is also VERY VERY draw specific. What do i mean by that?  I mean that you will most likely be able to tell if you will win or lose a match just by how your first draw goes. IF you can keep your phase shield chain going, you will be unstoppable (with the shield exceptions noted above). The 2 SoG really help this deck, by giving you 1 maybe 2 rounds with no shield protection.

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Aether / Re: The Essential Halfblood Farmer

« on: August 15, 2010, 08:36:37 pm »

I'm running 4 dragons 5 immortals 15 pillars (3 or 4 are towers atm -- I'm saving to upgrade) 6 shields and I also added in 2 lobotomise, to remove momentum and poison etc and also 2 SoG for healing (linked with shields) and to get a few EMs

That sounds like a good deck. I might have to give that a try. I have several lobos (got really lucky a few days ago). I too am saving to upgrade my cards, hence why I why i wanted to try this deck, grinding AI3 for money takes forever so any deck that lets me farm Top50 or lvl5 would be awesome.

ill run a 50 round test in trainer and report the results.

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Aether / Re: The Essential Halfblood Farmer

« on: August 15, 2010, 06:11:19 pm »

First off I want to say that the fact that all these creatures are immortal as soon as they are played is awesome. Makes cards like eternity and reverse time totally useless. And creatures with devour are left out in the cold. 

From here on out, I am using the original posted deck

Mark of Aether
15x Aether Pillar
6x Dimensional Shield
5x Immortal
4x Phase Dragon

However this deck seems to be lacking some real damage when going against a false god or half blood. You almost have to have 4 immortals and 2 dragons out for at least 1/2 of the battle to kill FG or HB, or else your shield chain will run out and your dead.

discord is still a problem as it can totally mess up your quatra, and lord help you if your opponent had titan. That thing just rips through your shield like it wasn’t even there. You will get destroyed.

Procrastination shield and ice shields are another weakness this deck as. And again lord help you in they play a wings or bone shield.

on the plus side once you get 2 or 3 drags ad a few immortals out they can do some good damage. Idk if it’s just that FG and HBs have too much life, idk.

I did 50 rounds in trainer playing halfbloods and i lost a little over half the time.  lost 29 won 21.  This could be cuz I was in trainer, idk. but i did notice that if your shield chain gets broken you are likely to die.

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Random, Normal and Elder / Re: Most Despised Level 3?

« on: August 15, 2010, 01:35:03 pm »

I have several decks, so it really depends on which deck I am working with. If I am grinding with my darkness deck, then the the lvl 3s i hate most are poison decks. I can usually win but they are just a royal pain cuz i loose health each turn and can do nothing about it.  If I am using my earth or fire rush decks then the decks i dislike the most are poison (either death or water) decks and darkness decks.  But now matter which deck I grind with I will always hate Entropy and that damn discord card.  Damn it to the fiery pits of hell!   

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Game Suggestions and Feedback / Re: Pimp my Elements login screen!

« on: August 14, 2010, 12:25:13 pm »

I like the background idea, although the cards make it look weird in my opinion.

I have to agree. The cards (and it might be just those 3) make the log in screen seem just a little weird. I know SG didn't really want comments on the image posted, but yea.

I love the idea of changing the background to reflect more of what elements is. To be honest I have seen bank long in screens what are "lively" (for lack of a better word) then this one. But on the other hand its a long in screen and does not really not the be "lively" or interesting, it just has to work.  I think it was Zanzarino who said "simple = better" and there is definitely some truth to that, but I don't see any hard in "dressing up" the log in screen a bit.

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Patch Notes and Development News / Re: Elements 1.25

« on: August 12, 2010, 05:49:29 am »

Lol, it's funny how many people have never noticed there were Quantum Towers in the slots. (For some reason, I've always noticed...)

I think its the blue in the background that is catching peoples eye. I am like you I always noticed they were there but never really cared too much.  Personally I love the new pillar art, and the towers are kool once you upgrade them. But i think the new Quantum pillar will take some getting used to. 

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Patch Notes and Development News / Re: Elements 1.25

« on: August 12, 2010, 03:02:13 am »

Interesting updates.  Lets see what happens.   

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General Discussion / Re: Spin vs Spin All

« on: August 11, 2010, 11:55:31 am »

i dont know how zanz did it but as a programmer, the simplest way to code 'Spin All' is to recur 'Spin' function 3* times
meaning it makes no difference at all if you click 'Spin' for all 3 spins or just the Spin All button

this is quite true. I had to create a dice game for my programming class a while back and all I did was create a loop that ran the RNG however many times the user wanted.

But that might not be how this was programmed.  who knows.  I still think I do better with clicking spin 3 times   

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General Discussion / Re: Spin vs Spin All

« on: August 11, 2010, 06:49:08 am »

There is a psychological aspect to this question, spin vs. spin all.  I believe someone earlier mentioned that it clicking spin 3 times and checking each time might provide an illusion of sorts. This is true, its that same psychology they use in vegas.  Personally I feel that I win more (both in coins and cards) when i use spin, but thats just me. 

as for the issue of stats, I spent a summer in a stats class then helping teach that same class, and like Scaredgirl said, you are going to need a large sample size. Or you will have to do some really complex stats to make up for it.

On the subject of RGN (random number generators), the sad truth is that no RGN is totally random because it is based on a program. Having said that there are some very very good RGNs out there. I don't know how this spinner works or anything like that, but I like it.  I got 4 green shards (still waiting for enough money to up them) off the spinner while farming Top 50