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His armor doesn't look very convenient.

Speaks better english than your average german highrank dude.

It was in this thread here: Edit: Oh, that was Blank, i mixed them up. But maybe that was the statement Eirias was referring to

Oh he did smurf ! But Matos never smurfed, i think. I don't know about Flameworkz, was that his first and only account ?

In T1 it's worthless against players that approach you before you reach their base. Every good player would try to intercept an army of masterarchers as soon as possiple, if you use it then, on the open field, you waste time and power. Maybe it's good against phase tower spam, but even then it's a sad choice, i would rather take ice shield towers wich can help you more in T2. In T2 wintertide get's countered by every deck with cc. Also if you're pure frost your main attack force are wareagles who don't profit. If you're shadow/frost you don't build on keeping your units alive and stonekin can rather make a burrower more than using it, there's enough support anyway (also: slotproblems). In T3 there's ward of the north wich does the same, but better, because your units can still move. And considerung you can take down a well for 150 power there's really no need for such support cards in T3 in my opinion. Maybe you can profit from cards like this in a 30 minute pure frost vs stonekin game, but those are the matchups i try to avoid under any circumstances, anyway.

Here's something that crossed my mind: I think it's not really accurate to compare damage-over-time units like thunder wagon and melee units like bloodhorn statwise. I'm not talking about the advantages a range attack has (wich aren't too many in rPVE) but that annoying moment when your bloodhorn/abnomination/any melee XL takes a last stomp/swing to finish of a unit with only a few HPs left. That sounds like it wouldnt add up to much, but if you send in melee XLs only that's many thousand damage points wasted per base. You're right, though, fire wagon isn't really strong. It's mostly loud and fun.

Neat combo: lightblade-taunt a L-unit and send it through the activated phalanx. This kills the deep one.

shouln't hate the hater but the player..or the game..or whatever

His avatar is a skyfire drake! Am i doing this right now ?

I think master archers should have less problems dealing with deathgliders than the low health-sunstriders. MAs + homesoil would probably be enough but for extreme cases there's always lightblade or glacier to save your well.

I only remember one guy, forgot his name, who was around legend/hero level who played nature/fire with deathglider. It's probably a deckslot wich isn't completly wasted but could be used much better (especially when you play a slot-intensive nature T1). The only advantage i see is going T2 early vs fire T1 wich really has no counter against deathglider.

HighTech's avatar facepalms because of noobs like him

In PVE i remember it mostly as a card that made attacking and defending convenient and easygoing if you didn't care for speed. Very beginnerfriendly and therefor you probably saw hundreds of armies of windweavers + shaman in your BF time. In PvP it was a core card (treespirit era aside), especially needed in mirrors. Those were basically summoning shamans until you have enough to one-hit your oponents shamans and then it was mostly about better timing. Like Loptous said, weak against shadow, but not really because of shadow phoenix (wich destroys any nature T1) and instead of noxes. Though once you had 3-4 windweavers + dryad on the field and power for roots on the side you could also keep a shaman in the back. I don't remember many nature-frost encounters but i think shamans weren't as good as dryad-spam.

Myth busted !

I think they didn't stack, crystal fiend is still very strong, though. Nothing more annoying than manouvering your skyfire drake through armies of spirit hunters and stormsingers to get a shot at the flying disco ball of doom...

Bejingguy used them against fire, but even after their buff they weren't really strong. Probably hard to find a deckslot for them when you keep in mind that as nature S-units aren't your main problem (hurricane, windweavers-multishot). I think MAs + frostbite make them useless against frost like they are against shadow.

i will quote LagOps for this one, as he's the one with the PhD in Banditology: ,,Warrior's death... oh boy the most toxic bandits card ever. who ever thought this card would be a good idea??? first of all: bandits have a good enough offense just with the basic cards you would play anyways. chosing purely offensive cards is very risky and will create holes in your defense. even if it is as devestating as it is, i would not play it just because it does not fill a role that needs filling in a bandits deck. This card has only frost protects as a counterplay and in combination with rallying banner and/or nightcrawler, this is just utterly ridiciuolus. a frenzy warriors nc+assasins kills a well vs. anything that is not frost and can hardly be avoided. as soon as your well drops into the 1500 hp range it can be deleted by this very cheap combo. it is as close to a t2 curse well as you can get. in 2v2 it is even more broken since you won't be lacking defense if paried with a frost splash. this card needs a rework. it has no counterplay and is only worth it when beeing abused. it is hardly usefull in defense (what prevents your enemy from running away and letting the unit die?) and adds nothing to the bandits playstyle. it simplyfys it to a point where the whole complexity and strategy (every matchups requires a vastly different tactical approach and deep faction knowledge pays off. you can find your own style within the faction and try out new things) is nullified as long as you don't face anything with frost. usually warriror's death players are unable to play bandits propery (no offense, not beeing able to execute a faction is nothing to be ashamed about) and then lose to frost splashes anyways.''

They really were useless in PvP. But if i remember correctly the flame crystal was good in rPVE. I think it gave every own (and friendly?) unit with fire affinity the rage ability. So let's say you had an army of fire wagons (fire affinity) attacking for a certain amount of time, they would deal 4x their normal damage in the end. I remember how a lot of player got it wrong and confused fire affinity with fire unit, but i was too smart for that ! Can somebody remember or test if it really multiplied the damage x 4 or if it was a weaker form of rage-ability for the units ?

Thanks to shrine of memory it is,to a certain extent, spamable (you getting the power back as soon as it breaks down the first time is what makes it really sweet). It's still not OP because with only 4 charges you can't spam too careless and a Jugger still does more damage. Also pure nature has no damage buffs like motivate or homesoil. Those could make 5 or more minions with built up rage really scary (always prefered the red affinity)

I missed the time when she was viable in PvP, before she got nerfed. I still tried to use her in a pure shadow deck, wich costed ELO, but led to some really great moments. One time i managed to fully heal an army of shadow mages with her ability wich took my oponent by surprise (players that never encountered that ability mistake it for a corpse explosion, wich has the same animation). BUT it's much easier and more efficent to play pure shadow with KoC and/or NG as your L counter and to use green netherwarp for your mageheals. Still a beauty and the only skylord of shadow, so thematically really fitting into a pure shadow deck !

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Love that card ! After it's nerf it wasn't OP in T3 anymore (damagecap) and it was always fun to have an instant damage spell in shadow. I wish i would have a collage of the best nasties i've ever seen !

! Edit: Upgrades were: +25% dmg; +25% dmg; -10 cost

It gave some form of support by transforming the units it killed into frenzied m-units wich hadn't much hp or attack but attracted the enemy fire. It was probably mostly hyped for its looks, but that was a really cool feature. Having 8 - 10 Grim Bahirs + infect used to lead to crazy large armies of bugs so that the Bahirs didn't really have to do too much damage. Of course not a speedrun card, but definetly a strong, fun to play + nice to look at card.