Volin

Hey all, I'm already in a team with one of my usual mates to compete for the top ranks hopefully, but I feel I would have the time and energy to participate in another team. I would rather look for a newcomer or experienced player that is usually not among the top10 then to make another top team with well know speedrunners. I would not want to share the tactic I use in my other team, nor I want to give out a whole new strategy, but of course I would like to give advice and share my knowledge if wanted so. For myself I had a few ideas for some strats that could be fun and would like to test them. If someone already has a complete strategy idea I would even be glad to follow your lead completely! You see. I am open to many approaches! If you are interested reach out to me via Forums PM,via Discord (Volin#8101) or just ingame if you see me (Volin). This post will be edited when a team is built - so as long as you can read this, don't hesitate. One last thing: Using voice chat is a must for me in a contest, even if we would only more compete for a medium rank, using discord for fast communication is essential and makes things a lot easier and faster. We can speak in English or German, no matter what, this is not negotiable for me 🙂 See you in the forge

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Edited to match the 18.12.21 patch and my gained experience on this deck Changelog: - Added Windhunter as being superior to Gladiatrix now - Added new purple Amok, as it can be nice in this deck - deleted Skyfire Drake as flying option (think a M-Counter is not needed as both possible T1 bring one already) - comment on Minefield which I do not recommend - Undead Army added as a 100 matches later I learned this is a great spell to compliment this deck - changed the BG9 standard recommendation to match my experience on this deck - deleted broken Replays - adjusted the text a bit to match above points - put a disclaimer that the guide is still working with the birthday patch Soooo - Wasteland Terror when? 😄

❤️ Wanted to like but used my reactions already. Couldn't say it any better 😄

I think that Shrine of War has 30 secs duration, 15 less then Martyrs

If women find this inappropriate, they are affected in a different way than we are. Relax and sit back if you are not affected (as it seems). I really don't get your heavy shitstorm. Why does it hurt you so much to be considerate of others feelings?

Relaxing can help 🙂 I personally didn't care for it so far (but what can I as a guy say on this), but if people feel offended - why not change

Hey, sadly this is not completly true. I thought first the same. But don't forget, this is a price based on listings. There are still a lot cards that are not often traded which are listed unrealistic high. So the value that SMJ is always a bit (we don't know how much) higher then the real value of a booster. If you want, I can look for some extreme samples, have seen many the last days. But I guess you get the point.

Hey Windhunter, thanks for your opinion here. Yes that was now only a cautious impulse to the discussion, of course I have the points mentioned in mind. Personally I think that the main factor could be the hillarious stacks of cards some of us had before the birthday patch in combination with the quite high possibilities for upgrading them before the first adjustments came. Could be this was just too much of supply for some medium-top rares for a short term. I believe that! And just to emphasize that, even if I would be right with my inventory - I would not be even sure where to adjust how to make things better. I am aware that balancing a market isn't that easy as some think. I am quite sure that this is not happening. The min. value of commons as gone up from 3 to 5-6 and the from uncommons from 3 to 15-17. This is an increase of around 40 per Booster, while top tier uncommons like LSS or Frost Mages that come to my mind have dropped down crazily. In the same time top rares (and ultrarares) lost around the half of their value. I would be really surprised if these balances out in the end. I have opened ~50 Boosters since patch and my feeling gets stronger and stronger that the pool of cards which give you a positive outcome has become much smaller since prepatch. But waiting for clear numbers is of course the perfect way to go here. Can't wait to see the new SMJ to see if my feeling is perhaps wrong here. PS: Maybe I am even right here, but to early to point this and market still needs more time to balance - who knows. PPS: While posting here I have overseen the new SMJ post. Seems my feelig is plain wrong.

Boosters have never been less worthy of opening, or is it just me? I mean, I'm not going to stop there, but I don't like the current impact of the Reforge system on the economy. When even a booster with 2 good rares doesn't bring in the booster anymore it does hurt

Five. Its max 3 from the camp and max 2 from the wave I would agree with Fimion in most points. Especially the T2 clear is not that hard if you train it a bit and can be done with any color with a 3 card standard setup if you know your enemies. There is only two things that I personally think where LS is too strong. 1. Their shields never expire what I think is quite unfair 2. The disenchant from the dancers take away shields, some heals and other tools that are quite important for sustain like Unity what makes the mid and late game for some decks a bit unfair. Usually nothing that stops you, but a big disadvantage for some decks that rely on fire or ice sustain tools. 2 Tips for the start: If you get attacked right away ping immediately for help and spawn beside or behind your wells to let them tank a bit and to get out some units for a counterattack. And focus your fire then! Even if you don't get attacked - spawn behind your well and take your time. Always expect a worse case scenario which is 2 Beasts, 3 Dancers and 2 Shielders. Better safe then sorry here!

Deck looks pretty solid indeed!

I've only played a dozen or so matches against the faction, so that's not enough to judge it conclusively, but so far it seems very well balanced to me. I have not only played the motm, but especially here the close camp situation at T4 comes to mind, without Frenetic (or until then) this is really crunchy. Yes, Frenetic settles almost everything against fire, but so does it against any other opponent, as Coco already said, different topic. Some of the bosses are very nicely challenging, I've seen the one or other wipe and on the grinder boss in mini-speedrun I had some problems myself. As for the lower levels, I was quite surprised because of all the M-counters with the standard fire start how quickly my nomads are gone if I'm not careful. Sure, it's not rocket science - but it's not any easier than bandits, stonekin or twilight starts, rather a little harder. Sure it is WAY easier then a harder Lost Souls start, but I don't know if that is what people want 🙂 I can handle myself a Lost Souls Start with 2 Beast, 5 Dancers (outer lane) and 2 Shielders - but this scares most people a lot in 9s - not sure if it is desirable to push Fire into that direction. All in all, I personally like the concept: A lot of damage and little HP (although it is not soooo little) very well, because gives a complete other feeling then fighting the other factions. Basically I would see Fire between Twilight and Lost Souls in terms of difficulty - a sweet spot in my opinion. 10s I have not played so far, only 9s. Just wanted to share the completely different impression that the OP has here.

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The last update on this was that there is no template for fire/frost, so no new card with this pattern could be added, not sure though if this is still accurate. If they figure it out one day, don't expect full editions like we have for other factions, as making new cards is prolly a lot more work then most could imagine.

Think we must have more in that 500+ league. Guess I am only the loudest here 😄

Why a new thread, why not answering the question that was put: Did you try a VPN? Probably not, but blame the game ... 😕

Did you try using a VPN? Please speak english here, if you have troubles I can recommend deepl.com for quite accurate german-english translation

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🤔 @Toggy Did you? 😅

Hey all! The contest is over and the participation was overwhelming - I thank you all for that. Love you folks All in all I got 33 replays, of which 24 where valid (3 double/6 invalid because of not opened chests). 70 unique Players participated, that where more then in any other official contest so far (no guarantee on that). The Players with the most runs where: Paxvobiscum with 5 entries Damo with 4 entries and Subnnobs, Malolo, Taylor, AntonWsh and Janjua each with 3 entries I thank you very much for your replays. We will look out for the hot scenes and present you the highlight in the Stream on the 07.11.2021. Of course we will present you a full ranking then and hope for your patience until then! Keep the up!

Already training to beat ze hadicap of being german 😂

I don't think speedrunner should be a steakholder here, as it touches balancing and game experience. They have to work with existing tools, and if this brings a meta shift there, I would not even consider that a bad thing. Strongly agree! Would love to see a lets see x1.5 game experience. Slower speed could also be appreciated by some, to give more people access to some harder game modes. And additional options would not hurt others, that are glad with the current game speed. Like the idea very much. Ofc this should only touch match speed, not daily timers and such PS: Many rts even allow to adjust speed (in single player and campaign) during the match

Hello Skyfolks, again me with an update. We have been struggling with the question of whether to publish an interim score and how to publish it - as in every of this events. Many people give me the feedback, that I can feel, that they would like to know where are they standing. Others of course want to polish their times first, or need to find the time to do so in a 4 player group, we understand this too. We are also aware that such a ranking can be motivating as well as demotivating - we hope it can push you again - so here we are: There are already 12 submissions and a lot of people have still announced to send one. Here are the, anonymous, times of the top 3 as well as the currently 8th place. 1st 10:57 min 2nd 10:57 min 3rd 12:04 min ... 8th 14:06 min Yes, this is no copy and paste error, we have two submissions within the same second! To further increase your motivation to participate, we have decided that the prize pool will be expanded if we get beyond the 16 entries! Then there will be a booster per person for the places from the 9th to the teams that are in the top 50%. If we even crack the 30, we can possibly talk about even more boosters, so send me your replays!