Same here, also satellite is not giving SOW at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by blade685
Devs will say, we have perceptual disturbance.
I say they are simply cheating here also.
Same here, also satellite is not giving SOW at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by blade685
Devs will say, we have perceptual disturbance.
I say they are simply cheating here also.
Just personal experience.. the sweet spot for colored evo runes in BNW is around levels 4-7 for me. Levels 9 and 10 always suck for colored runes for me, seems the drop focus is more on stones, colorless runes and maybe, jsut maybe, a talisman.Quote:
Originally Posted by magick2401
Hm... I'll keep that in mind for future Arena events. Perhaps I can just make it so the final stretch goal gives more talismans that most other stretch goals to ensure it will end up with a full set.Quote:
Originally Posted by JJJ428
Well, we'd potentially run into a similar problem that comes up when people discuss adding in a bunch more divisions to reward the gap between Duelist I and Warlord III; either we end up just giving more rewards out, or I have to redistribute the value of what's given out between the first and fifth tiers, which means one or more reward tiers are diluted to add another milestone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blade
Right now, the 4th tier is meant to be the tier that is easily achievable by anyone staying on top of spending their Sands of War (it requires a little over 20 wins each day, and you easily get more than that after accounting for 1/hour and before accounting for more from clearing lists/Satellite 15/Sacrifice/Login Rewards). The intent is that the "final" tier (the fifth one) has the big rewards that requires that additional effort and capability to get, so we wanna make sure that it has the value to back that up (above and beyond just hoping people want the top featured talisman set).
This is ridiculous, I just gave up on the arena. I'm tied of battling lower ranked or upper ranked players and only getting to use only my basic abilities. The ai only allows me basic abilities on almost all of my toons. For example I am using a wicker man fully upgraded to 100 with all talismans maxed at 50 and only leaving 4 skill shards from bring full tilt and he's killed like a one star and never gets to counter (having a full set of strike talismans maxed). I get killed before I seem to get the first punch in. It's too disheartening to continue. Maybe after a break and some really week players attack me I can revenge. It seems that unless you buy everything you don't get anywhere. Another thing is the gold is only good for summoning souls. It's useless in the store. Please make changes to address these issues. I'll never delete the game, as it's too cool, but I'm about done grinding to get absolutely nowhere. So the souls I pull seem to be basic that I don't want. I even got the legendary soul and only pulled a 5 star chopper. It's just getting frustrating to play for nothing.
I am absolutely convinced that there is a caching issue or something similar as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Liebhild
I had 99 trash chars to sacrifice and got 8 (7?) times in a row 2x rare souls. After that a drought for rare souls for 500 souls or so. But loads and loads SoW.
From my experience if you sacrifice and you get something you like - continue sacrificing the trash as fast as possible because quite often you get exactly the same. If there is no cheating involved it really smells like a caching or a memory issue to me. But something is off.
I think devs can look into the history so please do and search for my 2x rare soul streak (2-3 weeks ago) and tell me that this streak is next to impossible with the RNG system that is claimed to be in place.
In the beginning invest every Iron Coin in health relics - the key is to stay alive long enough to outsmart the AI. It can be long fights but if you are dead you can't hit back. Health, health, health and if you start surviving 1st rounds you can start spreading the relics to boost you attack levels. My opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by HuckFinn150
Last night I had an unusual window of time to play. I burned a ton of SoW and climbed all the way up to rank 53 which is way above my normal ranking zone. I normally range from rank 1500 - 450ish given my available play time. At 53 I hit a wall of opponents that I couldn't get past. Up to that point I had a 96% win rate. When my opponent list rest and I was at 53 I couldn't win any of the battles with the same group I had made the entire run with. I can change up my team and win a little more, but the new team isn't as fun to me and the battles take much longer to win.
It is hard to achieve an event goal of 300 wins when you climb up quickly like that and either get stuck or slow down to the point that it isn't fun for a while.
I will probably still hit 300, but I don't feel like a casual player anymore once I get past about rank 75 and I am climbing much faster than I am falling to defense loses.
PLEASE KILL ME! A LOT! I have an easy defense set up and don't want to be fighting at this level but I also want to achieve the event goal!
Easy Killz R us! Help me help you!
Yeah, me too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tim28213
My rank is lower, 400 and something, but I am spending more and more time every fight since the difficulty is increasing and I don't want to rise to a level where I have to face some nightmarish defense teams!
3 star colorless evo runes are what I need. I have plenty of colored ones to evolve to 5 star talismans but not enough colorless evo runes to do so. Each evolution to level 5 requires 9 3 star colorless evo runes. When BNW level 10 only drops about 3 every once in a while, it's hard to get the necessary amount to evolve a set to level 5. I guess I'll have to save ironite to purchase in the monthly packs available in the store.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yup
Still hoping to pull a newer Eddie (POM, 7son, Iron, Clansman....) sometime .......
Sure. I was just thinking about a small bonbon for the effort. Like 5 SoW, 15 ironite and a cold trooper beer ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparton_LOTB
Yep your right I'm an idiot I didn't look hard enough at the achievement before commenting... sorry bout thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Blade
Another thing I have done (and I'm by no means a top contender) is just grind, I don't purchase much but when I do it's usually for ironite, like the monthly package that gives you 100 immediately and 25 everyday for a month over and above what the game normally drops.Quote:
Originally Posted by magick2401
This will ensure you can generate enough SOW to continue grinding, it takes time but after a while you will reach the point where you can set BNW on 3 X auto and leave while you mow the lawn, sleep or what ever floats your boat.
This will give the bonus of knocking off challenges and if your very lucky acquiring the talisman you require and evolving runes for future challenges.
For me personally the wicker man is as weak as a kitten and hardly worth placing any skill shards in, I have had him for ages I got him to 5* 100 but did not invest a single shard in him he sits in the growing collection of unused toons...
Not sure it it'll help.. but farming NotB madness drops those 3 star colorless runes like crazy. I'm sitting on a cache of hundreds due to this. I fall short with the 3 star colored ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by magick2401
Would be funny to know, if one of the devs is playing arena in some higher ranks.
I don't thinks so, otherwise relics would be gone within a second...
We don't have devs take the top positions at the week's end (top rewards are for players, not for devs), but I absolutely have fellow developers who will at least dip into the top 250 mid-week, as the perspective for competing at the top is indeed important to us. I've had a teammate who is currently ranked much higher than me who says they're seeing more 1 Eddie defenses than I am at around 2200 VP, that's for sure...Quote:
Originally Posted by Liebhild
Looks like Piece of Mind Eddie's power move will override the Valor Talisman health buff.
I really wish I was around 2200, just reached top 50 with my lonely Eddie on defense and everyone has regular defenses, takes some time to beat. Ohhhh and one team made to be skipped with 3 sentinel priestess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparton_LOTB
Any blue buff stealer overrides it with 1 hit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amarthir
Doesn't override the Golden buff remover after every turn. Plus you can have perfect immunity to keep the health buff with a very small number of exceptions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yup
So something I just noticed...
I am (according to the ranking tab) at 3330 points (#82).
After an auto-refresh, in the Attack tab, the FIRST entry starts at 5239 (who is ranked #12), and they go up from there to 8208 (#2).
Basically this is almost everyone between rank #2 to rank #12 (with the exception of poor Gangland who is at #10). And I'm way down on #82.
Why do I get people well above the rank I am? The way it used to work was you got a few people below your rank, some slightly above and 1-2 really high people.
This makes it really hard to progress or win any rounds till I refresh it again.
Edit: And just to rub it in, went to refresh and got an APMA error. Think it was APMA9.
Oh man.., i'm just frustrated...
Will there ever be a day where the goddamn game will be FIXED?!
300 Fights are like a full time Job.., the arena is bugged as hell...
Warrior Lilith gets 3-4 extra turns in a row with echo..
Angel Talisman stops working.., in the middle of a fight
Shields (thorn, only work when we get attacked but doesn't work for Counterstrike/Revenge.., is it meant to be like that?
There is so much more.., i HATE these Arena events..,
why don't give us Iron Coins for Defense wins..? let the wins count and reduce the 300 WINS for a full set...,
once there was a time where only the fights counted.., then they only changed it to wins..,
For people who have a life, family and work this is too much in my eyes..,
AND it is boring as fuck to fight one fight after another.., better: fight all the bugs..,
and all in all i have the feel since the Autoreplay the events get more and more time consuming..,
and the thing with the troopers someone mentioned after the autoreplay feature, it is a real problem on events like the last BNW event.., it costs a LOT of ironite if you want to play all your troopers AND DO THE EVENT.., what's with all the people with family, work, hobbies.., do this game need THAT much of time to invest to get something "useful"?
i'm losing more and more the motivation and the FUN in this Game..,
this makes me sad because when i started playing and saw its lovely evolution i liked it a lot more.., but at the moment i my feeling is that it evolves more to a fulltime job...
12 rare souls and no red eyes...wow
I achieved the 300 goal 12 hours ago with a limited amount of my ironite stack, a full time job, home and family commitments, and a plethora of drop outs.
Sounds to me like if it's really that bad perhaps take a break from it for a while?
It is meant to be fun, if it becomes a chore no one wants to do it...
And yet again I managed no red eyes from my 5 acquired rare souls....
Just saying...
HAH! That’s nothing...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ip4
I have seen a stack of 50 and once 99 Rare Souls flash blue eyes!!! Beat this...
300 completed. Played for the coins. Done with the event.
Yea I had a single Eddie team in there at first, but wasn’t seeing many teams doing the same after climbing the ranks. So, I switched to a normal D. I most likely will go back to a single Ed soon though.Quote:
Originally Posted by R1ck
I fought the 3 Priestess team recently, and though I didn’t have trouble getting the win, it was a pain in the ass, and a fairly long battle. She is the most annoying toon in the game. Dethroning the now M.I.A. SSD.
just do an easy battle win in pvp and -20 points + battle lose in stat ahah what a bugged game....
They don't do anything with that bug?
Just hit 300 too. I’m burnt out. Going to play with these talisman to see how worthy they are, but I don’t think IQuote:
Originally Posted by kkkreg5
have it in me to grind for another set anyway.
they seems to be useless for meQuote:
Originally Posted by T-Man
Yeah, once you get past about #150 in the rankings, the friendly defenses disappear and the Lilith-O-Rama starts.Quote:
Originally Posted by T-Man
I agree completely! However, with manual list refreshes every 30 minutes during waking hours, along with cherrypicking - plus strategic use of the 20 revenges per day - I've been able to hit the 345 win mark so far with only a handful of losses. But, it is definitely a full-time job to take advantage of the easier defenses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fudjo
Edit: Oh, and with a lone CG Eddie defense of my own to keep my rank a little lower.
Yeah, I switched to normal defense as well. About that defense, Didn't mean it's not beatable, just too much time consuming in an event like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by T-Man
Ranking is a factor for building your attack list, but it's not the only one, and when there's massive spikes of activity due to an Arena event, other factors (like attack:defense ratio) end up being prioritized more than just rank. See this earlier post I wrote for a bit of insight into that process.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cefiar
Yep I got you. I know you could beat that team. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by R1ck
And I thank you druid138 for the lone CR defense! I must've fought him 7 or 8 times. I had a lone tailgunner for a while and switched to a lone storm Eddie. Just hit 300 wins and no red eyes with the 5 rare souls. Happy with the IC though.
I put my friendly D back in last night btw
3 Liliths would be a welcome challenge. Once you get into the top 25 the winner is determined by who goes first really. When you face off against 30k hitting Astras or echoed Desert Warriors hitting for 26k each time it can be a 1 round game. If you can survive that you may have a shot to kill on your turn but watch out for that auto Cyclone Shield casting SoL Eddie. Of course you can also have the your fate served up by Iron Eddie and his every round Fury with a side of Beast 30k smacking. You may also enjoy double ACRs with a Gunner Lillith to make sure you have no buffs on your turn. For a true lover of pain you can always find yourself on the receiving end of and extremely angry Alexander/Beast 1 2 punch out. I can survive sometimes if I lose the toss so my win rate is about 2/10 or if I get to go first my win ratio is about 9/10. There are no friendly defenses in the top 25. I will tell you that if you want to compete in this upper tier you need one thing always...Immunity. It is the only saving grace against these tough builds. My goal is to hit 700 wins by tomorrow. Overall I was pleased with this event having skipped the last one. I would say I spent about 700 Ironite I had in reserve and had to buy 300 more to keep going.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fudjo
Good to know, I definitely avoided your defense. Way above my weight class. Getting to 300 makes me appreciate your win last week even more.Quote:
Originally Posted by T-Man
please fix the valor-talisman set. as a blue buff, he can be easily stolen, its a 6 pieces set...
Cool deal! Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by infinite dreamer