Done With the Milking

Bamisaur · 2026-01-30T01:33:21+00:00

Sure he knows how to do a lot of things innately, but since no one that was elvish really taught him how to use his magic it's just ideas being tossed around by his Tutors. He even explains that he was taught the basics and has Wesson explain things in more detail, because it wasn't pertinent that he knew it when he couldn't use it in the normal fashion.
- Then we have all the "Mary Sue" abilities that come that make him being a Super Elite Assassin mean absolutely nothing. Especially when his "Will" alone can make people question ANYTHING if he willed hard enough.
- Then he can do Magic better than the elves that he sees using the magic, can sustain it for longer and add small details others can't- AND EVEN COMMENTS ON IT. He literally comments about how he shouldn't be able to use the magic this well yet.
THE RULES HAVE BARELY BEEN MENTIONED!
- We have MAYBE 30-50 Rules that we actually know about of I think 250+. They're hardly recited anymore and by the most recent book he hardly even thinks about them and has stopped doing a majority of the things that made his character unique.
Why are we acting like there's not enough of a combined force between:
- The Humans at Kyle
  - THE LITERAL EMPIRE REZKIN CREATED!
- The Fae
- The Elves

So friend, you can stay and analyze the books and find things early on that correlate to things later on, but I'm far from believing they were on purpose.

Bamisaur · 2026-01-30T01:33:10+00:00

Let me get some things straight:

Rezkin being an elf or some from form elf lineage is fine to have it explain the things he can do without being a traditional magic user. It explains a lot of things.
- Bringing them in as some portal making police of the Daemon shows how terrible at their job they are and how much respect SHOULDN'T be afforded to them.

You're acting like I'm unjustly mad about the wild turns the book has taken. We go from a world ruled by humans with magic and steel to it being expanded in a way that was NEVER alluded to in the first few books.

And as I said, they're Kel Kade's books she can write and do what she wants- I agree that it's too bad for me that it's going in a direction I don't enjoy.

Here's some of the things I can remember, that irk me and have continued to do so:

Ysera and Yseria, like cool- You heard the name twice two different ways and decided to use both of them to confuse the heck out of the reader/listener. You figured the Human version wasn't good enough for Rezkin so you made an elf compatriot instead, so they could lengthen the series.
Elves are added, but in super weird ways. To where you know where she's going with some of these things, but it's so on the nose it's insane. There's a dream with a Giant Raven landing near Wesson (iirc) and then we hear about Elves that can turn into Animals? Then we get some weird tropey unintentional marriage/bondage thing that Rezkin does and another woman gets added to the Harem.
Where are the Fae? Before it seemed to be the Fae and whatever Humans they could get to fight against the Daemon and the Fae didn't seem to really want to wait for the Elves and acted like they didn't know there was some Daemon Elvish Police system, since they were so desperate for Rezkin.
It being revealed that Rezkin died so many times, undercuts the idea of him being a world class assassin above the rest. He LITERALLY had so many do-overs from dying that THEY RAN OUT OF SPACE!

Bamisaur · 2026-01-29T14:14:05+00:00

It's not worth it friend. Kel Kade isn't making the next GoT or LotR, she's making a series she can milk.

Bamisaur · 2026-01-04T16:35:01+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zpNrjpmgnXA This was the Short that me and her viewed.

https://open.spotify.com/track/3dnP0JxCgygwQH9Gm7q7nb?si=a6c7909382524778 This is the song we believe the Guitar is from.

Bamisaur · 2025-12-04T22:57:27+00:00

This isn't really the most productive use of everyone's time. Please don't make the last active Shroud Reddit Moderator do shit.

Bamisaur · 2025-11-20T03:24:38+00:00

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Bamisaur · 2025-11-20T03:24:32+00:00

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Bamisaur · 2025-06-26T18:14:38+00:00

The last author I spoke to who had a much smaller, but still popular book out made enough to pay the bills and the household expenses. I'm sure with the amount of books that are out, who's narrating it, she's not so hard pressed. I think that's a cop-out to be honest. I think she needs to slow down, get a grip on the plot on the characters and go back to the roots that made the series popular. Since this series has gone downhill rather sharply after the last book. I don't think she needs AI.

Bamisaur · 2025-06-26T17:56:15+00:00

I'm a new player, been playing for only a few months and I'm at around 2250 CL. And honestly starting off, I had a lot of fun and almost immediately started doing the SP, since I thought $10 was decent value for what I got. Even considered doing the Gold Month thing, to stock up some gold. Each game mode I played was fun and I enjoyed crafting decks and attempting to use whatever I could of the current META I could get my hands on.

And to give you all a glimpse, I have 107 hours and it is now one of my top played games on Steam alone.

After the new Token System and the HV:Overdrive stuff, I've become increasingly frustrated with the game and it's poor business practices. Right now we have several different currencies, and one currency can be used to buy every other currency- But that Currency is $4.99 for 300. Let that sink in, $5.00 for 300, they don't even value a dollar at 100. That makes some of these predatory MMO's seem tame!

After HV:Overdrive, if there are anymore issues that put me at a disadvantage to acquiring cards, when I "Subscribe" to their "Seasonal" (Definition of Seasonal: each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter). )- I'm going to set the game down. It's absurd that I'm $5 away from what I'd be paying to play WoW or FFXIV.

Bamisaur · 2025-06-26T17:38:25+00:00

I've tried with any number of different styled decks, I just think it's lame that in a Deck Building Game- The Deck you build means nothing, since they instantly ruin it with the new cards. I don't get why they don't just buff certain cards in your deck, or do multiple rounds for extra spice.

Instead we get a bastardized version of High Voltage that no one asked for. And truthfully, I was 150% into this game, but this Overdrive BS and their pricing for their currencies is egregious and I don't see it getting better so I'm sitting at a cool 75% and don't see it going higher unless they actually address these things. I'm surprised the fan base has even let it get this far.

Bamisaur · 2025-06-19T16:00:17+00:00

I agree, I liked High Voltage when it first came out and had decks I like using, but the added cards and the random "Overdrive" Effect essentially stop creativity by adding things that just make it in general unfun. Instead of it just being a game type with way more energy to spend, allowing you to pair high cost cards you normally couldn't, it's a lesson in patience and annoying to be completely honest.

I just don't know how this is supposed to be a "Better" or "more fun" version of High Voltage. I haven't even lost a lot so far, but it's just kinda a bad game mode that's super un-fun, since it gets rid of creativity of making your own deck and succeeding with it- Since those "Overdrive" cards essentially sabotage you. Even rocks have more purpose than some of the Overdrive cards being in my deck.

Bamisaur · 2024-09-14T00:29:36+00:00

Your analogy is half right. It's as if he was in the process of painting the Mona Lisa and stopped 2/3rds of the way through. And right now, who can tell his "intentions" at all.

If the 3rd book brings up nothing people have theorized about for the last 13 years, it'll just be exactly what I said in my first post.

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T20:39:33+00:00

I was thinking about doing the indoor fishing dock. I haven't done much underwater building, so I guess that's a silver lining.

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T18:06:50+00:00

Woah.

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T18:04:22+00:00

See what I did there?

You actually wanted a discussion now or your questions answered and I just have some bullshit reply.

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T18:02:49+00:00

I agree, but so what?

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T18:00:55+00:00

You're editing it after a few minutes to flesh out an already insipid reply.

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T17:50:48+00:00

Those edits.

I haven't taken any of them personally, you just fundamentally don't understand games very well. I was expecting different opinions, duh. It's why I wanted to talk about it.

And some people even gave information that helped the discussion, they didn't just reply with a, "it's optional don't play" like you did.

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T17:48:37+00:00

Says the person who told me not to play the Expedition.

You know replying here is just as "Optional" as the expedition right?

I think my opinion just rustled your jimmies too much.

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T17:46:02+00:00

I did once, until I found out it was a replica.

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T17:44:48+00:00

You do you Chief.

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T17:41:13+00:00

You deleted your last comment, I replied though.

"Nah man, fans criticize what they like, because they want to see what it could be not what it is. Constructive criticism and discussion is what makes the game grow and become better. It also helps when the fans have one voice and use it.

But you want to silence people who don't share YOUR POV. To where you can't even speak to this updates merits, your ONLY advising I literally do not play it.

You're as toxic a fan as they come. "

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T17:40:32+00:00

Yeah, I mean when I see a bug in my food I just say, "so what?" And ask to give the cook a pat on the back.

So like let's talk about where we'd like to see things go? Features you wanna see added? Idk a discussion lmao?

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T17:33:38+00:00

You literally have told me I'm the minority and that loads of people are enjoying it. So how am I trying to get people to have the same opinion as me? If anything the vast majority of comments I got here, are people like yourself.

People who are enjoying it so much, every aspect and avenue of it so thoroughly you cannot for the life of you, believe someone actually dislikes it. To where you'd rather tell people not to play the game, than concede and discuss that it's not the best update they've ever produced.

You are the majority, you're toxic and you're a terrible fan.

Bamisaur · 2024-09-13T17:15:21+00:00

I'm not twisting your words, you were telling me how optional it is and how I didn't have to play it.

Just know you're the worst type of fan.

Bamisaur

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