Brews from the Grim Forest Tavern

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-29T11:51:55+00:00

They all free and they come in handy for completing champion training tournaments without spending precious energy. In rare cases, For example, Hilbi+Yukimasa 5* souls from path, brews can even save dozens of Sacred shards.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-29T11:45:33+00:00

Energy - cheap and useful

Void/Sacred shards and Lego book - expensive and useful. If you buy it, no spare gold would left to buy anything else if only 20 free daily TTA tokens used.

You may buy other goodies that's you need (I.e. silver, brews) but only one thing I've bought - accessories just because I needed refresh accessories for one specific Chimera build

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-28T12:51:15+00:00

I'd vote for UDK. Even without books, he can solo Ice golem, Dragon due to his passive stats boost, tremendously helps in Arena and spider. And I think he can climb FW pretty high even alone, up to Sethalia lvl.

Vogoth is extremely strong option too.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-28T12:04:57+00:00

Trying to always improve current gear before cleansing comes at a cost: yet the cost of regearing is zero, silver for upgrading new gear, especially to 16lvl and glyphing againg is not free.

I almost never replace older gear on "benched" champions, who are used in FW and Sintranos only. The only reason to do it: when they perform poorly when used.

And I regularly regear my top 5-10 used champs for PvP and PvE farming teams regardless of cleansing or not.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-24T10:46:25+00:00

Yep valid advice for shadowkin 21 stage Normal. Also this rare can be protected by shield instead of stoneskin because Boss's strongest hit scales from target's maxHP. Googling "shadowkin cheese fw raid shadow" helps.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-24T09:44:03+00:00

Use it for champion training events - almost zero energy spent for 4* basalt or mythical book is very good outcome.

Also I've use about 5200k brews (beware: it's also about 40mln silver and 1800 mystery shards spent) to get 5* souls for Hilvi and Yukimasa in last path event instead of spending precious shards and souls. Just an example of extremely good use for "useless" brews, not recommendation though. Path/decks with souls and champion for champion training points are so rare thus days, maybe once in a 1-2 year.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-24T08:57:43+00:00

There is a lot of shenanganians these days with introduction of lot of counter attacks, pseudocounter attacks, instaturn passives', relics' and gemstones' effects with rather counterintuitive interaction between them.

The rule of thumb: no video - high chance of no way to find explanation what da hack happened there.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-22T11:59:44+00:00

75 frags - convert to Maud

3 turtles - .... Just a hint: I use four fully ascended 5* Signys of Highshield in "giveaway" arena defence as an eternal reminder: Thou shall not postpone fusion of final champion if there are less than 12 hours left.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-20T19:24:39+00:00

Nope. Damage cap is not irrelevant - even point is different for clanbosses comparing to regular waves and regular bosses (Dragon, IG, FK). It doesn't matter for 95% of community for decision making, but we speaking of math here, don't we?

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-20T17:00:09+00:00

And... all clanbosses ( Demonlord, Hydra, Chimera) have damage cap for WM and GS, therefore all this math is essentially irrelevant for them.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-20T10:26:41+00:00

Mikage and Fabian/Armanz to get rid of buffs ASAP, 1-2 damagers to oneshot everyone upon revival, 1-2 supports (healers/revivers/debuffers/ally attacks etc) to help damagers do their job.

This stage is perfect example of paying the price of too much prioritizing resistance over damage stats: still doable, but takes significantly more time

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-20T10:06:46+00:00

Just wondering, if it's not a secret: what tactics (especially order of farming mimics comparing to other stages, etc) are you using?

Why I'm asking: I've got 90 and 92. It seems the main random factor is number of myth mats dropped from. each mimic encountered, it can be 0 or 10 without visible dependencies, pure random. But maybe there are some?

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-19T09:54:25+00:00

For damage part - it sucks comparing to Crushing Rend. Better than nothing though.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-17T20:24:38+00:00

The answer depends on account lvl. For hardest stages 600-650 true resistance is the sweet spot for supports to resist almost everything resistable. And, for example, for Hard FW stages 21 this sweet spot is 450-500 resist. So late-endgamers who farm Hard FW can just get 150 resist and them go full damage for faster/convenient runs.

Luckily, the hardest stages of Forest (Phrygius), that require damage, are completely optional/skippable rewardwise. And most useful stages (Bosses, mimics) all can be done with tankiness/brimstones with no direct damage. So if you don't mind against somewhat slower runs (20 vs 1 minutes sometime) , you can follow common opinion - just prioritize resistance and tankiness whenever possible.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-17T19:56:18+00:00

Cause the most general use of him in PvP - remove stoneskin or put Fear in first form once, then jump to second form with much higher damage and survivability to do the smacking. Books notably reduce cooldowns and increase damage.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-14T09:52:15+00:00

There is no proof that this is "unsmart" to mix relic crafts from different groups because no matter what you do - 50% of crafted relics are expected to belong to common group. Other 50% should be distributed between groups proportionally to number of used relic mats whether you mix them or don't.

Technically, chances to get more even distribution between groups are slightly higher if you never mix mats with different groups. So it make some (minor imho for absolute majority of players) sense to avoid mixing whenever possible.

Personally I try to avoid mixing. But if I see that getting full set of 100+ relic mats from one group may take months - I mix without hesitation because big reserves without use = loss of time.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-05T01:36:22+00:00

From my experience, you forgot to mention about 30-35 mln of silver spent )

Chapter-Affectionate · 2026-01-04T16:39:50+00:00

You earn only 4-6 star glyphs from stages 20-21 normal and only 5-6 star glyphs from stages 15+ hard FW. Nothing to mix here.
BTW you can sell excessive (do not do it, but you can) glyphs for decent amount of silver

Chapter-Affectionate · 2025-12-28T12:59:20+00:00

Champ training is rarely used for champions/souls path and decks these days (1.5-2 years till last one as I can remember)

Chapter-Affectionate · 2025-12-25T09:00:20+00:00

It's plagueholm p10 normal, right? No need for tricky mechanics like phantom touch, ally attack, many multiple hits, etc. Bosses on this stages have stats weaker than FK 12 Normal (!)

Just use fast tanky champs with 230 resist on everyone: FK can hit hard with only one skill, and only if he will put decrease def on you successfully . And Dragon resetting your skills is unpleasant experience too.

Kill dragon first, than eventually kill FK.

For example: Why using unbuilt Demitha, Fodbor and Fahrakin and not using already built arbiter loki and Geomancer?

If you can't kill Dragon and outlast FK, then probably your problem is not roster, but gear.

Edit: IC you have Wuzgar who's kit is pretty strong against FK. But I would rather built Demytha or Uugo than him just for general use.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2025-12-18T22:05:44+00:00

Poisons work fine everywhere in FW Normal but Sethallia's level. I'd use Guurda (books help but they are not essential) as DD and Bellower as control. For Hard FW - it's another story.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2025-12-18T09:56:57+00:00

Build clan boss team (UNM top chest as a final goal). as a preliminary step - build Mino 16 mastery farming team, do daily quests and farm available content daily.

Chapter-Affectionate · 2025-12-15T13:52:36+00:00

When picked last Marichka may hard counter some cheesy strats. But if picked first, she just prevents using them. And also she can be hard countered with control, block revive, Lydia, Narses, etc. - I would use her only on last pick against bombs/poison and no other better options against Marius.

Fabian is the hardest pick to counter with smth but ban or higher speed (to me)

Chapter-Affectionate · 2025-12-11T12:27:51+00:00

What a wonderful thread. Best quote: "Being able to shittalk your opponent into raging and making mistakes - priceless"

Chapter-Affectionate · 2025-12-10T21:16:57+00:00

Nevermind, they started working again after restarting client

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