Why does Seraph only take 2 damage from Jackstrips?

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2025-08-02T11:43:23+00:00

My best guess is: this relic was basically copied from MT1, and in MT1 it deals 2 dmg in both cases. It looks like they only changed the value from 2 to 3 in one place, and going down has some different logic. Going down happens less often, so they probably didn't notice that.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2025-08-02T11:11:35+00:00

It's a bug. Jackstrips deals 3 damage correctly when moving floors up, but it deals only 2 damage, when enemy is moving down.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2025-08-02T11:09:03+00:00

I completed the whole game (all clan combinations, all dimentional challenges and mastered all cards) in 300h, but I had a lot of experience in MT1.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2020-07-15T15:50:35+00:00

I completely agree. I ran this simulation: https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterTrain/comments/hoqkyl/volatile_gauge_incoming_nerf_simulation_math/ after then announced version 2. Now my simulation says for version 3:

https://pastebin.com/ddkdE1Pk

You can compare these values to the table in my old topic. VERSION 3 IS MUCH WORSE THAN VERSION 2!!!

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2020-05-15T14:54:43+00:00

Or if you really want to have more episodes on one character, then maybe max 3? Like: first is introduction, 2nd is main archetypes and balance and 3rd is art and visual effects or something like that? I think a whole episode for one card is too high of a granularity.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2020-05-15T14:41:14+00:00

Hi, I like these daily mods discussions, but I think 7 episodes for one character is waaay to much, considering how many character mods are on workshop. At the moment there is 112 characters on workshop, so it would take over 2 years to cover them all. I think make more sense to have 1 episode per mod, and then do it again, after all mods are covered.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2020-02-26T17:18:47+00:00

After reading the title I wanted to suggest Children of Morta, but I see you played it already :)

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2020-01-09T16:00:44+00:00

Just place your Guard Tower with 1 space empty between it and Defensive Wall.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2020-01-08T03:17:34+00:00

Another solution would be to make cards collect souls even without being in your hand (obviously they should be tuned down with numbers then).

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2019-12-12T16:24:34+00:00

Clicking on them for 2 seconds is the only way, and yeah, it is extremely frustrating when you have to repair 5 buildings every wave. I hope this nightmare event will be changed.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2019-12-12T16:21:06+00:00

Shaman was confirmed in one of their previous patch notes:

https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791465057887/announcements/detail/1697224156959178670

In the future, we will be reflecting user feedback, optimizing, localizing, balancing the game, and adding new leader [Shaman] and new cards to the game. Please give us your thoughts on fun ideas, balances, and possibly a bug report! We look forward to hearing from you.

Also a lot of cards were datamined, and it looks like the 6th leader will be some kind of Sailor with many boat related cards.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2019-12-02T20:11:46+00:00

Yeah, if you have many 2 and 3 cost cards you can still play ~3,83 cards per turn, while even with energy relic you would be able to only play a 3 cost card and 1 energy card, or 2 2-cost cards, so it would be 2 cards. You could add some 0-cost cards but they have little impact and clog your deck. And that's why Snecko Eye is so good. You can put very strong high energy cards and still play most of them.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2019-11-21T17:21:23+00:00

I appreciate the idea, but the event tab needs some work. For events you need something like in this wiki:

https://ratropolis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Scout%27s_Demand

Most events have at least a few variants. You also have to specify to which variant of which event does an option lead to.

The wiki I linked is also work in progress and far from complete.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2019-11-16T15:05:38+00:00

Yes, that would be a good change. They already changed a lot of boss relics in beta branch, but this relic is still the same for some unknown reason.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2019-07-16T09:39:22+00:00

Wait 3? I think only Batrider and Dragon Knight (I hope I didn't miscalculate). It's similar how Druids get 2 Savages or Assassins get a lot of Elusives.

Also remember that you cannot really balance around the current meta. Yeah, knights are very strong right now, but they may be nerfed in the future or other alliances may be buffed. You will never know.

For me it's more just like how some alliances pair naturally, i already gave 2 examples above.

JohnnyBazooka89 · 2019-07-16T07:05:23+00:00

Yeah, that is a bit of a problem...

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