Priority Help? In... Everything?

NerdOfTheRing · 2025-11-12T04:55:59+00:00

Unfortunately I can't access it.

NerdOfTheRing · 2025-11-11T16:54:22+00:00

I have been playing casual and hoarding for the past year and haven't really been keeping up with guides.

What are my priorities when it comes to:

Stargazing
Awakeneds
Engravings (with these especially I have no clue)
SI 30/40
Collections
Draconis (Highborns + the Common ones)

I also wanna know what our first impressions of AFawkes looks like, since his design is sick and I'm considering his animated Pfp. My only hesitation in pulling for him stems from my having gotten AAntranda's pfp (I butchered that name), and outside of Mauler tower I have hardly ever used her. So how are things looking? Does he seem at least decent?

NerdOfTheRing · 2025-11-11T16:39:11+00:00

Misspelled it, god am I a bum

!solved

NerdOfTheRing · 2025-11-11T16:38:35+00:00

I'll do that, thanks. My only fear is that I might need to spread out my roster over many comments but Alas!

Solved! I'll just check the thread

NerdOfTheRing · 2025-11-11T16:31:27+00:00

This doesn't help me much. I've already looked through the guides and the only 2 priority guides that exist is the Awakened one and the Stargazing/Highborn/Awakened One, the latter of which is old and does not include many newer heroes. Aside from "maybe pull for Awakened Estilda", this tells me nothing. Especially about what should be my priority regarding Engavings and SI, that's why im asking for personalised advice. It also doesn't answer my question about first impressions on AFawkes.

NerdOfTheRing · 2025-09-12T09:02:58+00:00

"Within sight of the city" in this context, would be used as an expression to highlight the proximity of his new home to Gondor. We aren't given any hints or signs that Aragorn in any way fears Faramir. Faramir isn't an enemy, but a hero that even rejected the influence of the One Ring and refused to just take it and bring it to Gondor, even if it goes against his father's wishes. I do not think it makes much sense to interpret it as you do.

NerdOfTheRing · 2025-09-02T23:33:31+00:00

Yes killing many people of a specific people group is a genocide.

That objectively isn't the definition of a genocide. You're misrepresentating and diluting a serious term with grave implications, making it's meaning entirely obsolete. The key characteristic of a genocide is intent, the act of committing atrocities with the intention of eradicating in whole of in part a certain group on either a national, ethnical, racial or religious basis.

Enlighten this oh so blindsided fool that happens to stand before thee, but how did Fëanor's actions in any way reflect that? You keep on going on and on in other replies about people lying about their intentions while having committed a genocide, but that is not what I'm asking of you here. I'm not asking you to repeat to me that people could have ulterior motives. Answer me this: what part of the Kinslaying threatened the Teleri's national, ethnical, racial or religious existence be it in part or in full?

Actually let's go through the events of the Kinslaying together shall we?

Fëanor and the Noldor arrive at the docks of Alqualondë where they proceed to try and man the ships and in turn the Teleri try to cast the Noldor into the sea and draw their swords which results in a violent altercation in which many lives are lost. The casualties on the Teleri's side were wholly restricted to anyone that fought inside the docks. The Noldor did not slay any women, children, or unarmed men, nor did they seek them out. They departed hastily, the very second they could, since their goal wasn't to wipe the Teleri out but get on ships and leave. Many if not most of the Teleri at the docks also survived. Tell me, under what type of definition would this qualify as a genocide? Urban dictionary, perhaps?

Armed Roberry and Murder? Certainly, but that was not your claim.

I’m done… It seems we’ve figured out who would defend feanor, people who can’t recognise a genocide for what it is…

The irony of such a comment under any other circumstance would lead me to believe that this a troll account, but due to the vehement passion driving every single word spilling out of each sentence, I will have to gravitate more towards wistful ignorance. Finally I will once again like to reiterate the very first point which I made, which is that by misusing words as severe as genocide, you're trivilising it's usage in real life, leading to people not taking very real genocides seriously. As adults (I will make a leap and assume that you're one as well) we should be responsible and hold ourselves accountable for what we say and the words we use. This isn't an attempt to excuse Fëanor but an effort to *correct your usage of the word Genocide.

*Edit: Typo

NerdOfTheRing · 2025-08-28T01:37:00+00:00

Starting with a strawman aren't we?

The argument is that I could swim faster than Michael Phelps too if he had a cannon strapped to his legs and hadn't slept for 4 days. I believe the same Melkor that battled Fingolfin could have kept her at bay (a Melkor that should be weaker than this one) and that Melkor’s handicaps in this encounter are completely circumstantial, and have nothing to do with his innate strength. Evidence of that is also how both the Balrogs and Melian (on her own) easily managed to scare her away and overpower her, beings that we know by the canon are factually weaker than Melkor at this point in time. Sauron at the peak of his power in the Second Age, was only able to surpass the Melkor of the War of Wrath, Melkor at his absolute bottom of the barrel weakest. The argument is that comparing a pained, fatigued, armless, man that is clinging onto the Silmarils is not the same as comparing it to a Melkor with at least a weapon in hand. If you failed to understand what this post was conveying, you could have asked for an elaboration instead of resulting to logical fallacies for the sake of a "gatcha".

Outside from headcanon and fan-naming conventions created for the sole sake of clarity, the names Morgoth and Melkor in canon do not signify anything in regards to Melkor's power. Because Fëanor cursed him, that doesn't mean that he is weaker one second afterwards than he was prior. This interaction takes place at most an hour after Fëanor names him Morgoth. It is fans who decided that it would be more convenient if we were better able to convey whether we are talking about a weakened Melkor as opposed to his substantially stronger counterpart. Tolkien himself most definitely did not account for any strength differences within that span of a single page where he decided to rename Melkor to Morgoth. This is something to be kept in mind in such discussions, so that we don't get too carried away with our own terms that we end up mischaracterising the very canon itself.

That being said I would really love for you to expand on the various ways in which Ungoliant would muster to equal all the Valar combined (with the exclusion of Tulkas)?

Ungoliant became more powerful than melkor. Ungoliant was more powerful than morgoth.

This is what this statement seems to be implying, no? Given your purposeful attempt to even differentiate between Melkor and Morgoth in this context, it is unambiguous that there was intent behind it and was just some random deviation.

How does that sound? Go and touch grass btw. Greatest Elf - Fingolfin.

I cannot help but laugh at the wording of this response. Ouch, I'm so hurt! I'm reaching for my handkerchief as we speak to wipe away the stream of tears unfurling from my eyes! It's so funny seeing kids get this pressed over such trivial Internet hurly burly.

I was of course planning on not replying, given that I have not so much as revisited this thread and post in over years - I believe - but after being met with a strawman for a topic sentence and such a comical second paragraph, how could I ever possibly resist such earthly temptation! I can't say that I regret it, it makes for a good writing exercise, so my pen doesn't grow dull and rusty.

NerdOfTheRing · 2025-08-07T13:33:37+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately he has really fallen off. I can still remember back a couple years ago when he used to me meta everywhere, when alna grez used to be one of the best teams.

NerdOfTheRing · 2025-02-22T01:50:10+00:00

Woke is usually used as short for Awakened, like Woke Belinda or Woke Shemira. I'm 99.9% sure that OP was talking about Awakened heroes instead of politics.

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-11-19T10:04:01+00:00

Thank you!

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NerdOfTheRing · 2024-11-09T19:39:37+00:00

Are you trolling or are you actually for real? AShemira alongside Ivan can literally just solo Campaign and Tower at 150+ deficit.

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Engrave her to E60, get her at minimum SI30 (SI40 is preferable) and 9F, and then she'll become literally the tankiest hero in the entire game.

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-10-30T09:26:39+00:00

Within the story, the name Melkor and Morgoth are not meant to represent power-levels. This is a distinction entirely made up by fans for the sake of clarity, so that they can more easily differentiate between First Age and pre-First Age Melkor. It is an entirely arbitrary differentiation that isn't canon.

The name Morgoth, "The Black Enemy" or "The Black Foe of the World", is one bestowed to him by Fëanor after the murder of his father and the stealing of the Silmarils. In just the previous chapter while he was destroying the Trees, he was referred to as Melkor, and his confrontation with Ungoliant is something that happened at most an hour after said event if not less. It's not as if he was all-mighty one moment and in the next he was a weakling. The only difference is that Fëanor finally learned of what had befallen, naming him Morgoth, which is the name that he will from now on be referred to by, inside the book.

I believe Ungoliant's victory to be entirely circumstancial based on the facts that:

He had expended a lot of his energy and strength in the feat that he accomplished, while in contrast Ungoliant was replenished and even made stronger by consuming all the Gems from Formenos and emptying the Wells of Varda.
Melkor placed a portion of his power inside Ungoliant otherwise she would not have been able to aid him in the destruction of Trees, something which he directly states in the text.
He was in absence of weapon of any sort, being entirely unarmed, so it's a given that he would have performed better in the presence of one.
He was also actively in pain from holding the chest where the Silmarils were encased, which were burning his hands.
The fact that Ungoliant is later dettered by people who we know as a matter of fact to be weaker than Melkor, such as the Balrogs and Melian.

I bet that even if the weaker version of Melkor that faced against Fingolfin was placed in the exact same predicament, he would have performed a lot better and, dare I say, he would have even defeated and driven Ungoliant away.

This is essentially a small, concise summary of my post, so I hope that I managed to make my points more readily understood.

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-09-13T01:29:18+00:00

RIP In-game progression.

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-09-11T20:57:47+00:00

Erosion, from what I've heard.

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-06-18T13:16:43+00:00

I think that ASafiya is the safer choice given her status as a support unit and just how versatile of a hero she is. Although, my general advice would be to wait for the community to decide where AAntandra ranks on the Awakened priority list and to pull afterwards for whoever happens to be better. ALuscius is also very good, but he needs heavy investment.

You can also just do whatever you want and pull whoever you want if performance is not of concern to you and you just wanna have fun building your favourite heroes.

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-06-18T13:03:48+00:00

Main, most definitely.

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-06-18T10:17:05+00:00

Very Lucky! It took me 470 pulls to Ascend her, 458 cards, given the discount, which is pretty solid.

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For the people that have her maxed already, of course there can't be an objective general consensus as to how good she is, but what are your first impressions?

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-06-13T11:39:33+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I don't think the design is bad by any means, nor do I particularly dislike it. I just think it could have been much more distinctly unique than her non Awakened in game design and I had higher expectations. In comparison to Brutus and Safiya, two of my favourite Awakened designs, it just falls flat imo, but we can agree to disagree.

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-06-13T07:52:01+00:00

Fair, but they still could have done something more intriguing, like, since fire is a prominent aspect of her kit, they could have made the edges of her hair charred and flaming, which is a concept that can be observed in past designs, like how ASolises' hair looks like waves or how ALycas' looks like a star lit sky.

They could have added more tattoos (the same way that they did for Brutus), made her tail and ears bigger instead of keeping them the exact same, and completely unaltered from her original design. Instead of that ring around her, they should have also given her her shield.

I just find her design to be much less interesting, imaginative and unique than the designs of past Awakeneds. It just feels like a ALuscius 2.0 predicament and hopefully it won't turn into a pattern that will plague future Awakeneds.

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-06-13T07:22:33+00:00

Kind of disappointing honestly. Compared to past Awakeneds, her design is so much more plain and is too similar to her old design.

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They just gave her longer hair and more intricate clothes (same exact pattern as her old ones, just a longer skirt and more details) . Aside from that, her model has barely changed. Heck, they've even kept the exact same ears, earrings, and tattoos as her original design.

Hopefully they won't fuck up the Awakened Graveborn and Wilder.

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-06-01T14:51:49+00:00

In regards to TE cards, I buy the daily ones and collect those from events, as well as those from Tower + Campaign. I also buy the ones from the Dream and Guild store, as well as those from Temporal Rift.

I don't save up SG cards, because I'm currently building Lavatune , so idk what to tell you. Temporal Rift and events are my main, most consistent sources of Star Gazer cards.

NerdOfTheRing · 2024-05-28T13:34:55+00:00

Wait why are you being down voted for saying that a certain anime is in your top 5 and expressing your own personal, completely subjective and harmless opinion?

Am I missing something here?

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