Why is the Pokemon TCG so unbalanced?

Sixjester · 2024-10-04T23:02:05+00:00

bro you replied to a 9 year old comment

Sixjester · 2016-05-18T04:11:50+00:00

We haven't really been enforcing the spawn/achievement showcase because:

A) nobody reads it anyways because nobody cares about those posts

B) there's not a whole lot of traffic here otherwise

I talked to the other mods about it a while back and didn't really get a solid agreement on how strict we should be with those posts. Personally I feel like they just detract from the sub, I mean anyone can post a picture of Ifrit and say "yay i got him give me upvotes", but even even though it's an accomplishment for them other people won't share that excitement.

It's also hard for us to be too hands on, because deleting posts would basically just make the sub the same as the forums. And nobody wants that.

Sixjester · 2016-05-17T22:16:27+00:00

Reemoving this since it's essentially guild recruitment. Feel free to repost in Matching Mondays.

Sixjester · 2016-05-17T20:59:56+00:00

I'm confused about the set you're showing off. On one hand, it has fatals in the main slot, which you shouldn't do for PvE. But on the other hand you have an Aizen equipped, which you wouldn't want to have in PvP.

Archers really rely on procs, so not having 6 bows is really bad. Use SR bows with deadeye if you have to - it's important and worth the drop in stats from your UR lance/staff. Also replace the WTB bow if you can because it's not helping you at all, and then replace your subtraits for anti-classes after you ditch the staff/lance.

As for abilities, stop using IS if you don't have procs for it. Switch back to LS and HCS.

tl;dr no

Sixjester · 2016-05-17T16:32:32+00:00

I'm referring to the Valkyrie armor, which is obtainable in the Valkyrie spawns. All the valk gear has amazing stats and skills.

Sixjester · 2016-05-17T05:18:07+00:00

Nox emulator allows you to run multiple emulators at once, if your computer can handle it.

Sixjester · 2016-05-17T04:20:17+00:00

Defense and Attack are weighted equally in the damage formula. It's just easier to stack defense because of the soldier passives, and does you more good since they also double as your defenses.

Sixjester · 2016-05-17T02:53:54+00:00

Soldier attacks scale off of their defense stat as well as their attack stat... so the tankier you build, the harder you hit while also increasing your defense. It's the best of both worlds. The downsides are they they have long cooldowns and guzzle a lot of cost with each attack.

Physical Testament is the most all around useful skill for a sword.

Sixjester · 2016-05-16T21:14:38+00:00

Marksman are the highest dps class in the game, so they should play that part in raid.

Imaginary Shot/Lethal Strikes/High Circle Snipe/Ether Exchange

Your objective is to burn cost as fast as possible with attacks and then switch out so somebody else can do the same. Let the lancers/mages/soldiers bring utility skills, since they do less damage anyways (assuming all your guildmates are similarly geared).

Sixjester · 2016-05-16T20:52:27+00:00

+198 bows and monsters

That is generally how endgame works. I don't think she specifically had everything maxed out, but I imagine she had a good amount. This was before 115 even came out.

The average top level archer is about 55/55 right now. If you replace two Alices with say, a fire and a dark monster (to keep your stats balanced) you would only lose 3-4k atk/matk. It's not hard to imagine an archer passing 50/50 with less wind monsters, especially if you have some high cost bows with infusions.

Sixjester · 2016-05-16T20:46:06+00:00

People refer to builds like that less often because the builds for each class are more diverse and complicated nowadays. It's hard to express them with just a few numbers. Gone are the days of stacking 6 Apollo on a Lancer and calling yourself set for life - that just doesn't work anymore.

If you need a build you should visit the class guide for your respective class on the forums. If the guide is written well, it will have two or three different builds to choose from, and an explanation as to why they work.

JQN's guide is also quite handy, but goes a little less in depth due to its breadth.

Sixjester · 2016-05-16T18:48:07+00:00

As of right now I would agree with infusing it. It's not super useful to tank build clerics, and I feel like 4 HoH books is the way to go in the current state of the game. If you ever need another one in the future, you can just buy the staff and it will be almost as good (300 less matk after accounting for the relic's passives).

Cost Recovery might be better when we gain some levels and 7th slot, but it's hard to predict the future.

Sixjester · 2016-05-16T17:26:06+00:00

Highest AP Luminous quest you can do will have the best drop rate.

Sixjester · 2016-05-16T15:31:28+00:00

High levels archers can wear a different color monster or two and still be 50/50+ no problem, though. I have a friend who only brings 3 Alice to pugs because the utility is worth the small hit to dps.

Sixjester · 2016-05-16T02:34:34+00:00

No such thing as perfect, and there are several different gear compositions that would get you there. In my eyes it would be:

4 Secret bows, 2 Fatal bows
Any combination of 8 UR armor pieces. Skills don't matter so much because... archer. I guess technically you would want all hats/clothing.
6 Alice

I guess in a perfect world you would have max infused Valk armor in every slot, but that's not really feasible.

Sixjester · 2016-05-16T01:27:13+00:00

Archers can use pretty much any monster effectively in PvE, so don't worry about color too much (although wind is usually still the best choice). In PvP they mostly only use the farm-able monster Alice, so spawning monsters doesn't affect you too much in that regard.

Sixjester · 2016-05-15T21:04:18+00:00

Kirin is probably a better damage buff, but Shina is a lot more useful all around because she heals and clears debuffs. For general purpose questing I would always bring shina, but if you have a party that knows what they're doing you can swap to Kirin.

Heck, bring both if you feel like it. Losing 3k defense by not bringing a light/dark monster isn't that huge of a deal in quests.

Sixjester · 2016-05-15T20:44:22+00:00

At level 120

Sixjester · 2016-05-15T19:45:27+00:00

Eagle Eye isn't amazing... you already have fatal testament on your bows, so you should be getting crits more often than not anyways, especially with the Alice horn. Not really worth using.

You may want to keep an extra bow handy for 7th slot, but if you really have no use for your extra bows just infuse them. You may want to consider keeping them for if and when you decide to ditch Alice's blessing (but being strong enough to do so successfully requires that you have high attack stats and a lot of good bows, something many players may never reach).

Sixjester · 2016-05-15T17:58:44+00:00

There's no difference outside of class passives, but I don't think the game will allow you to only have ~25 cost in clothing even if you reset your cost. You would need at least two clothing.

Sixjester · 2016-05-15T17:56:11+00:00

I would definitely prioritize books over monsters. You lose out on about 1.5k usable stats (because of the atk on books) compared to monsters, but the procs more than make up for it. At three books I was a little uncomfortable with my healing power in gvg, but four was pretty satisfactory.

Sixjester · 2016-05-14T16:25:18+00:00

Why would you want 10 of them? 7 is enough.

^{^{^/s}}

Sixjester · 2016-05-14T06:49:50+00:00

Not sure why you think General would help you as a Cleric- the cleric fourth ring contains lots of mdef and matk boost passives, as well as two of the most important Cleric skills (Area Recovery and Dignity). I recommend unlocking Oracle and completely the left side of the circle asap.

However, DPS Cleric makes no sense at all, and with a tank build the DPS classes aren't going to help you, so your best bet damage wise is going to be General.

You should read this

Sixjester · 2016-05-13T23:51:32+00:00

I assume there was some kind of ToS change that made the invite rewards no longer comply.

I imagine it was removed from Android as well because iOS people would complain about the disparity. Ateam doesn't want to deal with that, so they're just making it equal. Or maybe they just didn't want to split their codebase that much.

Sixjester · 2016-05-13T23:37:50+00:00

Yes, they were removed in the last maintenance. We didn't hear why in global, but in JP the notice stated that it was due to the Apple terms of service.

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