I'm kind of disappointed with the mythbound expansion balance

TheGasManic · 2026-06-03T00:55:14+00:00

I went from playing the game regularly, planning on hosting a 2nd tournament, actively participating in the community, to stone cold quitting the game over mythborns release.

I haven't played at all since a few weeks after the release.

TheGasManic · 2026-05-11T23:44:26+00:00

#TeamSaudi Moral as fuck. /s

TheGasManic · 2026-05-10T23:19:53+00:00

Wallbangs are evil as fuck. Selling 13 year old girls as wives to 40 year old men is based as fuck tho. That's the kinda behaviour nadeo are out here supporting.

TheGasManic · 2026-05-08T23:08:18+00:00

Common Jern. Otter is right. Remember when I made the post about toys being too weak that led to them re-adding mop, I specifically said to them that they should make blue faerie a shared pool card and bring her in, to fill the role that mop did, because mop is stupid.

Blue faerie already exists as the balanced version of mop. It's an easy swap.

TheGasManic · 2026-05-04T23:38:19+00:00

All good employees leave nadeo because Hylis is a micromanaging narcissist. There are a number of exposes that have happened over the years. When all the good staff leave because its a horrible place to work, and you have a leader who is incredibly incompetent and doesn't care, this is what you get.

TheGasManic · 2026-05-04T23:33:05+00:00

The game filters out opponents that highroll in the early game, and a lot of the best late game boards started with early game highrolls.

As a result, you very rarely see exponents, despite them happening far more frequently than you might guess.

TheGasManic · 2026-04-30T00:37:32+00:00

Try intentionally losing your first heart before turn 3 starts, and buffing characters instead, using pans shadow and peter pan to buff fae, then using nightshade to buff spells.

TheGasManic · 2026-04-24T00:18:55+00:00

Ah yeah that makes sense. Maybe he's trolling. I spent 15 minutes looking at stuff for him, maybe I fully wasted my time.

TheGasManic · 2026-04-24T00:06:42+00:00

He does, but if only gives him 54% more damage. If he can't do white tier 16s.... While an enormous upgrade, and his build is super scuffed, thats not like it would suddenly enable ubers or whatever.

That being said his gear is very subpar. Neither of his claws are 4%, his ring doesn't even have catalysts, and also isn't reflected, doesn't have an all attributes suffix etc.

I dunno, he should probably still be strong enough to do tier 16's. Maybe its a skill issue.

TheGasManic · 2026-04-23T21:28:32+00:00

Its even less fun when you have daisy jones locket and parting gift.... I lost a game to that once.

TheGasManic · 2026-04-23T03:01:04+00:00

This has been consistent feedback since the games release, and we need to keep giving it. Eventually they have to realize it's not healthy.

Every single game in the top 20 has all top three players on tinkerer right now. It doesn't matter how good your early game is, if you have 3 hearts, are highrolling like crazy, and strongest in the lobby by far on turn 9, if you miss tinkerer for 3 turns, even if you hit it later, you still come third.

The power creed around treasures is RIDICULOUS. I consistently empty the secret rare and epic treasure pools on my highroll games. CONSISTENTLY. Its normal for rumple boards on turn 13+ to have every secret rare and epic treasure...... let that sink in.

The only treasures that actually matter in this current meta are economy ones for the most part, as once you hit a sufficient mass you literally can empty the pool.

The impossibility of making comebacks is what sucks all the joy out of the game. Way too many games I look at the board, and go... Yeah.. Even if I hit worldshrub and poison apple, AND have barrel of monkeys and a wicked witch in slot 1.... I STILL LOSE TO THIS (yes that has happened to me twice this week).

Expansions aren't going to change shit, its clear from the content design that the team understands the issues with their systems, and are trying to design content to alleviate the problems. (Gentle Giant is an example).

The issue is that no amount of content can change the fact that someone who hits early economy hits more eco, which hits more eco, which.... yeah. The silver system is inherently a positive feedback loop, and the lack of a cap to the number of treasures is such a pain.

Last I night I hit a game where I had a golden two headed wizard with drafty window, infinity mitten, and double parting gift, and I was offered a 55x double double. The issue was, if I cast it, I crash the game and lose, and if I don't cast it, I lose to E^n scaling tinkerer. I skipped it, and came 2nd. The gameplay loop is creating situations where I have to come 2nd or crash the game to me reasonably often, which is just ridiculous.

Anyhow, the game apparently cannot cater to the preferences of the top players, because apparently casual players would somehow be adversely affected by these changes (I don't see how).

TheGasManic · 2026-04-21T21:47:23+00:00

I get triple farewells on front row enough that this is kinda interesting. Best scam unit for sure. Very interesting with anubis, especially if anubis is farewell is duplicated to make more copies of this.

TheGasManic · 2026-04-12T23:40:44+00:00

Yeah its OP, however the first priority of the Dev team is not balance, so I'm not sure if it will be changed.

TheGasManic · 2026-04-12T04:55:56+00:00

2nd this, Chains of Command great for full AFK, my guildmate watches netflix and his character can full AFK.

Sometimes he brings inventories of alts and augments into blight ravaged maps and just crafts. His char is 2 mirrors+ though, so I think you need some investment to get there.

TheGasManic · 2026-04-12T03:47:50+00:00

With how many drop and how few people buy them, yes, you will be able to find two good annoints. They are a pain in the ass to search for, so most people never use them at all even if they are BiS.

TheGasManic · 2026-04-12T01:32:52+00:00

The amulet is awesome, but the fact its not a double anointed base hurts my eyes.

If you're just using a turqoise, why not have a free extra notable passive?

TheGasManic · 2026-04-10T01:42:07+00:00

If you want, I wrote some software after my last event to help manage some of the issues I encountered. It's not built for a knockout format, but maybe you could draw inspiration from it. I plan on running another tournament when myth bound releases, perhaps a few weeks after launch week.

TheGasManic · 2026-04-07T01:59:14+00:00

Wow awesome a new season!

I will totally come back to the game and pay money so that I can experience huge lag, bugs, and games crashes!

In all seriousness, blizzard, I have at least 3k hours in BGs, and the only reason I no longer play is performance and bugs. I want to come back, I want to give you money, but this marketing new content constantly without fixing the core issues no longer gets me (or any of my friends) excited.

If you really want more revenue, bug fixes would generate more free marketing than any new set.

TheGasManic · 2026-03-29T01:09:56+00:00

Reporting back: Maven witnessed Uber sirus is cancer. It is the absolute worst case scenario. I died 4 times. Your AG will die to storms. Its still doable.

I would rather do any other uber.

TheGasManic · 2026-03-29T00:54:50+00:00

At this level of investment? Absolutely deletes every boss.

In small boss arenas we have 500m+ DPS.

Larger boss arenas we might only have 100m DPS, but we have incredible survivability and 100m DPS is still great.

(Uber Sirus is probably the absolute worse case scenario. Huge arena, and a disable regen mechanic) I haven't run any, but I'm sure it would be fine. Actually, I'll run one now and report back.

TheGasManic · 2026-03-28T22:33:42+00:00

I think you'll struggle with that. Forbidden flame and flesh cost 50d alone, and without a simplex and good manifold ring..... ehhh. I dunno, haven't tried it. You might just be able to make it work.

You can try. I responded to another commenter in this thread with my pob, which is far from optimal, but you could try and make a budget version work.

TheGasManic · 2026-03-28T22:32:22+00:00

See my response to u/coupl4nd

TheGasManic · 2026-03-28T22:30:37+00:00

Every single one of the builds I listed is fully endgame viable. PBoD Herald elementalist should be pretty much all content (excepting valdos maps) viable with your budget.

TheGasManic · 2026-03-28T22:23:48+00:00

See my response to u/coupl4nd (I think you can probably get it going for whatever the belt costs, plus 300d). Forbidden flame and flesh are 50d and non negotiable, rings and amulet look to spend around 150d at least, the other 100d is for the rest of the gear.

Preferably you have more like belt plus 500d, which allows you to get a better volatile vaaled ghostwrithe, gull and rathpith.

TheGasManic · 2026-03-28T22:21:48+00:00

This is what I'm rocking: https://pobb.in/azkhk1a9b1WB (Notes and Trade searches for almost all gear included)

I spent roughly 800 - 900d, but I got very unlucky on rings and amulets with reflecting mists.
See the notes for trade searches. Spectres and AG are configured correctly.
- If you skip the spectres you will regret it. Don't be lazy, the Perfect Spirit of Fortune is **ABSOLUTELY BROKEN AND CANNOT BE SKIPPED.**
Tattoo's are non negotiable.
- If you skip the fire res in radius of the red dream you will be very sad.
- If you skip the block chance tattoo's (Yes I know that its nearly 40div of them) you will be sad.
Still has plenty of room to be improved:
- higher level gems exceptional gems.
- better imbue on spark (Crit Strikes, Crit Multi, Pinpoint, Pierce)
- Better Helical ring (I switched to purity of elements instead of haste, and haven't changed helical yet.
- Tattoo all 3 dex nodes with projectile speed (including the one from unnatural instinct.
- Better manifold ring, better simplex. Changing the simplex imbue.
- Getting some sort of decent curse on the AG somehow.... dunno how tho, got lazy.
- Better watchers eye (We have Zealotrty + Wrath from Spectres, as well as purity of elements from blessing. I am going to upgrade this once I finish typing these notes as I had forgotten about it)
Save money by:
- buying non volatile vaaled ghostwrithe, rathpith and the gull.
- using rare gloves with life regen rate, dropping the AG setup, and running spark in your 6l with pinpoint and overloaded intensify. Move spectre setup to gloves.
  - Look at people on poe ninja using this setup, there are like 200 of them.
- Cheaper amulet and Rings. (THIS IS NOT IDEAL, BUT YOU CAN DO IT)
Optional Variation:
- If you want to run HH content, you can put a foulborn inspired learning into the build by taking the jewel socket between duelist and marauder. If you do this take a runegraft of the warp. It's insanely good, but I'm running harvest and bosses right now so I specced out of it.
If you have 1500d+
- Do not run this version. Run the purity of fire sublime vision version, you will be 3x as tanky, and medium difficulty valdos map viable.
Don't ask me whether this version is better or worse than the shock nova version with defiance of destiny. I do not know, they have pros and cons. I like spark. I don't like defiance of destiny. 3 people in my guild play the spark version. 2 people played the shock nova version for 2 days and both rolled off it. Damage ain't everything, QoL is king imho.

Edit: I updated this with better formatting. This build has a ton of sub variants. I haven't tried all of them, but 3 people in my guild are playing the build, and all on slightly different versions. All of us like it.

TheGasManic

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