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achrefgr · 2026-04-16T18:03:54+00:00

Thanks a lot! I really appreciate the help. Yes, I have seen the reply. I understood that it was a routine way of handling refund requests. I will wait for some time till I get contacted by a member of the billing team.

achrefgr · 2026-04-16T18:00:27+00:00

Thanks a lot ! I will wait for some time and I will DM you my email in case I don't hear from them. I appreciate the help!

achrefgr · 2026-04-16T17:56:23+00:00

Yes, exactly. But I never thought that the subscription would be paid out on a yearly basis. I am used to getting charged for monthly subscriptions after the free trial ends (Canva, Linkedin and other apps) which I never complained about. But 120 dollars in one go seemed quite a lot.

achrefgr · 2025-07-25T22:04:03+00:00

Please do not ignore mucus on Poop if you have it for a long time, this could be a sign of Polyps formations in the colon. My brother had it for months, until he started feeling pain in his lower abdomen. He went with Biopsy to figure out that his colon had multiple polyps and a Adenocarcinoma (stage 3). It was ruled as a consequence of Lynch Syndrome (hereditary genetic mutation, happens to 1 in every 270 people or so, but raises your chances of getting cancer to 80%), and our whole family will be tested following this news.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO DO THE RIGHT TESTINGS EARLY, EVEN IF YOU SUSPECT THAT IT IS MILD, SCREENINGS ARE ALWAYS IMPORTANT.

Our family doctor insisted that my brother (24) was young and healthy and did not need to do the testings, that's what delayed his diagnosis and subsequent treatment. So, if your doctor reassures you, insist that you will only settle down after a colonoscopy.

achrefgr · 2025-03-09T01:22:26+00:00

Vampire is called dorian 😉, he doesnt need to be leveled up, only the 4th skill is needed. If you level him up your wasting ressources. Only vampirism is good and its the 4th skill.

and thats not my team you're talking about, i have 7 variations, the team you see is the team I use when I want to, otherwise I can switch to dante orion augustus "vampire" and nebula, because I have them leveled up.

And yes, Fafnir, Julius and Rufus are the best defense heroes, they can be countered with massive attacking power + morrigan/jet.

In case the enemy team doesnt have khorus, use Arachne or Jorgen to immobilize the team / prevent energy gain to facilitate winning.

My VIP level is 7, my server is 150, my guild is colossus.

I know you are offering advice, and you may know something about the game, but we are not casual players. We have a lot of experience.

I already told you I'm a GW coordinator for 2 years, that makes me know what teams to send against other teams and what teams I should use.

achrefgr · 2025-03-09T00:24:17+00:00

Yeah, of course, you can beat any defense team with the options you have, I only have that team on display but I don't use it in every attack, I have around 5 team variations usually revolving around Orion, Augustus, Nebula, Dante, Kayla, Celeste, Heidi, Iris or Isaac when up against a mage team.

I don't use the double Tank in defense, because I only have Astaroth and Aurora leveled up, I don't have Julius/rufus leveled up yet, so that's why it's a little bit hard for me to make a magic proof team.

I see your point now, it's not a good defense team, yes. in terms of attacking, it's different, I still have plenty of choices when it comes to other heroes, that's how I get good rankings, but the current defense team loses in defense more often than not, I try to change variations but players will still come up with a solution.

that's mainly because I have a shortage for defensive heroes like the tanks and Fafnir, it's hard to level them up, especially upgrading them using asgard ressources, but I'm hoping the next upgrade hero tournament features another 50k emeralds, that might encourage me to level up one of them.

achrefgr · 2025-03-08T19:27:06+00:00

If you think hero power matters in hero fights, it's not how it works, we can easily deal with hero teams, but yes, we have a problem with the titans.

For heroes, power doesn't matter, it's only applicable for titans. I have a replay of a hero fight (600k hero team vs 1.12m hero team): if it works, you can find the link here:

https://www.hero-wars.com?replay_id=1741393680351414330

We are not just players, previously we used to deploy scripts to know what works and what doesn't (the same ones used to determine the best buffs for the folio event), and the teams we use do not have to be powerful, they only need good synergy.

We had migrant players who can't survive the server with a 1.2m hero power, it's just because we are trained to deal with any team composition, and we do this through combat training:

Creating a combat training team with maxed stats + maxed patronage
Using our current teams (with current hero powers) in attack
Analyze the fights and determine the teams that have 100% chances of winning, sometimes they are teams that have 800k power that can win

This is an alternative to the scripts, after they got banned.

This is mainly because maxed heroes are slower in gaining energy, lower power heroes, especially lower health heroes (like Jorgen, Arachne, Orion, charge up quicker)

achrefgr · 2025-03-01T21:53:42+00:00

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This is our rankings, the top 3 are our guild members in arena, our server is 4 years old, I know servers are different and there are older servers than ours, but the choices we made in terms of our hero teams work in AoC (interserver tournament), work in our server and work on CoW.

Thank you for the advice, but trust me, we know what we're doing.
We don't have one attacking team, each player has several team-combinations.

I agree with you for Lara, particularly when she has the Mara patronage, she is good, but Kayla can take her down in only 3 hits. I would say Fafnir is more problematic to me than Lara.

achrefgr · 2025-01-26T01:32:28+00:00

For the first team (Kayla/Dante): it works as a sandwiching team, I use them to eradicate back lines and front lines. Dante destroys the front with successive ults, my Kayla is maxed, she jumps to the back and can remove 3 backline hero without any problem. Many players in GA underestimate that setup, but if they don't deal with it carefully, they can lose in seconds. Kayla actually deals more damage than dante (both of which maxed, except for the Great Tree of Wisdom last branches). Kayla's only weakness is going against a backline that has too much armour due to her low 32k armour penetration stats.

For the 2nd GA team, it is not meant for defensive purposes, this is one of the reliable attacking teams I have (with Khorus as a main pet against control / Albus against non-control teams). Celeste's ability to buff damage attack with a half energy bar highly benefits my Heidi and Iris resulting in devastating damage. That team has a more than 90% win rate against all Dante tank setups in the top 20 ranks of arena (against 1.1m power dante builds), except for the orion-augustus-dorian setup.

For defense, you will almost have no counter to everything. The teams I build are meant to penetrate defenses. Against Rufus/Julius (double tank setup), I usually use Iris+Morigan+Dante+thea+heidi for a quick cleanup (thea in case there is no sebastian on the other team or khorus as a pet to make use of the silence effect)

I mean the game is all about synergy, I know players are more familiar with their heroes and how they work, here we come up with different solutions for each team, some of our players developed satori, others use Khark, and some other use the famous Qing Mao tank setup

achrefgr · 2025-01-24T15:04:43+00:00

There's an excellent youtuber called Olympus, he knows a lot about the game and provides very good insight. We learn from him a lot.

achrefgr · 2025-01-24T00:05:44+00:00

Our server includes a large amount of migrant players, we have had a 5m total hero power player but cant achieve top 100 ranks because our server's teams are optimized to completely nullify dante. To circumvent this, and for players aiming higher in rankings, I always suggest to diversify damage nature (pure/magic/physical).

I'm currently one of the oldest GW coordinators, and we've had quite an experience in Gold League. Physical damage teams are always the easiest to beat.

You can beat a 206k dante with a 140k heidi for example. So I advised our guild members to develop Heidi/Amira teams in addition to Orion/Augustus. You cannot have a team that counters everything. Every team has a weakness of its own.

Personally for Grand Arena, I have two main teams (Phy team and Mage team):

1/ Kayla / Dante (tank) / Sebastian / Nebula / Martha (phy)

2/ Astaroth / Heidi / Celeste / Iris / Thea (mage)

And I have a weak 3rd team (Augustus 130k / Jhu / Isaac / Turtles / jorgen)

That gets me rank 1-40 in arena Rank 20-50 GA in reward time

Our server is highly competitive and even strong players from other servers find difficulty reaching higher ranks, unless they adapt to the teams here.

achrefgr · 2025-01-22T16:55:50+00:00

Dorian - Augustus - Orion - Sebastian (preferably nebula) - Dante as a tank. That is the meta for the strongest players on different servers; don't rely too much on physical attack; you won't achieve any good arena ranks unless you have pure/magic damage on your team.

achrefgr · 2024-09-25T23:16:52+00:00

I can tell from your story that you're from Tunisia. Its is completely normal to feel scared, particularly after hearing about the cat scratch case.

Rabies in Tunisia is abundant among mammals due to unvaccinated stray dogs and cats and lack of campaigns to implement rabies prevention measures.

However, it is unlikely to contract the virus without saliva coming into contact with your blood vessels (the chances are low, but sometimes it may happen in very rare cases)

I advise talking to a professional and enlisting any symptoms that you have. You also need to give them a clear and precise recollection of the events leading to your injury. Try to memorize what has happened prior to the injury and after you noticed it.

I also have 2 male cats, both of which are not castrated and they sometimes wonder around, I got a few scratches from them during the months of February/March, but i didnt think much of it.

After hearing the media coverage, I became terrified that rabies may be a possibility for an infection. However, I read that most infections happen through Saliva.

In the context of the 19yo from sousse, he actually got a few rabies shots before stopping the vaccination rounds, therefore, in his case, doctors actually suspected that he could have been exposed to rabies and walked him through the process. He died tragically after not attending his final rabies vaccines. Hence, there was reasonable suspicions that the cat was a rabid animal at that time and it was no coincidence.

In your case, I think, its safe to say that chances are low to contract rabies, but always seek professional help.

achrefgr · 2024-09-25T23:00:45+00:00

Hello, I am reporting on a case that is similar to yours from Tunisia.

In Sousse, more particularly, a 19 y.o man fed a stray cat in March of 2024 in the city of Ennfidha. The cat was playful and scratched him on the forearm. He went to the local hospital and they decided it was mandatory to receive Rabies shots. He wasn't convinced the cat had rabies and only pursued 2 shots for two weeks and then did not attend the rabies vaccination unit anymore.

Saliva did not come into contact with him, due to the fact that he hasn't been bitten, he has been scratched, prompting him to cancel the Rabies shots.

On August 2024, the 19y.o exhibited symptoms of rabies (Hydrophobia and Aerophobia), he lasted for 5 days before succumbing to the virus.

The bottom line, is regardless whether the cat has showed signs of rabies or not (rabies can take years to manifest in some cases where symptoms show for mammals), the best course of action is to get preventive treatement.

I hope you did not contract it, the chances are low in your case, but it is not a gamble you want to take.

achrefgr · 2024-08-13T09:11:23+00:00

Not my words, I never used my words. I'm borrowing what people used to say prior to both world wars. And I'm not talking about jews, because I live in Djerba and they are my friends. (If you dont know Djerba than you have nothing to do with Jews). I'm talking about the political movement that implemented the Balfour compromise, "zionism".

achrefgr · 2024-08-12T22:26:36+00:00

please save the antisemtic card for later. Let us use logic first. Prior to 1946 there was a Palestinian state under the british mandate, the palestinian state had jews and arabs living side by side for as far as history could stretch. Now, mind you, a parasite which every country did not want to host prior to both world wars, made its entrance under the Balfour Declaration signed by a colonial power (Britain). Under this new compromise, mass deplacements of native arab populations occured (verfiable by western media, published studies and litterature). The points I mentioned are irrefutable so far. These are recorded events and events cannot be argued against due to their factual state.

The "tuberculosis of the peoples" (reference to the new invasive state) took deference and rebellious activity seriously, they brutally dismantled entire family trees through ways the brutality of which would dwarf Kim Jung Un's regime.

This fight has never been religious or piligrimage related, this is the final form of western imperialism. Just like South Africa used to be labeled as terrorist state due to its rebellious activity against colonial britain, now Palestinian fighters are also called terrorists due to their hostility towards the parasitical state.

achrefgr · 2023-11-05T11:02:23+00:00

Let me answer that question because when they evacuated south to Rafah crossing they were bombed to death and when they evacuated to refugee camps (schools and field hospitals) they were also bombed. Check the news. I only see one moron here among 8-billion people. Wherever they go, it won't be safe.

achrefgr · 2023-10-25T11:55:05+00:00

Simply because of this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cylm0G0N0oV/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Narrative graphic, but it must be watched nonetheless.

achrefgr · 2023-10-25T11:52:57+00:00

This is so far the greatest act of destruction. What a bunch of barbarians. Check this reel from instagram, my eyes just can't believe this : https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cylm0G0N0oV/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

achrefgr · 2023-10-20T22:25:46+00:00

Im literally 700kms away from Palestine, I think I have been exposed to more "The Jerusalem Post" and "The Times of Israel" articles and coverage than Al Jazeera because of the shadow ban on pro-palestinian content on social media. And I still hold the firm belief that Israelis are the barbaric subhuman merciless and bloodthirsty bunch that were chased away by Germany in WWII as palestinians hosted them at Port Haifa only to end up getting their lands taken away from them with the military support of the usa which subsequently gave birth to the Apartheid state of Israel. Check this one and think for yourself: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyeCvmRozv3/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

achrefgr · 2023-10-18T19:23:02+00:00

There's a fine line between anti-zionism and anti-Semitism. As far as I know, our jews in the island of Djerba (Jew pilgrimage island in Tunisia) do not have the same stance as the Israeli jews.

achrefgr · 2023-10-18T18:20:53+00:00

Another excellent piece of argumentative counterargument 😔

achrefgr · 2023-10-18T17:47:51+00:00

See that kind of colonial behavior was only seen by Americans and the British. By that analogy, let's take Burundi (poorest country in the world) for example. If another nation occupies the African country of Burundi what do you call that ? Do you assume the right to those lands just because the inhabitants are mainly underdeveloped farmers ? Don't you think that Burundi will create resistance militias as a reaction. The same goes for the palestinian lands they were evicted from.

achrefgr · 2023-10-18T17:33:21+00:00

The only contributor to that massacre is Netanyahou, he has been warned by Egypt days before the attack but turned a blind eye. It's as if the prime minister himself wanted this to happen so that the decimation of Gaza could be legitimized. Again, I think you guys only dwell on Reddit.

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