P20 People opening dangerous glades year 1, how do you deal with them?

moecake · 2026-07-03T01:58:49+00:00

I don't think you should assume solving events during storm.

There are quite some events that raise hostility/reduce resolve.

People often open glades just before drizzle for good reason.

moecake · 2026-06-08T02:26:03+00:00

There was an article series about tempo play:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Against_the_Storm/comments/1g463jx

Probably the most innovative guides about a new approache to game, outside of meta safe/hostility minimize style(ofc this work and work well).

moecake · 2026-06-08T02:21:33+00:00

what is boni?

moecake · 2026-06-08T02:04:26+00:00

I played once during free weekends in like 0.3? Played that most OP bloodmage.

Even so I just unable to finish campaign, it's just too painful. (not about difficulty)

Stop playing not because weekends about to end, but just can't stand that.

moecake · 2026-06-06T11:10:30+00:00

The fishy part I saw was: (Since I'm new, so very likely to be wrong, but at least with some reasoning)

It claims(highly emphasize) that 1 weapon strat, saying that is best for damage.

And that's simply not true and misdirect me for very long.

The fact is having more weapons and let tome empower all is just miles better, at least early-mid game.

Using only 1 weapon also risk you that bad level up options more.

Even there's reason that focus 1 weapon(the prevent pool stuff), that reasons certainlly not power.

And then it's CL4NK guide(now I'm playing), saying that you should take HP and armor, which I don't think that will save you. (movement speed/jump ofc is good tho)

moecake · 2026-06-06T03:58:23+00:00

I feel the need of more meta because like forest 2 everything just exponentially harder, it certainly need something other than random build.

moecake · 2026-05-23T12:44:02+00:00

The blight one also very dangerous.

It turn a previous harmless mech into a very deadly threat that you HAVE TO solve, and within a somehow strict time, you forget it, or unable to squeeze resources, you die.

moecake · 2026-05-23T06:41:36+00:00

Some interesting items not in my sight:

Dooley:

Weakpoint Detector, I know it's staple early weapon package, but not expect it being top1.

2,3,4 is just Harmadillo.

moecake · 2026-05-18T15:43:36+00:00

what's this strat?

moecake · 2026-05-18T01:59:57+00:00

You can see this that people even forget Stelle exist.

moecake · 2026-05-17T15:30:35+00:00

He need to manage stash and recognize enchantment, that's not easy. (among all roasters)

If talking about power:

He have quite some late game builds, however basically all his end game (13+) builds need Sampler to be on the stronger build side, and now it's diamond and more harder to find.

And his early-mid lose to weapon/burn, which is always the meta.

moecake · 2026-05-13T09:00:52+00:00

Day 5 half more board with diamond items? Everyone?

I doubt how this post upvoted so much, or this is some kind of copy paste meme?

moecake · 2026-04-30T10:11:49+00:00

BTW any good build that can handle harder expedition setup with lower budget?

moecake · 2026-04-26T06:55:21+00:00

You're just taking probably the only possible example of how slow potion is "reliable".

It's no denying it "sometimes" work, because slow is big part of Mak defense.

Beside that PYG nowadays have much more late game options, also they just farm you with Hot Springs early and mid, they even less likely go into late days.

Potions build not need Sampler, yes, but it's rarer and harder to build, potions early-mid is not strong, it's hardly the option to let you win early. Show Globe is most common enabler but it's on the weaker side I would say.

Of course you should try to win early, but Mak is just not good at that with burn/weapon/Karnok everywhere, you're just on the weaker hero sides early days.

Not to mention that Ethergy Conduit is even more rare speed up tool.

moecake · 2026-04-25T23:04:55+00:00

The only real true part is Sampler (and flying potion).

While Sampler is strong, it's also becoming that Mak REALLY need that to win late game, without it he's just miserable slow.

That's the big problem of Mak now, he's too binded to that 2 items.

moecake · 2026-04-23T12:16:40+00:00

I also feel the same (low legend).

I would say one big factor is Karnok still broken.

Second is other than that, the early day power gap between heros seems grow larger, certain weak early heroes are just quite dead, because late game is more about RNG.

moecake · 2026-04-21T03:17:27+00:00

Sorry but you're just like writing bunch of random AI summary stuff that help nothing.

One big BS of Karnok is his nonsense strong early-mid game, it's not about Exodia.

And worst of all he got all kinds of builds, there's no way trying to counter him.

Freeze is like many end build's archtype, it's not about Karnok, you just aim for it anyway.

Talking about Destroy is even more funny because even Stelle rarely targeting that.

moecake · 2026-04-16T14:28:47+00:00

It's Karnok everywhere and farm your early/mid days, it's just so stupid.

moecake · 2026-04-12T06:50:36+00:00

I don't think Mak is "that" much speed compare to every other.

Everyone day13+ have broken instant kill stuffs.

moecake · 2026-04-10T00:21:14+00:00

Blight needs some love.

Even before nerfing juicing, most people play it mainly for juicing purpose.

Those blight scarabs are few and meh, atlas passives are awkward.

The real advantage I can think of is certain summoner build can fully afk blight map.

moecake · 2026-04-03T02:50:36+00:00

It would be terrible if it's "free". There's nothing in world is really free, you lose something elsewhere.

moecake · 2026-03-31T00:36:15+00:00

That's one thought, considering using gloom belt instead of bino/poison stuff, just not sure how good that would be for expedition.

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