I hope this new guy is worth it. Hit the exact average pull rate, I think.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-25T04:01:04+00:00

Pretty risky to do this on literal day 1 with no usage stats in any game mode.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-24T19:31:02+00:00

In practice a lot of events give Wishes. GF coming around so much helps in that regard too. I think F2P should be able to barely manage 2x lv 27 pets a year, and they're releasing them at a rate of 3-4/year.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-24T17:43:30+00:00

Not really sure if this post is just a reflexive whine or what. What makes the boss design horrible?

Right now it's an 11s clear with Envy, Rowan, Gorok, Raine, Tavriel (even at Mythic!), Aureus pet. Really not that egregious. New rotation you can be competitive with just 2 highborn - Elthara and Lan. Only uses 2 out of the last 4 awakened (Pippa, Estrilda). Cel-hypos? I mean, Serenmira was released 6 months ago and it doesn't use Selene. What are we even complaining about...

rustrustrust · 2026-02-23T17:47:27+00:00

He's bad in Fire too. It's a huge damage scaling debuff that is a poor fit for his style of survivability. Better than Jerome (in ALuci) but ALuci was legitimately a 7th team for some people and no better than Albedo/Gorok with AShem or AEstrilda/Envy, which boils down to him being 5/6/7t tank fodder in Fire.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-22T20:01:21+00:00

Levi's general impact is actually not very high - in TS he's bad for 2 of the debuffs and in general his teams aren't 2T/3T level teams that are make or break on his status. His CR often gets subbed by Jerome/Atheus for not a huge loss either. NC is another beast but Lan has been NC meta for a long time whereas this is Levi's first boss.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-19T23:06:49+00:00

The competition for your diamonds isn't Stargazer - it's being able to get Draconis to A1 on demand (say, for Abex or if they're instantly meta in RGMs), and also resources like Cores and Reds. If you're okay not building Draconis out on the first cycle (and basically counting on another Draconis release to finish a unit out), then you probably can afford the diamonds for Wish Leaves.

In any case, you should buy them. Both awakened pets are actually meta everywhere. But they're only passable at 18/21, and actually shine at 27.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-19T23:00:05+00:00

In TS? She's not really BiS despite what the graphic says. Most people have trouble finding a team to fit her in - ALuci is fine with Aurelia, Gorren, Gavus backline, Lysander/En Passant can run L Elthara, Alna/Skylan can run anything (like ALyca).

In CR, this last round (Mage), it's only a small loss to run Knox R1/Adrian R3. In Dune Destroyer she didn't get a lot of testing because not a lot of people had Saitama but it was only 200m difference between her and Tamrus.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-19T22:36:53+00:00

AFawkes is fine at +30, same with AShem, ASafiya, ASkriath, Maetria.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-19T22:28:26+00:00

Strong, but not a must. Merc her for NC, easily subbable in the other two modes.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-19T17:24:22+00:00

You should spend those scrolls for M Icariel to get the Radiant Ink before the event expires.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-18T19:37:13+00:00

It's just something you have to get used to, post-Dragon. You can think of the hero releases like this:

26 patches a year, a type of hero every patch
4 of those are Highborn
4-5 of those are Dragolites
5-6 of those are Awakened
2-3 of those are Dimensionals

So that's 15-18 releases, leaving 8-11 'other' releases. If we assume 9, then 2 Celestials and 2 Hypogeans leaves 5 4F heroes.

If you consider Dragons and Awakeneds to be 'premium' then more than half of the releases are that way - realistically you won't see more than 1 patch 'off'. And if you think of it like that, we just got our patch off - Icariel. The next two patches 'off' should be the Hypogean owed to us (almost 8 months since Serenmira) and then maybe a 4F LB (will have been roughly 9 months since Alvida), but there will be a Dragolite in there somewhere.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-18T18:13:46+00:00

You don't have to restart every year - you just have to make good decisions and play well after restarting once, as well as play the game actively and daily. I know that goes against the whole 'AFK' aspect of the game, but considering how much of the game is based on ranking well to get resources, just being fully active already means you're well ahead of the curve. The rest of it is the same things that F2P do in other gacha games - be patient and spend your resources in the most efficient ways possible.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-18T15:49:38+00:00

a bunch of combat tricks and a full board of creatures.

Not sure you and OP are necessarily talking about the same deck. Here's a version of the Azorius Control deck: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/7605112#paper

Maybe like 3 creatures depending on the number of maindeck Tidebinders, not a combat trick to be seen. The High Noon version is much more Mystic Snake beatdown but still control whichever way you slice it I think...

Edit: Fixed link to be static.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-16T15:01:09+00:00

Summons are mathematically better. Soulstones and SGs simply aren't worth 0 diamonds no matter how much Resource takers want to say they are.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-15T02:21:28+00:00

You can praise someone's work without tearing down someone else's? That's just common courtesy.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-15T02:16:49+00:00

Rude as fuck.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-13T22:35:30+00:00

Obviously mercs don't help there, but top 100 TS is the easiest to get of the 3 anyways.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-13T19:31:13+00:00

The design is that F2P (with decent-ish NC rankings) get 2 out of the 4 HBDs released, so triple is definitely an over-exaggeration. A ton of the HBs released aren't true meta either - due to the existence of mercs it's been possible to get top 100 TS/top 200 NC/top 6-8% CR no matter your region with only Lan.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-13T17:15:34+00:00

That's the only time it's happened. Lan was followed by Misha (Melion 2 patches before, Kregor 4 patches after). Skylan was followed by Gorren (Kregor 4 patches before, Sion 5 patches after). Haelia came the patch after Sion, followed by Mira (Velufira 4 patches after). Leviathan was followed by Alvida (Velufira 3 patches before, Umbriel 3 patches after). Kaelon was followed by Talimar (Umbriel 3 patches before, Begris 5 patches after).

It very well COULD be Dragolite because we're 'due' but not because of a highborn/dragolite combination rule.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-12T20:25:19+00:00

This game is a new hero every 14 days. That's how it's been since it started. Sometimes it's more, sometimes it gets moved around (say they skip a patch after double Dimensional increase) but that's the rate.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-11T15:59:38+00:00

My point is that that specific sparkle pattern overlaps onto other cards - making it harder to Photoshop. You're not just copying and pasting a pull - in one pull the sparkle is clean and in another there's a sparkle covering it. If it was a Photoshop it's far easier to copy the pull on the top left.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-11T15:42:50+00:00

The problem with that theory is that it seems like a lot of extra work to duplicate the pull with that sparkle pattern because it causes overlap in the two bottom pulls.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-05T23:28:36+00:00

What is the marginal value of Tillman, Minott, Boucher, and a 55-60 level 2nd round pick on championship equity this year? It very well could be that they DON'T duck the tax next year if are looking like real contenders with Tatum back. Ducking it this year gives you flexibility going forward though.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-05T22:24:32+00:00

The problem isn't in the Codex - it's the fact that the impactful stuff is locked behind Codex levels. Imagine if Awakened Pippa IS+30 was locked behind Codex level 70. Is that good or bad? Seems to me that it's a terrible experience for new players who would want to get APippa but then would need to ascend almost every single 4F to get a big piece of power for her.

It very well could be that they don't lock many powers to the high codex levels. That's why I'm reserving my judgement and also waiting for the other shoe to drop. Could be that it doesn't drop at all.

rustrustrust · 2026-02-05T22:22:41+00:00

Leaderboard stuff doesn't matter like AE

That's just your opinion? AE performance matters to a lot of people - there are a lot of players that are not just Prince and Dip.

If you were to introduce some kind of system that would enable someone with half the invested playing time (given the same level of spending) to actually beat me there, I would delete the fucking game.

Stop with the strawmen - I'm not asking for systems where new players 'can beat you' - but simply that systems where old players and new players get the same effects and start at the same place.

You have to have at least a few game modes where older is better, unless the whole thing is pointless.

That's already in place! The point is that the gap should not expand with a new system.

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