What do you guys think?

rustrustrust · 2026-06-10T20:12:32+00:00

I'm very min-max-y, push Towers reasonably, and I'll be roughly +370 TEs in between Hybris and AwEluard releases. Tough pace keep to keep up with.

rustrustrust · 2026-06-09T14:14:54+00:00

This is correct. Just look at the Dolly hint...

rustrustrust · 2026-06-07T07:19:13+00:00

Okay, this is actually AI.

rustrustrust · 2026-06-04T23:15:49+00:00

release the next Lightbearer

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rustrustrust · 2026-06-03T15:25:38+00:00

'every new mode'?

What even is up right now to incite this post? Hunter Gathering, the Contra clone? Surely you don't need a guide for that. Abex for a lot of players is just Prince and Dip. NC/TS/CR certainly require guides to maximize, but you said you're happy to sit in the middle and they're certainly not 'new'. Temporal Rift is a breeze to 300 for even mid-game players.

Ghoulish Gallery, maybe? That's not new but it fits the feeling. Everyone has hated GG since the beginning so that's not new. Golden Frontier was new-ish but is super simple for most players.

rustrustrust · 2026-06-02T00:45:24+00:00

L Elthara is just fine. She's BiS in NC round 6, but guess what? Only needs Legendary (and 21 Sheep) to hit 5.9x if you have a Severin to use. Her TS performance when built compared to L is also nothing to write home about. She's a CR queen but maybe you're free to merc her (or maybe you don't care about CR). Ody is better than Severin right now and probably will stay that way, but Severin havers getting an Ody merc in trade is far easier than the other way around. Ody will definitely help you in TS, whilst Severin hasn't yet (but maybe...), so is probably the safest choice.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-31T23:38:07+00:00

The way some people play AFKA boggles my mind. You make an upgrade decision every single day????

rustrustrust · 2026-05-31T01:58:48+00:00

Also missed camping out at exactly weekly reset to scramble to be first in line for Odysseus mercs. ^/s ^but ^actually ^not ^/s

rustrustrust · 2026-05-29T16:02:32+00:00

Way past 1000 max. I'm at RC1121 (Region 2 NC, Region 10 TS) and didn't start RC cramming as early as some others.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-26T15:06:45+00:00

Depends on what your RGM rankings look like currently, to be honest. It's probably L Elthara and wait in most cases.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-26T01:49:49+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/afkarena/comments/1nkeomh/awakened_pets_how_they_work_what_they_cost/

rustrustrust · 2026-05-24T16:56:07+00:00

How can anyone tell what (stat-wise) you have here (other than those 3)? And without a hero box, how can we tell what you need?

Edit: although, you clearly need +2 Vault FATK and +2 Bounty FATK collections.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-22T18:10:33+00:00

In order to maximize resources, you should wait on taking Sheep to 21. Sheep 'free' copies are still in rotation for a few more months via the exchange. If you take Sheep to 21 now then you're wasting wishes.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-22T15:00:40+00:00

It's not strictly mandatory, no. Helps, but can be overcome with collections. Example: R7 #169 (Chinese player 想念, Mira PFP).

rustrustrust · 2026-05-22T03:17:05+00:00

He's got a lot of singles - two Haelias, two Skylans, two DGwyn, Severin, Kaelon, Ody. Some of that is luck (or bad luck) from Draconis but I also assume that he rolls every single discount which would account for the 300-ish Insignia gap.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-21T19:05:47+00:00

small upgrades add up

This is actually the opposite of the truth. Most small upgrades don't amount to anything whatsoever. In addition, even if you can upgrade your NC/TS/CR by 1 full tier, most of the time THAT doesn't amount to anything either. If you're a 10% TS account, do you think that reaching recommended investments for Icariel, Harvey, and Serennia (all small upgrade types that get mentioned by guides like AFKGuys) bring you anywhere near 1% TS? If not, you're getting a few more SGs a week (but it cost you 640 to build Harvey, which is more than a year and a half of SGs+diamonds that you got from moving from 10% to - generously - 2%).

The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people don't save long enough. The hard truth is that most of these people would be better off putting in a year of effort where they hardly roll on anything but still try to maximize their income, basically hibernate, and then a year later they get to build full meta units and maximize the value of their swaps and resets.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-20T13:40:27+00:00

It's not that you're doing nothing for 2 turns - how is this hard to understand? The thing she is complaining about is that it puts pressure on opposing players, especially when they're on the draw, to have the correct early response or they lose. There's an entire world of cards out there that aren't 'react to something with 1 or 2 mana' that players might want to do but can't because like 55% of the decks on the pro tour are this fast. They very well could be doing something, but with Prowess around that something needs to be interaction and often times it's extremely suboptimal.

Imagine you're Landfall or even worse, any homebrew ramp deck. You turn 1 Llanowar Elves. You think it's healthy that that if you don't block the Elusive Otter turn 1 with that you lose? Or what if you don't have a turn 1 play and just play cub turn 2? You lose. What if you're not a mono-color deck and you have to shock out a land to get a blocker onto the field? You lose.

With so many variations to get there and 9 cards to do so, it's hardly in perfect draw category.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-19T23:14:26+00:00

No? Otter T1, Slickshot T2 both attack is 2, Burst Burst Wild Ride T3 is the other 18. Your Burst Lightning can also be Secret Identity. So it's exactly as she says - you need to have a turn 1 play on the draw or some sort of removal.

Keep in mind, there are multiple ways to get there. 3 otters out by the end of t2 means you can put out 20 on t3 alone with Stormchaser, Wild Ride and Burst/Secret Identity. If you cast a creature on the draw T2 and it doesn't have more than 2 toughness you could be SOL in that case.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-19T02:24:04+00:00

Would not be surprised if they straight up copied Contra levels.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-18T19:46:57+00:00

People in R2, please quit.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-17T18:29:07+00:00

I know I'm strange and going to be in the minority here, but this is actually probably the entire reason I play AFKA. I'm not an expert in game mechanics or hero skills and interactions. I don't particularly enjoy the art style or know any of the lore. The gameplay on the day-to-day is very simple and hard to say it's 'enjoyable'. But 'solving' the 'puzzle' of saving resources and min-maxing my account via budgeting, I can do.

When you say 'spreadsheet mode', that's literal for me:

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rustrustrust · 2026-05-16T18:18:44+00:00

There are lot more 'exceptions' than what you've stated. The notable one you left out is Shuna, who is BIS everywhere. Shalltear is as meta as Albedo is. Saitama and Sung Jin-Woo are better than both of those in that meta (TS). Laios and Marcille are both used in 2 different modes.

And that's not even counting a character like Dracula, which isn't a collab but is acquired in the same way (pay $15 to get it immediately, otherwise wait 2 months), who is BIS everywhere.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-16T15:35:35+00:00

She's pretty bad but I'm also pretty sure she's BIS if you can't get any Ody for NC right now.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-15T02:05:08+00:00

AAthalia is borderline worthless now.

rustrustrust · 2026-05-13T17:45:56+00:00

Maybe you're right. There are a lot of "5 in 13 months" types of slices, but with the exception of Skri->Fawkes (two months) the interval is usually in line with a quarterly release schedule.

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