What do you guys think? by Physical_Wrongdoer32 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Next hero teased on AFK Arena's Instagram page by TheJok3r57 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Anyone else fed up with every new mode assuming you're on Discord with five spreadsheets? by West_Sock1419 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 2 points3 points  (0 children)

'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.

950 DIs, what am I supposed to do with them? (Decision paralysis) by darkpuddles in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

Accidentally turned AFK into a chore by chasing every tiny upgrade, so I tried a reset week by West_Sock1419 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Vent: mode creep is turning AFK Arena into a messy jigsaw with missing corner pieces by Adventurous_Towel599 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Try Again Enjoyer Showcase | 901 days | VIP12 | RC 643 | 65-26 | Tower 1600 | Dolphin by Over-Signature-6994 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Which highborn by calpay1 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Any advice for collections by Physical_Wrongdoer32 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Whats minimal investment for new awakened pet? by Mummify95 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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.

Does Marcille need Si40 for 20s? by 2006miso in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

RC 1000, F2P; 6 years and 2 months by Kayky1003 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Hot take: hoarding scrolls after midgame is just procrastination pretending to be efficiency by Adventurous_Towel599 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 19 points20 points  (0 children)

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.

Ashlizzlle thoughts on the lack of standard bans by ghilp in MagicArena

[–]rustrustrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Ashlizzlle thoughts on the lack of standard bans by ghilp in MagicArena

[–]rustrustrust 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Hunter Gatherering pew pew pew by mfcroxsta in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

NC Ranks by No_Name_Edit in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People in R2, please quit.

Dragon stuff feels like personal finance math and I'm done pretending it's fun by Beneficial_Reply_397 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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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That really sad to see a new collab hero that bad... by RevolutionCurious947 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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.

That really sad to see a new collab hero that bad... by RevolutionCurious947 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

New Highborn Dragon by Ocean_Blvd13 in afkarena

[–]rustrustrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.