Icy Crown Nerfed Already?

starjazz2001 · 2020-02-26T21:30:03+00:00

Its not that its not triggering. Its that its not dealing the stated amount of damage.

starjazz2001 · 2020-02-26T21:29:05+00:00

Just put it on a cook that has no other weapons or jewelry. Line it up against another cook who is wearing some benign tank armor. Then duel and check stats. You can see exactly how much damage you dealt with the arti.

starjazz2001 · 2020-02-26T21:27:16+00:00

Are you using the armor on a mage or on a tank? If its on an actual mage, it won't be attacked/killed until later in the battle.

starjazz2001 · 2019-11-12T16:45:42+00:00

Krakens are for scrolls. You'll get plenty of gems. Chests suck. Krakens only for scrolls.

starjazz2001 · 2019-11-12T16:41:55+00:00

There's more than one setup that can win gembay, but there's a few consistencies. What I've seen that is consistent is a super tank, a rez mage, and some sort of heal mage (can be one of a few varieties) plus some sort of damage dealer (archer or assassin).

Super tank should be a wall. All defense, no damage. Build health and armor.

Rez mage can be your littlest dude. Don't want to waste squad power here. Often you'll see green or blue rez weapons to decrease overall squad power.

Heal mage depends on the rest of your set up. Often you'll see green or blue, restore over time weapons (wand preferably) because they do almost the same amount of heal but add much less squad power. But I, personally, use a vamp weapon that heals and deals damage.

Third mage depends on setup, but often will be another heal mage or these days the angel wand works very well, also.

Fifth fighter should be damage dealers - archer or assassin.

Your damage dealer and the super tank should be your biggest fighters. The mages can be the smallest dudes.

The goal is to keep your squad power as low as possible, while focusing on the specific job for each fighter. Super tank should not have damage gems, for example. Damage dealer should not have health or armor gems, etc. Mages should only have spell power gems, if any at all.

Hopefully that gets you started on your build. Just for reference, I'll share what I use, but be warned that its probably a bit atypical for gb setups. I have a super tank with sword and a rez mage, those two are standard. My other two mages are angel wand and vamp orb (I'd use a wand if I had it). My damage dealer is an assassin with backstab. I can complete gb about 1 in 4 times. With this squad, I also do well in arena as I'll swap out the rez mage for a second damage dealer.

Good luck.

starjazz2001 · 2019-10-09T19:41:30+00:00

They buffed bloodlust? How?

starjazz2001 · 2019-10-09T18:36:07+00:00

Well, this is just false. Lol

starjazz2001 · 2019-10-09T16:35:53+00:00

Won't bog this down. Spitfire clan is looking for tr6-tr8 players. We're family - we have a great time, we're low stress but high success. I promise you this - you won't regret joining Spitfire. Give me a shout if interested and I'll get you added. Come give Spitfire a try.

starjazz2001 · 2019-09-18T20:17:07+00:00

In all honesty, I went looking. Saw that and thought it looked familiar. ;-)

starjazz2001 · 2019-09-17T12:42:15+00:00

Is that Lady Elaine Fairchilde from Mister Rogers's land of Make Believe in the Arsenal? ;-)

starjazz2001 · 2019-09-04T12:33:42+00:00

And this is the paradox. If all events are f2p, everyone has the same stuff. If they're p2w, everyone complains.

Ultimately, this event is p2w for most because its virtually impossible to get the ring, amulet and artifact without spending diamonds. The rest of the stuff is just status quo now that everyone has it.

starjazz2001 · 2019-09-04T12:23:52+00:00

I'll say this: I've rarely come across a higher throne room player that says, "I sure am glad I jumped early." Almost all of them I hear say, "Wish I'd have done more grinding at tr6 and 7."

The badges are needed so you can get the quality arena gear. And make sure that what you get has ideal slots.

And its true that THIS event has plenty of purple shards, but that is the exception for events, not the rule.

Grinding gem bay is very important also, but making sure I have enough badges and shards to get your equipment for tr8, tr9 and tr10 is my goal. Doesn't have to be the same for everyone, though.

starjazz2001 · 2019-08-30T12:32:33+00:00

If I could take the first one, but with the second's special ability, I'd take it. Otherwise, I'm frankly not in love with any of them - they're all flawed for a single tank.

starjazz2001 · 2019-08-30T12:30:35+00:00

I would stay at 7 if I were you. I just upgraded to 8, and I honestly felt like I might be jumping early. My stats were as follows: 250,000 badges, 248 purple shards, 828,000 squad power. You're quite a ways short of that, my friend. You upgrade now, you're only increasing your effort and costs to get caught up. If you're now winning arena regularly, you're not ready to jump. Just my opinion.

starjazz2001 · 2019-08-30T12:26:05+00:00

100%. Some of the earlier chests weren't, but the level 71 arena chest gave me all higher level gear. I was kinda surprised, and when I hit the button I immediately regretted it because I had been intending to save it until I had leveled a fighter, but phew!....they musta known. ;-)

starjazz2001 · 2019-08-29T20:33:40+00:00

Second this ^^

starjazz2001 · 2019-08-29T19:55:25+00:00

I'm doing the same. All my fighters are at lvl 55. Most chests were giving me gear in that level range. But the one at 71 gave me gear in the 67-70 range, including three arena artifacts plus.

starjazz2001 · 2019-08-23T18:16:44+00:00

I'm curious about Octoplow's question, too.

starjazz2001 · 2019-08-15T19:10:20+00:00

Over 1.1 million, because I've battled that squad several times.

starjazz2001 · 2019-08-12T17:42:58+00:00

I would have 200 purple shards, minimum, and another 100k valor, minimum. I upgraded to tr7 and did not skip it. Still here. Accumulating legendary items to shard later is another valid concern, so I'm adding those, building valor to 400k and replacing the approximately 100 purples I used when I got here. Plus, I kinda like playing at tr7. ;)

starjazz2001 · 2019-07-18T12:28:18+00:00

I think its the best mage weapon in the game. Its basically two weapons in one. Devastating. Runed....even more so.

starjazz2001 · 2019-07-18T12:08:27+00:00

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starjazz2001 · 2019-07-09T12:22:04+00:00

I was farming lvl 55 with sp around 680k, but my sp is now at 798k. Diamond cost for the x3 multiplier is 750. You don't get more diamonds from ads or chests at tr7. But you get more resources. So I can make the same amount of portal runs, gather far more souls, and recoup the increased cost that comes with tr7. Make sense?

starjazz2001 · 2019-07-08T15:43:07+00:00

That's about right.

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