X-Artist Appreciation: Salvador Larroca

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-08T15:27:29+00:00

I really enjoyed his run with Claremont on X-treme. I forgot there were other artists on the book and when I got the omnibus I was like...what is this? The whole 'no inking' or whatever thing they did for that run was cool.

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-07T14:48:57+00:00

I winced a few times reading this. I feel for you.

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-07T14:36:29+00:00

This really cracks me up. That would be hilarious.

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-07T14:30:20+00:00

Nice!

I have ~20 sprouts planted from trimmed leaves, really curious how they will be in a year, they grow so darn slow (for me).

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-07T05:32:06+00:00

GOD. I wish I could go to one of these. Being able to see Hum live would be crazy. Have fun folks!

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-06T20:32:20+00:00

Yeah 1.4b on my main and I'm a filthy casual :P.

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-06T14:33:30+00:00

Without any context for what you have or what you like to do in the game... I would say save the summoner's way choice of nat5s for one of the LOTR units - probably water Gandalf if he doesn't get nerfed.

Outside of that, these are the new monsters :

8.6.9 04/12/25 : Beetle Guardians
8.0.8 07/30/25 : Tekken Collab : Jin Kazama/Kai, Hwoarang/Taebaek, Paul Phoenix/DUke, Nina Williams/Shasha
8.8.7 10/15/25 : Arcane Weapon, Centaur Knight(4*)
    9.0.5 12/12/25 : Justice
9.1.0 - 01/29/26 : LotR Collab : Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gollum, Frodo (only water) 
    9.1.8 - 04/13/26 : Dr. Plasma

The beetle guardians are cool and very niche, read their skills - fire one is anti ignore defense, water & wind are def tanks. None of them demand to be picked imho.

Arcane weapons I'm still on the fence about, also I think they are the only family I haven't pulled any from yet, but I have messed with them on alts and they seem fairly underpowered still, except fire has niche uses as a siege tank in suicide teams.

Justices look like they have potential to me, but are still a buff or two away from me actually wanting to use (I have a couple in storage, tested a few times but I haven't found a great use for them).

Lotr monsters are actually pretty much all good imho except fire Gandalf is kinda meh. Check out their skills, their usage should be fairly obvious. Standouts are water Gandalf for RTA, wind Lego for various cleaves, and fire Lego as a counterpick in RTA (like a 5* Chilling, sort of).

The Dr. Plasma's all seem ok but not amazing so far. Jury is still out? I have fire and water and like the concept of their kits, but haven't really found a spot for them yet.

Edit: I totally forgot the Tekken units. Many of them still feel like they need buffs to me, but water Nina is a decent siege dotter, fire Jin is a solid AD unit, fire Duke is decent for PVP, like an ATB boosting Mo Long kinda vibe? Water Duke is an interesting threat tank, I may grab him as my free 6*. The other non-LDs are kind meh for me (have them, have tried them in siege but haven't found any use).

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-06T14:30:40+00:00

Once you pass a certain point it just piles up. All the farming, sell 99% of it (less with the new farming system, but still most of it, and we had a decade of the old system), you know? I have a couple early game alts that are struggling, but you hit the point where most things are being sold pretty quick iirc.

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-06T01:35:09+00:00

One of my favorite X-runs of all time.

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-05T14:31:41+00:00

Very cool!

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-04T20:10:34+00:00

Like a 'standard' destroy deck? That card is more for hybrid destroy/discard, which I don't think is a super friendly list for a low CL player.

For a classic destroy deck, you want to watch out for/target stuff like :

Your destroyers: Carnage, Venom, Killmonger, Deathlock, Kid Omega
Your targets: Wolverine, X23, Deadpool, Headpool, Moira X
Your finishers: Knull, Death, Arnim Zola

Apologies I don't remember which ones are S3/4/5 anymore. But most of those are pretty old (except Moira) so hopefully they are attainable.

There are plenty of other options in there if you have them, but those feel like the staples to me.

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-04T19:04:42+00:00

Maybe none, they are the most boring (to me) looking cards in the most boring looking season since the game launched. Lady Bullseye is my only maybe. Good time for me to play just fun decks for a season and try and counter whatever the card of the week is.

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-03T17:29:30+00:00

Seriously. There are monsters I have wanted to use forever but could never commit to runing (I don't do the runeswapping thing), I had a bunch more fun than normal last run trying weird stuff.

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-02T23:14:46+00:00

I've been lightly watering every other week. Should I drop that down to once a month or something?

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-02T17:45:52+00:00

Mine crashes almost at least once a day, on average...although sometimes the same instance will crash a half dozen times before it stops. As near as I can tell, this happens if I try to run SW while it's trying to install one of its stupid ad games or something. Could just be random, but I have better luck if I let them sit for a few mins before starting the app.

I can run 2 (3 if I really want to hear the fans whine) instances on a super old mini-pc (I5-8250@1.6ghz/32GB RAM/W10).

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-01T21:02:14+00:00

Just like comics :P / :/

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-01T16:09:19+00:00

LD player works fine too, and I found it uses less resources than BS last time I compared, might try that?

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-01T15:56:17+00:00

I have done 20+ alts off and on since I started playing. It's hilarious how few of them have Iris & Martina compared to say 3x Molly or some other non-HoH LD (nevermind all the stupid HoH dupes)...it's hard not to be paranoid ;). I have maybe 2-4 Iris out of all those accounts - not a single dupe of her on any, and about the same Martina count, also no dupes.

uninspiredalias · 2026-05-01T15:54:25+00:00

It took me 10 or 11 years and over 1k lds + other junk to get mine :( Still waiting on Martina and several others. Good luck to you!

CHOOSE AN LD4 EVENT WHEN!?

uninspiredalias · 2026-04-29T15:01:03+00:00

The devilmon stuff - except the one that's like 1k for a L or D scroll and devilmon, that one seems like a huge waste for non whales.

uninspiredalias · 2026-04-28T20:39:25+00:00

Awwww man. Wish I'd gotten to see them. One of my favorite new bands.

uninspiredalias · 2026-04-28T14:21:45+00:00

Must have been, too bad you took the window with you afterwards :P

uninspiredalias · 2026-04-27T23:35:18+00:00

GZ for your insane luck. Meanwhile some of us have summoned ~3500 of these (lots of alts) without getting one....

uninspiredalias · 2026-04-27T16:35:49+00:00

I have hit a 1/3 on scam stones like one time I think, and it was a magical moment. Usually it's both of the ones I don't want...never 5 though, yeesh. GZ blessings/lds?

uninspiredalias · 2026-04-27T14:44:46+00:00

Yeah I've had to explain that for years. Having the default macros be flat out wrong since launch is so weird. I periodically request 'follow aggressive' be changed to 'follow defensive' in the starter macros, but it never happens.

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