Dev Q&A (Get Your Questions In!) Thursday

[Whiskeyjack]

@TheIdleOne

They love Imps and so do I. I wish they were a lot easier to get; I can’t even try to enjoy it if I don’t own most of them.

Don’t worry, right now you are not missing out on anything!

[efh313]

@Nephilim

We should have a baldie handsome-off. Lol

Count me in!

[Vangor]

@Eika

I can answer that. No I highly doubt it, what makes me doubt it so strongly is that crafting is around now and there will be a way to craft them whenever they appear there

Thats a good point i hadnt thought of but my issue is the only ony that has been available for me to mythic since i have been playing has been spooky. I doubt i will be able to craft enough of them to mythic the other 5.

[Eika]

Imp of Love and Winter Imp is in the Soulforge this week, brudda.

[Vangor]

S**t really? Lol those are the 2 i dont have lol

[Strat]

Yeah, I was think all this discussion about ‘finding’ them and the rarity… its been greatly relegated in that you can get an Imp for 800 diamonds.

[Saltypatra]

@Whiskeyjack @turintuor thanks for the write ups!!!

Next week I will make a video for you all. I’m so glad we got to do this, these streams have been in the pipeline for ages and I’m so happy we can bring them to you now.

At the moment it looks like we’ll be doing Tuesdays with me (and maybe a guest! Sirrian will be with me next week) and a q and a once a month.

[Nephilim]

Great news SP, I’m sure the whole of the community is enjoying these things and appreciates the time the devs are taking to engage with them.

[turintuor]

@Whiskeyjack

You get 500 bonus points for using a unique troop on defence, so a total of 24k bonus points for using 48 unique troops.

Only 24 troops so max 12k points.

[turintuor]

@Saltypatra

At the moment it looks like we’ll be doing Tuesdays with me (and maybe a guest! Sirrian will be with me next week) and a q and a once a month.

Could one of these guests be someone from the publisher?

[Saltypatra]

Hmmmm they are in America. If I ever get the opportunity I would love to have one with me one day!

[UKresistance]

Oh, a mythic Matilda for the common wealth games? That’s a holiday.

[Courtenay]

One comment about the picture for the GW defense screen: The white on yellow for the yellow day team name is more-or-less invisible; I hope that that is changed before release.

[SpecialRX]

Something I’ve been reflecting on recently, perhaps you can shed some light on it. I suppose my question is; ‘Whats it all about, eh?’

[Aelthwyn]

Thanks for the transcription.
Sadly the answers are very disappointing, as was to be expected.

@Whiskeyjack

• devs agree that wisp is a “little overpowered”.
• Graph shows it’s the 6th most used defence troop behind TDS and Nax for players at level 500+, so it’s not like it’s in every defence battle even if some players are experiencing that.
• they think wisp’s overpower comes from magic link and maybe mana cost, but it’s not as simple to just raise the cost as this hurts early game players without making much of a difference to end game
• Sirrian is thinking that magic link is therefore the main problem but wants to be certain. Nothing feels worse than nerfing a troop, and then realising it hasn’t worked so having to nerf it again
• they took a similar approach to bone dragon, which in the end required a client update for them to change it to work how they wanted. BD usage is now right in the sweet spot of usage as far as they are concerned.

There is some improvement. The devs finally admit there might be a problem with the Wisps.
lvl 500 is midgame. It would have been interesting to have the stats for lvl 1000+.
There have been many threads about Wisps. I don’t remember having read anything about the magic link.

@Whiskeyjack

• They have some ideas, like adding epic troops, removing the hero from arena, limiting certain weapons, or (as a temporary measure) stopping dawnbringer from showing up in defence.
• Nim suggests scaling hero back in arena but says some weapons are problematic - dawnbringer is just the latest (runic blade and burning scythe were the ones before it). It’s better to fix the problem in arena than to nerf weapons.

Funny that they say that Runic blade was problematic. It is still everywhere in arena and nothing has ever been done about it.
They have some ideas = nothing to expect in the near future, while Dawnbringer is killing arena.

@turintuor

GW defense rework for next patch. “Best 27 players” will be later.

Awesome! We are going to have the new UI that not many people except the devs seem to like but the one thing out of the tons of suggestions that had been made about GW that they agreed to implement is delayed to we don’t know when. Top guilds are going to keep on losing players thanks to GW, it seems.

[Arelana]

@Aelthwyn

It would have been interesting to have the stats for lvl 1000+.

It would have been 4th, behind Forest Troll, Kraken, and Mab.

@Aelthwyn

Funny that they say that Runic blade was problematic. It is still everywhere in arena and nothing has ever been done about it.

I can’t honestly say I consider Runic Blade problematic. I almost never lose to it. I can’t say the same about Dawnbringer.

@Aelthwyn

They have some ideas = nothing to expect in the near future, while Dawnbringer is killing arena.

Yep, that’s how it sounds to me as well.

[Aelthwyn]

@Arelana

It would have been 4th, behind Forest Troll, Kraken, and Mab.

Very probably.

@Arelana

I can’t honestly say I consider Runic Blade problematic. I almost never lose to it. I can’t say the same about Dawnbringer.

Same. The only problem with Runic blade is that it was until Dawnbringer the easiest way to win without effort in arena and it didn’t encourage creativity. Wich is a pity as arena is more about skill than about luck, contrary to what PVP has become. And there are many great weapons.
Dawnbringer can be defeated. But it takes some luck as well as some skill and it is not fun at all playing against it.

[Ezekial]

Dawnbringer makes it so no new players will be winning Arena without a lot of luck.

[Esoxnepa]

Magic link is one reason for them to be recharging too quickly after a cast.

I don’t think removing it fixes it, as I personally think the base spell is too cheap. It recharges too easily.

@Aelthwyn

I don’t remember having read anything about the magic link.

[Darkness]

Regrettably (since I want the game to improve so I can keep playing it and have fun) I completely agree with @Arelana and @Aelthwyn. Very disappointing answers that unfortunately were along the lines as was already expected.

Every day it is becoming more clear that the game has grown so much (too much!) that the devs that make the design choices simply don’t have the time to play anymore. There are many things illustrating this sad observation, of which Wisp is the most glaringly obvious one.

Remember, three weeks ago the devs thought removing mana surges from 4-matches would solve the issue of Wisp filling so fast…

CONSOLE: Will of the Wisp

Psst, one of the fixes coming in the VERYSOONTM update stops Wisps filling up so fast. The next update will remove mana surges on 4 of a kind matches.

But Wisp is fast and requires only 9 mana to fill, which means it starts at six mana. That means a single 3-match on the AI’s first turn would fill Wisp (and since Wisp is virtually always used in pairs, a mana surge on that single 3-mtach would fill both Wisps)… No 4-match required here.

Now if the devs actually played the game they’d know this, but the evidence obviously shows they don’t know. Only logical conclusion is that they don’t play anymore, meaning they have no clue as to what is OP, besides the “most used defense troop” stat. Which I will admit is useful for them, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Only playing the game can tell you the whole story…