I find your post ignorant, distasteful and just plain uncalled for. You should really refrain from calling someone a loser simply because you disagree with their opinion. Especially when that individual has contributed more to the community than you can imagine. Perhaps you should educate yourself more on the subject and individuals before posting such a useless comment.
As for the topic:
I agree that changing defenses would help the enjoyment of the game. I normally change my defense to help others get their snots, but this week was challenging (IRL) so I opted for my competitive defense as an easy out for me. Hopefully next week will be better and I can lead by example.
I’m also glad to hear that Bone Dragon will be changed. I’m starting to see him everywhere I look. After 30yrs you would think the LSD would be out of my system by now.
I will always change my game to defense teams to accommodate the current weeks event gems hunting.
Along with trying to make one that will award the most event gems a team can, ill also try to make it at least decent hard to beat. I dont think everyone would be happy to face 4 comons every match. Whats the point of playing if you dont do nothing to win?
Nice post that remind that Bone Dragon is not the problem but the overused of Bone Dragon in defense teams. And that ASAP he will be nerfed another will be in the nerf target… Forest Guardian? Guardians? IK?
I also put a defense according to the events but not so much players do that…
Players that are interested into putting teams to make a variety and/or help with event gems farming are already doing so. No post needed. Those that arent, wont be persuaded with any amount of posts into doing so
Of course. It’s a strange design to put events like that and hope that players will help each other…
I will prefer that defense team just disappear and that when we invade we have a sort of explore battle (according to the home kingdom of the defenser but the troops will be as strong as the player has). So, no more battle which depends of the META of the moment…
just make people using that def team to only face other players using that same team. maybe then they’ll learn. in the mean time, i’ll use annoying team too. Can’t stop them, join them. spread the toxicity.
Sorry I would delete thread but cannot find the option… did not mean offend anyone, just a suggestion… and those teams don’t take me one moment longer to defeat than any other more original team nor do I lose to them any more often either… my point was just that it gets redundant. Again sorry if I’ve offended people by creating the thread and if you can tell me how to remove it I will as I can see many people are just plain offensive in their replies xP
You shouldn’t apologize for posting a thread like this. People are voicing a dissenting opinion (and in some circumstances, unfiltered cynicism to go with it), but that doesn’t mean yours isn’t a valid opinion to have. It would be a shame if this response is enough to dissuade you from future posts.
Agree with what @Lyya said. You can’t expect everyone to have same opinions as you. Don’t get discouraged for posting your thoughts or idea in the future.
About topic: I agree with you about lack of team variations in PvP. But this kind of thing is inevitable. As long as there’s competition in a game, no matter how small it is, and competitive players around, you will expect a meta game. Here’s a good post from @Kurokazna about meta game and perfect imbalance in a game.
Same as asking people to not use Whitehelm as their home kingdom, you can’t expect everyone to change their defense deck in PvP too. Some people don’t care about defense wins, some people does. For those who care, they will always try to find a defense team that can get them as much defense win as possible, and as easy as possible to be played by AI. And for now, Bone Dragon deck (with any variations of it), is the easiest way to get some defense victory. Or they will put some annoying troops that can make some people rage quit (spirit fox, wraith, famine, etc). However, even though Bone Dragon get nerfed in the future, people will then find another meta and so on. And when some people find that new meta, others usually jump into that ship too and copy that team, make this kind of redundant stuff seems inevitable.
For now, what can we do as a player to get rid of boredom of facing the same team over and over again is to put a single troop defense. From my experience, while it gives you lesser PvP points, but it usually gives you a wider variations of team you fighting in PvP. Another way to get rid of boredom is to challenge myself to fight in PvP with some team variation, not just using the current powerhouses like EK, BD, or Gard. I hope that helps.
Do not apologize for having an opinion and willingly sharing it. There are far more people in this community that will respect your point of view and share their insights as well. Then there are those that… how should I say it? “Misery Loves Company” can best describe a few people in the world.
There were times at FNM that I would get annoyed with facing all the “meta” decks from the most recent Regional. I eventually left because of this redundancy. Simply because I stopped having fun. That will not be the case here with GoW though. There is enough variety in the game that I just go to another part of the game. There are many here that share the same feelings as you. We will not apologize for how we feel and neither should you.
BTW, I love your Jace Beleren avatar. I miss playing all the different ones. I mostly played “Control” decks.
^ This is actually why I mostly stopped playing. I’m nowhere near as active in-game any more because there are attack teams that just win everything in one turn. One of them just happens to be ridiculously easy to build, requiring only 16 Arcane Spirit stones and you have your entire team done. Sure, if you want to optimize, you need a bit more but does it REALLY matter what you put in that first slot? No, not really.
Also big thanks to @ZooKeeper for linking back to a rant I did that I was trying to find for reference to post in this and a couple other threads.
Just to be clear, I was asking about the dislike button for the post above mine, not the thread itself. Sadly, griefers will always be prevalent in the GoW (and real) world, along with sheeple that will run whatever they see in a video…because, you know, making your own team is super difficult and not fun at all.
Lol I stopped doing FNM for the same reason and now host EDH at my place Friday night with a few friends, I like that format a lot and have bout 40 different decks built…
I actually just changed from whitehelm because of this post. Maugrim Woods to match my new team and the only kingdom I have at double silver star powah @.@
Saved to my folder of “Moments when people can’t articulate an argument, so instead just tell someone to shut up because they have no comeback” screenshots.
No, the folder is not actually named that. But I need things like this to make me laugh every once in a while. Thanks, Majorbly!
