And that was “New and improved GW” round#2. As a short recap: Old, good working GW was canceled over a year ago to “improve things”. When it came back, it was already way more flawed then the old version. I pointed out several things there which needed improvement then, and for whatever reason, April GW was cancelled and GW delayed to end of May which we just had. While apparently nothing had changed, and the leaderboard pairing just showed it does not properly work. Something we also already had last time, but it was brushed under the rug because “no scores to actually form a leaderboard yet”.
Quite frankly, I don’t understand why you don’t get your act together here. You HAD it working for years before you took it down to “improve it”. You worked on this “reimagined GW” for a year, and just took the needed stuff out to add the pathing roads and dumbed down defense system, while at the same time clamping the Attack teams down to one kingdom. Kingdoms, which vary hard in their usefulness. Like first time we would get Mist of Scales or Nexus, the attack teams will look like powerlevel 9000 compared to what we could use so far. Anyway, here I go again since apparently last time nobody gave a fuck.
- thing we desperatly need back, is a god damn Guild internal scoreboard, to SEE Who is playing, Who is making how many points. This is essential if you want to have guilds compete in ranking with each other. They need to see which players are slacking and need replacement. WE HAD THAT in old GW. I don’t know which genius thought taht has to go, but bring it back.
- The “guild internal” scoring, would also help to find those numb nuts in your guild who waste all their 5 attacks on the stupid Gate.
On day#4 for us, seemingly a few extra members tried to troll the rest of us who takes GW serious and want to score high. But since we can’t check Who does that shit, we can’t start asking them specificly to change their attitude or leave before they get kicked if they do that crap again. Seriously: GIVE US THE SCORING BACK! Why even have a ranking board for Guilds if guilds have no method to sharpen their claws? - On a similar note: Give us back a way to see how our Defenses do. You limited the Defenses to specific buildings. Fine. But now give us a method to see how successful they actually are, so we can change and improve non-working teams. We had that already back in old GW days and while it was not perfect, at least it gave us some chance to improve on defenses.
- And from there I jump right into the 6 Kingdoms we have, with their various “Defenses”. As far as I see it, their different mechanics for their precious Guardian, who only shows up at the Gate OR in “empty building” slots is pretty much meaningless. Probably better then nothing but for the upper Leaderboard were 27 people block building spots, it feels meaningless. However, what plays an excellent role here Defense wise, are the buildings themselves. The Kingdoms have a good variety of strong and weak Defense buildings. For example Stryx building? Laughable. Dragon, Elemental, Mystic or Naga building are a whole different story. Which brings us to one especially critical Kingdom: The Green one
Most other kingdoms have a somewhat fine spread out Defense. But the Green one, has Divine and Naga in the direct Inner Defense before Palace. Palace itself with complete access to everything Green is also pretty hardcore compared to other Kingdoms but that is color specific and for example Blue can rather sport a pimped Glaycia, etc.. But 2x Takshaka hell up there feels like too much. Can Takshaka teams be beaten? Yes. Is it easy? Often, no. Basically if they get two casts out, you might be in deep trouble. So back to the Kingdoms: Red kingdom has zero Divine/Naga building. Yellow has Divine in the middle defense. Purple has Naga in the middle defense. Blue has zero Divine/Naga. Brown has zero Divine/Naga. WHY has Green then both Divine+Naga and both in the top Defense spots?? Seriously, take one of those buildings out there and replace it with something less powerful. Maybe drop the surviving building into the middle to bring it in line with other color kingdoms? Or, just an idea that was probably voiced often enough since Takshaka was introduced, nerf his card?? Its insane true damage on two targets, which we can’t evade with deluge. And his Gem spamming to fill up, gets worry some if Three Taks show up to defend a Blood Frenzy PvP Kingdom or the GW Defense Buildings, wer the card itself gets buffed for higher stats. The Green Kingdom is certainly an outliner. Granted, we only fought 2of4 matches there but over long it will be the “default kingdom” because it kinda has the strongest Defense options in preventing the enemy to get points. I would not be surprised if the actual top guilds would all use Green Kingdom and in theory would have to fight near always in Green Kingdom as well. But since the ranking apparently got its own problems in not properly working, hard to check it probably. - Btw. what about Chrys? Wand of Stars is still changed to Prismatic Orb (often seen in Defenses). Stellarix probably still gets downgraded to Diamantina. But not many defense building options for him in the first place so not seen that often these days. Still, Chrys goes unchecked in the Defenses were applicable. Like Palace, or Elemental. Chrys is similar to Stellarix a huge asset with extreme potential dmg. If it casts once, your team is probably in deep trouble. Two casts, he can manage to loop that fine enough, and your team might be toast. Deluge at least helps here, so we can try to take tactical measures against Chrys. Still, the card is a bit extreme. If Stellarix gets still downgraded, maybe its time to downgrade Chrys too before we start Reimagined GW round3.
