After the Mists of Scales event, I have enough trait stones to get Mercy or Webspinner to their third level trait, but not both, and I’ve been dithering over which to trait up for a week now. Even if I could scrape together a few more Arcane Swamp stones, I only have a couple of Celestial left and they are hard to come by… (unless you are my partner, who has 8 or 9 sitting in her hero’s collection )
Mercy
Pros:
One of the best Yellow Mana accelerators in the game with empowered
Works well with her fellow Whitehelm troops
Works well with the Valkyrie/Sunweaver combo that is my bread and butter offence team
Cons:
I have no really good yellow bombs to pair her with (e.g. the Great Maw, the Infernal King or even Gorgotha)
The AI, as with most healers, has a bad habit of sitting on her charged ability for a couple of turns, so I can’t guarantee my defenders will make the best use out of her.
Webspinner
Pros
Lethal Toxin (triple damage to poisoned troops) turns the Webspinner into pretty much a one skull match/kill after he fires off his ability once
Works well with my other legendary green troops (Venoxia and a fully-traited Spring Imp)
Also could work well with my Valkyrie/Sunweaver combo
Cons
As a defender, he would need to sit in the front of the group to make use of his trait which make him vulnerable to skull damage himself
Also, a good player won’t let the computer get many (if any) skull matches, and I have no skull generators outside of the old stand-by of the Skeleton
So, yeah, the two choices seem fairly well balanced. Eventually I hope I can get them both up there, but that will probably take months, so in the immediate term… Anyone have any suggestions or other thoughts?
True since you don’t usually see immune to frozen traits. But in general poison would give more lingering options.
That all said for the op, 2 other things to consider, which one fits your playstyle/do you have more fun with and which kingdom are you closer to raising the power level? Even if Mercy is better all around, if Webspinner"s trait helps push the score over or get you close, go for it.
Personally I also use Webspinner way more than Mercy but I have my reasons.
I say wait until 2.0 goes and see what troop changes are made and then if nothing happens to Mercy and Webspinner, take the above advice. If something does happen to one or both, solicit new opinions
Play a few matches with the lineup you would use with a fully traited webspinner and estimate how much easier life would get with her 3rd trait. If you like what you see, trait Webspinner.
Else, wait to see balance changes tomorrow.
Mercy has more potential with different lineups the way she is right now and not traiting her for the lack of Great Maw, Infernal King or Gorgotha is no solid point imo, cause you’ll eventually get one or two of the three. And you’ll likely get them faster than the arcane stones needed to level mercy if you choose Webspinner over her.
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