And it does spectacular damage for a rare if the opponent uses an all purple team. It also does standard damage for a rare if the opponent only uses a single purple troop. Good thing there’s scouting, anybody willing to adapt to the opponent team is going to get way above average value out of this troop.
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also trying to introduce this troop into purple day GW defense team might give some effects, if it has a chance to cast- it will damage every troop and drain some mana
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Imagine your 1st slot troop costing 27 mana to fill.
Lord of Slaughter was nerfed from 24 mana cost to 27 mana cost (with no half-mana start for wargare or construct)
That’s rough…
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Good day fellow spoiler fans, are we getting a new delve this friday?
Mythic this Friday. New delve not until 7/24? I think 5.0 will come first.
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Yeah that’s rough, but odds are it wouldn’t need to get a cast off anyways in most content. stick it with both empowered skull creators, and a cleanser (just in case) and you have a solid chance to 1 round lots of fights.
IMHO - I don’t think it’ll see a ton of use.
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I doubt it will see any regular use, just like the rest of the gnolls. The devs can’t even select proper artwork and unique mechanics for it because they really don’t care about delivering an interesting playing experience anymore.
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I’m still pretty excited for it, but I love glass cannon troops.
At first glance, it does seem to be an “Skull-bait or bust” troop. But then, I thought Sycorax was going to be terrible and I was dead wrong about that. Playtest it first, results will follow.
You get an old Invasion instead.
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that the Faction being so late indicates an adjustment to delves. 
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Moar gems for potions and extraturns 50cents each!
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I doubt it. Its probably just a new game mechanic for the faction troops that they want to introduce to the game that’s not possible until the game is updated
Guild Wars and a World Event both scheduled for July 27 - Aug 2
That’s going to be a craptactular week
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Ouch on that mana cost nerf. For a troop who needs gem alignment to be able to cast safely, that seems harsh. I wonder if it was able to loop itself with the doomskull explosions easily?
Like Umenath (and several other Mythics, when you think about it), without any proper skull protection, Lord of Slaughter is really not going to be best suited for the first slot, despite having traits that would suggest otherwise. As a converter, I’m sure he’ll still fit on some teams, despite his problems. Can’t see building a team around him though, that’s just a really high mana cost for what seems like a lesser Bloodhammer, with a bit more comeback factor.
I also really don’t care for that second trait, having a doomstorm up long before Lord of Slaughter can cast seems like a recipe for backfiring. Troop just seems too risky to rely on (on attack, at least).
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If the raise in Mana cost from 24-27 is due to the RNG riddled death marks that have NEVER helped a skull spam based team. I ask that you remove the bull shit death marks and keep the cost at 24. @Designer who’s never built a great GoW team in his/her life.
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so this is fun…
We’re getting Kingdom Levels over 15. I mean, it was known for awhile now, but now they’re putting details in the background.
Kingdom Team Bonus V
Book of Ice Deeds
Book of Nature Deeds
Book of Fire Deeds
Book of Air Deeds
Book of Magic Deeds
Book of Stone Deeds
Book of Imperial Deeds
14 [KINGDOM_LEVEL_NAME_16]
Arena
15 [KINGDOM_LEVEL_NAME_17]
Shrine
16 [KINGDOM_LEVEL_NAME_18]
War Tower
17 [KINGDOM_LEVEL_NAME_19]
Mausoleum
18 [KINGDOM_LEVEL_NAME_20]
Monument to %1
Book of Deeds: Used for Upgrading Kingdoms beyond Level 15
Book of Imperial Deeds: Rarest of the Books of Deeds used to Upgrade any Kingdom to even greater Levels
Why do I have a bad feeling about this?
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Because you haven’t thought this through yet. Going by current crafting costs, Book of Deeds will require 10000 Writs, Book of Imperial Deeds 100000 Writs. There you go, now you have a very bad feeling about this. 
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And look! We gave you a daily task of 10 writs, so you can be on your way to crafting these new items! Yay! - Devs.
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Don’t worry, I’m sure it will only take a year to fully upgrade all kingdoms. Right? Right? 
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