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Grundulum posted:New faction this weekend: The Warrens, which uses yellow and green troops. I don’t think there is a need for early vs late teams with this one. The following team is doing quite nicely to level 80, and should carry me as far as I want to go. As an alternative, I've been using: Silverglade Banner Titan/Rope Dart Stormsinger Diviner High King Irongut and I kind of love it (120 so far but scales well with both enemy stats and hoard level). Apothecary is another great option for gem converter with a banner change. Bless is the worst though. No entangle, no devour, just terrible.
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If the kind folks of Gem Blossums could see their way to destroying 4 more towers in this week's Invasion, we could pick up the level 3 rewards... I seem to have hit my limit at stage 5.
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Dec 30, 2018 23:00
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Just got keeper of souls. Is it a good one to try to level up and trait out? If so any good teams with it?
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Dec 31, 2018 01:21
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Piggy Smalls posted:Just got keeper of souls. Is it a good one to try to level up and trait out? If so any good teams with it? The trait for Bonus Souls is good for a soul farming team for doing Explores. His ability isn’t amazing for clearing chaff - The Dragon Soul is best for that, but I wouldn’t be unhappy pulling him. He’s definitely not a core troop for PvP or PvE worth trying to build a team around
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Dec 31, 2018 01:53
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As someone still pretty early in the game, I'm finding the Mountain Crusher / Apothecary / Goblin Rocket / Keeper of Souls team that someone suggested carries me through many fights that my other teams can't touch, including all three dungeons if I'm lucky. So if you don't have a ton of legendary troops yet I wouldn't pass up KoS.
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Dec 31, 2018 02:58
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Maugrim posted:If the kind folks of Gem Blossums could see their way to destroying 4 more towers in this week's Invasion, we could pick up the level 3 rewards... I seem to have hit my limit at stage 5. Sure I'll give it a shot. EDIT: Yay we got Stage 3 rewards. Annointed fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Dec 31, 2018 |
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Dec 31, 2018 04:08
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Annointed posted:Sure I'll give it a shot. Yeah I pushed myself a bit. gently caress using a Stryx team ever again. I will say though that Invasion/Bounty Hunter/class events are particularly difficult to participate in even as someone who's been playing for 6 months. There's just too drat many different troop types to try and keep a leveled/traited team, so I usually don't even bother trying for them. Most of Gem Blossums is probably the same. With the delves (and doom tower?) at least it's by color and there's only so many of those (although I still haven't bothered with those either  )
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Dec 31, 2018 04:28
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Manyorcas posted:Yeah I pushed myself a bit. gently caress using a Stryx team ever again. To be honest delves kind of suck. It's so long and chances are you might end up with chaos shards instead of legendary and mythic ingots.
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Dec 31, 2018 04:31
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I guess my attitude as a new player is I don't mind part-levelling and part-traiting a few troops for each event to push as far as I can - it's an opportunity to try out something I wouldn't normally, it gives progress towards levelling kingdom power, and increases my tiny pool of powered troops ready to include in whatever future events come up. But yeah I can see it being an unwanted distraction if you already have a dozen legendaries you're trying to level/trait up.
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Dec 31, 2018 08:55
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Currently tearing through the tower with: Horned Banner (Wild Plains) Gargoyle Infernus Yao Guai Ogryn All fully traited. Only on floor 3 but I have a feeling this team is gonna melt a lot of face before I have to start paying attention. Night Danger Moose fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Dec 31, 2018 |
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Dec 31, 2018 16:34
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Week of 12/31 - Purple/Red (Dark) Arcane Traitstone - 1 stone for 300 Glory. This week also has a bounty event and a new mythic for Suncrest. Time to use your orbs of clan once you reach 1500 seals. Notable Troops: Queen Titania (Legendary) - There are a few teams that rely on generating and using large amounts of red gems and mana. Queen Titania is used for the random faerie fire. Sekhma (Legendary) - Dual converter boosted by are ally's magic, and gains magic on red matches. Can have high damage when paired with summoners, especially paired with the dual convert. The Dragon Soul (Legendary) - Still one of the most popular troops in the game. Generates souls, deals ok damage to all troops. Will be the basis of your soul farming team for a long time. Sunbird (Epic) - Useful for clearing explores very quickly, since a high level sunbird can wipe out most explore teams in one cast. If anything lives, a second cast or a skull match will usually finish the fight. Wisp (Epic) - This thing is really irritating. Two wisps can lock the board down and charm can deal surprising damage if it overlaps. Honorable Mentions: Umberwolf (Legendary) - The whole Bat Swarm/Nosferatu/Umberwolf triad is really weird, but it can work. Transform is a full heal, but you lose any enhanced stats from traits and spells. You really need all three full ascended and traited to make it work. Rock Troll (Epic) - Tanky troll. Skeleros (Epic) - Spell is like a troll for skulls. It is too likely to leave a board full of 4 and 5 skull matches for the AI to use. Runesmith (Ultra-Rare) - Buffs attack and armor, useful on dwarf teams, especially paired with Lady Ironbeard. Summoner (Rare) - Heals and summons, making a useful stall troop. Orcs have a gimmick where they gain stats when they take damage. Combine with Summoner's healing and this can be very frustrating. Other Legendaries: Carnex - Seems like it should be useful, but pairing a trait that enhances skull damage with a spell that eats skulls doesn't work well. Medea - There just aren't enough synergistic mystics to give Medea a chance to shine. The mythics that use Dark traitstones are: Death - Death mark all enemies can be completely useless. Or it kills half your team the second turn. Chip damage that buffs his spell damage. Zuul'Goth - Oh Zuuly, you nut. Suna - Nukes the weakest enemies, weakens the strongest enemies, random faerie fires. Very similar to Queen Titania, just better. Infernus - Still amazing. Elemaugrim - Can replace The Dragon Soul on dragon teams without interfering much. Its third trait can completely lockdown a poorly balanced team. Gargantuar - The mythic orc. The spell can be deadly if a battle goes on for a long time and both sides have summoners or healers. One of the least useful mythics.
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Dec 31, 2018 20:05
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Tower so far for Gem Blossums if anyone is interested: Floor 1 Rare - Unlock Ultra Rare - Life Epic - Life Legendary - Armor Floor 2 Rare - Unlock Ultra Rare - Life Epic - Attack Legendary - Armor Floor 3 Rare - Fireball Ultra Rare - Unlock Epic - Life Legendary - Armor Floor 4 Rare - Armor Ultra Rare - Life Epic - Unlock Legendary - Life Maugrim fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Dec 31, 2018 22:54
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I'll start the Gem Boiz room list I guess! Floor 1 Rare - Life Ultra Rare - Unlock Epic - Life Legendary - Life Floor 2 Rare - Armor Ultra Rare - Magic Epic - Life Legendary - Unlock Floor 3 Rare - Unlock Ultra Rare - Magic Epic - Haste Legendary - Haste Floor 4 Rare - Magic Ultra Rare - Life Epic - Unlock Legendary - Power Floor 5 Rare - Armor Ultra Rare - Life Epic - Armor Legendary - Unlock Floor 6 Rare - Attack Ultra Rare - Unlock Epic - Fireball Legendary - Life Floor 7 Rare - Attack Ultra Rare - Unlock Epic - Life Legendary - Luck Bandire fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jan 1, 2019 |
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Jan 1, 2019 01:06
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FYI, I am writing a new OP. It’ll have a bunch of information from my effortposts in it. I don’t want to be the one who posts it, though. The new year is bringing a lot of changes to my non-GoW life, and I can’t guarantee how long I’ll be around to curate a new thread as GoW evolves. Here is the list of main topics, for which I will attempt to make hideous graphics that would do well on a GeoCities page. After each item is a list in parentheses of subtopics. What should I change about this skeleton?
I can find my own effortposts pretty easily, since there are (only?) 27 pages of my posts to sift through. If other players wrote extended descriptions they don’t mind me
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Jan 1, 2019 23:59
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Floor 8 Rare - Fireball Ultra Rare - Unlock Epic - Life Legendary - Life Floor 9 Rare - Armor Ultra Rare - Power Epic - Unlock Legendary - Life Floor 10 Rare - Unlock Ultra Rare - Life Epic - Attack Legendary - Armor Enkor fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Jan 2, 2019 09:09
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Grundulum posted:FYI, I am writing a new OP. It’ll have a bunch of information from my effortposts in it. I don’t want to be the one who posts it, though. The new year is bringing a lot of changes to my non-GoW life, and I can’t guarantee how long I’ll be around to curate a new thread as GoW evolves. I've asked some beginner questions and answered some beginner questions in not a lot of pretty recent posts. Check my history!
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Jan 2, 2019 09:24
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Really looking forward to the new OP and having all that great up to date info in one spot. I'd volunteer to post them but I haven't been playing long enough to know if I'm in this for the long term. Like you I have a ton of real life commitments and won't be able to keep up my current daily hours forever. Hopefully someone else is willing to step up...
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Jan 2, 2019 10:07
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Grundulum posted:FYI, I am writing a new OP. Manyorcas posted:I'd like to take a moment to explain exactly how kingdom levels/tribute/etc. work and why new players should put their gold there, since it's never really adequately explained in-game and it was never really explained in any one place online very well. Here's my post on gold/kingdoms from way back when. You've probably already written all this at some point in your post history anyway before I even started playing but just in case.
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Jan 2, 2019 16:52
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My current "best" team for hard fights is: Titan (rank 17) / Mountain Crusher (unlevelled because I've never got a gold ingot ever) Apothecary *** Goblin Rocket ** Keeper of Souls (No traits) This helps a lot with harder fights than I can manage with my soul-generating PvE team, but I'm still hitting my limit earlier than I'd like - I can rarely do the second dungeon let alone the third, for example, and can't get past the 3rd fight in pet rescues. Actually I've had more success with Archer main for this team, but I'm trying to level Titan since it seems to be so popular generally. Are there any other good combos I can try? I have Alchemist but not Hellcat. I've recently acquired Winter Imp and Dark Monolith. Link to my collection: http://gowdb.com/collection/9bc0477d5ff6c55aac99328bc14ddf30
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Jan 2, 2019 17:18
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Maugrim posted:Titan (rank 17) / Mountain Crusher (unlevelled because I've never got a gold ingot ever) Just a note with this, you can craft all ingots in the soul forge. It costs 10 of the previous ingot to make 1, but it helps if they refuse to drop for you.
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Jan 2, 2019 18:21
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Night Danger Moose posted:Just a note with this, you can craft all ingots in the soul forge. It costs 10 of the previous ingot to make 1, but it helps if they refuse to drop for you. Duly noted, thanks! *goes to look up how to unlock the soul forge*
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Jan 2, 2019 18:40
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Delve chests are the reason I'm swimming in legendary/mythic ingots.
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Jan 2, 2019 19:16
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What are the rooms past 10? And does anyone have a sweet team they are using? I feel like there must be a discord that the I’m missing out on.
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Jan 2, 2019 19:18
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Haven’t had a chance to do any ToD-ing yet, but here’s the team I intend to use: Blackhawk banner Mountain Crusher Valkyrie Tesla Something else The something else will be a support troop, since Tesla will be my primary damage dealer. Something that uses blue mana also is ideal, to catch the overflow from Valk’s casts. Jotnar or Megavore are my first choices for that slot, for different reasons. Jotnar will be more defensive (though his spell could be extremely useful to pick off troops and make Tesla more effective), while Megavore is more offensive (albeit completely useless in the boss rooms, since Dooms are immune to his trait). Edit: Maugrim, the next OP has a special section on the Soul Forge for just that reason.
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Jan 2, 2019 19:37
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Night Danger Moose posted:Currently tearing through the tower with: Floor 13 now, clearing every room. Zero losses yet. This team is pretty legit.
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Is there a trick to the pet battles? I can never get past #2 the guys are just insanely bigger than mine.
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Jan 2, 2019 20:07
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porktree posted:What are the rooms past 10? And does anyone have a sweet team they are using? I feel like there must be a discord that the I’m missing out on. I'm using Rope Dart / Titan Divinia Yao Guai Alchemist with meteor banner. It's pretty good so far, rope dart + yao guai is 2-shotting enemies and that won't last. I don't have the troops traited yet so maybe scrounging up some traitstones will help with floors 11+. And I think a lot of people are waiting for explorers; scout a couple floors and report!
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Jan 2, 2019 20:25
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Enkor posted:I'm using Interesting - I've been using Night Danger Moose's Horned Banner (Wild Plains) Gargoyle Infernus Yao Guai Ogryn With full success (Room 10) - but I felt like the Room 10 boss was pushing it a little.
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Jan 2, 2019 20:37
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I've been using Mountain Crusher Titan Tesla Dark Maiden Jotnar Similar to what Grundulum is running, but Dark Maiden covers green and gives hero life rather than souls as the secondary effect. Her color conversion is a little more flexible too. Are we able to give more than one individual edit rights on OPs on SA? I can't remember. I think you can make them wide open to everyone, but that could be messy.
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Jan 2, 2019 20:49
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EvilMayo posted:Is there a trick to the pet battles? I can never get past #2 the guys are just insanely bigger than mine. No, they're just very, very difficult past the first two. I couldn't get past the second one either until I had a serious combo team, and even then I could only reliably get up to ~5 or so.
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Jan 2, 2019 21:38
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porktree posted:Interesting - I've been using Night Danger Moose's I've been using: Lantern Banner Flamifer (Titan) Divinia Yao Guai Queen Titania It's taken me up through floor 18 just fine but starting to get tougher. Might need to swap Titania out for Megavore soon.
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porktree posted:What are the rooms past 10? And does anyone have a sweet team they are using? I feel like there must be a discord that the I’m missing out on. I'm not seeing them posted in guild chat or discord either. I think most people are just running blind and not posting results. Edit: Floor 11 Rare - Unlock Ultra Rare - Magic Epic - Life Legendary - Life Bandire fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Jan 2, 2019 22:42
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After kicking a few inactives I got four more open slots for Gem Blossums if anybody is interested.
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EvilMayo posted:Is there a trick to the pet battles? I can never get past #2 the guys are just insanely bigger than mine. A solid team that only requires two traited troops is Dwarven Gate x3 and Tesla or King Forgehammer. Power up the first two Gates and just keep looping them until the 4th troop is full. The gates will keep everyone protected with a barrier, letting the team swing way above it's weight. If you don't get a favorable start, retreat and try again.
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Jan 3, 2019 12:58
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Well I guess I'll do another couple floors. (Gem boiz) Floor 12: Rare - LUCK Ultra Rare - Armor Epic - Attack Legendary - Unlock Floor 13: Rare - Unlock Ultra Rare - Armor Epic - LUCK Legendary - Armor Floor 14: Rare - Unlock Ultra Rare - Life Epic - Power Legendary - Attack Enkor fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Jan 3, 2019 |
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Jan 3, 2019 18:01
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Floor 15: Rare - Unlock Ultra Rare - Heroism Epic - Life Legendary - Life Bandire fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jan 4, 2019 |
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Jan 4, 2019 00:16
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Floor 16: Rare - Haste Ultra Rare - Unlock Epic - Life Legendary - Armor Floor 17: Rare - Attack Ultra Rare - Haste Epic - Unlock Legendary - Fireball
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Jan 4, 2019 05:09
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There is a new mythic troop available this week: Phoenicia of Suncrest. Gem Boiz is still far below our typical guild seal total, so make sure to collect any seals you have, and spend Orbs of Clans if you got ’em.
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I had a ton of orbs apparently (about 5k seals worth). Still short of 40k, but I pulled the new Mythic with 400 glory keys, lucky me. Seems like a good troop to pair with Infernus, but I think Suna is still a better fit. Probably OK given her colors, she'll be useful in guild wars or other games where troop choices are limited. Why did we get her after the Stryx raid/invasion week?
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Here’s something unusual: Gems of War is offering me 100 gems for $2. This is actually a really good deal on gems—better even than the 15 gems for 15 days option. If you were considering spending some money on the game, this is the time to do it.
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