There seem to be no ties in this game, the first one to strike the lethal wins, and since they casted the speels to lethal range before you attacked you lost, I assume it happens even if your strikes would life steal you above the treshold for losing..
onceFiora hits 4 procs or the nexus is down to 0 it's game over it doesn't matter what happens after that.
I prefer it that way.. cause a tie in hs for example.. means both players lost.. at least in this way someone wins..
maybe the only way to actually tie a game is to deal damage to both nexuses at the same time, there's currently only one card that does it in the caskets.. SO maybe it's possible.. but it's a fringe case atm cause nobody is playing casket seller atm
As i already said, a fast & frequent patch/fix policy implies their quality check is bound to get worse in time.
They know they can always fix things later, after release why worry too much?
But hey, everyone downvoted me when i pointed it out (when Galakrond cards were obviously OP) and everyone was happy with frequent fixes....
There you go.
There's a difference between bad QA to careless balancing.
a bug is not a game balance problem
I just think blizzard goes by the model they make people unhappy but then fix the issue to make people satisfied.. instead of having the things right in the first place..
Quite certain you can't get champion duplicates, think you can't get duplicate of epics as well.
Well except if you happen to have all epics/champions.
About the dust value it seems to be 15/100 for common and 60/300 for rare, so around 1/5 of the value of the card so 240/1200 for epic and 600/3000 for champion
They knew about it about a month ago when the card was leaked.. Was sure it would be fixed by the time the card would be released but adding a tag to a card turns out to be too much work.
normal (named as story now) is laughably easy and heroic which is challenge mode is like normal difficulty..
there should be story(unlocks cards) normal(deck building) and heroic (ACTUALLY HARD!!!).
chapter 3 looked promising, a deathrattle deck that can pop them for 1 mana.. that's really challenging right? wrong! he trigger your deathrattles too so it's easy, the moment you gain board control you win.
A Skruk that buffs all his deck and board and hand by +1/+1 every turn for 1 mana.. 50% of his deck are weapons, the other half useless kobolds..
And 2 identical fights that are quite just ok, not hard enough though.
On the evil side it was a pure joke, heroic could be called easy mode for what it's worth...
The first one all his deck are dragons so dragon slayer and dragonmaw poacher make him a joke, the second one is the only one that made me make a custom deck(patron warrior) and is identical to the explorers so I am just annoyed it's the same fight, not even a twist.
and the dragons? it's a joke right? stall 10 turns.. just pick mage and freeze the board every turn.. not even close..
I don't know why they made them so easy... I remember trying again and again and again on BRM,naxx and frozen throne(only lich king, really) and having hard time trying to beat the bosses with many many tries.. this is a breeze.
and what annoys me is that it's obvious they made them easier.. cause they could make the dragon boss only trigger his on DRs they could made the dragon hunter actually having a functional deck (I passed for 5 turns doing NOTHING.. and still won), and the ships.. at least have ANY difference between the fights.. add some cannons only eudora has and cannons only the wanderer has..
so all the downvoters are happy that games played after the first 3 wins per day are practically worthless..? xd
It's not worthless I don't think I need to be rewarded for every time I play, the progression is fine but I am having fun when I play the game so it's not my main focus.
and why worthless when you get a lot of exp per win? AND also per lose.. you must not have played Hearthstone.. in Hearthstone you get only the quests and then every 3 wins(and ONLY if you win) you get 1/5 of the minimum quest reward in this game you get 1/5 of the minimum quest reward EVERY WIN as well as 4/10, 1/5 and 1/10 for the first 3 wins daily..
Let's assume You need 2 dailies worth of exp on average to get a reward.. you get at minimum for your first 3 wins 1000+ 600(200 per win) + 400 + 200+ 100 =2300 exp per day for 3 wins.
On average -2000 exp~pack in hs = 100 gold. The ratio is 20 exp= 1 gold.
In hearthstone you get 70 gold for 3 wins(if you didn't reroll for the worse tier or a chance of better reward for some reason) in this game you get 115 gold for your first 3 wins (+ quest) each day.
Here you get much more for the same effort of grinding and a reward in runettera is much more effective (also contributed to a weekly chest+ token + shards) than a potential 40 dust lowest roll pack possible in HS.
Another factor is the first 10 wins games give 200 exp 1/10 of reward so it's similar to 10 gold.. and you get it every win as opposed to every 3 wins.
Also imagine if you got 5 gold per lose in hearthstone as well..
Last calculation: Let's say you play 15 games daily, win 10 lose 5 and complete your quest while at it, in Runettera you get 210 gold(+ progression toward the weekly chest) in hearthstone you get 110 gold.
Have 0 faith in blizzard, specially now that Mike and Peter are out, I doubt they will make anything new, and specially with all the bad decisions and management in the company.
What you are suggesting is a custom mode it's a nice idea but it's blizzard, they are so slow to create new stuff and when they do it's infested with bugs... And don't get optimistic with any rewards...
So I want to give LoR a chance to prove itself (to me). I know some people already enjoy it. I've played quite a few matches vs. the AI to get my "feet wet". Building up XP and unlocking a few cards and some wildcards...not many though...I don't see this game, IMHO, being very generous to F2P. With that said, maybe I will get many more "Rewards" as I play more and begin to attempt to build decks.
I've looked online and any of the "good" Meta decks are not even close to being craftable for me. I don't have anywhere near the number of cards needed. So I looked up budget decks...once again, I don't have enough cards and/or wildcards to create these either = (
So I took a starter deck and updated it the best I could. Went into play mode and got absolutely destroyed. The decks I faced were MUCH better than mine and they seemed to have an answer for everything. Granted I've only played a handful of Normal games and a couple of Ranked games; but I want to keep playing and see where I can go with the game.
However, as I probably stated before, I have a lot of time and money invested in both Arena and HS (and I enjoy both games); so I really don't see Runeterra pulling me in. I won't give up on it yet though.
I apologize if this comes across as just complaining -- btw, it probably does : /
If anyone has any good websites or advice for a beginning Runeterra player with other card game experience (e.g. me...LOL), I would be happy to listen to people that probably know a lot more than I do. Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for any assistance : )
Continue playing, you won't get a competitive deck on day 1.. specially when everyone else is playing a week+ just try to get wins with the starter decks for now.. or go against AI for the first week or so.. you should aim for level 4 rewards on each set that way you will get enough to craft any deck you want (except legendaries)
I haven't played with Ashe, but she has two really poor downsides - her 5/3 body doesn't seem to work well with her ability, and I don't understand why I have to use my next draw step to draw the Crystal Arrow when she levels up. You really need to have a lot go right in a game for this card to work. I've seen some pretty spectacular games with her, but I felt they were fairly selective.
You don't skip your draw, the arrow got "draw a card" attached to it.
besides it's a card that has an actual cost of 5 if it was a stand alone card.
Swim said Ashe decks are actually quite good specially vs elusives, dunno maybe you need 3 copies of ashe.
I agree on Kalista she went from being an auto include to being really bad after the nerf even if she levels up she is not that scary.. needs a rework.. or quick attack back..
I think Vladimir is ok, not tier 1 but braum + vlad is quite a potent deck if played right it's more trickstery/combo based build and I am sure you need 3 copies of both Vladimir and Braum to run that deck to it's fullest potential. (played it in the preview, did fine).
I think the poros have been underwhelming didn't manage to make them work yet, I am sure they are also bad cause of Will of Ionia making the heart of fluff really sad.. so ye.. they kinda suck..
also Elites they seemed good at first but like Garen.. they are too straight forward and fair
I made a Leona, although it's missing her Level 2 form and I think I might have front-loaded too much on her base card:
Challenger is her E (jumping on people), while Tough is her natural tankiness (let's call it her W). She can stunlock people for a long time with Q and her ultimate, so that's her additional ability. The purpose of her as a card is to Challenger the big threats and shrug off the damage as best you can, all-the-while Stunning them into next week.
She has too much hp, either make her cost 6 or reduce her hp to 4 (tough is already quite strong.
I think Demacia is the wrong side class, probably should focus around Shadow Isles for the Croc or Noxus for Crowd Favorite. Tryndamere is probably not the champ you want either, probably Thresh,Vladimir(I've never tried him cuz I dont have him), or Elise? Harsh winds has 0 synergy in your deck. Radiant strike is bad here, war chefs is bad here, They Who Endure is really bad in this iteration of the deck, although if you went spiders and poros you might have something. Most of the Demacian cards you have in your deck do not synergize with Poros at all. In conclusion, half these cards should probably be replaced with better ones, if you are set on using poros.
If you really like the demacian cards in your deck, just run elites. Vanguard Sergeant is also a must if you have to use Demacia in this deck as well.
Also take this with a grain of salt because I'm not sure its gonna work, but you could try going mono class and using Avarosan Outsiders, with all the Elnuks and Yetis. You could even go barely Demacian to get Vanguard Redeemers and Vanguard Sergeants.
Yeah it's mostly a draft, didn't put too much thought into what exactly to put so I gone with "good cards"
demacia has really good spells like En Garde which is really good vs elusive, and Detain which I didn't include because I forgot to.
I have other decks, just really want to try and make a viable poro deck, and not a deck that happens to include poros which are the weaker part of the deck, but the focus of the deck being poros, tryndamere is kind of a filler card since there isn't too much card draw in the deck so you have to run high costed cards.. (by how the poro support cards are spread it's a midrange deck), don't have noxus cards almost at all.
Why war chefs are bad? this deck has a lot of 1/1s that should be able to trade..
I will try the spider approach (double tribal deck then..) wanted to try she they who endure with spiders anyway..
Demacia is there for the dawnspeakers as well cause it's a token deck.
There seem to be no ties in this game, the first one to strike the lethal wins, and since they casted the speels to lethal range before you attacked you lost, I assume it happens even if your strikes would life steal you above the treshold for losing..
onceFiora hits 4 procs or the nexus is down to 0 it's game over it doesn't matter what happens after that.
there's a similar thread with a Fiora case btw.
I prefer it that way.. cause a tie in hs for example.. means both players lost.. at least in this way someone wins..
maybe the only way to actually tie a game is to deal damage to both nexuses at the same time, there's currently only one card that does it in the caskets.. SO maybe it's possible.. but it's a fringe case atm cause nobody is playing casket seller atm
There's a difference between bad QA to careless balancing.
a bug is not a game balance problem
I just think blizzard goes by the model they make people unhappy but then fix the issue to make people satisfied.. instead of having the things right in the first place..
"early" they said it was a bug about 2 weeks ago and there was a patch since then..
Quite certain you can't get champion duplicates, think you can't get duplicate of epics as well.
Well except if you happen to have all epics/champions.
About the dust value it seems to be 15/100 for common and 60/300 for rare, so around 1/5 of the value of the card so 240/1200 for epic and 600/3000 for champion
They knew about it about a month ago when the card was leaked.. Was sure it would be fixed by the time the card would be released but adding a tag to a card turns out to be too much work.
normal (named as story now) is laughably easy and heroic which is challenge mode is like normal difficulty..
there should be story(unlocks cards) normal(deck building) and heroic (ACTUALLY HARD!!!).
chapter 3 looked promising, a deathrattle deck that can pop them for 1 mana.. that's really challenging right? wrong! he trigger your deathrattles too so it's easy, the moment you gain board control you win.
A Skruk that buffs all his deck and board and hand by +1/+1 every turn for 1 mana.. 50% of his deck are weapons, the other half useless kobolds..
And 2 identical fights that are quite just ok, not hard enough though.
On the evil side it was a pure joke, heroic could be called easy mode for what it's worth...
The first one all his deck are dragons so dragon slayer and dragonmaw poacher make him a joke, the second one is the only one that made me make a custom deck(patron warrior) and is identical to the explorers so I am just annoyed it's the same fight, not even a twist.
and the dragons? it's a joke right? stall 10 turns.. just pick mage and freeze the board every turn.. not even close..
I don't know why they made them so easy... I remember trying again and again and again on BRM,naxx and frozen throne(only lich king, really) and having hard time trying to beat the bosses with many many tries.. this is a breeze.
and what annoys me is that it's obvious they made them easier.. cause they could make the dragon boss only trigger his on DRs they could made the dragon hunter actually having a functional deck (I passed for 5 turns doing NOTHING.. and still won), and the ships.. at least have ANY difference between the fights.. add some cannons only eudora has and cannons only the wanderer has..
/rant
His deck sucks, just beat him with big priest, it's not like in normal mode, he has like 50% of his deck weapons, the other half bad minions.
I feel bad.. wanted a challenge.. got a really really badly designed boss.
GJ to blizzard's QA once more
^ this wasn't fixed, crafted some cards today, and still had the bug.
It's not worthless I don't think I need to be rewarded for every time I play, the progression is fine but I am having fun when I play the game so it's not my main focus.
and why worthless when you get a lot of exp per win? AND also per lose.. you must not have played Hearthstone.. in Hearthstone you get only the quests and then every 3 wins(and ONLY if you win) you get 1/5 of the minimum quest reward in this game you get 1/5 of the minimum quest reward EVERY WIN as well as 4/10, 1/5 and 1/10 for the first 3 wins daily..
Let's assume You need 2 dailies worth of exp on average to get a reward.. you get at minimum for your first 3 wins 1000+ 600(200 per win) + 400 + 200+ 100 =2300 exp per day for 3 wins.
On average -2000 exp~pack in hs = 100 gold. The ratio is 20 exp= 1 gold.
In hearthstone you get 70 gold for 3 wins(if you didn't reroll for the worse tier or a chance of better reward for some reason) in this game you get 115 gold for your first 3 wins (+ quest) each day.
Here you get much more for the same effort of grinding and a reward in runettera is much more effective (also contributed to a weekly chest+ token + shards) than a potential 40 dust lowest roll pack possible in HS.
Another factor is the first 10 wins games give 200 exp 1/10 of reward so it's similar to 10 gold.. and you get it every win as opposed to every 3 wins.
Also imagine if you got 5 gold per lose in hearthstone as well..
Last calculation: Let's say you play 15 games daily, win 10 lose 5 and complete your quest while at it, in Runettera you get 210 gold(+ progression toward the weekly chest) in hearthstone you get 110 gold.
So your complaining doesn't makes sense.
if fiora killed one minion after leveling up she needs to kill just another one, she is at 3 kills not 2..
and even if she was at 2, the blocking/attacking order matters, if the fiora attacks first she wins.
unless it's a second fiora?
If you feel the game is a grind and don't enjoy playing.. Maybe you should not be playing.
Have 0 faith in blizzard, specially now that Mike and Peter are out, I doubt they will make anything new, and specially with all the bad decisions and management in the company.
What you are suggesting is a custom mode it's a nice idea but it's blizzard, they are so slow to create new stuff and when they do it's infested with bugs... And don't get optimistic with any rewards...
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/warcraft-iii-reforged
It got worse 0.5 from 15k negative ratings..
Wow blizzard how hard you can screw up.. Seriously releasing the same game with slightly better graphics, and *removing* features.
Anyway people are losing interest in blizzard which is good since maybe they will change their greed policy.
Continue playing, you won't get a competitive deck on day 1.. specially when everyone else is playing a week+ just try to get wins with the starter decks for now.. or go against AI for the first week or so.. you should aim for level 4 rewards on each set that way you will get enough to craft any deck you want (except legendaries)
You don't skip your draw, the arrow got "draw a card" attached to it.
besides it's a card that has an actual cost of 5 if it was a stand alone card.
Swim said Ashe decks are actually quite good specially vs elusives, dunno maybe you need 3 copies of ashe.
I agree on Kalista she went from being an auto include to being really bad after the nerf even if she levels up she is not that scary.. needs a rework.. or quick attack back..
I think Vladimir is ok, not tier 1 but braum + vlad is quite a potent deck if played right it's more trickstery/combo based build and I am sure you need 3 copies of both Vladimir and Braum to run that deck to it's fullest potential. (played it in the preview, did fine).
I think the poros have been underwhelming didn't manage to make them work yet, I am sure they are also bad cause of Will of Ionia making the heart of fluff really sad.. so ye.. they kinda suck..
also Elites they seemed good at first but like Garen.. they are too straight forward and fair
By draft I meant I put stuff that seemed good for testing the deck, used cards I had without crafting more of them.
By focus I meant I wanted to make poro snax + buffing the poros and braum the main deal I guess it could be just a side strategy for now...
I gone with the spider strategy felt strong, except the poros XD, turns out spiders are good.
Might try yip if I get him I am currently slotted into P&Z as my reward region.
She has too much hp, either make her cost 6 or reduce her hp to 4 (tough is already quite strong.
But runettera also have long animation times (Draven axes, champion level ups.. Etc)
I saw on reddit it's being addressed though (riot response).
Yeah it's mostly a draft, didn't put too much thought into what exactly to put so I gone with "good cards"
demacia has really good spells like En Garde which is really good vs elusive, and Detain which I didn't include because I forgot to.
I have other decks, just really want to try and make a viable poro deck, and not a deck that happens to include poros which are the weaker part of the deck, but the focus of the deck being poros, tryndamere is kind of a filler card since there isn't too much card draw in the deck so you have to run high costed cards.. (by how the poro support cards are spread it's a midrange deck), don't have noxus cards almost at all.
Why war chefs are bad? this deck has a lot of 1/1s that should be able to trade..
I will try the spider approach (double tribal deck then..) wanted to try she they who endure with spiders anyway..
Demacia is there for the dawnspeakers as well cause it's a token deck.