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Post by Pimento on Jul 14, 2015 1:44:41 GMT
So recently i've tried a few more tournaments. I may occasionally win one (at lvl 58), but about 4 seconds later I lose, so i've amassed all of 60 or so shards. Wheee. What a garbage setup. So stupid.
Anyhow, I have started seeing more and more... for lack of a better word... cheaters. People with a solid ranking (8000-9000's) who have only 1 or two valid decks, and the rest are blank. Which means, you can't attack them without getting both an error and a 5 minute cooldown.
So it means they pretty much have a permanent lock on tokens for the tourney, yes?
My question is this: how the hell do they manage it? I'd be perfectly happy getting my 30 shards an hour in that way. It honestly beats getting constantly destroyed to the point where I literally do it once a day for an autofail for the daily coupon shard.
Thoughts?
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Post by mingying on Jul 14, 2015 3:32:20 GMT
Below 5000 rank is very volatile in tournament buddy. Above that and you can slightly draw a breath
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Post by sonbalin on Jul 14, 2015 3:54:01 GMT
Below 5000 rank is very volatile in tournament buddy. Above that and you can slightly draw a breath This is very true. Once you get in the 4000s it becomes much easier to hold a place, from my limited experience.
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Post by voldrox [BK] on Jul 14, 2015 6:16:24 GMT
Everybody has trouble with tournament at the beginning, it's a problem even to score a rank. You can only try and make stronger decks by melding creatures. Don't worry you will be there, just keep improving your decks. Try to make two strong attacking decks and three good defensive decks, at the moment try making two strong defensive ones so that you can win defending 2/3. Later on all three need to be strong.
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Post by rainman2412✪NFS on Jul 14, 2015 13:45:29 GMT
Just a piece of advice, the biggest advantage that you have in the tournament is that you decide who you fight and you choose the deck matchups. Since you know the blank decks give an error, its absurd to even battle them. Instead, you should hit the refresh button as many times as necessary until you find a decent matchup for your decks. The best strategy is to hit refresh and then check the leftmost opponent out carefully. The leftmost opponent of the 4 will be the highest ranked, giving you the biggest boost if you beat them. Personally, I wouldn't fight anyone but the leftmost guy until you get up to rank 1000, it's just not that hard. I hover around rank 1000 and occasionally I fight the second from the left, but that is a rare occurrence. The right two opponents only give you a small ranking boost anyway so its not worth it.
If your decks are really poor, it make take 10-20 refreshes to find a good matchup but it is better than losing.
As far as offensive deck makeup, you are clearly looking to build 2 good decks and each one should have a specific advantage in mind. For example, one of my three offensive decks is a Neander one, initially with Tauro Brute and now with Berkerker. This deck has 5-6 Neander creatures and the hero has Spiky Bits so I am always looking for an opponent's deck with magic creatures like Flame Brave, Pegasus Lord, etc. I have another offensive deck that is Faen physical damage based. It has 2 Centaur Chiefs, a couple Satyr Sentrys, and a Moon Walker. This deck is specifically targeting Neander decks, which are very common in the Tourney. I have no magic creatures so Spiky Bits is no threat to me and all of my creatures have a damage boost against Neaders. My main deck is a Wight deck and I also have a Human deck i can toss in if the situation is best. You get the idea.
Anyway, do yourself favors by refreshing until you have a good opponent that will give you a ranking boost and choose the deck matchups wisely and you will be able to get into the 1500-3000 range. After that it gets very difficult and you simply need 3 great decks to hold your spot.
Hope that helps,
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Post by Pimento on Jul 14, 2015 15:31:50 GMT
But nobody knows how they get to the empty deck - unattackable status?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2015 19:50:05 GMT
I've noticed this as well--the blank decks. It certainly seems like it would render those people effectively impervious to attack.
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Post by Pimento on Jul 15, 2015 6:35:49 GMT
Exactly. I accept as a F2P with only star occasionally, i'm never going to attain the heights of power, so I really do want to settle into my 9968 rank and slowly obtain my 28 shards an hour.
Yes, I can build 3 decks. Yes, I can beat one or two people, but given that it takes, oh, 30 minutes of scrolling through targets to do so? f*** that. And, seriously, within a minute of any victory, it's right out the shitter by a counterattack seconds behind.
So I want to know how these bastards are holding rank using a flaw in the system, and I want to use it too.
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Post by mingying on Jul 15, 2015 8:20:56 GMT
I am full f2p, pimento, and I hold my rank in 500ish just fine do tournament when its midight where most players are sleeping, less prone to counterattack that way
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Post by rainman2412✪NFS on Jul 15, 2015 15:57:18 GMT
Sorry pimento, can't help you join the ranks of the cheaters, I can only help you get past them. FWIW, I have seen exactly zero empty decks in the 1500-800 rank range so I wouldn't recommend it anyway.
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Post by yamibakura on Jul 16, 2015 4:55:10 GMT
If you can't hold your rank, try to find someone beatable and do it close to the turn of the hour. For example, beat someone at 11:59 and then u will be rewarded 1 minute later. It's a short-term solution until you can build a better team
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Post by stuuu✪NFS on Jul 16, 2015 18:40:43 GMT
For some reason you don't have to remove creatures from your tourney decks to sell. Then sell whatever hero it is. Hopefully a bunch of people will do this so Deck Heroes will feel compelled to fix it. I haven't tried this myself so if anyone feels like making a 1* hero 1* creature deck and selling them, then let me know if it works.
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Post by Sithys [BK] on Jul 17, 2015 2:55:44 GMT
At a guess I'd say the creatures/heroes were either melded away, sold, converted, used as exp fodder, etc etc Whether that was by design (probably) or ignorance (unlikely), there's nothing you can do as the person seeking the opponents other than skip to the next option. Report the decks you come across to live help if you want to waste a large portion of time for fruitless results If you are looking to do this yourself, then a pox upon you.
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Post by sonbalin on Jul 17, 2015 3:01:44 GMT
Hopefully anyone doing it will have their accounts deleted. And yeah, I do believe that's justified.
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Post by weaksauce on Jul 17, 2015 13:16:30 GMT
pff sonbalin, sore loser. Acts deleted for using parameters the game is enabling you to use? thats just stupid
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Post by sonbalin on Jul 17, 2015 13:49:39 GMT
I've never come across it myself, so I don't get how I can possibly be a sore loser in this sense. Nevertheless, it's purposefully exploiting what is obviously a bug/oversight by the devs, if you feel the need to take advantage of it I don't know what to say... Git gud?
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Post by hi there on Jul 20, 2015 6:53:45 GMT
wow i didn't know such cheat existed, can somebody teach me how? . . . just kidding lv 63 pure f2p non star here(spent $0 to be clear), barely play 2 months and trashing out the lv 80s. rank 1400ish. go find me and prepare to get dumpstered
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Post by Ominous on Jul 20, 2015 11:52:03 GMT
ah is this why i get errors on some matches? I logged an error report and they just said to clear cache...
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Post by orgoth on Oct 23, 2015 0:57:50 GMT
it is most common on the 9k ranks area since people there are desperate for a possition
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2015 8:37:36 GMT
it is most common on the 9k ranks area since people there are desperate for a possition U answer on a post from July bro
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Post by orgoth on Oct 23, 2015 9:49:36 GMT
it is for satiating the curiosity of people who never experienced this problem, also it was 12 am for me so...
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