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Post by DianaTroy [βκ] on Jun 6, 2015 20:09:22 GMT
Well first you have a Life Sap Rune, that's a great boost. You can always move it if you get a Battleblow Rune.
Battleblow isn't a guaranteed ATK increase, so some turns it's like you didn't Meld it at all. Plus you can drop Frost Armor in front of Sweeping Blow creatures and the damage cap is shared by all three creatures.
Swordmaster is one of, if not the, best tanks in the game. Life Sap makes it more likely she'll live A LOT longer without having to have healing in your deck.
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Post by SoaponaRope [BK] on Jun 6, 2015 20:13:20 GMT
but would u tell me why exactly u would go for life sap? because im not really clear about it, i often imagine the situations in the crtitical first rounds, where its important to stay alive (life sap could be better here, but with ice shell from gladiator, it doesnt bring that big advantage to the table and you dont boost ur ATK much, therefore swordmaster has to heal itself for a couple of times for a large amount) swordmaster + battlebow could, with a littl bit of luck of course, instakill 1-3 creatures, which would proetect ur other creatures by simple killing opponents creatures. otherwise, if u are using life sap and therefore swordmaster is still alive where the rest of ur team is dead, even swordmaster cant handle to win the fight. in guild maps its more clear i think, here i would prefer life sap. I'll give my answer real quick, and this is mostly just about how I play and definitely not "the right way to play". In my head I split most creatures into All-Around Useful and then Specialized. This doesn't mean that All-Around Useful will always be in your deck, but simply means that they fit into many deck types, help against many deck types, and make good creatures for a resting/defensive PVP team. Specialized, quite the opposite, are great for taking down specific targets but tend to be lacking otherwise. Disposal, Recyclers and Tanks make up the majority of the all-around cards in my opinion. Unless against specific enemy cards, they all work very well as a general blanket. Swordmaster is the most reliable of all the tanks for obvious reasons, and I wanted to focus her in this way to continue to do her job as a tank. In my mind, giving her BB8 would have greatly enhanced her Damage output but would not have strengthened her tanking abilities. She is still completely succeptable to lock downs, retreats, disposals and instakills. In my mind, she will never be a specialized card and I so I didn't want to focus on that. Instead I wanted to make her most useful in the most situations I could. Conversely, I have a Evo'd Flame Brave which I put Incinerate 8 on. Most people would say that's stupid, but I consider Casters to be specialized since they can be so easily countered. If there's a hole in defense for it, then I want to go all out with the strategy. If there's Spiky Bits or Reflects or Immunities, then I don't want to use her at all since she's a detriment to the team. This is how I treat my cards when Melding. One thing about higher end gameplay is that killing creatures, especially with Physical damage, can often be a fruitless effort. It's why so many people consider Venom Tyrant to be a stupid card. There are just so many Frost Armors out there. And the creatures that don't have Frost Armor don't have it for a reason -they want to die and be Recycled/Revived so they can start all over again. I'm not saying that Magic and Physical damage aren't important, I'm just saying that in my opinion they have both become "specialized" strategies that you cannot rely on. This is why I went with Lifesap instead, because I can put my swordmaster infront of a problem card and be confident that she's going to last (barring an instakill).
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Post by Emi on Jun 6, 2015 23:05:20 GMT
thank you for your answers! the problem with "everyone has frost armor" is indeed one thing you have to take into account and i think its true to giving creatures the role they are meant to be. besides this, with life sap rune i will get more and more extra ATK no matter what (except the case i cant attack, or dodge) im also able to ubgrade it to rank 4.
sooo i think i will go for life sap as well but cant wait until the 2x event anymore..
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Post by SoaponaRope [BK] on Jun 7, 2015 4:49:07 GMT
thank you for your answers! the problem with "everyone has frost armor" is indeed one thing you have to take into account and i think its true to giving creatures the role they are meant to be. besides this, with life sap rune i will get more and more extra ATK no matter what (except the case i cant attack, or dodge) im also able to ubgrade it to rank 4. sooo i think i will go for life sap as well but cant wait until the 2x event anymore.. Try to wait! The Swordmaster is precious... I've burned too many now without it (Both my Lifesap melds took 100%). It makes me extremely sad to know that I could have had like 2 full decks of Swordmasters - I don't know why I'd want that but now that I can't have it I do. But for real, the Double Expertise Day is important with cards like her. I know Diana has been waiting for a new Swordmaster to enter her life for over a month now.
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Post by DianaTroy [βκ] on Jun 7, 2015 15:56:26 GMT
thank you for your answers! the problem with "everyone has frost armor" is indeed one thing you have to take into account and i think its true to giving creatures the role they are meant to be. besides this, with life sap rune i will get more and more extra ATK no matter what (except the case i cant attack, or dodge) im also able to ubgrade it to rank 4. sooo i think i will go for life sap as well but cant wait until the 2x event anymore.. Try to wait! The Swordmaster is precious... I've burned too many now without it (Both my Lifesap melds took 100%). It makes me extremely sad to know that I could have had like 2 full decks of Swordmasters - I don't know why I'd want that but now that I can't have it I do. But for real, the Double Expertise Day is important with cards like her. I know Diana has been waiting for a new Swordmaster to enter her life for over a month now. Not anymore! I got a Swordmaster from a Coupon a week and a half ago
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Post by Emi on Jun 8, 2015 14:07:51 GMT
haha, gratulations! yes i try to wait but its really hard, dont know why it needs so much time next event is coming, didnt even remember when that last one appeared. do u think with 6 swordmasters its realistic getting two of them melded (2x event)? maybe the second one gets BB, with BB rune it would be awesome i think!
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Post by banzafahra on Jun 8, 2015 14:28:13 GMT
Im on europe server and there was no meld event yet. Im sick of waiting
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Post by stuuu✪NFS on Jun 8, 2015 14:45:42 GMT
I think Life Sap is unnecessary. It already has good defensive capabilities. For more defense I would go with immunity. For guild map I think Fatigue 8 is best. For everything else I haven't found much use for it. I have one with Bloodlust 7 and it is good for finishing off those last few creatures in guild maps, but does a miniscule amount of damage compared to Wight. Also, I tend to use Zora for the last few creatures and SM Frost Armor has poor synergy with Zora. A Graboid with Lifesap or even a technochief with Lifesap is far superior. BB8 is good because it is useful right away and can do an extreme amount of damage. Sacrifice is another reasonable choice. I guess it depends on what your deck needs.
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Post by stuuu✪NFS on Jun 8, 2015 14:50:07 GMT
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Post by Emi on Jun 8, 2015 18:59:32 GMT
Well im not really sure about my decision, if i take Life Sap with rune, SM is really hard to kill and im getting more and more ATK over time. Even its more resistent against debuffs, like Contagion, Fatigue or Afflict, which decrease my ATK - with less ATK my BB is useless. And Life Sap triggers 100% (when you lose HP). But in other cases BB could be stronger - it can do a huge amount of DMG (here especially you have an adventage in earlier rounds, but even than it triggers only half of the time) and in later rounds your SM with LS is much stronger (considering only HP and ATK) than the SM with BB.
So i think its a decision when its better to do your DMG and when its possible to do it. In the early rounds where many people ( Arena ) have something like Agile or Ice Shell, its hard to do much DMG through basic attacks. When you have BB rune, the advantage has clearly SM with BB, as it is if you considering Frost Armor in general. But without this rune, BB against Frost Armor is useless, where LF could recharge a littl amount of HP.
Thats why i would say, even not sure, Life Sap with rune, has an bigger advantage than BB without rune. If you have BB rune, which is hard to get, things could change.
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Post by RunRun✪NFS on Jun 13, 2015 16:25:11 GMT
finally i melded...not... 3 trys, 2x meld event. im at 90% success and run out of money. thats a chance of 3,3% do you think i should buy 90%off booster from map guide 5, for 350 gems than i would have the money of the last 2 trys..
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2015 18:34:24 GMT
i got the bb rune and not the life sap (actually got 3 bb runes and 1 life sap on my melded phantom) the bb rune have low chance of activating but the life sap rune have low atk boost due to the fa and mag shield that keeps the life sap heal you a bit at a time
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Post by RunRun✪NFS on Jun 14, 2015 16:55:56 GMT
Thats right, often the ATK boost wont be that much but there are also plenty of other skills, which reduce SM´s HP quite more.
Now im at 100% process and lost all of my SM´s (except one lvl 10) AND found BB rune. Isnt it poosible to take a lvl 10 duplicate?
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Post by maxp83 on Jun 14, 2015 18:04:01 GMT
I got lucky and got 5* violence rune I put it on my bb8 sm I love it runes have given this card more options and made it even stronger
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Post by RunRun✪NFS on Jun 14, 2015 18:09:30 GMT
Whats the value your ATK getting boost per level of this rune? and did you find it with glory points?
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Post by maxp83 on Jun 14, 2015 20:13:32 GMT
30 atk per lvl and with gems unfortunately only way to get 5* as far as I'm aware I've got 5 5* all got with gems about 3000 pretty sure I was very lucky I've spent alot of glory enough to get 50 odd 4* rune and no 5*
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