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Topic: The Grinns Tale / This game is dying

I used to switch hero to berserker and feed croissant, never had that bug happen. You should report it in full detail in the grinns forum.

As for the music bug, yea its been there a while, happens a lot with the replay floor button, not just floor 22. You’re referring to this one right?: http://thegrinnstale.com/forum/index.php?topic=784.0

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Do negative effects stack?

For the record, some monsters and equipment sets have immunity to certain debuffs. For example, all granders are immune to shock (at least, the non-potion type of shock). If you try to shock them while they are poisoned/scalded, they ignore the shock and stay poisoned/scalded.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / This game is dying

1) Don’t necro dead threads.
2) Log in, collect res and daily pramin/quest, log out. Takes a few minutes each day.

This game may be filed under MMO, but its really single player, theres no rush to grind to the top. If anything, the game u recommended: Wartune, is the REAL grindfest. The competition there is so high u’re pretty much forced to be permanently on in order to not miss any events while managing your farm and city and also stealing cough helping your friends harvest their crops. Not to mention the balance is totally screwed with archers pwning way too much face early on in just about every event. If you don’t find wartune to be a grind, then for some strange reason, you’re not playing it competitively, yet u’re trying to play grinns competitively.. which is really strange lol.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Help plz dont make this a Grinds Tale!

ignore halvarian and mystbourne, those are absolutely not worth it.

focus on the tower and upgrading your hero guilds. Usually a shock savant / haste shaman / fire soldier will get you through. If you’re desperate u can just run multiple shock savants and try to keep everything locked down lol, not like u’ll lose anything for dying in the tower. Alternatively, keep doing your GD 1 to 15, there’s a small chance of getting awesome gear from a chest which will make the tower floors much easier.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Extreme potions

@cheese I think the fact that you have a fuzzlehorn should imply that you’re NOT a lowbie…. but I guess some people are just rich enough to throw money into a game they just started even though they don’t really know whats going on yet.

also wondering why in the world a lowbie needs extreme potions :S

but in any case, the same method CAN be done by lowbies. Farm floor 7 room 1 instead, u’ll need about 20 seconds of farming tops (probably less). i.e. 1 extreme pot every 100 seconds.

@teddo There’s no point to increasing happiness. There’s a point to making your villagers talk to each other for potions, but the happiness is unrelated. In other words: You do NOT need to buy decor to raise the happiness cap.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Extreme potions

that has nothing to do with happiness… the potions that villagers drop depend on your height in the tower. once u climb high enough they will even drop vibrants.

and its much faster to just mass produce the healthy potions (15 seconds 50 wood) in 5 item shops, and then convert them up using the fuzzle. (27 healthy potion = 1 extreme pot), so you’ll make 1 extreme pot in 27*15/5 = 81 seconds using 27 * 50 = 1350 wood (~6 seconds of farming if you know what you’re doing).

i.e. you’ll make one extreme pot every 90 seconds including the time needed to farm the resources. Just lots of clicking required.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Using potions

i assure you getting to the top of the tower is fully possible without pramin gear, since i’ve been putting my pramin into things like powered mines/fuzzle that don’t help you in battle at all. I’ve also never used a time potion.

if u’re stuck on a floor, consider changing your strategy? You really shouldn’t be needing to use that many potions anyway unless your hero setup is severely flawed.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Best form for farm

wood, farm hf3 room 1 over and over with 3 adventurers using scavenge and ricochet. If you’re not strong enough to 1hit the monsters yet, then do the same thing on floor 7 room 1 instead. Just hit the replay floor button, never the next room or return to town button. Then you should get like 90ish wood every 3 seconds or so assuming no lag.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Who is your MVP?

theres no such class as warrior.. can’t tell if u mean zerker or knight.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Game Suggestions

2) The same reason why the various decors have different prices. Dev think one looks prettier than the other or something lol.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Automatic Behavior

Yes early game zerkers are still decent, mainly because knights and archers haven’t started to shine yet (archers because theres not many elemental monsters, knights because they don’t get good until mountain guard)

If u’re having trouble with spiders, the problem is usually the damage output rather than intake. Trying to tank spiders for a long time doesn’t work so well, instead you need archers of the right element to kill them down quick, or a shock wizard to keep them stunned.

also, if you’re having issues with the constant dragging required, there’s a nice autohotkey script on the forums here for people like me who will get carpal tunnel from doing things the normal way.

Note: All the hotkeys do is just click and drag from your hero to your mouse every time you press the button, so its not afk botting or cheating.

Topic: Orbs CCG / [Tournament | Round 1] King Of The Beta

I’m dropping too. finally finished my last async game, and it doesn’t really look like this game is gonna live much longer sadly.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Automatic Behavior

apart from wizard hitting multiple enemies, nothing can top the damage output of an archer, given all the scalding and elemental damage bonuses. if you compare your archer and zerker damage, zerker will NEVER come close unless you’re using the archers wrong. especially since the zerkers WILL be used wrong by the ai very often.. hitting spikeys, hitting trash targets, etc etc.

at end game, using a zerker for anything other than tanking is pure heresy, and there are only 3 valid damage units: Archer (single target), Wizard (Mass targeting) and Zweihander (Damager that won’t get his ass kicked by smoker aoes and won’t kill himself on a spikey).

Also if you pay attention to the stats, you’ll see that as the tier increases, knights are getting better than zerkers. At first it starts out roughly at zerker hp/def = knight def/hp, which means zerkers are good for stuff that takes 1-3 hits to kill you, while knights are better for everything that takes more. But if you look at rhino vs lion set, u’ll see that knight’s def/hp has gone a lot higher than zerker’s hp/def.

As it stands right now, there’s realistically only 3 reasons you should EVER use a zerker, all of which are automation related:

Reason 1) Zerker tanks auto-swap on death, ensuring that whoever is sitting in 2nd can never take damage from a tom thud or whatever is hitting the front guy, even if all 6 enemies hit at the exact same time by some horrible fluke. If you had been using a knight tank when this fluke happened, whoever was sitting in 2nd would go splat.
Reason 2) Zerker auto-swap on death ensures that you can never lose a battle as long as someone on the swapping bench is still alive. I.e. good for bombs.
Reason 3) Zerker automation means you can be lazy. Sacrifice quality for afk killing.

Automation for other classes will take away these reasons, and no sane person at endgame will ever use a zerker again. Granted, there are some insane, niche uses for zerkers, but hardly anyone except really bored highbies will ever try these:

Reason 4) Zerkers are still harder to 1-hit than a knight. A lion has a chance to survive a bomb blast, a knight does not. That said this is a realllly. REALLY iffy reason seeing as there’s only one monster that does this (bomb), and a lion still has a chance to die anyway. For all other monsters, a rhino survives better than a zerker.
Reason 5) Zerkers have more hp and take more damage, allowing them to use spiked armor better! But u gotta be super crazy to actually try to do damage with spiked armor. As it is the only sane reason for spiked armor is to negate the evil knight’s lifesteal, and you can use spiked armor on a knight tank perfectly fine to achieve the same thing.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Automatic Behavior

if you add this, zerkers will lose all meaning. Their whole selling point IS that they are the only class with auto behaviour..

Topic: The Grinns Tale / rubies, how the hell do you get them?

deep GD? >_> multiple bosses and notorious every wave beats the crap out of 3 notorious that show up once in a while in hf. the only problem is getting to deep GD isn’t possible early on. Which is why I’m suggesting rather than wasting hours farming rubies/diamonds slowly at the start, just get to the top without rubies/diamonds, THEN farm them in deep GD.

Note: t5 archers dont have hats, so you can use those without rubies.. especially if u have lep hat. Same for t5 zerkers, and knight/cleric gear uses no rubies. those 4 classes should get you to deep GD.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Who is your MVP?

yea you have to swap depending on what u’re trying to farm.

if i had to choose though, i’d say scavenge is more important than pickpocket unless you have a fuzzle.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / rubies, how the hell do you get them?

Originally posted by molokot:

Ok, you want rubies? yes? then listen: forget about picpocket, just use your strongest fastest killing team and go massmurdering things that can drop them. I personaly like most 1 mojo with fire and 2 t5 zerkers for farming. More boses you kill ,more rubies u get, picpocket doas not increase your gains in any significant way. And stop complaining, first rule of farmer is:farm dont count. Nobody is interested if u killed 5 ,27 or 150 things to get 1 ruby. If you dont have enough rubies it means you killed not enough monsters, not that drop rates are too low. Over.

except the people who need rubies are usually those at tier 2-3, before grand ghost. Which leaves them with gatekeeper, smoker, and stu. All of which are best taken down with a mass murdering team of… adventurers. Thus we use pickpockets!

Once you reach ghost, diamond is your real headache (unless u’re trying to craft with only refined gear or something)

Well, I still say its faster to just climb the tower rubyless though. You can probably get all the way to floor 46 without rubies/diamonds. Once you’re at that point, farming rubies in GD should be easy.

Topic: The Grinns Tale / rubies, how the hell do you get them?

You learn to live without rubies.

There are plenty of ways to get up the tower ruby-less, at least until you can do GD 20 to farm them properly.

For starters, use clerics and knights, their hats don’t cost rubies. Next, look for hatless sets, like t2 wizard, t5 archer and t5 zerker. These guys work just fine using hats from the armor shop.

Once you’re a decent tier, you should be able to reach GD 20 even without using any rubies, and u’ll usually get at least 1 ruby each time you do! (along with a chance at other GD goodies!)

Topic: The Grinns Tale / Who is your MVP?

Adventurer sneak set with sleight of hand or refined shadowsticker.. scavenge/pickpocket with rico.

how are we even discussing this! Nothing is more important than farming in Grinnds Tale! XD

Topic: Orbs CCG / [Tournament | Round 1] King Of The Beta

the tourny will be won by whoever stays the longest. people are dropping the game quickly lol.

Topic: Orbs CCG / [Tournament | Round 1] King Of The Beta

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how is activity measured? :(

Topic: Orbs CCG / [Tournament | Round 1] King Of The Beta

how the hell does the point system work again? I won 2 out of 2 games in the last round yet I’m listed as having 0 points :S?

Topic: Orbs CCG / Epic Games/Screenshots Thread

lol we were just messing around with an every card in deck deck. >_>

Topic: Orbs CCG / Epic Games/Screenshots Thread

http://orbsccg.com/games/s7lqeu

who wants to make a larger graveyard?

Topic: Orbs CCG / Epic Games/Screenshots Thread

http://orbsccg.com/games/i1z4qh

ant on ant action.