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@Clarrie: that 'yellow status condition is called neurotoxin. what it does is it gives you 1 poison counter each time you play a card. just dont play pillars/pends unless you really need to and you should survive a bit more.
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@ clarrie, you are stupid. the "Yellow status condition" is how much damage you will revive after the opponents next turn, lol
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Well if dim is overpowered, and everyone is changing their deck to counter dim shield, then that makes dim see no use. So if you want to nerf dim shield, tell everyone in chat to bring explosion
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Is it me, or does Dune Scorpion need to be nerfed? I keep dying due to the damn yellow status condition. It always hits over 10, which is really unfair when really I'm still pretty new.
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and do you know what else I hate? How it cost gold to play... its fun playing for 3minutes, winning and noticing you only won 2 gold.... wow.
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god..... I play with a powerful first card and still lose.... For the love of god.... I cannot win with a single quanta card to start.... let me repick. Horrible game.
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Nope natalia he grinded fg's day 1 with the un upped fg grinder that worked back then. Today you can use fire cell as an un upped fg grinder or a bow to grind pvp1. Both ways works well.
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@foxicious: Balance is not based around arena, not in the slightest. Mono aether shield chains are rarely seen in the competitive game. Do you know why? Because pretty much EVERY deck already packs a counter of sorts. Now, i'm not saying dime shield doesn't need a nerf, but it doesn't take an entire deck to counter unless you are playing super specific decks.
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@foxicious: Well, you got yourself a strategy there. Why don't you just use dim shields and build the best deck ever? That's right, because it doesn't work that way.
Seriously, please play dim shields for a while. It's strong indeed, but you will also see the weak points in no time.
Playing dim shields puts huge restrictions on your strategy. It requires 6 card slots, and you will have to spend 6 aether-quanta every 3 turns which basically means you'll have to play mono-aether, which in turn means you'll have a very restricted strategy. You won't be able to adapt to new strategies. If someone manages to counter your shields, you basically lost the game.
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Omegareaper7, your argument is based only on the numerical scale of a card I guess. Ok, I will make it more transient for you. (N x dimshield) is the hardest combo to counter than any other (N x card) in the game. Especially in arena where people use 70 card decks with a bunch of them. Destroy? No prob,pop another one,Steal? no prob,psions still do damage. you get the point? For the average player thats frustrating beyond pleasure. And yeah I know what you think, you can counter it with SPECIFIC DECK,that requires specific farm done (which requires beating dimshield decks, vicious circle), which won't work against other decks. That's imbalance in a game by definition.
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Natalia I don't know how you see at time but when Calindu started this game he had a fully upped deck day 3. So if you just ask for help months can turn into days.
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Only real problem with the game is that it literally takes months to grind electrum for an upped deck. Big turn off for new players.
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Can someone explain why there are not many decks with Poseidon? It's good enough for use, make a dual Water Earth and you're ok, or a Solo Water and Earth Mark, would kick butt as Arena Deck with 2x or 3x Marks
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I would like to add that there are many different cards to beat dim shields. Steal,defrag,pulvy,sofo,butterfly,sofree, monumentum,chimeras,saphiers to name a few. There are also tactics that beats dim's for example stalls spell damage decks and most otks. Dim shield is not op only in restricted metas.
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@awm17: Raising the cost of cost of phase shield wouldn't help the issue, they still have 3 turns to accumulate the quanta. Making it last two turns and raising the price is just asking for it to barely ever see use. Making it last two turns and leaving the cost the same or decreasing it a tiny bit would help. As for bonewall, bonewall is fine. It isn't all that strong against creature heavy decks, and even decks with few creatures, if you don't have upkeep, then it isn't nearly as good as other shields.
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On the same train of thought the bone shield also need to be toned down (say 5 shields to start and +1 for each death).
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@aefields: I have to agree with you about the phase shield. It needs to more expensive (casting cost) and last less (2 turns?). The one way around them I have found is using air nymphs to generate lots of unstable gas to do huge spell damage. Phase dragons are also problematic since even with a fire shield there is nothing that can be done to keep them from eating half your life.
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dugong: Fire dies to fire. Seriously, I beat most mono fire rushes by stealing their fire shield, it's hilarious. That, and fire dies to any kind of CC.
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@Dugong - Not only I would play aether without dimshield, I have, and have ranked high in Tournaments because of it. The UGs are a good alternative to Dim Shield, and a trio does not necessarily mean unstable quanta base (Check Poison Dials for an example, folks.) Also, I really doubt you killed false god in the first try, and if you did, then it was just incredible luck. Fire Shield falls short of some Shields you can use with Light - Hope, for example. As a conclusion? The game is not unbalanced. You're just new.
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@aefields: I kinda took another way out of my misery: I just reset my account. With Life/Air I could hardly beat L3 AIs and never reached score > 500. This time i started with fire and it's a walk in the fckin park. I killed the false god on first try. I do same dmg or more than with light/air and my phoenixes (of which i could already buy 5 - more cash than i EVER had with the light/air) just revive, yayz. Oh and just as a bonus i can play monocolor, my fire shield is way better than the light starter shield and i got a permanent-removal in red which is pretty cheap for 3. So as a conclusion for me: It's not just phase shield that's unbalanced - it's just the whole game xD
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@dugong: Well, yes, phase shield is way overpowered. Do what I did: as soon as you can buy and upgrade, make a deck with part ether and phase shields. You win. Just like me. But, please, don't put phase shields in your arena decks. Use them against arena. Don't put them in arena.
My score today: 31629 - but I don't use phase shields against humans - it's just too lame.
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@menifest, there is an automatic mulligan once/game when you start with no 0 cost cards. I don't agree with a manual mulligan because it will help mono aether getting shield, OTK's getting certain cards, mono death getting SoSac and a lot of other examples.
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Aarikku. By the sound of it I can tell you played very few games. In elements there are thousands of different decks and many different strategies and just playing pillars and play big things turn 2 won't win you all games. I would recommend you to playa bit more before you comment again. Also player with most plays right now got 40 000 plays..
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@Aariku: Most decks can't play their expensive cards turn 2 or 3. The fire starter deck is mostly about getting those dragons out turn 2 or 3, or even turn 1 with some luck. Then watching them dying to the eternal plethora of counters to them.
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I try to play as many Kongregate TCGs as possible, and - sorry - this one was not one of the better ones. The resource system was really silly. Starting with a handful of Pillars makes it so that you can basically just throw your entire hand onto the field without caring how much anything costs.
I wouldn't have minded that as much if the game seemed designed based on the assumption that you WOULD get ridiculous levels of Quantums in an average game, but the cards weren't. There was a card that sacrificed a creature for Quantums – I never had to activate it, so I sold them all. Fire Bolt also seemed designed for a slower game; it read to me as “kill any creature”.
If you look at a game like Magic the Gathering, you're only allowed to place one Basic Land (or Pillar, in this case) per turn. It makes it so that the game progresses much more slowly, so you actually have reason to play your weaker cards in the early game instead of being able to throw out Crimson Dragons on turn 2 or 3.
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Doesn't apper to be a viable Option in Life/Air. That would throw me 3-colored while Aether just chills with a stable mana base. It also only makes 20dmg/card while the shield easily blocks 40+. Not to mention it still doesn't solve the issue of me wasting an epic ton of mana on creeps just missing the shielded enemy.
And about "playing aether" - Would you REALLY play Aether without phase or the other "cannot be attacked" shield in your deck at least 1time/15cards?
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Please, stop saying "Playing aether." Aether is not only DimShield. Further on, Air has Unstable Gas, and Unstable Gas can bypass the Dimensional Shield.
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Maybe phase shield is balanced later in the game when you have more cards. The problem is i started with Light and Air/Water and i don't have many cards yet. So everytime i draw an enemy playing aether it's just a default loss. And that's just lame.
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PvP is back in our dear Elements 1.325. Use ctrl+f5 or do a cache clear if it doesn't update for you. Feel free to downvote the other comment and upvote this one.
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@dragtom: The cost is irrelevant when you HAVE to account for it or lose.
It also makes time useless, as well as light, life and water essentially useless as well.
Even at two turns, it is still stronger then dusk mantle in terms of damage reduction.
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explain to me, with the high cost, the limited amount of turns avaible, and the tons and tons of counters, how phase shield is OP.
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Why say same things over and over again? Won't help. The developer only answers on email from a certain person ( the admin ) and that email has already been sent.
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i think its good if ppl keep saying that the servers are suffering from problems i just found out and a lot of stuff before