Jedit posted:

Ran out of cards, maybe?

thylacine posted:

Meh, they are useful for defense. Someone dropped some pod that gives a 2 poison counter if a melee attacks, that sucks. Then again, they also kept dropping something that kept me from targetting their creatures in the row, not attacking them—lols.

Then somehow I lost a match with 8 hp left, which was frustrating because I was starting to gain the upper hand.

Dahbadu posted:

For those that haven't posted the in-game name yet, please do! I need more eFriends!

Bussamove posted:

Tae posted:

Your deck is all over the place. Is it rush, control, mid-range? You have to choose a theme and focus on the strengths of that theme to make a better deck.

Bussamove posted:

Started to run into some troubles last night against higher ELO players in swiss, and I was hoping some people more experienced with Inferno could give me some deck pointers. Keep in mind this is very much a work in progress and some bits like events I'm really not happy with.

MrBling posted:

Well, that was a short first time play experience.

Turns out the game didn't give me a starter deck so I can't complete the tutorial. Fine craftsmanship.

Tae posted:

Your deck is all over the place. Is it rush, control, mid-range? You have to choose a theme and focus on the strengths of that theme to make a better deck.

Toshimo posted:

Finally got to Level 7, so I picked up the 850 seal pack and the Champion's Box. Ok pulls, but nothing overwhelmingly slam dunk. Unlocked one of the Void sets in the altar.

Redid my lovely Necro deck to be a slightly-less-lovely Necro deck. Fired up my XP/Gold boosts. "Network Failed."

Toshimo_Kamiya in-game.

Jedit posted:

What 850 Seal pack? I don't see anything in the shop that costs that much.

Don't worry about your Gold/XP boosts. They don't get used until you're awarded the relevant thing or surrender in a game.

Jedit posted:

What 850 Seal pack? I don't see anything in the shop that costs that much.

Don't worry about your Gold/XP boosts. They don't get used until you're awarded the relevant thing or surrender in a game.

weird vanilla posted:

strangevanilla in-game name for friend-lists.

Started this a week ago based on input from the solforge thread, it's a fun diversion. It really does seem as if a lot of the low ELO players are really bad, I have mostly the inferno starter deck plus a box and there are games I don't even get touched. I really haven't played it a whole lot, but it seems like something I'd be more willing to blow a few bucks on than solforge.

Jedit posted:

1) Discard sucks poo poo through a straw. Drop it for additional nuclear homicide.

2) Lesser Fire Elementals and Hellfire Slaves will die a lot because of their low health; there are Necro creatures that kill them outright. Get another Lilim.

3) Celebrations isn't very good when you're wanting to get card advantage. Get more Week of the Weaponsmiths and try for a couple of Week of Taxes and Mana Storms. You won't be playing many spells or Fortunes, so they won't affect you much.

4) Consider Inner Fire. Usually you'll be playing Fire Bolts to make sure you kill a creature rather than to take one down outright, so they effectively function as Bolts 5-8. I play three.

thylacine posted:

Meh, they are useful for defense. Someone dropped some pod that gives a 2 poison counter if a melee attacks, that sucks. Then again, they also kept dropping something that kept me from targetting their creatures in the row, not attacking them—lols.

Then somehow I lost a match with 8 hp left, which was frustrating because I was starting to gain the upper hand.

Dahbadu posted:

Earlier this morning the servers were pretty bad (first time I experienced bad performance from the game). When I got back home tonight, it was speedy as ever. Was the bad server performance earlier today a fluke or not?

Mirthless posted:

What's wrong with discard effects? Considering that Inferno's creatures are woefully easy to kill and their removal effects are all terrible, I'd think taking and maintaining card advantage would be really important to being able to beat an opponent. Seriously, if I have room to drop a bunch of extra creatures I feel like I'm already losing, but making my opponent discard a removal card or half his hand with a couple of fortunes when I'm just shy of having board control has won me a few games I should have lost.

Honestly I get the feeling that I don't understand Inferno. Can someone look at my deck and tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I win a decent amount of games but when I do lose I get steamrolled completely. I mostly don't understand what the strategy for the faction is supposed to be. It seems to be board control, but with how low the health of everything is I find that once I lose it it's very hard to get it back.

Cryohazard posted:

It's a little cheap, but those forced discard fortunes Inferno has are good for making an opponent stop and think. And when they have a time limit, well, it makes them trip up.

I like Swiss tournies.

Re: Inferno decks, the best bang for your buck comes from (in my opinion) Juggernauts and Ur-Khrag Enforcers. The former is a poo poo-ton of damage for low cost, and the latter just dominates boards. Opponents will arrange their critters AWAY from your enforcers and willingly take the 4 damage to their hero rather than risk them getting in a good cleavin'.

Something to note is that while Inferno troops have stupendous offensive capabilities, on the whole their HP can be a little lacking. And their best damage soakers are the Lilims, which are back line troops. You can't stall without a massive investment in magic, so just smash them repeatedly with whatever you have and you'll usually come out the victor.


For Xorm, more dudes, less spells. I wouldn't take anything besides Fire Bolt to pop Bloaters for when you get them. You need to be phasing out neutral troops because they (mostly) suck. Twist of Fate, Gold Pile, Chamber of Dementia and Bonfire are all your best friends, and once you've gotten a decent stable of 4+ demons, Reinforcements (and Gate if you can get it, but that's a hard one to get hold of.)

Just keep adding powerful demons to your deck and for god's sake man Xorm doesn't need any pansy rear end spells.

ApplesandOranges posted:

After I did MMHoMM VI I was still pretty invested in Ashan, so I played it during beta. Haven't played it in a while, but it's a good burner of time.

Stronghold deck myself. Working with Kat but been trying to find ways of working with Kelthor/Acamas. I really like the combination of Earth/Air though.

I also need more Blackskull Drummers.

Mirthless posted:

So, do you guys think Dungeon will be coming in the next expansion? They were always my favorite faction in HoMM. It feels odd for them to not be in when we have Sanctuary, Stronghold and Arcane already.

JoshTheStampede posted:

Were also missing Fortress and Sylvan.

Jedit posted:

I don't know anything about Heroes of Might and Magic, but the next expansion being Five Towers it makes sense to assume it's Fortress.

Magic Lamp posted:

In game as dinolamp

I'm at around 180 ELO now, using a Necro deck. Earlier I played a match in which the other guy played some kind of egyptian deck, and he kept yelling "Helloooooo, ITS YOUR TURN HELLLOOOOO". As if I couldn't notice it's now my turn, what an rear end in a top hat.

Magic Lamp posted:

In game as dinolamp

I'm at around 180 ELO now, using a Necro deck. Earlier I played a match in which the other guy played some kind of egyptian deck, and he kept yelling "Helloooooo, ITS YOUR TURN HELLLOOOOO". As if I couldn't notice it's now my turn, what an rear end in a top hat.