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Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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I'm in as Soonmot. GLad to hear about the water bonus. Jenny Greenteeth is my goto healer and, if she's not taken out before she gets a couple heals out, can slowly solo entire non-green enemy lineups!

I usually run Jenny (blue), Ramses II (green) as my tank (he auto tanks when no selected which I love), and Eustace (light) blood frenzy when he isn't selected starts his damage off in the 500s and if I have enough light gems to activate his aoe, holy poo poo!

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Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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How many stars do monsters max out at?

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Exmond posted:

Reddit compiled a list of monsters:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shadow_Wars/wiki/monsters


I managed to get Ramsess II which is freaking great. Earth tank that gains protector if he doesn't attack? Almost an auto include.

Yeah, unless I'm up against a bunch of fires, he's always on my team.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Mikey Purp posted:

So far Ramses II and Eustace have been my MVPs. Eustace is light (so you rarely benefit from elemental strengths or weaknesses), but using his passive skill means his attack power is high enough on turn 2 to one shot most monsters. The active skill (crit buff plus splash damage) is just icing on the cake.

Yup, I posted it earlier, but Ramses, Eustace, and Jenny Greenteeth are my goto team.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Got a crew set to go. Tried to pick the monsters I hate fighting against.

Do we know how to get these new monsters yet?

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Holy poo poo raid attacking is bullshit. The defense team gets to act first, gets abilities filled as well. That meant that my Eustace, Jenny, Ramses team was down to just Eustace before I even got a chance too attack.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Yeah for defenders, I'd put in people with blast skills. Having your team mostly dead before you even attack is demoralizing

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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If you've beaten someone while raiding, let us know what setup you were using to survive the opening blasts!

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Stupid time limit. I was actually set to win an attack with Jenny, Stronk, and Baba Yaga but the timer ram out on what world have been my last attack.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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the_steve posted:

I hate when they get to spam their abilities.
Why yes, use the aoe physical attack every single turn without fail while I'm still trying to unfreeze my goddamn blocks.

Yeah, what triggers enemy abilities? Is it blocks left on the screen? Time? RNG? ugh

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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I accidentally discovered something that makes wave transition a bit easier. Helle's double strike skill carries over. If you kill the last defender with her first attack, your second is ready to go after the be wave spawns BEFORE they can attack.

I can only assume this is true for all double strike skills.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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This is where I gave up, 20 minutes into the fight. I had killed the Horde in level 15 with my Cole, my fourth, Stronk, died early, but I saved my rez for Cole. Sure enough, on transfering into wave 3, Cole is one shot. I rez him and thanks to Jenny and ramses, I take out The Horde. Only thing is, when it died, that loving water monster shot a blast at Cole which killed him. Neither Jenny nor Ramses does enough damage to kill Orlock. A 400 point damage total is reduced down to around 280. The artifact the fuckers have heals 222 each round automatically, Orlock has a 50% chance to heal damage when he takes damage AND he has a loving heal skill.

You can see that my Jenny increased her HP past 20K. I had stopped using heals everytime they popped, or she'd probably be at 30K. Fuuuuuuuuck

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Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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I would have had it if not for that random killing of cole. What artifact did you have on your helle? I bought that 40 dollar currency pancakes when it was on sale for 18 bucks last night

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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overseer07 posted:

I just jumped over. In Goonamancers as Hilarity.


e: Holy poo poo, Level 19 of the event is kicking my rear end. Anyone got any advice?

Was that a light boss? I did it with a four star Jenny, a four star horde and two baba yagas. Using a weak attacker to get the last enemy down to less than 300 while the horde is in protection mode means that the enemy kills itself and you enter the new wave on attack. Two baba yagas mean you'll have two powerful blasts ready to go.

If it wasn't a light boss I did it with four star cole instead of baba yaga and a goon's helle.

Working on beating level 20 and have just enough arc to capture the horde if I manage to win.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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EzEight posted:

Not going to bother with this, the stage is easy but the silence skill has a bug that doesn't wear off if a unit is the attacker. Really pissed me off when it happened.

I beat it, but only with two stars since they kept going after my cole instead of the allied Helle.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Has anyone gotten Baron Samedi yet? I'm waiting until our next arc drop since I only have 300 right now and want that guaranteed capture.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Exmond posted:

Hey for the goon guild are we promoting all "know sa" members to elders?

We would be but because our former leader couldn't promote a new leader, we tried having him quit and rejoin, but that just made who ever that level 15 is the guild leader. Rip us. After this next arc drop, we may want to reform. Idk.

Question: what would you rather see in the ally slot Helle or Horde or ??

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Really? I'm elder too and while the buttons were there, nothing happened when I clicked them

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Geokinesis posted:

So how do raids work, I know we get raided sometimes.
Do the monsters get benefits from being defenders?

Poorly. We'll start trying to coordinate times to do raids as a syndicate, but before the last update, they were a pain in the dick.

Leadership news: They can't deactivate candyleader, since that guy has apparently been active in the last week, but they made me co-leader so yay?

GOONAMANCERS

If you don't have SA in your name, post here so I don't demote you and you don't get autopurged when we hit the member cap. Anyone at level 15 will be kicked by next sunday if you haven't posted in the thread.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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For stage 20, I think I'm going to try Duul as my tank. The board set up makes it too difficult to get good combos, meaning Horde won't activate for a few rounds anyways. Two darks and a fire mean that either my helle is dying the first round(because I can't get enough lights to activate angel of war) or Horde will be crippled/killed by the fire guy. Jenny doesn't get enough blues to heal until round three. I beat it first try with Horde, Jenny, Helle and baba yaga, but Baba never gained enough dark to fire off a blast, died early and then my Helle died in the final wave from a half dead auto blast. two stars, but that was without any salts.

Exmond posted:

Exmond hur de hur...

Any tips on Baron stage 15? My standard setup of Earth defender,mage,mage isn't working since the worst wave has fire attacker and Ms NG, who makes my defender useless.


Healer and a Helle. Also salts.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Looking for confirmation of goonitude for pepo, sambo, Mikey putp, Trampus, Inflammatory, Hagop, and Ghost Dad

Here's the current roster, we have four open spaces before I kick people come Sunday.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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I three stared them all except 18+

It cannot be stated enough that being able to attack first on wave switches can save your rear end.

Double attacks, Mage blasts, Horde's auto damage if it's hit, use these to trigger a wave transition.

Always target enemies with taunts first as they WILL cast that poo poo on your tank, meaning you have no tank and have to use a weak attacker.

For Baron levels specifically, try to kill a single target in a single round. If they drop below 50%hp you are getting a blast every round until they're dead.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Holy poo poo the new weekly boss. I'm level 42 and on level 10 she hits Duul for 1000 points of damage and can heal herself for 1500, which seems to happen every round. You need a water tank, a healer, and someone who can block her from using skills. I'll try bringing the baron to the fight as that fireball that uses their damage against them seems like a good plan. But holy poo poo if you don't have him.

Her base damage value is 2k

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Hey, just a reminder to everyone:

Check your defense crews. Some of you only have two monsters in there or monsters under level 20 even though you've leveled up since then. If you have a high star monster you don't use, pop them in defense!

I'm on central time, I'd like to start doing raids three times a day so that everyone has a chance to take part, depending on how fast we accumulate keys, we may go less than that or more. Hopefully we can ABR (always be raiding). In a perfect world, I'll trigger raids at Noon, 5pm, and 10pm central time. I'll announce it in group chat too.

I want to give a special shout out to Hillarity who's Baba Yaga is a loving beast and allows me to completely roll over hard maps when I pair her with Baron Samedi! Also, add a third defender, Hilarity!

EDIT: Lol, i can't start a raid. Go crazy, folks!

Soonmot fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Nov 7, 2016

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Cross your fingers? I don't remember if ramses or Nidhog even get their auto tank abilities. Assemble a team that matches well with the colors of the team your fighting and don't rely on monsters that get stronger the longer they fight, as you won't have enough time.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Try to bring my skeleton lady with you. Her heal will double your damage and will stack with itself. It's even better if they provoke her to attack because her base damage is pretty decent.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Just a reminder for everyone to make sure they have an active defense crew, we just lost 6K raw arc because some syndicate beat all our dudes. I'll be running raids at 12, 5, and 10pm central time and announce in the chat. If we all beat just 1 enemy we can really up our arc income.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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I've been having good luck in raids using Catrina, Nidhog, and Xaphan. They have to avoid water heavy teams, but a single water type can be taken down by Xaphan being boosted by Catrina and using his damage/heal skill.

My Defense team is Ms Ng with her provoke skill, The Fly with the baron's signet ring, which will take him to 50% right away and blast their entire team and Blackwood Devil with some crit boosting gear.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Okay, we have yet to run out of keys, so if anyone wants to start a raid outside of my 12p/5p/10p central time raids, go for it. Just announce a raid is running in guild chat.

RAID TIPS

These are just a few things I've picked up and that work for me. Anyone else who has ideas, please contribute.

For attack: I'm running a three red team of Catrina, Nidhog, and Xaphan.

Xaph has the serial killer mask to decrease enemy crit by 15%, this helps defend against high crit attackers, but I'm looking for something else. He's my attacker and his skill damages the enemy while healing himself with his skill.

Catrina has the lockpicks. This is more for pve instead of pvp since she's my main healer, since in pvp my nidhog is getting stunned. I should probably swap this for a healing compass or jawbone since she's always attacked first in pvp but I'm lazy. I have her heal/buff skill active instead of the cheaper heal, tossing a heal on Xaphan even if he's full up, can kill even water enemies if his skill is ready.

Both of these guys are five stars, with Catrina being close to six. Stars make a big difference.

Nidhog is my tank, he auto tanks as long as he's above 50% hp, so I keep a healing compass on him. I've also used Tar Spit because I'd rather choose my attacker then deny the enemy it's tank.

Basically, everyone can heal. I've been able to beat three enemy teams (that don't have waters) with just Cat and Nidhog, although that pushes the five minute time limit. I start out by targeting 3 green teams, then 2 green no blue teams. I will usually kill all of them, unless I get sloppy or don't pay attention. Almost always entering the next fight with near full health Then I target 1 green no blue teams, i'm about 75/25 on surviving this. 50/50 on surving this with two guys still up. Next is 2 green 1 blue.

After this I target level 30 and below that don't have any blues. If I kill them all, then it's 1 green 1 blue teams and no green no blue teams to finish it out. I have literally killed a dozen teams in a single raid doing it this way. I spawn lots of red gems and everything charges everyone. Everyone has a self heal either through skills or items and Catrina has that amazing single target heal/damage buff with a 50% squad heal chance.

If you can swing it, try running a monocolor team. I'd avoid doing this with light/dark since you will always lose one of your guys on the first attack, with those colors being strong against each other.

Defense

I'm currently running Fly(with baron ring), Ng, and Blackwood (with +15% crit). Having a tank would keep Fly alive longer, but since defender deaths don't carry over, I'm basically guaranteed two kills in two rounds unless they have a healer and some lucky gem drops.

HOLY poo poo DO NOT RUN MONOCOLOR TEAMS!!!!!!
Just don't. I'd even avoid running a team with two of the same color on it, but if you have some strong monsters, go for it, I guess.

Defenders gain 5 charges every round, including starting round. Factor this in when you plan your defense. Skills that trigger more often are a bit more valuable than ones that have to charge a bit, matches do not last more than a few rounds.

Crabbe: Blue fucker, 50% to damage the enemy team every time he takes damage, holy poo poo, this sucks. It's a random blast, but it hurts.

The Fly: When he's below 50% health at the start of a round, he damages the enemy team. I've slapped a baron's ring on mine so he starts that first round below 50%.

Ng: That provoke fires every. loving. Round! Totally negates the enemy tank, plus, if she attacks, she stuns if the target survives.

Baron Samedi: Takes a few rounds to charge his skill, but it does 100-200% the target's attack rating, depending on level. He also damages the entire enemy crew when he's killed. So they either save him for last and eat that blast, or kill him early and take damage.

Blackwood Devil: Crit machine. Everytime he attacks, his base crit is increased 50%. Toss a crit boost item on him and basically autocrit every attack.

Nidhog: autotank with either a quick charge provoke or stun skill

The Horde: Heavy damage everytime it's attacked, but it's tank skill takes two rounds to charge.

Any attacker with double attack: One attack on the tank, one attack on another target. AoE attacks are similar, but not as effective.

Soonmot fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Nov 23, 2016

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Very, especially since we accumulate so much raw arc. Our payout last week was 4K per person who contributed. Doing the roulettes and the video watches, you should gain about 100 obsidian a day, without factoring in mission rewards or the daily mission for the week that awards obsidian.

On top of THAT, if you are linked to your google account, use the google rewards app to answer surveys for 10-50 cents a day and use that fake money to buy IAP!

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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We've almost doubled our raw arc to 200K this week, so I'm anxious to see how much we bring in on the payout this time. I think it's only divided among people who participated that week, but it is an equal division.

Also: On these last few days, if you don't see a raid happening, start one and announce it in chat. Let's run up that total.

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Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

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Lol that artifact.

Baba yaga at six stars is a game changer, I've cleared entire third wave boards by setting up those blast gems and triggering them all at once. All buffs increase their damage, so when I trigger hordes still out heal her with catrina, or both, it gets ugly!

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