Watabou shares his thoughts about the balance changes in Patch 1.74, evaluating the way that each of the affected cards were changed.
He succinctly reviews each of the rebalanced cards, explaining their relevance in the competitive scene and discussing how each of these changes will affect the overall health of the game.
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zelda shares his magnum opus - an exceptionally thorough Gauntlet guide, aimed specifically at new players.
He starts with several guidelines for deck construction in Gauntlet, explaining how to choose a suitable spread of mana costs (or mana curve) and when you should prioritize completing your mana curve over simply choosing the most powerful cards. After providing a cheat-sheet of important rules for piloting your deck, he ranks the viability of all 12 generals and proceeds to evaluate every single card in Duelyst. Each card is given a 0-100 rating and a short paragraph of justification - faction cards that work best with a particular general have two separate reviews, along with modifiers for each general to show how useful different Neutral minions are with that general. Although exclusively picking the highest-rated cards and ignoring your mana curve is a very bad idea, these ratings help new players to filter out the most relevant cards and provides a solid foundation for new players to learn about Gauntlet. The guide embedded here will update automatically whenever zelda updates his original Google Document, which can be found here. ZAMO presents her second entry in a series of budget deck techs, showing other Silver Division players how to build and play using a new faction for less than 2000 Spirit (crafting material). This time, she presents a 1160 spirit Songhai deck with Reva Eventide, aiming to methodically shred the opponent's minions and general using ranged damage and power-boosting spells.
After giving a brief summary of each card in the deck and pointing out some common mistakes that you should avoid, she plays an friendly match against LiquidKitten's budget Songhai brew, giving an example of how to use the deck and how much value Shiro Puppydragon can potentially generate. LiquidKitten explains his recent updates to his Tempo Sabotage Zirix deck, discussing his deck's game plan and how that plan has adapted to the current Diamond Division metagame in Patch 1.74.
He gives an extremely detailed analysis of every card in the deck - the reasons for their inclusion, how they support the overall plan and how to use them against particular decks in the metagame. In particular, he reviews the cards that were altered in Patch 1.74, explaining why Ephemeral Shroud was removed from his version of the deck, while Inquisitor Kron and Zen'Rui the Blightspawned were both kept. ZAMO presents her first entry in a series of budget deck techs, showing other Silver Division players how to build and play using a new faction for less than 2000 Spirit (crafting material). Her first deck is a 980 spirit Lyonar build with Argeon Highmane, aiming to flatten the opponent using cost-efficient defensive minions and then end the game using enormous attack-boosting spells.
After giving a brief summary of each card in the deck and pointing out some common mistakes that you should avoid, ZAMO and LiquidKitten talk their way through a Silver Division match and explain how to pilot the deck. |
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