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Without using any crystals, the best I could do was 3 gold stars ranking... and that is by winning 99.99% of the time.

How many crystals did you use to spam arena invites to push so high high?

This post has been edited by Natasmai: Sep 29 2014, 07:54 PM

Erm... a bit more details on this "trick" please.

Fellow Arena PvPers... Want to pick your brains on the current Match Rating system and ultimately your experience in defending.

Match Rating:

1) It adds one point whenever we win a point. i.e.) Existing Match Rating 1200, we win a match and gain 8 points, our new Match Rating becomes 1208.

2) When we win on defense the Match Rating seems to go unchanged.

3) When we lose on attack, the Match Rating seems to go unchanged.

4) When we win on "Revenge", our rating again goes up!

5) Thus, it can only go up the more we win on attacks.

Issues:

a) The more we win, the higher our Match Rating (MR).

b) The higher the MR, the less points we get when we win on offense unless we find good targets with higher MR than us.

c) The higher the MR, the more points we lose when we lose on defense. Hence, we become juicy targets for others.

My conclusion:

i) DO NOT try to pump up our rating too quick.

ii) Later when we start to fight for position, there will be more people with higher Match Rating than us.

iii) In any instance, it seems that we will need a darn strong team of defenders which could be totally different from our team of attackers.


So I want to get inputs from those who seem to win quite a bit on defense, what monsters you use and your rationale.

Overall, I only win 1 match out of 10 when on defense. Feel free to critique my defense.

Currently, I am using the following to defend:

Eladriel (Wind Angel)
Ramagos (Wind Bear)
Lushen (Wind Joker)
Shimatae (Wind Slyph)



This post has been edited by Natasmai: Oct 7 2014, 07:58 PM

So disappointingly sad... guess we have to buildup another team just to defend.

Really not sure how with the AI so darn stupid.

Unless we have monsters like this dude here...



If I remember right, this guy had at least 300 points higher than his match rating... meaning he wins many (most) of his defense!

This post has been edited by Natasmai: Oct 7 2014, 09:31 PM

Good point... building up my Rina to irritate other ppl now.

Don't you own a Dragon? He is not on the AD lineup?

Fire Phoenix.... its resurrection ability is on a cooldown?

I killed this f***ing phoenix like 4 times.... still can revive for the 5th time and I lost eventually! WTF?!?!

Use a Martial cat or other such felines as bait... Fire Inu loves pu55y!

This post has been edited by Natasmai: Oct 10 2014, 01:16 PM

My 2 sen...

All of them are good 6* candidates.

If you mainly focus on Arena, Tyron first.

If its Dungeon, Orochi first.

If you got great 6* runes to enable Ahman to have very high crit rate, he should be good for both Arena and Dungeon.

This post has been edited by Natasmai: Oct 13 2014, 12:36 PM

If you include the right % runes, it will stack up. Essentially, in order to do well in this game one must have 6* monsters. Especially so in arena. If you do not have 6* monsters you will not be able to do well.

i.e. A 6* Megan the Water Witch with a hp-build will be able to survive round 1 to buff etc before ending up dead to Lushen etc. That difference of 2k+ in base hp will stack up to a difference of about 5k (with 6* runes) when she gets to a max 6*.

This post has been edited by Natasmai: Oct 13 2014, 04:58 PM

Do check out the post I made about Runes... and spending on this game.

That odd urge to keep summoning more powerful monsters is playing with our inborn human nature of "hope". It is a con job!

Once you have the basic "OK" monsters, get them to 6* (only need 4 in theory for arena). You can check with the masters in this forum which monsters you may already own that are considered good.

Then, level up to 40 and start using those precious crystals to spam the shop for 6* runes. Start collecting those 6* % runes for the 2nd, 4th and 6th slots. Also, pray for a 6* speed rune for the 2nd slot. Once you get the atk% and hp% runes and put them on your 6* monsters.... you will start seeing much better results.

Alas, one of the most "fun" elements of this game is to summon yet more monsters. Just got to keep that urge down and build up those 6* monsters and 6* runes first... then you will know what you need when you reach the so-called end game dungeons and high level arena.

This post has been edited by Natasmai: Oct 15 2014, 04:07 AM

QUOTE(stevenryl86 @ Oct 21 2014, 08:58 AM)

How you all been doing in the new arena system ?

The current arena system looks to be the "best" for me in a long while. This is not to say I am winning all the time but it seems to be matching us purely in terms of similar point-range. Hackers aside (which I have not met any yet after this update) this new matching system is challenging. Winning most but losing some as well. Cannot close one eye to bully others nor use automode at 1500+ rating. Bottomline... syok!

p.s. Hope this wont tempt me to spend again... been playing foc for more than a month now.

p.p.s. For those still spending... seriously if you already got some decent monsters, go invest in getting good 6* runes by spamming refresh in the shop. Good runes can last you a long time and they can be switched around to your better monsters when the God of RNG smiles at you in the future. I estimated approx 75% of my money spent in this game went to getting 4 full sets (almost) of 6* runes and has been working well so far.

This post has been edited by Natasmai: Oct 22 2014, 11:11 AM

@#&*$%@&$@#*&*( .... I just removed a whole freaking set of 6* runes this week. Ptui!

QUOTE(stevenryl86 @ Oct 25 2014, 02:39 PM)

I don't think so, rather to maximize his dmg output than the crowd control.

As a proud owner of Lushen, I would say he should focus on damage as well. The special thing about him is that he is one of the few whose special attack totally ignores defense. That is why he hits hard.

Get him Fatal runes and 6* atk% runes for the 2nd, 4th and 6th slots.... he is possibly the best AoE attackers in-game in terms of damage output.

This post has been edited by Natasmai: Oct 25 2014, 05:50 PM

QUOTE(stevenryl86 @ Oct 26 2014, 10:47 PM)

Fatal / Blade setup (full dmg FTW)

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Looking at your super Lushen made me study mine again. Apparently, I missed out some of his runes. It aint as purrfect as yours. Then, it suddenly occurred to me a possibility. What if we sacrifice the atk% on the 4th slot and replace it with a crit% slot? Assuming this will give him a 100% crit rate... would you know what crit damage % will make it worth losing the 63% atk?



This post has been edited by Natasmai: Oct 28 2014, 02:47 PM

Actually, I do use both megan and bernard together with 2 AoE Nukers. Then, I will go hunting for those arena teams with no irritating healers (priests). Your Bernard should have about 220 speed along with a leader with additional speed buff. IF our Bernard moves first, it will usually be a win. If not, haha we are screwed coz all squishies and no heals.

170%..... ok i can go back to my cave and dream about it.

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If all 4 monsters equip the full set, a shield that matches 120% at MAX is created for all allies because the Rune effect can be accumulated. The Rune effect acts as a separate buff from the shields that monsters create.

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