I rented a Yodin Zaku card
I'm kicking myself now, thinking back to getting some Yodin Zaku cards in the airdrop and selling them for far less than they're currently worth. That's probably one of the biggest reasons I hate Yodin Zaku so much. Other than the obvious: it's rare to beat Yodin Zaku if you're not using Yodin Zaku as well.
Today is the last day I can really play this season. Tomorrow, I have a busy and important day and will not be at home or thinking about gaming. Today, though, I only have a few plans, and one of them is to try to get to Diamond II League. I'm only in Gold I right now, so we'll see.
This OP shit card will help, for sure. I'm joking!
FIRE QUEST: Battle 1
| RULESET 1 | RULESET 2 | MANA CAP |
|---|---|---|
| Unprotected | Even Stevens | 34 |
I'd just gotten this card and clearly didn't look closely at its abilities. I should be focusing a lot more on ranged monsters, since they get an attack boost of 1. This card is so OP that I won anyway.
FIRE QUEST: Battle 2
| RULESET 1 | RULESET 2 | MANA CAP |
|---|---|---|
| Weak Magic | Healed Out | 26 |
My strategy here was to pick ranged monsters that don't just attack the tank. To maximize the carnage. I won, so it it must've worked. Then again, Yodin Zaku is so OP that I could just put in 6 Furious Chickens and still win.
FIRE QUEST: Battle 3
| RULESET 1 | RULESET 2 | MANA CAP |
|---|---|---|
| Armored Up | N/A | 50 |
I rented a Cyclops card as well. If I'm going to be using ranged attack monsters more, that's a good one to have available. It was a cheap rental. I looked into a gold one, but there weren't as many options there.
FIRE QUEST: Battle 4
| RULESET 1 | RULESET 2 | MANA CAP |
|---|---|---|
| Explosive Weaponry | Noxious Fumes | 38 |
I still won this even though we had the everyone is Yodin Zaku ruleset of Explosive Weaponry. Everyone was blasting away, but I still won in the end because Yodin Zaku is so OP.
FIRE QUEST: Battle 5
| RULESET 1 | RULESET 2 | MANA CAP |
|---|---|---|
| Reverse Speed | Melee Mayhem | 14 |
Yodin Zaku is SO OP that I didn't even have to use it in this match and I still won. Let that be a lesson to you. haha. In the match prior to this one, I attempted to use YZ with a low mana cap and lost. I'm not sure it's the best plan most of the time, so I didn't attempt it twice. I finished the quest with a regular weak, underpowered summoner.
BONUS: I beat one of the fucking ENMINERS bots. Note to people who run bots: you could totally come up with more original names, but you don't because you actually want people to know you run an entire network of bots. It makes your teeny tiny dick feel a little bigger.
Please note that I'm always joking. All the time. Take every single thing I say with a grain of sand. I don't actually think Yodin Zaku is overpowered (but I do actually hate it) and I don't think running bots is bad.
Tales of Rewards
When I finished the quest, I was in Gold II. I'd sunken a little bit from fleeing and losing a few times. Before claiming the rewards, I wanted to abuse Yodin a few more times and try to get back into Gold I.
They are what they are!
END OF SEASON STRUGGLEZ
It's hard to improve your ranking at the end of the season. Oh, and the start of the season too. It's still difficult in the middle of the season, but not to nearly the same extent.
"If it wasn't for bad luck, you know I wouldn't have no luck at all." - Homer J. Simpson
(I'm sorry)
SHINFO
This is total shinfo that no one is going to care about, but I've started composing my posts on PeakD instead of in WordPress at splinterlands.sharkthelion.com. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is that the formatting doesn't always look right on Hive. It looks good on the website, but I know fully that no one goes to that website. The only reason it exists is to push posts to Hive using the Exxp plugin. That's a great tool if you have a blog that you already use and get traffic at, but if you're only using it to create posts, it's not necessarily the best way to go.