Hello fellow Hiver, how is it going?
So, as I said in my intro and in other posts of mine, I am a big fan of cardgames. I was on a splinterlands discord channel a couple of weeks ago, and someone talked about this game that was really cool, was still in closed beta, although getting close to launch, that I should check out. So I went to do a little research about the game, went to their discord channel to get an acess code, and started playing. In only a couple matches I was hooked. I won´t talk about how long the game is being in beta, when will it launch, and things like that, just because I wont. I just want to mention that the devs are working really hard, and the mods are always there to answer and support in the channel.
What I will do here is like always put my impressions of the game, and share some tips with new players. That for many may seem obvious, but as nft games are growing and we are seeing a lot of people trying to engage in some for profit, a lot of have never played, or played little, cardgames.
So lets get started!
SKYWEAVER IS NOT A PLAY TO EARN NFT CARDGAME
What I want to say here is simple. First of all the game is still in closed beta, by saying that there is not even a form of money making yet.
If you are getting in Skyweaver/SW to earn easy money, just don´t waste your time. Like other cardgames you basically play SW for fun, or for competition. Unlike other nft games, like Splinterlands and Axie Infinity you don´t win tokens by winning games, on the "more you play the more you win". To win stuff in the game( and that, by dev words, will be carried on to launch) you need, either, top up the ladder, or win conquest matches. There is not a " if i win some or lose some dont matter, I´m still getting something". So if you willing to take something from the game, you need to play the game, and be good at it.
PRISMS
The game have 5 different prism, each with their own characteristics, strength and weaknesses, for you to choose from, build you decks and play with. Prisms are like colors or classes in other games.
the prisms are:
There are a total of 500 unique cards, and each prism have 100 cards for you to earn and play with.
We have a total of 15 heroes to play with, one of each prism, and one for each combination of 2 prisms. And in order to balance that, since playing with 2 prisms usually seems better than to play with 1, if you choose to play with an one prism heroe you need to build a deck with 20 unique cards. And if you choose a two prism heroes you will need a 30 unique cards deck.
LEVELLING UP
You will start the game at level 0, needing 100 xp to level up the next level from now on. Don´t matter what level you´re in, you will need 100 xp for the next one.
Until level 15, you will unlock a new heroe, and earn some base cards, at random, of their prism(s).
Shor intermission: base card only means that that card is a nontradable card. Being a silver card a tradable form of the same card, and gold the rare form of that card, having a gold frame. Having a silver or a gold card dont mean that you will have a better version of a card. If makes no difference if you have all 500 cards as base, or silver, or gold. Being gold just looks cooller.
Until level 15 you should finish the tutorial, and play in practice mode, so you get a feeling of the game and learn a bit of it.
After level 15 you will earn one random base card of the prism(s) you are playing each time you level up, but you wont earn xp anymore by playing in practice mode,so its time to move to the ranked ladder.
RANKED and CONQUEST
There are 2 game modes in skyweaver, being discovery and constructed.
each mode has its own ladder with 5 different elos.
in Discovery mode you will get a deck with random cards to play with each game. Its sort of a sealed deck that each game you get to play with different cards of the prism(s) you choose.
in Constructed you need to bring a deck you have build, although if you dont have enough cards to build the game will fill it with random cards( they will be different for each game)
Conquest is a in game tournament that you play up to 3 games on the mode you choose, that you will earn silver and gold cards the more you win.
At this point, after level 15, you should choose a prism only hero and grind up in discovery. Why´s that? because you want to earn cards from only that prism, since you earn 1 card from the prism you´re playing when leveling up. If you start playing with a lot of different prism, when comes the time to build a constructed deck, you will have cards splitted between the prisms, and won´t make a good, sinergial, powered deck.
My advice here for new players is to start playing with Strength, and only playing with strenght, you will get to know the cards from the prism, anf figure what is good or not so good. Then you should move to play either Strength + agility, or Strength + heart firstly, or whatever other prism you think that fits well with Strength. Although i advice the 1st two. I started with Strength + Wisdom myself, but as I said I have experience with cardgames, and I figured what I needed to have in cards, and what I needed to do to climb fast in the ladder, as well earn cards while playing conquest. A next time I will cover more about archetypes and give you more things about what prism you should choose after you have a better notion about the game. For now, at least until level 50 you should focus on getting cards for only 1-2 prisms.
So, this is it for now, next part I will cover some more ingame tips for you guys.
Thx for the reading, and always remember
"face is the place"