kpania

Deleted this thread because I realised I was being needlessly argumentative and kind of difficult. Sorry if you read it. I hope to better convey where I'm coming from in a future communication with clearer goodwill. Thank you

@donaldwsjr so much yap

Suggestion for a 4-elixir Vines Rework that removes the stun/freeze effect in place for a 100% moveslow @Julesy237 @donaldwsjr (idk who else to mention) Preamble and intent 1/2

@donaldwsjr Thank you for the reply. Sorry if I came across a bit harsh wrt my read of the vines nerfs. This leads me to ask, (1) what lead the team to decide to create a card with this goal in the first place, and (2) how come the 100% slow didn't work with vines?

@kpania019 Vines' primary goal is to be another 3 Elixir spell alongside Arrows that counters Archers & Firecracker. The initial design was a 100% move speed slow, but it didn't accomplish it's goals and a 100% slow is actually not that useful. It was also Evo Hunter's original design

spirit empress is one of my favourite cards in the game design-wise. a one-cycle evo with a simple but nuanced ability makes the most sense to me

Miscalleanous benchmarks, interactions with other spells, and theory. extra/2

Changes to base card and the rooting mechanic 2/2

This deck kinda sucks against drill and goblin hut, Try: Lavahound, NW, Evo IDrag, Evo Zap, Void, Golden Knight, Bomber, Phoenix For a better version of this flavour of deck It ends up looking like a weird cross between egiant and aggressive golem, but with neither of those cards

Lava void I'd used to nw middle then lava bridge, so I could void defences on zero in 1x elixir With void rework you can probably chill more and go over with a more powerful void Hero phoenix with an AoE damage amp +damage ability would be cool

Thought I might as well chip in since I think about this stuff a lot and I am similarly lamenting the current design state of Ronin. There's probably stuff I missed, so let me know if anything is unclear or doesn't make sense.

Rough stat changes with benchmarks and reasoning 4/4

@Julesy237 @donaldwsjr Long rework idea for a 4-elixir ronin with a greatly reworked parry mechanic that should address the problem of ronin feeling one-dimensional/gimmicky, while finding his niche in the game. 1/4

Hero giant double barbs Tried running arrows but need the fireball for enough aggro One of the few barbhut decks where you go for tower trades up-tempo, though bhut is probably the best pocket defence in the game anyway Identity clean in jeskai Hero giant is so fun

Lava bowler double barbs Really weird deck, but it rocks You have multiple layers of defence, so once you're up elixir or have banked a defensive barbhut You can just slow roll an undefendable push or counterpush off of a good cycle interaction

you mainly want to pair it with cards with flexible redundancy (i.e. does a similar thing with slightly different [defensive] perks) and that stay on the map for a long time main problem when someone tries to use barbhut is not building in redundancy to counter win cons like hog

my favourite thing to do in clash is make decks and try them out in challenges so here's the first barbhut deck made that made me feel like i understand the card

@Julesy237 @TheBomb71285057 ronin being more front/tanky support in bridgespam that helps the push survive, while mini pekka has it's role being "i beat the crap out of stuff if i'm tanked for +/ the way is clear" so mini p more in (primarily golem) beatdown and some cycle (leveraging aggro white, no hero)

@Julesy237 @TheBomb71285057 i suppose the other problem with that is then ronin and mini pekka might face redundancy issues (both gw), but i think focusing ronin parry on having effects that help 'teammates' fight (but ideally not hitspeed buffs to reduce aggro implications) differentiates them well,

Damn need one more to make it 50. Kinda wish it was a win condition but I can't think of any nerf-worthy ones right now