Getting ready for the new Splinterlands season
Matt said during the previous Splinterlands Town Hall (not the one from this week, I haven't seen this one yet) that two things are very likely to happen in April. One is the launch of the two formats, modern and wild, and the other is the major restructururing of rewards and everything related for ranked play.
Both of them will have a direct impact on the experience of playing the game, and will definitely require us to adjust and create different strategies, adapted to the new changes.
And tomorrow is already April.
One of my Splinterlands goals that seems well aligned with the changes to follow from the player perspective is to max all or most of the cards from Chaos Legion.
Until recently, I haven't pushed many cards all the way to the max level, thinking I'll slowly add more cards by opening packs. But that process is going very slowly, because I don't want to buy more potions.
With the changes to the gameplay around the corner, I decided to change the strategy and start pushing more cards all the way to max level.
As I'll open more packs, when I'll find cards that I already maxed out I'll have two alternatives. Either build them up and rent them out, or sell them for the cards I'll still need to upgrade.
Before the beginning of next season I maxed out these cards:
Baakjira
Baakjira is not necessarily one of my favorite cards, but sometimes the combination of low-mid mana, high health, healing and void can be useful. The other abilities are not to be discarded either, since they have group effect. Maybe I'll try it in more games, now that I have it maxed.
Iza the Fanged
Iza is a card I love and use quite often. Together with Piromaniac from Fire, they are the only range cards with sneak in the game that I know. Add to that stun and scavanger and it makes it very powerful. The only thing is that you need to protect it early in the match because it starts with low health.
Adelade Brightwing
Adelade picked up immunity and swiftness compared to the level I had it at. I already used it from time to time for its repair+resurect abilities, maybe with swiftness I'll find it more useful. Immunity would probably not help me very much since I generally use other options when I need it, and the combination between speed 1 and swiftness if not very inspired for either regular or reverse order games.
I have a couple other cards already maxed before this tranche, and a few other I looked at and decided not to upgrade because they don't offer significant additional benefits to be worth it at this time.
There are a few other cards which I am in process of upgrading (waiting for cards on the renting account to return so I can finish the upgrade), but not all of them will be maxed already, so I prefer to keep them quiet until they are.
Do you max out your CL cards or have a different strategy?
I assume you have all your summoners at max level? Otherwise these monsters upgrades won’t make any difference.
I have some summoners at max level (at least one for every splinter). I will have more of them.
My cards are just ready for the Gold 3 league. The low prices of cards now really offer a good opportunity to max out one's cards. However, my priority, for now, is to pull up two other accounts of my family to Bronze I and then to Silver 3. Once, all four accounts are in Silver 3, that's the time I will start climbing up to my Gold 3 goal.
That makes sense if you have accounts in lower leagues to only upgrade to the league limits. Maxing cards only makes sense from Diamond onwards.
Originally, to reach Gold 3 is enough for me. But who knows? Perhaps, years from now, my financial situation will change, and I can afford at that time to climb to higher leagues. 🙂
Splinterlands is addictive. At first I was happy reaching Gold 3, but then, when I saw it's possible, I invested more so that I will be competitive at higher leagues.
I actually find the game therapeutic. 😆 As for the economics of the token and the NFT cards, I think after several years, that will also heal my family's purse. 😂
LOL, sure, that can happen. It has already happened before for many of the earlier players, and I believe it will happen again. Because Splinterlands works in waves.
😄
I'm not a fan of Iza but Baakjira is a beast! Adelade is very useful too
If they really change the power requirement in modern format, i may be able to play in diamond league. Then I'll start to max my decks.
I'm excited to see the restructuration of ranked battle because we needed it badly for a long time.
I guess with a well chosen lineup it can be a beast. I'll try to play it more often and see how it performs after I maxed it. Those +3 to health matter a lot, especially since it has healing.
Yup, Matt announced some pretty exciting changes. Not to mention a few changes are rolled out on April 5th, including hiding your opponent. I still wish there was a way to select the card you want to play, if you have the same card at different levels (before and after an ability was added, before and after speed increases etc.).
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You sound ready for a new season to me. Thanks for your post.
I believe so, yeah. And I miss it too, because I had my cards rented out for the last 5+ days and didn't play.
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Baakjira has been my savior in this game quite a few times.
But I'm right with you...I thought opening packs would get me maxed cards, and that's not happening lol So I've been buying off the market too.
Has it? Even in gold?
I was about to let it on the sidelines till I get back in diamond, so I can use it maxed.
I stick him up front...He's just a sponge and allows me to get my back monsters to do a ton of damage.
If I am understanding this correctly, then I don't really understand this lol!
Lol, and I was hoping this is an easier one! Not into Splinterlands, huh? :)
I haven't really been maxing out my cards as most of my revenue is going towards buying cards for the rental markets. I don't know if that was the best choice but the old format worked well with my current deck.
We will see. Many things will change after April. I suppose that will affect the rental market too, so we can't tell in advance whether what we're doing now will work the same in the future.
Of course, if one intends to play in both wild and modern, one needs to be competitive in both. But since we don't know exactly all the variables, these are only possibilities.
I think I will probably just focus on 1 and see how things go. It should affect the rentals and which cards will get rented. So I think there will still be a need to adapt.