I already shared some of my thoughts in another post that you can see in my Conclave Arcana Post post. You can check that out for my initial reactions but we'll focus a bit more this week and I'll provide some more information that I wasn't able to talk about last week.

For this post, we'll be talking about some combos I found that will be useful in the release of Conclave Arcana. I will also add some of my future predictions for the game and lastly, some rant which I feel a lot of people can relate.

What are you most excited about with the release of Conclave Arcana?

Let me add some more on what I said last week. Except for the Bloodlines, I am excited about doing some unconventional combos and since last week, I actually found some interesting unnatural combos. Some of them are:

Painforge Unit + Lorkus + Noxious Fumes rule Combo
Painforge gives unit an extra attack everytime it gets damaged by Poison. Lorkus has a Summoner Tactics ability that gives it Life Leech, which increases based on the unit's attack, gives you extra health for each successful attack. The Noxious Fumes provides that Poison damage. This creates a strong loop. Your Painforge unit gets damaged by Poison which triggers Painforge increasing its attack. Then, the same unit attacks an enemy increasing its health.

If there's no Noxious Fumes, you can recreate this scenario by using Kha'zi Conjurer. Painforge still works with Burning instead of Poison but this idea can be dangerous as Incendiary spreads to your team.

Bloodline Tribute + Shapeshift Combo
Bloodline Tribute is like Martyr which increases your unit's stats when it dies but the difference is for Bloodline Tribute, it doesn't need to be beside the target. It would increase any friendly unit's stats with the same Bloodline. Shapeshift is just an ability that gives them ALL Bloodline. The reason I think this combo is strong is if there would be a summoner tactics that could give Bloodline Tribute to a unit, giving it to a unit with Shapeshift ability will have a really good interaction increasing the stats of any unit you have with any Bloodline.

Any card art, lore teasers, or abilities you're hoping to see?

I answered the card art and lore teasers last week and I haven't changed my opinion since then. I'd love it for Splinterlands to have cards related to Slimes. Since slimes change shape, all of them would have Shapeshift ability. I feel like it's a really good idea and it could also be a mascot for the game since I don't think we have one solid mascot in this game. All good games have mascots, especially those with card games. If you say Yugioh, Dark Magician and Blue Eyes White Dragon comes to mind. If you say Legends of Runeterra, Poros come to mind. It's about time that Splinterlands have that one mascot that will be known to everyone and I would love it if it's related to the slime family.

For this week's post. let's focus on the abilities. There's one thing I'd love to see and I expect to see this on next expansion after the Conclave Arcana.

I don't have the name of the ability but I am expecting to see something that is Bloodline-based. Abilities that gives benefit to one bloodline only would be interesting like "For each Gnome unit you have, increase this unit's power by 1." This would be an interesting ability as we can focus on a favorite bloodline we want. If you won't build around a bloodline, it's still fine and play normally but this would be a good change in strategizing in future games.

How do you think this set will impact your personal strategy?

I think when Conclave Arcana gets released, everyone's builds and team will change as even in Diamond, majority of the teams I play against are built around Chaos Legion. Even though I will lose the ability to rent cheaper cards, I think this would be a good advantage to me because at last, those summoners with Conscript ability. They are the ones where I lost the most because Gladiator units are very overpowered in this game. It doesn't matter which one, if your enemy used a high leveled Gladiator unit and you don't, you'll most likely to lose in Diamond.

I cannot formulate a really convincing answer for this because I don't know the cards that would be released especially the summoners (or Archons as it is called now). I will leave that for the future me to explain once we have more information.

Finally in Diamond!

Yes, that is correct. I've been doing a lot of games recently that I put all my skills and knowledge in the game and now I am proud to give you an update that I reached not only Diamond 3, not even Diamond 2 but Diamond 1!

I even got some extra glint freebies because I climbed from Gold 3 to Diamond 1.

And along the line, I had so many rewards as well which I am happy. It's nothing too exciting as most of them are potions and merits but they are still rewards.

Hi, y'all. Slimey here, your jolly and gullible little blue slime. I got reincarnated to this world to better my art and join community challenges to get more practice and improve my skill.

Know more about me by checking out my introduction post

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