Havent played in forever; game still dominated by junk like Dragon's Eye?

[Destructo Dave]

Title. I havent played in awhile, debating reinstalling and playing, but is the meta/game still dominated by getting turned into baby dragons, mushrooms, and all that stupid stuff?

I quit a long time ago because I got tired of that mess. Just wondering what changes have happened over the last year or 2.

[Jerry]

I haven't seen a dragons eye defense in a while. The most common and annoying ones by now are a self-feeding goblin lineup that you better get down in turn one and some variations of a stealthed hero with life and death weapon in the middle of a formation, who keeps deathmarking and lifedraining while summoning new defenses.
Not a lot better.

[OneAmongTheMany]

Pretty much what Jerry said, a lot of PvP just features obnoxious teams that bank on badly designed troops. Aside from that, a new patch has announced 10 week events that everyone can do. Before that, the explore mode was overhauled and we were introduced the medal system which gives positives for your entire team. Two years is a long time, you'll want to read at least some patch notes if you're getting back in the game.

[Lucky Thirteen]

Originally posted by Destructo Dave:

Title. I havent played in awhile, debating reinstalling and playing, but is the meta/game still dominated by getting turned into baby dragons, mushrooms, and all that stupid stuff?

No, but it's dominated by microtransactions and intrusive pop-ups that will constantly beg you to spend money. If you ask me, it's probably not worth coming back unless you just want to play some match 3 every once in a while. Or unless you're a whale in need of something to throw money at, I suppose

[Red Dox]

Dragons Eye got seriously nerfed and is not used much any more. But yeah, there are enough other Units, Classes and Weapons to take the place of "annoying crap" in combination or alone.

Orbweaver Hero+ Life & Death weapon, with the usual Weaver team for example is an annoying piece of crap. ESPECIALLY during Guild Wars were you are handicapped with your teams color and can't tailor the perfect "anti-weaver team" every day.

Loop teams also are still around and with certain medals got even more annoying. Like "Oh a looper, better pack som frosting for them" can just get trashed when the enemy looper team has 3 Orpheus medals equipped and laughs off your frost attempts.

So while there might be plenty of new stuff around, you might get burned out sooner or later depending on your playstyle and expectations. For the PvE content, it usually still works fine. PvP on the other hand can get troublesome. but that is always the case in every game were dedicated players try to out minmax each other.

"The more sophisticated the game, the more sophisticated the opponent."
"The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent."