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To Dinner Aug 27, 2018 @ 1:38am
Vampire event (bites)
IMO why when you get this event does it say "replaces your strikes and you obtain 5 bites"? Why doesn't it say "replaces your strikes and you obtain that many bites?" I remove my strikes from my deck for a reason and I like the bites but I generally don't want to get more bites than I have strikes in my deck right now. Seems a bit odd to me that you get more bites back than you have strikes anyway and it is really inconvient too.
Also why doesn't "Ancient Writing" events upgrade your bites, but only your defend cards?
Last edited by To Dinner; Aug 27, 2018 @ 1:41am
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Berik Xardas Aug 27, 2018 @ 2:28am 
Originally posted by To Dinner:
IMO why when you get this event does it say "replaces your strikes and you obtain 5 bites"? Why doesn't it say "replaces your strikes and you obtain that many bites?" I remove my strikes from my deck for a reason and I like the bites but I generally don't want to get more bites than I have strikes in my deck right now. Seems a bit odd to me that you get more bites back than you have strikes anyway and it is really inconvient too.
Well, if you have only 1, or even no Strikes left, (without Blood Vial) you would need to pay 30% of Max HP for 1 measly Bite (or even no Bite at all). Also, Defect starts with 4 Strikes while others stat with 5 - so it would be getting 1 Bite less by default.
Also why doesn't "Ancient Writing" events upgrade your bites, but only your defend cards?
Because Bites aren't Strikes.
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Zu Aug 27, 2018 @ 4:23am 
You really think upgrading 4 strikes to 5 bites is a good idea, Berik? uwu"

The consistency downgrade you pay for this is the sole reason why I often decline even if my HP is low enough to lose none of it at the time, unless it's really low and I'm really desperate, but man does it suck to have 5 bites against hyperbeam man.
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Berik Xardas Aug 27, 2018 @ 4:31am 
Originally posted by Zu:
You really think upgrading 4 strikes to 5 bites is a good idea, Berik? uwu"
Depends - I almost always refuse to get the Bites though.
For reliable Block builds which need some turns to kick in (Frost focus or Barricade with 1-2 Entrench+), it's better to have more bites IMHO.

For me it's more like "If I want the Bites, I want more than 2" - but I hardly choose them anyway. Another minor, yet interesting thing to do with more Bites is transforming them since they become colorless cards. Yay

EDIT: To clarify my point: If you already were on a good road to remove your Strikes (2 or so left) - I doubt that paying 30% of max HP would be a good deal - not for 5 Bites, and also not for 2.
Last edited by Berik Xardas; Aug 27, 2018 @ 4:35am
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To Dinner Aug 27, 2018 @ 6:08am 
say for example I can miss the max hp because i got max hp gain after every event or so and I only have 3 strikes left. I could still use some slight sustain though mid battle. Why not upgrade it? For me that's the best scenario and even then I don't want to upgrade it because I get 5! which is way too much because it messes up the rest of your combo deck. I feel like it's just never worth it or at least almost never, which makes me sad because I like the idea of upgrading your strikes one way or another
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Berik Xardas Aug 27, 2018 @ 12:39pm 
Originally posted by To Dinner:
say for example I can miss the max hp because i got max hp gain after every event or so and I only have 3 strikes left. I could still use some slight sustain though mid battle. Why not upgrade it? For me that's the best scenario and even then I don't want to upgrade it because I get 5! which is way too much because it messes up the rest of your combo deck. I feel like it's just never worth it or at least almost never, which makes me sad because I like the idea of upgrading your strikes one way or another
If you have a "combo" -deck, then you normally don't even want a single bite, that's true.
I remmeber having a poison deck, and I only had 3 energy - but in act 2 I had a chance to buy Art of War. As for attacks I only had 2 Strikes and 1 Neutralize left. Soon, I managed to remove the 2 Strikes, so thatks to that I had Art of War as my 4th energy relic - I wouldn't have even taken 1 bite here ^^

But yeah, I took those "take 5" as too granted - now I remember myself thinking "man, I just removed 2 strikes - fk that, NO DEAL NOSFERATU.
So yeah, I can now feel that frustration - whenever I agreed I had only 0 or 1 Strike removed.
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