My thoughts on Dark Elves
I have been playing the Dark Elves exclusively for a few weeks now and i have played a lot of games. I am not claiming to be the best (or even good) at them, but i feel like i understand them and i enjoy the play style they encourage. That being said i have found i can't compete against a crystal hunter in most situations, i can't find a way to denfend my crystals or go aggressive enough to stop them. I can't even count the number of games where i felt i was way ahead, dominating and my opponent suicides against my crystal and i can't do anything to stop the loss. For a long time i thought the void monk low hp was the problem, they can't wall off a crystal the way the councils warrior can, a sword upgrade on an archer will chew through an upgraded VM.
I feel the best way to correct this is have life leach effect your cyrstals, any time a unit gains health from life leach your cyrstals do as well. this addresses the cyrstal issue while still encouraging the playstyle DE seem to be built for.
PS i hate attack upgraded archers.
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@icefrozr i have tried that and i find all that does is slow the archer down for 1 turn, i lose my monk and they keep their archer. and let me be clear i mean against higher end players. i did not have this issue when as much when i was playing random games i was winning 75% of the time in randoms. but in the league going against mostly people who know what they are doing i am winning 1 in 3 matches. granted the VM buff next week may make all the difference, i just felt healing the crystal seems to go more with the DE playstyle rather then walling up like the CL do.
I find the only time crystal hunting is really a problem, where you just can't do anything to prevent it, is on the one crystal map. Since that map is being reviewed, I wouldn't worry too much. There are also a few balancing changes next week that should help things out.
yeah i completely sympathise now players are getting better and better, if they get a runemetal archer in first round (quite common for some annoying reason) unless you go trapsing one of your units in front of the crystal to get slaughtered you'll be eating substantial damage for the first few rounds.
If you do send a unit to protect the crystal if its unbuffed only the void knight seems to be able to stand up to the challenge and then you'll have to spend the next turn healing him which automatically means council have begun to drive the fight. Once you are behind in the crystal stakes council can happily turtle for a bit till they buff up some knights and then send them out stomping all over the battlefield.
Rest assured balance changes are coming, and im hoping this means a health buff to void and not a movement buff simply so he can stand up to those nasty archers. Knights are also getting a nerf so no easy-mode for them anymore.
I also can't wait for the one crystal map to be removed completely.
yes i had heard of the changes up coming and i am interested in seeing what they will do with it and certianly more HP would change the VM role a bit, i only ment to suggest life leach healing the crystals would fit the play style of the DE more then walling like the CL.
Sorry about that crystal rush last night. XD I was totally down, but suddenly I saw the opening for the crystal kill (on the 1 crystal map, no less) and I took it.
BTW (and I did not know this until recently) the crystal assault tiles stack, so your opponent holding 2 makes your crystal very very sad. Another data point for modifying that 1 crystal map somehow.
Oh good, I have been looking everywhere for Pakistani watches. Do you have one with a Dark Elf on it? You know, like a Mickey Mouse watch but with a Dark Elf?
Definitely need a report function on here.
I think the leech effect on the crystal might just be a bit too powerful.I agree that in a single crystal game its always tough to defend as the DE,but hopefully VM will get an update.As for now,I try to use my monk as fodders usually backed up by Necros,with one preferbly placed on an attack tile.
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