How long have you been playing?
I have been playing since the 13th of June 2018
I have no idea why I started playing nor what prompted me to download the gameā¦ I think I may have seen it as an add in another time-wasting game I was playing (since have stopped) & thought āHey that looks kinda coolāā¦ then after that I was hooked lol.
I only actually started using the forum itself maybe 8 odd months ago (September 2019)ā¦ Before that I was really just playing the game & chilling in Line Chats
Unrelated Puzzle Combat Note
Like @DaveCozy, iāve also started playing Puzzle Combat in the last 2 or so months (actually dropped an EP alt for it). There I am leader of The Pirate Horde, which is the Puzzle Combat spinoff alliance for the same name in Empires & Puzzles (ā The Pirate Horde ā a rich history, a glorious future. Rum! Join us! Yaarrr!)
Started the alliance with @SupremeAlienRaptor, @zephyr1 and LordStanlyā¦ just waiting for @voidstrike to pull his finger out & join us
Whatās your current role in your alliance?
I actually donāt really have an official role. I used to be the out and out leader in We Are Groot Volume 2 but I ended up suffering a fair bit of burn outā¦ So I went for a walk & visited some friends & made some new ones. I am currently back in Volume 2 but just as a member
My unofficial role in the Family is as a Recruiter; mainly from the forum here. I am also assisting the War Goddess in the running & strategising of Alliance Warsā¦ But thats on the DL
Which hero are you currently levelling and how will you use them?
I still level all my heroes on-colour. So I am actually working on 5 heroes currently;
I am sorta at the point in the game where I am levelling heroes for niche uses & for War Depthā¦ Have my raiding & titan teams pretty well set in stone these days (havenāt changed my teams in 9+ monthsā¦ not since miki )ā¦ So most/ all of these heroes are really for War Depth or Tournament Uses.
Plans for use:
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Miki ā Titans obviously. I had him at 3-70 for a lonnnnngggg time & just propped him up with a couple items; but I got sick of that.
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Lady Locke ā Green Cleanserā¦ Particularly helpful with all the Ailments that are being cast by the current Meta.
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Killhare ā Mainly raiding & warsā¦ maybe have some fun with her on defence as a flanker
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Roostley ā predominately wars & tournaments.
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Grazul ā Actually my second grazulā¦ Plan on taking her to 3-70 & starting on a 3rd one to maxā¦ obviously to combat Telluria in warsā¦
Which is your favourite hero in your roster, and why?
I hate picking favouritesā¦ So I am going to pick 2 heroes My fave two are Black Knight & Costume Elena. The reason why:
Do you have a particular memory of a great victory, a tragic defeat or a moment of madness?
Not really unfortunatelyā¦ I havenāt been in any really close wars where it came down to the lineā¦
Great victory I guess is the highest TP kill Iāve made. Havenāt found a 4800+ one yet to beat up on so this will have to do.
No real Tragic Defeatsā¦ Just the usual rage at the game when you go into a battle and just get no assistance from the boardā¦
Moment of Madness: Probably when you forget to change your titan team from the previous one. Then it ends up being a Rare Titan fight & youāve got a full squad of reflecting colourā¦ Yeah that went REALLY wellā¦
Which Season 1 hero would you most recommend to a new player?
1000000% Rigard. Heās just so versatile & useful. More so with his costume!
Rigard is one of just a handful of 4* heroes who have emblems & actually get used regularly by me anymore. My +15 Costume Rigard is actually a staple in my raiding teamsā¦ I actually ditched Kunchen for Rigard soā¦
In the 3* arena there are a couple who are really really good.
Hawkmoon (Costume specifically). Has a very similar special to costume rigard
Brienne (Costume & not). Both are handy verse titans. Mini Athena for the costume
Valen. Fast mana speed with decent damage. good as a titan support
What can you see out of your window right now?
Not out my window RIGHT now but its just up the road so Iām claiming it.
My actual window view:
Whatās something you enjoy about being a forum moderator?
Helping I guessā¦? Itās nice to be able to give back a bit to the community that helped me so much
That and not having to wait for someone else to remove/ merge those pesky duplicate threads
If the rest of the moderator team were stranded on a desert island for a week, what roles would they take on to survive?
Rest as in I am not there?
@Rook would 100% be the lazeabout one (being a cat & all)
@DaveCozy would be working away on the shelter non-stop
@littleKAF would be trying to devise a way of communicating with the rest of the world
@JonahTheBard would obviously be in charge of boosting moral
@zephyr1, unfortunately that means you are the camp b**ch & gotta do all the other tasks Shouldnāt be too hard for a highly efficient robot
If I were there I would obviously be the commander-in-chief & likely be used for firewood cause I annoy the ā ā ā ā outta someone
If you could make two changes to the forum , one realistic and one less so, what would they be?
To the forum hmmmā¦
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I would remove the ānew topicā button until you have successfully completed AT LEAST 3 searchesā¦
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I would clone @zephyr1 bot & upgrade @discobot to help But seriously would like to see DiscoBot actually be useful on the forumā¦ currently itās just a party trick where it could actually be really useful in terms of summoning information (heroes etcā¦)ā¦ There are templates for all the information already in both Line (Wise Goat by @Oggiez) and Discord (Jeeves by @Lumi)
As for which is realistic & which is less so I feel both are not going to happen but I can hope right?
If I gave you $1000 to spend frivolously , what would you buy?
Books probablyā¦ Shouldnāt really go buying anymore gems so probably booksā¦
I love Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Historical Fiction novels. So some of my favourite authors are Conn Iggulden, Robin Hobb, Robert Jordan, Matthew Reilly etcā¦
There are some books by these authors that I donāt own but would LOVE to get my hands on so yeahā¦ I would also probably have to expand my library a bitā¦ my current shelves are full to overflowing.
This is a really strange and challenging time for all of us across the whole player base and all our communities around the world. How has your alliance been supporting each other or those around them?
I struggle with this sorta thingā¦ Because I am not in leadership I havenāt really had a specific hand in this for the Groot Familyā¦ But there really hasnāt been much of a change specifically because of Covid-19.
Because Groot is a Family of alliances, we have the different volumes, each one performing at different levels of seriousness & competitivenessā¦ So there is a different home depending on what RL is demanding of you. Across the board, some of the requirements have been relaxed so people can deal with RL better, but we always had that flexibility & different home as neededā¦
Also, cause itās a family we treat each other as family. So the chat is always there & alliance leaders are always available if anyone ever wants a chat or just to say Hi.