Hey. Since my 4* team leaves a lot to be desired still, I’ve decided to try to accomplish something better on the beginner bracket. I’ve managed to climb to place #22 (fell to #37 in the end, I gave up and used the movement on another gems quest lol) and I was kind of stumped there. I had no clue which stages I should redo. Now that the event is over, maybe someone could tell me which ones I could’ve gotten more points for?
And how, to be honest? Did top players keep rerolling for perfect boards or am I just bad at this game? I had a team of fully ascended: Belith, Valen, Jahangir, Kailai and Balthasar. Troops were some 1-3-4-4-3 or alike, nothing to write home about, but top players didn’t have crazy troops either
I’m assuming replay for perfect boards was done, but no information has been given out regarding what does which during game play (how does one DO that?) so it prolly comes down to trial and error or educated guesses or both.
EDIT: Check it out (and note how many flasks were used!):
Aye, but that’s for advanced, big leagues Seeing how I finished #37 here using only the 2 flasks that dropped from finishing Beginner/Intermediate and used a whole lot of energy on the gems quests and the rare quest (plus redoing the early levels for nothing cause I had no clue which ones I should focus on, would REALLY appreciate being able to view top players full scores) I think Beginner is much more forgiving.
I had pretty much your same score, only different in the various stage (better on lower, worse in the middle, same on high).
Potentially i was aiming for the top, was really sure of that. Sadly in the end i waste many energy without any improvement, probably because i had room only in the latest 3 stage and only if i had items such tornado or time stop.
The problem is that i don’t have such items and even if i had, i’m really stingy
That’s kind of the nice part about Beginner, tbh. You can experiment more, because the items you can use are easier to replenish and you don’t feel bad for blowing 5 axes or something on a botched attempt/brain fart/for science.
I made the post that was referred to and I have some comments that may be applicable here. First, I would say that the beginner challenge is at least as competitive if not more than the advanced. There is a substantial variation in team strength in advanced, whereas there are a lot of fully leveled beginner teams. I had a mediocre beginner team that got trashed because my healer was not leveled, and I dropped to 10,500 or so at the end. I was too occupied with other things to do anything about it
As some of you said, there is no timestop or tornado in the beginner, but most people don’t have more than a few of those. Timestop doesn’t work on the boss monsters in advanced anyway, I tried The five tornados I used were accumulated over many months in the game, and I have none left. Since I am not at level 19, there is no way I can use that trick again without leveling up.
Finishing #37 in that big of a pool is great, and it looks like you were only about 30,000 from the top. You didn’t even use many flasks, so that is a great accomplishment. If I had to guess, you lost a few points from the first few levels by not churning them. I looked at the top teams, and many have Brienne. It is likely that these teams had a bit more attack power, finished the levels earlier, and that is where your lost points are. I suspect that levels 7-10 on the top few teams would be where most of the 30,000 extra points are distributed.
I’ll bet you have some techniques that could come in handy for some of us.
#37 in Beginner is basically garbage. All you get is a golden token (yay Nashgar -.-). You have to get to top 10 to get any ascension items.
30k from there actually felt like a long, long way to go and I didn’t know which stages I could get that out of. I’ve tried replaying stage 1 and 2 a bunch of times to no avail.
Techniques? Get a good board, pop axes, pop arrows, hope it’s all dead
I get you on the replaying stage 1 and 2. I burned entire flasks to play levels 1, 2 or 3 over and over again to no avail. One thing I didn’t put in my post is that the last improvements I made before my Hail Mary were all in levels 7-9. Those levels are more difficult, and there is more variation. Our natural instinct is to look at levels 1-3 because they cost little and have lower scores than later levels, but in this case it is wrong to restrict yourself.
In the later levels, the bosses are stronger. Having some sort of trick is key to killing them faster. Using someone like Brienne gives several advantages, including using fewer potions and the monsters firing fewer spells. Those things save on time. If there is any special in the beginner heroes to decrease mana or delay special attacks, it is worth doing.
In the advanced, when I would get an increase in levels 1-3 it was a very small 500-1000 points. However, the later levels came with 3000-5000 point increases at times. My Hail Mary had a 28K increase on the last level, so there is a lot of room at the top.
On the advanced level, I got two warm capes for finishing 11-50 and several more ascension items for finishing , plus another ascension item for finishing intermediate. However, at my stage I have enough capes; what I really wanted were the 4 star ascension items, which are rare as hen’s teeth. Those were only given to the top 10. The best thing I got from the top 50 was the avatar.
I had Ulmer (so all defence down) Brienne (all attacks up) and a good healer (Belith).
Naturally i was working to shoot their special togheter to do much more damage.
But i don’t know why, seems to me don’t works as fine as other difficulty.
Even on good combos dont really make to kill at least one before he can even move, especially on last stage.
Then that damn panther dispel so it goes all to nothing.
I had a team of fully ascended: Belith, Valen, Jahangir, Kailai and Balthasar. Troops were some 1-3-4-4-3 or alike, nothing to write home about, but top players didn’t have crazy troops either 
Grats on 2nd!
Seeing how I finished 
The five tornados I used were accumulated over many months in the game, and I have none left. Since I am not at level 19, there is no way I can use that trick again without leveling up.
