Mastery Points

[angryde]

Ground my first bird to M:13 today.

12.12.12.12.12.xx
12.12.12.13.10.xx
12.12.12.12.10.xx
12.12.12.12.9.xx
12.12.12.12.xx.xx

[RedYoshi45]

@angryde
I figured it would be Wizard for you too. :P
Congrats! Did you miss the TH event or something? I see a gap in the bottom row…

[pixelyzed]

I’ll jump too ;)

Here’s my mastery as of now (“E” indicates an Elite class):

Matilda
E12.12.12.12.E13.13
Bomb
E13.12.12.12.E13.12
Blues
12.12.12.12.E12.13
Red
E12.12.12.12.E13.12
Chuck
E13.13.12.12.12.12

Can’t wait to get an Elite Treasure Hunters ;)

[angryde]

@smwforever45 Yeah, unfortunately I was on an insanely intense work trip during the TH event… and I totally missed it… I didn’t even get a chance to log-in for more than a week! :-(

[Suzy]

@angryde congratulations on getting your first bird to 13. I’m a long way behind you.

@pixelyzed I guess from your comment you have finally got TJ, well done.

[datguygamer]

@suzyq I guess people are catching up in mastery and that’s good. How’s your arena going?

[Suzy]

@datguygamer still plagued by losing coin toss which makes it more difficult but doing alright. I guess you’re are pretty relaxed now you’re not playing the Arena.

[datguygamer]

@suzyq Yeah, I am pretty relaxed except for during the events. :P

[GrimmJow]

@datguygamer,

Why don’t you play arena ?

[datguygamer]

@grimmjow Because I’m tired of all the crap Rovio does to it.

[GrimmJow]

@datguygamer,

Don’t you need shards too ? Like mastery :p

[pixelyzed]

@suzyq Actually, Time Jump still eludes me but my birds are generally getting stronger including Witch I now have at 13. Her power to heal is really effective with the banner (almost 7900 healing points a shot). So I can survive many battles against TJ teams that I couldn’t win before.

But when an opposing team has both TJ and Chuck’s Sonic set, then it’s still hard, especially since, like others, I seem to loose a lot more coin tosses than I should by normal laws of average. Still havemT got any of the two Sonic set components for my Chuck so, holding out for that too.

My go to team is now Red with Elite Paladin at level 13, Bomb with Elite SeaDog at level 13 and Witch also at level 13. The attack power of that combo is pretty staggering. Witch deals 2309 damage, SeaDog deals 3153 damage and Elite Paladin deals 2135.

Trying to replace old weapons with 62 versions when I can. Done that with Matilda and Red so far: Honey items both at 62 with Honey Jar enchanted to 10 and Spoon to 8. For Red, Kirei Masamune at old 52 but enchanted to 10 and Blowing Masamune at 62 enchanted to 9 (that’s 8281 heakth for Red with Elite classes at level 13).

So I’m doing alright and having some fun with the game again but I still find some aspects really tedious…

[Zybar]

How are you getting those damage numbers? Mine aren’t even close to yours.

My Red with Elite Paladin is level 14, but only does 1672 in damage on a non-buffed hit. I am using a Level 52 Dragontooth that is enchanted to Level 3. So my attack number is 1238.

George

[pixelyzed]

@george-hoenninger

1- I’m at level 60

2- All my weapons but two are enchanted to 10 (that makes a big difference). I pretty much kept only one set per bird and scrapped the rest for ressources and shards when those came into play.

3- My Red’s Blowing Masamune defensive weapon is one that increases attack by 8% and that is a level 62 weapon enchanted to 9. My attack weapon Kirei Masamune is level 52 but enchanted to 10. For Red, the difference would be there. I had Dragon Tooth before and replaced it with the Masamune set at some point (long before the level 60 update).

[Zybar]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I wasn’t factoring in the bonus.

Looks like I will need to start enchanting my set items.

George

[angryde]

@pixelyzed I’m so jealous of your progressions!! ;-) And your damage output is drool-worthy!! :-D

@suzyq Thanks!! But don’t give me undue credit. I’ve been playing this game since the day it was released!! ;-)

[pixelyzed]

@angryde Thanks! :) Yet I often still struggle in the arena as the game also ups the power of teams I’m facing. And the actual players I’m up against seem to be stronger as well so it’s still hard to get a good ranking in arena. But I don’t get obliterated as often as I used to.

As I said above, the times I do are against teams with both Time Jump on the banner and CHuck with the Sonic set which means they get to attack me repeatedly without me being able to do anything as my birds takes 3 times as long to revive and they already attack me more often than normal because of TJ…

That said, my mastery has improved a bit more with as I now have 12 classes at 13 and the rest all at 12. I really farmed mastery a lot in SRC about 3 months ago to get all my birds at 12 and I got there like a week before the last big update that upped mastery to 15… With this game, it never ends… ;)

I was also able to enchant Red’s level 62 Blowing Masamune to 10 so with my Elite Paladin at 13 mastery, that’s 8520 health points right there. Red can be a real protector now. If I can get the level 62 Kirei Masamune sword too (instead of the level 52 I have now), it will be even stronger on attack. Its heroic strike already yields 7906 damage… which is more than twice that of Elite SeaDog at 13 mastery.

I still can’t fathom how much LCs some players have. I didn’t start this game at the beginning when I think there was easier ways to get them, now it’s just tedious waiting and waiting if you don’t want to spend real money which I have before.

[angryde]

@pixelyzed I understand… my power rank is 1523 and I’m very often matched with teams in the 1600 – 1800 region. So, I feel your pain, absolutely. :-P

“Time Jump” and “Reset” are (also) the bane of my existence… along with “Mana”… even though the latter can be McCool skipped… it’s still inordinately time consuming. *Sigh*

“Reset” is my current nightmare… as was “Time Jump” back when I favoured a pure “venomous” line-up of Rainbird/Druid/Rogues. My new team of Stoneguard/Witch/Rogues is super-vulnerable when Witch is incapacitated for longer than 4 or 5 turnes in a row. :-(

I agree that enchanting helps… I held-off on enchanting my stuff beyond 5 for the longest time… and then finally bit the bullet. It certainly helped. However, with the new level cap I’m torn… I’m not sure what I’ll do when I finally start spinning-up my preferred set pieces…

My preferred set pieces are as high as 9/8, on and off-hand, and my banner is at 10/10.

Lol re: Lucky Coins. I have 1787 at the moment… which is not as much as some folks. I’ve been playing since launch and I don’t think they were ever easier to obtain… there was just very little to spend them on… LOL.

However, with all the new classes and enchantment… that’s all changed, for sure. I could blow through that in 5 minutes if I bought the 6x classes/hats I’m missing and paid for a few spins during 5xRR. :-D

[Anonymous]

@angryde @pixelyzed
What banner sets do you guys typically use? When I face opponents who use Chuck/Reset, I always use Valiant (whereas otherwise I often use Blessed), and typically also the Resurrection emblem (only exception being that I’d use Weakness if the opponent also has Witch). Really helps. And @angryde, fyi, my teM of choice also includes Witch and Rogues. The third bird is dependent on matchup; it’s usually Lightning Bird, Thunderbird, or Paladin.

[pixelyzed]

@poptimus @angryde

I do not have a complete set right now. I have the banner part of Valiant (Tapestry) matched with the Angry Bird head. Both are at level 62 and fully enchanted to 10 but I can’t wait to get the Valiant head again. I had the level 52 version for ages but was never given the Tapestry part so I scrapped it for shards at some point. Now that I have Valiant Tapestry, it seems the Valiant Head is never offered to me anymore ;)

@angryde

My power rank (seen in the bird selection screen of an arena battle right?) with my current prferrend team of Red with Elite Paladin level 13, Bomb with Elite SeaDog level 13 and Witch level 13 is 1885. I often fight teams with power from the mid 1900s to high 2000s and above. I think I faced a team with 2150 power recently.

So it seams, whenever you get stronger, the game adjusts and faces you with stronger opponents too but we’re more able to face them with better weapons and sets.

[Pointless]

My problem with Reset is there is simply nothing you can do to counter its effect (aside from using Valiant, anything else is utter suicide IMO).
All the other Sets, both for Birds and Banner, can at least be controlled, in terms of a strategy one can use to play off the weaknesses and at least minimise the strengths. But you get caught in a streak of Resets, there is nothing to do but watch yourself be destroyed, a very frustrating outcome.

[Zybar]

Well said.

I lost two matches in arena play today and both were very frustrating.

In the first game, the person literally had Time Jump happen 8 times. Don’t even want to begin to think how something that is only supposed to happen 10% of the time happens 8 times over just a few rounds.

In the second game, the person had Sonic on Chuck and Valiant/Resurrection on their banner. It was like a blitzkrieg hit me! ;-(

George

[pixelyzed]

@george-hoenninger @pointless

I know what you guys mean! Similar things happen to me all the time. Sonic is really becoiming a problem as I see it more and more often and it looks far more effective than the stated 25% of the time which is also a very high percentage for such a destructuve bonus (when used against us ;)

But Pig Machine just gave me a full 3 stars Resurection item at level 61. Resurection was my go to emblem for the longest time but I had scrapped my old version (which was not even a 51 level but a 47 I think) for ressources when I started getting 61 level emblems. Still waiting to see a Time Jump emblem though… never seen one ver, not even with less than 3 stars.

[pixelyzed]

Do you guys consider the Enfeebling Emblem worth it? For now I have Thorn Wall and Spiky Spike fully boosted to 6, Enfeebling at 5 and my brand new Resurection at 1. Thorn Wall has been my go to while I didn’t have a Resurection. Considering scrapping Enfeebling to boost Resurection. What do you guys think?

[Anonymous]

@pixelyzed
I use Ressurection almost exclusively (with the occasional Weakness vs. opponents’ Witch), so yes.