Legends of Norrath

[hal]

Mods if you think this would be better In MMORPG or wherever, please put it there but the game has a stand alone client now.

And I would like to talk about my deck and Maybe hear about yours.

In LON you win by either killing the opposing avatar or completing 4 quests. This is a quest rush deck.

Items (real important to this deck)

3) Flowing black silk sash (whenever you apply an ability at a quest, you may exert this item. If you do place an additional level token at this quest.)

1) Journeyman's boots (Each quest gets -1 level when you are attempting it.)

3) Turtleshell helm (Whenever you complete a quest, heal 1 damage on your avatar.)

Units

4) elven priest (When this is about to be destroyed, you may take it into your hand instead.) 2 att 2 def 0 dam bonus 2 life costs 3 mana

Tactics

4) Holy aura (Your avatar combatant gets a +2 rune until end of combat.) absorbs damage costs 1 mana

2) Blindside (ready one of your abilities.) [all I have] costs 0 mana

4) Sidestep (You get +2 total defence.) costs 0 mana

Abilities

4) Battle cry (This ability gets +1 defense for each quest where your opponents have a unit.) 1 def 1 level costs 1 mana

4 Bloodlust (When you play this ability ready one of your items,) Hidden [play during combat or your main phase] 2 level costs 2 mana

4) Bob and weave 3 def 2 level costs 2 mana

1) Gift of armament level 2 costs 2 mana

4) Hunker down 2 def level2 costs 2 mana

4) Lay on hands 1 def level 2 costs 2 mana

4) Sap strength level 3 costs 3 mana

1) Whirlwind attack (When you apply this ability at a quest, you may destroy all units at that quest.) level 2 costs 5 mana

4) Brutality ( When you apply this ability at a quest, deal 1 damage to each unit at that quest,) 2 def level 2 costs 3 mana

4) Forge ahead 1 def level 3 costs 2 mana

Quests

Level 2 Slayer of gnolls (When a player completes this quest, he may search his deck for an item card, reveal it, take it into his hand, and shuffle his deck.) <--Combo time!!

Level 4, 5 and 6 quests as you like.

My avatar probably is not right for the deck so as you like.

OK, heres what you do. Turn 1 play an ability of at least level 2. This has not failed yet, I have never needed to reshuffle and take 1 damage.

Turn 2 play your ability at slayer of gnolls quest. Search your deck for journeyman's boots (you only have 1 in deck). You have 3 flowing black silk sash so a good chance of drawing 1 by the time you have the mana to play it.

God shuffle turn 4 win. And thats amazing in this game. Really good shuffle turn 5. Turn 6 to 7 pretty much. After turn 7 the deck is iffy as it is a defensive deck.

So what do you think of my deck? And what is working for you? Flavor of the month is weenie decks and this deck will beat them before they can kill me.

[Azazel]

awwww..... I remember the Turtleshell Helm. My druid wore one for some time.

[hal]

ya, its like that. Charming really for us eq types.

[Sky]

Still no 1280x720 support in EQ2. The tech person I spoke with said that res is working in the standalone client and EQ1.

So I have no idea how the game is, can't play through the first step of the tutorial because I can't see my hand of cards.

I did get a booster pack drop in the Feerrott I sold for 12pp because people are rabid for it right now. So it's good in that, anyway, I only had 4pp to my name. I would rather have just opened the pack...

[hal]

The stand alone client is a free down load if that solves your problem. Also your toon is not eating and drinking while you play cards.

[tazelbain]

I guess thats the point of fighters.  Because without those cards to trivialize quests, fighters seem pretty hopeless.

[Sky]

The stand alone client is a free down load if that solves your problem. Also your toon is not eating and drinking while you play cards.

No mac client. If I'm at home, I'd rather play something else. But a hand or two at break would be cool.

[hal]

Test tourney day. 1200 people at first. Server crashed. Over 1000 the second attempt. The following is copy and pasted from the LON forums by a red name.

Those of you that were in the September 22nd Stress Test tournament are well aware that we did a great job in crashing the tournament server not once, but twice. The SOE team is now going to get to work on creating a more stable environment for tomorrow's stress test. This means that we will not be trying again today.

To all the 1,004 players that entered the tournament and turned our server into burning rubble, we appreciate all your help! The goal of this event was to see if we could find the limits of our systems and we did. As a 'thank you' we will be giving booster packs to 1 out of every 10 players that were in the tournament at random.

I hope you will be back tomorrow to help us turn another server into melted scrap metal. 12 noon PST (server time)

It will be interesting to see how the decks do in tourney though. There are 2 strong ones now. A priest quest deck and a mage burn deck.

[Sky]

Still not working in 1280x720 for me. I found a workaround to get the cards on the bottom to show up, alt-enter and then repeat. Except it  cuts off the right edge of the screen after that. I've pretty much given up on playing LoN.

[Merusk]

I just saw the email about this and came looking for the inevitable thread.   So what's game play like, for those that actually may have gotten to play.

I'm trying to justify $9.99 per deck and $3.00 per booster in my mind, without even the carrot of 'collect 'em all and trade 'em in for real cards' that MtGO has.. and I just can't do it.  Perhaps if it's got stellar game play.

[tazelbain]

It needs work.  It doesn't have the mountain of playtesting that Magic has.

[hal]

I am a fan boy here so take my comments as such. The games are quick. Games that use a 30 min chess clock affect your won / loss record. Games that don't, well don't. There is complexity and card interaction and the community is posting on these daily and decks are becoming more competitive. So the decks are being discovered as we speak. Theres the fun I am seeing. The mechanics of the game are way simple as compaired to MTG. But the card interaction is way subtle. And I do not mean less powerfull.  And it is a flowing black silk sash! And Journeyman's boots! I mean Fiona Vie is a card. As is Mayong Mistymore. If these names mean something to you it really adds to the charm. Tourneys are comming but drafts are a gleam in the developers eye at this point. So, there is today only casual play. Heres the deals on tourneys at this point. They ran unannounced tourney last Friday night. I want to say 200,250 was what I saw. They had allready started so I could not join. The reports I have seen say they ran OK. Announced tourney on Saturday, crash, Try again and crash again. Thouse were canceled as were the sunday tournaments. There was over a thousand in the Saturday  crash fest. So it seems they have working code for small tourneys but they are aspiring to really massive events.