Special Live Duels should have ended Yesterday. Classic Duels have returned to normal, but the warm ups for the Grand Duels are still gone.

Even though I enjoyed the temporary change, I really would like things to go back to normal now.

Yesterday I played 11 opponents and 10 of them had a 3 speed, 6 teamspeed team. This is not exactly a good thing to encourage a variety of set ups, or to encourage thinking out of the box.

Hi @ekto-gamat,

The team decided to keep it out of Grand duels for 2 more days. They should revert it today or tomorrow.

/Edit: At the end, we will keep them disabled for now. Sorry for the confusion.

@fox said in Special Live Duels: Should have ended:

/Edit: At the end, we will keep them disabled for now. Sorry for the confusion.

@fox Do you want a long version of me telling you why I think that is a dumb idea, or will it suffice if I just tell you I think it is a dumb idea?

You don't have to say anything, @ekto-gamat. I know

@fox said in Special Live Duels: Should have ended:

You don't have to say anything, @ekto-gamat. I know

Glad we understand each other.

Aaaand it’s been about 5 days since they were supposed to be returned back to normal. Thanks social point you never fail to make changes that literally no one wants! I really enjoy the “if you don’t get piercied you lose” grand duels! There’s just so much strategy involved such as, you know putting team speed and all speed on your team and picking the fastest denier, truly brings variety to the game. Ooooh maybe next you guys can add gem automatic wins into grand duels so all the kids who steal their mom’s credit card get free wins, that will sure stop your game from dying!

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@idkidk said in Special Live Duels: Should have ended:

I really enjoy the “if you don’t get piercied you lose” grand duels! There’s just so much strategy involved such as, you know putting team speed and all speed on your team and picking the fastest denier, truly brings variety to the game.

Lol, yes, it pretty much has come to exactly that.

Literally (yes, I counted them) 9/10 teams I faced since the removal of warm ups are 6 team speed, 3 speed. My estimate is that before the removal of warm ups at most only 1/3 of the teams had this set up.

There are a few monsters and monster combinations that can effectively beat teams like those without ressorting to play the 6 teamspeed game as well and tossing a coin to see who will win. Problem is there are so few monsters that can counter them that sometimes joining the speed monkeys is all you can do.

I have had success with the following monsters in a non-megaspeed set up:

Nitroblaster (artifact, good 0 CD skill)
O'Reilly (immune to possession, dodge AOE, 1 CD remove debuffs)

Hookuai (immune to control, good 0 CD skill)
Helgudin (dodge area)
Makugan (immune to stun and possession, good o CD skill)
Wasper (SC evasion)
Samael (bulwark, decent 0 CD skills)
Zyla (bulwark, 0 CD skill + extra turn)

Honourable mentions to the Flame Mana Bird and Xiron for their traits and skills.

Problem is that sometimes you don't even get to pick one of those monsters and in my experience realistically you need at least 2 of them in your team to be consistently successful against the megaspeed terror. The team below completely ripped apart any 6 teamspeed team, including those with Pierceid. Nitro and Makugan carried strength.

This team had some more troubles, and it surprises me it managed to pull of 9 wins, but did well enough, especially when Mana Bird or Samael resisted opening denial. Hookuai is carrying strength:

And this team basically just ran a frontal 2 strength Nitroblaster attack. Which shows just how strong Nitroblaster is in an environment in which he is not easily killed:

But most of the time Grand Duels have just become boring, and I am not going to pay 20 gems over and over just in the hopes of finally getting a team that can break the terror of speed and deniers.

Quick question on upcoming changes to duels.

Read the following sentence and please tell me what it means:
"Warm-ups will come back to Classic Duels but will remain Warm-up-less. "

They come back but they'll be without? I can not understand such a statement as it completely says one thing and then the other. Anyone understand it?

@monsterbath said in Special Live Duels: Should have ended:

Quick question on upcoming changes to duels.

Read the following sentence and please tell me what it means:
"Warm-ups will come back to Classic Duels but will remain Warm-up-less. "

They come back but they'll be without? I can not understand such a statement as it completely says one thing and then the other. Anyone understand it?

My guess is the second part of the sentence should read 'but Grand Duels will remain Warm-up-less"

Not exactly upcoming changes, since that is exactly the current situation.

That's a logical assumption and makes sense of it. Thank you.

Duels are broken right now. Can't see the monster face in the picture that shows turn order, so you have no idea which one goes next. Please reply when it's fixed.

Then order still messed up extra turn monsters give enemy an extra turn when none are anticipation monsters.

Great job at changing the monster roster in Grand Duels. This certainly makes things interesting again.

It would be nice though, if we could change skills and them taking effect immediately. We now need to exit the game and log in again for them being saved.

As a sidenote: why is Llum never included in the line up of either Classic or Grand Duels?

Respect to the great Llum please, she would fit in perfectly in the current line up of Grand Duel monsters. Much more than Prince Charming, who never seems to get any game play from anyone (probably because compared to the other GD monsters his trait and life are sub par).

Aaand now all new monsters are removed from Grand Duels, which is a pity, and the Warm Ups are back, which is good .