Basically, you need a level 5 stamina rune or you cannot use this skill.

So broken. But again, P2W players won't mind.

Whats so p2w about a level 5 stamina runes....?

@Boro-Wing Well I'm level 101, but my rune building is still only level 5.

It takes too long to go higher, unless you spend gems.

I am happy with my level 4 speed/strength runes every week in the dungeon.

@Clackers ......... not a ladder guy huh?

@Clackers Wow, I was using X runes (only a few, though) before I hit the Lvl 100 and I was essentially F2P until I bought the Lvl 100 offer. Are you rune gambling? Doing Dungeons? Working on Island economy? Trying to get into top 5000 in timed challenges? Playing other games for payouts in Monsterwood? Requiring a Lvl 5 rune is easy. You can even save craft it out of 4 Lvl 4s from the Dungeons....

If this is going to be the actual cost for that move I like it. Will finally give some more use to stamina runes, other than slapping it on Voltaik, his aunt or his pets.

@Ekto-Gamat Yes, to make the game more varied, they need to make monsters with either much lower life (to increase usage of Life runes) or much higher life (to make battles last longer).

@David-ML To make it clear, I have plenty of level 5 stamina runes myself. I just don't like the idea of a stamina cost that high. Then again, the people obtaining Cryotan will NOT be F2P anyway so maybe it was a moot point.

When monsters have immunity to Mega Freeze, nobody will be using Cryotan anyway - who remembers the Nature tank from Japanese Dojo Maze? Exactly...

@Clackers Or even better: they increase the life/strength ratio when monsters level up and they introduce monsters with traits that make it difficult to deny them ... ah wait, they already did that.

@Nynaevelan This is maybe unofficial, but it is taken from the Wiki not from Taringa, so it should be more accurate than you think.

@Clackers said in Cryotan's AOE Mega-Freeze requires 250 stamina! [Unofficial Information]:

@Nynaevelan This is maybe unofficial, but it is taken from the Wiki not from Taringa, so it should be more accurate than you think.

The Wiki is still not official information released from SP. So unless and until it is released from SP, it is unofficial. Yeah I get it that they are pulling the info from SPs servers but until it is released any and all of that could be changed.

Just to put some context regarding this skill.

If you look at Ophiuchus's Delphi Guardian possess enemy team for 2 turns, and cost 33 stamina and 2 turn cooldown, comparatively Cryotan's skill is not that OP with its ridiculous stamina cost and 6 turn cooldown.

In the current format, Possess is a much deadlier form of denial compare to freeze too.

The only redeeming thing about this skill is if it can bypass resistances, such as it able to freeze monsters with Mountain trait or Freeze immune monsters, then it might be somewhat useful. If it is not even able to do this, then the value of this race monster is very limited.

@Portgas-D.-Ace Another advantage is that popular attackers like Voltaik, Zyla,and Barbatos cant squirm out of freeze with their extra turns, while with possession, they can

I am for the most part F2P, level 72, 11.5k mp. The only time I spent money was to buy Kaih The Eradicator.

To be honest I think that runes are expensive, but level 5 runes are pretty easy to get. I have a bunch of level 5 runes a few level 6 runes and a level 7 rune.

Just buy a bunch of level 1 runes or get runes from the team shop and turn them into individual runes.

@Clackers I agree that straight out of the box you cannot use that skill that the monster has, but this is definitely a monster not geared towards an entry level account. Something else to keep in mind is that Voltaik is great ONLY if he is loaded with REALLY high stamina runes. Some people will say that you only need one level ten, well I run two level 7's, which is more than one level 10 and I still run out of stamina on some of the tankier teams in arena, but fortunately less often in wars. So expecting a monster to need a rune I don't think makes them P2W. You must have one level 5 by now.

@Kaiju said in Cryotan's AOE Mega-Freeze requires 250 stamina! [Unofficial Information]:

Something else to keep in mind is that Voltaik is great ONLY if he is loaded with REALLY high stamina runes. Some people will say that you only need one level ten, well I run two level 7's, which is more than one level 10 and I still run out of stamina on some of the tankier teams in arena, but fortunately less often in wars.

You only need 1 lvl 10 stamina if you also use a lvl 8+ strength

@Marianne-van-Es I got 2 lvl 6 stamina runes and a lvl 9 strength rune, and it isn't always enough.

@Expander12 yeah sorry about that forgot about level being a factor too, my bad. Im talking about a level 130 and its different for a 100 so yes then you need more stamina forget what I said

Ok, my team is unlikely to get off their butts and even try to win this race. That said, while Megafreeze sounds cool, I am really underwhelmed with the artwork for Cryotan.

However, in retrospect, I really thought that Pinky Flash was a stupid monster with mediocre animation, but I am come to like her enough to rank her up and use her on occasion in wars, due to her hard hitting. I even like her animation to some extent.

@Kaiju our team is burned out and have not recovered from the last race, we are just barely participating but it is an overall consensus that we are not racing this go around. It's just too much right before the holidays.

@Nynaevelan Glad to hear from a Moderator. Makes me realize that even long time players have the same issues.

My team is doing decently, since we completely overhauled the team after the last race. Even so, we had a rocky start this race and Time Travellers 1 shows no mercy to us.

@Clackers since he has officially released are things the same, can I take the unofficial out of the title??

@Nynaevelan we cant check attacks yet without being @Carlos :)))

My team isnt exactly burned out, but I think we'll be giving up 1st this time around. No way we're ending up anywhere below 3rd tho

@Boro-Wing we were lucky but we never raced this slow, on 9th round...

Has SP thought through about this guy's aoe mega freeze..? Yes, he needs a stamina rune & yes, he's slow, but he won't be the only monster in that team of 3, added to which he has the mountain trait...so, SP has not bothered to take into consideration that freeze doesn't have a "recently frozen" turn after being frozen & now monsters immune to freeze are also mega frozen...show me a monster with an aoe mega stun as a regular skill & not a special, but even a mega stun gets a "recently stunned" turn, & you cannot mega stun a monster if it has recently been stunned (not mega stunned)...what are the game developers doing to the game..? Shouldn't even have bothered to post... it's a total waste of time (sigh)...