01-01-2013, 07:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-01-2013, 08:03 PM by dietonight.)
Today, I tried Geras in Crescent in the bottom column. Got 1 promising looking battle where on Turn 1, Geras got a crit and all three mages failed, followed by a non-block from the rocky giant at the bottom on Turn 2 that the entire center column near death. Unfortunately, the thunder mage never failed again after that.
As you might expect, after months of trying and who knows how many hundreds of divs, the biggest killer by far is the thunder mage. The overwhelming majority of attempts look absolutely nothing like the BRs one sees on the forums, where the hapless NPC t-mage fails over and over again, getting off maybe only 1 or 2 hits in a long battle. It's quite the opposite for me, sadly. While individual thunder mage fails are not too hard to come by (~20% fail rate overall), streaks of fails are exceptionally rate. Even a 2x fail will only happen maybe twice every ~40 divs. And of course, I need a 6x fail at the very least in order to have a shot at winning. It's not as bad as one would expect if t-mage failing were independent and identically distributed (in which case the frequency of a fail streak would drop exponentially with length); but still excruciating. On the other side of the coin, long success streaks are all too routine. Paste together consecutive divs (since obviously no hero can survive for more than a few turns when that thunder mage is hitting every turn), and 10x+ successes happen several times per ~40 divs. Even 15x+ or 20x+ hit streaks are not uncommon.
As you might expect, after months of trying and who knows how many hundreds of divs, the biggest killer by far is the thunder mage. The overwhelming majority of attempts look absolutely nothing like the BRs one sees on the forums, where the hapless NPC t-mage fails over and over again, getting off maybe only 1 or 2 hits in a long battle. It's quite the opposite for me, sadly. While individual thunder mage fails are not too hard to come by (~20% fail rate overall), streaks of fails are exceptionally rate. Even a 2x fail will only happen maybe twice every ~40 divs. And of course, I need a 6x fail at the very least in order to have a shot at winning. It's not as bad as one would expect if t-mage failing were independent and identically distributed (in which case the frequency of a fail streak would drop exponentially with length); but still excruciating. On the other side of the coin, long success streaks are all too routine. Paste together consecutive divs (since obviously no hero can survive for more than a few turns when that thunder mage is hitting every turn), and 10x+ successes happen several times per ~40 divs. Even 15x+ or 20x+ hit streaks are not uncommon.