Best 'Cheap' HR Deck: Demon

This will be a shorter post with less explanation than most of my others. I'm assuming if you're reading this post that you have red most of my 'Best R/HR/SR Deck' posts.

This post takes into account current Bazaar pricing on cards and the power level you get for the deck. The decks I'm using are somewhat gimmicky but I'll explain how I selected these decks. These are assuming 4max evolutions.

Best 'Cheap' HR Deck: Demon-Attack

1st Card: Minotaur - 15.1k attack - Big Hit to Defense (all)
2nd Card: Minotaur - 15.1k attack - Big Hit to Defense (all)
3rd Card: Ark Dragon - 16.9k attack - Big Hit to Gods Defense
4th Card: Ark Dragon - 16.9k attack - Big Hit to Gods Defense
5th Card: Ark Dragon - 16.9k attack - Big Hit to Gods Defense

I can honestly say there is no such thing as a 'cheap' demon deck. For example, Ark Dragon is a sub par Berserker, but costs 2x as much. If you're looking for cheap you rolled the wrong realm. For this deck I used two Minotaur for the two top spots for the debuff. After some math it wasn't worth it to pack in a third Minotaur. All cards are approximately 10-13HP each. The reason I don't recommend 5 Arks and attacking only god realm is because Ark has a lower base than Apsara meaning you'll probably lose more than you win.

Final rough attack of somewhere around 81k with 16% debuffs which is a bit disappointing.

Approximate Cost: 200-260HP depending on prices.

Best 'Cheap' HR Deck: Demon-Defense

1st Card: Wraith - 14.5k defense - Big Boost to Demon Defense
2nd Card: Chimaera - 16.9k defense - Big Hit to Foes Demon Attack
3rd Card: Chimaera - 16.9k defense - Big Hit to Foes Demon Attack
4th Card: Chimaera - 16.9k defense - Big Hit to Foes Demon Attack
5th Card: Chimaera - 16.9k defense - Big Hit to Foes Demon Attack

This deck revolves around the fact that demons are the most regular attackers while maintaining a high base and a sure proc on your wraith. This deck hits 92k defense as well as powerful demon debuffs when you are attacked by demon realm.

Approximate Cost:  200-230HP depending on prices

FINAL ALTERNATIVE DECK-What I would probably do if I wanted to push offense and defense. (what I would really do is pump pure offense and use rares on my defense).

3rd Card: Scylla - 15k/16.3k - Big Hit to Foes Man Atk/Def
4th Card: Scylla - 15k/16.3k - Big Hit to Foes Man Atk/Def
5th Card: Witch Commander - 16.5k/14.8k - Big Boost to Holy War Points

Attack Deck 1st/2nd Card: Minotaur - 15.1k attack - Big Hit to Defense (all)
Defense Deck 1st/2nd Card: Chimaera - 16.9k Defense - Big Hit to Foes Demon Defense

Offense hits around 76k with a full enemy debuff and with some man debuffing. Defense covers for 81k and some demon/man debuffing. The WC will boost points during holy war. Scylla, Chimaera, and Minotaur are pretty much as low in price as they'll ever be with high base stats so when you resell you won't lose much. The way I look at it since the cheap demon realm decks aren't going to break 100k it's better to go a solid attack/defense and have the extra 60-100HP left for Holy Wars.

Total Cost: 340ish HP

The Manor of Illusions

 

The Manor of Illusions just thrust upon us immediately after another CW event finished. Beginning October 31st The Manor of Illusions event will last over two weeks and leave people who just pushed out huge amounts of CW pulling their hair out.

The Manor of Illusions, appears to be based off the Tears of the Moon/Easter Event blueprint. This blueprint revolves around two facets of gameplay. Facet one is acquiring treasure through questing, these treasures are combined to give the player a rare card. Each realm is able to acquire two colors of treasure and must battle other players of opposing realms to gather the treasures they are missing to complete the set.

Aspect two is pumping cure water into questing to move through the manor. Players with accounts holding very high stamina tend to excel at events like this. As players progress though the quests they will randomly attain Pumpkin Cookies that give additional point boosts.

Well, chances are you already know all this and are more curious about the twist on the event because your read the same line I did.

"The Manor of Illusions has many paths to choose! Cooperate with your order to find the right one!"

After much searching only to find nothing I'm left with speculation. I'm left to thought about what they could implement and how they could, I came to a couple conclusions.

Option A) Choose a path and progress down it. Essentially operating under a system where there are several 'wings' of the Manor and some end goal of each wing to gather. Personally I think this would be really pointless, but hell, I thought the fairy in the last event kind of was too.

Option B) Stick with me here, this is a long one. The pumpkin cookies that people accumulate during the event are going to be responsible for giving points for order ranking. Its possible they set up a system where gaining a certain number of points in a specific tower gives a certain number of bonus cookies at specific tiers for the order. This would encourage people to push certain 'wings' as a tier.

Option C) It's meaningless and will operate the same as Easter/Tears. The only difference being that players accumulate pumpkin cookies as they go to increase ranking.

**EDIT: Apparently it's just before you fight a boss you need to guess the right option in picture game. The wrong options are marked by order members who chose wrong. If you guess wrong you need to do the previous quest over again before fighting the boss, thus costing you stamina**

By the way, since there won't be a card released that helps during this event I'm going to make a little prediction.

I PREDICT that before the end of this event there will be an item sold in store that gives people an additional % chance for pumpkin cookies.

Anyway, good luck. And advice for the future. Build a stam heavy alt account, because they are really pushing these events.

Also, if you are unfamiliar with events like this, feel free to read:
Tears of the Moon
The Castle in the Sky

Sorry For Delays

Sorry for Delays. Been really busy.

Upcoming Posts in probable order:

-Best Cheap Demon Deck
-The Importance of Alt Accounts and How to get them/optimize them
-Proper guide on leveling up card skills

Future in no particular order:

-Why you're a bastard for spending that 50HP right before HW
-How to run/create/join a successful order
-Marvel War of Heroes TCG review (Coming free with a huge rant on why Franklin Richards should NOT be a common quality)
-Final Fantasy Series Rant
-Best Overall SSR cards
-Best bang for your buck SR/SSR
-Buyer Beware (A guide on how to screw yourself on the bazaar)
-A large rant about where MMOs are screwing up

I'm thinking Demon Deck Tuesday, Alt Accounts Wed, Skill Leveling Friday. Anyway, just wanted to keep people in the loop.

Over 500,000 Views!

As of this morning I noticed that my website had surpassed 500,000 Views!

I appreciate everybody who reads my blog on Rage of Bahamut. I know a lot of people message me in game and a lot of times don't get a response so I'm taking my time hear to let you know that I do appreciate my readers. I generally don't respond in game because I hate the typing interface, or I just didn't notice it until days after you posted.

If it weren't for the two week trading ban and the horrible debacle that was the payouts on my last contest I would do another contest. Those who played know what I'm talking about.

Anyway, keep reading I'm always hoping to contribute more and more useful information to people. I want you to know no matter what country your from I always want new readers and I don't penalize for poor English skills.

Obviously at this point people are probably coming to the realization that we are pretty close to hitting a wall of information where there isn't much more that I can teach you. After all, there are people who read this site who actually have way better decks than me! (Disclaimer: I do split my HP between 3 accounts and none of which are stam heavy accounts, otherwise I could have much more powerful decks but hell, I love stacking my HW rewards).

In regards to that there may end up being some postings that occur in the future that aren't completely related to Rage of Bahamut. Don't worry, they won't be more posts like my Work from no home post. I know that making money online isn't the reason people read a gaming blog. Besides, that's the only online money making system I've found that's legitimate (and it's still kind of hard).

But I will probably post some random news related things that I hope my readers will contribute in relating to incoming games and things of that nature. I'm hoping to add some gaming reviews and open discussions on games.

And example of this would be if I made a post on Final Fantasy 13 and pointing out the last decent Final Fantasy game was X and what the creators have to get back to. Or if I made a post about the top Five Hottest Video Game women and why. I will still continue to add Rage of Bahamut content, but these posts might be added in between updates.

Now, at this points I would like you to let me know if this is something you'd hate or stop reading because of. If it is and I get an overwhelming negative response, I won't do it. I want to keep my readers, but I want all my readers to understand as well that I want to give them enjoyable content and Rage of Bahamut doesn't change enough to warrant a new post every three days.

Anyway, there was a tangent. Once again, thanks for reading! I appreciate all the fans I have for this blog and I appreciate all the messages you send me in game, even if I don't reply to each of them!

Best 'Cheap' HR Deck: God

This will be a shorter post with less explanation than most of my others. I'm assuming if you're reading this post that you have read most of my 'Best R/HR/SR Deck' posts.

This post takes into account current Bazaar pricing on cards and the power level you get for the deck. The decks I'm using are somewhat gimmicky but I'll explain how I selected these decks. These are assuming 4max evolutions.

Best 'Cheap' HR Deck: God-Attack

1st Card: Mayahuel - 15.2k Attack - Big Hit to Defense (all)
2nd Card: Mayahuel - 15.2k Attack - Big Hit to Defense (all)
3rd Card: Mayahuel - 15.2k Attack - Big Hit to Defense (all)
4th Card: Elder Homunculus - 16.7k Attack - Small Boost to Damage to the Boss
5th Card: Elder Homunculus 16.7k Attack - Small Boost to Damage to the Boss

There are a couple alternatives depending on HOW cheap it really needs to be. This deck offers 24% worth of debuffs to the opponent but useless wings. I've seen Elder Homunculus go for as little as 5HP each since the end of Puppet Master. A better quality alternative that averages 8-12HP each is Qinglong in the last two spots. This way when the fourth card procs you're not left with something useless. Finally you can pop in a principality but I'm trying to use cards that are under 12HP each for these decks and the lowest I tend to see it is 15HP on average.

This deck hits 79k attack and offers up to 24% debuff, not bad for the price.

Rough Cost of the Attack Deck:  200HP

Best 'Cheap' HR Deck: God-Defense

1st Card: Cybele - 15.2k Defense - Big Boost to Defense (all)
2nd Card: Cybele - 15.2k Defense - Big Boost to Defense (all)
3rd Card: Cybele - 15.2k Defense - Big Boost to Defense (all)
4th Card: Ilmatar - 16.7k Defense - Big Hit to Gods Attack
5th Card: Ilmatar - 16.7k Defense - Big Hit to Gods Attack

There are a couple different ways to work this deck as well. Shield angel could be placed in the top three spots for a bit of an up charge. Qinglong can also be used in the last two spots but would drop quite a bit in stats if you do so.

This deck hits 79k attack and offers up to 24% buff, not bad for the price.

Rough cost of the Defense Deck: 200HP

A NOTE ON QINGLONG: He drops about 800 damage offense but his proc balances him out offensively. Defensively you lose 3k but you save about 50HP and the loss is lower if Qinglong procs.

Overall these attack and defense options cost under 400HP, under 350HP if Qinglong is used, and provide some solid bang for the buck.

Best 'Cheap' HR Deck: Man

This will be a shorter post with less explanation than most of my others. I'm assuming if you're reading this post that you have red most of my 'Best R/HR/SR Deck' posts.

This post takes into account current Bazaar pricing on cards and the power level you get for the deck. The decks I'm using are somewhat gimmicky but I'll explain how I selected these decks. These are assuming 4max evolutions.

Best 'Cheap' HR Deck: Man-Attack

1st Card: Berserker - 17.2k Attack - Big Hit to Demons Defense
2nd Card: Berserker - 17.2k Attack - Big Hit to Demons Defense
3rd Card: Berserker - 17.2k Attack - Big Hit to Demons Defense
4th Card: Berserker - 17.2k Attack - Big Hit to Demons Defense
5th Card: Sektor - 16.5k Attack - Big Boost to Holy War Points

This deck is gimmicky but serves a couple awesome purposes. I'll first note I use Berserker over Master Samurai for pure cost aspects. Each Master Samurai is normally about 3-4HP more than Berserker for a grand total of 800 more attack at the cost of 48-64HP. If M.Sams and Zerkers are going for the same price, go M.Sam.

Total attack of this deck is 85k unbuffed and takes down demons defense huge. If a player is up against a demon defense and is using this deck, they will tear up almost everything. Finally, why Sektor? It gives you a boost to Holy War points. This means during HW you can just swap it to your front card, reducing overall deck cost.

This deck is gimmicky because it requires you to only attack demon realm players and now and then you will simply lose because a demon player will use alternate realm defense like 5 Apsara.

Rough Cost of the Attack Deck: 200HP

Best 'Cheap' HR Deck: Man-Defense

1st Card: Paladin - 15.2k Defense - Big Boost to Man Defense
2nd Card: Captain - 17.2k Defense - Big Hit to Man Attack
3rd Card: Captain - 17.2k Defense - Big Hit to Man Attack
4th Card: Captain - 17.2k Defense - Big Hit to Man Attack
5th Card: Captain - 17.2k Defense - Big Hit to Man Attack

This deck should look familiar with on variant. It is the best HR man defense deck with extra Captains. Why? Because one does not simply make a man defense deck without Paladin. Paladin is such a cheap card for the power that it can't be ignored. Using extra Captains saves about 100HP but really players should always aim for three Paladins and two Captains.

Rough Cost of the Defense Deck: 300HP


Overall Advantage of having both: Will burn through Demon Defenses like you're rocking four Claymore. Will be able to point boost during HW. Defense will boost up to 95k at skill level one and will still bring utility against Man Attackers. For an overall cost of 500HP it's pretty tough to beat.

The Castle In the Sky

The upcoming event The Castle in the Sky is a new one for Rage of Bahamut. The event will be similar to Tears of the Moon but with a bit of a twist.

Players during this event will be required to raise a fairy. Its a sort of group enhancement project which is just really strange. The fairy is your orders personal god during this event and you will be required to sacrifice to it in order to increase its power. Everybody in your order will receive a reward for developing the fairy.

Other than the fairy function The Castle in the Sky functions identically to Tears of the Moon. A player will move through a tower defeating bosses as they move up the tower in an attempt to get closer to their fairy. While progressing through the tower the player will gain treasures of colors relating to their realm. To complete a treasure set the player will have to attack people to steal the colored treasure that they are missing. Once the treasure is complete the player will receive a limited edition rare card for the treasure. Once all treasures are completed and a player reaches the top of the tower through questing they will get another limited edition card. If I'm not mistaken it's Phantom Theif Lupin who's art suggests he's awesome, but his stats are lackluster at best.

The key of this event is to gather cards through questing in the towers to sacrifice to your fairy which is what will create order rank. Individual rank will be based on tower progression where the order rank will be based on Fairy progression.

This is a huge improvement over Tears. Previously players may have noted that I found Tears to be an awful event as far as reward payout vs what you needed to spend. Since players will receive rewards for both order and individual rankings this may actually end up worth it.

Keys to being successful during this event:

1) Gather a lot of clear water to progress through the tower.

2) Identify the cost vs gain of which cards to sacrifice. Where newer players may only sacrifice normal cards, players like me may sacrifice rares/hr to increase stats. Also look at the Bazaar for cards like Puppet Master which are only 4HP for a HR.

3) The Fairy card isn't worth it. The fairy card costs 35HP right now at the Bazaar. You can purchase seven Puppet Masters for that price. She has a max of offering 3x the points of a HR (so three Puppet Masters). Cards like Pop star may actually be useful for this as well depending on how many points are given based on rarity.

4) Treasure/Referral cards cannot be sacrificed according to an important note I read below the fairy card description.

Finally, I think part of this event is to remove some of the cards from the market. Currently cards are dropping to just ridiculous prices because people just aren't buying them but their still coming out of packs.

Why I love Holy Wars

Regular readers will note that I normally don't find events very profitable. I look at every event, estimate how much HP/CW it takes to hit a certain rank and then estimate how much HP/CW the rewards for that rank are worth. I do this to decide if an event is worth it and the reason is, besides the HP/CW there is the time aspect.

For example in Puppet Master I didn't participate very much. The reason wasn't so much the profitability but the time aspect. It could've been profitable if I bought up an Elder Homunculus before it started (I was looking at them) and then just powered through. It was purely the thought of needing to be on constantly that kept me away from it. Then the event started and I was happy I did because after the first couple days seeing what it would have taken to gain rank, I don't think it would have been worth it. And, I may have been wrong, but oh well. The time wouldn't have been.

So, why do I love Holy Wars? Well, first of all, only being three days is really nice. On top of that I get to play at my leisure because there is always a war going and I can just pound through HP as fast as I like. It really is an event where I can play for one of the three days and attain a rank I'm satisfied with and help my order.

Why do I think they're profitable?

Double payout and great rewards in both brackets. On top of this even the mid-level brackets give nice rewards. Also, gem payout for winning a certain number of wars on top of it. Payouts on three facets really help the rewards.

If every member of your order spends 100HP and you win most of your matches (winning is important since you want the double point bonus) you can normally hit a 100-200 ranking. On top of this your personal ranking is normally enough to get a HR and a couple LCP. This normally results in about 130-200HP worth of reward for a 100HP investment. If every member of your order is willing to spend 200HP you normally end up in the top 100s. You also will normally nab up couple HR and if you're lucky an SR in personal ranking.

Why doesn't everybody view them as profitable as me? If you only spend 20HP and you have an inactive order, you're probably losing out. In general if your order isn't spending the same amount as you on the HW, you're losing value.

There are a lot of players out there who spend 200HP on a Holy War who end up in a 300 ranking for their order because they aren't in a good order and have issues finding one.

To find a good order I recommend posting on Gamefaqs your base ATK/DEF and how much HP you're willing to spend along with what rank order you're looking for. Be realistic about the rank based on your ATK/DEF and the amount of HP you're willing to spend, a top 100 normally has a 100-150HP minimum and a lot of times have a mandatory 10-20HP donation. Keep in mind if your stats are a little low, a lot of orders will make exceptions if you're going to blow some extra HP.

Legend of Cryptids Runs Puppet Master Event

 

So, Legend of the Cryptids is currently running a Puppet Master event that is virtually a carbon copy of Rage of Bahamuts.

Personally I thought it was really funny that they did it because there are a lot of people who look at LoC as a carbon copy of Rage of Bahamut with easier evolutions and more mature artwork. There are only so many events that a TCG can run but I found it pretty funny that they called theirs the Master of Puppets.

The only difference in the event appears to be the bosses at first are way easier, defeating the bosses pays more cards, and the rank payouts are a lot higher than Rage of Bahamut.

If anybody is looking to start playing, feel free to use 'lucarda' as a referral. I just with the referral cards were tradeable.