Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9713390-20130827235843/@comment-9890645-20130828012346

Final Rank: 3

Final Score: 62,429,880

Deck Strength (Pre-event, during, and Post-event): ~15k / varying up to 32277 / 15387 (only MTMed Wild Rider and no tweaking aside from weapons)

Money Spent (Amount and Currency): Around $200

Mobacoins Spent: 5000: Two Tracks packs (a wise investment); ~1800: One tier loop (I forget the coins) which got me 2 MTMable RA (too bad one became fodder); 700: 3 weapons bridges for 2x RA and 1x Prowl weapon; 10400: CUBEZ. Started with coins in hand and left with around the same amount... I think. Memory is fuzzy about this area LOL.

Cubes banked/burned: LOL cube hemorrhage.

Ruby medals accumulated: Almost 10,000

Medals (Type, Amount, and Draws): Pulled very little silver and no weapon. From golds: Tracks bot, RA alt, a few R4 I didn't need (I think Arcee, TC and Grimlock alts)

Ruby medals (Type, Amount, and Draws): 19 Prowl pulls. In my first 10, I had 5 MTMed Prowl. Then 4 bots, 2 alts (up to 7) and a bot. Last day two pulls got me two alts and, with a few hours left, I joined the 9-Prowl club. Pulled 6 RA at end of ep and got 3B/3A.

Liked: The return of second-boss energon rewards and ?? bosses!!! (Note to Mobage: Would it kill you to up the appearance % on ??s just a little?) Ruby medals for raids was fun and brought a new dimension to the game. Being in the top ten for the gross majority of the episode was a huge rush that was only surpassed by the deck I wielded. In my prior T1 finishes, my highest DP was ~21k, and playing with a deck of this power was heady and intense. The fact that my birthday passed this week (a milestone, nonetheless) and that my summer vacation was closing pushed me to excel in this episode (and, also, evening out my R5 count at 3A/3D). I enjoyed chasing after Jthai after he climbed into the #2 spot, although I quickly figured out I wouldn't catch him without spending more on cubes. Ever more new friends in the chat room!!!

Are you aware? 6 of the top 7 finishers this episode frequent our chat room. We don't play around in there! ;)

Disliked: A ton (no surprise). The return of DAT LAG was a stunner; I'm convinced that it's something in the episode code and not the game code. "Ruby thieves" drove me up a wall early in the episode and caused me to use my DP to exact vengeance on them. Notable were multiple times, including once with a half hour left in the episode, I had allies ripping my MVP by the most miniscule of amounts. These actions led to many team members unallying themselves with such disrespectful players and caused some tension within the team. (I'm going to have a separate post on this later because it pisses people off unnecessarily.) There really should be a way to exchange multiple halves of a raid for the opposite half, as many people in chat drew NOTHING but one side of a particular card 4 or more times. Luck was still a necessary component of success; all they did was remove a large portion of the money from it, you just lost your time and BC/EC when you got unlucky. Looking at damage numbers, there was very little difference between 4 Prowl and 6 Prowl on the team. Red Alert was really soft, and Tracks was not very good without his weapon.

Any other notes/comments: I can't believe I was able to do what I did this week, at all. Luck was a huge factor, as the first 5 Prowls gave me a huge early advantage. This episode was also a test for some formulae I've been working on to help me determine optimal team builds, and it seemed to work well; my forays into this math led me to meet a few others on here with similar goals, which was awesome and productive for all sides. (Did  you know the Slug 2 weapon was about equal to the Bumblebee 2 one on Prowl?)

I ninja'd into top ten once, but this was my first authentic top ten run, and I want to say that it was exhilirating and exhausting, often at once. It is not something I will repeat again for a while, but I know I will someday!

Last but BEST: Our wonderful chat community here. My success is never possible without the people who work alongside me, a true TEAM of FRIENDS in every sense of those words. You people are absolutely phenomenal and there is not enough I can say or do to express my gratitude to each and every one of you!!! There are so many of you to name, so I'm not going to, but know I love and respect each and every one of you for your dedication to your game and your team!!! Congratulations and THANK YOU to every single one of you!!!

Words just cannot express.

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