Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-81.206.77.9-20131005080433/@comment-11128765-20131010145114

Ranoake wrote: Iuselect wrote: recommend always chooses attack over anything else.

picks a 2 evo snarl with 175k attack/6k defense over a 160k attack with 12k defense.

so i never use recommend. only time would be to use it as a guide, then interchange it so you have a good strong defence/hp balance. This has been claimed time and time again and I have yet to see anyone offer any proof. I have done some minimal testing that shows that recommend does seem to maximize damage, not just attack values. I can't not pick a deck that does better than recommend for me these days, and I would say that should be true for anyone that doesn't have a deck that picks itself (9 Grimlocks, 9 x10 radiers, etc) or someone weaker with only 9 obvious top cards.

My deck is a wacky hodge-podge of T2 type cards, and I can usually get my damage from 17-19mil via recommend to 20-23mil myself at the start of a boss event. And I do it by dropping the recommended glass cannons in favour of my 'cement pea shooters'.

You need to do more testing, Ranoake, because I imagine your card lineup is more similar to mine than to the exceptions I listed above.