Thread:Discord34/@comment-25630527-20150115170241

Hi Discord,

I read how you did in the last TVT and how you said "Recomended is not working". That is very true. You shoudnt just stay with recomended; you need to tailor your deck.

I want to help you, but I really need more direction on where you are, and what you want to accomplish. Please let me know your current energon and battle cube levels, and your top deck power.

You may know lots of what I am about to tell you, maybe not. I'll let you take what you need out of it.

By the way, Im a 36 year old computer programer :-)

My deck was 140k during this event because I had the raiders with the multipliers. It is now back down to 72K, and no one who is playing has a normal deck power above 85k. All those super high deck powers are those people who logged out with raiders active and never logged in again. Short answer, deck power alone does not really indicate how powerful you are.

Now, to get raiders, you either have to pay for them, or get REALLY lucky with gold medals. You get gold medals from killing bosses in events, and you have to spend those medals during events. You also get the R5 raiders from ruby medals, and from the teletran 1 game. So if you play regularly during an event, you get more medals and teletran points. That gets you more raiders and kills bosses easier, and the cycle continues.

The critical turning point for me what when I was able to save more than 1000 battle cubes. After that, and having raiders, I could kill bosses with a max cost of 3 battle cubes. In team events I let someone hit the boss first to give me a good multiplier to give me more points and the mvp award. Other team members usually agree to this arrangement because I would win the day for them and they would not lose too may cubes.

Raid events are where you earn cubes. You have to spend time, and I mean A LOT of time to compete in these events. 12 hours a day minimum to get the battle cubes you need. If you ever see that you are not earning battle cubes anymore, pause to see if you can get a new raider card by spending medals or money.

If your goal is to T1 an event to get a R7 reward card, then spend your money on Energon chains. Save them for the hardest boss you can beat quickly, and capture them after you beat them. If you are not doing the "Advanced Tactics" levels (and they cannot be done without allot of raiders in your deck), then it should take about 40-50 energon chains to get a T1 slot (popularity counts).

For every event, you need to spend your medals. If you are under 5 millon credits, sell all the cards you get from these medals (unless they are raider cards). You will need those credits anyway to upgrade your cards, so it is best to just get the credits first and worry about upgrading afterwards. Since we are also getting some free quintesan judges, that makes upgrading a bit easier.

If you want to spend LOTS of money, you can also buy the R6 raiders, but that can cost anywhere from 100 to 300 dollars and depends on luck. But I have spent over 4000 gold medals on some events and never get an R6 raider. R6 raider cards are the best in the game and will last you a long time, even without the raid bonus.

Finally, you MUST have the correct weapons on your team members. You check this by hitting the EDIT button on the team screen. Select a card and you will see what weapon is equipped. Only select Critical hit weapons and level up your most powerful weapons. Megatron's cannon from this event is a Critical hit weapon and should be max level if possible. Also try to match the weapon type and job type. It can get complicated keeping track of them all, but it is worth it in the long run. Those that win are all using critical hit weapons. Never ever equip healing cluster or attack bonus weapons: they steal your attack for no value (think cursed weapons). Armor piercing is ok if you have no other critical hit weapons.

So digest this information first, and then get back to me with your questions. I might have some more tricks once I know more about what is going on inside your head. :-)

All the best  