so newguy here, but thats not important right now


I have been playing this game for a good time now, and finaly stumbled upon a party I see a future in, but I want some other opinions. so, here it goes;


Arugal:
YTSS
Iceblock
(I had a arcane blast under him at first, but i decided that would be a waste)

Rethilgore:
Lycantrophy
dodge (I want another card here, but dont really know what)

Bog Elemental
Elemental Charge
Soulseeker.

the way I play this is: put out bog elemental, let him lurk around, then put out rethilgore, buff the bog with Lycantrophy. next turn teleport arugal within range of the weakest enemy around and voidbold. hope for a crit. when someone attacks arugal, iceblock (as long as he stays within 6 to 10 ) as soon as you get past tick five. run in with the bog,  elemental charge and bash the strongest character you can find (you can roll nine dice, and with soulseeker, you have a potential of 11 damage on that roll) rethilgore is more of a buffer who you just need for the lycantrophy and some extra damage

what do you guys think ^^ ?

Because Bog Elemental has a slow attack and only 1 resist, he is often replaced by Bleakheart Hellcaller in a similar team.  Check out any play-by-plays featuring Ben Isgur (Isgee) to see how it can be played at the top level.

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so, what if i replace the bog by the bleakheart hellcaller, and i put two DoT's under him, might that be an option? because of arugal's crit the dot's should hit more often.

second tought is: put a shaman instead of the bog, with a pair of totems.
like for instance: Frostmane troll (because of his crit ^^ another tick, and the little ensurance that i can remove some debuffs) with a healing stream totem and a magma totem, that will probably be active more often because of arugal's crit. 

which of those sounds better to you?

The team I used to play was Arugal, Bleakheart, and Rethilgore, but with a new set out there are new abc choices. I'd try something like this out:

Arugal
YTSS
Arcane Flux
Polymorph

Bleakheart
Shadowburn
Summon Santuria
Corruption

Rethilgore
Lycanthropy
Silk Bandage/Signet of Primal Life/X-51 Rocket Helm

The last card should be either Ice Block, Flamestrike, Fear, Death Coil, or Summon Piztog.

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Isgee is, by definition, a snob.

I can see the use of the summon Santuria card. I guess the shadowburn is for some extra damage when Bleakheart has done all other possibilities.

Personaly, I would trade the polymorph for an iceblock, because I really don't want Arugal to die and find that more important then ticking up one enemy. 

But in the case of playing with a Shaman instead of the Hellcaller (which I am starting to find more and more attractive) would my mentioned playstyle seem somewhat possible to you?

and, in general, is an Arugal based team safe from a team with Amalar in it, and how do you prepare yourself for such a battle?

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I can see the use of the summon Santuria card. I guess the shadowburn is for some extra damage when Bleakheart has done all other possibilities.

Personaly, I would trade the polymorph for an iceblock, because I really don't want Arugal to die and find that more important then ticking up one enemy. 

shadowburn is used as a totem/pet killer and to finish off an enemy with 1-2 health

as for polymorph.. it provides more control... it's not the ticking up that makes it as good as it is.. but the ability to remove the secondary powers that the character has on it's printed card for 3 ticks.. some epics like Velen are great to polymorph because your allies won't take damage when they kill an enemy while he's polymorphed

If you play Arugal well, it's very difficult for them to kill him. The key is to teleport, wait a tick, then attack and teleport away. If you think for a little about who you want to attack and where you want to end up after you attack, you'll quickly find Ice Block unnecessary. Paying 10 honor for a guy then locking him out of the game for 5 ticks can be terrifically awful.

As far as the Shaman, I can't really comment.

Shadowburn is good both because it's completely insane with Lycanthropy (1-3-5 on a model moving 3 so he's always on a hill? Sure.) and because you need a way to deal with Hunters efficiently. A lycanthropied Shadowburn + attack + Rethilgore swing will, on average, kill any Hunter. Hunters need to die because they can kill Arugal. Also, generally, Polymorph is amazing on Arugal. Here's what you aim to setup with this team:

Polymorph one guy. Get a second guy low. YTSS a third guy. Kill the second guy with him. Walk the YTSS'd guy to the polymorphed guy. Walk Hellcaller to the formerly YTSS'd guy, so he's adjacent to both. Attack + Heart Murmur + Santuria. Have Rethilgore bash guys.

Hope this helped! Arugal is a very difficult model to play with, but both extremely fun and powerful.

-Ben

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Isgee is, by definition, a snob.

oh, I see. well, I'm gonna testplay that team aswell as the Shaman team, and see how good I'm able to play with it. I'll post up "results" in a few days.

-Gratock

well i played the mentioned shaman team, and it pretty much sucked. my rolls where really bad, but even then, i got wooped pretty hard.

i didn't get a chance to play the other team, but i will do that next week. hope that playes somewhat better for me

Don't be dissapointed if you lose with any team with Arugal as a new player. He's a very difficult piece to do well with.

-Ben

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Isgee is, by definition, a snob.