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Just tell me what the least rng focused class would be. lol my luck is always bad.

For your idea of rewarding the players who were the highest place would that only apply to Pro Tour and Worlds? Would it cost LSS too much money to reward each hero/class at calling level events?

GG mate, keep it up. Dyspraxia isn't mentioned a lot generally, and I reckon coming at this from your perspective is a good thing! Nice

No, No you dont

I'm a bit late but I couldn't resist commenting! I have been painting for a while now-on and off for almost 10 years and more consistently since the pandemic-and I grew up mildly dyspraxic (mild medically, it still affected much of my day-to-day life). I am quite proud of how far I've come, and I have even been asked if I paint for commission. I say this for two reasons: 1) to brag, of course, and 2) to show that a high-ish standard is probably more achievable than you might think! My big tip is the classic, and the most boring-practice, practice, practice. Of course you will be bad at first, you've never done it before! The only true way to improve is to get in the reps, and I think this is probably even more true for those of us that struggle to obtain the physical skills. My early mini's were pretty messy, but this was just a function of my lack of brush skills. Ultimately, there will be hundreds of little tricks that work for you specifically-but you will only learn them by putting brush to plastic. I will admit that just focusing on how bad you are at controlling a brush can be pretty dispiriting, so I think something else to think about when you are first learning is paint dilution. There is no true right answer, so just focus on what effect different levels of dilution have on the paint and the effect on the fig. Another thing that can really help is understanding that contrast matters more than smoothness. Your blends on your power weapons are not some silky smooth, Golden Demon insanity or anything like that, but the overall effect works quite well because the contrast is high-especially from across the table. Blending is hard and time consuming, which is why drybrushing is so popular. It hits a nice medium between how good the effect looks and how long it takes too achieve. Colour theory and colour harmonies matter a lot, and you can get a lot of millage on just using them well. This is part of why people who have artistic backgrounds can start so far ahead of others, even though they lack the physical half of the equation. One last thing, I find my hands don't shake as much as long as I am thinking about what I am trying to do with them, not about how much they are shaking. If you can't get them steady to paint eyes or little highlights, it might help to pull away, take a breath and come back at it again. Oh and your dreadknight is sick! Good choice to proxy him-the baby carrier is a an acquired taste.

I found your channel only recently, and a couple of months ago I got L1 judge certification on a whim, but I haven't had an opportunity to judge an event yet. (Trans, disabled, queer woman) I'm very curious about those judging and commentator controversies you mentioned, but I'm not sure what video(s) on your channel is talking about them, just from looking at the titles of videos

I don't have dyspraxia, and my motoric ability is probably within normative range. I struggle with hitting very small details like eyes on a human scale mini, but other than that i think its nothing out of the ordinary. However with my executive function and attention issues i found the best way for me to paint miniatures is using techniques that get the maximum effect out of minimum effort invested, so i can paint really fast without having to really worry about fine precision most of the time. This ties into your tip about cheating liberally. I make use of washes and drybrushing wherever i can. Above the primer, most of my models are just 2-maximum 3-layers of different paints on any given area: A basecoat and either a wash or a drybrush. Sometimes i also use both a wash and then a drybrush. Just remember to finish all the areas you intend to drybrush before painting anything else in, because you want to have the freedom to liberally brush outside the intended areas. In some areas i also skip the base coat by using a colored primer as the base coat. A decent quality black wash can also sometimes help obscuring small imprecisions where i overpainted onto the wrong area. This year I finished painting a whole army (nearly 4000 points) for basically the first time in my 20 years in this hobby, and that was mostly thanks to doing almost nothing but drybrushing. And what may surprise you is that that army were Sylvaneth for age of sigmar, which look incredibly complicated to paint. But what i did whas priming them Dark green, then heavily drybrushing the entire torso, face and upper arms and legs in Jade green (as well as a much less intense drybrush with the same color on the rest of the model just to add some highlighting everywhere), and then going over the torso and face and just a very small portion of the limbs again with a heavy white drybrush. this allowed my to paint models like dryads and treelords in a matter of minutes. More complex minis like the ones with humanoid parts sticking out of them and with swords and other weapons were a little more complex but i essentially used the same technique on those parts just with different colors. Once all those big areas were done i just added in some details where needed, like eyes small decorations. Finding ways like that to just paint in large parts of each model quickly with almost no effort was incredibly helpful for getting things done and also making them look way better than they have any right to be for the amount of effort i invested. It works great with armies that are either (almost) entirely organic like sylvaneth or tyranids, or entirely mechanical like necrons. One thing about drybrushing that people really need to know is, the brushes you want for that sort of thing are not miniature or art brushes. Medium to small makeup brushes are incredible for drybrushing

I'm also dyspraxic and while i have been in the hobby for 20+ years i have only started painting myself in the last few years! good luck with your journey, i hope you enjoy it all as much as i do.

Rewarding consistency, and rewarding people for maining a hero sounds really cool

The world tour stuff is confusing I'm still confused on what's the difference between a battle-hardened and a calling actually even is

Agreed, it sure would be nice to redeem my thousands of xp for something nice.

I would have to agree World Tour is confusing because we already have the “World” event. Naming conventions are important, and anything we can do to cut down on confusion is a huge amount of value added.

Agreed as somebody who has placed in the midtier at two Battle hardens, and chatting with many of the "mid tier" competitive players. It sucks going x-2/3 not getting top 8 and not getting ANY prize, and many of these mid tier players travel with one player who could actually win money and they need their friends to help actually offsets costs of traveling; but their friends find it hard to justify spending a bunch of money for nothing. I never played in the Magic pro circuit but from what I heard players like me could actually cash out, which sucks to hear. I know before LSS did reward XP but it was during covid and people who either worked from home or didn't have a job were able to farm armories all day. Also, the XP reward system really rewards players living in a big city. But I do agree that $90,000USD could go to the mid tier grinders that LSS survives off of.

Good points - I think in regards to the "World tour" rebranding - it refers to the whole weekend of events. Saying "Calling Portland" is specifically referring to that one event on the weekend (even if it is the biggest)- when in reality there are multiple events during the weekend - Calling, Battle Hardened, Super Armory, etc - so I can see why they want to change it to "World Tour Portland"

So far there's only 5 classes in the game. Kayo, Azalea, Boltin, Dash and Jarl. I cannot be assed to build my own deck if I can just pay like 60 and have a deck built for me lol

as a player maybe buying in, this is very helpful. Still not sure if i can afford a 2nd (maybe 3rd TCG) but i think i'm going to grab something. Was maybe going to get the Dash Armory deck, and was recommended to grab the other Dash Hero to use with it. But not sure if it's better to grab that, learn the game, than choose, or just try and figure out what i like/prefer. Which is kinda hard with so many.

This video is so cool, please do more, we need history to be preserved!

Light also has a "Yellow matters" subtheme to go alongside Draconic and Mystics' band matters motifs.

objectively this would be a bad choice but im not going to lie - if they released fab x street fighter or fab x guilty gear and had stuff like ira turned into ibuki or aurora turned into ky kiske i would definitely shill for it.

Just worth noting a small error. There is in fact a talented Ranger - Lexi who is a lightning and Ice hero. She has been living legend for a while so she slipped my mind. Sorry. Next update I’ll add her in Light also has a strong “yellow matters” theme. 😂

That chart to disrespect Lexi completely by saying that ranger has no Talent. Boo!

Best FAB vdeos!

Hodgepodge the Gathering

I just want a draconic runeblade!

Not to be That Guy but there is a talented ranger, Lexi, Livewire she just got LL'd so technically Mech is the only untalented class

That's pretty cool using the Talent Plus Class to create an archetype instead of bloating the system with extra classes and making it more complicated than it needs to be or running the risk of the new classes not having enough support or supporting the new classes and forsaking the old ones in a set

Love these videos I can send to new players. Awesome!

This is 17 minutes far to many to say NO

Thank you for the great video, still learning FaB and I've been loving Florian since his release. He's my main go-to Hero until a Necromancer Hero comes out. I love his theme and playstyle and this video has helped to understand him better. Thank you again

FAb should do SpongeBob UB. I want to see Sponge Bob vs Patrick vs Mr Crab vs Squidward

I would hope that LSS would create a new IP/ spin-off if they want to do this

I think that ultimately, this kind of monetization is what is required to maintain infinite growth for a luxury product. IF FAB remains privately owned, then i don't see this happening, but almost all products follow a certain capitalistic progression

The moment Flesh and Blood take this road I'll for sure leave. I abandon MTG with a lot of grief to be honest, I was playing since 1995 Ice Age just because the changes since Kamigawa, one decision after another was keep pushing me out the game, flavor and lore wise, everything got worse for me. This past year I'm playing FaB weekly at my LGS and it's really replaced MTG for me.

I love fab because it’s not magic. I still enjoy magic to a certain degree but it’s nice to step away and play other games from time to time.

No Idea if this would be good for FaB in the long run or not if they did this, but I for sure would quit. Left MTG because of stuff like this.

For mtg the universes beyond I go between “yes please” to “don’t care” - and don’t care about the impact on competitive formats because I just play EDH with my friends. No time to be sweaty. Flesh and blood would be an ideal card game mechanic for a game like Monster Hunter the TCG for a PVE game system. I think it can do well as an ancillary product for pve/board game night rather than shoehorned into competitive pvp, which is FAB’s unique, specific niche that it excels at.

Please god no, this is whole reason why I don’t play MTG anymore

What would IP products in FAB look like? As someone who hasn't ever played FAB because the aesthetics don't interest me enough, the minimum IP crossover that would be necessary to get me playing would be being able to make a deck that was mostly related to my preferred IP, probably at least 75%. And then would it run into the Weiss Schwarz "next time I buy cards is the next time an IP I like gets printed" problem? Also I think there's something to be said for "MTG can do this because it's MTG". Local turnout for universus, weiss schwarz, and the other IP games where I am is low and new players are rare. People just aren't *that* interested in IP, the name and overwhelming established presence of MTG does a lot for MTG's ability to pull interest.

Hell no. Fuck that lol

Definitely no, the very reason I quit MTG, please don't do this to FAB.

Ew no. Universes Beyond, and the bad management of their eternal formats, is what killed Magic for me. I can't lose another card game this way!

No. But I'd rather have LSS take the CCG IP for the Legend of the Five Rings (L5R)

Pretty happy with where they are at the moment. I think there is plenty of scope for growth & new characters with out the need to branch out. At least at this stage!

if they want me to quit FaB, sure

This is an excellent assembly of all the points, including points I've noticed myself but not seen other people mentioning. The one thing I'm not convinced by is the prediction that they'll use AI to fill out the art in these sets based on the idea that they can train the generators on the IP - art isn't that expensive, even £300,000 per set is nothing, and the risk in cutting this cost is that consumers don't feel they're getting a high enough quality product. We've already seen with the Hatsune Miku secret lairs the scalpers basically selling at-cost because the art is bad and no one is interested in paying a premium - if this becomes a regular thing, scalpers and distributors will get cold feet and think twice about buying everything WOTC offers. I think we're more likely to see Wizards drop their art price, commission artists from lower cost of living countries, turn a blind eye to individual artists who use AI to make the lower fee still time-efficient, and *maybe* use movie screenshots (possibly traced over). I'd also point out that while I'm sure this will all go fine for WOTC, I think it's going to end up with "UB" feeling like a different game to "MTG". Looking at the player profile laid out here, which isn't going to be far from accurate: A UB player is someone who doesn't feel their interests are represented by the various archetypes of MTG's existing card pool and someone who has different interests from the traditional MTG playerbase. That person might love the Spiderman set, but what is there to get him beyond Spiderman and into the rest of MTG? Some people will gradually trickle into MTG, I'm sure, but the majority of these players are going to stay in Standard where the set they're interested has a home, and pay little to no attention to formats like modern and pioneer that will require them to make a primarily non-IP deck if they want to be competitive. From a practical perspective, I expect to have very little in-person interaction with UB players due to format separation and different friend groups. And it's not just conversion to MTG that'll be a problem, chances are that Spiderman fan is as disinterested in the Final Fantasy set and the Assassin's Creed set as he is the Tarkir set. So once he's bought everything he wants from Spiderman, when's the next time he wants anything? That's a bit of a problem in Weiss Schwarz already - a WS set is typically a single anime franchise, and future support for that franchise is then rare. This means for any given set, each player either wants to buy a full playset of every card, or doesn't want anything at all (except the meta players). Now that I've finished making my deck, my total spend on Weiss Schwarz for the foreseeable future is going to be £0, because the upcoming sets happen to be for anime I haven't watched. And also for Pixar and for live-action Marvel because Weiss Schwarz is going UB too for some absurd reason.

Just got into the game and chose Dash IO. Looks powerful, price was great, but I didn’t know worlds started a couple of weeks after I got my deck and now it seems like my deck is getting banned. 😅

That's really good points, for good and bad. I'm the same, for me lore and mostly, coherence need to take place in any game. I was playing MTG since Ice Age in 1995, but I couldn't bear the direction it is taking. Now, for the last year I'm playing Flesh and Blood weekly, and just kept some Commander decks to play with friends about once per month. My budget for TCG went from MTG to FaB and others like One Piece, Grand Archive, etc.

Just pick the hero that looks coolest

I like your content, I listen to every episode and the following disagreement that I`ll write here means nothing against that. However, as frustrated as you are with CYB I am equally frustrated with their positions Here's why: -------------------- Skip this IF you really don't care how balanced CYB is -------------------- CYB math is 9 cards each for 2 mana net 54 life - that makes every CYB a 2 for 6 - a very fair rate especially considering that: 1) you need to cast all 9 to get the fair rate, otherwise its giga shit rate even if only the final CYB is missing 2) no block - it literally forces you to cast it only so it is inflexible af 3) severe deckbuilding tax - your deck becomes a CYB deck and its entire strategy revolves around it now 4) offers no additional value outside of vanilla lifegain, cards with rate 2 for 6 dmg have crazy upsides and block its only real upside is being an instant and pays for it with points 1-4 which are massive; Moreover CYB deck give you all the time in the world to pitchstack insane damage turns and get completely blown away by combo value that CYB has no way to match. Almost every aggro has a way to do this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now to the main points. 1) In every game with character expression there are strategies that few or many people find boring, annoying etc. However they are created for those who find them fun and interesting because the game tries to capture all player archetypes. I find it fun. I on the same exact line of thought - do not find fun whacking each other with DPS cards until one of us is dead. I like setup, I like varied strategies, 'boring' or not. I loved Oldhim and I can't wait to play Oldhim with CYB in LL. 2) It doesn't matter if you enjoyed or didn't enjoy worlds or the finals - I don't think it's ok to pressure people into submission with ultimatums like "I won't watch next finals again if its like this" or what I've seen online "I'm leaving fab unless this is banned" etc. Saying them out loud like this is just fearmongers people into agreeing. You can say you don't like it and move on without such wild consequences involved. You just said you didn't watch worlds - that's fine, I just want to mention that you shouldn't make a big deal out of it in future discussions because I don't think it's a cool way to add to it. You weren't particularly bad on this point I just wanted to make a note of it because many people on this camp are very very ultimative. 3) People who want CYB banned ignoring whether its balanced or not can't possibly care about everyone's fun because they're leaving out the people who actually like CYB. 4) And to your point about sideboard - literally everything works this way - you side AB for wizards, aura destruction and anti prevention against illusionists, Erase Faces and Weakest Links for the proper decks, Amulets of Echoes, etc etc etc etc I can go on and on There is NO difference except that CYB has historically been the most fair card that people want to 'hate' in the history of this game so far. With most decks you don't even need those hate pieces, you just need to pitchstack some good turns and you can threaten damage way beyond what CYB can heal. ---------------------------------- Hopefully by now I've illustrated how whether the card is balanced is actually the important issue - because the rest is an opinion and you can't convince me that it's boring and needs to go when I find it fun.

9 blessings + 3 remembrance = -162 Life- Sounds balanced lol. Edit: Im stoopid, it's actually 405 Life.