Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label future. Show all posts

Friday, February 8, 2013

The meta break down

Hello,

           I had a great conversation with my heroclix mentee Silent Scream last night. We had a good conversation on the current break down, on first look, impacts of Amazing Spider-man. I'm not going to run down everything but I will list out my top ten buys and top ten meta pieces for the whole set. This list is in no certain order.

Buys
1. Dusk
2. Brother Voodoo
3. Ancient One
4. Ricochet
5. Wong
6. Johnny Blaze
8. Terrax
9. Madam Web
10. Texting Everyone Spider Girl

Meta Changers

1. Dusk
2. Brother Voodoo
3. Texting Everyone Spider Girl
4. Scarlet Spider
5. Madame Web
6. Jennifer Kayle
7. Frankenstein Monster
8. Terrax
9. Dracula
10. The Ancient One

I will say that morph mechanics will be pushed a bit in the local meta. The main problem will be how are we going to solve for stealth. Texting Everyone Spider-Girl is going to hurt the reign of stealth quite a bit. But without her there is nothing other than melee that really deals with the power of SoG and the Bat sets. We have nothing that threatens resource dials or vehicles. Catwoman's stock did go up a bit. Cheap damage is still good. The only minor shake up will be mind control and how it coming back into the meta foresight. Will people actually use Brother Voodoo or just pass up on him due to mind control not being easy to use?

I have purchased all my primes, super rares, and chases I want from the set except 1 and I think his price will come down. I hope everyone gets what they want in their pulls. Let me know what crazy cool deals you all struck to get those pieces that you want.

Thanks for reading,
Edward Shelton aka Darklogos

Monday, January 14, 2013

When your apartment smells like a chain smoker

Hello,

         After a long day of work what do you do? You go to a lobbyist party serving prime rib and lobster soup stuff. Good times. Anyway today's blog post will be about the spoliers on hcrealms from the Spiderman set. We know that we are getting an Iron Spider chase. More importantly we are getting a Brother Voodoo and a Sorccer Supreme Dr Voodoo prime. I am happy. I will wait to see the dial.

       Let's focus on a question today instead of a piece. What does it mean to grow. I was listening to a sermon in which the speaker stated something profound. Most people fall apart when they reach their destination. The question is what do we do after we have reached a bench mark in gaming growth? It is a question that many people have just before they quit the game. Many people look at heroclix at some point in time and state they have done all that has been done. The other end is that people fell that growth is impossible to do. They through up enough things against the wall and found very little to stick so they don't stick around if the casual randomness of things does not tickle their fancy.

    I feel that one thing we are are seeing in the open stage now is that people would like some direction in knowing were game design and the game our going other then taking money from their wallet. I also think that people have started to look at the game and say that it is way more complicated then it is worth at times. That is why we need to look at growth as little steps down the path forward. We must never "arrive" at the top or what we view as the top. The top is an illusion we create. If one gets to the top of the mountain there are still the stars. The next step is to go down the mountain to build or find a space ship.

    Plan to make steps to see the top of many mountains. When you are done shoot for the moon.

Check you on Mars,
Edward Shelton