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This video was from a few patches ago where the game start item selection was a choice of 3 Silver Tier items and a second choice of 3 Gold Tier skills. If your item/skill didn't mesh up, so if you got an attack weapon and a poison skill, you were pretty hamstrung the entire run. On the other hand, it kind of cemented your build as the skills were too powerful too early. They've since changed the game start to be a choice of 4 Silver tier items, then no skills. This really took away a lot of the high roll aspect of the game start.

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Hope he took some notes on whatever our beautiful build was 😂 Welcome back and thanks for stopping by! I've really dug The Bazaar and plan to stick around here indefinitely. Haven't quite nailed the format of the content I want to do, but it will be here for the foreseeable future.

Tempo announced yesterday that they'd be extending the closed beta for another month. Sounds like the response to the game was bigger than anticipated, especially in the EU. There's such a grey area today between when a game exits beta or early release and into full release that it's tough to tell what the actual difference between them is. I'm assuming full release marks their intent to start releasing the paid character content.

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It's been quite a while since the Expedition days, hope you're doing well! =) I've been digging The Bazaar. If you liked drafting more than the LoR gameplay itself, I'd definitely give it a try. One of the big selling points for me is the asynchronous gameplay so I can stop in an instant without having to take game losses.

I'm starting to lean into winning PvE rounds regardless of opponent is waaaay more important than the chance at hitting an on build item. The gold fuels your future shops to where you don't need to take income and you can then focus on health on the "bad" shops. It's especially important with Dooley who often needs 4-5 seconds to start ramping up his cards. 100% agree.

@@BUSTFTP something i will say is that dooley should visit and reroll most shops from day 1-4. he has wide selection of items so putting together early build is way harder on dooley because he has larger list of items. your trying force a build right at the start which does work with pig and veccessa because realistically necessary has 3, maybe 4 builds. She has throwing dagger repeater, Trophocal island/Lighthouse and Pupperfish. Pig mostly runs crook atlas builds that deevolve into bee mid-game before transitioning into the very obvious skyscraper. 1 shot. they don't need innovate throughout their run because of how shallow their item pool is combined with the fact that their best items are so good that everything else goes into mediocrity. Dooley on other hand has large enough item set that you cannot take your early game items for granted as final build. you have to keep pivoting items until you get desired item set with core chosen. this is also why people recommend "The core" because it has most diverse builds since core itself is fiber optics which is easily dooley's strongest item. The first 4 fights give very little prestige. loss. 1+2+3+4, even losing all 4 fights is max of -7 prestige. you have 20. basically what i am saying is don't feel bad that your squishy on. Just focus on power-leveling and crafting items that have synergy. you should only worry about losing when you lose your final live. your final life is what has to be omega strong. Dooley in general shouldn't lose after day 6 or 7. the build should be so strong that nothing beats you after that point. high-risk, high reward is dooley's gameplay.

Glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for the kind words!

It's been a bit since the run, I often get the +health property confused with the +heal property, so that may have come into play.

I assume that's a highlight reel of big hits, but all that comes to mind are the Jock Jamz albums from the 2000s 😂

I'm sure it will alter patch to patch and even more so when new characters are released. I enjoy playing Vanessa the most, but I believe Pygmailen is probably the most powerful character right now.

Thanks for the feedback! I agree there's definitely tons of room for improvement. I'm able to veerrryyy slowly get better at making them.

It's been fun, hope you enjoy!

Thanks for the feedback =)

Thanks for the feedback! I moved myself to the bottom left. Seems like there's no game stuff there. I've been digging the game. Hope you get to draft with us again =)

Open beta will be here quick! I already gave out my key and haven't heard of anyone with extras. I'll keep my ear to the ground!

Thanks for the feedback =) We all know that math is never on point 😂

Thanks for the feedback =)

Yeah the asynchronous nature is huge. I love that you're still battling against players but not constrained by time. I'm in the same boat as you, I wasn't really sold until BPB, then I was hooked.

Definitely recognize the name from ages ago =) Welcome back and hope you enjoy The Bazaar!

Are you referring to The Bazaar or Backpack Battles? I know they've announced that a mobile version of The Bazaar is in the pipeline, it's just releasing on PC only. From the information I've gathered on BPB, granted it's all from second hand sources, is that it's going to remain PC only.

@@BUSTFTP Yeh meant Bazaar

Agree, that's quite strong! I'm always hesitant to build around Sword because the 4x Whetstone is pretty unreliable and the 2x Whetstone version falls off in quality pretty hard in the midgame.

Yeah, I'm curious how real of a build that is with the recent updates to improving all of the armors. Seems like you need to be Pyromancer or have a Pyro token to pull it off. Finding 4x Orb like this matchup isn't exactly sustainable, but it seems like a nice pivot away from an OTK Wand build when things present themselves appropriately. Also seems like it gets hard countered by both Pet Ranger, Cheese, and Poison as they all scale harder.

<3 Glad to hear me added a little light to your day!

I did some serious mathematics and calculations before hitting the last round. All skill 😂

Welcome back! I'm going great! The baby's healthy and starting to get a regular sleep schedule, which means I'm starting to get a regular sleep schedule ;) Gaming wise I'm trying to hit masters in BPB here over the next couple of weeks. I'll be switching to The Bazaar when the beta is (supposed to be) released later this month. The plan is to stay in The Bazaar indefinitely.

I've been hit with allergies a few days in the past week. I think I had a scratchy voice when I recorded this one.

@@BUSTFTP no its definitely an audio problem, like a robotic echo, idk how to describe but for a sec a I thought water got in phone. Good vid otherwise👍

Glad to hear you liked it!

Thanks for taking the time to write that up! Very informative! Do you know if there is anything based on the round? It seems to do some match making based on records, but you can hit subclass at different records and I've never seen a pairing vs. a subclass item before I've hit it. Is that all baked in to your explanation where it's a MMR system but then there are modifiers based on the state of the game? So I'm diamond and on a WR with many hearts, I'll get paired up against Diamond+ but if I'm diamond on a losing stream with 1 heart I'll get paired down? I assumed there would be a pool of opponents based on your MMR then you were paired against a board from the pool that has the same record or a similar amount of total gold or something. I don't care so much about the physical opponents I'm against. The MMR of the opponents will balance out over time. The place that is interesting to me is that it seems like I've run into many situations where I've gotten to my first subclass battle and I get paired against someone who has clearly done multiple.

@@BUSTFTP You can't hit board from the other round. That would be insanely unfair. You are getting paired against anyone -70/75(idr) +70/75 from your rank when you started and who is eligible based on your temporary mmr score right now. If you do well it doesn't necessarly means you will play soomebody above your rank. You will play sb with similarly high temporary MMR score. If you are winning your temporary MMR score goes up and when you are losing obviously down but depending on your initial MMR this may have either very high impact or none impact at all in an extreme case. For example very low MMR players (in the pool compared to others) will have guaranteed easier match up only after 1 lose when in meantime I have no guarantee until i lose 4 in a row xdd 2 loses in a row for me is still almost top brackets, with 3 I see the difference already but it's not yet easy. You can think about x% ranges of the pool to visualize it better. Every player is assigned to top x% of the whole pool and than it moves up and down based on how well it is going but not everybody are moving up and down in the same pace despite being the same rank for the game. The lower you started the faster you will be going down and slower up and vice versa. No, they didn't do multiple, it's impossible. They were probably top brackets, maybe some shananigans like recombobulator or saving part of the gold. It's really TOTALLY different game when you are playing top 10% of the pool vs bottom 30% let's say. Unless sb has extremally high base MMR like me (which as I want to point out again isn't equal to rank) top brackets will be ALL super highrollers and veterans with good runs. Playing top 10% is basically playing top 10% luckiest players who also won their last fight. It's no fun at all in the long run. You can also think about it like taxation in the real world. Some players are taxed multiple times, some once, some are tax free and finally part is getting benefits from the government... but hey everybody are equal with their rank and everybody will get same amount of trophies ;p Unlike in the real world it's not based on income, you start from zero like everybody else and... BOOM 80% tax for you and 0% for the guy on your left. It's just dumb and unfair. And MMR won't necessarly balance out. It depends on how high is your MMR score initially - if it's too high it won't as noone will take on so much BS to drop enough. Also MMR went from the beta to main branch so ANY player who played decent amount of beta was immediately with considerale disadvantage. Same applies with unranked = more you played unranked more you are fuc*** and also more you entered survival in ranked = more you are f. Very experienced players are basically forced to create new accounts to play ranked succesfully as they have too long road to drop enough. I have seen many of those.

Thanks for the tip! I've started trying to incorporate that more. I still find the Hammer itself to be pretty meh, but it has been quite good getting two rounds of Hammer early, one for the coin recipe then dumping coin+hammer into the bag.

Yeah... I gave TPOC another shot with the big re-focus and constellations release and I didn't like the direction they were taking the game. I like the increasing difficulty in games like Slay the Spire and Balatro and Riot is going down the path of big splashy plays and easy runs. It's not necessarily a bad thing, just not what I'm into. If you enjoy the game, the monetization isn't that bad. The shard gating doesn't really hit until beyond 4 stars, and that's not really necessary to beat most of the content. I'm OK with Backpack Battles. I'll be here for another month or two until The Bazaar beta starts up in October. BPB is fun but it doesn't have a mobile client. I've enjoyed BPB so I suspect I'll have a good time with The Bazaar as well. If not I plan to swap to Slay the Spire 2 in 2025. Hope you find something enjoyable!

And here I thought all the comments were gonna be about poop... 😂

Congrats on getting hitched! Thank you for the kind words! This baby has sapped roughly 85% of my brain power it's nice to hear that 15% is still kicking =D

Unfortunately it is not. You can use Steam Connect but I found the controls to be clunky. There is apparently a controller skin/theme for Steam Connect that makes life easier but I could not find it. Otherwise, you would need a Steam Deck. To best of my knowledge, any mobile version that has shown up to this point is code theft.

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Thanks for the support! This one really started coming together at the end =)

@@BUSTFTP You think so? You had core round 11 or sth. For me very smooth.

Glad I could help!

Webspinner wants a different subtype, so Spiders don't trigger. I've dabbled with it before and always preferred the Hallowed 3/1 Fearsome.

Absolutely, I'm pretty sure I played the Senna spell in the last Eternal open.

I feel like Riot was hinting to the Shurima Fearsome archetype but they never pulled the trigger.

I'm alive! We had a baby a few weeks back and he has unsurprisingly taken up a massive amount of my time =) I'm hoping to be back to more regular content in the upcoming week along with a roadmap-ish type video in the next couple of days.

@@BUSTFTP Congratulations dude!!! And i'm happy you're still playing runeterra even though they stopped the pvp content support.

Thank you!