Happy anniversary Rob! For me the best troop in the game is Leprechaun. He just enables so much for your account and it's good in all stages of the game. On the second place I will put Thrall. Chalcedony is up there also.
Thank you! The video meant best troop as in the most 'powerful' - capable of winning games practically on their own etc - Leprechaun is super useful though I agree 🙂
Thank you! I don't think they will nerf her, it's as if she was designed to help out newer players - which is cool! Maybe they will bring out more troops that freeze/silence Constructs for example if she seems overpowered in Guild Wars 🙂
Congrats on your Anniversary, Honest Rob! Continued success and thanks for the informative and entertaining content. Appreciate your insights and variety of videos. Stay safe out there, everyone.
@@tomm4781 That's great! 🙂 I love watching Liverpool too! Shame about the Fulham result - when you think they missed out to Man City in two different seasons by 1 point... They might look at games like that first one at the end of the season - can't let your foot off the gas for a second in the Premier League!
Thank you Rob for the great tutorials! As a fairly new player, I really appreciate you passing on your knowledge and always offer choices for newbies. Can you explain how you get your troops (in this case Chalcedony) to such a high magic level? I have her at level 20 and fully traited but she does much less damage. Is it a matter of always choosing Magic when you level up? Thanks again and Bonne Anniversaire from a Canadian Fan!🎉
Hi Karen! Really pleased you like the videos and that they really help! Your Magic Level will be increased by several things, your Player Level, levelling your Kingdoms (particularly the 'Magic' Kingdoms like Zhul'Kari and Karakoth), applying Medals that give a Magic boost (Medals of Nysha), bonus stats to Guild Tasks and more! Every little helps in this game! Thanks for the Comment and kind words, I really appreciate it! 🙂
@@honestrob Now I know why I follow you so closely! Quick response and fantastic advice! It may surprise you to know that I’m a Senior so I also appreciate a mature voice and the odd giggle 🤭 at your sense of humour! Keep on truckin Rob.
Supposedly you get the rewards even if the game locks up. At least that's what the devs said. Write a ticket if you didn't. Worth it for 15 cursed runes, and you got video proof.
No idea how many Cursed Walnuts I had to start with so would not know - I'm not bothered enough to write a Ticket about it - did ok from the Soulforge glitch anyway 😀
Congrats on the anniversary Rob. I agree, GW on Brown Days will be simply who gets the first match cause it will be game over from there. BTW, have you tested a Chalcedony defense team in PvP yet?
And Yellow Day with Rope Dart having an Extra Turn if no Freeze is part of the other team... Got one Defense running at the moment... Will see how it does in PVP and more interestingly in the next Guild Wars 😀
Yes this troop is the best troop this year by far. I have been using nearly the same team in pvp .. have you thought about trying the brown cursed weapon? The only reason you cast hero is to cleanse really and the curse weapon also blesses your whole team so elementalist will be completely shut down. When I was just cleaning with the doom it would give the turn back and then i would get frozen again. This makes the cursed brown weapon amazing for your team in pvp vs status effects teams
I was doing some checking and I noticed that Chalcedony actually creates 15 brown gems in a four-construct team. It appears her gem creation is 3+(3*constructs) instead of 3*constructs. All in all, this just makes her deadlier. I found this out by clicking on the second Chalcedony just before the first one finalizes the generation, and the increase was always 15 brown gems in a four-construct team. I play on PC, so I'm not sure how fast you can check between Chalcedony troops on the PS version - I haven't played it on PS4 since 2017, and just got back into it within the last few months on my PC.
@@darkfirezgaming It's cool I get what you mean - I meant 12 brown Gems on top of the standard 3, but yes the way I said it can be easily misunderstood 🙂
Hey Rob, great video. I have just enough to craft Zuul Goth, and did think that he was the strongest troop. But your video is making me question that. Does the weapon in your team matter at all?
Zuul is still 100% worth crafting as he is great in a lot of teams. Weapon wise it's not that important - I chose that weapon for the Cleanse - so whatever you fancy really!
I run a team with one of them and Ironhawk instead of the second one. I thought about using her in GW defense but snap freeze would instantly cripple the team.
Love Queen Beetrix and she is still a pest, but she needs more than one turn to get going most games even with other troops helping her get started, and a lot of luck to loop... x3 Chalcedony with Hero in Geomancer Class gets going in ONE turn most games and then wins most games from there, and often without the other side getting a single turn
we are going to have to hope frostmage helps on GW day and chalcedony is in first place. And are we ignoring you got a cursed gnome?? havent seen one of those in at least a week
The Devs can easily bring in troops to counter Chalcedony if she is overpowered in Guild Wars - troops that Silence or Freeze Constructs with a spell or Trait for example. It's easy to make her less effective if the Devs desire. Good spot on the Cursed Gnome!! 🙂
I used some similar teams today - only game I struggled in was the one I DIDN'T use a team like this in! Scored 9200+ but would have been 9500+ otherwise - so pretty good! Other people have said they scored really high too with it, but it is dependent on your Level being High, adding Nysha Medals etc 🙂
@@honestrob I am in bracket 1 and wasn't brave enough to try it first :P I used Medusa with ring and scored just under 9200 .... which is horrendous but it was sort of safe ... but yeah I rather take a low 5.0 than losing one. I think I give your team a chance next brown day :)
@@ChrisKruger75 Exactly that. We were in Bracket 2 on the verge of 1 but slipped to 3 recently... And Brown day can be NASTY! Rather a slightly slower win than get 200 Points for a loss any day of the week! Be wary of Freeze - if you are against Freeze go full Orpheus and bump Doomed Sledge/Cursebreaker Hammer to second slot to guarantee the Cleanse as soon as possible and get that cheesy loop going! 🙂
Top Troops: Leprechuan and Thrall are S-level troops for pretty much any team. Baldr and Chalcedony are both A+ level with the right troop combination. Queen Beatrix by herself is S- level due to the cleanse trait. My go-to Chalcedony team is: Hero + Chalcedony + Iron Hawk x 2. It's great for PvP defense and attack. Iron Hawk has Impervarious which makes him good. And every cast of Chalcedony hits 10 damage to all.
Was not 'Top Troops'. It was 'most powerful' as I said at the start of the vid. Chalcedony will win 95%+ games with just 3x her and the Hero in the team. Leprechaun and Thrall while excellent Mana generators simply cannot do that. But they are Top Tier for 'most useful', which is different. I love Queen Beetrix too and her Cleanse trait on a 4 match, but it is vulnerable to being neautralised with Stun... But if she is S level because of that then is Voice of Orpheus S+++? He has Cleanse all allies by simply collecting Yellow , AND is Impervious so cannot be stunned! I use 2x Ironhawk in a Chalcedony team too - both Ironhawks at the bottom with Impervious makes them great vs even Life and Death teams (if they get a turn!). I tested my Chalcedony/2x Ironhawk team in Defense and the AI often makes mistakes like deciding to collect Blue for Ironhawk rather than Brown for Chalcedony etc, so I made a Defense with her using Cursebreaker Hammer (Brown only) Golem (Brown only) and Czernabog. With Chalcedony in first slot the idea is it takes away options for the AI to 'do the wrong thing'. Pretty much no choice but to get Mana for Chalcedony most of the time and it works well. Will sometimes then loop endlessly as it was designed too. Thanks for the Comment 🙂
Update July 2024! Chalcedony and the other Pathfinders got nerfed REALLY bad, and are now nowhere near as good!
I totally agree with ya on chalcedony.
Cheers! 🍺🍺
Yeah, congratulations man! 🎉🍻
Cheers Chad! 🍻😀🍻
Congratulations Rob. One year of many more. 👍
Thank you, and hell yes! 😀
I forgot to congratulate you on 1k subscribers, and you're well on your way to 1.5! Congratulaaaations! ^__^
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One year! Woo-hoo! Here's to many more years. 🥂🍻
Yes it flew past - wow! And many more to come indeed! 🍻
Happy anniversary Rob! For me the best troop in the game is Leprechaun. He just enables so much for your account and it's good in all stages of the game. On the second place I will put Thrall. Chalcedony is up there also.
Thank you! The video meant best troop as in the most 'powerful' - capable of winning games practically on their own etc - Leprechaun is super useful though I agree 🙂
Happy anniversary “no chancedony” Love it. I just hope the devs don’t nerf her.
Thank you! I don't think they will nerf her, it's as if she was designed to help out newer players - which is cool! Maybe they will bring out more troops that freeze/silence Constructs for example if she seems overpowered in Guild Wars 🙂
@@honestrobwell, this didn’t age well….lol
@@richicago20 No it didn't! Poor Chalcedony!!
I agree. I would also add Centurogon. Awesome support troop for many teams.
Yes love Centuragon the most in a Zuul team 😀
@@honestrob lol exactly! Keep up the good work
Congratulations you do a great job 🍾
Thank you! 😀
Congrats, thanks for these videos and for help keeping the game alive. 😎👍
Hi, I enjoying making them, and thanks!
Thank you for the videos, I have enjoyed them and learned stuff.
Awesome! Glad they have helped!
Congrats and THANK YOU for a year of great videos!
Awesome, cheers Kai! 🍺😄
Happy Anniversary!
Keep it up!
Cheers Rick! 🍻
Congrats on your Anniversary, Honest Rob! Continued success and thanks for the informative and entertaining content. Appreciate your insights and variety of videos.
Stay safe out there, everyone.
Thank you! That was a really fast year, wow! Glad you like the vids! 😀
Congrats on your 1-year anniversary.
Thank you 🍺
Happy anniversary 🎉 I agree with you and think they'll need her in the near future.
Thank you! 🙂 Did you mean 'nerf' her? 😀
Happy anniversary! Keep up ! Good job 👏
Thank yoooooou!!
i like Empiranaza
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Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary 🎈🎉🎈
Awesome! Balloons too! Cheers! 🍺🍺
awesome I used 3 Chadony and reflection of good
Yep, so good, so easy! 😀
@@honestrob I've been playing lvl 3 faced all the worst teams and haven't lost you broke the game lol I'm in the USA but I'm an LFC YNWA supporter
@@tomm4781 That's great! 🙂 I love watching Liverpool too! Shame about the Fulham result - when you think they missed out to Man City in two different seasons by 1 point... They might look at games like that first one at the end of the season - can't let your foot off the gas for a second in the Premier League!
Congrats on the year. Love your work. Keep it up 🤘🏻
Thank you! And Cheers! 🍺
Thank you Rob for the great tutorials! As a fairly new player, I really appreciate you passing on your knowledge and always offer choices for newbies. Can you explain how you get your troops (in this case Chalcedony) to such a high magic level? I have her at level 20 and fully traited but she does much less damage. Is it a matter of always choosing Magic when you level up? Thanks again and Bonne Anniversaire from a Canadian Fan!🎉
Hi Karen! Really pleased you like the videos and that they really help! Your Magic Level will be increased by several things, your Player Level, levelling your Kingdoms (particularly the 'Magic' Kingdoms like Zhul'Kari and Karakoth), applying Medals that give a Magic boost (Medals of Nysha), bonus stats to Guild Tasks and more! Every little helps in this game! Thanks for the Comment and kind words, I really appreciate it! 🙂
@@honestrob Now I know why I follow you so closely! Quick response and fantastic advice! It may surprise you to know that I’m a Senior so I also appreciate a mature voice and the odd giggle 🤭 at your sense of humour! Keep on truckin Rob.
@@karenhenwood7968 I know the jokes and innuendos are bad, but that's kinda the idea haha! And I'm glad you didn't do a typo on truckin!! 😂😂
@@honestrob Checked it twice 🤭
@@karenhenwood7968 🤣🤣🤣
Supposedly you get the rewards even if the game locks up. At least that's what the devs said. Write a ticket if you didn't. Worth it for 15 cursed runes, and you got video proof.
No idea how many Cursed Walnuts I had to start with so would not know - I'm not bothered enough to write a Ticket about it - did ok from the Soulforge glitch anyway 😀
Congrats on the anniversary Rob. I agree, GW on Brown Days will be simply who gets the first match cause it will be game over from there. BTW, have you tested a Chalcedony defense team in PvP yet?
And Yellow Day with Rope Dart having an Extra Turn if no Freeze is part of the other team...
Got one Defense running at the moment... Will see how it does in PVP and more interestingly in the next Guild Wars 😀
And thanks! 🍺
Yes this troop is the best troop this year by far. I have been using nearly the same team in pvp ..
have you thought about trying the brown cursed weapon? The only reason you cast hero is to cleanse really and the curse weapon also blesses your whole team so elementalist will be completely shut down. When I was just cleaning with the doom it would give the turn back and then i would get frozen again. This makes the cursed brown weapon amazing for your team in pvp vs status effects teams
Yep I've been testing the Cursed Hammer in a Defense team based on this team - will see how it does! 🙂
All depends on what basis you are judging "best"
Congrats!
Cheers! 🍺🍺
I was doing some checking and I noticed that Chalcedony actually creates 15 brown gems in a four-construct team. It appears her gem creation is 3+(3*constructs) instead of 3*constructs. All in all, this just makes her deadlier.
I found this out by clicking on the second Chalcedony just before the first one finalizes the generation, and the increase was always 15 brown gems in a four-construct team. I play on PC, so I'm not sure how fast you can check between Chalcedony troops on the PS version - I haven't played it on PS4 since 2017, and just got back into it within the last few months on my PC.
Yes it's 3then + 3 for each Construct, so 15 total, which is a crazy amount - in a Duststorm it's hard NOT to get a 4 match!
@@honestrob The reason I commented that is that you kept saying 12 brown gems, so I was confused. I'm sorry if I misunderstood what you were saying.
@@darkfirezgaming It's cool I get what you mean - I meant 12 brown Gems on top of the standard 3, but yes the way I said it can be easily misunderstood 🙂
Happy anniversary! 🥳🥳🥳
Woohoo! Cheers!! 🥳🍺🥳
Hey Rob, great video. I have just enough to craft Zuul Goth, and did think that he was the strongest troop. But your video is making me question that. Does the weapon in your team matter at all?
Zuul is still 100% worth crafting as he is great in a lot of teams. Weapon wise it's not that important - I chose that weapon for the Cleanse - so whatever you fancy really!
@@honestrob thanks mate, love your videos! Keep up the good work! I will tell the boys and girl in my guild to watch your vids too
@@timothywong551 Awesome, thanks! Spread the word, share the vids, it's all good! 🙂
I run a team with one of them and Ironhawk instead of the second one. I thought about using her in GW defense but snap freeze would instantly cripple the team.
For Defense you can use Doomed Sledge or Cursebreaker Hammer in first or second slot to Cleanse the Freeze, I tried it and it works pretty good 🙂
@@honestrob I don't own the Sledge and didn't look at the Hammer. But it might be worth a try. I still remember the day I lost a E3 battle.
congrats
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Honest Robcedony 😁
😁 Cheers! 🍺
Best troop is easily queen beetrix. That bitch is scary as fuck
Love Queen Beetrix and she is still a pest, but she needs more than one turn to get going most games even with other troops helping her get started, and a lot of luck to loop... x3 Chalcedony with Hero in Geomancer Class gets going in ONE turn most games and then wins most games from there, and often without the other side getting a single turn
we are going to have to hope frostmage helps on GW day and chalcedony is in first place. And are we ignoring you got a cursed gnome?? havent seen one of those in at least a week
The Devs can easily bring in troops to counter Chalcedony if she is overpowered in Guild Wars - troops that Silence or Freeze Constructs with a spell or Trait for example. It's easy to make her less effective if the Devs desire.
Good spot on the Cursed Gnome!! 🙂
how does this score in GW? it appears to be a bit slow ... that being said it looks really safe.
I used some similar teams today - only game I struggled in was the one I DIDN'T use a team like this in! Scored 9200+ but would have been 9500+ otherwise - so pretty good! Other people have said they scored really high too with it, but it is dependent on your Level being High, adding Nysha Medals etc 🙂
@@honestrob I am in bracket 1 and wasn't brave enough to try it first :P
I used Medusa with ring and scored just under 9200 .... which is horrendous but it was sort of safe ... but yeah I rather take a low 5.0 than losing one. I think I give your team a chance next brown day :)
@@ChrisKruger75 Exactly that. We were in Bracket 2 on the verge of 1 but slipped to 3 recently... And Brown day can be NASTY! Rather a slightly slower win than get 200 Points for a loss any day of the week! Be wary of Freeze - if you are against Freeze go full Orpheus and bump Doomed Sledge/Cursebreaker Hammer to second slot to guarantee the Cleanse as soon as possible and get that cheesy loop going! 🙂
Leprechuan, usefull in all teams, all time:)
Yes a super useful Mana generator indeed! 🙂
lol she was the first troop who came to mind
Yes exactly! 🙂
What he said.
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I don't need to watch the video to know that Summer Knight is the best unit in the game and no, I'm not biased a all, like not at all!
Not even a little tiny teeney weeney bit? 😄
@@honestrob Hmmm... Nope! 8D
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Top Troops: Leprechuan and Thrall are S-level troops for pretty much any team.
Baldr and Chalcedony are both A+ level with the right troop combination.
Queen Beatrix by herself is S- level due to the cleanse trait.
My go-to Chalcedony team is: Hero + Chalcedony + Iron Hawk x 2. It's great for PvP defense and attack. Iron Hawk has Impervarious which makes him good. And every cast of Chalcedony hits 10 damage to all.
Was not 'Top Troops'. It was 'most powerful' as I said at the start of the vid. Chalcedony will win 95%+ games with just 3x her and the Hero in the team. Leprechaun and Thrall while excellent Mana generators simply cannot do that.
But they are Top Tier for 'most useful', which is different.
I love Queen Beetrix too and her Cleanse trait on a 4 match, but it is vulnerable to being neautralised with Stun... But if she is S level because of that then is Voice of Orpheus S+++? He has Cleanse all allies by simply collecting Yellow , AND is Impervious so cannot be stunned!
I use 2x Ironhawk in a Chalcedony team too - both Ironhawks at the bottom with Impervious makes them great vs even Life and Death teams (if they get a turn!).
I tested my Chalcedony/2x Ironhawk team in Defense and the AI often makes mistakes like deciding to collect Blue for Ironhawk rather than Brown for Chalcedony etc, so I made a Defense with her using Cursebreaker Hammer (Brown only) Golem (Brown only) and Czernabog. With Chalcedony in first slot the idea is it takes away options for the AI to 'do the wrong thing'. Pretty much no choice but to get Mana for Chalcedony most of the time and it works well. Will sometimes then loop endlessly as it was designed too.
Thanks for the Comment 🙂