Carolyn1 (AU1) said:

Dark Venom,

Lol...Do you think we do not know jjjjjjsk?

Carolyn1 (AU1) said:

Dark Venom,

Lol...Do you think we do not know jjjjjjsk?

Carolyn1 (AU1) said:

How could I ever forget you jjjjjjsk?

You visit so often, although not so recently, having a little trouble of late, are you?  
I heard you lost some horrors....did you find them yet?

You are most likely the last thing I think of as I pack my troops away for the night and the first thing I think of as I check my castles in the morning...... 

For what it's worth, you can have a decent castellan that is also a good fire cast.  I have a fire cast that is 90 melee, 90 ranged, and has 101 less fires on it.  That doesn't count fire pump research or even a fire station.  Add those two in there and that cast can defend against a fire comm that has 56 more fires added to it.

The 90 90 means you'll be supported by your alliance but if you lose, you'll still have no fires. 

No idea why Graycat says only poor players don't use a fire cast.  I've never seen his name at the top 100 of any event but every player I know in the top 100 has several firecasts.

Go get a 90 90 fire cast.  It will require finding the exact equipment and high level gems but it's possible.  Don't believe a 90 90 fire cast exists?  Spy me in Storm.  I have a 90 90 firecast up there.  It's not even my best one as I have several 90 90 fire casts.

JJJJJJSK (AU1) said:

JJJJJJSK (AU1) said:

I have about 9 firecastas all up ??

I also have 7 fully teched castas to defend properly with BIG gems so they have a shot in the CY. 

I both hate the use of fire castas and encourage their use, so I am a hypocrite on this and then some.  But here goes...

@Redbeauty84 (AU1)

Read my opening line, im saying I have 2 views on this that are vastly different.  All my firecastas as well when offline have a set up of 0-100-0 or 0-0-100.  I dont beleive their is a place for tool raking when using a firecasta, that is the one thing I object to these days.  You choose to use it, thats sweet, I got no issues, toolrake its bleh.  You dont know the history of alot of the members in your current alliance that exists between our alliance.  From esping your castas, they are horrific, to people reading yoru posts, Ill highlight, the person providing them doesnt have a single casta that has  maxxed stats for the use they have been build, be they to defend or to be used as a firecasta. 

As to large alliances are all pact etc etc...  My most prominant target is @jennyj (AU1) I hit her constantly and she is not a weak target nor is hers a weak alliance.  For every hit I do on other people / alliances I do 2 on Jenny. 

Their is a larger part to this that NO-ONE addresses.  This game is NOT about PvP to a large extent now.  It's about events.  Why would you carry defenders that can't earn you stuff in events when you can run firecastas and 0 defenders in GE ??  I can EARN more in events that way...

The only thing that I can see changing that is the food consumption of defenders being changed to either 2 per hour or 3 per hour so you can carry more defenders than attackers for the food consumption.  This would make INDIVIDUALLY defending more realistic alogn with enablig troops transfers between the outters and OPs for a reduced coin cost than currently exists. 

Fire stations, firecastas and firegems dont mean shit when I sent my firecomm at you...  You still burn, you defend that is great, I often dont send the fire comm until I have taken out all the alliances defence im going against, you dont start using a firecomm unless you have a reason. 

No offence @Redbeauty84 (AU1), people in your alliance got burnt and destroyed in INVICTUS, changed alliance name and are now in another no-name alliance.  The game dynamics that allow me and others to do that still exist, its just your not worthy of my attention.  You dont understand or comprehend those game dynamics properly either.  Fires used to absolutly KILL you for food production and many other things, those affects have been nerfed big time nowdays. 

PvP has been killed off systematically in this game over time and replaced by events.  Looting for good comms and castas has been killed off by events as well with the only thing that doesnt hold true to is fire comms or fire castas.  so far vast majority of people I have encountered with firecastas have USED them to replace defending, that is a poor choice.  However its one that people make when they dont understand the game dynamics. 

Realistically, their is NO reason to defend in GE at all apart from your main for FI attacks, even then a firecasta will do.  This is an issue that has to be addressed before all others to restore game balance, nothing else.  Without that its an event based game. 

danielbannister (US1) said:

Fire comms are good and all, but as the game progresses, it will get harder and harder to burn a player with a fire comm, unless GGE implements a 50 percent max on fire casts like they have been saying (meaning fire gems will be totally worthless).  I can firecast now up to 176 percent at all castles, and 191 at main.  Meaning you'd have to have a fire comm with 91 extra fires on it to burn me at main and 76 more fires to burn me anywhere else.  That commander would totally be lacking any other stats of any kind except ranged and fires, meaning you would stand no chance were I to defend, which you had better believe I would.

Marchemedes (AU1) said:

Hope that answers your question ELLEHero. LOL.

As others have stated the casta maxes out at 50% fire reduction, but you can easily get another 30%+ from gems. Then fire station level 4 is 40% and some from research and hall levels (if you want), and hey presto you're fireproof. I've taken a  few 6 wave hits with this setup (0% from hall, 125% from other stuff) and not had a single flame. Plus 83% loot reduction from casta (+ hero) means attacks don't really have much effect at all.

I've never been hit with a fire comm though. I know not how fire reduction casta versus comm is calculated, but if it's the same as loot casta versus comm, the fire comm shouldn't be effective. I may be wrong though, i'm sure someone else can clarify.

I think it's a legitimate strategy, particularly during certain levels of the game when you are at a substantial disadvantage to other longer serving players, until you reach a point where you're more capable. Or, in times of war as already noted above. It only caused a bit of a commotion initially as it disrupted the game for the few, and they had to adapt. Surely that's a good thing though, it keeps it interesting for all...

Someone1000 (AU1) said:

@Carolyn1 (AU1) you really do talk shit. So much for your defending skills. Here see this -

http://prntscr.com/et3xy7

http://prntscr.com/et3y3m

And that attack did not even have demons in it.

Redbeauty84 (AU1) said:

you guys are pathetic,

Carol knows how to defend really well. With this case though we deliberately chose to 'tool rake'. Want to know why? because  you needed to see that  we could send defence and defend regardless of whether or not we won or lost. OH but wait our almost 10k defence nearly won that attack.  

you were left with what around 400 attackers? and half your tools?  but also look at the loot practically nothing was taken.  
Now this attack was a 6 waver, we had almost 10k defence there. if we had just a few more members in our alliance we would have won that defence easily. we really only needed 1k more in defenders. that's all it would have taken. Sure we would have lost many of our defence troops in winning that defence. But the point is we would have won. We currently have around 20 members, and seps have what 64? But still we defended the attack. As you can see we are not afraid of the seps and we are more than willing to stand up to known bullies on the Australian server. 

I also find it curious that you would 'whine and complain' about loosing your tools and called the defence 'horrid' lol are you trying to compensate for the fact that we took out nearly all the attackers you sent carol's way? Is that your problem?  That we actually stand up to you and give it a go in any way we can win or loose? and besides even though we did loose this defence doesn't mean we don't know how to defend.

In fact this proves we do. Only thing we did wrong in that defence was to send 1k less then was needed, but what can you do when only a 25 min warning even using our fastest support commanders. The fact that we did get 9.8k defence there in that time frame says that yes you can defend a 6 wave attack it will just take a bit of a hit to your defence troop numbers but it CAN  be done.   So  all of you smaller alliances that have had the war button pressed on them by the seps, use your fire castas and try to defend when you know that you have some of your members who like to defend are online at the time.