Rise of the God Awful Pharaoh

Bil said:

    Yeah ... Bolas has become quite a pain for those who dont own ob nixilis and whose card collection isn't really solid. Two players in my coalition took more than 200 turns to defeat him using direct damage spells ... 

Happen in every (older) PVE-event in higher nodes: you must have the right cards and/or pw. At least bolas is vulnerable to creatureless, but it takes a while. Tezz2 (in AER-event) is straight forward, you don't have time. 

Rhasget said:

SinisterOne said:

arevala said:

Please, any ideas to beat Bolas? Im stuck there New standard is just awful

I run with Ob Nixilis against him. I build up his ultimate and use the following deck.

Supports: (5)

Raiders Wake
Dragon's Hoard
Submerged Boneyard 
Zhalfirin Void 
Sorcerer's Wand 

Spells (5)

Vraska's Contempt
Duress
Mind Rot
Divest
Nightsnare 

I would run the 6 mana discard rare spell from Origins over Divest if I had it. 

Strategy is simple get Ultimate and Wake out spam discard spells draw either via Hoard or first ability. Hold a Contempt for his one creature. It will take a little while to it will beat him every time.

Wand isn't a must have but the 2 damage a turn does help.

Nightsnare is in to get the last goal (3 spells costing 12+)

Try to fit in Masterminds Acqusition and steal Imminent Doom from Bolas. Makes it a bit faster.

Thank you very much, your advice of using Mastermind's Acquisition to steal Imminent Doom has made me to change my deck against Nicol.

We actually have more options now to beat him that we ever did...

Creature decks can be done _reliably_ for the first time ever. (The very first time I beat him was with Nahiri lifelink/haste, it was always possible but it was NOT reliable.)

Yes, the really fast spell decks are gone, but they can still be done.

I used Angrath, Mastermind's Acquisition and the Goggles and stole Imminent Doom and HUF and used a lot of discard. Easy just slower if I don't get ID.

@Imbrium Did it faster than me with a loyalty based Vraska deck casting her 3rd almost every turn. (And then still stealing ID to speed it up!), Nissa's Revelation and the Gaea's Blessing and Recover to keep casting things over and over. If you have ID, you can get recover Gaea's Blessing and vice versa and keep playing them over and over.
(The 20 damage in one turn is a slight challenge, but you pick and choose and save some spells in your hand for a burst)

At the end this has been the fastest release of RotGP event I can remember.

This proves that we, the people that write in this forum, are not the most representative sample of the players of this game.

I really thought that it was going to last til tuesday.

I love the boss health events — even though I know they aren’t popular. My team had a great energy tonight — everyone jumping at recharge and grinding hard. We always do that on these type events — maybe that’s why I love it so much, everyone has fun with the thrill of the race. 

Machine said:

I like the event and the new objectives, but I totally despise they random chance of not being able to play the last or even last two recharges. Events should account for people's sleeping times. For your reference: The second last recharge in my time zone was Sunday midnight 0:00 hours and the last recharge, when boss health was at 1%, was Monday morning 6 AM. Those are unhealthy times...

A petition is ready for you at: https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/74706/a-petition-for-a-reasonable-schedule-for-everybody#latest

bken1234 said:

I love the boss health events — even though I know they aren’t popular. My team had a great energy tonight — everyone jumping at recharge and grinding hard. We always do that on these type events — maybe that’s why I love it so much, everyone has fun with the thrill of the race. 

I like RotGP for much of the same reasons that @Kinesia stated. It is an old friend that still produces challenges. I for one don't buy into the whole issue about how it only takes legacy cards to beat the final boss into submission in 60 seconds or less or it will take hours. (I am exaggerating but you get the gist).

The whole point of a final boss is to be tough... and this version of bolas is no where near the difficulty as AMK's bolas as a final boss... in that scenario Hibernium designed the event to require Cast out and Approach of the Second Sun in order to defeat him and meet the objectives. A complaint that we all voiced out repeatedly and Hibernium retired that event when HOU was released; it was that hated.

Anyways, I loved the objective changes but logic tells me that if you're gonna update the objectives you should at least update the rewards to reflect the most recent set.

Monkeynutts said:

Good event, but theyve restricted HOU cards in a HOU event.....

lol