Sup Guys.
Guess it's weird I haven't posted here.
I finally got a decent phone for mobile games.
So far I'm a bit unimpressed with the AI just summoning Happy Lover in ATK mode, I think I'll uninstall this game if I have to keep playing kindergarten kids to grind.
So I turn to you, with some questions
-How can I get quickly to a decent levels of AI for someone who's played non-meta for a good while?
-What's the deal with skills? What are the best ones I should look for?
-Is it possible to create an Archtype based deck or do you have to do it old-school style and abuse the shit out of Summoned Skull and Axe of Despair?
-Speed Duel format is heavily featured in the new anime series, will the game add the new Link Monsters at some point? I mean it's called Duel Links ffs!!
-And most importantly: Is this pay to win? Or can I grind good cards??
Thank you in advance!!
Paying can net you better cards in the long run with guaranteed SR card drops but thats the only advantage with paying. UR cards are still up to chance. Most of your cards will be Rs and Ns for rarity.
You missed out on the login bonuses for the launches so thats quite a few gems but it isn't impossible to hit over 1k gems in a short period of time.
Each character you level up all the way to 35 gives you roughly 2.5/3k gems a piece and there are over 10 characters. Plus the weekly events and free gifts means you can hit 50 gem needed for a pack pull very easily.
So for AI, once you hit stage 15 and up do they actually get smart. Just look at the missions for each stage and do them ASAP.
Don't go crazy with the card traders UR and SR cards. They are hella expensive and if your main deck doesn't need it, I wouldn't go out of my way to purchase all of them.
Best skill used to be Bandit Keith's switcharoo which lets you trade cards 2 times a duel but they nerfed it to require you to lose lifepoints.
All the good skills require you to lose lifepoints to draw a random card that will be in your deck of a certain archetype such as spellcaster or warrior. There is also the field spell cards that come auto with certain duelists but thats for the lower levels which you are currently stuck in for a while.
No Axe of Despair sadly. Probably too OP for the current meta but Summoned Skull is in at least.
There is a Duel Links promo going on with card sleeves and card mat from Duel Links but thats it so far. They might wait till the anime releases worldwide before adding the system into the game.
You can grind good cards from dueling people at the gate. Recommend to save your keys that are required to duel them at the gate until their level 40 unlocks where all the good cards are actually at and all the trash cards are filtered out.
Just duel the blue colored people when they show up for free drops and cards.
For spending gems and pulling on certain packs, its all up to you and the deck/archetype you wanna build. I recommend getting staples such as Mirror Wall, Shard of Greed, Sphere Kuriboh and other good stuff from each pack.
Make a list of all the URs and maybe some SRs you want in all the packs. If you get a majority of them, just stop and move on to the next one. You can reset a pack to get another copy of a card but its all RNG and it won't always be kind to you. Like nearly all UR cards are 1 copy per box, if you reset it, you have another chance to get the card but now the packs reset back to full so less chance to get it overall.
Boxes are changed roughly every month or so. There are also boxes called mini boxes which hold a substandard 80 packs compared to the usual 200 packs of a main box and they can give you lots of good cards. Just note that the number of URs is low for mini boxes due to the lower number of packs in it.
