Triple Triad Thread

[Eeeks]

Random still seems way too unbalanced. I find myself losing 75% of my games against Tataru and more against Landenel. But I am still <60 cards.

That's the problem, in bold. The Random rule NPCs become a helluva lot easier with a 60+ card deck. Check out one of the several TT websites and identify the holes in your card deck. Identify and target low/medium difficulty cards for acquisition. Any card that pushes your card count closer to 60 is a useful card.

EDIT: @Auspice: Waka's right on. Run Prae and those dungeons for that one card (any new card will do). Reaching 60 cards changes the game in your favor. 30+ cards opens the door to realistically challenging a wide number of NPCs. 60+ cards allows you to challenge any NPC and draw/win well over 50% of the matches.

[Raldo]

Random fact:

When Ascension/Descension is in play along with Same, the value Same matches to is not the actual value listed on the card, but the value modified by the Asc/Desc rule. This is logically what I would expect, but I wanted to make sure.

It took me until now to confirm one way or another.

[Karbuncle]

Starting to really fucking hate Tataru myself. I'm at 82/100 for that Roulette achievement so I know thats around 75 wins give or take. Not as bad as the guy on the last page but damn, shes already Random/Roulette making it completely unpredictable, but she also has a timed window... Its not as bad as Gaius but jeez.

[Adajer]

After playing against her for a while, I realized how shitty her cards are on the right side. She is pretty easy to beat. All you have to do is place all your cards on the right, starting from bottom. The previous hand I actually beat her with four 1 stars and a single 3 star. Most of her cards have 1-3 points on the right so they cant overtake you.

[Tetsaru]

I started playing against Tataru on and off after finishing the storyline, and still no Lightning. Right before logging last night, I ended up at 299 Roulette wins (which I had barely started on previously) when her window ended, so I went to get a win off of Rowena to hit 300 and get Vaan. Another person who was there saw me get the achievement, and we started chatting; they said they lucked out on getting Lightning on their 2nd win, but it took them forever to get Gaius, so I dunno... RNG's gonna RNG. I'll try again some more tonight.

On the bright side, I've ended up getting enough MGP for a Gambler's Barding and Heavy Hatchling minion from farming this, and I think I'm close to hitting 20K again for something else, lol.

[Tetsaru]

82 wins later:

http://puu.sh/h3oWe/06c504c224.jpg

Glad that shit's over with...

[Shaano]

For ever will hate anyone who gets cards faster than I did qq

[Shaano]

i screamed and double checked myself ; A; <3 400k into gold packs finally paid off, one more to go hnnng

http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/imag...589a32f605.jpg

[Wulfgang]

Took me like a week of casual Triad and 100+ wins on Elmer to get Bahamut

[Auspice]

Have there still been no other new NPCs discovered yet? I thought the update note specifically had NPCs plural listed.

[Shaano]

Have there still been no other new NPCs discovered yet? I thought the update note specifically had NPCs plural listed.

New NPC opponents for Triple Triad have been added.
* No icon for Triple Triad will display over these NPCs' heads. Furthermore, challenging them will not count towards the achievements "Triple Team I" and "Triple Team II."

I read that too and kept asking around but heard nothin D: maybe we're all too lazy to find em or just one npc...

[Raldo]

I've heard that other languages' patch notes only indicate a single new Triple Triad NPC, but I don't speak anything else to confirm.

Also, since she's giving out the first tournament card, maybe more will appear as more tournaments complete?

[Rocl]

I've heard that other languages' patch notes only indicate a single new Triple Triad NPC, but I don't speak anything else to confirm.

French indicates a single NPC, but German indicates multiple. Can't make shit out of JP

[Karbuncle]

Starting to really fucking hate Tataru myself. I'm at 82/100 for that Roulette achievement so I know thats around 75 wins give or take. Not as bad as the guy on the last page but damn, shes already Random/Roulette making it completely unpredictable, but she also has a timed window... Its not as bad as Gaius but jeez.

Up to 101 Roulette wins. So, only about 19 more added. At least im 1/3rd to the Vaan card. Hopefully she's just around the corner...

[solracht]

Got ~3500 points on the tourney (didn't place on the Excal board). My rewards were 28k MGP and 4 platinum cards (got nanamo, ultima weapon, lightning, shiva).

[Korialstrasz]

3603 points and 14th place.

[Diomer]

Tidus, Firion, Lightning, Cecil, Nanamo, Ultima Weapon, Shiva, Lahabrea then are probably the 8 for platinum then.

[Kari]

I had ~2.8k points, I literally just spammed an easy NPC in the final hour of the tournament. Nowhere close to being on the board obviously.
19,062 MGP, 3x Platinum Packs.

[Shaano]

I had ~2.8k points, I literally just spammed an easy NPC in the final hour of the tournament. Nowhere close to being on the board obviously.
19,062 MGP, 3x Platinum Packs.

Little shy of what you had but yeah I spammed the same this week just for shantotto. The incentive is there now.
http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/imag...6e57ced4da.jpg

[Shaano]

oh hot damn.

i'm a happy lala.

http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/imag...6e57ced53d.jpg