Monster Hunter Collab REM Review and Analysis – March 2021

March 26, 2021 Mantastic 12 Comments

Introduction

The Monster Hunter Collab returns to North America once again and features numerous buffs for existing cards along with new Weapons for all 6-star cards.

This greatly bolsters their overall value along with all the 6/7* cards receiving significant upgrades along with a 60% chance of rolling any of these cards.

While this looks appealing, players should be mindful of the fact that the bottom rarity received almost no love this time around along with the 10 Magic Stone price tag. Furthermore, due to this being the 6th run of this Collab, the majority of older players are already oversaturated with 5-star cards.

As such, it may be difficult to justify rolling here for players who have already done so too many times in the past as acquiring your 7th Gammoth will be a sad waste of 10 Magic Stones. On the other hand, players who have never or hardly rolled can still find value with conservative amount as there is plenty of value to be found within the 6 and 7-star rarities.

Video commentary

—video coming Monday—

Overview

Monster Hunter Collab REM Pros & Cons – March 2021
Pros	Cons
All cards have 1-2 Weapon Assists Bottom rarity is okay, not horrible Having 1 copy of many of them may helpful due to Weapon Can greatly aid newer boxes due to Resists New Weapons for 6-stars Greatly bolsters their viability 60% chance for 6/7*	Old event Many players have too numerous dupes 5-stars are relatively neglected No new monsters added Most players already have most bottom rarity cards 10 Stones per pull Harder to justify if already owning most of the cards 7th Rathian does not feel nice

Monster Hunter Collab REM
7 Star base (20% total)
6 Star base (40% total)
5 Star base (40% total)

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Order within each tier is random and not reflective of ranking

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Regardless of card’s ranking, you should always keep it if it is your very first time acquiring them

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Random Thoughts

Alt. Ruler of Hell’s Halls Guide by the Marvelous Melvin

March 25, 2021 Mantastic 4 Comments

Foreword

Due to various health issues ruining the past few days, I have been unable to do as much as I normally would like. Thankfully, I have Fantastic friends and the Magnificent Melvin has kindly given permission to repost his Alt. Ruler of Hell’s Halls Guide.

Melvin is a real life friend and we used to play Board Games on a regular basis until Covid but thankfully, his zest for PAD has not waivered and he actively plays on NA and JP.

His writing style differs from mine and I have preserved his content with only minimal formatting adjustments.

Introduction

Hey guys! It’s the Marvelous/Magnificent Melvin here! You guys may better known me as the Luscious Leilan though! I made a few appearance on Mantastic’s stream before but due to the Covid pandemic, I was unable to make any more appearances nor play more board games with him. Here’s to hoping that this pandemic ends soon so everything returns to normal but I digress, I had a lot of spare time on my hand during this quarantine thing and thought I create a Alt. Ruler of Hell’s Halls guide for the community! This is probably the only other chance to achieve the Devil title so here’s to hoping that this guide will be of some use to you all! Best of luck to all those attempting for the Devil title! Continue reading Alt. Ruler of Hell’s Halls Guide by the Marvelous Melvin →

Collab REM Reviews

Monogatari Collab REM Review and Analysis – March 2021

March 8, 2021 Mantastic 51 Comments

Introduction

The Monogatari Collab REM makes an exciting debut in North America that features wonderfully powerful cards at the 7 and 8-star rarity. In fact, many of these are powerful leaders and acquiring any of them should help advance almost any Monster Box.

Sadly, only the single 8-star card can be Monster Exchanged for which means players will have to roll heavily to acquire any of the 7-stars at 7 Magic Stones per attempt. This is frustrating as the bottom rarity (6*) is okay, not fantastic while also comprising 77.5% of the rolling pool.

With that being said, the 7/8-star cards are wonderfully powerful and are difficult to replicate elsewhere. As such, I feel that this is still a good event to roll in, especially for more developed Boxes as many of the cards featured here are heavily geared towards clearing end game content.

Video commentary

—video coming Monday—

Overview

Monogatari Collab REM Pros & Cons – March 2021
Pros	Cons
7/8-star cards are tremendously powerful All have 2 forms + Weapons Bottom rarity is okay, not horrible Having 1 copy of many of them is still helpful	Cannot Monster Exchange for 7-star cards Have to roll 7 Stones per roll 6-stars comprise 77.5% of the rolls

Monogatari Collab REM
8 Star base (2% total)
7 Star base (20.5% total)
6 Star base (77.5% total)

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Order within each tier is random and not reflective of ranking

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Regardless of card’s ranking, you should always keep it if it is your very first time acquiring them

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Random Thoughts

Monogatari Review Coming Monday

March 7, 2021 Mantastic 9 Comments

Wrists hurt but almost done

Happy Puzzling!

Question Time

Question Time with Mantastic – March 2021

March 1, 2021 Mantastic 36 Comments

Introduction

The general gist of Question Time posts are for players to ask various PAD-related questions that do not have a simple/Google-able answer or related article on my website. I do play other games and have often found myself having specific/unique questions about it but have no where to go and can imagine this may hold true for some of my readers.

With that being said, there will be some restrictions on the types of questions I will be answering.

If planning on commenting on a regular basis, it is advantageous to create a WordPress account to both receive notifications as well as giving me a point of reference as to who I am responding to.

Do’s and Don’t

For the most part, almost any question will be answered, even some non-invasive Off-Topic ones; however, it is best to ask questions that require explanation/why/my personal opinion. The following examples are Fantastic types of questions to ask:

Of these options, what is the best Yusuke team I can make for Arena 3?
What direction do you think GungHo will take with the 4x HP leads?
Can Heart Cross teams be revived and if so, how?

The following types of questions will not be answered by me either because it has a simple Google-able answer or shows a lack of effort on the reader’s part: