My shop get 2 new pack and i will take it tomorrow. But I'm not exiting at all about quests.....Just only wonna get player cards....

Anyway we have a brilliant Nightmare quest for second cycle and KD so there is something to play. One quest is warm my feeling us Altered Crown or some? The last pack! Hope that will be good!

For solo one-handed Niin-in-eliph is more difficult then CS. One thing that takes the edge off some of the recent scenarios and especially CS is enemy cards have very high engagement cost. I'm able to take a deck with Gandalf, Galadriel, and Elrond and still have not much problem in the early game, and by late game just crush the scenario. Nin-in-elph I would have much harder time doing that, mostly due to the restrictions of the stage cards, which is really the only thing the scenario has going for it and can make it more of a challenge. Also, smaller encounter deck is more punishing, the large encounter deck of CS dilutes the power of the deck.

I wonder if small encounter deck could be abused. Just think of it:

Multiplayer with 4 playing running a monolore deck each, each having 3 copies of Out of Wild and 3 copies of Scroll of Isildur and stuff. Distill the encounter deck until there no threatening cards left?

For solo one-handed Niin-in-eliph is more difficult then CS. One thing that takes the edge off some of the recent scenarios and especially CS is enemy cards have very high engagement cost. I'm able to take a deck with Gandalf, Galadriel, and Elrond and still have not much problem in the early game, and by late game just crush the scenario. Nin-in-elph I would have much harder time doing that, mostly due to the restrictions of the stage cards, which is really the only thing the scenario has going for it and can make it more of a challenge. Also, smaller encounter deck is more punishing, the large encounter deck of CS dilutes the power of the deck.

I agree and please make a video of your eleven ring bearers deck!

Yep, this one is a bit disappointing in solo mode. Played a Gondor deck against it without having any difficulties at all. Next will be a Galadriel deck, I'm quite excited about that.

Played it twice more with the same decks, picked up a loss then a win. On my second game, I took 6 encounter cards on turn two then another 5 on turn three. The combos triggered scour and stacked 5 cards under The Orc's Search. I made it to stage two, but threated out before I could complete it. Then on game three, I cruised to an easy win with nothing of note happening. I think Tracker nailed it, in that the encounter deck is too big to be consistently nasty (unless you're in multiplayer).

Overall, this has been my favorite cycle in terms of quests. Every scenario introduces a new and interesting idea, and the designers have done a good job of using game mechanics to tell a story. The only dud quest they've released this year was Into Fangorn, and they've released some really good ones this year (To Catch an Orc, Three Trials, Trouble in Tharbad, Nin-in-Eilph, all Road Darkens Quests, have all received several play-throughs). Every quest has had at least something interesting to commend it. I understand if people think there's too much to keep track of (and in some scenarios it's a lot) but that hasn't really bothered me. My only complaint is that the scenarios in this cycle have worse scaling issues than normal. I pretty much only play two-handed now, because that seems to be the consistent difficulty sweet spot.

Yes here i agree quests idea is not bad and many of them unique but problems very easy to play them. So need to wait Nmode ....

OK i play Galadriel silvan deck now...... Galadriel/Haldir/Celeborn.

She is super cool!!!! And same time i cannot say she is broken! Before silvan didn play solo really since was not enough power. With her and Orophin as well now is enough! Silvan solo deck is working.

Manage to win Blood of Gondor and Wather in the water (Nmode of course). I

like the way how silvan deck play with her! Glorifindel was out straight away! Her ring in this deck also super cool! Now i will try beat some other Nightmare quests!

I believe that we will see the video with your silvan deck.

OK i play Galadriel silvan deck now...... Galadriel/Haldir/Celeborn.

She is super cool!!!! And same time i cannot say she is broken! Before silvan didn play solo really since was not enough power. With her and Orophin as well now is enough! Silvan solo deck is working.

Manage to win Blood of Gondor and Wather in the water (Nmode of course). I

like the way how silvan deck play with her! Glorifindel was out straight away! Her ring in this deck also super cool! Now i will try beat some other Nightmare quests!

It absolutely makes no sense to pair her with Celeborn. Their abilities are too similar.

It absolutely makes no sense to pair her with Celeborn. Their abilities are too similar.

Are you kidding!? She is what makes Sivan and Celeborn work so well in solo. I see that their abilities compliment each other perfectly, stat boost and not exhausting when entering play along with silvan bouncing in out of play to take advantage of both abilities regularly.

Silvan is really solid trait now. Probably 3 rd strongest in the game behind Outlands and Dwarves.

Good to hear it.Now if only they reworked Gondor to something better.

It absolutely makes no sense to pair her with Celeborn. Their abilities are too similar.

Are you kidding!? She is what makes Sivan and Celeborn work so well in solo. I see that their abilities compliment each other perfectly, stat boost and not exhausting when entering play along with silvan bouncing in out of play to take advantage of both abilities regularly.

Silvan is really solid trait now. Probably 3 rd strongest in the game behind Outlands and Dwarves.

Celeborn already works pretty good in my decks. I don't see what Galadriel has to offer beside her ability to keep the threat low. However, thats not the point. You can use Galadriel for a Silvan deck or you can use Celeborn. But why both? Besides, if you wanna use the max out of Galadriel, you should at least have another spirit ally. And then you pop out one 2 cost spirit ally after the other. One. By. One.

It absolutely makes no sense to pair her with Celeborn. Their abilities are too similar.

Are you kidding!? She is what makes Sivan and Celeborn work so well in solo. I see that their abilities compliment each other perfectly, stat boost and not exhausting when entering play along with silvan bouncing in out of play to take advantage of both abilities regularly.

Silvan is really solid trait now. Probably 3 rd strongest in the game behind Outlands and Dwarves.

Celeborn already works pretty good in my decks. I don't see what Galadriel has to offer beside her ability to keep the threat low. However, thats not the point. You can use Galadriel for a Silvan deck or you can use Celeborn. But why both? Besides, if you wanna use the max out of Galadriel, you should at least have another spirit ally. And then you pop out one 2 cost spirit ally after the other. One. By. One.

The Galadriel-Celeborn-insert Lore hero deck is utterly awesome. For non-solo, I use Haldir because he can attack around the board. I took that deck plus a Gandalf-Tactics deck through Nightmare Peril in Pelagir twice and cruised to comfortable wins. In a Spirit deck, not exhausting to quest isn't useful, because most of your spirit allies are only good at questing. I could see Galadriel being good in a Caldara deck with Spirit, but where she'll really shine is with other spheres that want to dump lots of allies into play. That's why she's so good with Silvan, because Celeborn boosts them up so they will always contribute something to the quest, then they can attack or defend or exhaust for A Very Good Tale or anything else. And O Lorien lowers their cost, so you're dumping at least one, usually two into play a turn.

I knew since they announced Galadriel there would be only 2 solo silvan decks, Celeborn-lore hero-Legolas and Celeborn-lore hero-Galadriel. And I assumed Galadriel would be the better one, and it seems I was right. Having all your silvan allies +1 willpower and not exhaust to commit is insane, and it only gets better with Nenya. Looking forward to building this deck.

It absolutely makes no sense to pair her with Celeborn. Their abilities are too similar.

Are you kidding!? She is what makes Sivan and Celeborn work so well in solo. I see that their abilities compliment each other perfectly, stat boost and not exhausting when entering play along with silvan bouncing in out of play to take advantage of both abilities regularly.

Silvan is really solid trait now. Probably 3 rd strongest in the game behind Outlands and Dwarves.

Celeborn already works pretty good in my decks. I don't see what Galadriel has to offer beside her ability to keep the threat low. However, thats not the point. You can use Galadriel for a Silvan deck or you can use Celeborn. But why both? Besides, if you wanna use the max out of Galadriel, you should at least have another spirit ally. And then you pop out one 2 cost spirit ally after the other. One. By. One.

Just try her with Celeborn. After 3 rounds you smile to yourself. … ..

Oops. Of course y'all are correct. Looks that my exams stress me so hard that i hallizunated Galadhrim's Minstrels ability on Celeborn.

I need a doctor...

Finally tried Nin and CS last night, with an Elrond, Galadriel, Celeborn deck of Silvans. Nin was a problem any time In Need of Rest came out (partially because all my copies of Test of Will are in another deck...), but CS felt much like others have said: when it combos, the encounter deck is nasty, but once in control it's hard to lose control. I lost once from an excess of Orcs on the table, which Silvans can have trouble clearing.

I like Galadriel a lot though. Her abilities are all useful - I like that her boost of willpower can allow you to quest with relatively few people, and have the back-up of adding 4 willpower just in case. If you don't use it, reduce threat and draw a card! Having allies auto-quest when they hit the table is amazing. Double use of original Gandalf (which I actually forgot about in my game, and exhausted him to quest!) is awesome. And Silvans are really fun to play. Powerful and fun, which is a good mix! Only stalling point was if the deck didn't draw either Galadriel's ring or O Lorien. In either case, it got rather difficult!

I have just played it. 4 times. 2 wins and 2 lost. When i played a hobbit deck we lost (but that deck is too bad, i only played thinking hobbits could go ahead hidden.., as the thematic of this scenario), and the other 2 games with silvans, both players.

I say i enjoyed a lot. I dont know how it runs still in 4 players or solo, but atm i felt it very funny.

I finally got ahold of this quest. We played 2-player last night and won on the first attempt with Theoden-Mablung-Sam and Idraen-Glorfindel(S)-Elrond. Elrond with Arwen, Burning Brand, and Unexpected Courage was enough to handle most defense, but we had Mablung questing for 3 with Wingfoot and a Gondorian Shield as a backup defender. Asfaloth and a Northern Tracker kept the board pretty clear of locations, and also acted as a free readying device for Idraen to get an extra action in where needed. Overall we had a pretty easy time of it, but I think we got some easy early turns: no enemies on the board until round 3 (other than Bellach). We never had a location go under The Orcs' Search.

Nicely thematic quest, seems on the easy side if approached with the right decks, but a nice challenge level for what I prefer. I could see myself coming back to this one.

Just got to try this quest for the first time last night and something stood out to me that no-one has even hinted at (that I could find) but which seems so obvious to me:

This quest seems to be a direct parallel to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to such a blatant degree that I cannot believe, I haven´t been able to find any comments on it.

Specifically the part in the desert where the nazis are trying to find the Well of Souls (secret chamber anyone?)

Some lines are taken almost directly from the movie:

(paraphrasing)

RotLA: "They only have one side of the amulet" ; "They are digging in the wrong place"

CS: "They only have half of the map" ; "They are digging in the wrong place"

The name of the guy leading the orcs is Bellach.

The name of the guy leading the nazis is Belloq.

I don´t consider it a bad thing seeing as I quite like Indiana Jones but I am wondering why I haven´t seen anyone else comment on it .

We did in the other thread.

This quest is interesting mechanics but is so easy to play.. needto wait for Nmode to really enjoyed

This quest seems to be a direct parallel to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to such a blatant degree that I cannot believe, I haven´t been able to find any comments on it.

yeah, it's a bizarre but awesome reference for aTolkien-themed game. Some people commented on it in a thread here.

Ah right you are.

Never read the threads for quests I haven´t tried yet and that one has crept quite far down the list by now.

Used to get the packs within a week of release but lately I have been forced to wait for a month or more.

Ah well... c´est la vie