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Which to build next in Aether Raids?

I have a total of 390 Aether stones after this season ended. Should I spend my stones for an extra slot on my offense or defense team, or should I use the stones for upgrading my structures? If the former, which team deserves the extra slot? If the latter, which structure do you peeps recommend me to upgrade?

Asked by Neppypudding4 weeks 2 days ago

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What tier are you in? Doesn't make a huge difference but I think it's relevant

Tier 14

I definitely think more units is more potent than stronger structures. At your level I feel like 5th unit on offense might be more helpful because horse teams are hard to attack into and wipe in one turn and they're common in T14sh from what I hear. Having an extra smite or an extra dance can save you 7+ units for 140+ lift the course of the season. Meanwhilese I started the season T14 and I got two complete wins with 4 units so I think a 4-unit defense can achieve decent results. But if you understand the AI well (and it's not that sophisticated), you might get more out of 5 units on defense than 5 units on offense.

Either way, choose carefully because if you build bonus structures every week, it will be a while before you can afford the other 5th slot. I tend to think that if you play smart on offense, 5th slot defense is waaaay better, especially if you get into T16-17. But that's based on preliminary analysis and it's not very concrete yet.

These things said, I don't know if that's how it's going to work out for you because you don't play the same way I do. We're different players.

I'm a bit on the fence about it. With 4x units and the cookie cutter "cancer" cavalry defense it looks like its possible to set them up in a manner where you're forced to take an initial double from either reinhardt, veronica or a firesweep b!lyn (or at the very least you'd have to put yourself in a very bad position to avoid that). Its actually possible that adding a 5th defense unit to that might be a liability, since it'd create more openings for the initial "pull". But in the long term, once you hit rank 19 and can add a 6th unit, I could see 4x cavalry + 2x dancers being a godawful nightmare to face. Imagine the entire map covered by veronica + b-lyn+dancer on one side, and a second veronica+reinhardt+dancer on the other. (they REALLY should change that... being able to use multiple copies of the same unit here.) You could probably deal with that using raven+adept+b-tomebreaker/bowbreaker... but having an extra unit on offense would help, especially if you end up having to make separate teams for the different variations of that.
I guess it just depends on how that turns out. If 6x defense is very strong, and results in the players running it having a lot of extra def-wins, thats probably the way to go. If its easily countered, and ends up being hit or miss random wins cuz someone screwed up (just like now for the most part), then probably offense is the better choice.
Haha, sort of makes me dizzy thinking about it. I do think extra units are probably more important than buildings (that is, assuming you get the, uh, whatever it is, the green aether dust for fortresses and fountains from it. Havent added a unit yet so not 100% sure). It might actually even be worth holding on to your tokens until we see what the 6x meta is like.

On the plus side, eventually everyone is going to be running 6x offense/defense anyways... so in the long term it doesnt matter and not the end of the world if you make the wrong choice. It does seem ridiculously easy to get chairs right now tho. I thought I screwed up pretty bad this week and still got a bronze. My guess is the ranking is silly and like if 500 people have a score of for example 6000, and place 1st, then 500 people have a score of 5980, those 500 people will be awarded second place (as opposed to 501th).