Heyo, just joined the sub and only been playing the game for 4 or so weeks.
I've already spent about $100 which is fine, i have money budgeted for whatever I like each month so not stressed but I've seen a few comments on here saying players have spent tens of thousands, not to mention 1 or 2 players in my state exploding overnight with the best heroes, highest upgrades, etc, and it's windblowing.
Just curious and it's probably been asked a million times on here, is it true people spend that much? what's the most you've heard of a single player spending on the game total?

Hero name: Exhume Real Name: John Winston
Origin: John Winston was an ordinary corpse underneath his grave (dead obviously) until Venom and Carnage started rampaging through the graveyard fighting each other, and then Carnage sliced a piece of Venom's Hand and then Venom tore a piece of Carnage's hand, both of the pieces landed on John's Grave and infused with eachother, and then went underneath John's Grave, after the fight between Venom and Carnage, John came back to life and dug out of his grave, but he had forgotten his memories, he can only remember Venom's and Carnage's memories, but he knows those aren't his memories, so he went to the city and then he encountered Spiderman, when Spiderman finds out what brought him back, he decides to train him to become a hero like him.
Powers: John is basically a hybrid of human and Symbiote or Host and Symbiote, so that means he's basically a good Symbiote because John's a hero, but if he has negative emotions or thoughts, he eventually turns full Symbiote, but it doesn't last forever, he eventually gets back to normal, and in time he can kinda control the full Symbiote form, but if he has too much negativity he goes Berserk.
Weakness: Exhume has the same weakness as Venom and Carnage, that being loud Noises.
Appearance: John Winston: He's bald with black eyes, and he's white.
Exhume: A combination of grey red, white and black His eyes look like a tiny round X, with a mask-like black Symbiote part rapped around his mouth.
Exhume (full Symbiote form): He becomes bigger, the grey red replaced with a dark Crimson red, his X shaped eyes become bigger, the mask-like black Symbiote part now being his mouth, and he's buff looking.
Personality: John doesn't know much about himself, but in time he learns that clinching onto something for too long ruins you, so his personality is that he's kind, heroic and stubborn.
Extra: 1. When John is in his full Symbiote form, he doesn't talk, just makes Symbiote noises and roars.

1. John is 1 inch taller than Peter ParkeSpider man, And still 1 inch taller than spider man when he's in his symbiote suit, but he's a half feet taller than Venom when he's full Symbiote.
   
2. Exhume doesn't have web-slinging, but he still jump very high and use his Symbiote tendrils like Venom and Carnage.
   
3. When John is in his full Symbiote form, he has the combined strength of Venom and Carnage.
   
4. John looks up to peter as a mentor and as a friend.
   

'way the wind blows' (idiom) - If a person tries to discover which way the wind blows/is blowing, they try to discover information about a situation, especially other people's opinions, before they take action (cambridge dictionary)
Battle looms in Meereen and in a last effort to free the Yunkish hostages (including Dany's beloved Daario) Barristan plots to release Quentyn's companions, Arch and Drink, alongside their Windblown hostages so they can blend in unnoticed back to the Yunkish camp with a secret mission. To 'speak with the queen's voice' and to promise the Tattered Prince that if he delivers the hostages unharmed and whole they will help him to claim Pentos. Its the city Tatters covets above all else, that which he grew up in but was forced to flee - escaping a mandated ascension to the position of Prince, which, despite its lofty imagery, is used more as a sacrificial figurehead for the magisters of Pentos (who spill the prince's blood to curry favor with the populace in times of strife).
But before Barristan orders his iconic charge into the Yunkish trebuchet line he dreads that he has placed the chances of his beleaguered forces at the mercy of fickle mercenaries...

The White Bull would have called it folly. He would have warned Barristan against trusting sellswords too. This is what it has come to, my queen, Ser Barristan thought. Our fates hinge upon a sellsword’s greed. Your city, your people, our lives … the Tattered Prince holds us all in his bloodstained hands.

And yet... a glimmer of hope arrives when he least expects it. What Barristan could not have foreseen is the landing of the Iron Fleet all the way from Weteros, crushing the Qartheen fleet in the bay and turning the tide. And reportedly (from a fan recount of the Barristan II reading) recognizing the Greyjoy kraken he shouts out gleefully

“It’s like Baelor Breakspear and Prince Maekar, the hammer and the anvil. We have them! We have them!”

And soon after this we hear that the Windblown have turned cloak to Dany's side as well, cutting down the Yunkish commander Gorzhak zo Eraz in an act of 'Pentoshi treachery'. Its a very optimistic note to end the teaser chapters on, and this has led to fans conjecturing on the future of Dany's new allies in a secure Meereen all the way to besieging Pentos. But... can we really trust the Tattered Prince's newfound loyalty? Or Barristan's triumph in Meereen?

Keeping Options Open

A lot of the insight into the Tattered Prince is buried within the Quentyn chapters, which maybe don't get reread by the fandom as much as they should in preparation for Winds being that it has all the seeming of a closed story, and even aside from that is a less celebrated pov in the already unpopular Meereenese arc. But I still believe there's solid insights and side characters setup in these chapters that may be important later.
The more you look into him I think the Tattered Prince emerges as a weasely and duplicitious character ("Tattered and twisty, what a rogue I am." by his own words) ... One of his most defining leadership traits that starts to emerge to me, aside from having zero leniency towards deserters, is that he rarely seems to commit to a side fully, always seemingly keeping his options open. Which is maybe not so strange for sellswords, a contract can't be collected if you end up on the losing side right? Tatters offers pretty similar advice to Quentyn "In this world, a man must learn to seize whatever gifts the gods chose to send him. That was a lesson I learned at some cost."
When we first see the Windblown in action it is for the very unsavory cause of driving thousands of starved and diseased Astapori carrying the pale mare towards Dany and Meereen at the behest of the Yunkai'i who don't want them seeking refuge in their own city. Yet despite the Windblown being under contract with the Yunkish Tatters also schemes to have his men appear to defect to Dany's side and to be taken in (which would allow him to feel out their options):

"… but if she does, what then? Are we spies? Assassins? Envoys? Are you thinking to change sides?" Caggo scowled. "That is for the prince to decide, Hungerford. Your part is to do as you are told." "Always." Hungerford raised his two-fingered hand. "Let us be frank," said Denzo D'han, the warrior bard. "The Yunkai'i do not inspire confidence. Whatever the outcome of this war, the Windblown should share in the spoils of victory. Our prince is wise to keep all roads open."

While in Meereen, Pretty Meris uses the chance to offer the Windblown to Dany in exchange for coin and the promise of Pentos. But Dany refuses... partly because she was unsure she'd ever even head back to Pentos, but also because Illyrio serves as a magister there and he helped arrange her marriage to Khal Drogo and gave her her dragon eggs "I will not repay that debt by giving his city to some sellsword. No."
This scene is important because when the Tattered Prince is offered Pentos later by Barristan, he must realize he is being offered something he knows Dany previously refused to agree to on principle. And with that you have to wonder if Tatters truthfully expects he can deliver Pentos or if he realizes Barristan is overpromising and desperate... maybe its like he tells Quentyn "[...]men who pay in promises should have at least the sense to promise more." Barristan's forces don't inspire too much confidence in succcess against the combined Yunkish and Volantene might at the moment, let alone eeking out enough survivors to topple the Free City... To add to the equation Tatters also hints that he doesn't believe Dany is still alive either "somewhere in the grasslands a dragon nibbles the tender flesh of Daenerys Targaryen." Which leaves out her dragons. But if didn't believe something was there, why do we see him defect later? Maybe Barristan did inspire something... though his defection does seem suspiciously timed with the landing of the ironborn and change in momentum on the battlefield.... so I kind of believe, in typical Tatters fashion, he may have just been playing both sides.
We can also look back at the last time Tatters was promised Pentos - as Quentyn hired him to help steal a dragon. Did he really commit to that cause believing Dorne could swing Pentos in his favor? I'm not sure... but Tatters does go along with it. Though... something also feels off about the Windblown's 'help' on this venture too.
For starters, the code word 'dog' that the is provided to get past the Brazen Beasts is bad intel. That's not clear immediately because when the first set of guards hear it they only exchange a look and leave... maybe they were just hesitant to attack this larger group of people after a long day so chose to ignore it? But the second time the passcode is used the serjeant immediately stiffens and orders them to be seized. In hindsight, 'dog' seems like it was maybe just improvised by Tatters on the Meereenese stereotype of eating dog as a delicacy and the Brazen Beasts' association with animals. It doesn't seem very similar to the actual code word from the Brazen Beasts we've seen before - 'Groleo', chosen in honor of the late admiral killed by the Yunkish. So I don't think Tatters was too concerned with avoiding violence going in. There's probably a dark story hidden in the background of the Brazen Beast costumes they acquired for the mission too (connected to the recent upsurge in violence by the Sons of the Harpy). Though Quentyn doesn't question it... ("Never ask the baker what went into the pie. Just eat.")
Also the cart the Windblown bring to supposedly carry the dragon is only a small butcher's cart that Archibald eyes sourly "Will that cart be big enough to hold a dragon?" And when Quentyn asks if they've brought sufficient chains, Pretty Meris promises they have 'enough for ten' concealed beneath the meat in the cart... though we never do see them, its hard to believe the chains would have been any more effective than the thick ones the dragons were breaking through already. And when things start to fall apart for Quentyn and Caggo Corpsekiller calls out to his men, that's when one of the Brazen Beasts starts to shoot the dragons with a crossbow. So we have to wonder, were the Windblown really there to help Quentyn? Or were they just using him as bait while they prepared to kill the dragons for the Yunkish allies? Keeping in mind this is right after the events of Daznak's Pit where anti-dragon sentiment was in full swing and Harghaz the Hero was being celebrated for trying to slay Drogon. In typical Tattered Prince fashion its probably both... he was willing to gamble and wanted to see if Quentyn could do it, but ultimately he had a backup plan.

The Cloak of the Betrayer

Your sellswords once served your foes, and once a man turns his cloak he will not scruple to turn it again. (- Barristan)

The Tattered Prince's defection in the Battle of Fire is hopeful sign for Barristan, but given what we've seen of his reliability we should maybe be cautious too. Tatters could easily swing to the side of a villain again if the tide of battle turns in the Yunkish favor once more. And even Arch and Drink's chances are looking pretty precarious at the moment...
Throughout our time with the Tattered Prince we've repeatedly heard of his notoriously dim view of deserters, doling out harsh punishments regardless of how justified the motive for deserting was. And Arch and Drink are deserters.. they may have gotten off free before, but it probably helped that they had a Prince of Dorne with them. Now they are going back empty-handed, alongside the Windblown they ratted out, carrying a message from Barristan with few assurances of safety. Has their luck ran out? Maybe the Windblown could use Archibald though, he's a strong fighter. But Gerris...
There's another cause of concern too... the Yunkish may not have revealed their full hand in battle yet. For one the Volantene fleet hasn't shown up yet, which is actually the main enemy force, though they may take some time to arrive as they were delayed en route by weather at sea. The Ironborn are also pretty unreliable - Victarion has prevoiusly plotted to only stay as long as it takes to bind the dragons and steal away Dany, that could shift the balance too. But perhaps the thing to watch out for near term is the 'big' dothraki khalasar that has been rumored to be allied with the Volantenes and yet to be be revealed.... (we've actually gotten quite a few hints of this ranging from Brown Ben to Benerro... and imo its probably Khal Pono's horde, who's had a hand in the slave trade and has reason to oppose Dany, and was seen traveling alongside the Volantene ships earlier by Tyrion assuming he misinterpreted that they were guarding against them). The Dothraki would best be served by striking at Dany's Unsullied as they form up (as Barristan thinks 'If the Yunkish commanders had any sense, they would send their horse thundering down on the eunuchs before they could form ranks, when they were most vulnerable.') But it all depends on the timing of their arrival from the Demon Road.
Regardless, the winds of fortune turning against Barristan at some point would create the perfect opportunity for a shifty sellsword captain to reasses his position... potentially betraying Barristan's cause and giving up his dubious promise of Pentos, giving Arch and Drink to Pretty Meris, and setting up a clash between the two veteran fighters, who almost seem to represent opposite sides of honor - one that's made his living a knight and a kingsguard, the other a rogue and an exile.
And if they do there is perhaps a checkhov's gun that we've neglected to mention so far..... the Tattered Prince's most iconic feature in battle, his ragged cloak 'made of twists of cloth of many colors, blue and grey and purple, red and gold and green, magenta and vermilion and cerulean, all faded by the sun. ' Its said that this cloak is made from strips of cloth torn from the surcoats of men he has slain. A dark scenario but could a strip of cloth be added to his cloak from someone we know before the end? Arch and Drink are surely contenders, but would their clothing be recognizable to anyone after they switched out their Dornish outfits for generic ones? When it comes to recognizable cloaks there's one tends to stand out. And Dany witnessing a strip of Barristan's bright white cloak on her return could serve as a dreadful symbol of Tatters' treachery.

TLDR This post explores the Tattered Prince, a shifty rogue sellsword captain who may play a crucial role in the Battle of Fire as either hero or villain. Tatters always seems to keep his options open in battle, playing both sides... and while he's on team Barristan now, a man that turns cloak once will not scruple to turn it again. He desires Pentos but the promise only goes so far as Tatters believes it can succeed. He also carries a notoriously dim view of deserters - which puts Arch and Drink in a precarious position now that they are heading back to him alongside the Windblown they previously sold out. The Winds chapters end on a high note, but it could be setting up a shift in the winds of fortune. If the Yunkish gain the upper hand again before the end of the fighting (say with the reveal of their rumored dothraki horde) the Tattered Prince may reassesss his position and betray Barristan, setting up a fight between these two veteran fighters representing opposite sides of life and honor. In one dark outcome Dany may come back and recognize a white strip of cloth added to his tattered cloak.....

Sacred Flame's heavy attacks mark targets, light attacks detonate them
Ergo Sum, an Exotic sword in Destiny 2, is included in The Final Shape boost. However, it’s not only the sword you looked on your grave back in the Corridors of Time. It has the power to release Exotic perks from other Exotic tools.
Moreover, it is the base special weapon sword in Destiny 2. Gadinsider will teach you how to get Ego Sum, along with a rundown of the tasks that are required to be completed.

How to get Ergo Sum in Destiny 2

You need to unlock Ergo Sum in Destiny 2: The Final Shape. Here are the steps mentioned that you will be required to get Ergo Sum.

1. Complete The Final Shape campaign
2. Pick up the “Destined Heroes” quest
3. Complete “Queens, part 1”
4. Complete the “Found in the Dark” quest
5. Complete the“Lost in the Light” quest
6. Finish “Destined Heroes” by completing “Queens, part 2” to get Ergo Sum

If you need to avail more Ergo Sum swords, you need to complete the new Pathfinder bounty system on The Pale Heart or farm the matchmade model of the Overhrow tasks.
Gadinsider has compiled the list of Exotic benefits through light . gg, a database website for Destiny 2.

1. Wolfpack Round (Gjallarhorn): Heavy attacks grant cluster missiles to sword-wielders.
2. Gathering Light (Traveler’s Chosen): Stowing weapon restores ability energy based on final blows.
3. Sacred Flame (Ticuu’s Divination): Heavy attacks mark targets, and light attacks detonate them.
4. The Perfect Fifth (Polaris Lance): Every five hits attaches a delayed explosion.
5. Arc Conductor (Riskrunner): Heavy attacks surge lightning from the user.
6. Stormbringer (Cloudstrike): Rapid final blows create a lightning storm.
7. Unplanned Reprieve (Telesto): Heavy attacks emit delayed detonating projectiles.
8. Insectoid Robot Grenades (The Colony): Final blows deploy homing robot grenades.

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Hey guys, yesterday night I managed to buy the figure collector edition, problem was that i got charged 2 times in my debit card but the purchase didnt appear in my cart, so silly me, this time i decided to pay once more but using paypal and this time of course they charged me again and the purchase appears in my account. Does anyone have a similar problem? Do you think that these 2 times charged that appear as "pending" in my bank account, will be sorted out next week once they check it?

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Trinity College has Rock & Pop music grades for bass which is a helpful tool to rate yourself as a bassist, particularly if you're self-taught. They're quite popular in the UK but maybe not so much in other countries and I thought I'd bring them to attention as they've been quite helpful for me as a reference point and progress tracker.
There are 8 grades (9 if you count "initial") that take you from absolute beginner to advanced (grade 8 is a requirement for a degree course/conservatoire). For each grade, there's a list of songs of that difficulty and to pass that grade, you have to be able to play 3 of these songs (including one "technical focus" one) from start to finish, back to back without stopping or restarting. The transcriptions are sometimes simplified for early grades (or some parts of the song are skipped) but they get more note to note accurate as you go.
If you're struggling to identify where you are / what you need to work on, it's a handy tool to gauge where you are at in your learning journey. You don't have to pass the exams or buy the books (but they come with practice tracks which you can find on Youtube) to rate yourself. I'm not affiliated in any way with Trinity (except that I've recently passed my Digital Grade 4) and there are other exams you can use as reference like Rockschool.
The full syllabus is here which includes what techniques are included/expected in each grade: https://www.trinitycollege.com/resource/?id=7897
They also have Spotify playlist of the songs: https://open.spotify.com/use4rvsnjm0exwg073v5f5ljfk7t But here's a full list per grade including extra songs (TF means technical focus)
INITIAL ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER Bob Dylan BLACK CHERRY Goldfrapp GLORIA Them RIDE A WHITE SWAN T Rex SHELTER [TF] The XX STAND BY ME [TF] Ben E King WITH OR WITHOUT YOU U2 YELLOW [TF] Coldplay YOU MAKE LOVING FUN Fleetwood Mac BLACK BETTY Lead Belly BLITZKRIEG BOP Ramones FOLSOM PRISON BLUES Johnny Cash I AM THE MUSIC MAN Traditional NO SURPRISES Radiohead WILD WOOD Paul Weller YOU DON’T LOVE ME Dawn Penn
GRADE 1 BILLIE JEAN [TF] Michael Jackson BLANKET ON THE GROUND Billie Jo Spears FLOAT ON Modest Mouse JUST LOOKING [TF] Stereophonics LABELLED WITH LOVE [TF] Squeeze LEARN TO FLY Foo Fighters LITTLE TALKS Of Monsters and Men MULL OF KINTYRE Paul McCartney & Wings NOT THE GIRL YOU THINK YOU ARE Crowded House FREIGHT TRAIN Taj Mahal I BELIEVE I’LL DUST MY BROOM Robert Johnson PSYCHO KILLER Talking Heads SING FOR ABSOLUTION Muse TEENAGE KICKS The Undertones
GRADE 2 BROWN EYED GIRL [TF] Van Morrison DON’T WANNA FIGHT Alabama Shakes KNOCK ON WOOD Eddie Floyd PRIVATE LIFE Grace Jones SHE SELLS SANCTUARY The Cult SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT [TF] Badly Drawn Boy SWEET DISPOSITION [TF] The Temper Trap YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND Carole King CHASING PAVEMENTS Adele COMFORTABLY NUMB Pink Floyd MEAN JUMPER BLUES Blind Lemon Jefferson NEED YOU TONIGHT Inxs YOU REALLY GOT ME The Kinks
GRADE 3 ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST Queen COME TOGETHER The Beatles (I’M A) ROAD RUNNER [TF] Jr Walker & the All Stars MISERY BUSINESS [TF] Paramore PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG James Brown SEASONS (WAITING ON YOU) [TF] Future Islands SONG 2 Blur WALKING ON THE MOON The Police ADDICTED TO LOVE Robert Palmer JOHN BARLEYCORN Traditional MY IRON LUNG Radiohead SOUND AND VISION David Bowie SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE Cream WHEN TOMORROW COMES The Eurythmics
GRADE 4 FOREVER [TF] Haim I NEVER LOVED A MAN (THE WAY I LOVE YOU) Aretha Franklin I WISH Stevie Wonder RIFF RAFF [TF] AC/DC THE RIVERBOAT SONG Ocean Colour Scene SUBSTITUTE [TF] The Who SLEDGEHAMMER [TF] Peter Gabriel SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT Nirvana YOU KNOW I’M NO GOOD Amy Winehouse HEROES David Bowie MONEY Pink Floyd ROOM Cream White WOULD? Alice In Chains
GRADE 5 CAR WASH [TF] Rose Royce CAUSE I’M A MAN Tame Impala DAY TRIPPER The Beatles HEARTBREAKER Led Zeppelin REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE Four Tops SMOOTH CRIMINAL [TF] Alien Ant Farm SWEET CHILD O’ MINE [TF] Guns N’ Roses WAKE UP Rage Against the Machine BOOKS FROM BOXES Maximo Park TIME IS RUNNING OUT Muse WHEN I COME AROUND Green Day
GRADE 6 GET LUCKY Daft Punk NO ONE KNOWS [TF] Queens of the Stone Age ORION [TF] Metallica RIO Duran Duran SCAR TISSUE Red Hot Chili Peppers SOMETHING GOT ME STARTED [TF] Simply Red WHAT’S GOING ON Marvin Gaye WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS Joe Cocker ASHES TO ASHES David Bowie THE CAPTAIN Biffy Clyro HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW The Smiths WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN The Who
GRADE 7 BABOOSHKA Kate Bush HIGHER GROUND Red Hot Chili Peppers I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES The Jackson Sisters PHANTOM OF THE OPERA [TF] Iron Maiden SCHISM Tool SIR DUKE Stevie Wonder THE SPIRIT OF RADIO Rush TOO SHY [TF] Kajagoogoo TWO TRIBES [TF] Frankie Goes to Hollywood THE CRYING MACHINE Steve Vai HYSTERIA Muse N.I.B. Black Sabbath THE SUN GOES DOWN Level 42 WELCOME TO PARADISE Green Day
GRADE 8 BIRDLAND [TF] Weather Report DUNE TUNE Level 42 GOOD LAVA Esperanza Spalding LOPSY LU Stanley Clarke RUN FOR COVER [TF] David Sanborn SILLY PUTTY Stanley Clarke TOMMY THE CAT [TF] Primus YOU CAN CALL ME AL Paul Simon 6:00 Dream Theater LOVE GAMES Level 42 OVER THE ELECTRIC GRAPEVINE Primus YYZ Rush

In January this year, I am a 2K pleb struggling to go over 3K. Come March and April, I am consistently hovering around 3.2-3.5K, purely picking offlane, with some few bad days where I am thrown back into the abyss that is 2K. This May, I am now purely picking support and it got me to consistently be between 3.9-4.1K (Ancient).
My problem is, I have a very limited hero pool (3 offlane heroes, 3 pos4 heroes) and so I am stuck in this rank playing the same set of heroes, as doing otherwise would be -500mmr. To make this worse, I have been spamming pos 4 weaver utilizing right facet to incredible success, and whenever I use another hero (including those from my limited pool), it results to a loss. How do I overcome this problem? Ancient rank is a very different beast for me since I have been playing since 2013, and has been a 2k scrub since then.
I mainly play Timber, Necro, Visage, Venge and Techies, Weaver and WD if that helps.

Playing with a friend of mine. Final plan stage. Mr sinister attacks Hope Summers and has “Flight” which gives him overkill
Both our heroes were already exhausted (defending Hope when he attacked on the first place) then we resolved the encounter cards.
First encounter card was “the villain and all the minions attacks”
So mr sinister targets - again - against Hope. Since we were exhausted my friend blocked with an ally of him . The villain strikes with 6 damage , 2 damage defeated de ally and the 4 - rest - hit points go for ….

• A) Hope
• B) the hero controlling the ally

I expect A) but my friend didn’t want to loose so much he pretended it was B) and told me he was sure about this ruling 🙃
Note: we did loose anyway , I felt it was game justice since I think we should have ended the match when this overkill situation took place
Thanks

For example, venomancer inner ability deals 2 DPS for 3 seconds and slows for 3%. That's all my facet? Or lina that gets a 1% atk and movement speed for her passive. Ok you get 7% atk speed and movement speed at lvl 1 at best, but after that, it's irrelevant
Mirana lotuses it's so situational and most of the game useless, 20% amplification heal / mana for lotuses? So a lotus gives you 125 hp/mana, mirana can feed with u with a lotus for 155 hp / mana. So, at best, every 3 minutes, you get 35 hp and mana, equivalent to 2 stick charges
And other facets are just a part of the ability that got removed from an ability and added to facet. Like PA blur
Some heroes got some really nice facets there, jakiro with double atk half dmg but it counters couriers, tombstones, wards, nether wards and phoenix egg and also can go for a carry build with javelin builds ( mkb, mael)

The lightbearers and the wilders have their story in season 0, the maulers got their turn in season 1. So that leave the graveborn to be the only faction that doesn't have their own story yet, with cecia being the only graveborn character that have appear in the story so far (if I'm not wrong).
I saw many people want the next season to be for the graveborn, with it nicely also going to be starting during Halloween or something.
Now I've never played afk arena, so my only source of lore and background of the heroes are their tales from the affinity section. But based on those tales, Graveborn seems like an evil faction. Thoran being a mad undead king that's obsessed with vengeance, Viperian making horrible monster fusion, and Niru playing around with souls, plus their whole aesthetic basically screams evil.
From what I've played, each story will have characters from the featured faction to be your companion. I can't see it with the graveborn, what character would we team up with? I don't even know how we would somehow sides with the graveborn at all.
The option of story I can see working is:

1. Set in the graveborn area, but the story mainly involve characters from other faction, probably lightbearers with graveborn being the main antagonist instead of the usual hypogean and adamant syndicate for the fifth time.
   
2. The graveborn decide to side with us when the adamant syndicate and the hypogean suddenly makes trouble at their territory this time. (Hopefully not this)
   
3. A graveborn character with good alignment (either a new one, or an existing one from arena, if they exist) join us to help us with something idk.
   

sorry for this long mess, I'm just curious and want to see other people's opinions on how this story would be set.

I want to set the record straight first that there is absolutely no one who benefits from keeping you with monkeys in your team and a pro team in the enemy. This is NOT a complaint post.
But here are some things I noticed as to why it might SEEM that way. Also I’ll be giving examples so please comment as its an invitation for a discussion. I’m not going to talk about griefers at all because either team has equal chance of getting tilted+griefing for fun. All examples are purely hypothetical.

1. Draft Sequence: In a standard pub the supports are expected to pick first. While this is not a problem if both teams picks their supports first, the gamble comes from how both teams synergizes with those picks. Most of the time, the tryharder team wins. For example, if you pick a necrophos 3 second phase and the opponent last picks an oracle pos 5, the game can get brutal.

2.Backline+Frontline Concept: In the similar vein of drafting, there is a balance between the frontline tank/initiatodps and the backline castedps, whichever team has the better balance will more if not most of the time stomp the game. For example i think it would be reasonable to say a team of dazzle rubick CK Ember Necrophos would be able to beat a team of enigma silencer sniper kotl pa. Like I said, the examples are cherry picked and purely hypothetical to push my point. Notice that no one in team B would genuinely enjoy initiating a fight?
3.Not understanding core game mechanics: There are ALWAYS ways to come back in the game, always. But you cant start using your game sense from minute 20 onwards. the game starts as soon as the creep waves meet. The concept of 2v1ing in lane whenever someones out of position,punishing enemy for misplays, reacting to creepwaves and cutting creeps, when to leave high ground when behind, how to attack high ground the right way. Not having the communication in your team about your exact win condition for the laning,midgame,endgame actively destroys your chance to win. Games should feel fun even when you lose, thats my main point. Slight misplays, a little underestimation of enemies damage, surprise item timings which wins them the game, rapier reveal, smoke plays all these are fantastic ways of losing the game because you are being outplayed and not reliant on a gamble. This is the essence of dota and it should stay that way.
4 Not understanding your own pick and how to play in a bad game: At least in my bracket leg 5-anc 3, we have players who can only play their heroes in a very one dimensional way and dont know how to adapt. For example a necrophos that always rushes radiance, a dark seer always rushing greaves. I think its very important to know your own heroes strength and weaknesses more than countering the enemy. For example an AM/weaver can cut waves right at the t3s when all 5 enemies are pushing. If you are a core and dont know how to adapt against your statistically worst matchups, you’ll just get stomped. And for everyone, if you don’t know how the 4 heroes in the sidelanes interact with each other and what your win condition is, the better duo will win. (this is a good thing)
I’m sure I could say more but Im inviting you all for a discussion like i said. The purpose of my post was voice things I noticed. The end result of any game is the culmination of all the decisions all 10 players took during the game from beginning to end, but I want the game to be fairer so stomps are rarer. (both getting stomped and stomping) Games are amazing when you just dont know the result until the game ends.
That’s why I’m proposing a quality of life update.
In ALL PICK ranked, since we dont have the opportunity to be in a tight team and we are all random, give us the option to select the ALL PICK BLIND mode. In this mode, you’ll not be able to see any of the enemy picks. Give us only 40 seconds of drafting so we can pick and repick until the timer ends so OUR team synergizes well instead of being only forced to play meta heroes or having teammates counterpick with little experience in playing their hero the best. This will ultimately lead to a better experience in game and open up the pool of heroes viable for a draft tenfold. Some of us tryhards could endlessly repick until the timer ends so we can ensure the ‘one dimensional’ teammates have a good game so we are all on the same page. Instead of banning a hero outright if the same hero is picked by both team, itll only allow them to pick from the pool of their 20 most played heroes - I think this can solve the problem of people picking all the cheese picks to get it banned. Let me know what you guys think.
This will deter us from being meta slaves even in competitive and from some people giving up in the first 10 minutes of the game and bring back the era of dota where the skill floor wasnt so high and there were a lot of back and forth, which to me is what dota is all about.
also inb4 tldr