Triple Triad has its quirks

[Lemuria]

It's great that you're all getting rare cards, but the point remains that rare card drops do you no good if you can't use them. I've scoured Eorzea for opponents and virtually all of them outside of the Gold Saucer use high strength character cards, usually in multiples. Sometimes you get lucky if its a random draw and you're pit against a more manageable hand, but there's often no 'Plus' rule to help you out, so highest number takes all.

Most of my victories have come from abusing the 'Plus' rule, so opponents which lack that are proving to be considerably more difficult. There's also no guarantee that you'll win a card, and when you do there's no guarantee you can even use it. Most of the cards I've won have been considered 'rare', but my deck can only house one at a time meaning I'm limited to having the starter hand +1 rare.

I just feel there should have been a wider range of opponents for starting players which don't require you to be a Triad master before you've even begun.

[RathSkybreaker]

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Once you get 30 cards you can use more rare cards, go do primals, go farm content like garuda hard, go buy packs of cards, the npcs with the plus rule are at least beatable. QQ

[Kenji1134]

Once you get 30 cards you can use more rare cards, go do primals, go farm content like garuda hard, go buy packs of cards, the npcs with the plus rule are at least beatable. QQ

"Once you get 30 cards"

Those last 5 or so cards are RETARDEDLY difficult to get.
Those last 5 cards should be called "you must now defeat NPCs who's hands contain 2-3 4* and 1-2 3* cards, with your hand of 4 1*s and maybe, just maybe, if you spent hours upon hours of playing math games with King Elmer, Bahamut.

TBH, I managed to get 20 cards without "excessive" difficulty. But after 20, things got progressively more difficult as I blatantly ran out of NPCs who's decks were anywhere near my game gimped level.
So, maybe if they cut down the gating by 1/3, things would be reasonable.
0-19 cards, 1 star hand.
20-39 cards, 2 star hand
40-59 cards, 3 star hand
60+, 4 star hand

Atm there are supposedly 80 cards total.
Of them, 20 are 5 star.
So to unlock a 4 star hand under these rules, you literally need every card BUT the 5 stars... Seems fair doesnt it?

Honestly what is the point of 4 star cards anyway?
Under the current system we cannot use more than 1 card above 3 star. And with 5 star cards available, who would use their one slot on a 4 star?
Under the current system, the only purpose of 4 star cards is for NPCs to stack their decks with to kick our asses. This is just bad design.

[Erudain]

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He has a point here, we need at least another lvl of rarity allowance.
Max we got currently is 1 4-5 star + 4 3 stars....which raises the question of who in his right mind will use 1 4star + 4 3 stars?

4 stars are used right now until you get something better and becomes useless.
They could add a final rarity level. If you don't want to make it 1 5*+ 4 4*, make it 1 5*+ 1 4*+ 3 3*or 1 5* + 2 4* + 2 3*

[Aeyis]

Once you get 30 cards you can use more rare cards, go do primals, go farm content like garuda hard, go buy packs of cards, the npcs with the plus rule are at least beatable. QQ

Primals are all 3 star+.

I think all these complainers need to realize one cold hard fact: this game IS NOT to be played for ONE WEEK and to be done with everything 100%....

That is entirely besides the point. The issue is not the lack of progression speed, but rather the limitations imposed on using certain cards.
Personally I'm in the amusing situation where all the cards I've earned are 3,4 or 5 star cards.
Leaving me to use a deck of 4 starter cards with only one new card.
One time my only 5 star got swapped to my opponent, leaving me with the interesting situation of 4x 1 star and 1x 3 star, up against 4x 5 stars, and 1x 4 star.

Can't say I much like the restriction on higher value cards.