The words thriya and buta are related to the numbers 3 and 2. Do you think there will be a form that would be related to the number 1 and be even stronger than Akash’buta?
There's one in Tactics, whose name I can't recall. It's Akash'[something starting with D].
The Tactics one is Akash’Dharsha
The (upcoming) one in tactics is Akash'Dharsha.
Didn’t knew there was allready a other form. Will check it out.
Nope.
It's in Playtesting. We hear about it a lot, but that's it for those of us not in the secret clubhouse.
I know Ironic knows about this, but the OP probably doesn't: the best public information is from this full-day event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RXwfuSixyo&list=PLBZBled0v3sJ82jQwoL3lqrISQBltyQ-O
Honestly, the playtesters get very little story information. Some of the Wrath of the Cosmos decks were pretty mysterious until we got the final proofs.
That's fair.
My frustration on things like the Akash stuff isn't so much the belief that all the Playtesters are in on some big secret, it's that it seems to me that sometimes, you guys forget you're in the portion of the forums where a lot of people aren't testers at all, so you make these seemingly all-inclusive statements which don't apply to the full conversation - such as this thread, where two people mentioned the Tactics Akash without specifying that it was currently just in testing.
The link is much more helpful - thanks for posting it!
How is giving a name that was in an art livestream from months ago an all inclusive statement? I replied to mwc146 who was trying to list the name and couldn't fully recall it. Being a playtester or not ( I only became one during the recent chance given in January) I still likely would have given the same response. If questioned on how I knew the name I would have further looked up the YouTube video that dpt did and linked that. Sure there are secrets but what is there is straight gameplay to be tested until proofs are given from what I've looked at.
I think that you're missatributing the problem. While I've seen the sort of thing that you describe happen, it's almost always in regards to information gained from twitch chats, livestreams, obscure forum posts, kickstarter comments, tweets, card art, Tactics scenarios and occasionally reported live conversations, and pretty much never from playtester threads. It's all information that's publicly available, but often hard to find. (Although card art and Tactics stuff is unavailable if you don't have the product).
Perhaps I should be more general, then.
I think it's best if people on the message boards say where any piece of information originates, rather than assuming that we're all spending hours a week keep up with the Twitch stream and so forth. Name-checking Akash'Bhuta, which can be found on the GTG site or the wiki is not and will never be analogous to name-checking Akash'Dharsha, for which a Google search will yield the Facebook page of person who doesn't even have that exact name. Regardless of where it originates, the barrier there is a real one.
You could just ask where the reference came from and they could answer it for you. A question was asked. An answer was given. Then a question about the source, and another answer. It all seems fair to me. I don't think every mention of everything needs to come with citations.
I meant to indicate that Akash'Dharsha wasn't yet available by putting in "(upcoming)". It did take me a few minutes to track down the link, I wouldn't have done that unless it was obviously useful. But it also seems that the wiki is out of date: http://sotm.wikidot.com/villain:akash-bhuta mentions neither Akash'Thriya nor Akash'Dharsha. I don't have time right this instant to fix it.
I agree there's a tendency to become cliquish and not explain terms. That's why we encourage people to spell out card names, for instance.
The wiki page you linked does mention Akash'Thriya and its promo version already. It does not mention Akash'Dharsha most likely because we have little to no story information available on her.
And no bio to copy and paste from.
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