OJdaKiller
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Are these legendary backs or the Fireside backs?
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Are these legendary backs or the Fireside backs?
Definitely Legendary. 5 of 6 matches now, too.
EDIT: I'm an idiot, it was the Season 1 back. Nevermind...
hypersheep
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Wow I've played nothing but mages in ranked tonight. 5 mages in a row.
I feel like you have to be pay-to-win to be decent at priest.
Yeah I'm avoiding ranked until the season fills up, shit is ridiculous, I'm sitting here with almost 3/4ths basic card decks and I'm having Paladins dropping Fordring on me like rain from the sky. Fuck this game.
It's a card game.these things take time. I haven't spent a dime, but I've been playing for months now so I have all priest cards except velen (which isn't a good card atm anyway).
It's pay2shortcut.
hypersheep
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Was playing against a handlock at rank 18. He twisting nethers turn 9 and plays 1 molten giant (at 11 life). I play ancient of lore and wild growth to fish for Force of Nature (having Savage roar in my hand) and manage to get it. He plays another molten and then Jaraxxus. Next turn I force of nature/Savage Roar and then CLAW for the win.
But it was a funny handlock because he played no mountain giants or twilight drakes, had nat pagle, and had two wild pyromancers. I guess the wild pyros were teched in to counter aggro or something or did wild pyro become standard in handlock when I wasn't looking?
But it was a funny handlock because he played no mountain giants or twilight drakes, had nat pagle, and had two wild pyromancers. I guess the wild pyros were teched in to counter aggro or something or did wild pyro become standard in handlock when I wasn't looking?
Control Warrior is the most expensive deck in the game atm.
I can manage a decent priest just by slapping together random shit I had lying around. I'm not even close to a competent Control Warrior or Control Druid.
I can manage a decent priest just by slapping together random shit I had lying around. I'm not even close to a competent Control Warrior or Control Druid.
Haha yeah totally. Rank 11 lay session and my 19 games are tough. Advance faster good players!
Yeah.. the last time I played Hearthstone I used a Trump mage deck and had the dream happen against a Handlock.
Turn 1: Mana Wyrm.
Turn 2: Frostbolt creature + hit with wyrm for 2
Turn 3: Frostbolt another creature + hit with wyrm for 3
Turn 4: (still an empty board) Fireball + hit with wyrm for 4
Turn 5: Wyrm finally removed with a shadowbolt. RIP best Mana Wyrm ever, but at that point already 30-10.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Trump's deck is much more of a midrange deck than aggro. But yeah, mana wyrms are very good for crazy good openers and is a strong card in aggro mage as well.
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I am having a pretty hard time ranking up this season. Usually I hit like 10-13 in the first few hours.
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So awesome losing to a hunter who wins because he happens to have 2 buzzards when he uth's.
super-famicom
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Yeah... made a UTH Hunter deck for kicks. I feel bad stomping people with it.
super-famicom
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Go into practice mode and play with every class until you get them to level 10. Reaching level 10 will unlock all of a class's basic cards. Play around with building a deck, and play against the Expert A.I. Find a class you like, then play Ranked. You start at Rank 25 and don't lose progression to the next rank until you hit level 20. Read up on articles on Hearthpwn for card building advice. The links in the OT are super useful, too
If all else fails, try using Trump's basic decks, they have been super useful for me when I started: http://i.imgur.com/Fv7bMWv.jpg
I was able to get to Rank 20 with the Mage basic deck.
- Unlock every hero for 100 gold in Practice mode
- Get every class to level 10 for the all basic cards and a free booster
- Defeat both the normal and expert A.I for 2 free bosters
- Once level 10 with every class. Do arena for another free booster.
- Stick to casual only for now until you feel confident.
- Watch streams and videos.
- go to http://www.hearthpwn.com/ for newbie decks you can make.
OJdaKiller
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Here's a FUN deck I made a couple of weeks ago...Has problems with aggro but it's a blast.
I call it a "FUN" priest deck (Fuck UP Nerds)...Cuz naming a deck is all the rage!!!
It's got a couple silences, some decent value minions, decent card draw, and of course Cho...Which makes people stop in their tracks!
**********It's missing a Mind Control and Temple Enforcer at the bottom********
I call it a "FUN" priest deck (Fuck UP Nerds)...Cuz naming a deck is all the rage!!!
It's got a couple silences, some decent value minions, decent card draw, and of course Cho...Which makes people stop in their tracks!
**********It's missing a Mind Control and Temple Enforcer at the bottom********
Played a few Hunter / Warlock matches yesterday and ran into some interesting things. I saw a few Millhouse Manastorms and a Lorewalker Cho.
The Cho match was pretty interesting. I didn't want to give the other guy any of my traps or a Hunter's Mark but didn't mind playing Animal Companions since I had more ways to synergize with them. Silenced his Cho after playing two Animal Companions and won the match pretty easily but it was still a pretty fun match.
Mages counter Zoolock pretty good from what I've ran into this season. Manawyrm + Mirror Images, freeze spells, Arcane Missiles/Explosion are very annoying.
The Cho match was pretty interesting. I didn't want to give the other guy any of my traps or a Hunter's Mark but didn't mind playing Animal Companions since I had more ways to synergize with them. Silenced his Cho after playing two Animal Companions and won the match pretty easily but it was still a pretty fun match.
Mages counter Zoolock pretty good from what I've ran into this season. Manawyrm + Mirror Images, freeze spells, Arcane Missiles/Explosion are very annoying.
What bug is this now?
This Le Rebbit link helped me when I was a super n00b -
http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/1ua5c9/hearthstone_for_beginners_guide_and_resource/
Not sure but i have noticed it at the start of each season it lets you re-roll all your daily quests as much as you want (normally its only once a day you can do this). So basically if you have 3 quests lined up you can roll 1 100g quest and two 60 gold ones.
Tatersalad
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Soon you'll be building murlocs, and your turn to the dark side will be complete!
Aquavelvaman
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I wish they would add a "Wow" emote to the game. And I wish it would look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzjtPtOH-Hg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzjtPtOH-Hg
call_kotaku
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Murlocs is actually a pretty bad deck, though. Zoo is cheaper and better, and hunter aggro is way more versatile and effective.
Zoo is such a silly deck
Just played the most annoying priest in constructed... literally every single minion he played had taunt. He had no aggro, and never had board control. Around turn eight he makes a move... ends up with a 20/20 minion with taunt and divine shield... that lost the Brawl lottery.
This is my first TCG, and even I've learned not to put all your eggs into one basket.
This is my first TCG, and even I've learned not to put all your eggs into one basket.
Does rapidly conceding in Casual play mode not tank your Casual MMR? I'm hitting concede at the first sign of doubt constantly and I'm still running into people with Fireside/Pandaria/Legend card back.
I feel I want to stream myself on Twitch just constantly hitting concede at the start of every match, it's mildly amusing (and slightly philanthropic). It's almost like anti-rage.
I want to reach the level of play where people make MANY micro-mistakes. Thinking like 20 concedes? Hell I think I'm single-handedly tanking Warrior win-rate right now.
I feel I want to stream myself on Twitch just constantly hitting concede at the start of every match, it's mildly amusing (and slightly philanthropic). It's almost like anti-rage.
I want to reach the level of play where people make MANY micro-mistakes. Thinking like 20 concedes? Hell I think I'm single-handedly tanking Warrior win-rate right now.
RumblingRosco
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Well, to be fair, no skill is needed for the Fireside back and only a bit of time is really needed for the Pandaria. They're not strictly indicative of a player's skill.
True.
Think I've insta-conceded over 20 games now, but I'm not noticing a drop in skill tiers...
call_kotaku
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Any tips for the druid vs priest matchup? I figured it would be pretty straightforward because yetis, druid of the claws, and gadgetzans are all 4-attack creatures and I will have keepers to stop the buff gimmicks, but I realized that I have no answers for the early blademaster/circle combo nor do my minions scale well into the late game because of shadow word death and mind control. Plus thoughtsteal is especially devastating because of how versatile all my cards are.
Aquavelvaman
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Too bad you didn't get it when they were giving full dust DEs on that card.
I would still dust it today for a better legendary if I were you.
SentryDown
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I just opened a pack with Black Knight but I already own it. Now that I have enough dust, what should I craft ? I have almost every card except a few epic and legenderary, here are the ones I have : Cairne, Ragnaros, Leeroy, The Black Knight, Bloodmage Thalnos, Ysera, Grommash, Al' Akir, King Krush, King Mukla, Malygos, Hogger and the murloc one. My favorite classes are Mage, Druid and Warrior but I think I'll try the others a bit more.
Have you tried Malygos Rogue? It's really fun and despite being called Malygos it's not focused solely around one finisher, lots of removal against aggro and Midrange Hunters, as well as Zoolocks, and you can still get an easy lethal even if they have taunts up. Plus there is nothing more fun than doing an 8 dmg blade flurry, it's like doing a Ragnaros to the whole board.
RumblingRosco
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I'd make Sylvanas.
It dusts for 1600 - so they gave it for 3200 before? boo my luck
First legendary too. However, I realized that they are not so powerful - at least not against my mage. I pretty much just morph them whenever they come out..
Also, wouldn't Malygos be a great legendary for a Mage, Ragnaros is still the best, though? (control mage that is)
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
People have even playing for a while. I haven't spent a cent and in ~3 months have most cards, good legendaries, a few golden legendaries, a decent set of most meta decks, etc. And all I really do is get about a pack a day with the daily+ and gold from winning.
Note that when I started I felt the same way, how do I beat these people with so many cards.. well..you persevere and build your collection. Obviously people with more time will always have an edge.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
The individual card limit is the only reason I only play arena once in a while. Otherwise it'd be a great format. 4 truesilvers or 5 assassinates, stuff like that sucks. Constructed will always be the way to go.
Aquavelvaman
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It dusts for 1600 - so they gave it for 3200 before? boo my luck
First legendary too. However, I realized that they are not so powerful - at least not against my mage. I pretty much just morph them whenever they come out..
Also, wouldn't Malygos be a great legendary for a Mage, Ragnaros is still the best, though? (control mage that is)
Tink was changed last season, and they give full crafting value on dust during disenchants for a while after a card is changed. I think you just missed the cutoff by a few days.
I think Antonidas is better than malygos for a mage, personally, but malygos can be fun for priests and rogues too.
Rag is a good card, I'm glad I have it, but I think I would make Cairne first if I had no legendaries. It's very good in so many decks. I recently crafted Bloodmage Thalnos because it's good in pretty much all my decks.
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