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Hearthstone |OT| Why tap cards when you can roll need [Naxx final wing out now]
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I'm just gonna quote this in case anyone missed it. Stupid servers....
Officerrob
Banned
I think beating a heroic boss should have given a nice chunk of XP the first time you beat them
Haha I'm still not even sure what a zoo is. I never really tried murlocks or played warlock much at all. I really only play casual since ranks mean nothing to me, so I don't know what all the fancy aggro control zoo whatevermajiggers people always talk about are. I'll try some more stuff out on my own first, but if it's not going well maybe I'll try one of those.
Remachinate
Member
This is the deck I used, I made it myself.
The MCTs were huge in the beginning because you would get back your MCT and whatever you stole from him.
I came up with something very similar; main difference was Novice Engineer for recurring card draw and Wolf Rider for recurring damage. Was actually pretty satisfying to design a deck intended to use the AI's hero power against itself rather than throwing a stock ranked deck at it.
partyphone
Banned
it's call zoo because it has 26 minions and 4 spells. which is weighted towards more minions than your average deck.
you basically fill your deck up with a bunch of efficient minions that cost less than 6 mana. and since you're warlock you can lifetap so you don't just run out of cards.
CrashPrime
Member
This lag is making the game totally unplayable. Typical blizzard launch.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Done it all. So to celebrate i bought a pack.
Scar Mortico
Banned
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/35326-budget-reynads-zoo-v2-warlock-aggro
Here's a budget Zoo deck. You don't have to play many games as a warlock to acquire most of these cards listed there. Very easy to get and very easy to use.
Just play minions after minion, after minion and whatever you can from your hand and win.
Ronabo
Member
Totally. I clicked on a spell, went to the bathroom and peed, then got a can of pop from the fridge and it still hadn't finished.
I think I'll just go to bed and try the game tomorrow or later this week.
Pyros_Eien
Member
If you're doing naxx, you can check if it's laggy on first draw and concede right away if it is then requeue. Eventually you'll get on a server that doesn't lag/doesn't lag too much. Can take several tries though, it's pretty annoying.
Onion_Relish
Member
I used my modified ramp and had a pretty easy go of it. As long as you have big taunts and can faceless a couple of decent minions and have a swipe or two it's just a grind. I think I went down to 7 health or so but the fact is that deck is death by a million cuts and it doesn't have a lot of gas to burst you down at the end. If you survive the inital onslaught which can last even up to turn 8/9/10 you can survive with decent legendaries past that.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
GG!
Lumination
'enry 'ollins
Just beat all 3 on heroic using starter cards (I've only gotten maybe about 10 boosters so far.) Here are some tips for my fellow poor players.
4/4 dude - Was the hardest. Used Priest and just filled the deck up with beefy monsters with more than 4 health. Use Circle of Healing, your hero power, Divine Spirit, and Power Word: Shield to make your Yetis plow through multiple Nerubians. Also tried Druid, but they have less healing. Also, he used his 3 dmg Flamestrike spell on me 4 times in a row, so be wary of that bs.
Widow - Used Druid. Bring beefy monsters and lots of buffs. Innervates and Wild Growth are good too. You just need to throw your hand out gaining field presence and it becomes an easy win.
Last dude - Used Paladin. Bring the Voodoo Doctor, Bluegill Warrior, Novice Engineer, Wolfrider, and Humility. The opponent always uses their hero power at the beginning of every turn. Humility the Sea Giants when they come up. Otherwise, pretty much let them fill the field with 1/1s and 1/2s while you continue to bash face with charge minions. Abuse Engineers and Doctors to stay alive and continue to hit face. Maybe bring Equality + Consecration to deal with that super Fairie Dragon.
Good luck!
4/4 dude - Was the hardest. Used Priest and just filled the deck up with beefy monsters with more than 4 health. Use Circle of Healing, your hero power, Divine Spirit, and Power Word: Shield to make your Yetis plow through multiple Nerubians. Also tried Druid, but they have less healing. Also, he used his 3 dmg Flamestrike spell on me 4 times in a row, so be wary of that bs.
Widow - Used Druid. Bring beefy monsters and lots of buffs. Innervates and Wild Growth are good too. You just need to throw your hand out gaining field presence and it becomes an easy win.
Last dude - Used Paladin. Bring the Voodoo Doctor, Bluegill Warrior, Novice Engineer, Wolfrider, and Humility. The opponent always uses their hero power at the beginning of every turn. Humility the Sea Giants when they come up. Otherwise, pretty much let them fill the field with 1/1s and 1/2s while you continue to bash face with charge minions. Abuse Engineers and Doctors to stay alive and continue to hit face. Maybe bring Equality + Consecration to deal with that super Fairie Dragon.
Good luck!
I cleared all of the content in about 2 hours, lag and all. I used Handlock for all of the bosses except the last one.. it was totally helpless against Heroic Maexxna. For that fight, I chose Warrior.. used a Cleave to kill the 1/2 spiders and fill the board, then bounced the same Earthen Farseer and Kor'kron Elite, plus Armor Up until I finally took her down. Pretty hard to do it with any kind of standard deck because of the constant removal, so you have to use nothing but minions with good battlecries..
By the way, I didn't try it. Is Faerie Dragon immune to the sap? They can't be targeted by hero powers but if it's just an auto-cast, I don't have high hopes.
By the way, I didn't try it. Is Faerie Dragon immune to the sap? They can't be targeted by hero powers but if it's just an auto-cast, I don't have high hopes.
Aquavelvaman
Banned
Looks like America is asleep and the lag is gone
Not true. Hunter is remarkably good against the deck. Explosive trap and unleash the hounds and you have cleared the board of all threats. Flood the board faster than she can summon minions back to your hand and you will have her dead in no time. Snake Trap helps a ton as well.
shadowstar
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Only had issues with Faerlina. Modified my zoo deck a bit to include shadowflame and hellfire and that did the trick. Did Maex with Freeze Mage with Novice Engineer, Mind Control Tech, and more spells (Cone of Cold, more traps).
Watching Twitch today before I got the chance to give this a shot myself took away from trying to figure anything out myself.
Watching Twitch today before I got the chance to give this a shot myself took away from trying to figure anything out myself.
Would be cool if they added some reward for completing all 3 heroic bosses using the same deck with no changes. I used 3 different ones, and most people have had to tweak their decks for maexx, would be nice to have additional challenges that reward you. Was disappointed there's no reward for beating the first wing on heroic.
DragonSworne
Banned
So I finished the first wing pretty quickly, only lost once. I'm loving the neubrian egg in my agro decks, it trades very well with mass clear spell cards.
Shouldn't there be a card back reward after heroic?
GamerKingFaiz
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Here's a hunter list my friend made for Maexxna.
Leeroy and Pyromancer work well together. Play Leeroy and then Pyromancer and then a spell to clear out the Whelps.
Once you control the board enough that is a good win con. I got the win by a narrow margin:
Leeroy and Pyromancer work well together. Play Leeroy and then Pyromancer and then a spell to clear out the Whelps.
Once you control the board enough that is a good win con. I got the win by a narrow margin:
I believe there is for completing all of Naxx heroic.
I went with priest, used elven archers early to turn those 1/2's into 2 1/1s to fill up board. Had voodoo doctor, earthen ring, and even priestess of elune for heals (plus hero power). Had chargers in the deck then for steady damage, even used some mind blasts lol. I kept Shadow word death in case the giant got dropped, and a mass dispel for that 4/6 faerie dragon guy. Holy fire paid dividends and finished it off with some bigger charge creatures. First try with that deck. (lost 3 with mage, no straza)
saw this thread earlier while bored and browsing. Figured what the hell i'll give this a shot never played a card game before. It's 4 hours later now LOL fun game, thanks GAF um I think.
Same thing happened to me. I got accepted into the beta and still never played it. I redeemed the key but just didn't care enough about a card game to try it. Finally tried it a week or so ago and have been playing it non stop.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
GL HFsaw this thread earlier while bored and browsing. Figured what the hell i'll give this a shot never played a card game before. It's 4 hours later now LOL fun game, thanks GAF um I think.
LumpOfCole
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It's a Rogue Class challenge and the game gives you a premade deck.
Oh right.
CrashPrime
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Really disappointed with the difficulty of "Heroic". I can't believe I ate through the whole wing in like 2 hours time.
I'm left feeling a little empty. I really feel like they just fork over the cards from each wing way too easily. IMHO it should be much hard than "just beat these easy encounters once and get all the loots".
PV-EZ Mode. I was really excited, now I just want the wings to shit out so we can just get on with playing the regular game with full access to the games new cards.
I'm left feeling a little empty. I really feel like they just fork over the cards from each wing way too easily. IMHO it should be much hard than "just beat these easy encounters once and get all the loots".
PV-EZ Mode. I was really excited, now I just want the wings to shit out so we can just get on with playing the regular game with full access to the games new cards.
Yeah just think of it as a fun way to unlock the cards, it's not really any meaty content to replay. There's no way to make an actual challenging AI in card games as demonstrated by the hilariously overpowered hero abilities of the bosses (they still suck).
It's also a great wat to teach noobs how to build decks to overcome certain challenges.
Officerrob
Banned
But apparently attaching gold versions of the new Nax cards to the heroic wins was a bad idea because they were just far too difficult...
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Yeah, because spending 8000+ dust to craft all the gold Naxx-cards is far less difficult
Good thinking, Blizz!LumpOfCole
Member
I should've earned dust or something for chewing through those Heroic Naxx encounters.
Officerrob
Banned
Extra XP, dust, gold, something...
Yeah, because spending 8000+ dust to craft all the gold Naxx-cards is far less difficult
Just getting the 5 gold legendaries is 16,000 dust, without doing the math it's gotta be close to 50k total
Aquavelvaman
Banned
Man echoing ooze + blessing of kings is going to be kind of awesome.
Yeah, because spending 8000+ dust to craft all the gold Naxx-cards is far less difficult
It's like you guys forget this is a f2p game and Blizz needs to somehow make money off of it to develop it!
My first payment to Blizz is probably gonna be a bunch of packs when the first expansion hits.
Aquavelvaman
Banned
The flavor text for the new cards is pretty funny. It also tells you exactly how they will each be unlocked, in case that already wasn't known.
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