dave is ok
aztek is ok
Why do people defend this shit? People are getting charged and losing actual money for three days because of Blizzard's shitty authorization servers.
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Hearthstone |OT| Why tap cards when you can roll need [Naxx final wing out now]
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Word is you get a card back if you beat all the heroic bosses (all wings).
It didn't let me use a card.
Still queued for purchase. I fear for when they do a real expansion.
MonorailCat
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aaaaaand stuck in authorization loop again.
Not that it makes any difference. Couldn't buy either way.
Not that it makes any difference. Couldn't buy either way.
Minsc
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A real expansion just uses the card pack buying tab at least, which afaik has never caused any issues since I've started playing before the open beta.
You will probably get crushed over and over until you get a few cards. I would recommend looking up trump's free to play decks. You can watch him play them all the way up to legend without spending real money.
You will also probably be stuck to one deck for a while.
Also, rank like 17 and below is way easier than casual mode in my experience.
Mobius and pet octopus
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You don't have to buy packs. I only paid 20 bucks like a month or two after playing personally. I still consider myself to be a f2p player since I unlocked pretty much everything on my own time and effort anyway.
Just learn arena and play it as often as you can. In arena it doesn't matter if you have only basic cards unlocked. And you'll earn way more dust, cards, and gold than in constructed anyway. It sort of is like the casual mode imo and once you learn it pretty well then you can move on to constructed. You'll also earn a ton of cards to make your constructed deck stronger.
Yeah this was my experience. But some people on the forums have said they were charged without getting the unlock so they are waiting for refunds. Kinda sucks but shit happens.
SquiddyCracker
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Don't worry, so long as you're low ranked you'll be fined towards the middle and end of most ranked seasons.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
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mysteriousmage09
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Doing him now. Terrible design whoever did the heroic version. Concede 47 times to get an opening hand that doesn't result in you taking 10 damage turn 1.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
The gold comes back quick, I'm trying every thirty minutes to an hour or so and it's always back.
You'd be crazy to trust them with your credit card number
Yep, listen to those guys, don't do like I did. Will be a pain in the ass to get everything back ...
Err, how the hell do I get 700g? :\ do I just need to play a LOT more?!
Yes.
This is a free to play game. Either play a lot or pay real money. Those are your two options.
If they're smart, real expansions will be free and you'll just collect the new cards from regular packs.
I just did it with the basic spider zoo >_>
Heigan was the only one that needed a custom deck in this wing for me.
Minsc
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Err, how the hell do I get 700g? :\ do I just need to play a LOT more?!
Worst case scenario is it takes 2 weeks and minimal effort to get 700 gold (all 40g quests), best case is you can get around 1,200 gold a week with 2x100g quests and 5x60 quests and 700 gold from the daily 30 wins. That's without arena, then best case is you can basically get an infinite amount of gold per week.
Seems like a viable option if you don't want to pay... plenty of people have saved up 3,000+ gold in anticipation of Naxx just by doing the dailies for over a month.
TetraxShards
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I hope they allow you to buy packs with just the expansion cards, like a new set in Magic. I don't want even more commons and rares I already have.
I've got 4500-ish and I've not been playing for the past few months, just started stockpiling when Naxx was first announced.
That's the current plan.
Minsc
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Have there been any more official tweets or whatever about it then? So the current plan is to have the expansion go in to the regular packs and mix the cards in to a single set (this would make getting the expansion's legendaries pretty tough since you'd have a 50%+ shot at opening a duplicate from the original set when you got one)? Wonder if they'll let people use the same dust, or make different colors/types of dust like we speculated in here a while back.
Depending on your ability and card collection, the effort I would say isn't minimal. And it is a lot of time grinding to save up enough gold to do this in comparison to other non-free-to-play games.
But like, say you have the easiest to do win 2 games quests and a 50% win rate. That's about 4 games. Assuming about 10 minutes a game its 40 minutes for 40g. If all you get are 40g quests it would take like 18 quests to get 700g, so 36 wins. If 50% win rate, 72 games. That's 720 minutes (12 hours) to unlock 1 wing.
Hearthstone is pretty good with grinding for a free to play game though. But it's still way more than you would do in like... Magic 2014 or something. Which, by the way, has more "PvE content" for $10 than Hearthstone does for $20 if that's what you care about. But that's another topic.
mysteriousmage09
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Heroic Loatheb finally down. The time it took restarting the fight for the right opening hand and first card draws was longer than all the other content in this wing combined. Truly stupid.
If they wanted the equivalence of that for a WoW raid, it would be "roll a 5 followed by a 7 and a 13" on a 20 sided die or it's an instant wipe.
If they wanted the equivalence of that for a WoW raid, it would be "roll a 5 followed by a 7 and a 13" on a 20 sided die or it's an instant wipe.
Minsc
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Still averages to only ~45 mins per day in that example... if you enjoy the game that's not bad, and if you don't enjoy the game, why are you playing it, lol. Plus if the time issue is really what's getting to you, you could even stack 40g quests in one go, like win 2 priest/paladin + win 2 shaman/paladin or whatever, giving you ~90g for your 2 wins.
Hearthstone's PVE content is embarrassingly awful imo. In no way is it worth $20 or even close to it if you didn't play it mainly for the PVP.
Edit: Don't forget to include the 10g for 3 wins in your calculation too, it should only take ~15 40g quests, not 18. 15*40 = 600, 30 wins (to clear 15 quests) = 100 gold too... there's your 700.
I'm sure you could get the time commitment down to around 45 minutes once every ~3 days too (instead of ~45 mins per day) if you don't mind losing a couple extra days in the process.
That's the problem though, I jumped back when Naxx was released thinking I'd be able to do it. I had no idea until I saw some posts that the new wings would be phased in, and that they were behind a 'pay wall', so to speak.
I'll take the blame for this for not reading into it.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/07/29/hearthstone-curse-of-naxxramas-blizzard-interview/
PC Gamer: Are all future card releases going to be in this staggered, adventure format, or is there going to come a time when you could just drop 60 new cards into the pool in one hit?
Jason Chayes: We have a bunch of different ways that we're excited about releasing cards in the future. We're definitely keeping a close eye on how Naxxramas does and what the player response to that is. We feel excited about doing more adventures in the future, but beyond that we have other ideas to do more traditional expansions and even potentially other ways to release cards that we're still kind of in our earliest phases of design on. You can definitely expect to see other ways beyond adventures for putting out new cards.
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?
Mini expansion.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Yep. Just a new mode and some cards.
Doomshroom
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Well Naxx was not was i was hoping for i got to say i am disappointed. When they said a Heartstone adventure and singel player content i thought it would be like a small adventure with a little map and some random encounters and bosses. Something you could grind to get more cards and if you are lucky gold or legendary cards.
This adventure we got is just a bossrush thats over in 30 to 50 min. I will still buy them all because i must collect the cards! but i cant help feeling like this is less then i expected.
Anyway what do you guys think of Naxx?
This adventure we got is just a bossrush thats over in 30 to 50 min. I will still buy them all because i must collect the cards! but i cant help feeling like this is less then i expected.
Anyway what do you guys think of Naxx?
It's meh. More presentation and flair than anything else. No interesting puzzles or mechanics, and bosses that just break the rules to seem harder instead of "playing better."
I wouldn't pay for it.
I find the singleplayer content of the DotP games much more enjoyable but hey, finally some new cards. Also I didn't spend any money on it
dave is ok
aztek is ok
I like it for the WoW nostalgia, the boss battles are based on the same mechanics the raid had.
I still think that they should have just had all the class unlocks up front as "preparation" for Naxx and then let you choose 3 classes to take into each Naxx wing. Kind of embrace the way the tournament scene is now and smooths out the class card unlocks. Plus, it means designing the decks with the content in mind so it can be a way to demonstrate deck concepts vs a "metagame" for players.
That aside, I think the concept of the Adventure modes is fine and I hope most the time spent wasn't on Naxx itself but more on all the underlying systems to push it out. Hopefully that means less time between these releases along with just better content to go with it. Right now, it's just sort of there as hoops to go through for the cards (and, truthfully, I'm not sure if that'll ever change for some players).
That aside, I think the concept of the Adventure modes is fine and I hope most the time spent wasn't on Naxx itself but more on all the underlying systems to push it out. Hopefully that means less time between these releases along with just better content to go with it. Right now, it's just sort of there as hoops to go through for the cards (and, truthfully, I'm not sure if that'll ever change for some players).
I feel the same way that you do about it.
I was hoping for an actual alternative mode to play.
so what do guys think of the minions from the new wing? My personal take: Unstable Ghoul might find a place in control warrior maybe, Stoneskin Gargoyle will probably not see play in constructed, Sludge Belcher isn't that great compared to Shieldmasta and Loatheb is overhyped. Webspinner gave me a whole bunch of mostly useless beasts in the challenge so I dunno about that one either
disenchant it if you still get the full dust value for it
disenchant it if you still get the full dust value for it
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?
QUICK! Disenchant it for 800 dust
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