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Hearthstone |OT| Why tap cards when you can roll need [Naxx final wing out now]
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playing control against a priest is nightmare, aggro usually runs all over priest unless priests get some holy nova / circle of healing combos off.
ShinNL
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Well it's kind of an obvious counter. If you play the deck card for card (shame on you), then there's no silence and the deck is designed for board control. Every time I face someone who plays the deck and can't handle my threats, I suddenly see them change from board control to straight-to-the-face. In my mind I'm like "That's not how you're supposed to play that deck" and those are the best times to play my taunts or taunt givers.
Wild Pyromancer and Bloodknight are the two strongest counters against that deck I think. Deals with a lot of the meat of the deck (Argent Squire, Harvest Golem, Scarlet Crusader).
well I'm considering running two owls now, but I'm not sure what I would drop yet. Maybe argent squires.
Well I guess this means iPad release by April. That would be cool.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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Subbed.
The beta was crack so I think im going to lay off until the mobile versions.
The beta was crack so I think im going to lay off until the mobile versions.
Seems like they added 5 bugs for every fixed one.
http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/206ff7/list_of_bugs_introduced_in_patch_1004944/
http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/206ff7/list_of_bugs_introduced_in_patch_1004944/
Robin64
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A little disappointed that the release client is the buggiest one yet.
Also wondering how many more players the game will get from a) being the official release and also b) having the WoW mount prize. I've seen a few people come in from WoW to get the mount and realise that they actually enjoy the game, so intend to keep playing. Promotion justified.
Also wondering how many more players the game will get from a) being the official release and also b) having the WoW mount prize. I've seen a few people come in from WoW to get the mount and realise that they actually enjoy the game, so intend to keep playing. Promotion justified.
Haunted
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You are one lucky motherfucker.
They don't? Makes no sense. Arena is a million times better format too.
Minsc
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They want to give an incentive for people to play ranked mode so they add card backs and the animated portraits to it. I don't think they have any trouble convincing most people to play Arena with the 500+ gold rewards you get out of it.
I wonder what the animated portraits means going forward when they add alternate heroes. Whether they'd give you say, all 3 if there were three heroes per class (and all three would be fully voiced/animated) when you got 500 wins, or if you'd need to get 500 wins per each additional hero in a single class to get a second/third animated avatar.
Tizoc
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Installed it today and finished the forced tutorial.
Overall I like it!
...but man making a deck looks hard, I can only have 30 cards?
...and man I unlocked A LOT of cards XD.
May I request some tips on how to make a balanced deck please?
My username for Hearthstone is Tizoc feel free to add me but I may not be online all the time ^^;
Overall I like it!
...but man making a deck looks hard, I can only have 30 cards?
...and man I unlocked A LOT of cards XD.
May I request some tips on how to make a balanced deck please?
My username for Hearthstone is Tizoc feel free to add me but I may not be online all the time ^^;
For a general deck, that's good through and through, you need to have a good balance in the mana curve (it appears when you point the Hero's portrait of the deck you're making). A good mana curve means you usually top at two or three, depending on class. This means most of your cards cost two or three mana, which means you probably will have something to use in each turn.
The balance between minions and spells vary depending on class, but I'd say, on average, carry 20 minions at least. Don't be too greedy on combos or sinergies. Don't include cards that need other two or three cards to work, or that are very situational. These cards are for strategic decks.
You can do solid decks with basic cards. Don't think you need epics or legendaries to win, because you don't.
Finally, Here you can see Basic Decks. It's in Spanish, but you can see the cards anyway: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8i-H8CA3JEfskK6fQb9GoxynpgG_Z2rE
No. The mana curve needs to top at two or three. Think this way, if most cards you have in hand are 4+ mana, you need to wait for turn 8 to use two of them at once. This is why you want most cards being 2-3 (not 1).
Usually you want:
2 mana minions: 4-6
3 mana minions: 4-6
4 mana minions: 4
5 mana minions: 2
6 mana minions: 2
But it depends on the class you're playing. Some class will have a bigger mana curve (Druid), some others will have smaller (Hunter).
RumblingRosco
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I love that they fixed the alt-tabbing bugs by removing alt-tabbing. Otherwise no major glitches for me (yet) with this patch.
Yesterday my turn two bomber killed an argent squire and a leper gnome. I still felt sick even though I couldn't lose from there.
He's a great card.
He has 9/12 between him and his taunts if you choose the defensive option, and an instant 3 body board presence.
If you have decent board prescence he can secure you a win with his 2/2 buff.
His diveristy makes him great. Play him for the win or to buy time defensively or to bait out AOE.
Getting 500 wins is going to be extremely hard D: something to work towards I guess.
So I disenchanted Tink and Pagle and in their stead put Ysera and Thalnos, Pagle could probably still work but I have had my eye on Thalnos for a while now.
So I disenchanted Tink and Pagle and in their stead put Ysera and Thalnos, Pagle could probably still work but I have had my eye on Thalnos for a while now.
Interfectum
Member
Ran into the minion placement bug last night. Played Defender of Argus between two minions and he automatically went to the left of both and only taunted one. Lost me the game.
Sunk Pagle and got me a Cairne. Gonna be a while until I get my hands on a Rag now, sadly.
Minion floating is more ridiculous than ever, I wasn't looking at the client when the match started, thought my opponent played nothing when I noticed a few pixels of a Leper Gnome's bottom edge at the top of the screen. An Ironbark tried to hide the same way the next match.
Minion floating is more ridiculous than ever, I wasn't looking at the client when the match started, thought my opponent played nothing when I noticed a few pixels of a Leper Gnome's bottom edge at the top of the screen. An Ironbark tried to hide the same way the next match.
KojiKnight
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Played around 20 matches yesterday and the only bug I encoutnered was the minion floating by the opponent's hand bug. Slightly annoying, but easily dealth with (and fixes itself after the opponent uses the minion to attack).
Nothing game breaking at least (dancing minions was game breaking, having lost several matches to it)
Also got rid of my pagle, got a Tirion in his place... I normally hate getting class specific legendaries, but I love my pally deck so much lately (control).
Nothing game breaking at least (dancing minions was game breaking, having lost several matches to it)
Also got rid of my pagle, got a Tirion in his place... I normally hate getting class specific legendaries, but I love my pally deck so much lately (control).
The new animation is slick as hell
*Sigh*
So last night I had this awesome bug where a giant Pink block (the size of the matchmaking slot spinner) appear on the battlefield, where everything below it was hidden. It made targeting monsters impossible, and I lost when I was unable to ever attack because my opponent played a Taunt Monster
I basically lost an ENTIRE Arena run (0-3), due to various bugs that I had not seen before the release patch- the not drawing a hand happened twice, and now the pink box. And not to brag or anything, but this was actually a pretty sweet one- I had 2 legendaries! (Harrison Jones and Black Night) And now all I have to show for it is a Booster Pack that had 5 cards I already had multiples of, and 30 dust. I can understand if this was a BETA still, but for this to happen in the actual release.... its really bad.
So last night I had this awesome bug where a giant Pink block (the size of the matchmaking slot spinner) appear on the battlefield, where everything below it was hidden. It made targeting monsters impossible, and I lost when I was unable to ever attack because my opponent played a Taunt Monster
I basically lost an ENTIRE Arena run (0-3), due to various bugs that I had not seen before the release patch- the not drawing a hand happened twice, and now the pink box. And not to brag or anything, but this was actually a pretty sweet one- I had 2 legendaries! (Harrison Jones and Black Night) And now all I have to show for it is a Booster Pack that had 5 cards I already had multiples of, and 30 dust. I can understand if this was a BETA still, but for this to happen in the actual release.... its really bad.
Interfectum
Member
Tirion is a great card, imo.
Interfectum
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Side note, I think some of the weird graphical glitches (the line in the cancel button and others) are due to Unity. Sometimes when doing 2D in that engine the placement can get messed up or offset slightly. I'm also guessing some of the bugs are also due to the limitations of that engine.
got a paladin/priest quest yesterday. didn't have decks for either.. figured I would throw together a quick rush pally deck. went 3/1. Not amazing, but a nice change of pace.
So really, what are the viability of rush decks in general? The one game I lost on wasn't that I wasn't doing damage, but just that against a viable control deck I eventually started top decking when he was still in the high teens in health. So it seems with a little more balance especially with some finishers you could actually maybe take a rush deck far?? Thoughts?
Anyway, was a nice change of pace from warrior. May hang my warrior up for a while. Between just getting destroyed on sunday (like probably 3-9 ranked in the high teens no less, after getting to 15), and then some stupid stuff last night on top of getting tink right away (my buddy challenged me immediately so I didn't have a chance to DE and replace him).. just need a break from warrior. looking at either paladin (trade tink for tirion?) or maybe rogue?
edit - holy shit!!! How am I not using Bloodsail raider in a deck with gorehowl? gorehowl, next turn bloodsail raider->charge = same attack as grommash with 3 mana left for the turn.
So really, what are the viability of rush decks in general? The one game I lost on wasn't that I wasn't doing damage, but just that against a viable control deck I eventually started top decking when he was still in the high teens in health. So it seems with a little more balance especially with some finishers you could actually maybe take a rush deck far?? Thoughts?
Anyway, was a nice change of pace from warrior. May hang my warrior up for a while. Between just getting destroyed on sunday (like probably 3-9 ranked in the high teens no less, after getting to 15), and then some stupid stuff last night on top of getting tink right away (my buddy challenged me immediately so I didn't have a chance to DE and replace him).. just need a break from warrior. looking at either paladin (trade tink for tirion?) or maybe rogue?
edit - holy shit!!! How am I not using Bloodsail raider in a deck with gorehowl? gorehowl, next turn bloodsail raider->charge = same attack as grommash with 3 mana left for the turn.
Robin64
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First match since the update and I saw a bug. Opponent played a Goldshire Footman on their first turn, but then it vanished. Just wasn't on the board anymore. Seemed weird, so I played a minion and then on his turn, the invisible Goldshire Footman attacked my minion. Never had this before!
Also, have my Mac set up so that when I move my mouse cursor to the top left of the screen, everything zooms out and I can switch between apps. That no longer works while in HS.
Also, have my Mac set up so that when I move my mouse cursor to the top left of the screen, everything zooms out and I can switch between apps. That no longer works while in HS.
RumblingRosco
Member
Totally just lost to the dreaded Leeroy --> Opponent has Knife Juggler --> Whelp spawnings cause the knife proc to hit Leeroy twice. I feel so ashamed, but it was my only hope to win so I went for it.
KojiKnight
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No doubt, but I have hero ADD, I switch classes fairly regularly (which is why Pagle was so awesome as I could easily slot him into anything). But at the moment I'm having a sweet love affair with my pally and playing rogue on the side so it's fine.
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