Yeah between that and them not giving you a new quest if you start the day with 3 already, they are really trying to dilute the amount of gold available...
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Yeah between that and them not giving you a new quest if you start the day with 3 already, they are really trying to dilute the amount of gold available...
If they're going to do this, I hope they up the three-wins award to 15 gold or something. Would be nice if just sitting down and playing the game was a little bit more rewarding, rather than purely banking on quests and arena.
Exactly. It does make it feel like such a grind with so little reward...but then again, thats what F2P is all about...doing whatever they can to entice you to drop $$$
The Lamonster
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I know the feeling. I used to use ArenaValue. You will still rack up massive losses. I've actually just given up on arena altogether.
In my experience (YMMV), it's just not an efficient use of gold.
freakzilla3000
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I will have to check this out.
freakzilla3000
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Any news on a NA release for iPad everyone?
To me, I still find it to be pretty efficient cause it gives me (some) enjoyment and you get a pack and something else, at a minimum. I find it better to spend the extra 50 gold on it than to just buy a pack outright. But again, thats just me.
Mobius and pet octopus
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I think at pax they said within the next 2 weeks.
BenjaminBirdie
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I mean it's a little inefficient but it's only a little more than a pack and you still get a pack
I like it. Helps hone muh tactics and general card knowledge.
Instead of having rank 1-25 in one go Hearthstone really needs different leagues you can go up or down in like in Starcraft.
Or is there some reason for not having this?
Its funny that I made it to Rank 14 today (my best) with the same deck that got me down to rank 19 a few days ago.
I wish hearthstone was just a 60 euro game with 30 euro yearly expansions or something. Dont feel like dropping money on it now. That would have been more blizzard style and more suitable for e-sports too.
I got one LEG since ive been in Beta :/
Or is there some reason for not having this?
Its funny that I made it to Rank 14 today (my best) with the same deck that got me down to rank 19 a few days ago.
I wish hearthstone was just a 60 euro game with 30 euro yearly expansions or something. Dont feel like dropping money on it now. That would have been more blizzard style and more suitable for e-sports too.
I got one LEG since ive been in Beta :/
Miracle is probably one of the hardest decks to play. Probably on par with cycle hunter.
This deck is so over the place, at first it looks like a normal aggro deck but then you have acolytes and a blood mage, so it could a mid range but then you have a shadow flame and a rag and a bane of doom. Decide what you want your deck to do before you build it, because by having pieces from every type of deck, you only worsen your good match ups and make bad match ups even worse.I've been messing around with this deck. It's sort of based on zoo lock.
I've had some good runs with it. It does bleed a lot, though. It really depends on the opening few turns. I've also ended up in situations where I've had one or two Soulfires but couldn't use them without discarding Ragnaros or Leeroy, which is unfortunate.
Mobius and pet octopus
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I think it looks like a midrange lock deck. I've run midrange before and it is pretty good. It has potential. I think his deck has a low curve, doesn't make it aggro though. In fact, zoolock is a board control deck with a low curve in the first place. Not aggro.
Minsc
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They do make card games like that, where you just buy in and get access to everything. Usually you share a pool of cards between you and your opponent, so you're free to try it. No good examples really come to mind unfortunately, I don't have much experience with the system myself... but it is obviously much more "fair" and strategic... but also a whole lot different, I feel it'd never be as popular if you just gave everyone a full set of all the cards. The game would be 90% control warrior decks stuffed to the brim with legendaries, and 10% whatever meta countered them.
super-famicom
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Opened two packs, got 3 Unleash the Hounds. What's a good Hunter deck? I've only been playing Mage and Druid so far.
soxinthebox
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Do we know how long each ranked season lasts? I thought I heard until the end of the month but I wasn't sure if I imagined that.
Just got to rank 15 last night after hovering on the upper edge of 16 for a couple of days, so stoked but worried I'll just slip back down again
Just got to rank 15 last night after hovering on the upper edge of 16 for a couple of days, so stoked but worried I'll just slip back down again
Avinexus
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One month.
IMGUR album of a turn four concede my RNG Shaman deck elicited recently.
It has every neutral random-effect card in the game in it except Elite Tauren Chieftan (I just don't have him yet). All class cards were added to get to thirty cards.
It does weird things. Shaman seemed like the right hero to make an RNG deck with (totems are the RNG'est).
It has every neutral random-effect card in the game in it except Elite Tauren Chieftan (I just don't have him yet). All class cards were added to get to thirty cards.
It does weird things. Shaman seemed like the right hero to make an RNG deck with (totems are the RNG'est).
Just finished another crappy arena run, where I got another lame pack (1 rare, which seems to have happened about my last 7 packs) and I got the urge to open up another pack, so I dished out 100 gold...
What an awesome pull! My first legendary too! And I have been playing (on and off) since like November!
What an awesome pull! My first legendary too! And I have been playing (on and off) since like November!
slightconfuse
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Drafted rouge in arena
Won first game lost 3 in a row . All close. Made a stupid mistake in the last game. Used shadow step on wrong minon.
Won first game lost 3 in a row . All close. Made a stupid mistake in the last game. Used shadow step on wrong minon.
mineskiller
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Sigh, hunters and zoo is really pissing me off. It's what 80% of the ladder consist of now.
Sunshine/life coach/lion king/beasts acre, whatever you wanna call it, is the new flavor of the week. It's a midrange control hunter deck that has very few counters
I opened a pack with five legendaries. And then I woke up. They were all bad though it was pretty nice to hover the cards and realise they are all fucking orange!
It's also a very inconsistent deck with a lot of situational cards and strategies. The ones that don't play explosive trap autolose to the aggro meta unless you draw UTH in every opening hand.
It's also a very inconsistent deck with a lot of situational cards and strategies. The ones that don't play explosive trap autolose to the aggro meta unless you draw UTH in every opening hand.
What makes you think the deck is inconsistent? It's pretty prominent between ranks 5-1. I ran the deck myself and found it's very rare I didn't draw, mulligan into, track into, or flare into uth. Of course if I didn't, I'd get rolled by zoo, but how is that different than a Druid who doesn't start with swipe or a warrior who can't get his armor smiths and acolytes?
super-famicom
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Hmm, looks like I have some reading to do. Thanks for the input guys!
Peanut Butter
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What rank are you? If you're around 20-15, the people leaving could be farming gold. Winning a match, then quickly conceding the next, playing normal, then conceding to de-rank yourself can put you against weaker opponents which results in quick wins. A lot of people do it for the golden Hero portraits.
Woo, made it to rank 9 after a 4 game winning stream. My last game was amazingly lucky. I was 1 hp short for a kill, and he would have killed me immediately on his next turn, but a knife juggler ping to the face sealed the deal for me, even though he had 3 minions on the board. It was fitting it would be a close game as it was against another zoo deck.
Used some dust from my 2nd Cenarius to finish up my zoo deck, and those last few cards made a world of difference.
Used some dust from my 2nd Cenarius to finish up my zoo deck, and those last few cards made a world of difference.
Obviously these are just my own findings based on a limited amount of matches. And before we delve too deep into this, would someone post the most used list for this deck? It might've been that I played some crappy variant of it :b
Kolento's version:
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/44220-kolento-rank-1-na-hunter-deck
Beastacre:
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/43408-beastacre
i've only used beastacre. but i played against kolento and got rekt, so his version might be more consistent.
Princess Carl
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Anyone having alt-tab issues?
I just updated my drivers, and even when in windowed mode, once I open hearthstone I am unable to click anything outside of the game. Once I exit it, everything is fine.
Edit: Even more peculiar, it only starts happening once a match has been found.
I just updated my drivers, and even when in windowed mode, once I open hearthstone I am unable to click anything outside of the game. Once I exit it, everything is fine.
Edit: Even more peculiar, it only starts happening once a match has been found.
Hmm interesting point, i guess having everyone have everything would create new issues with balance as well. That said that is basically admitting the game balance is flawed already.
Still seems it would be more open.
If you like control decks that are slow, alexstrasa is amazing. I'd go with that but that's because I like control better than aggro.
I have enough to craft 2 legendaries. Thinking of Ysera and Cenarion or TBK and something else.
Yeah that's my 1 worry, I think I should have taken the other guardian but I chose something else since it was technically better and it was early
They are called living card games. Netrunner is probably the most popular one right now. Fantasy Flight Games produces a bunch of these.
Princess Carl
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Welp, nevermind, it seems to fixed itself. Back to arena!
Netrunner is also the best example why that model works. Also Netrunner is insanely well balanced. Especially considering they dont have the luxury of beeing able to change cards.
Will look into this.
Just finished another crappy arena run, where I got another lame pack (1 rare, which seems to have happened about my last 7 packs) and I got the urge to open up another pack, so I dished out 100 gold...
What an awesome pull! My first legendary too! And I have been playing (on and off) since like November!
Nice, I don't have the Leg but had an Arena run where I used him and actually won 3 matches solely because of that card.One match the guy got me down to 2HP before I triggered that battle cry, it was awesome.
Depends on how much it costs in real money money/gold.
Ok the decks are similar to what I played. Houndmaster is a highly situational card and you can get fucked by drawing them both. It's a dead card in many situations as it is a great card in some.
My list had two deadly shots which is obviously too much and they are dead against aggro decks.
Hyena is a fun gimmick, but again strongly situational.
Maybe my experience around rank 10 is just a wrong meta for this deck, but secret hunter and charge hunter seem like much stronger and more importantly consistent decks.
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