It's more likely that the account system is designed to maximise monetization. Progamers need to buy heroes/cards for multiple accounts.
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It's more likely that the account system is designed to maximise monetization. Progamers need to buy heroes/cards for multiple accounts.
RumblingRosco
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My Battle.net.exe isn't launching. Anyone else have this issue today? US here. No other issues with my PC, just battle.net won't load.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Guys i can choose between Cairne Sneed's and Feugen for Mage Arena. Which should i pick?
I second Sneed. Given you live long enough to play him. Feugen is no good, compared to the other 2 picks.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Went with Sneed also got 3 skillstrikes(could have picked 4 but 3 is max before they become dead cards imo) and a Black Knight.
I think that depends on how many fat guys he already has, if any. If you got quite a few, I would also go with Cairne.
Road to 12 wins starts here. If you are packed with early drops, it's going to be a killing.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
This is what i drafted.
Hope the low amount of 4 drops i got offered aren't going to be my downfall.
So... uh... is it impossible to connect to Battle.net and play this for anyone else? I've been put in a queue loop for about an hour now and even when I can get the stupid client to login I can't even get the GAME to connect because it "times out" and kicks me out.
FutureZombie
Banned
It just went down for me, too.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
God what a misplay he dropped silvermoon guardian, i have bloodknight in hand instead im dumb pop the shield with ping and kill the guardian... Still won that match but god im slapping myself so hard for that misplay.
partyphone
Banned
could you have killed it if it was a boulderfist? and they could have easily cast wisdom on one of your minions.
That (in my exp) means you dc'd briefly.
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Frecklestein
Banned
Clearly I'm so bad the game just doesn't want me to play anymore :[
RumblingRosco
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While waiting for the down-time, watch this clip (at 9:00 minutes) of some Boom Bot craziness. Someone posted about it in this thread in the last few days.
This is what i drafted.
Hope the low amount of 4 drops i got offered aren't going to be my downfall.
Hows that's working out for you? You are kinda low on 2 and 4 drops for my liking but you do have 3 flamestrikes safety net.
I could have. The point is, he was dead next turn, instead I eventually lost. And the icing on the cake is that when he killed my Mehcanical Yeti, he got stealth and I've got return your minion to your hand. Which was not useful at all but the stealth gave him another chance to draw another card with Korkon.
I didn't mind losing, it's just really funny how RNG sometimes turns the tide of the match just like that.
I had an arena match where unstable portal produced Neptulon and then a Ragnaros,
If you don't have a lot of useful neutrals then anyone who is new will have a very hard time building a deck since they need to get a ton of cards for one of nine classes out of packs.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Went 9 wins. Got unlucky with early draws in some matches 1 match was the Druid had 10 hp left and i had 1 i kept freezing him with chugga chugga so he couldn't hero power but he topdicked Starfire at the end. It is what it is.
Current wait is 52 min for me.
A lot of the decks I've been seeing since GvG launched have ben super boring; just straightforward uses of mech spam, or (alternatively) just old decks with 1 legendary added in, or something.
I'm finally seeing some interesting decks pop up. My favorite so far is Zetalot's medic mage with the healing gnomes and echo of medivh.
Edit: just watched him pull this combo on a zoo warlock when the warlock had Zetalot down to 8 hp:
Zetalot has Molten giant out that he taunts. Zoo deck muscles through it. Duplicate triggers. Next turn, Zetalot casts 2x Molten Giant + Echo of Medivh + 2x molten giant for a total of 4 mana, then uses his (also echoed) sunfury protector, and suddenly ends the turn with 4 fully health molten giants with 2x taunted. Zoo lock instaconcedes.
I'm finally seeing some interesting decks pop up. My favorite so far is Zetalot's medic mage with the healing gnomes and echo of medivh.
Edit: just watched him pull this combo on a zoo warlock when the warlock had Zetalot down to 8 hp:
Zetalot has Molten giant out that he taunts. Zoo deck muscles through it. Duplicate triggers. Next turn, Zetalot casts 2x Molten Giant + Echo of Medivh + 2x molten giant for a total of 4 mana, then uses his (also echoed) sunfury protector, and suddenly ends the turn with 4 fully health molten giants with 2x taunted. Zoo lock instaconcedes.
Yeah I'm imagining new ideas with some new cards for several days now. I'm thinking of some sort of discard warlock + draw tempo thing.
And yeah, people are still trying to play with what works, or do mech rush + class. (I admit I have been doing mech rush + class because it's interesting to see what works)
And yeah, people are still trying to play with what works, or do mech rush + class. (I admit I have been doing mech rush + class because it's interesting to see what works)
Mobius and pet octopus
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Yeah, mage has been making good use of echo and molten giants. Quite annoying when they managed to get all the right pieces at the right time.
depths20XX
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I was having fun with weapon/aggro rogue (whatever you wanna call it) for a while. The huge dmg combos with all the weapon buffs and blade flurry are fun.
I feel like every new season I just try out different gimmicky decks, get to around rank 8-6. Then get bored because I can't hang with the meta.
I feel like every new season I just try out different gimmicky decks, get to around rank 8-6. Then get bored because I can't hang with the meta.
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30 mins ago Blizz CS said
Meanwhile
Meanwhile
RumblingRosco
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I wish Zetalot was more popular. He is a good streamer and has made some great decks. I was rocking his Velen deck a few months back and it was really quite fun and surprisingly effective.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I've tried watching zetalot... many times on mobile... but for some reason his stream and only his stream refuses to run on my phone's twitch app. Everyone else works perfectly.
btw... are login issues fixed yet?
platypotamus
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Is the Amazon coins promotion still going on?
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Hell no
Mobius and pet octopus
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I always seem to catch the end of amaz's stream when he is playing arena.
Kibler also streams priest some.
Everyone else seems to stream either some aggro deck or handlock/control warrior.
I wanna see people stream some non-miracle rogue action!
Certainly picked the wrong day to get over my Unity hate, install it (ugh) for Hearthstone, install the shitty Battle.net client (Diablo 2 life long without needing a Steam-like client). To try a card game to see what the fuss from Magic: Online pros is about.
Mobius and pet octopus
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lol, certainly a bad day to try hearthstone out
TetraxShards
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EU has been up for me, for the last hour anyway.
These low ranks are ass. When you win, you feel bad because your cards are obviously better. When you lose, you just shake your head and wonder how the fuck that happened. It's my own fault for trying Handlock at rank 20, but how the hell do you play around two MCTs that each steal a taunted Molten and an assload of Divine Shields?
This fucking game, and still we love it.
These low ranks are ass. When you win, you feel bad because your cards are obviously better. When you lose, you just shake your head and wonder how the fuck that happened. It's my own fault for trying Handlock at rank 20, but how the hell do you play around two MCTs that each steal a taunted Molten and an assload of Divine Shields?
This fucking game, and still we love it.
He was playing some today although it was some shitty deck that ran double Mind Blast.
TetraxShards
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No-one ever expects Turn 10 Velen -> Mind Blast -> Coin -> Mind Blast. In fairness, no-one expects Mind Blast in general.
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As someone relatively new ie has only been playing a few months I'd agree. Feels like I'm better off getting Goblin cards vs Arena's crap shoot.
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