But then Questing Adventurer is better, and nobody plays that? It's the early dominance it brings that's problematic.
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But then Questing Adventurer is better, and nobody plays that? It's the early dominance it brings that's problematic.
Might as well make it a 5 mana 3/2
In all seriousness, mana wyrm stats and +1 attack only from deathrattles would be all right.
I think this is correct, but they definitely won't change it until the next major update, if at all. The problem with Undertaker is it's not flashy enough to warrant immediate change the way people cried out against Unleash or Leeroy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1TUe--0d0A
In case you missed during the viagame cup. How not to count, featuring ekop.
In case you missed during the viagame cup. How not to count, featuring ekop.
RazorbackDB
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I'm in the US at rank 14, and I don't need a tracking software, if 6 out of 10 games is a priest I can say is 50%+.
partyphone
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sure but that's a tiny, tiny sample size. i've played about 20 games today and it was maybe like 2-3 priests? a lot of zoo and hunter and mages, though. and one handlock. and a miracle rogue to end the session.
top decked force of nature for the win.
RazorbackDB
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sure but that's a tiny, tiny sample size. i've played about 20 games today and it was maybe like 2-3 priests? a lot of zoo and hunter and mages, though. and one handlock. and a miracle rogue to end the session.
top decked force of nature for the win.
Yup, I've been playing now and it's a lot more varied, I guess there was something funny going on at noon.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Just qouting something from the bnet hs forums...
"Devil's advocate? I'm not related to any devils."
Went something like that... then the thread was deleted... lol
"Devil's advocate? I'm not related to any devils."
Went something like that... then the thread was deleted... lol
Mobius and pet octopus
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Sounds more like demon lock.
I like demonlock more than handlock. It can run voidcaller, voidterror, doomguard to great affect.
The best is having voidcaller call in a doomguard on turn 4 for free, then faceless manipulator on the doomguard. 2x5/7s on turn 5... yeouch.
Brofist
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Demonlock is fun too. I'm not running the other demons though, pretty much the usual drakes, giants etc...
Best is Void Caller + Sylvanis. Get an 8/8 + whatever the Syl steals. I've had a few auto concedes just from this combo.
Brofist
Member
Nice. I've been getting shit drafts with Rogue lately. Warlock though, last couple have been 12 wins.
ShinNL
Member
Here's an interesting turn of events:
Turn 2:
Him - Egg
Me - Recruit
Turn 3:
Him - Tap
Me - Recruit
Turn 4:
Him - Voidcaller
Me - Mountain Giant
Turn 5:
Him - Power overwhelming on Egg, hit face, Void Terror. 7/9, 4/4, 3/15. During my thinking in my turn he emote 'greetings'.
Me - After some careful thinking... Blessing of Kings on Mountain Giant, hit face and Humility on Void Terror.
Situation is now:
Warlock (12hp) - 1/9, 4/4, 3/15
vs
Paladin (23hp) - 1/1, 1/1, 12/12
Turn 6:
Him - concede
Normally I don't use Blessing of Kings that way but it sure was funny that my board ended up being more amazing than a perfect demonlock opener
It helps that my deck pretty much mulligans the same for both Zoo and Handlock: Equality and Humility.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Here's an interesting turn of events:
Turn 2:
Him - Egg
Me - Recruit
Turn 3:
Him - Tap
Me - Recruit
Turn 4:
Him - Voidcaller
Me - Mountain Giant
Turn 5:
Him - Power overwhelming on Egg, hit face, Void Terror. 7/9, 4/4, 3/15. During my thinking in my turn he emote 'greetings'.
Me - After some careful thinking... Blessing of Kings on Mountain Giant, hit face and Humility on Void Terror.
Situation is now:
Warlock (12hp) - 1/9, 4/4, 3/15
vs
Paladin (23hp) - 1/1, 1/1, 12/12
Turn 6:
Him - concede
Normally I don't use Blessing of Kings that way but it sure was funny that my board ended up being more amazing than a perfect demonlock opener
It helps that my deck pretty much mulligans the same for both Zoo and Handlock: Equality and Humility.
Using void terror on both the egg and voidcaller sounds like a huge mistake.
Or when you mulligan a card and get another one in your hand anyway!
Bitterschmerzdoppelkarte
This really burns me up.
I have had one zoo deck, where I mulliganed every 4-5 drop that I received in my hand and then it gave me another hand of 4-5 drops. I conceded
Kotetsu534
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Rather have that than a Zoo game where I draw two Doomguards and a Soulfire to start off. Such anti-value.
I wonder what he gets out of that besides practice partners which he already had with RDU. I can't see them paying for travel, isn't it just a team run by Reynad?
S E L L O U T B O Y S
Yeah he does, he has mentioned it.
RumblingRosco
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How does he afford that? Ad revenue from their website can't be that great right?
Probably a combination of stream donations, twitch and website subscriptions, sponsorships, tournament winnings, and ads.
You ever watched when he streams? People donate TONS of money to the guy just to see him read their (usually stupid/erotic) donation messages on stream. And I do mean tons.
Guy gets more donations than any of the streamers I have seen except MAYBE some of the big LoL streamers. That plus the money they make in subs from their website etc.
RumblingRosco
Member
Ah no actually I've never tuned in for very long to his streams. Checked them from time-to-time but never for long enough to notice how much he gets from donors.
Streaming? No way. No other tempo storm member gets more viewers/donations than him. Out of all streamers only Trump and Amaz get more viewers regularly. Can't really think of anybody else that gets more viewers than Reynad besides those two. Tourney winnings definitely, Tides has been doing great there, even though the chinese government stole his money.
I think Forsen and Reckful get more than him, Reynad hardly streams anymore.
partyphone
Banned
yeah they typically stream after trump and there are usually always about 20k-30k people who want to watch hearthstone
nismogrendel
Member
I'm trying to figure out what legendary to create next. I have the majority of the 'big ones'...
I'm looking at either Baron Geddon for my warrior deck or Jarraxus for handlock.
How essential is Baron for control warrior? I am also missing 1 shield slam.
I'm looking at either Baron Geddon for my warrior deck or Jarraxus for handlock.
How essential is Baron for control warrior? I am also missing 1 shield slam.
partyphone
Banned
baron isn't that common anymore because of all the deathrattle minions and 7/5 is an underwhelming body. i'd say having 2 shield slams is way more important.
jarraxus is in almost every handlock deck. it's been almost essential for the control matchup since the leeroy nerf.
God I fucking hate the rng in this game. If my opponent plays MCT, it always takes the biggest one. I play it? The smallest. They play mad bomber? It snipes 3 of my 1 health guys. I play it? It takes out my 3 health guy. Guy plays both of them in the same turn, and I get the worst possible outcome on both.
The arena meta is the worst.
I need to stay away from it and start hoarding gold again.
The arena meta is the worst.
I need to stay away from it and start hoarding gold again.
ShinNL
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"Serves you right!" is the first thought in my mind, lol. I find it hard to feel bad for Zoo players. Even though it's a reasonable deck type. It's just that it's really the deck that tells me that someone doesn't even bother try to build decks.
Kotetsu534
Member
I'll start building my own decks just as soon as I have enough dust for at least two of Cairne, Sylvannas, The Black Knight, and Rag. So in about 6 months time! Till then it's Zoo all day err day.
Edit: Yep. Tried to play a Shaman deck and ran into a Druid with Cairne, The Black Knight, Big Game Hunter, Ancients of Lore, Cenarius, Faceless Manip. and I gradually fall behind after turn 6. Can only compete on the ladder with Zoo.
Edit: Yep. Tried to play a Shaman deck and ran into a Druid with Cairne, The Black Knight, Big Game Hunter, Ancients of Lore, Cenarius, Faceless Manip. and I gradually fall behind after turn 6. Can only compete on the ladder with Zoo.
And then it's only 2 weeks until Blizzcon.
Ma boy Kolento gonna come through and keep up his winstreak.
Rosenskjold
Member
Just got this deck in arena, so excited about it I barely want to start playing xD My record so far is 7 wins, but I think this deck has potential to top that record.
What legendaries does Shaman run consistently though? Al'Akir, Lolthaeb (doesn't really count) and Sylvanas? Sounds more like the Druid drawing all the right answers than you lacking key cards.
Thalnos sometimes, especially in the "Zeus"-builds.
Cairne/Rivendare/Kel'Thuzad in various Reincarnate-builds.
Conor_Fool
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Hey everyone, just a general question from a casual player. Does anyone get good enough at this game that they can compete on a competitive level without paying anything? Sometimes it is so disheartening getting my ass wooped by someone with a deck full of rares and legendaries.
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