I've been hanging out in casual because I haven't had much time to climb the ladder and don't feel like losing stars trying to complete these dailies. Hopefully I will be able to play some ladder this weekend.
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Hearthstone |OT3| Preparing for the Ball of Spiders Meta
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I've been hanging out in casual because I haven't had much time to climb the ladder and don't feel like losing stars trying to complete these dailies. Hopefully I will be able to play some ladder this weekend.
homeworkfilms
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RNG... RNG sometimes. Lose to an unstable portal into si7 into rewind into si7. That percentage chance.
Yup Cairne is dead for good. He was already getting cut left and right when Naxx brought Belcher/Loatheb and now aside from further meta shifts there are two actual replacements with Sky Golem and Sneeds. It's particularly ironic how he changed from Priest's worst nightmare to guaranteed sudoku.
Great point. I'm at about 250 wins on my druid, and this might be the last season for some of these meta decks. Off to ranked! Wish me luck.
Playing control paladin vs midrange hunter is a blast from the past, except it is 10x easier now that they can't draw a bazillion cards off buzz/UTH combo. But even back then I felt control paladin was favored, despite a lot of people claiming paladin was dead.
Also, this one was running rag. Highmane turn 6, highmane turn 7, ragnaros turn 8... = REKT HARD
Please tell me you got that millhouse from a shredder.
BlackBuzzard
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No Boom will get nerfed 400 dust is nothing. Better wait till he gets nerfed for 1600.
BananasWithGuns
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Always save a dupe epic/legendary if there's even a remote chance it will be nerfed.
Here's a weird deck I'm having too much fun with:
It's basically a mill deck without the milling. Probably could throw a couple of Mountain Giants in there too.
Edit: This decklist seems to be halfway between two different versions of the deck so it's basically useless. Oops. I'm sure you can see the point though, fill your opponent's hand and yours and then play drakes and giants.
It's basically a mill deck without the milling. Probably could throw a couple of Mountain Giants in there too.
Edit: This decklist seems to be halfway between two different versions of the deck so it's basically useless. Oops. I'm sure you can see the point though, fill your opponent's hand and yours and then play drakes and giants.
I'm partial to Savijz' combo druid.
http://www.reddit.com/r/CompetitiveHS/comments/2vn49y/legend_druid_guide_savjz_combo_version/
I've modified it a bit as I find Kezan mystic a must in this meta, but it works great out of the box. (I cut a shredder).
FiveSix4Three
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We should play the mirror at some point! Epic fun to be had.
Thanks. I used some bits and pieces, but I'll confess I didn't change too much. I think the FAQ is better served being a short-and-sweet intro rather than being a resource itself.
Thanks, added.
Servbot #42
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God Mech mage is strong but as soon as she looses board control the game is pretty much over since you run out of steam so fucking fast specially since you don't have cards that can draw.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Put a flamestrike in
toddhunter
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Paging Dr Boom
Mech Mage still has Dr Balanced and Antonidas to mount a comeback with.
BigJonsson
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lol
Had the cast 40 spells daily so I made an all spell mage deck, 25 spells in my first game, lost
Won the 2nd game somehow lol, freezing a full board of minions 5 turns in a row FTW lol
Had the cast 40 spells daily so I made an all spell mage deck, 25 spells in my first game, lost
Won the 2nd game somehow lol, freezing a full board of minions 5 turns in a row FTW lol
Mobius and pet octopus
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I made the mistake once thinking that mech mage lost once it lost board control. Then the mage played antonidas and stealthed it.
The whirling zap-o-matic dream!
I lost turn 3 to zoolock this month
And face hunter turn 4
And mech Mage turn 3
Just think of the player story the OTHER guy gets to tell.
"...and then I got a rewind to go with it, what are the chances!"
Looooool
Was playing mech Shaman with my Gazlowe Priest just now and was a bit behind. Shaman had 6 minions on board. I had 2 Northshire Clerics and a Toshley on board. I was pretty low on life and he had just frozen my Toshley with a spare part. After making some attacks he pressed his hero power and ended turn. Unfortunately for him he spawned a healing totem, which healed 3 of his guys and drew me 6 cards! I drew into my Auchenai + Circle combo with those cards, cleared the board and won the game. One of the most hilarious misplays I have seen a good long time.
Was playing mech Shaman with my Gazlowe Priest just now and was a bit behind. Shaman had 6 minions on board. I had 2 Northshire Clerics and a Toshley on board. I was pretty low on life and he had just frozen my Toshley with a spare part. After making some attacks he pressed his hero power and ended turn. Unfortunately for him he spawned a healing totem, which healed 3 of his guys and drew me 6 cards! I drew into my Auchenai + Circle combo with those cards, cleared the board and won the game. One of the most hilarious misplays I have seen a good long time.
I got a summoning portal from my dead mech and had a tundra rhino out... next turn I was an idiot and put down 4 2 health cards before triggering the guy's fire trap and killed my hand.... so went from guaranteed win to certain loss in one stupid move!
I made a deck with mostly 4 attack minions just to fuck with priests who play that way. Fun to watch them stare in frustration at a board filled with 4's
EDIT: doh, sorry for double post... I should get some sleep.
I made a deck with mostly 4 attack minions just to fuck with priests who play that way. Fun to watch them stare in frustration at a board filled with 4's
EDIT: doh, sorry for double post... I should get some sleep.
I made a deck with only 4 or higher cards
Stephen_drewz
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Ugh, gone downhill so bad this past few weeks. Started to get 3 wins quite often in arena(yes I am terrible), but now my past 4 runs have been 2-3, 0-3, 1-3, 1-3.
Thinking I might do a couple of runs with classes I wouldn't normally play. That way I don't really care if I lose and I learn a bit more about the other classes.
Thinking I might do a couple of runs with classes I wouldn't normally play. That way I don't really care if I lose and I learn a bit more about the other classes.
I hadn't even thought of it, but mill Rogue works pretty well against Mech Mage because they keep putting spare parts in their hands for half the cards they play. For the first five or so turns it seems really hard to play more cards than the mill Rogue can force you to pick up.
Super Nothing
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Mech Mage's biggest flaw is that it just kind of runs out of gas if they lose the board and are out of cards. I would think the last thing you want to do is to keep shoving cards in their hands.
Mech Mage and Face Hunter are usually not the classes you want to mill against. Maybe Vanish will probably get some value, but they can build up the board so quickly that you'll need to clear almost every turn because of the low cost of their minions.
My entry into xanathus' card competition:
I liked the idea of a mostly defensive card similar to Ancient Watcher only I wanted to make it slightly less awkward to play. Figured I'd make it a dragon since we know there will be more of those and we don't have any 6 mana cost dragons yet. Statwise, it is reconfigured Boulderfist with Taunt. Of course, the Taunt comes with a drawback so I think it is fairly balanced. No idea if this would see any play or not. Maybe in a Ramp Druid deck?
I liked the idea of a mostly defensive card similar to Ancient Watcher only I wanted to make it slightly less awkward to play. Figured I'd make it a dragon since we know there will be more of those and we don't have any 6 mana cost dragons yet. Statwise, it is reconfigured Boulderfist with Taunt. Of course, the Taunt comes with a drawback so I think it is fairly balanced. No idea if this would see any play or not. Maybe in a Ramp Druid deck?
My entry into xanathus' card competition:
I liked the idea of a mostly defensive card similar to Ancient Watcher only I wanted to make it slightly less awkward to play. Figured I'd make it a dragon since we know there will be more of those and we don't have any 6 mana cost dragons yet. Statwise, it is reconfigured Boulderfist with Taunt. Of course, the Taunt comes with a drawback so I think it is fairly balanced. No idea if this would see any play or not. Maybe in a Ramp Druid deck?
Scary as hell in arena. Better than Boulderfist for sure. It might actually be a tad OP. The fact that you can lose the taunt isn't enough of a drawback.
Yeah, after thinking about it a bit more, I think you are right. Maybe a 4/8 would be better? I was aware of it being strong in arena but as a rare, I don't think that is a huge problem.
4/8 and have the card effect be "when this minion attacks, Silence it" instead for extra flavour.
Edit: Self-silencing minions is a really cool concept. It'll only happen once because the silence will mean they can't self-silence anymore.
Mobius and pet octopus
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I don't think that being better than boulderfist ogre is really a measurement of OP or not, since in constructed boulderfist ogre isn't played.
It's got the same stat total as Mogor the Ogre, and both have a "neutral" style of card text (Taunt that removes itself is worse than regular Taunt, so it should get to have better stats than Lord of the Arena). Mogor is legendary.
RumblingRosco
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Alright, I'm giving away my 10 dollar winnings from Fixed1979's Hearthstone tourney to ONE person who has posted at least once in the last Hearthstone thread. All you have to do is make an original picture of a fake Hearthstone card that could be believably coming out in the upcoming Hearthstone expansion Blackrock Mountain. Feel free to use any tool you want to make the picture, Paint even works as I consider how believable the card is to be worth 50% of the value.
Remember, only people who have posted in the previous thread are eligible for this contest. You can see if you have posted before here. I'll have Fixed1979 transfer the money to the winner's Paypal account directly because transferring it through mine will incur Paypal fees.
Entries will be accepted until:
I would like to not be included in the contest, but seeing the other cards inspired me to make one of my own:
Two types (Murloc and Pirate) because I think it'd be fun to try and merge Pirates with Murlocs, even if I know deep-down that Blizzard wants Shaman/Murloc and Rogue/Pirate combos. New Druid combo with this: Turn 10 Murloc Captain, Innverate, Murloc Captain = 12-damage + any other Murlocs or Pirates in-play.
Mobius and pet octopus
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I think when considering card balance, cards that aren't even remotely usable in constructed might as well not exist. This is basically what ben brode has said in response to criticisms about dr. boom being basically a better war golem.
So in terms of 6 drops, the one that comes first to mind is gallywix being a 5/8 with its considerably more unique and potentially stronger card text which still makes him stand apart as a legendary minion. So a 5/8 with a taunt that is lost once you attack (and you'll want to attack most of the time but this might stop you), seems fine. If you're in a dangerous situation you're losing 5 attack per turn to keep taunt up, so that seems like a suitable sacrifice to keep taunt.
So in terms of 6 drops, the one that comes first to mind is gallywix being a 5/8 with its considerably more unique and potentially stronger card text which still makes him stand apart as a legendary minion. So a 5/8 with a taunt that is lost once you attack (and you'll want to attack most of the time but this might stop you), seems fine. If you're in a dangerous situation you're losing 5 attack per turn to keep taunt up, so that seems like a suitable sacrifice to keep taunt.
It's about as strong as a class card though. It's got 1 extra stat point than it should for its cost as a taunt, but has max stats for a vanilla. Consider that it has 3 stats points over Druid of the Claw bear form, even though 1 mana usually only gets you +1/+1. It's kinda power creepish.
You can't compare legendaries to non-legendaries. Legendaries are deliberately OP for their cost because of the 1 card restriction and their rarity.
Phat Michael
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I need some help
I just installed this game on my Nexus 7. I ran through and did the tutorial. It's now asking me to create a free Battle.net account
The thing is, i already have a battle.net account and didnt realise i could log in with this from the beginning. I cant now go back and log in, it wont let me progress past the "create a free account" screen
How do i log in now that it keeps loading up to this screen after i have done the tutorial?
Edit: ah damn, didnt see you could scroll down, my mistake - i worked it out but i dont have my blizzard authenticator anymore. how the hell do i get around this?
I just installed this game on my Nexus 7. I ran through and did the tutorial. It's now asking me to create a free Battle.net account
The thing is, i already have a battle.net account and didnt realise i could log in with this from the beginning. I cant now go back and log in, it wont let me progress past the "create a free account" screen
How do i log in now that it keeps loading up to this screen after i have done the tutorial?
Edit: ah damn, didnt see you could scroll down, my mistake - i worked it out but i dont have my blizzard authenticator anymore. how the hell do i get around this?
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