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Hearthstone |OT3| Preparing for the Ball of Spiders Meta
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Haunted
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Sounds like the next three games use the same formula and they're thinking of a new challenge for the next tournament. So, same decks as today for the semifinals and finals tomorrow.
Eh that's kinda lame then. Most of the players have very same-y decks as well... everyone has the Ramp Druid, most everyone has a Zoolock variant as well. And everyone has a Dr Balanced.
Would like to see them flip it for the semis with even minions, odd spells. That would give classes like Hunter some use because without their 3 drops they are super duper ass. Even minions would also allow Handlock to be played because then they would be able to run Sunfury/Argus/Giants/Drakes/Sunwalkers with Demonwraths. It would also allow Control Warrior to be playable.
Would like to see them flip it for the semis with even minions, odd spells. That would give classes like Hunter some use because without their 3 drops they are super duper ass. Even minions would also allow Handlock to be played because then they would be able to run Sunfury/Argus/Giants/Drakes/Sunwalkers with Demonwraths. It would also allow Control Warrior to be playable.
Haunted
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Might be a cool idea for the finals.
Though I think the idea is to see who of the 8 players did the best drafting, can't have a winner for this challenge if you don't play the tournament through until the end with these rules.
Servbot #42
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I am the luckiest guy ever, he put me down to 2HP and i managed to get my malganis by voidcaller just barely, the sea giant also helped. Also i'm debating wether flame imps are worth it so i changed them into clockwork gnomes but they seem too weak.
I was on the opposite side of this the other day, unlucky for him i held onto a big game hunter.
Brawndo Addict
Banned
Okay have they jiggered with the arena drafting rng or something? I've run into several decks where they have multiple epics and legendaries. I played one game where I legitimately forgot I was in Arena because the deck was indistinguishable from Handlock.
It is.
I've used the 12 win gold to buy some classic cards. Got Tyrion and a few golden rares, got enough dust for Dr Balanced. What a night. I can actually make a pally deck now!
Better than Velen anyway!
Vol'jin is practically a priest staple. Definitely worth keeping.
http://youtu.be/gVMVgJ80sdo
Randomness of GvG aka why Dr Balanced is balanced.
Completely agree with everything said in this video. It's about time Blizzard starts looking at balance for GvG cards.
I would be 100% OK with Implosion being a flat 3 damage spawn 3 Imps spell. Warlock isn't fucking Shaman and the duality of the rolls makes the RNG even more impactful.
Randomness of GvG aka why Dr Balanced is balanced.
Completely agree with everything said in this video. It's about time Blizzard starts looking at balance for GvG cards.
I would be 100% OK with Implosion being a flat 3 damage spawn 3 Imps spell. Warlock isn't fucking Shaman and the duality of the rolls makes the RNG even more impactful.
Doubt they will, it makes tournaments and videos much more interesting when RNG happens. Believe they had a video about it not too long ago, personally love the Funniest Moments Videos but I actually hate the Concept of RNG.
Victory Red
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Most of my Arena runs go: Loss, Win, Win, Win, Loss, Loss
like 2 out of the last 3 times.
like 2 out of the last 3 times.
I love me some Funniest Moments as well but most of them involve RNG with bad or underused cards (where RNG belongs).
At this point I see no joy or fun factor from Boom Bots killing Belchers or setting up ridiculous lethal conditions. Whenever I see that I think "oh boy look at that... that Dr Balanced card is really fair and balanced".
It's not like Blizzard hasn't done so in the past or is not interested in the integrity of the tournament scene. They heavily nerfed Pagle and Tinkmaster specifically for this reason. Now I don't want Dr Balanced to get Tinkmaster'd, I think that nerf was too severe.
And Kripp isn't asking to remove the RNG completely but rather to reduce the huge RNG swings. Like Bots hitting face for 1 damage vs Bots hitting a minion for 4 damage is a huge difference in RNG and can swing games dramatically.
FormallyFamicom
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Imp-losion always should've given you less Imps for more damage, and vice versa. But I guess it's too messy to write that on the card.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
liquid hearth
Thank you good sir!
Yeah, it's always so weird to me that it didn't just do this. 4 damage, 2 imps, 2 damage for 4 imps. The best result gives you SUCH a huge benefit, and in zoo even a little 1/1 piece of shit has great synergy with argus/power overwhelming.
I guess this variant would also be messy with spell damage though.
Edit: oh yeah, I see Kripp mention this stuff in that video.
bodine1231
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Just bought 200 packs with the Amazon 30% deal,lets see how this goes...
Edit: Ok,good start. First pack was 3 golden commons, a rare and an epic. Not bad!!
Edit 2: 20 packs in and got 4 Epics and 4 Legends! Nothing super great, (Velen and Jaraxus being the only 2 I don't have) but still lucky!
Edit: Ok,good start. First pack was 3 golden commons, a rare and an epic. Not bad!!
Edit 2: 20 packs in and got 4 Epics and 4 Legends! Nothing super great, (Velen and Jaraxus being the only 2 I don't have) but still lucky!
toddhunter
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What do people think about having 29+3 card decks? The idea is you pick your last card from those three after you have seen the match up.
The idea is to make specialised/tech cards more viable and to encourage greater deck diversity.
The idea is to make specialised/tech cards more viable and to encourage greater deck diversity.
Vanillalite
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Holy fuck that amount of cash being thrown at Hearth in one go!
Cool then I can play two Kezan Mystic going against Hunters and Mage only to never draw them on time!
It would be interesting that's for sure but I am not sure if one card would be enough. If you can sub in 3 cards then that would be pretty impactful.
It would buff Demonwrath (against aggro and non Warlock decks) and Hellfire (2x against Patron) dramatically though.
bodine1231
Member
!! Already have them but not golden!
May the Salt gods destroy you.
!! Already have them but not golden!
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Golden Illidan is pretty cool looking.
FiveSix4Three
Member
In that case it was his fault for playing the Jaraxxus as the Nefarian was played beforehand. You had to know that there was a decent chance of him getting a Pact from it (1 out of 16 twice).
Now if he played Jaraxxus first, the other guy top dicks a Nefarian and THEN gets a Pact to play on the SAME turn (as it costs 0 mana) then that would've been real salt.
EDIT: That worked really well, thanks for the suggestion! All set for a fresh arena run this afternoon now.
toddhunter
Member
That BM was incredibly bad, so it almost negates how lucky it was.
He should have at least attacked into the 6-6 first.
DyslexicAlucard
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Is it just me, or is Dr. Balanced the first non-class legendary to be out-and-out better stats-wise than a common/rare version? Like War Golem is flat-out waaaaay worse than Dr. Boom, with very few situations having it be superior (ie. against patron warrior.) But then you would just use something else against a Warrior, certainly not War Golem.
I dunno, just seems a really weird outlier to me.
It would stop the first time a Patron dies.
toddhunter
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No, it stops when it can't damage any longer.
Commanding Shouts makes it so your minions cant go below 1 HP that turn though
Oh i see. Thanks
DyslexicAlucard
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Ah yeah. Sorry, I'm tired. I've had a really messed-up day.
Haunted
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I do love Kripp commentating whenever a Dr. Boom is played.
Empty board, 15 health, Dr. Boom is played. "That's it. He's got exact lethal."
BlackBuzzard
Banned
EU or US?
Streaming another arena run at http://twitch.tv/danj2k, I'm 2-1 up so far.
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