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Hearthstone |OT3| Preparing for the Ball of Spiders Meta
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Most decks are a 30 - 70 split
10 Spells and 20 Minions
In regards to Brawl
Rockjaw Troggs are OP as hell
Enemy buffed one of mine up to a 15/5 in one turn
I think I prefer this over last week. Unfortunately it's too short of a period to see some real deck tweaking. I do not understand why it's open for only 4 days anyway.
Also most people won't have much desire to play beyond their first win I imagine, despite the rules. Perhaps they should add some more rewards for getting more wins.
A better rule would be a combination of this week and last week's rules I think. Deck building but with the option to throw some insane cards in there you normally never could. I think this is already a step in the right direction though, so I'm keen to see what next week's rule is.
Also most people won't have much desire to play beyond their first win I imagine, despite the rules. Perhaps they should add some more rewards for getting more wins.
A better rule would be a combination of this week and last week's rules I think. Deck building but with the option to throw some insane cards in there you normally never could. I think this is already a step in the right direction though, so I'm keen to see what next week's rule is.
Fixed1979
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This is my big disappointment. ..I made a super stupid all legendary deck to start and played two matches against face hunter and then mech mage. Gave up and made a pally deck that took advantage of the bananas and faced 1 fatigue rogue and 2 face hunters, at leat i won those...wish people were actually "playing" in this mode instead of going for a win. They need to have heavily modified rules where playing the standard decks don't make sense, limit card selection for deck creation (like arena) or just offer premade decks.
I doubt the intent of Tavern was to appeal to casuals; that's what adventure mode is for. It's a CCG, why would Blizz punish people for having a large collection. Either way, it's completely irrelevant as for the last 2 months (minimum) you could easily get to rank 3 and beyond using a deck worth less than 3k dust (maybe even sub 2k). It's a card game. You are going to have to pay or grind at some point.
FiveSix4Three
Member
Brawl pack, hurrah. I already have 6300 dust and the vast majority of competitive legendary cards so I'll keep him around for now.
What a fitting golden legendary to get with this brawl.
My guess is deck building restrictions may not be used much if at all by Blizzard. I mean, anyone can limit deck building on there own when playing with friends or organizing their own tournament (i.e. Challengestone). I think Blizzard wants to make the Brawl's very unique so I expect more custom cards and buffs, maybe manipulation of turn times or mana limits, stuff like that.
I don't understand your disappointment here. So you admittedly made a deck that didn't at all take advantage of this week's rules and then lost both of your games. You then made a deck that did take advantage of the bananas and won 3 games with it. Seems like it is working as intended to me.
EnVy_CaLiBeR
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Just played Tempo Mage to win my first brawl match this week. lol
Flamewaker owns this week.
Flamewaker owns this week.
call_kotaku
Member
decided to play mill rogue for lols in tavern brawl, immediately run into another mill rogue
proceeded to have the dumbest game of hearthstone of my life
proceeded to have the dumbest game of hearthstone of my life
Not gonna lie, first thing im gonna do after work is to play Mill Rogue.
goldenticket
Member
Brawl pack, hurrah.
I got a golden cho from my brawl pack too today. I didn't have regular cho but I will prob dust it. I'm missing roughly 10 legendary cards and none of them are cards I really want. Will eventually dust him when I want to make a golden card of something I like.
FiveSix4Three
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This deck is pretty fun. Spellbender throws people for a loop.
My tempo hobgoblin rogue has gone undefeated as well.
Mage has:BGH does work in this brawl because so many people stack all their bananas on one dude. Ive killed like 3 10ish attack Mana Wyrms in the last half hour
Also Mirror Images is hilariously awesome. Best card this week IMO, above Flakewaker.
Flamewaker
Mana Wyrm
Mirror Image
Mad Scientist
Spell Bender
Sorceror's Apprentice
Antonidas
All of which are god tier in this Brawl.
I've been able to "counter" it twice with Wild Pyro. Ended up milling my opponent and keeping my Goblin Sapper at 6 attack.
So would Combolock be good in this?
Just have a bunch of shitty Deathrattle minions for the opener and then have 2 Faceless + 2 Arcane Golem + Thaurissan + Power Overwhelmings. Getting Thaurissan to hit all those bananas and then hit insane damage with Arcane Golem could be nice.
Noxious CRUSHING it with Mana Addict Warrior in Brawl.
Just have a bunch of shitty Deathrattle minions for the opener and then have 2 Faceless + 2 Arcane Golem + Thaurissan + Power Overwhelmings. Getting Thaurissan to hit all those bananas and then hit insane damage with Arcane Golem could be nice.
Noxious CRUSHING it with Mana Addict Warrior in Brawl.
Fixed1979
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Let me expand...Firstly my deck was really not that good, perhaps I just played some shit opponents. Secondly, it's great that I won with my created deck but it would have been a more enjoyable experience had I not been playing against net decks for ladder play (even if that means loosing). After last week I kinda set myself up for a really unique experience each new Brawl, maybe that was an unreasonable expectation.
I'm hopeful that once the masses get their free pack we will see some more deck variations.
FiveSix4Three
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Every opponent is a mage now. 5 straight games lol.
Played a brawl match, me as a Druid against a priest, opponent only got to inflict silence on my minions, I rushed him down, got my pack and now ignore tavern brawl for the rest of the week.
While it wasn't bad it wasn't anything spectacular either. I liked the idea of the first brawl better.
While it wasn't bad it wasn't anything spectacular either. I liked the idea of the first brawl better.
TetraxShards
Member
Brawl wasn't as good as last week, but still fun.
Hearthstone |OT6| I Can Taste The Bananas
Hearthstone |OT6| I Can Taste The Bananas
Well, I don't think it should come as too much of a surprise that you'd see a lot of ladder decks in the first hour of a new Brawl. People are going to stick with what they know with maybe a few tech choices thrown in to take advantage of the bananas. You have to give the meta some time to develop. And yeah, those just looking for their free pack moving back to ladder will probably help too.
In what way is it a disaster?
FiveSix4Three
Member
This is fun as hell to play.
There is no incentive to play it beyond the first win.
This is a problem with every Brawl until they do something about it unfortunately.
This particular Brawl actually has a lot of cool stuff you can do with it but no one is going to bother because they will take their constructed decks into Brawl, win with it and then never play against. This is also why you are seeing the same Hunter/Zoolock/Mage stuff you see on Ladder because people want that first win before trying something new (I was guilty of this too).
I want to see Kripparrian use this Brawl in this weekend's Challengestone with some additional restrictions. Stuff like no 1 drops (so no Mirror Image), no minions with Deathrattle (so no Mad Scientists, Haunted Creepers) and no cards with random on them (so no Flamewaker). This would make for an interesting format for sure especially when you can't just win once with one deck.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Yeah, not a fan of this week's brawl. It doesn't change things up enough. There's no deterrent to just playing the same decks that are on ladder.
MetroidPrimeRib
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I just made a typical Shockadin deck and threw Dr. Boom in there who won me both games. Exciting meta shake up!
I could see Mill decks being good here for once
I could see Mill decks being good here for once
FiveSix4Three
Member
Blizzard made this to have fun with...unfortunately most people just want to win win win with face face face.
I've come across a couple of people with unique decks who want to have fun with the spirit of the brawl, but most just play constructed aggro/tempo.
FieryBalrog
Member
I just play it for fun honestly
There is barely incentive to play ranked mode (legend / golden heroes)
There is no incentive to play casual mode.
expect... you know, to have fun
Oh. Well I don't know if that qualifies it as being a disaster. What incentive is there to play casual? Or hell, what incentive is there even to play ranked? Arena is the only mode that has scaling rewards that actually incentivize you to do well.
Brawl is just an alternate way to do your dailies and/or grind for gold.
Honestly I don't think Hunter is that good in this format.
It's really Mage at the top and then most other classes are just underneath it. Mage just has way too many cards that exploit this format to the maximum.
Still though I vastly prefer this week's to last weeks. Last week Brawl was figured out within 15 minutes of getting it (and was basically a coin flip simulator)... this week's Brawl will keep evolving over the next few days. I expect to find a lot more cheap stuff than Tempo Mage and Mana Addict Charge Warrior in the future. Even right now on Brawl I keep seeing more and more cards being introduced once people have gotten their packs are actually trying something different. So far I have seen the following cards be played that are usually uncommon:
Echoing Ooze (seems like a staple by now)
Cho (whenever a Rogue comes it will be in the deck)
Mana Addict
Dragon's Egg
Troggs
Goblin Sapper
Clockwork Giant
Spellbender
etc.
It's really Mage at the top and then most other classes are just underneath it. Mage just has way too many cards that exploit this format to the maximum.
Still though I vastly prefer this week's to last weeks. Last week Brawl was figured out within 15 minutes of getting it (and was basically a coin flip simulator)... this week's Brawl will keep evolving over the next few days. I expect to find a lot more cheap stuff than Tempo Mage and Mana Addict Charge Warrior in the future. Even right now on Brawl I keep seeing more and more cards being introduced once people have gotten their packs are actually trying something different. So far I have seen the following cards be played that are usually uncommon:
Echoing Ooze (seems like a staple by now)
Cho (whenever a Rogue comes it will be in the deck)
Mana Addict
Dragon's Egg
Troggs
Goblin Sapper
Clockwork Giant
Spellbender
etc.
Yeah I guess the mode is fun if you really made an effort to build a new deck, but as long as sorcs apprentice isn't banned it's easy to say what hero is op in this mode. For me it would help if they had some kind of progress in this mode. Just listing wins seems very lazy when they could have a path where you get small amounts of gold as you rack wins or maybe a special card back after a month or whatever!
MrJoobJoob
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Installing this game at work on my phone was a horrible (or awesome) decision.
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