Professor Lich
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I'm not counting December. I feel like they crunched out LoE so they could take December off but that's just me. As assumed in an earlier post, April seems like a concurrent month when things get released.
But that's just me.
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But that's just me.
Doubt they'll make any announcements soon. In the meantime, I'll hoard gold until an announcement is made.
That's how I feel. LoE was dropped on us quick while they patched the game a couple of months ahead. Hopefully the time off from working on the game and having money fights around the office leads to something fruitful.
My guess is we'll hear something in March for an April release.
That's how I feel. LoE was dropped on us quick while they patched the game a couple of months ahead. Hopefully the time off from working on the game and having money fights around the office leads to something fruitful.
My guess is we'll hear something in March for an April release.
The whole ladder system is pretty brutal. Since it rewards a golden Hero portrait for 500 wins you may be running into people that concede down the ranks to try and farm wins for it.
I was winning in arena and bnet shit on me. This has been happening regularly since the holidays.
same was literally in the animation of executing my lethal and got DC'd.
the damn crackle was just about to fire.
I'm done playing reno with rampant druid infestation going on right now, it's the most miserable awful feeling games even when I win. Every turn is like am I dead?
I started playing aggro druid instead, it's doing preeeetty good actually. It beats midrange druid and secret paly easily, can get lethal from anywhere really. Beats priests too even. It's actually kinda fun to play unlike midrange druid. face face face.
I started playing aggro druid instead, it's doing preeeetty good actually. It beats midrange druid and secret paly easily, can get lethal from anywhere really. Beats priests too even. It's actually kinda fun to play unlike midrange druid. face face face.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Oh that's probably why I got combo'd by a druid and that mage played 3 strong mage legendaries, now I feel less bad about my shitty rogue deck I made in 5 minutes just to complete a quest.
Recent Arena standings: 4 wins, 6 wins... 1 win. Draft mage, get 2 polymorphs, a duplicate and an arcane intellect. Plus random minions.
Compared to the 6 win Warlock deck which was basically mech. But only one shadowflame as board clear. Pallies wiped the floor with me. Though loss 1 was stupid, I completely misjudged on turn 1 and it simply snowballed into hell from there. Could've gotten 7 wins there.
So 3 runs, 65, 85 and 30 gold. Deduct the addon for arena and in total I made 30 gold and 1 common for playing 20 games when a 40 gold quest normally takes 4-5 games. Time efficient looks different
Compared to the 6 win Warlock deck which was basically mech. But only one shadowflame as board clear. Pallies wiped the floor with me. Though loss 1 was stupid, I completely misjudged on turn 1 and it simply snowballed into hell from there. Could've gotten 7 wins there.
So 3 runs, 65, 85 and 30 gold. Deduct the addon for arena and in total I made 30 gold and 1 common for playing 20 games when a 40 gold quest normally takes 4-5 games. Time efficient looks different
Yeah, had a few of those at level 20 even. Wth, can't even grind out quests with shit decks in peace?
CraigerGamer
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I'm pretty sure Blizzard did that on purpose because you were playing Shaman.
Any good replacements for Fel Reaver?
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Also I really didn't want to pick Ancient Shade for my arena run but it actually carried me in a couple games, in the right circumstances it's pretty devastating. To be fair I never drew the curse so I guess I got pretty lucky.
I have only one Fel Reaver myself, I play one Tiger instead. Working pretty good for me, sometimes it is even better than Fel Reaver. Fel Reaver is good if you can get it out turn 1-3. Later playing it usually goes badly, tiger can't be dealt with before it hits face and you can play it any time really. I like it. I'm not sure if I play two though. With Keeper of Uldaman now, Fel Reaver is worse than before against secret paladin.
Are you new to arena? Because you seem to be massiveoy overvaluing those Mage spells. Polymorph is nice but doesn't carry games, Duplicate isn't even good without a very solid control shell and Intellect is really just a filler card and only clutch in Aggro Mage which you rarely get the chance to draft nowadays. "Random minions" is like... minions make arena drafts, you could draft seven board clears but not make it past 5w with below-average minion quality, either Paladins roll over you before you even get to turn 6 or you get grinded down because you can't take the early game and people play around clears at higher wins.Recent Arena standings: 4 wins, 6 wins... 1 win. Draft mage, get 2 polymorphs, a duplicate and an arcane intellect. Plus random minions.
Compared to the 6 win Warlock deck which was basically mech. But only one shadowflame as board clear. Pallies wiped the floor with me. Though loss 1 was stupid, I completely misjudged on turn 1 and it simply snowballed into hell from there. Could've gotten 7 wins there.
So 3 runs, 65, 85 and 30 gold. Deduct the addon for arena and in total I made 30 gold and 1 common for playing 20 games when a 40 gold quest normally takes 4-5 games. Time efficient looks different
Yeah, had a few of those at level 20 even. Wth, can't even grind out quests with shit decks in peace?
Also while gold rewards often suck you can't compare the payout to a daily. Dailies are finite, so what you're actually looking at is a profit of 30 gold (9 wins in constructed so about 16 games assuming a 60% winrate) + a common which really isn't all that bad considering your worst run was a devastating 1-3 and your best run, 6-3, isn't even at the break-even point.
Ancient Shade is really good in tempo/aggro drafts, i.e. where you win the earlygame and have some garbage lying around to trade with and protect it for a turn. The curse is a non-issue, you generally don't draw much more than half of your deck and even if you're unlucky you should be ahead so your life total doesn't matter.
Ancient Shade would get used in every Aggro/Tempo deck if it was 6/5 instead of 7/4. These two numbers are both pretty bad because one dies to BGH and the other dies to Truesilver/Shredder/Death's Bite/Flame cannon etc.
The curse really doesn't matter for the type of deck you want to play it in.
The curse really doesn't matter for the type of deck you want to play it in.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Wouldn't it go from decent to broken if it was 6/5?
Any card that gets used in Constructed too much is busted/broken anyway.
I am not saying they should do it, I am just shedding light on why this card has the exact stats it does.
Blizzard would be insane to charge any amount of money for additional deck slots. It's not exactly their MO, either.
My guess as to what Ben Brode is teasing in his video isn't an update that includes new cards, but likely quality of life improvements like more deck slots and potentially the changes to constructed that they hinted at during BlizzCon. As others stated, it is just too soon to have more cards ready to release. And they've often used these periods between expansions to push out UI improvements (collection screen refinement) plus changes to game modes and/or new game modes (ranked rewards, Tavern Brawl).
I beat a murloc paladin today by playing faceless on old murc eye after first anyfin, lol. guy must be raging. it was trolden material.
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yeah bbrode has been talking about ways to make the game better for new comers etc too. He's been hinting at an overhaul of the game, I don't think we get an expansion before April but there is probably going to be some major changes to the game before then.
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yeah bbrode has been talking about ways to make the game better for new comers etc too. He's been hinting at an overhaul of the game, I don't think we get an expansion before April but there is probably going to be some major changes to the game before then.
Ben Brode has been fairly active in the Reddit thread about his video, dropping some interesting nuggets of info.
On why they don't announce nerfs farther in advance:
On whether having to design for both desktop and mobile UIs has restricted them from implementing features at all:
On whether features are developed strictly due to community feedback or if they are often in-development long before then:
On correcting card design mistakes or misevaluations (ex. Lock and Load too underpowered, MC too overpowered):
He also mentioned that they want to do more "making-of" videos or postmortems on the design and development process, specifically noting that they might do one for the implementation on more deck slots.
Lastly, he confirmed that Team 5 is now over 50 members and still actively hiring/expanding.
On why they don't announce nerfs farther in advance:
On whether having to design for both desktop and mobile UIs has restricted them from implementing features at all:
On whether features are developed strictly due to community feedback or if they are often in-development long before then:
On correcting card design mistakes or misevaluations (ex. Lock and Load too underpowered, MC too overpowered):
He also mentioned that they want to do more "making-of" videos or postmortems on the design and development process, specifically noting that they might do one for the implementation on more deck slots.
Lastly, he confirmed that Team 5 is now over 50 members and still actively hiring/expanding.
BananasWithGuns
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Could you imagine if they nerfed Challenger, Boom, Juggler and Shredder all at once.
What a moment that would be.
What a moment that would be.
That would possibly be the greatest week on ladder.
and FoN
irfaanator
Banned
forgetting combo and divine favor. Now that would be a week
If they nerf the Druid Combo too then expect to see way more CW, Renolock and Freeze Mage as the main trifecta of the game (Freeze Mage beats Renolock, CW beats Freeze Mage and Renolock beats CW).
AYY LMAO who am I kidding someone is going to find the next hyper aggro deck and farm these slow decks anyway.
super shadow hyper aggro priest, you heard it first.
Ben Brode also name dropped Tournament mode which means that the team knows that it's a highly requested feature which means that there's a chance that it might get implemented sooner than anticipated.
I am surprised that Ben Brode was forced to make this video. It hasn't even been that long since the last LoE wing and Blizzard was obviously on a small break for the Holidays (which is perfectly acceptable) so I don't know how anyone was expecting any news so soon after the break.
I am surprised that Ben Brode was forced to make this video. It hasn't even been that long since the last LoE wing and Blizzard was obviously on a small break for the Holidays (which is perfectly acceptable) so I don't know how anyone was expecting any news so soon after the break.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Ehhhhh, I just beat a freeze mage with my Renolock. Granted things lined up pretty well for me and pretty poorly for him.
Mal'Ganis was totally worth crafting by the way. The demon version of the deck is pretty good, though there's also the Stalagg/Feugen and Combo variations that I've seen/played with before.
Professor Lich
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Nice, congrats! Didn't know that was a thing.
Also, I've been playing that Shadowform Priest Kibler found/tweaked and it's been pretty great. Once again, this is rank 15, so take it with a grain of salt. I really like it because it was similar to a Priest deck I was playing a while back. Waaaaay more exciting than boring as hell Zoolock. Shame I already have golden Priest though.
Yeah, you gotta get gold versions of all the murlocs in the basic and classic set. So you have to get Priest to Level 51, then get Paladin, Rogue, and Warlock to Level 53. That'll get you the basic gold murlocs. Then you need gold versions of Coldlight Oracle, Coldlight Seer, Murloc Tidecaller, and Murloc Warleader.
I had already gotten gold versions of seer, tidecaller, and warleader through opening packs. So I just crafted the one oracle I needed and picked it up today after I finally hit Level 53 with Rogue.
You can also get a golden Captain's Parrot but that involves getting a golden Captain Greenskin, so fuck that.
Professor Lich
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Captain's Parrot stays losing. Really weird how it's not the other way around like Murlocs.
I think the idea is that they wanted you to earn the synergy card as the reward. Offer the build-around once you earn all the cards you need. Captain Greenskin is a pirate but doesn't have synergy with other pirates like Captain's Parrot or Southsea Captain.
But yeah, poor Captain's Parrot. Would you believe that it was actually nerfed? It used to be a 1/2 like Novice Engineer. I can only presume that Blizzard only nerfed it to keep it consistent with Novice Engineer but considering its build-around status it hardly seems like the kind of call Blizzard would make today.
LyleLanley
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Some guy that I believe I played against last night just messaged me to tell me to kill myself. The internet is a great place.
30 to 0 in one Thaursian tick. Had complete control of the game too. That's beyond fucked up. I played it perfectly too. Am I supposed to win the game in 5 turns? Seriously?
I guess this is decently hypocritical considering I was playing my own AnyFin deck.
I guess this is decently hypocritical considering I was playing my own AnyFin deck.
It's pretty much a "throw it down and pray you topdeck Ancient of Lore" card.
Oh god I just played a priest who was pretty much dominating me with stealing cards from my deck. Standard game up until turn 12 or so when I was top decking and they controlled the board with a buffed Ogre and Chromaggus.Then that person got three Northshire Clerics on board while I found the Golden Monkey and played it along with other final Taunt. Then suddenly he was drawing so many cards per turn that he got way into fatigue and I finished him off with healing a minion the next turn, while he sat with four high mana cards and a presumably sour face ready to kill me. Went from 30 to 0 hp in one turn.
I've been laughing the past ten minutes straight.
I've been laughing the past ten minutes straight.
Hah, yeah he topdecked a draw card and then some legendaries but a priest has decent low mana cost cards to deal with a few, heh.
Im becoming really good at this game or people are terrible this season?. Im not playing the game almost (lot of games from steam sales and christmas gifts stole my time). Just played like 25 games max this season and Im at rank 4. My winrate is like 75% + what is absurd. Using a not accurate version of renolock made in 5 mins and murloc paladin. I see people doing terrible mistakes in almost any game and that was rare other seasons...
A lot of those Reddit comments would've been ideal for the video.
Considering they just returned back after Christmas I wouldn't expect something big. Maybe 3 more Hero portraits. Still think the next expansion is due around PAX East.
It's a good time to put out a video instead of actual news. Gives them a buffer of sorts. Don't think he was forced to as he has previously mentioned that he'd like to ramp up production and tackle some of the issues raised by the community.
He made it one week before they announced LoE. Blizzard just didn't release the video until now, presumably deciding to save it until when they felt the community was getting more antsy.
Still playing Arena so I can even out my Gold and don't have the 5 leftover. Was up against a Druid who got to get of a Druid of the Fang. Even casted Mark of Nature on it. Though I could have easily get rid of it otherwise, I draw an Unstable Portal and I cast it just for the lolz. Got a Black Knight.