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Hearthstone |OT5| Corrupted Deeprock Salt
- Thread starter ZealousD
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It was the same when everyone played Hunter. The massively overpowered classes attract the biggest babies.
CelticKnight
Member
My new favourite card? Kezan Mystic.
I know it's useless against most classes, but when you drop it against a Mage, Paladin or Hunter you either get a stream of taunting or they just quit.
I know it's useless against most classes, but when you drop it against a Mage, Paladin or Hunter you either get a stream of taunting or they just quit.
accel
Member
Amaz is a trainwreck. He will always find a way to mess things up, and I don't mean it in a nice 'yeah, that's how he is, let's understand and forgive' kind of way. He is just irresponsible.
Karsticles
Member
I've actually thought about building a "counterpick" deck, where you just stack cards that counter classes A. B. and C with other cards that counter Z, Y, and Z. I wonder how many gimmicks it would destroy.
RumblingRosco
Member
Amaz basically walked into a goldmine/career without any knowledge or ability on how to handle success, organization, or planning. He's a very good Hearthstone player and entertainer, but he's not a very good businessman, at least not yet. He'll get there though. I don't particularly like or dislike the guy, but I just feel he'll get a lot of continued on-the-job training has his career moves forward.
Seriously, where was Amaz before Hearthstone? Did he play other games competitively or stream?
Him saying that he was initially invited to the tournament, but they forgot about him and invited another person instead.
accel
Member
Well, here's the bio:
http://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Amaz
I have nothing against the guy, we were all young and stupid once, etc, but it's just irritating already. You see the name Amaz, you know there will be a screw up.
The tournament will use the Standard format, that's gonna be pretty cool to see.
Also dad's playing Kibler today.
Also dad's playing Kibler today.
SMH
You can say that about most people in their day to day job, the difference being that they aren't being watched by thousands of people and making it open to the public. Setting up tournaments isn't easy, and there will always be a chance for screw ups. Even blizzard themselves aren't immune from it just because they are a huge company with people specifically hired to run things. Amaz might annoy people, but he's at least actively trying to push hearthstone (obviously with some ulterior motives but that's the same for anyone else). He's setting himself up to continue on the business side of things down the road and you can't really hate a guy for trying to make something he likes also be a career path.
By the way I'm not implying you guys hate him, just sometimes the rhetoric that comes from people when they discuss some streamers.
Scamaz gonna scamaz.
But what's up with that ridiculously long queue time?
I don't understand people who are entertained by Amaz. Everything about him screams fake, his reactions, everything. Massan is another but atleast he started off OK and turned to shit whereas Amaz was always shit. Best streamer is either Kolento or Brian "Brian Kibler" Kibler of Brian Kibler gaming, or Dog, or Firebat, or Sjow. Basically those 5 are miles above everyone else (unless you're really into Arena).
Polygon article on the format change.
Edit: This is pretty insightful actually.
This was said during brainstorming so it's not a confirmation of anything, but interesting nonetheless:
Edit: Added some quotes.
Edit: This is pretty insightful actually.
This was said during brainstorming so it's not a confirmation of anything, but interesting nonetheless:
Edit: Added some quotes.
Seems like Blizzard will not be releasing as many Adventures from now on. 2 expansions and 1 adventure a year versus 2 adventures and one expansion a year like they did in 2015.
Sounds like they don't get enough money from the Adventures for them to be worth it. They also require more work with the boss stuff and voice acting.
Also this quote had me in stitches:
Sounds like they don't get enough money from the Adventures for them to be worth it. They also require more work with the boss stuff and voice acting.
Also this quote had me in stitches:
Also this was followed up by the team. Leper Gnome appears to be on the chopping block as well.
Haunted
Member
I vote for Brian Kibler Gaming's Brian "Brian Kibler" Kibler.
Also, I used to think people were really dumb, but maybe it's just that "fakeness" doesn't really register as a bad thing to people and they're watching popular YouTube influencers not because of their authenticity, but view it as a sort of circus like performance (with the loudness and overreactions and everything).
LyleLanley
Banned
I hope we don't see less adventures in the future, they've been one of my favorite parts of the game.
I understand how producing them takes more work for something that yields a relatively low amount of cards though, which is what is ultimately needed. I think I'm ok with 2 pack expansions/1 adventure a year.
How did Brode do yesterday in the F2P run? It was not archived.
Also, I just played a game where my opponent got Elise from UP. Yup, fuck that card. So glad I won't see it anymore.
Think frost mages do need a nerf, playing minimal minions and just saving for a OTK shouldn't be a thing. Specially vs a class that has so many tools to stop you with sheeps, secrets freezing, and they can get you from behind a taunt. Considering that most of their power is from classic cards, that isn't getting fixed with the new format
Also, I just played a game where my opponent got Elise from UP. Yup, fuck that card. So glad I won't see it anymore.
Think frost mages do need a nerf, playing minimal minions and just saving for a OTK shouldn't be a thing. Specially vs a class that has so many tools to stop you with sheeps, secrets freezing, and they can get you from behind a taunt. Considering that most of their power is from classic cards, that isn't getting fixed with the new format
LyleLanley
Banned
I like this brawl a lot so far. Loading up on minions that go up in damage every turn.
He only played one match on ladder vs a very new/bad hunter. Most of it was unlocking classes. Dude loves oasis snap jaw.
CelticKnight
Member
Playing against a Control Warrior, he had lethal if he could enrage his Grommash... problem was all he had available was Shield Slam which one-shot his Grom for 12 damage.
did he happen to say anything interesting at all at least for starting players?
Yeah, I feel they've been pretty clear that going forward, they want the powerful minions to be class cards and the neutral minions to be slot ins around the archetypes these class cards enable.
Things like tribes being the more notable neutrals make the most sense from this perspective.
Polygon article states that freeze mage is Mike Morhaime's favorite deck, not happening
Not in the 30ish min that I saw. Most of it was anecdotes of cards they had tried that didn't make it.
Note to self, don't fill up your board with crappy minions because unless they clear you're stuck with them. I won on my second try as Paladin when i removed stuff that didn't work and added more debuffs/buffs for atk. Competitive spirit with muster is nice, then an aldor or attack spell.
Weird I got mostly mages, but seems like face hunter is always popular at the start of Taver Brawls until people figure it out.
Hunter getting wrecked by animated armor, ice block and Reno.
I think a well set up mage deck is 100x better than face hunter.
Yeah I think that's what happened, haven't faced another one since. Now it's been mages/Aggro Shaman/Combo Druids.
That was a great read. Polygon has been on-point with the HS features so far.
So standard this year and the next (since they were talking about '16 feeling different and '17 getting crazy, I assume the roadmap for this year and the next is laid out) is going to be a lot bigger than what we have now.
Now:
Classic - Naxx - GvG - BRM - TGT - LOE (3 adventures, 3 sets)
'16:
Classic - BRM - TGT - LOE - New set #1 - New adventure - New set #2 (3 adventures, 4 sets)
'17
Classic - New set '16 #1 - New adventure - New set '16 #2 - New set '17 #1 - New adventure - New set '17 #2 (2 adventures, 5 sets)
So how is this making it easier for new players to get into the game?
It's also a shame that rotations are static because the second set of a year will see at least 6 months less play than the first set.
Face Hunter, Face Shaman and Face Druid deck too.
I think you can also make a Warrior deck and use Sparring Partner plus Tournament Medic. You can just out last Hunters and Freeze Mage. I will try it when I get home.
Imagine if you also needed all the existing sets in 2017.
That said they said they're interested in the idea of giving out free decks to returning or new players to help them catch up and at least have something to use.
lol just had a face shaman quit on me after he tried to kill my doomsayer and me summoning an animated armor the next turn.
The free decks seem like a good idea.
But the whole standard implementation as they are doing now is just preventing stuff from getting worse (though I would go for 3 adventures/3 sets over 2 adventures/5 sets any day of the week) instead of making it easier for new players.
Also the yearly (static) rotation is a bad call in my opinion. Theoretically it's nice if you expect all your new players to join the game when rotation happens. But what about the players that start to play in December that got some Blizzard shop cards for x-mas and decide to build a competitive deck? I really don't see Blizzard putting a timer on packs for how long they are in standard.
Probably exactly that:
One 30 card Blizzard created competitive deck automatically added to your account.