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Hearthstone |OT5| Corrupted Deeprock Salt
- Thread starter ZealousD
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Blizzard threatened the pros that they'd get the same juggler RNG as Reynad if they leaked.
They've be doing this with Heroes as well.
Sergeant Hammer is in one of the co-op missions in StarCraft 2.
irfaanator
Banned
i thought you gave somebody else the password to your account so they could change it? I dont understand why you keep playing this game, rage and then post about it when you couldve easily walked away multiple times
Hey, don't take away the fun of yoshi rage
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Turns out putting in 2 Shredders over KT and Flamestrike was a good idea for my tempo mage, I was wondering why I could never really get going.
This is a problem that will not at all get fixed by Standard.
Not even quitting Hearthstone would fix that problem. Not for Yoshichan anyway.
Guessing some naga action coming our way too. Km maybe if they add enough naga, some day they might make a new tribe
So, I just saw a very convincing leak in spanish.
Apparently Standard would be coming next week and the new expansion late April.
134 new cards, 16 of which will interact with the Old God cards, apparently buffing them?
phoenix296
Member
Ahn'qiraj/Ulduar/Dragon Soul expansion. New faceless tribe with a few titan cards to counter them?
Uh oh. Looks like someone broke the news embargo a day early.
That leak doesn't make any sense because Standard is super unbalanced without any new cards and nerfs and they can't apply nerfs until the Winter tourneys are over.
The pictures look believable, I thought it'd be worth mentioning
it's still obviously unconfirmed.I think it just means the press that were there to playtest the new expansion were given all the cards and one god to play around with.
I think that might just be a translation error. It says in parenthesis "designed for new players" so I'm guessing that is referring to the Deck Recipes patch which we know is coming very soon.
Nah, I'm sure of what I'm reading, spanish is my first language. If not it's written in a really misleading way.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
You can't wait one more day for news? I expect The OGs will be out in like two weeks.
phoenix296
Member
What I can tell from a bad google translation it sounds like old god cards will increase in power over time similar to Gruul or shade of naxx. There is also something about spawning minions and costing 10 mana.
BananasWithGuns
Member
I don't care how awful standard would be without the new expansion, it has to be better than the state of the game right now.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Old Gods have to be 10 mana, power/lore wise.
It would literally be 100% Druid and Zoolock games.
A 10 6/6 that goes up over time does not seem great
Oh ok. Well I guess it makes sense for them to give away one god and some cards that synergize with him, if that mechanic is core to the expansion. I'm assuming all the gods are legendaries, so having to hope you get one in a pack before even being able to mess around at all with the new mechanic would be frustrating.
So, even I as a native speaker can't exactly figure out what the Old Gods mechanics are.
It seems like there are some minions that will have to be played in a deck along with the Old Gods, and whenever they're played, they're "buffing in advance" the Old God minion which will cot 10 mana. So, if you played 3 of these special minions before playing the 10 mana one, the effect will be weaker than if you played 5 of those minions throughout the game.
This is some serious extrapolation, take it with a grain of salt.
It seems like there are some minions that will have to be played in a deck along with the Old Gods, and whenever they're played, they're "buffing in advance" the Old God minion which will cot 10 mana. So, if you played 3 of these special minions before playing the 10 mana one, the effect will be weaker than if you played 5 of those minions throughout the game.
This is some serious extrapolation, take it with a grain of salt.
irfaanator
Banned
standard in mid season?
next week?! damn nice, I don't even care about the cards.
Sounds like you have to build your deck around gods. they are probably really strong otherwise it would be just gimmick. C'thun sounds awful though, 10 mana 6/6 that gets buffed, so what it just eats one hard removal, there should be more to it.
Sounds like you have to build your deck around gods. they are probably really strong otherwise it would be just gimmick. C'thun sounds awful though, 10 mana 6/6 that gets buffed, so what it just eats one hard removal, there should be more to it.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Well there's no way they'd drop standard without the nerfs.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
I'm sure their effect won't be as simple as "gain +1/+1", I doubt you'll be able to get rid of them with a simple Polymorph or Execute.
Or, you shouldn't be able to anyway.
Edit: Also, having standard and the release of the new set be so far apart seems like a huge mistake, just taking away cards doesn't seem very fun or interesting.
Also, apparently this article is from the Argentinian version of ESPN, which only just recently began covering esports. It's possible some of the details are not only getting lost in translation from Spanish to English, but also lost in the translation from game devs trying to explain this expansion to a non-gamer journalist.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Since Old Gods are beyond death and don't really die, I expect some Malorne/Dreadsteed-like shenanigans.
I would hope some legendaries come out with the "elusive" buff (even though it ruins the art of the cards). Would also help if BGH gets nerfed to not be an instant kill
phoenix296
Member
I'm hoping they introduce a new mechanic for the old gods that make them similar to their raid encounters in WoW. I was thinking the old gods spawn tentacles minions that must be killed and the old god is immune to everything until the tentacles are dealt with.
Sounds like debuff cards to minions on the board
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
It depends on how complicated they want to get. If they wanted to replicate Old God or their servants raid encounters they would probably have to Yu-Gi-Oh it
If we take it at face value, I'd expect both Naxx/GvG being moved out and the nerfs, and then a month later we get the new cards.
RecRoulette
Member
Oh cool, I was expecting standard and the new expansion to launch at the same time. Glad to see we'll get a bit of current Standard time.
Giving free cards isn't exactly unusual. LoE had free cards too in a way. It's the first time the game is seeing major changes and some players are bitter about 'losing' cards, everytime there is a first for hearthstone they gave away free stuff. Like first wing of Naxx for first adventure, free GvG packs for first expansion etc.
FormallyFamicom
Member
403 error on the link now so it must be true.