Midrange Hunter is weak to Zoo, Freeze Mage, any aggro deck. It's strong against all Warriors and Druids. 50-50 with Miracle Rogue and Midrange Shaman.
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Hearthstone |OT6| C'THUN for President! Why pick the lesser evil?
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i'd go hunter because its been viable after every expansion. shaman is top dog right now but it sucked before LOE, and might just get crushed in 2017.
hunter tho, they always find a way. smorc smorc 4ever
Great casters and great players, should have been amazing, instead production quality is really holding it down. What's the point of inviting all these huge players with large fan followings and not bother with player cams? Watching Lifecoach rope is much less entertaining when you don't also get to see him over reacting to his draws. Why spend the money to fly the casters to London if you're not going to do the basics?
EDIT: Nevermind, they sorted their shit out.
Oh I didn't realize they also flew the players over to London, and it looks like they're wearing suits as well. They probably intended to have cams but fucked up with technical issues.
Seems like competitive HS is kinda falling out.
There has been somewhat of an exodus of players switching to other games.
It could be competitive if Blizzard were to set rules for tourneys like crafting decks from a preselected list rather than stuff you see on ladder all the time.
Only Lifecoach flew to London, and that's because he's a caster as well as a participant.
Midrange Shaman was always a so-so deck before WOG gave Shamans two of the best midrange cards that the game has ever seen. "Trendy" is a good way to put it, and it's unlikely that it will be nearly as good after Totem Golem, Elemental Destruction, and Tuskarr Totemic all rotate out.
Midrange Hunter, on the other hand, has always been pretty good because there are a lot of good beasts in the classic set.
Midrange Hunter, on the other hand, has always been pretty good because there are a lot of good beasts in the classic set.
Do they do Amazon coins up there? At least in the US you can get discounts by buying coins on the Amazon Appstore if you have an Android device or use an Android emulator.
probably through google play, since the price is in canadian whatever shows up in the store, same as the expansion.
Also fuck this game, people top decking like crazy, and during the brawl my opponent getting gorehowls from brawls when I'm getting garbage cards
Yay, opponents getting doomhammer, i get a puddle stopper and a ressurect, amazing, oh hey, my opponent got a geddon and a ysharj, i got a undertaker, yup, that's great
Which players have left hs?
Hs still goes strong and as long as magic the gathering stays stale it will be the best online card game.
6-3.
Never got to play Conjurer on a decent board. When I did play the card, it always gave me crappy spells.
I think Orange is the latest one to leave for a different game.
Never got to play Conjurer on a decent board. When I did play the card, it always gave me crappy spells.
I think Orange is the latest one to leave for a different game.
Try grim patron warrior, only queue up against priests with double excavated evil in opening hand. fml
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In arena against a shaman who evolved a full board and 1 of them turned into anomalous. Flame lance boardwipe. instant concede
EDIT:
In arena against a shaman who evolved a full board and 1 of them turned into anomalous. Flame lance boardwipe. instant concede
Super Nothing
Member
I played Mage with Hunter as my second class. I drew Anomalous early and didn't know what I was going to do with it until I managed to draw Feign Death. It would've been a sweet combo, but I never got the chance to use it because Call of the Wild absolutely wrecked my opponent.
Karsticles
Member
Complistic
Member
I got a good laugh out of this.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Alright pulling Eye for an Eye in Arena with MC is real fucked up. People always expect the regular constructed stuff but I just won cuz a dude hit me with his fossilized raptor and it put him into lethal.
toddhunter
Member
People keep looking towards the rotation, but I doubt Hearthstone will even last to the next one as things are.
Turn 1 trogg or Turn 1/2 Elekk.
It just isn't remotely fun and I'm back to arena unless blizzard overhauls ranked.
Sure...
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
That's literally 80% of what I've been doing in thread since OG. And pls no fuck priest.
Karsticles
Member
You never played World of Warcraft, did you? Blizzard games have a shitty magic about them. It doesn't matter how bad they are, they still succeed. It's the inverse of the Skullgirls curse.
interesting comparison. This is probably how my opponents feel. I've made a lot of comebacks recently
toddhunter
Member
No, you have missed the point.
The issue is that here we are in standard and almost every game is against the exact same deck with the exact same plays every time. You know everything there is to know about your opponents hand and what they will do after the very first turn.
Nothing has changed in this expansion and it seems to me to be much worse than it was before it.
Blizzard need to do something besides have people wait a year for a card to rotate out.
Granted, "dead" has a different meaning for Blizzard games. Hearthstone will still be played, but people will no longer care.
Blizzard games aren't bad, their core play and presentation are usually well ahead of the curve but then they ruin all of that with bad balancing and design choices later on.
Only game that Blizzard released which was legit bad day 1 was Diablo 3 and now that's one of their better games.
Only game that Blizzard released which was legit bad day 1 was Diablo 3 and now that's one of their better games.
Karsticles
Member
LOL, I just got Gruul in a pack.
I DE'd you a month ago, sir!
I DE'd you a month ago, sir!
The last game I can honestly say this for is Diablo II.
Hearthstone is extremely successful. Blizzard is constantly hiring to staff their f2p titles (including Hearthstone).
If you're still playing tempo warrior, it's very difficult to win that match up.
And D2 is also a balancing/design mess but it's fine because it's mostly a PvE game.
I do think SC2 and HS are good games though. Haven't played Overwatch so can't comment.
Hots is mediocre though, that's probably Blizzard's worst game in a while.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
D3 will be that for a long time to go.
It is a damn shame they couldn't capitalize on HotS. There was a good game in there but I feel they should have went with a different model in order to make it a success. It is pretty telling when even Blizzard can't make a MOBA that sticks.
Overwatch, D3, HS have all been aces as of late.
Actually, it's the opposite I think.
Orange left his team so he could focus on competitive HS.
Karsticles
Member
Launch Diablo II was an incredible game. They made it worse with every patch, and the expansion was the worst of all.
The worst game Blizzard has made was Titan. Million of dollars and years of work down the drain, and they couldn't even create something competent.
You are remembering incorrectly. Pre 1.03 was a borderline disaster, especially with regards to skill balancing.
Still amazing, but 1.03 and especially 1.04, and then 1.08 post expansion were clear improvements in a ton of critical ways.
Karsticles
Member
The expansion introduced spell delay, which completely destroyed all fun I had ever had with the game. Waiting a goddamn 2 seconds to cast another spell was bullshit, and I don't care whose computer couldn't handle it before. 1.03 just nerfed Corpse Explosion, which was dumb, but it didn't change the game significantly. Corpse Explosion stayed great. I just looked at 1.04's patch notes, and I see no balance changes, just bug fixes (which are obviously always a good thing).
This is a classic, though:
My computer was so bad that the first time I killed Duriel was when I played a Thorns Paladin. I just mashed potions while he beat me up. He died before my screen loaded...
Also, I remember MS LE nightmares. I only played Hardcore Mode, you see. An MS LE unique was basically when you log out. The only times I would risk fighting them was when I was playing with someone that wasn't careful enough and the MS LE killed them, so I had to kill it to retrieve their corpse so they could start a new character with some gear.
HS team can learn a thing or two from the HotS team though in terms of support. Like what, every three weeks a new hero or something?
I think Blizzard really used HotS as a test case in terms of promotion. Like they shouldn't have been so generous with the alpha keys. If you look at the way Overwatch did it compared to HotS it's a world of difference. Those alpha streams really hurt the initial response to the game.
That's just silly. Noone of the public played that game, so you have no idea how it turned out. By that measure Starcraft: Ghost should be the worst game Blizzard made since that was even shown at events.
Professor Lich
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Don't forget, Overwatch came out of Titan's ashes.
We're all getting mighty OT here, though I don't know how much that actually matters.
We're all getting mighty OT here, though I don't know how much that actually matters.