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Hearthstone |OT6| C'THUN for President! Why pick the lesser evil?
- Thread starter ZealousD
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Well it's a ticking time bomb between you and your opponent. You need to pressure with your 3 damage weapon and with 6/6 infernals every turn.
Emerson
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They have consistently said standard and the expansion will arrive together.
Oh. Duh.
In other news, this is the first time I've ever seen anyone actually use Aviana:
Rank 15 match
Someone let my Emperor survive for 3 turn
Random ladder dude pls
And yet your HP still perfect
Someone let my Emperor survive for 3 turn
Random ladder dude pls
And yet your HP still perfect
I had to let a Rogue keep his alive for 3 turns.. because he concealed it twice in a row. The miracle turn never came and I still stomped him.
Plot twist, he only had backstabs,conceals, and preps in hand
I was watching amnesiac play yesterday, and man does he ever hate renolock .
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
I feel like Reynad enjoys being salty
StarlordDial
Member
Man thijsHSand his astral deck is so good right now ... i can't imagine someone starting from rank 20 playing this. Tempted though .....
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Must have gotten off raven idol.
Acerac
Banned
Rank 20 is the best place to learn to play funky new decks.
Thank you so much for mentioning the pity counter thing.
I realised it had been ages since I got a GvG legendary so I thought I'd buy one more pack. I got Mal'ganis! WOO
I know he's going out of standard, but Warlock is my main class and I've wanted Mal'ganis for ages!
Your post actually inspired me to do the same today because like you I hadn't opened a GvG legendary in ages and I got Iron Juggernaut. Not that great of a card but it could be useful in future Tavern Brawls who knows.
Professor Lich
Member
Yeah, as Acerac, rank 20 is the best place to experiment mid month. I feel like most decks are still loosely net decked, but people either don't know the exact ways to play optimally or are missing a few key cards.
I always feel guilty though. Sometimes I'm playing a deck with a lot of strong cards against people who have to play with things like Goldshire Footman and Gurubashi Berserker. Here I am, being the jerkface who crushes a new player's Hearthstone dreams.
Acerac
Banned
I recently got my boyfriend back in to the game by crafting him a mysterious challenger deck. It had been a while since he had last played, so he was rank 25.
I felt so bad watching those first few matches.
Emerson
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That's just another example of why the current ladder system sucks and should be completely overhauled. Dropping high level players back to low ranks every month is unfair to new players. Let the low ranks be for the lowly ranked, and let them build their way up against even competition.
I'm 3-3 at rank 15, with 2 losses being really close. All wins have been absolute destruction. It's amazing.
I'll have to compare his to my list. Astral is fun to play.
slightconfuse
Banned
Nothing like hitting a gorhowl to the face for the win
Karsticles
Member
It's really painful. Blizzard needs to remove more barriers to entry. Something like 10 free packs right when you start.
Instead of removing Naxx, just make it free.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Like the ones you basically get from doing achievements?
They should make the achievements more transparent though... and not hidden.
Professor Lich
Member
Those poor, innocent noobs!
The same reason why everyone here who hates the game keeps playing, it's still fun to just play. I remember either talking to someone who worked on the game or hearing from a streamer who said something along the lines of, 'Even when you're getting destroyed, it's still fun to just play out cards.'
If the game didn't feel fun to play and the presentation wasn't there, it would not be as popular as it is now.
Karsticles
Member
No, in addition to those.Like the ones you basically get from doing achievements?
They should make the achievements more transparent though... and not hidden.
Add more achievements.
Add more daily goals.
Add more features and ways for people to get periodic rewards (where is my two-headed giant mode, Blizzard?!).
veloxStrix
Banned
Never mind. I think I got it.
Hey guys, I've just downloaded this on my mac and playing around with it. Trying to keep things free for now. What's the best way to unlock some good cards? I've unlocked the basic deck that I'm using and I've got a bit of gold so what should I do with it? Should I just buy packs or should I save up for the single player adventures?
It's still fun pointing an 8 attack minion to face and seeing the screen shake violently.
Emerson
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Buy Classic packs with your gold at first. The cards will always be relevant and you'll get better stuff than you have now. If you remain absolutely committed to never spending any money you can save up for adventures later, but I wouldn't recommend using your gold that way. If you like the game it's worth paying for the adventures and using gold for packs.
Ah fuck, you're right. Or an Unstable Portal or something.
Blizzard nailed the feel of the game. The dust that kicks up when a big hit happens or when a minion lands on the board. The effects that go off on a board when something cool happens. The various sound effects that accompany spell effects and legendary minions. The voice overs and other yells/screams/battle cries when cards do their thing. They nailed it. It really is fun to just watch and hear matches unfold. Huge part of the success of this game.
If they streamline the Collection interface further (Recipes and 18 deck slots were huge gains - more of that please, in a cleaner/sortable UI!), add at least one more game mode like Tavern Brawl, add in more Easter eggs/discoverable goodies on a regular basis (more achievements!) and keep new cards/adventures coming at the same pace (or faster!) this game'll soar for years IMO.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Haha new players have no idea how that feels.
I honestly can't say how it is to be new since I got the adventures pretty quickly and that instantly improves your collection by a ton.
Emerson
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Absolutely. Hearthstone spoiled me for other digital card games. Boot up anything else whether it's Spellweaver, Solforge, Magic Duels, Duelyst, Eternal (judging by videos) and they just feel horrible by comparison. Hearthstone is slick as hell in almost every aspect of the presentation.
BananasWithGuns
Member
April 26th. Guess I can live with that. At least it's not drifting into May.
At 700 gold it's expensive for new players, but I would at least unlock the first wing of Naxxramas for future use.
In 4-5 weeks Standard mode will hit and the Naxxramas cards will rotate out and only be playable in Wild format. The adventure will vanish from the shop and you won't be able to get those cards with gold/real money anymore. Some of them are really good and it would suck to waste so much dust on them.
They nailed the psychology of opening packs
Karsticles
Member
Wow, I am looking these up, and why do Spellweaver and Magic Duels use that horrific camera perspective?
Emerson
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I'd guess it's because of the need for a wider angle to show a lot more stuff on the board, but I'm not sure.
It's a shame Magic Duels isn't better. It's improved a ton from when it launched and I still play, but it doesn't measure up. Shame because Magic as a game is orders of magnitude better than Hearthstone.
Karsticles
Member
No new card for a whole day and I feel withdrawal. :-O
I REALLY like how Duelyst lets you cycle a card each turn to prevent bad hands.
Dahbomb told me that it takes much, much longer to grind Magic Duels packs, which is why I haven't even bothered. How do they handle things like Counterspell in Magic Duels?
I REALLY like how Duelyst lets you cycle a card each turn to prevent bad hands.
Emerson
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I'm guessing that was before a couple weeks ago when they significantly boosted the gold gain rate. Quests used to offer like 20-60 gold and now are 60-100.
There was that one co-op brawl which was kind of cool.
Yeah, if there was a game mode that paired you up with someone and fight an npc like that brawl any time it could be cool
slightconfuse
Banned
They need some way to get legendaries easier. Maybe a dust bonus for a win streak?
That seems a bit too much dust going out. the end of season rewards should probably give dust going all the way down to lower ranks.
