If true, it's probably so it didn't creep into 2016 and ruin their standard format thing being a yearly thing.
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If true, it's probably so it didn't creep into 2016 and ruin their standard format thing being a yearly thing.
Cincinnatus Powell
Neo Member
Auto squelch, every game. Got no time for passive aggressive bm.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Thats okay because I'll run two of both and I'll summon a second ancient dude.
Then I'll use blessed champion and finally be able to kill that control warrior with a 60/30.
It's pretty crazy bliz hasn't added auto-squelch yet. I squelch every game too... and it's just frankly annoying in itself.
SonicXtreme
Member
ressurrect priest deck might work with that in wild
Genuine question: can you elaborate?
You can tell how bad hearthstone is now when someone like xixo. instead of racing to legend with his timer on first days of season, play super mario 3d world instead...lol some other streamers like sjow/yagut have been playing warcraft 3 tournaments instead. lifecoach who has won the vote today, hasn't streamed hearthstone much in sometime, he plays random games instead. Only players enjoying concede decks still regularly stream.
Boom and Loatheb are pretty terrible for Rogue. They also suffer from an aggro meta, because they take so much damage removing things and don't have armor or healing like Warrior and Paladin.
I have no doubts Rogue will be much, much better in standard. That kind of scares me because the single most annoying deck in Hearthstone history is still the pre-nerf Miracle Rogue.
Even Kripp is regularly playing other games - like Faeria and FFXIV.
I have no doubts Rogue will be much, much better in standard. That kind of scares me because the single most annoying deck in Hearthstone history is still the pre-nerf Miracle Rogue.
Even Kripp is regularly playing other games - like Faeria and FFXIV.
Peléo;200245584 said:
you can't sap boom, well you can but it goes poorly more often than not. Boom bots wipe your minions and you don't have many of them in your deck. Stuff like drake easily die to boombots in one shot. You lose all of your tempo as it's too expensive for you to deal with it. It's a mostly game winning play against rogue, actually I saw some of the pros like firebat, keeping Boom in mulligan against rogue because of that. lol
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Dr. Boom is generally annoying to deal with but if you anticipate it, you can deal with him and the rest of the board with a well timed blade flurry, or with some cheap removal like backstab and eviscerate often powered by spell power or a cheap minion. Being able to deal with the 1/1s with hero power is also another small advantage other classes might not have access to. I've certainly lost games to dr. boom, but more often than not it's because the boom bots snipe minions.
When I am ahead, sap is often a game winning move so not sure about people saying boom cannot be sapped. If your opponent plays dr. boom twice, that is two turns they aren't really dealing with your board. And often the delay of one turn gives you time to set up to deal with dr. boom efficiently.
That said, I do think rogue gets a tiny bit better because loatheb and dr. boom are out of standard.
When I am ahead, sap is often a game winning move so not sure about people saying boom cannot be sapped. If your opponent plays dr. boom twice, that is two turns they aren't really dealing with your board. And often the delay of one turn gives you time to set up to deal with dr. boom efficiently.
That said, I do think rogue gets a tiny bit better because loatheb and dr. boom are out of standard.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I don't think master of evolution does much for this, but volazj definitely could be like a third activator, similar to faceless.
Yup, Forsen is doing non HS streams 'til Whispers of the Old Gods is out.
He says he's really enjoying streaming now! #FeelsGoodMan
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I just realized that this card:
Features ALL of the minions you can get from Animal Companion (Leokk, Misha and Huffer)!!
8 Mana : Summon ALL of your Animal Companions
Nah it will be 3 huffers
Oh ok I forgot which game this is.
"8 mana: Summon 3 Animal Companions"
*ALWAYS TRIPLE HUFFER!*
Well, they are losing oil, which is a pretty big deal.
just call it tripple H then?
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Call Companion:
Discover an animal companion. It costs 0.
Discover an animal companion. It costs 0.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Blood of the Ancient Ones works like Stalagg and Feugen, you have to silence both.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Similar to I guess. You only have to silence the second of the stalagg + feugen pair. If the second blood is played, however, you don't get the opportunity to silence... but I guess if it's brought onto the board during the opponent's turn via ancestral calling or something.
TetraxShards
Member
"We are MotorHuffer, and we play SMOrc."
toddhunter
Member
I think the new card is great. The fewer cards wasted on ranked play the better and I'll chase the arena dream.
Instead it'll just get polymorphed, deathed,mulched,executed,assassinated and the rest.
Welcome to online multiplayer, please enjoy your stay.
On a more serious note, a lot of the commonly played cheese cards are going away, but it is likely there will be more to replace them. Players will always gravitate to what wins, whether it is a cheap and scummy strategy or not. The hope is, though, that the set will bring more interactivity and consequently more chances to counter these types of decks.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Very likely that you won't be seeing the same cards every single game like right now but you will still be losing to a couple of powerful decks that are easiest to play, that's just the way it is in competitive multiplayer games.
I'm now hoping BGH is changed to kill a 10+ mana card, then it can't actually kill the Ancient One.
they wouldn't change it to kill the one thing that they want everyone to use (C'thun)
either it will kill epics only or Giants only
Big Game Hunter changed to Big God Hunter.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
I'm sure they don't want their legendary they're gifting everyone to be all powerful anyway, you want the people buying packs. Still, they're not going to have it counter the 4 big legendaries they just released. Giant killer BGH would make the most sense(or a significant increase in mana cost, I'm talking like 6 mana).
toddhunter
Member
A lot of powerful cards are being removed and replaced with things that are not so great. Besides Shaman getting a big boost, it still looks to me like there will be even fewer decks played this time around, since there will also be fewer counters to the things in the original set that needed countering.
The "nerfs" are all important. If they don't deliver, standard will flat out suck.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
I mean at least the strong cards are probably gonna be class cards so assuming that you're not gonna see the same couple of classes in standard(which might happen) the variety in cards is going to be better. No more Boom, Shredder, Belcher, etc in every single deck.
If you haven't read this article before I think it is a good start:
http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win
It describes the mindset behind the people who play the "best" decks. Frankly we all play a deck, at some point, that other people hate. I played a ton of priest and shaman while they were considered the "worst" class an people still raged at me.
My first month of the game I got Rank 3 with a hunter deck using unleash the hounds and starving buzzard combo and I didn't know it was a scummy, overpowered deck at the time. I was new to the game and it was fun to win. Later on as I moved to other classes it became harder and harder to hit Rank 5 and above with less than optimal decks.
As a direct answer though, we are entering unknown territory in the meta and it will be interesting to try out new decks next month while the meta figures itself out. In a few weeks from release the meta reports will be spreading the "Scum" decks out to the masses again and you will face the same "net decks" a lot.
I have realized that I can actually do better now making my own versions of popular decks or using "off-meta" decks to great advantage.
this mofo better not show up in RNG summon
What RNG summon effect gives you a 10 mana minion?
That Ancient one only listed as 9 mana
We have that new priest spell and Master of Evolution
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
They will only summon minions that can be collected.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Looking forward to Lifecoach's card reveal at 9:59 AM PDT tomorrow.
Forsen has quit playing HS for now as well.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
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