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Hearthstone |OT6| C'THUN for President! Why pick the lesser evil?
- Thread starter ZealousD
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Are the cards from the wings essential/are there staple cards in there? Trying to gauge how much I might have to spend getting back in.
Also when's the new patch?
^ If you've got some leftover gold you'll want to grab the first wing of Naxx and BRM respectively before they're rotated out, that way you'll always have the option to purchase and play the rest of the adventures. Otherwise you'll only be able to craft those cards at standard dust cost which is a raw deal.
LUL
irfaanator
Banned
Yes you usually get good return on the cards from the wings. You technically can buy each wing for 700 gold as well so you don't have to pay. It also depends on what type of deck you want to play but there are definitely good cards from the adventures.
Patch is late april early may I believe
Blackrock Mountain and League of Explorers are probably the first thing you want to get. Naxx too, if you end up enjoying the game and want to play Wild/Legacy one day.
Aside from that, probably buy Classic Packs if you have the change since they have most of the key cards for archetypes AND they never rotate out of Standard.
Not sure when the patch comes out, but I can't imagine it won't be in April with the current rate of the card reveals.
Karsticles
Member
Is Classic Packs the very first set of cards? I have a bunch of those I think; I dropped out before Naxx released.
irfaanator
Banned
Karsticles
Member
Why do you guys think they're making Naxx unavailable?
Isn't it odd to get rid of stuff people could be paying for?
Isn't it odd to get rid of stuff people could be paying for?
Having a hard time making the final climb to Legend. Came back to the game this weekend after not playing for months and I'm at rank 2 now. Wanted to get to Legend for the first time just to do it before the end of the weekend but it's looking unlikely now. I'm thinking I might need to change decks since it feels like MC Pally is an auto loss to priests and patron warrior and pretty disfavored, though not terribly so, against druid. It's purely anecdotal, but most of the decks I see in the rank 1 - 5 matches are one of those.
I win the mirrors just fine- sitting around 70% on those- break about 50/50 against both reno lock and aggro lock, and probably hit 60% against midrange hunter, tempo mage, and freeze mage, but those decks just aren't showing up as much now.
I think without the experience playing another deck, though, I'd be more likely to lose trying to start one in the middle of the upper rank climb than if I were getting to know it at lower ranks, even if it is better positioned in the meta.
Kind of want to just give it a rest, but I know there's no way I'll spend this much time on the climb in the future, and I wanted to just wrap it all up before I ran it out of time this weekend.
I win the mirrors just fine- sitting around 70% on those- break about 50/50 against both reno lock and aggro lock, and probably hit 60% against midrange hunter, tempo mage, and freeze mage, but those decks just aren't showing up as much now.
I think without the experience playing another deck, though, I'd be more likely to lose trying to start one in the middle of the upper rank climb than if I were getting to know it at lower ranks, even if it is better positioned in the meta.
Kind of want to just give it a rest, but I know there's no way I'll spend this much time on the climb in the future, and I wanted to just wrap it all up before I ran it out of time this weekend.
Decrease the intimidation factor for new players i presume.
They said in a polygon interview they are going for the Disney Movie Strategy. Make them unavailable for a while, pull them "out of the vault", make money as people line up and buy it 'before it is gone'
I think its a stupid idea that won't work the way Blizzard wants it to.
The Mango Sentinel
Member
Dat salt.
But yeah that's probably it lol. Once I have ice block and Reno, I know it's gonna be a nice long game. And if I get off an Echo of Medivh or if they end up duplicating Reno, it just makes the game lol worthy
I think it's also just that I've never played a slow ass deck like this, so it's a nice change.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
They said they maybe want to do that. In fact iirc, it was more like they think it is a good idea and will explore the idea.
Karsticles
Member
New card revealed by IGN:
http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/03/28/ign-reveals-a-new-legendary-hearthstone-card
http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/03/28/ign-reveals-a-new-legendary-hearthstone-card
veloxStrix
Banned
I don't see how it's that much different than what Wizards of the Coast does with MtG. Seems like a decent way to go about it in a world where there is no secondary market.
That Ragnaros is a high quality work of ass. Why would you ever run it? Tuskar Jouster is just strictly more useful, right?
New card revealed by IGN:
http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/03/28/ign-reveals-a-new-legendary-hearthstone-card
BananasWithGuns
Member
So Blizzard really is building up control/heal Paladin.
I don't think the card is bad at all. A bit expensive for an effect you can't really control but if none of your minions are damaged it's an essentially an 8/8 Healbot for 8 that has lasting value across multiple turns.
I'll be very curious to see if it gets any play. I think it could be on the cusp of being playable in a control Paladin that's main goal is to do nothing but outlast your opponent. The prospects are definitely improved in that BGH is gonna get the bat.
I don't think the card is bad at all. A bit expensive for an effect you can't really control but if none of your minions are damaged it's an essentially an 8/8 Healbot for 8 that has lasting value across multiple turns.
I'll be very curious to see if it gets any play. I think it could be on the cusp of being playable in a control Paladin that's main goal is to do nothing but outlast your opponent. The prospects are definitely improved in that BGH is gonna get the bat.
veloxStrix
Banned
If it was just that, it would be fine. But it's an 8/8 for 8. Assuming no BGH nerf, it's still not fantastic because if it dies to removal you have effectively done nothing. It's so slow against Aggro, and I'd hesitate to play it over Lay on Hands which seems better in almost any situation where you absolutely need 8 life. I guess Turn 10 play Lightlord and taunt? Seems pretty awful.
Paladin still paying the tax on getting the best Legendary in the game.
Karsticles
Member
Is Lightlord even a thing in WoW lore?
Professor Lich
Member
The only lore I know about Ragnaros is that he's supposed to grow legs and kick ass with them. Never knew him for being a healer.
I honestly find the whole card hilarious but I would of prefered a new character.
hypersheep
Member
WELL MET, INSECT!
I made two bad plays in a row, one against aggro druid when i didn't clear and he savage roared, another against shaman when i was careless and didn't kill the spell dmg totem over the health one. It feels bad to lose because i did something dumb. EDIT: recovered vs the shaman, they ran out of steam despite mostly destroying me on the one turn i let that dmg totem live.
Karsticles
Member
I had a dumb one last night.
"Okay, so I just need to Inner Rage the Acolyte, hit the 4/3 to kill it, and then Inner Rage the 4/1 to clear."
*Inner Rages the 4/3*
...what was that, brain?
I know the old gods technically enslaved the Elemental Lords, so maybe Rag was the Lightlord before the Old Gods showed up? Or it could just a dumb "What If" card, and Ben Brode is just laughing away.
IMO from a design perspective the bar to entry is pretty steep for a new player. Removing Naxx keeps new players from spending their gold or money on something that won't serve them as well as it used to, with the content getting phased out. It doesn't help that a ton of guides and soon to be outdated advice pointing people to save up and make it their first investment.
It's a bummer, because Naxx is great.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Nope.
Also, Ragnaros, Lightlord is a weird title. Shouldn't it be Ragnaros the Lightlord or Lightlord Ragnaros?
Karsticles
Member
Lightlord probably the best card in all of Arena.
Kind of silly. Go up to someone and say "Okay, you're enslaved now, and you're going to be fire because I said so!"
Officerrob
Banned
New card revealed by IGN:
http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/03/28/ign-reveals-a-new-legendary-hearthstone-card
Lazy as fuck. Pretty damn unimpressed with a lot of the card design so far considering all the talk of GVG and Naxx holding them back
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Lightlord Rag can attack right?
irfaanator
Banned
Yup, otherwise it'd say.
Yeah no text mention he càn't
Professor Lich
Member
I would assume so. Doesn't mention he can't like Ragnaros.
"The Old Gods corrupted the light of purity into the flames of chaos"
There, that fits pretty well I think.
Officerrob
Banned
Depending on if/how BGH is nerfed I actually think it could be a good card.