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Hearthstone |OT8| Elise's Extremely Irresponsible Field Trip To Un'Goro
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Premature, you totally could have stolen his 3/4 on turn 10. That is value you can't just turn down.
Playing jade druid, I almost got destroyed by a post-patch pirate warrior using patches and small-time buccaneer. I even used 16 armor but he ate through it. I mulligan'd 3 going second and still didn't get ooze in my top 17 cards.
He had fiery war axe, arcanite reaper, bloodsail cultist, TWO kor'kron elites, small-time buccaneer, and mortal strike in his top 11 cards.
He surrendered on turn 10 when I had 2 HP. I guess he ran out of instant damage cards once I got two taunts up, wow.
He had fiery war axe, arcanite reaper, bloodsail cultist, TWO kor'kron elites, small-time buccaneer, and mortal strike in his top 11 cards.
He surrendered on turn 10 when I had 2 HP. I guess he ran out of instant damage cards once I got two taunts up, wow.
Mobius and pet octopus
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This game was insane. https://hsreplay.net/uploads/upload/6v9jkLrnKrYGqoixEnQerL/?utm_source=hdt&utm_medium=client (maybe site is broken? not working for me at least)
His board is from deathwing dragonlord. My board is from brann, shadowstep, shadowcaster combos. And they say jade is the only deck with infinite jades... lol. I played jade spirit like 10 times.
His board is from deathwing dragonlord. My board is from brann, shadowstep, shadowcaster combos. And they say jade is the only deck with infinite jades... lol. I played jade spirit like 10 times.
They did, but only if you faced Morgl.
Yeah it's been down pretty much all day. Wow you go all out Jade-- with Jade Swarmer and all. Haven't run Jade rogue much at all still.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Jade swarmer is pretty good tbh. It's solid protection against AOE.
Also an easy target from shadowcaster if I need to ramp up jades.
Just beat 3 renolock in a row.
This is a good way to handle it IMO. Its like Rank 20 again, but in theory people are better.
Mobius and pet octopus
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If you do that too often you'll get a message like this:
And it'll last for a long time until you play a certain number of games that it won't announce.
If you do that too often you'll get a message like this:
I don't play enough to earn much gold off of wins, so that's also fine with me. I wonder at what point that kicks in?
Glass Shark
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hmmm...
If I was rank 5 with no stars, I think I'd auto-concede against every Druid. I've only ever played a Dragon-less Reno Priest this season up to Rank 3 and that match is fucking impossible.
As a person with money, I just hope the new cards are good. I have no problem putting down decent money for 3 expansion a year, but the expansion have to actually be good. The next expansion already feels a bit weak, unless they are hiding a few key mechanics.
Quests I feel are going to try and hamfist archtypes too much, I like build around cards, but I'm think Quests may be overdoing it.
Adapt is cool, but its not a mechanic I feel would be fun to build the entire expansion around. I imagine playing against a full on Adaptation decks would be frustrating.
Maybe I'm being a bit too cynical, since they have only showed off a grand total of 5 cards. The Elemental synergy could be a lot of fun, and there should be a few smaller mechanics that could be enjoyable.
Quests I feel are going to try and hamfist archtypes too much, I like build around cards, but I'm think Quests may be overdoing it.
Adapt is cool, but its not a mechanic I feel would be fun to build the entire expansion around. I imagine playing against a full on Adaptation decks would be frustrating.
Maybe I'm being a bit too cynical, since they have only showed off a grand total of 5 cards. The Elemental synergy could be a lot of fun, and there should be a few smaller mechanics that could be enjoyable.
Adapt isn't a build around mechanic, it's a general mechanic like Discover and Battlecry. You don't build a deck around Discover, you just happen to use some good Discover cards. Adapt will be the same, some Adapts will be better than other.
On paper that 4 mana 5/4 Adapt your Murloc is potentially broken for Murloc decks. It's like a vastly superior Mechano Bot for Murloc decks and that card was playable in Zoo.
On paper that 4 mana 5/4 Adapt your Murloc is potentially broken for Murloc decks. It's like a vastly superior Mechano Bot for Murloc decks and that card was playable in Zoo.
Lone_Prodigy
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Lost an Arena game against someone with Haunted Creeper so pre-patch players are playing post-patch ones.
Also, look at this Shaman curve in Arena:
Turn 1 Pass
Turn 2 Maelstrom
Turn 3 Argent Horserider
Turn 4 Jade Lightning
Turn 5 Flametongue, Feral Spirit
Turn 6 Jade Spirit
Turn 7 Jade Chieftain
I concede
Also, look at this Shaman curve in Arena:
Turn 1 Pass
Turn 2 Maelstrom
Turn 3 Argent Horserider
Turn 4 Jade Lightning
Turn 5 Flametongue, Feral Spirit
Turn 6 Jade Spirit
Turn 7 Jade Chieftain
I concede
Basically didn't play anything from turn 1 to turn 2. That's like a massive improvement over current meta where someone drops an overstatted 1 drop going first and snowballs from that.
The Jade synergy is definitely a bummer though but that was the whole purpose of these Arena changes which was to give incentive to synergy drafting.
SonicXtreme
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prepatch decks will be sniping you people for at least a week. last arena nerfs, i held out on a deck for almost 2 weeks and got double digit wins because i did lol. jumping into new drafts now is a very poor decision. always save a knockout draft when arena nerfs get announced.
I tried my hand at an arena run, had to settle for priest, ended up with a crappy late game deck (with two drakops that i actually managed to activate in all my games) and went 2-3 because I'm terrible at it.
But got a Kun off my pack and broke even on gold so I can't complain.
Old arena decks aren't necessarily better than new ones.
But got a Kun off my pack and broke even on gold so I can't complain.
Old arena decks aren't necessarily better than new ones.
SonicXtreme
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ehhh, i held on to a double flamestrike mage deck with piloted shredder....it's most definitely better than the average standard draft. anytime there's arena nerfs you should hold onto the next draft you get before the nerfs that takes advantage of the nerfs, it definitely is a ticket to a high win run. honestly it shouldn't be allowed but it is so whatever.
Get 10 wins and snipe Kripp. =P
I just loaded it up and it's crazy the amount of 2 drops it has.
Also GvG cards in it LOL!
I tried a little more ranked and faced an obnoxious renolock deck with my single legendary deck.
Sylvanas. That didn't work. They killed Sylvanas to -5 my entire board for wipe.
That didn't work, Reno to heal back to 30.
That didn't work, Kazakus to turn my entire board of large jade minions to sheep.
That didn't work, Twisting Nether to wipe my entire board, and Doomsayer to prevent followup.
Elise, second quest card, attempt to draw with only 6 left, but they didn't get the monkey.
I was still able to drop 3-4 jades of 10+ HP each and they surrendered at that point. Ridiculously long game.
Sylvanas. That didn't work. They killed Sylvanas to -5 my entire board for wipe.
That didn't work, Reno to heal back to 30.
That didn't work, Kazakus to turn my entire board of large jade minions to sheep.
That didn't work, Twisting Nether to wipe my entire board, and Doomsayer to prevent followup.
Elise, second quest card, attempt to draw with only 6 left, but they didn't get the monkey.
I was still able to drop 3-4 jades of 10+ HP each and they surrendered at that point. Ridiculously long game.
They really should have just taken the change to standard as an opportunity to cancel all the old arena decks.
Cheap casuals are supposed to learn to love arena.
Haven't played for a while, and constructed meta still seems really dull after watching some games.
Turn 1 Zombie Chow
Turn 2 Power Drop
Turn 3 Clear
Turn 4 Power Drop/Clear
Turn 5 Power Drop
Turn 6/7 GG
Haven't played for a while, and constructed meta still seems really dull after watching some games.
Turn 1 Zombie Chow
Turn 2 Power Drop
Turn 3 Clear
Turn 4 Power Drop/Clear
Turn 5 Power Drop
Turn 6/7 GG
I thought people generally complained about low-level ranked play being bad, frustrating, net-decked, etc.? It's easy to keep yourself at low rank by just conceding occasionally.
Mobius and pet octopus
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I think amara will be interesting. But reno/kazakus in 3 different classes does become a snorefest.
Yeah and risk someone deleting all of your collection LOL!
There's always a risk someone will steal or get your account banned with any MOBA boosting person, I'd assume. One would imagine that it would hurt their reputation and you'd have this weird underground market of boosters who don't get people banned yada yada.
BannedEpisode
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Bought the preorder because I'm a fool.
At least they give you the card back right away.
At least they give you the card back right away.
Keyser Soze
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I have no idea what the Standard meta is like right now, but I am playing Totem Shaman (with Wicked Witchdoctor and Djinni), and I am having fun and ranking up. This did not work well prepatch (too slow)... maybe it is just the fact the patch made a few people come back and they are out of practice.
Rogue, Warlock and Mage are top 3.
Predicted tier list though, we still need a week of testing to figure this out. The Arena has changed massively.
According to Dahbomb's summary of Lightforge's arena prediction
we will see...
One thing for sure, you get to draft a whole bunch of common and rare cards.
we will see...
One thing for sure, you get to draft a whole bunch of common and rare cards.
I was a scumbag and just continued to play Aggro Pirate Shaman till I got to rank 10.
I only played 7 games, and went 6/7. The nerfs definitely hurt, but I'm not sure its actually enough. I think the deck is more fair though, especially Spirit Claws (Though I also think Spirit Claws is still playable). Majority of the games went to turn 7 and 8.
Also, some poor mage played Dirty Rat/Doomsayer, pulled a Flamewreathed Faceless, and I then played my second Flamewreathed Faceless, and kill off both his Dirty Rat and Doomsayer using the magic of Tunnel Trogg.
Then I played 3 games of Enrage Warrior in Wild. It's such a bad deck, but since I usually pull it out in rank 20+ of wild, the thing tends to come up with stupid wins.
I hope Blizard prints a new Enrage card this expansion. Dinosaurs and Enrage are a good combo!
I only played 7 games, and went 6/7. The nerfs definitely hurt, but I'm not sure its actually enough. I think the deck is more fair though, especially Spirit Claws (Though I also think Spirit Claws is still playable). Majority of the games went to turn 7 and 8.
Also, some poor mage played Dirty Rat/Doomsayer, pulled a Flamewreathed Faceless, and I then played my second Flamewreathed Faceless, and kill off both his Dirty Rat and Doomsayer using the magic of Tunnel Trogg.
Then I played 3 games of Enrage Warrior in Wild. It's such a bad deck, but since I usually pull it out in rank 20+ of wild, the thing tends to come up with stupid wins.
I hope Blizard prints a new Enrage card this expansion. Dinosaurs and Enrage are a good combo!
BananasWithGuns
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What's your list? I wouldn't mind trying this out.
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