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Hearthstone |OT9| Our raid wiped in Icecrown Citadel
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Brofist
Member
I find the deck to be boring myself. It's effective at what it does but the games play out the same. I prefer decks like miracle rogue with any number of win conditions and different play styles.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Speaking of quest warrior, I played a good chunk of them today.
bangbang i'm a timpani
Banned
Well I officially just played against the stupidest deck I've ever seen.
A random Grimestreet Control Paladin
You win with drawing Holy Wrath + Hemet then on turn 6 you Hemet, then you Holy Wrath + Molten Giant for 25 damage.
https://hsreplay.net/decks/Dv1UyaNhzzjNUJh5wGumuh/
A random Grimestreet Control Paladin
You win with drawing Holy Wrath + Hemet then on turn 6 you Hemet, then you Holy Wrath + Molten Giant for 25 damage.
https://hsreplay.net/decks/Dv1UyaNhzzjNUJh5wGumuh/
bronkonagurski
Member
I was literally thinking of that exact combo last night when I read the flavor text for Holy Wrath and saw it mentioned Molten Giant as a joke.
I imagine it's super unreliable because it depends on you drawing Hemet + Holy Wrath early enough AND not drawing Molten Giant in your first 7 turns.
SonicXtreme
Member
that is my favorite part, when i'm at rank 5 and below and playing at an odd time i love swapping decks hoping i get the same guy twice in a row. because i know he's going to run the same deck twice in a row, but i have plenty that can make do so it's fun queueing up with a counter and hoping i see the same guy since i'll already know his decklist
Karsticles
Member
That deck is Astral Communion tier.
Twinguistics
Member
Just lost two games due to connection issues, the game would glitch and not let me play a card then tell me I was out of time. One time a card I played didn't have any effect and hung in my hand sort of wonky. I then couldn't play it for the rest of the game.
Really, really madness inducing. I'm now back to rank 18 and probably won't make 15 for yet another season. Maybe I'll just clear quests in casual or just quit.
Really, really madness inducing. I'm now back to rank 18 and probably won't make 15 for yet another season. Maybe I'll just clear quests in casual or just quit.
Karsticles
Member
Twinguistics
Member
What do you mean one loss? It was two disconnects but a losing streak of about 5 games.
Don't most quests actually need you to win games? If I'm losing in ranked then how is your advice going to help? I'll just drop further down and not clear any quests.
I don't know about most quests, but there are a lot of quests that don't require winning. Off the top of my head, though some of these numbers may be inaccurate:
* Play 10 pirates
* Play 10 deathrattle minions
* Deal 100 damage
* Play 50 cards of X class (I guess 9 of these quests)
* Play 100 murlocs
* Watch a friend win
Twinguistics
Member
Yes, that's true but my point remains. If I try and clear quests in ranked, I'll probably fall even further away from 15.
People always go on about how I should clear my dailies. If I'm winning about 30 percent of games, a "win 5 games with xxx" quest can take days.
My bad, if you're like rank 17 then by all means stick to casual for quests.
If you're rank 15 already then quests don't matter since you can't fall.
Twinguistics
Member
I was 16,I'm now back at 18
it's the same every season, I've been playing over a year and made higher than 15 once. I always hit a wall around 17 and I'm not sure why. I can't be that thick, surely? I have friends that blast past 15 each month and they are f2p mostly too like me. One of them doesn't follow the meta at all and doesn't watch streamers or anything, logic would suggest he would make more miss plays than me.I was 16,I'm now back at 18
Have you tried sharing your deck and some replays in here?
Twinguistics
Member
I only play on mobile so can't post replays unfortunately. It's also a bit of a pain with the deck list as I'd have to type it out. I have been meaning to though as I could use the help.
Mage is horrible right now. Way to much burn and constant answers. Primordial Glyph is by far the most insane card of this expansion.
But man Quest rogue is the worst designed deck in a long time. Absolutely horrible. Boardclears do nothing against it.
And then straight from quest rogue into jade druid. The thing I hoped the most for was jade druid to be dead
But man Quest rogue is the worst designed deck in a long time. Absolutely horrible. Boardclears do nothing against it.
And then straight from quest rogue into jade druid. The thing I hoped the most for was jade druid to be dead
What rank are you? I just checked my recorded stats over 286 games and I played less than 5% druids. That's less than 1/20, but I'm around rank 9-10.Mage is horrible right now. Way to much burn and constant answers. Primordial Glyph is by far the most insane card of this expansion.
But man Quest rogue is the worst designed deck in a long time. Absolutely horrible. Boardclears do nothing against it.
And then straight from quest rogue into jade druid. The thing I hoped the most for was jade druid to be dead
Board clears do nothing against quest rogue if they have a way to repopulate the board, but why should board clears always answer a deck? Aggro rather than board clear destroys quest rogue.
I agree that primordial glyph (combined with babbling book and various other mage discover/draw cards) are obnoxious for mage though.
The problem with quest rogue is that there is no other answer then, either A) They are shit or B) they drew shit (which is rare).
That is bad design.
Oh I am rank 10. Havent really played much this month due to having to review persona 5.
Super unlikely question, if you have a Shifter in your hand that turns into a C'thun and was buffed, would C'thun cards activate?
Come to Wild, more variety!
Come to Wild, more variety!
SonicXtreme
Member
if void terror's battlecry kills a poisonous minion like emperor cobra, does he die? he shouldn't but with the interactions some other cards have with poison, i was scared to try it out in arena but does anyone know
What does the criticism "this deck is totally non-interactive" mean?
It's a video game. Even if the deck steamrolls, aren't there things you can do to fuck up (or if against it, that you can do to try to stop it) therefore making the experience of playing it (or playing against it) interactive?
It's a video game. Even if the deck steamrolls, aren't there things you can do to fuck up (or if against it, that you can do to try to stop it) therefore making the experience of playing it (or playing against it) interactive?
PhantomThief
Banned
No he doesnt die
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Hard to tell sometimes by what other people mean about it for sure.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
You can play trash up to rank 2-3. I know it, I played stealth rogue to rank 2*** with a 65+% winrate.
Paladin.
Warrior deck with removal
Yup. Taunt warrior is very good aswell.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Going to be banging my head against this Warlock mission for a long while it seems
Turn 4 Flamestrike that's cool
Turn 4 Flamestrike that's cool
I just made a random deck and played it against the innkeeper just to make sure, but you don't need C'thun himself to actually have the C'thun cards activate. I made a deck with a lot of buff cards but no C'thun, and I was still able to activate my Ancient Shieldbearer after getting +4 attack on my non-existent C'thun. I'm guessing the buff cards add onto a counter that's tied to your hero and not C'thun himself.
Karsticles
Member
Rank 5 in Wild with Egg Druid - only lost 5 matches during the climb. That deck is insanely strong. The only decks that beat me were Hunter decks (consistent loss), one Pirate Warrior deck, and other Egg Druids. I don't think I lost to any control decks during the month. Maybe one Priest that got answers on curve?
I give up on arena. It is a complete shitshow where my opponents generate more cards than they play, curve out perfectly, and have answers for everything I do. While I have shit choices for my drafts, shit rng, and can't draw a curve. This is the first expansion I averaged less than 5 wins a run since I first started playing. Its not even fun to lose to this shit.
EDIT: At least in the past expansions I still had fun playing even if I lose, but now it feels like games are completely out of my control.
EDIT: At least in the past expansions I still had fun playing even if I lose, but now it feels like games are completely out of my control.
soulslayer
Member
Agreed. What I've found is that one can consistently climb with "non-meta" decks because people don't know what they're playing against since most get their deck information from the meta reports.
I play arena to do Mage quests. Problem is I haven't been offered Mage in five runs.
My enjoyment of Arena would go up if they removed Cabalist's Tome and Glyph from the Mage drafting pool. I can stomach the book and that 2/1 but the other two are two of the most unfun cards to play against in either mode.
And please no more spell generating bullshit in the next expansions. Or is that part of the class identity in WoW?
I have been offered mage plenty of times, but rarely offered any of the OP cards in my drafts. The 1 time I got a primordial glyph my options were always shatter, ice barrier, ice block, etc... pretty much worthless.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Quest warrior is so annoying. Old control warrior but with a win condition.
Old control warrior did have a win condition. Alex + Grom.
Freeze Mage losing to priest and rogue, oh how the tables have turned.
Logged in yesterday for the first time in 2 months. Still got the 6 free packs for the new expansion and also a wotog pack from my last arena run. I open the wotog pack. First card is legendary. I get excited. Then it is hogger. I was sad. Now the pity timer is reset and i have to wait some time until i get another legendary.
Opened the 6 other un goro packs.just rares and nothing else. I have the feeling that i already have many duplicates in these 6 packs.
Opened the 6 other un goro packs.just rares and nothing else. I have the feeling that i already have many duplicates in these 6 packs.
Guys any advice for ladder anxiety? I know it is better than it has ever been before with the banding and getting rewarded for your highest rank, but for some reason I still find myself blowing through past Rank 15 for better end of season rewards and then getting anxiety at around Rank 11/12.
I then play Casual for the rest of the season, it makes no sense. Help me!
I then play Casual for the rest of the season, it makes no sense. Help me!
Last run I had:
2x Tome
1x Glyph
1x Flamestrike
1x Fireball
1x Polymorph
1x Pyroblast
Secrets and secret finder. The deck had nice synergy with Firefly, Glacial Shard, 2x Servant of Kalimos, Tar Creeper,
I went 2/3.
That should make you feel better.
Run before I went 7/3 with the worst Preist draft I ever pulled. Had a billion 3 drops and almost no synergy. Arena is fun!