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Hearthstone |OT8| Elise's Extremely Irresponsible Field Trip To Un'Goro

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fertygo

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I like Fr0zen and Neirea list the most, combo deck is good choice in this dragon priest tourney meta, I kinda leaned the most to Fr0zen

but maybe he too all out with combo decks, he gonna got rekt so hard with peep with all aggro lineup
 

scarlet

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Don't mention Devolve cause I freaked out when that card was announced and gaf basically lol'ed at my hysteria. They thought it was the rantings of a mad man. I seem to recall a certain gaf threatened to feature me in their video but not sure if they really did :)

And here we are- Devolve is the troll card I feared. It even sees pro play!!! May I say I called this as soon as the card was revealed... My main point though at the time was that it really screws over zoth / deathrattle minions which do nothing unless they actually die

See- I really hate removal / polymorphs in this game cause unlike Eternal we cannot play on opponent's turn to block it. We just sit back and get screwed. dont get me wrong I love HS just sayin'

Devolve helps me a lot. Good against PW, tunnel trogg and totem golem, QA and VC, and especially against buff pally. Even when it turns to be a better minion, I still have hex or another devolve or removal spell.
 

patchday

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weird not familiar with Neirea. Loved Fr0zen's water warrior at HCT winter

Ah I remember now his name is b787. Such a fun guy to watch but I just know he will tilt bbgungun style

Funny no one mention DocPwn who almost won North America Winter undefeated. Think he only lost to one guy at the very end...

Probably choosing between Pavel and Fr0zen.
 
Zoth sucks in standard rn tho.

I'm still not convinced of devolve. The times it's great are easy to imagine but in practice I always thought my opponent's devolve was bad. Then they play the 2nd devolve and I'm fucked.
 

Dart

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lol @ Hearthpwns bingo card for tomorrow's card reveal stream.

bingo-ungoro.png
 

patchday

Member
well yeah zoth is super dead and was at the time Devolve was announced. I still knew it was gonna ruin our day. I was really thinking bout Tirion & Rhonin which were already facing hard times. These cards see play on Wild where Zoth is a hero rather than a zero. At least at my tier

I am always thinking bout Wild since I play both Standard & wild almost evenly

Granted pirate wars rampage on Wild too but Belcher stops them in their tracks. esp Duplicate + Belcher. I use Zoth to rez belchers to lethal btw
 
No Ben Brode. So hahaha is out.

Day[9] has a pretty epic laugh though!

"Vanilla pack filler" will definitely not be on the stream (unless they are dumping the whole set which they almost certainly are not) so that tile's already out of the running. Probably "Cousin of Magma Rager" too.
 
They didn't say anything about any show matches tomorrow right? I assume they're just going to be showing images of the cards and talking about them a bit, maybe giving some insight on the expansion as a whole.
 

Fewr

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I'm currently listening to this podcast episode that's got an interview with a game designer for Hearthstone.

I'm finding it very interesting.

http://pca.st/2uMr

Ego Check with The Id DM - Episode 10 - Dr. Peter Whalen & Dr. Tzachi Zach said:
This week’s MEGA Hearthstone episode celebrates the annoucement of the next expansion, Journey to Un’Goro. First, Peter Whalen, Senior Game Designer for Hearthstone, joins me to discuss his experiences working for Blizzard since 2015 and his role as Lead Designer for the Journey to Un’Goro expansion. He provides additional details about the Adapt and Quest mechanics, and discusses the realities of designing content for a passionate fanbase with access to data analytics to attack Ranked play. Around the 30-minute mark, Dr. Tzachi Zach joins me to talk about the his role as Co-Owner and Data Analyst for Vicious Syndicate. He explains how the weekly Data Reaper Reports are created, and comments on how players and the Hearthstone designers can benefit from the analytics provided by Vicious Syndicate.


EDIT:
Well, after listening to the brief interview and as a new player I'm very excited about the expansion because it will let me experiment along with the experienced players at least at first.
 

scarlet

Member
Got 3900 gold and 1 pack from brawl. So 40 packs.

Hopefully can get another 500 until release date.

Can't watch the announcement. It will be over midnight in my time zone.
 

patchday

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^ frankly that sounds awful. I'm probably going to settle for rank 11 this month. got too many other games to play

WarTile just released which is a game I've been waiting on and Epic Digital Card game Alpha comes out on 3/22 (at least for backers at my tier). Not to mention Mass Effect is looming. Want to knock that out before Ungoro too

hopefully the two of these games combined will keep me distracted til Ungoro drops. but will still occasionally log on to clear quest logs


<edit> I watched Ryzen's stream last night. He was playing a Malygos rogue which is fun to watch. Seemed like he was fighting an endless stream of jade druid and jade shaman though.
 

patchday

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Guess ferty is right I kind of miss the older mid range meta. Granted, I do find the ladder easier then ever to climb if you like fast decks. but my attention span is too short I think I am going back to Malygos rogue. not even expecting to climb will just play for fun and try to accumulate wins to one day go Golden Rogue

currently at 180 wins this endeavor is a long term one I'm afraid
 

patchday

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yeah will make my decision who to vote for when I get to work so I can debate it with coworker. probably just go Pavel. Loving Fr0zen's deck lists but it looks so risky esp the Kun/Avianna.

idk./...
 

ZealousD

Makes world leading predictions like "The sun will rise tomorrow"
yeah will make my decision who to vote for when I get to work so I can debate it with coworker. probably just go Pavel. Loving Fr0zen's deck lists but it looks so risky esp the Kun/Avianna.

idk./...

Yeah that Aviana/Kun list requires some brass balls when it seems like everybody is bringing two or three aggro decks each. Big part of why I didn't choose Fr0zen.
 

QFNS

Unconfirmed Member
Yeah that Aviana/Kun list requires some brass balls when it seems like everybody is bringing two or three aggro decks each. Big part of why I didn't choose Fr0zen.

Yeah I dunno how he is justifying that list. Maybe just hoping to beat Jades with it or something? No idea.

I think I'm going to settle on either Dr.J or Tarei. I can't go for Pavel again, too many people voting for him means he's gonna lose. haha.
 

ZealousD

Makes world leading predictions like "The sun will rise tomorrow"
Pavel's gonna get screwed by a Babbling Book or Swashburgler at some point. RNGesus says that karma's a bitch.
 

Kunohara

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There are games sometimes that makes playing the game worth it. I was playing my wild reno mage against a nzoth pally. The game was like 20 min and kept going back and forth and we went to fatigue. I won because I saved my poly for his tirion (he used nzoth before he put down syl and tirion so I was lucky). and was able to save my reno till we were in fatigue. it was an awesome game. He even emoted well played first, so I think he thought the same thing (he was golden).
 
TFW you are facing warlock on arena and he has 3 shadowflames in his deck that he draws one after the other to clear the board each time, shit is fun.

How do people draft those ridiculous decks, I have never gotten that lucky.
 

shoelacer

Banned
Blizzard hotfixed the Brawl it seems. I haven't tried it myself but according to Reddit;

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/5zux3t/tavern_brawl_hotfixed/

Still broken. I'm not exactly sure what the behavior is but it still spawns multiple PGs, I think having to do with damage. After noticing multiples were still spawning for my opponents occasionally, I pinged the first one that spawned on my side with an Elven Archer, and lo and behold the next turn a fresh one popped up next to the damaged one
 

bjaelke

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Think this is the first time I've ever watched something gaming related while at work. Hope that'll be the last time they ask me to put in extra hours on a Friday - and that Blizzard finally delivers.
 
play arena with your quest gold, after expansions drop the skill level goes way down, 4000 gold will most def net you way more than 50 packs

it gets stale playing nothing but arena for a couple hundred matches but i'm never spending real $ on this game again unless they introduce something somewhat reasonable like starter packs for expansions.
 

Drkirby

Corporate Apologist
... Did they say they are showing 11 cards? Oh come on.

Edit: Warrior just got Choose your own Renounce Darkness.

Can't wait to Renounce into Explore Un'Goro.
 

Yoshichan

And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
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