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Hearthstone |OT9| Our raid wiped in Icecrown Citadel

Zakalwe

Banned
44 armour vs Quest rogue felt pretty good.

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Brofist

Member
Has quest warrior kind of fade away? Maybe it's just my impression.

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.
 

Blizzard

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/
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.
 
wild is fun until you queue into the same person 3 times.

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
 
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.
 
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.

One loss is stopping you?

Just play ranked and clear quests.
 
One loss is stopping you?

Just play ranked and clear quests.

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.
 

Blizzard

Banned
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
 
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


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.
 

Blizzard

Banned
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.
 
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.

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.
 

Lyng

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.

Have you tried sharing your deck and some replays in here?
 

Lyng

Member
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 :(
 

Blizzard

Banned
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 :(
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.

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.
 

Lyng

Member
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.

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.
 

fertygo

Member
Jade Druid is completely insane in tournament setting right now

There is only like 3 deck that Jàde Druid useless against and those 3 deck is really popular on ladder but you easily ban those in tournament.

Jade Druid is having best winrate across various recent tournament.
 

KLoWn

Member
Jade Druid, Pirate Warrior, Quest Rogue is all I'm facing... Hearthstone is absolute fuckin garbage right now.


Time to take a break from this game.
 

Tagyhag

Member
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?

Jade Druid, Pirate Warrior, Quest Rogue is all I'm facing... Hearthstone is absolute fuckin garbage right now.


Time to take a break from this game.

Come to Wild, more variety!
 
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
 

Magnus

Member
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?
 
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?

Hard to tell sometimes by what other people mean about it for sure.
 

Htown

STOP SHITTING ON MY MOTHER'S HEADSTONE
um

I just went all the way up from zero star rank 5 to 4 with a murloc warlock deck

what is happening
 

Pooya

Member
what's the best deck against silence priest? I don't want to lose to these /salt.


tempted to play double sap, double slayer rogue...
 

Euphony

Banned
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!

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.
 
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?
 

Mulgrok

Member
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.
 

Ladekabel

Member
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.

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?
 

Mulgrok

Member
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.
 

rahji

Member
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.
 

scarlet

Member
Just looked at my old screenshot from May 2016 (my 1st month), I was rank 19 playing mage with ice barrier, mirror entity and yeti.

Time flies so fast
 

Bunga

Member
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!
 

Zakalwe

Banned
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?

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!
 
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