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Hearthstone |OT| Why tap cards when you can roll need [Naxx final wing out now]
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Mister_Bubbles
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I have been trying out Warrior... put together an aggro deck which I thought would work well, but I have lost like 5 games in a row. Am I doing something massively wrong here? Any advice would be appreciated, cards I should add/remove etc:
ShinNL
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If you run low curve you want to have more resilient minions like Divine Shield and Harvest Golems. Goldshire Footman is horrible btw.
Really, most of those minions aren't ideal for aggro. Argent Squire is a better one-drop than the Goldshires, Faerie Dragons and Bloodsail Raiders are better than the Amani and Cruel Taskmasters and Novice Engineer is basically a dead card in this deck. Arathi Weaponsmith and Kor'kron Elite should also probably be in the deck over the Rifleman and Worgens.
Most of the deck looks like a cross between a burn deck and a board control deck, really.
Most of the deck looks like a cross between a burn deck and a board control deck, really.
Novice Engineer is a bad card for that kind of deck with the stats it has. Loot Hoarder would do a lot better but, honestly, the deck just needs to mulligan properly and coast off the draws to win rather than draw a bunch. That's why it's a burn deck instead of a more board control-y variant.
The Lamonster
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Isn't there some sort of iPad showoff event today for the press?
yasssssssssssssssssssss
My first legendary too
I've only gotten hogger. Twice. And he gets killed super fast lol
eudaemonic
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I don't play very often but when I played last night, someone pulled out Malygos and I smiled.
Also played a match where they got me down to one health (they had 18) and my card pulls were smiled upon by the gourds and ended up winning. I had a mage deck and they had a hunter deck. Felt so good to be able to pull back out like that when I should have been dead at least three different rounds. Forgot to send them a well played though or something for the match. So PhantomXLR, thanks for that.
Interesting games are way better than just getting completely slaughtered or completely wiping someone. To me at least.
Also played a match where they got me down to one health (they had 18) and my card pulls were smiled upon by the gourds and ended up winning. I had a mage deck and they had a hunter deck. Felt so good to be able to pull back out like that when I should have been dead at least three different rounds. Forgot to send them a well played though or something for the match. So PhantomXLR, thanks for that.
Interesting games are way better than just getting completely slaughtered or completely wiping someone. To me at least.
KojiKnight
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yasssssssssssssssssssss
My first legendary too
Grats! Still don't have a rag, but I can't really complain, I've currently got 9 legendaries and had something like 14-15 since wipe (and 2 pre-wipe)
Mister_Bubbles
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Cheers everyone for your suggestions, I've now got it looking like this:
(I don't have any Harvest Golems).
Will give it a shot now!
(I don't have any Harvest Golems).
Will give it a shot now!
nm. I'm a dummy.
edit - looks decent. I might say try and fit at least one charge in there unless others more knowledgeable have a reason not to. fiery war axe + raider + charge = 10 damage to the face for 7 mana. arcanite + raider + charge + upgrade = 16 damage to the face for 10.
edit - looks decent. I might say try and fit at least one charge in there unless others more knowledgeable have a reason not to. fiery war axe + raider + charge = 10 damage to the face for 7 mana. arcanite + raider + charge + upgrade = 16 damage to the face for 10.
in one of the latest tournaments (seatstory coup) murloc warlock and zoo warlock were among the strongest decks in the competition. Rush hunter is currently one of the top decks as well. So yeah, they are viable
of course, Handlock won the tournament. Warlocks everywhere
I took Hearth-GAF's advice and dusted my Pagle and golden Tink. I also dusted The Beast and Al'Akir the Windlord, which I'd gotten a while back, since I never use them.
All told I had 6,500 dust when the... dust settled.
I ended up crafting:
Ragnaros
Ysera
Sylvanas
Black Knight
Big Game Hunter
and a couple of others I needed to make a YOLO 420 priest deck.
I still really want a golden Cabal Shadow Priest.
All told I had 6,500 dust when the... dust settled.
I ended up crafting:
Ragnaros
Ysera
Sylvanas
Black Knight
Big Game Hunter
and a couple of others I needed to make a YOLO 420 priest deck.
I still really want a golden Cabal Shadow Priest.
It's a gimmicky combo that the deck doesn't have the draw power to reasonably sustain across a ton of games. On average, it won't add all that much. Besides that, the deck kind of wants to equip weapons and swing for the face whenever and drop creatures early so it really shouldn't even be reaching turn 7/10 without already having their win condition ready.
Like, that kind of Warrior deck is purely focused on burning out the opponent. It just wants to drop creatures and go for the face as much as possible. The deck punishes Control decks that neglect aggro too much and works well against decks with few early game minions.
I'd still say -2x Amani Berserkers for Faerie Dragons, -2 Ironforge Riflemen for +1 Frothing, +1 Leper Gnome, and probably -2x Executes for Argent Commanders. It's still looking too much like a mix between deck types and you'd be better off trying to narrow the deck down to just the one archetype.
ok, that makes sense.
yeah, frothing berserker (and preferably a way to damage him before attacking) is mandatory in any warrior deck. It is very common for me to have laid him on turn 3, and have him attack turn 4 at 12+ damage especially against early rushes.
first turn coin and fiery war axe
second turn acolyte of pain (usually left alone to not give me a draw)
third turn frothing berserker (usually left alone)
fourth turn, some combination of cruel taskmaster, acolyte of pain attack, fiery war axe attack and whirlwind. net result is two card draws and depending on how many minions your opponent has out, a bit over 10 attack on turn 4.
yeah, frothing berserker (and preferably a way to damage him before attacking) is mandatory in any warrior deck. It is very common for me to have laid him on turn 3, and have him attack turn 4 at 12+ damage especially against early rushes.
first turn coin and fiery war axe
second turn acolyte of pain (usually left alone to not give me a draw)
third turn frothing berserker (usually left alone)
fourth turn, some combination of cruel taskmaster, acolyte of pain attack, fiery war axe attack and whirlwind. net result is two card draws and depending on how many minions your opponent has out, a bit over 10 attack on turn 4.
Hungry Crab.dec went 12-0, hooray
The best part of fringe useful cards is that nobody expects them so they're blowouts.
Though I think that line of thinking leads to awful deck design.
I never used him
The best part of fringe useful cards is that nobody expects them so they're blowouts.
Though I think that line of thinking leads to awful deck design.
I've just started an arena match.
Ever tried playing through sweepers? It's harder than it looks.
The only time you can really autopilot is when your opponent stumbles. If they're on point then risk/benefit analysis becomes important.
That said you can just play mindlessly to try to grind out wins but you can do that with any deck. It's just easier for aggro.
Its a decent card but too expensive. It's a board clear that gives your opponent the momentum, unless you have a 2 drop / inferno. For 6 it would be a great card. :3
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
2 times in this draft I just did, my epic choices were hungry crab and doomsayer. wtf.
I heard hungry crab makes you go 12-0
Anyone with programming knowledge able to explain why a game as "simple" as Hearthcraft would have these type of bug issues even after a lengthy beta? Just seems like something a team like Blizzard would be able to nip in the bud.
Hydranockz
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Went 6-3 in Arena with this mage deck. Feels good to break out and finally get more than 3 wins. Got 135 gold and a decent-ish pack. This gaaaaaaame.
http://www.arenavalue.com/s/HstEaP
http://www.arenavalue.com/s/HstEaP
Mobius and pet octopus
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I'm not sure what I can do vs all the mages I am running into lately. Turn 4 water elemental has always been a pain in the ass. Their +1 hp over standard minions really screws with rogue... plus that frost ability even doubles it. And all of them love to run farseer so water elemental has the potential to easily 3-1... One mage healed it twice and got like 4-5 cards out of it.
Yes. It's been stated many times that they would not be wiping after Open beta.
Lord Phol
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Oh, well that sucks, I only got shit cards in the beta!
Yeah one of the most important things is to allways check for lethal!
manfestival
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I managed to get two buzzards and two unleash the hounds in my arena hunter deck. so far im 3-0 . I am beyond pleased. First time going 3-0. Best ive done is 4-3
I also decided to go with 50/50 for spells/minions
I also decided to go with 50/50 for spells/minions
We've known this for 6+ months, I don't know why this rumor keeps perpetuating.
It doesn't take long to get decent cards if you play casually for a week.
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