Author Topic: Hearthstone (Read 219985 times)

Lawfuldog · « **Reply #100 on:** June 24, 2014, 09:10:54 PM »

I really like that the expansion is set up like the actual raid. Naxx was one of my favorites in WoW.

They better make something awesome with the Four Horsemen...

TheMarti · « **Reply #101 on:** June 25, 2014, 09:30:18 AM »

Okay, that looks really awesome. Excited for it to come out.

Drrek · « **Reply #102 on:** June 25, 2014, 09:34:54 AM »

Since we apparently have a ton of people who play this game on here, would anyone be interested in doing a friendly tournament with it at some point?

I'm pretty new to this, and am pretty bad at it so far, but I'd play in one.

browarod · « **Reply #103 on:** June 25, 2014, 09:57:12 AM »

I'd be up for a friendly tournament. I generally am horrible at deck building (in any card game) but I have a shaman deck that seems to do alright for me in ranked play each month (at least as far as getting to 20 for the card back).

TheMarti · « **Reply #104 on:** June 25, 2014, 11:40:00 AM »

That sounds like a good time.

If anyone ever wants to hit me up, my BattleTag is ProfFaridoon#1925. I'm on quite a bit; you may see me in pretty much any of Blizzard's games when I'm online, or just using the client as a glorified IM :p

browarod · « **Reply #105 on:** June 26, 2014, 10:44:59 AM »

My BattleTag is Lashen#1485 so anyone can feel free to add me! (just put a note of your board name so I know who you are

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Master KChief · « **Reply #106 on:** June 27, 2014, 10:23:46 AM »

Curse of Naxxramas release details given by Community Manager Aratil on the battle.net forums:

Quote from: Aratil

Just wanted to give everyone a head's up that we are currently targeting to release Curse of Naxxramas during the month of July. Unfortunately, we still have a lot of implementing and bug fixing to get through, so please stay tuned!

With that said, we are also targeting to reveal pricing details regarding Curse of Naxxramas next week on July 1st, so please keep an eye out for that.

Source: http://www.liquidhearth.com/forum/hearthstone/460392-news-about-naxxramas-from-blizzard

browarod · « **Reply #107 on:** June 27, 2014, 01:54:14 PM »

I hope they keep the first wing free like they had said they would. Assuming they keep the gold option for buying the remaining wings it'll likely take me a bit to earn enough to buy them, haha, so it would be nice to have part of it to play with.

Master KChief · « **Reply #108 on:** June 27, 2014, 02:23:14 PM »

Play Arena and start going infinite

. I feel sorry for Constructed players that don't have the gold yet for it...that'll take forever to grind.

Master KChief · « **Reply #109 on:** June 29, 2014, 06:47:02 PM »

Insane Mage Arena deck. Cards not shown at bottom are Boulderfist Ogre, 2x Flamestrike, Pyroblast, and Sea Giant. Pretty much named this deck Face Mage:

browarod · « **Reply #110 on:** June 30, 2014, 11:20:41 AM »

Congratz! I've never even gotten to 12 wins, let alone gone undefeated, lol. I think the best I've done in Arena was 10-3 and I don't usually do that well. I don't know if I'm just an insufficiently skilled player, or if I don't make the best decisions when drafting, or something else. That does look like a fun deck, though.

Master KChief · « **Reply #111 on:** June 30, 2014, 01:33:29 PM »

10-3 is still really good. Even a 4-3 is good since that is the point where you start making a return on your investment into an Arena run. If you ever need some advice in the drafting process, I would always be glad to help.

About the deck...yeah, it's pretty busted. 28 points of direct damage alone (3x Fireball, Pyroblast), and that's not counting the Argent Commander. 3x AoE spells made stalling for the direct face damage even easier. And above all else, it had a very very good curve. Most games were just absolute blowouts.

The only 2 cards that I regret and feel underperformed was the Vaporize and the Mana Wyrm. I absolutely hate drafting Secrets in Arena, so my pick there must have been against something completely awful (records reveal it was against a Secret Keeper and Mana Wraith). And Mana Wyrm, while a very solid card for Arena, just always feels like it doesn't do enough in any of my Arenas. However, it does bait out removal quite well, especially if dropped turn 1. Silvermoon Guardian also isn't that great of a 4 drop (especially when compared to Scarlet Crusader), but its decent if you need to fill out your curve with more 4 drops. He actually almost lost me my 12th game:

Opponent turn 3: drops Blood Knight
Me turn 4: thinking he surely can't have another Blood Knight, drops my Silvermoon Guardian
Opponent turn 4: 'Thank You'...and drops another Blood Knight
Me:

Luckily I had a Fireball in hand.

Drrek · « **Reply #112 on:** June 30, 2014, 05:17:51 PM »

I'm pretty bad at arena so far. I've had a couple of four runs, and can generally reach 3 wins at this point (I was really bad at the start though))

Grats on the 12.

Master KChief · « **Reply #113 on:** July 01, 2014, 06:38:14 PM »

Season 4 has begun! Those Season 4 card backs look so tasty...

Lawfuldog · « **Reply #114 on:** July 01, 2014, 07:21:53 PM »

I kinda regret throwing away all my gold on packs now. Had a ton saved up, but wanted to make a golden deck

Arena feels dull lately, so I've been playing mostly constructed. Ice Mage is stupidly strong, and it's so hard to beat unless you're control Warrior or Holy Pally.

Edit: Also, I'm up for a tournament! Lawfuldog#1874 is my battetag, just let me know who you are if you add me.

browarod · « **Reply #115 on:** July 01, 2014, 07:57:13 PM »

Lawfuldog, you can be backup for the tournament we just started a couple days ago. If anyone doesn't show up I'll sub you in.

Master KChief · « **Reply #116 on:** July 01, 2014, 07:59:18 PM »

Quote from: Lawfuldog on July 01, 2014, 07:21:53 PM

Arena feels dull lately, so I've been playing mostly constructed. Ice Mage is stupidly strong, and it's so hard to beat unless you're control Warrior or Holy Pally.

Freeze Mage is just so good right now against a meta of nothing but Miracle and Handlocks at the top. It also got a lot of hype when RDU won the finals at Dreamhack with it and everyone started picking it up. But it's a very boring deck to play with and against. Pretty much solitaire. But yeah, Control Warrior absolutely kills it. Any Warrior actually...just literally needs to Armor Up every single turn and it is impossible for a Freeze Mage to win.

Drrek · « **Reply #117 on:** July 05, 2014, 12:47:44 AM »

6 times druid of the claw is super fun in arena.

That was my best run so far, I'm generally getting between 4-6 wins per run at this point, so I think I'm getting either better or luckier.

Master KChief · « **Reply #118 on:** July 05, 2014, 01:57:11 AM »

Grats on the 9 wins, very impressive deck! Druid of the Claw is indeed one of the absolute best cards in Arena, just shy of being an auto-pick every time it pops up (those honors belonging only to Swipe and Fire Elemental). 6 may be excessive, but I can't possibly think of any other common outside of Swipe to pick over DotC in a vacuum. Speaking of which, Swipe didn't come up at all? While I've also been successful with Druid Arena's without any Swipes at all, there's just no better feeling than knowing you have a Swipe or 2 in deck to fall back on.

Deck looks super solid, especially with all the taunts...over a third of your deck! If I could change anything about it at all, it would have been to added a bit more 4 drops. Good 4's are highly regarded when constructing an Arena deck since that is the point where minions start 2-for-1'ing anything below them on the mana curve and either putting you at parity with the board and in card advantage or maintaining tempo. Having a low amount of 4 drops is understandable though because of all the DotC's. I'm curious though, were you picking DotC's over other good 4 drops? Chillwind, Dark Iron, Sen'jin, Cult Master, Swipe, etc?

Drrek · « **Reply #119 on:** July 05, 2014, 02:06:48 AM »

Quote from: Master KChief on July 05, 2014, 01:57:11 AM

Grats on the 9 wins, very impressive deck! Druid of the Claw is indeed one of the absolute best cards in Arena, just shy of being an auto-pick every time it pops up (those honors belonging only to Swipe and Fire Elemental). 6 may be excessive, but I can't possibly think of any other common outside of Swipe to pick over DotC in a vacuum. Speaking of which, Swipe didn't come up at all? While I've also been successful with Druid Arena's without any Swipes at all, there's just no better feeling than knowing you have a Swipe or 2 in deck to fall back on.

Deck looks super solid, especially with all the taunts...over a third of your deck! If I could change anything about it at all, it would have been to added a bit more 4 drops. Good 4's are highly regarded when constructing an Arena deck since that is the point where minions start 2-for-1'ing anything below them on the mana curve and either putting you at parity with the board and in card advantage or maintaining tempo. Having a low amount of 4 drops is understandable though because of all the DotC's. I'm curious though, were you picking DotC's over other good 4 drops? Chillwind, Dark Iron, Sen'jin, Cult Master, Swipe, etc?

Yeah not very many good 4 drops like the yeti, taz'dingo, or Dark Iron came up (I think I did choose against a cult master at one point, and I did take a taz'dingo and dark iron), and I was rather upset actually to not get a swipe. I tend to play Paladin the most, so it was odd to not be completely overwhelmed with 4 drops, but whatever.

All but a couple games basically became turn 5 I play a druid of the claw every turn charging at your face, let's see if you can handle it. The answer for most decks seemed to be no.

Master KChief · « **Reply #120 on:** July 06, 2014, 10:10:59 PM »

Winner winner, chicken dinner:

Missing cards at bottom are Blizzard, Illidan Stormrage, Baron Geddon, and 2x Flamestrike.

Warrior_Monk · « **Reply #121 on:** July 06, 2014, 10:45:00 PM »

I looked at the deck and tried to figure out it was good. Then I saw the cards that were missing. Congrats.

Master KChief · « **Reply #122 on:** July 06, 2014, 11:45:00 PM »

Blizzard and Skillstrike are good, sure, but the Baron Geddon and Illidan are mediocre to below average at best and not gamechangers at all. The deck is actually an early game tempo deck as I only have 7 mid/late game cards with 3 of those being spells. Honestly the best thing about the deck was maintaining tempo by having a good number of solid drops until turn 4. Especially the Mana Wyrms, which I think I've officially changed my stance on...they ended up putting in quite a bit of work because of the relatively decent amount of spells in deck. The deck also had very nice synergy with the Argent Squire, Silvermoon Guardian, and Blood Knight. My last game ended with my opponent dropping a Silvermoon Guardian and I had Silvermoon Guardian and Blood Knight in hand. GG.

Some interesting things:

Faced 7 Mages. Games 9 through 14 were all Mages.
Both of my losses were to Mages. First loss was because of a double Flamestrike hand with my opponent dropping a Mana Wraith (!) on turn 2. There was no way to trade favorably at that point. Second loss was a game that went all the way to fatigue damage, with me slightly ahead in life but 1 card less in my deck than my opponent. My last card in hand was a Flamestrike. His card in hand was a Flamestrike. His last card in deck was an Earthen Ring Farseer.
My rewards were 250 Gold, pack, Cenarius, and a Golden Mana Wraith. Oh the irony.

Warrior_Monk · « **Reply #123 on:** July 07, 2014, 12:40:36 AM »

3 of the 4 bottom cards were board clearing cards.

Hahahaha, gold Mana Wraith.

Master KChief · « **Reply #124 on:** July 07, 2014, 01:11:07 AM »

All AoE isn't good. Baron Geddon is a two-sided Consecration that you have to pay almost double for and doesn't have the health that you should expect to see on a 7 drop. 2 health minions also usually aren't that prevalent in the stage of the game where you would anticipate playing him, which leads to a high degree of variance. And he performs even worse in aggro style decks with relatively low health minions. He's definitely hit or miss.

Blizzard on the other hand is valued highly because even though it also is a more expensive Consecration, it still freezes all surviving minions which creates a tempo swing if you are behind on board.

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