Is it possible that Rexxar is going to be more consistent? You might not have a few of the real good stuff, but you will be able to reliably predict what sort of minion you'll get.
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Playing Warlock in the run and this happened
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I like control Mage. I don’t know if it’s good but I can gain tons of armor, play expensive spells and still plop down 4/4s, and just grind people out of resources. Seems fun.
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Wow, Rexxar was the second choice after Tirion for My First Legend Craft and the only reason I skipped it was eventual rotation.
SUPER glad I didn't go that route.
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Is it possible that Rexxar is going to be more consistent? You might not have a few of the real good stuff, but you will be able to reliably predict what sort of minion you'll get.
Eh, I think the overall beast quality is going to drop enough that the "consistency" is just going to result in more crappy zombeasts on the whole. Without things like Rat Pack, Dispatch Kodo, etc. reducing the occurrence of garbage like Silverback, Raptor, Crocolisk, you're going to be rewarded for clicking that button less often and thus Rexxar is going to be a less worthy include. If the average 2016 beast weren't significantly better than the average classic beast, then it'd probably be a wash or not a nerf, but I don't think that's the case.
Consistency alone isn't enough. Polymorph is more consistent than Primordial Glyph, but Glyph is played in basically every mage deck.
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Here's the deck I'm using. Yes, it's shamelessly stolen from Thijs.
Really want to play this deck. I can (probably) live without Greenskin but I feel like those other three epics are pretty critical.
I swapped greenskin for another squidface, this works pretty dang well.
I'm also playing Kibler's spell Hunter without the weapon and doing just fine. 4-0. Last match was reaaaally close against another spell Hunter I was at 8 life and he was at 5, they cast the weapon and filled their hand and somehow didn't get lethal.
Is it possible that Rexxar is going to be more consistent? You might not have a few of the real good stuff, but you will be able to reliably predict what sort of minion you'll get.
Eh, I think the overall beast quality is going to drop enough that the "consistency" is just going to result in more crappy zombeasts on the whole. Without things like Rat Pack, Dispatch Kodo, etc. reducing the occurrence of garbage like Silverback, Raptor, Crocolisk, you're going to be rewarded for clicking that button less often and thus Rexxar is going to be a less worthy include. If the average 2016 beast weren't significantly better than the average classic beast, then it'd probably be a wash or not a nerf, but I don't think that's the case.
Consistency alone isn't enough. Polymorph is more consistent than Primordial Glyph, but Glyph is played in basically every mage deck.
Not that I’ve played a ton, but I don’t think I’ve ever had Dispatch Kodo or Rat Pack as options.
So after rotation, the beast pool will forever and ever be Basic, Un’Goro, and KFT?
I assume Wild won’t lose any choices?
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You know, for a while now I’ve been thinking that Voidlord is a legendary. I don’t know why, it’s clearly not.
Hoo boy that’s a good card.
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KoopahTroopahThe koopas, the troopas.Philadelphia, PARegistered Userregular
Will rexxar have only ungoro/TFT beasts, or standard ones too?
You lose some nice options but some junk gets removed too, and the ungoro beasts were mostly pretty good
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Fucking finally.
Turns out Treasure Dragon can't do much when they only have 2 spaces for new minions and can't kill off treasure chests by attacking your minions because of your infini-Stealth. Used my double health to tank damage until I could knock off that giant health pool.
I was having a really, really good dungeon run with Paladin - Minions >5 cost 5, start with extra mana as my magic items. I had three Rags Lightlords, a collection of heavy dragons ...
... until I ran into ...
... a badguy who can copy any minion of yours he wants for 1 mana.
Yeah, when your plan is dropping discounted fatties, an enemy copying them 1x per turn for even cheaper is just ... not gonna happen.
So i can see quite a bit of rage in this expansion already. had a warrior ransom my deck, then use the 'replace your deck with 1 cost 'discover a card' spells, then when i ransomed it back, he gheisted me.
I tried this last night. Just the one game against a newbie. It won but it went to fatigue since I had to draw through most of my deck before I could destroy his. Might have to look into refining the deck and the strategy.
So i can see quite a bit of rage in this expansion already. had a warrior ransom my deck, then use the 'replace your deck with 1 cost 'discover a card' spells, then when i ransomed it back, he gheisted me.
I tried this last night. Just the one game against a newbie. It won but it went to fatigue since I had to draw through most of my deck before I could destroy his. Might have to look into refining the deck and the strategy.
Got shaman to 8 on my first try. Did a few runs with warrior and completed it, few with rogue, druid on first try. Was feeling pretty confident.
Played hunter and lost on first boss. It was the sneaky thief man so I'm wondering if that guy is a rare first encounter.
had a good run with the druid quest plus hoarding dragons and a mill package. it's going ok at 15 but these zoolocks running kobold librarians are a bit of a problem. i gave this deathrattle bear that recruits 2 4-or-less cost minions a shot: best case scenario it finishes your quest at the end of your opponents' turn, worst case scenario it pulls coldlight oracles. it would go before the oracles did.
choice victories so far have been milling a mill rogue and dealing 90+ damage to a quest raza priest
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Finally got one!
Survived Azari with priest even though he milled BOTH my non-passive treasures *grumble* thanks in large part to Potion of Vitality and stealing a bunch of his crap, including a ton of Darksteeds to give me gas in fatigue. Deck below:
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I just played a delightful control v. control game with my big spell mage vs. some kind of dragon priest.
He steals and plays Alanna Dragoncaller from my deck. Oh great. How am I getting out of this one?
Cast a bunch of spells, mostly clear the board between that and trading in some minions. Get to kill one with my hero power and generate a water elemental.
Two turns later the priest plays a second Alanna Dragoncaller. He has 14 health
Which I follow with a Pyroblast I've been holding half the game, which I got from a Glyph generated by a Tome. Between my water elly and hero power, that's lethal!
I just played a delightful control v. control game with my big spell mage vs. some kind of dragon priest.
He steals and plays Alanna Dragoncaller from my deck. Oh great. How am I getting out of this one?
Cast a bunch of spells, mostly clear the board between that and trading in some minions. Get to kill one with my hero power and generate a water elemental.
Two turns later the priest plays a second Alanna Dragoncaller. He has 14 health
Which I follow with a Pyroblast I've been holding half the game, which I got from a Glyph generated by a Tome. Between my water elly and hero power, that's lethal!
Mind posting your Mage deck? I figure I have to atleast give Alanna a chance.
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druid is still nauseating
when do the worst offenders rotate out? more than a year right? nothing compares... 10 mana on turn 5, earthen scales, kun, infinite 1 mana jades... ugh it shouldn't exist. I refuse to play it!
when do the worst offenders rotate out? more than a year right? nothing compares... 10 mana on turn 5, earthen scales, kun, infinite 1 mana jades... ugh it shouldn't exist. I refuse to play it!
Kun and Jades are going out in April. UI and Plague and Malfurious are a long ways away.
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when do the worst offenders rotate out? more than a year right? nothing compares... 10 mana on turn 5, earthen scales, kun, infinite 1 mana jades... ugh it shouldn't exist. I refuse to play it!
Kun and Jades are going out in April. UI and Plague and Malfurious are a long ways away.
maybe I can hibernate...
at least without Jade I'll be less blatantly offended by the decks. they'll hvae good everything but at least not infinite, cheap, increasingly powerful minions
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Mage down! Put together a highlander quest deck that managed to make up for very rarely being able to go infinite with the take an extra turn treasure so that after the final boss dropped Deathwing, I ended up taking three turns in a row while slinging slightly discounted 9 damage fireballs at them.
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The AI literally has no answer for this. . .not even The Darkness. Drew Wax Rager (5/1, Deathrattle: Resummon this minion) before turn 5/6 on every run after I got him. Got the "Deathrattles Trigger Twice" right after that. Aso had two Antonidas's a Baron Geddon and a Rag. Played Rag like once. They for sure are going to tune some of these after the first week. . .
Also logged into the game after like two year away, and somehow have 5000 dust. Do you accrue dust each month or something?
I just played a delightful control v. control game with my big spell mage vs. some kind of dragon priest.
He steals and plays Alanna Dragoncaller from my deck. Oh great. How am I getting out of this one?
Cast a bunch of spells, mostly clear the board between that and trading in some minions. Get to kill one with my hero power and generate a water elemental.
Two turns later the priest plays a second Alanna Dragoncaller. He has 14 health
Which I follow with a Pyroblast I've been holding half the game, which I got from a Glyph generated by a Tome. Between my water elly and hero power, that's lethal!
Mind posting your Mage deck? I figure I have to atleast give Alanna a chance.
Sure. This is what I'm working with, though I'd probably make some changes if I had some more of the new cards.
### Big
# Class: Mage
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Mammoth
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# 2x (1) Arcane Artificer
# 2x (2) Arcanologist
# 2x (2) Doomsayer
# 2x (2) Medivh's Valet
# 2x (2) Raven Familiar
# 1x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 1x (3) Ice Barrier
# 2x (3) Ice Block
# 1x (3) Kabal Courier
# 1x (4) Prince Valanar
# 2x (5) Arcane Tyrant
# 2x (5) Cabalist's Tome
# 1x (5) Dragon's Fury
# 2x (6) Blizzard
# 1x (6) Meteor
# 2x (7) Firelands Portal
# 1x (7) Flamestrike
# 1x (8) Medivh, the Guardian
# 1x (9) Dragoncaller Alanna
# 1x (9) Frost Lich Jaina
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
Alanna seems ok. I just grind people out of resources and then finish the game with medivh/alanna/jaina. But also people are playing greedy decks right now and I can see this needing a lot of refinement once we find that big stupid aggro deck that kills you in 6 turns.
i don't think they're going to tune dungeon run at all, i think the intention is that some things are broken and unfair
I just saw that you don't get anything for beating a single run so you're probably right. Perhaps if they (well when I'm sure) introduce a Heroic Mode they'll do some rejiggering. Feels like this mode is perfect for the Overwatch-style "here's free card packs that don't require much work."
The decks swapped, swapped back, and was replaced with 1-cost cards?
If you look closely, he swapped the decks then played Journey to Un’Goro which converted his deck to 1-Mana spells. When the Hunter swapped back, his deck got wiped by the Geist.
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Man, how good is Duskbreaker?
So good that when the AI plays it through Glyph of Warding to make it cost 5, it's still really good.
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Also logged into the game after like two year away, and somehow have 5000 dust. Do you accrue dust each month or something?
May have been the free dust they gave us for rotating some of the classic set to the Hall of Fame (and therefore into the Wild play mode instead of Standard).
Rather than give people the full dust reward for disenchanting and see people dust some of the more recognisable cards (Sylvanas and Ragnaros) they just gave everyone the dust value of those cards (if they had them) for free.
Just played an Aluneth mage... I don't think he fully got the idea, milling like 6 of his cards. He was actually dead even if I didn't have the spells to finish him
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Continually trying and failing to beat the dungeon run with my favorite classes, I decided to throw comfort and class knowledge out the window and try my worst class; Warlock.
First successful run.
Apparently picking loads of demons and Guldan is very, very good.
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Found a glitch with the cube. Seems if you play it then sometimes the card back will stay on the leftmost position as if you had to chose a card. It covers the cards but they are still there. I had it twice a couple turns after casting the cube.
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Really want to play this deck. I can (probably) live without Greenskin but I feel like those other three epics are pretty critical.
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SUPER glad I didn't go that route.
Consistency alone isn't enough. Polymorph is more consistent than Primordial Glyph, but Glyph is played in basically every mage deck.
I swapped greenskin for another squidface, this works pretty dang well.
I'm also playing Kibler's spell Hunter without the weapon and doing just fine. 4-0. Last match was reaaaally close against another spell Hunter I was at 8 life and he was at 5, they cast the weapon and filled their hand and somehow didn't get lethal.
Not that I’ve played a ton, but I don’t think I’ve ever had Dispatch Kodo or Rat Pack as options.
So after rotation, the beast pool will forever and ever be Basic, Un’Goro, and KFT?
I assume Wild won’t lose any choices?
Hoo boy that’s a good card.
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Lol.
XD
You lose some nice options but some junk gets removed too, and the ungoro beasts were mostly pretty good
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Turns out Treasure Dragon can't do much when they only have 2 spaces for new minions and can't kill off treasure chests by attacking your minions because of your infini-Stealth. Used my double health to tank damage until I could knock off that giant health pool.
... until I ran into ...
Yeah, when your plan is dropping discounted fatties, an enemy copying them 1x per turn for even cheaper is just ... not gonna happen.
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Standard stays in. The main upside I can think of is that rolling into Vicious Fledgling + Stonetusk Boar becomes more consistent?
I tried this last night. Just the one game against a newbie. It won but it went to fatigue since I had to draw through most of my deck before I could destroy his. Might have to look into refining the deck and the strategy.
Fatigue seems normal from what I saw yesterday
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Played hunter and lost on first boss. It was the sneaky thief man so I'm wondering if that guy is a rare first encounter.
choice victories so far have been milling a mill rogue and dealing 90+ damage to a quest raza priest
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He steals and plays Alanna Dragoncaller from my deck. Oh great. How am I getting out of this one?
Cast a bunch of spells, mostly clear the board between that and trading in some minions. Get to kill one with my hero power and generate a water elemental.
Two turns later the priest plays a second Alanna Dragoncaller. He has 14 health
Which I follow with a Pyroblast I've been holding half the game, which I got from a Glyph generated by a Tome. Between my water elly and hero power, that's lethal!
PSN: Threeve703
The decks swapped, swapped back, and was replaced with 1-cost cards?
Mind posting your Mage deck? I figure I have to atleast give Alanna a chance.
when do the worst offenders rotate out? more than a year right? nothing compares... 10 mana on turn 5, earthen scales, kun, infinite 1 mana jades... ugh it shouldn't exist. I refuse to play it!
Kun and Jades are going out in April. UI and Plague and Malfurious are a long ways away.
maybe I can hibernate...
at least without Jade I'll be less blatantly offended by the decks. they'll hvae good everything but at least not infinite, cheap, increasingly powerful minions
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Fuck Joe Manchin
Also logged into the game after like two year away, and somehow have 5000 dust. Do you accrue dust each month or something?
Sure. This is what I'm working with, though I'd probably make some changes if I had some more of the new cards.
Alanna seems ok. I just grind people out of resources and then finish the game with medivh/alanna/jaina. But also people are playing greedy decks right now and I can see this needing a lot of refinement once we find that big stupid aggro deck that kills you in 6 turns.
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I just saw that you don't get anything for beating a single run so you're probably right. Perhaps if they (well when I'm sure) introduce a Heroic Mode they'll do some rejiggering. Feels like this mode is perfect for the Overwatch-style "here's free card packs that don't require much work."
If you look closely, he swapped the decks then played Journey to Un’Goro which converted his deck to 1-Mana spells. When the Hunter swapped back, his deck got wiped by the Geist.
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So good that when the AI plays it through Glyph of Warding to make it cost 5, it's still really good.
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May have been the free dust they gave us for rotating some of the classic set to the Hall of Fame (and therefore into the Wild play mode instead of Standard).
Rather than give people the full dust reward for disenchanting and see people dust some of the more recognisable cards (Sylvanas and Ragnaros) they just gave everyone the dust value of those cards (if they had them) for free.
First successful run.
Apparently picking loads of demons and Guldan is very, very good.
The cube?
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