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  • ZythonZython Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    Ok, so the Rogue quest has been revealed. It's in Chinese at the moment, but it seems to be:

    Quest: Get 4 cards from another class. Reward: Ancient Blade

    Ancient Blade (Hero Power): Equip a 3/2 dagger. Your hero is immune while attacking.

    Edit: Here they are in English. The universal language.

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  • ObiFettObiFett Use the Force As You WishRegistered User regular
    Get? Or Play?

    Just getting 4 cards from another class is a joke for Rogue.

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  • ZythonZython Registered User regular
    ObiFett wrote: »
    Get? Or Play?

    Just getting 4 cards from another class is a joke for Rogue.

    Seems to be get. The comic used to announce it showed the quest activating immediately after playing Pilfer.

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  • PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    edited July 2019
    That is absurd. Rogues naturally complete that with the cards they play now and now they can face punch minions with no downsides

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    yoooo that looks like a super fun rogue card

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    also it will absolutely get nerfed

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  • YiliasYilias Registered User regular
    That's honestly disgusting. Weapons are the best type of removal in the game and this gets around their downside.

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  • bwaniebwanie Posting into the void Registered User regular
    Watch them print envenom dagger on a stick...

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    WHAT THE FUCK HEARTHSTONE

    BAKU FUCKING DIED FOR THIS SHIT????

    Y'ALL, IF YOU THOUGHT A FUCKING 2/2 WEAPON WAS STRONG, GET READY TO FUCKING CRY TEARS OF BLOOD OVER THIS GARBAGE. 6 DAMAGE FOR 2 MANA, HOLY FUCKING HELL

    Jesus. This is, legit, going to be in E V E R Y Rogue deck going forward, until it rotates. Holy FUCKING SHIT WHAT WERE THEY FUCKING THINKING


    edit: AND THERE'S ZERO FUCKING DOWNSIDE THIS TIME AROUND. AT LEAST WITH ODD ROGUE YOU HAD TO KNEECAP YOUR DECK A BIT. BUT NOPE, LITERALLY NOT EVEN THIS FUCKING TIME AROUND!!!

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  • PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    also it will absolutely get nerfed

    Well that is the tradition so far...

    Add 5 cards

    Then

    A 3/1 dagger or 3/2 without immune

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    Phyphor wrote: »
    also it will absolutely get nerfed

    Well that is the tradition so far...

    Add 5 cards

    Then

    A 3/1 dagger or 3/2 without immune

    Guarantee you Rogue will not care if it loses the Immune because they are not going to be hitting minions.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    reprinting quests was a fucking mistake fuck this goddamn game

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  • PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    Most of the quests are fine, it's just they make some broken ones because they don't think this through

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Yeah, the power level of a few of the quests we've seen isn't very high for the opportunity cost of playing them.

    Rogue quest seems pretty strong and makes Pharaoh Cat even better since it has a ~1/3 chance to generate a class card.

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  • YiliasYilias Registered User regular
    I'm mostly surprised that the majority of the quests are alternate effect replacements but the Priest and Rogue one are straight upgrades.

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  • SensationalSensational Registered User regular
    This thread is getting very emotional.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    This thread is getting very emotional.

    THEY'RE GIVING ROGUE FUCKING FIREBALL FOR 2 MANA OF COURSE I'M EMOTIONAL

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  • DodgeBlanDodgeBlan PSN: dodgeblanRegistered User regular
    I mean the question I ask whenever I see a quest is ‘is it better than dr boom’ and it seems like the answer to all of them is no

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    This thread is getting very emotional.

    Just like the Jade Druid days. Ahh, memories.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    I mean jade druid was also terrible

    the rogue quest is just like, so obviously too strong, especially in comparison to most of the other quests

    that said, it makes the thief rogue mirror even more hilarious

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  • envoy1envoy1 the old continentRegistered User regular
    Urgh the priest and rogue quests make me very sad.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    When I have a Priest quest lately, I've been playing this Silence Priest and... it's been working better than I expected. Tonight I went 2-0 against Midrange Hunter and a Conjurer Mage. The deck is pretty draw dependent, though, and sometimes you don't draw enough of your minions and end up with a hand clogged with silence and buffs.

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    this expansion is gonna be bonkers. just a straight up table flip of the meta, i love it. been a long time since we've had an expansion so impactful

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    Thank fuck they changed leeching poison to make it one turn only

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  • AlphagaiaAlphagaia Registered User regular
    The Rogue Quest is powerful, but not immediate like Baku, which was a big part of the problem. Spending around 4 turns playing subpar minions or spells and then 2 Mana to equip your blades most probably put you in defense mode anyways.

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  • bwaniebwanie Posting into the void Registered User regular
    Agreed. Odd rogue was good because they were chopping away all your early game stuff while developing. This leaves them vulnarable to aggro much more.

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  • lwt1973lwt1973 King of Thieves SyndicationRegistered User regular
    Beasteh wrote: »
    Thank fuck they changed leeching poison to make it one turn only

    Agreed. But still with the weapon buffs out there you're going to be hit for a lot or remove a high value minion for no damage.

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  • MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    That rogue quest reward is insanely strong.

    Always up, doesn't require board, 2 mana every 2 turns.


    Good. Lord.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    People, people....this quest stuff will be fine. They'll show off:

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    Alphagaia wrote: »
    The Rogue Quest is powerful, but not immediate like Baku, which was a big part of the problem. Spending around 4 turns playing subpar minions or spells and then 2 Mana to equip your blades most probably put you in defense mode anyways.

    Ehhh, Blink Fox and.... that.... 4/3 pirate whose name I forget... aren't subpar.

    Here's the thing, I don't think you even have to build around this quest. You play it on T1, then just play Rogue as normal and it completes itself. Because Rogue has plenty of steal cards already.

    edit: depending on what else we get tho, yeah idk maybe adding pilfer might not be a bad idea for consistency....

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    Eeeeh playing Rogue as normal very much is usually "play a minion on turn 1"

    Like that's the very real cost of all quests in aggro decks, is being down a card AND a turn 1 play

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    I've been sorta disheartened from the moment that we saw the first quest posted. The Hearthstone team hasn't learned that Hero Powers are dangerous and we should probably just take a break from fiddling with them for a year. I thought that's what we were doing when they said there'd be no more Hero cards this year.

    And too often are poorly thought out game mechanics and cards excused by the fact that they're bad or "probably won't see play." That really only matters until it isn't true anymore, and unless you have a crystal ball or your brother Jeff works at Blizzard, I'm pretty sure you can't predict if the next expac supports that broken shit or not, not to mention if other cards are nerfed or HoF'd and make room for them. There are lots of cards in this set that I don't think are going to make it into the meta at all, but have the potential to ruin the fucking game if another expac supports them even a teeny tiny bit.

    Because while this:
    DodgeBlan wrote: »
    I mean the question I ask whenever I see a quest is ‘is it better than dr boom’ and it seems like the answer to all of them is no

    is poooossssibly true? All that means is we're one Dr. Boom nerf away from trading one devil for another.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2019
    The Hearthstone team has shown that they are willing to make more frequent nerfs, I’m not overly concerned about the Rogue quest being oppressive for long.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    The Hearthstone team has shown that they are willing to make more frequent nerds, I’m not overly concerned about the Rogue quest being oppressive for long.

    I want to hit the agree button, but:

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  • BSoBBSoB Registered User regular
    Alphagaia wrote: »
    The Rogue Quest is powerful, but not immediate like Baku, which was a big part of the problem. Spending around 4 turns playing subpar minions or spells and then 2 Mana to equip your blades most probably put you in defense mode anyways.

    Blink fox and hench clan bugler are pretty good cards.

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    The Hearthstone team has shown that they are willing to make more frequent nerds, I’m not overly concerned about the Rogue quest being oppressive for long.
    I dunno, I think they make nerds just about as frequently as they can.

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    edited July 2019
    Dibby wrote: »
    Holy FUCKING SHIT WHAT WERE THEY FUCKING THINKING
    I'll tell you exactly what they're thinking.

    They're thinking "Hmm, our stats indicate that Delduwath has played this game obsessively when it came out, playing Rogue almost exclusively, but in the last half a year or so he's barely been playing. We gotta hook that chump back in. What's the best way to do that? Maybe we can leverage his affection for Rogue somehow."

    Anyway, I think that this is a pretty OP quest, and I agree that it naturally slots into almost any deck and doesn't require special effort to complete, but I'm also not sure that the reward will arrive early enough in the game to be back-breaking. We'll see, I guess, because obviously I'm crafting this day 1.

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  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    edited July 2019
    That Rogue Quest is incredible. Good lord. This expansion is crazy, makes me want to pre-order again.

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  • YiliasYilias Registered User regular
    The real concern is having enough steal cards without diluting your deck. The lists running Vendetta, Blink Fox, and Hench-Clan Burglar will be far too inconsistent to complete your quest in a timely manner.

    These are your odds for drawing 4 steal cards if you run the left side number of steal cards and draw the top side number of cards:
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    So you'll need a dozen+ steal cards to finish your quest by turn 8ish 80% of the time.

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  • BSoBBSoB Registered User regular
    Are you including the fact you can tutor pirates?

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