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[Hearthstone] United in Horror at All of This

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  • YiliasYilias Registered User regular
    Yilias wrote: »
    Anyone know if the Darkmoon achievements will remain available when the spring expansion rolls around? A friend thinks they'll be locked but I haven't heard anything about it.

    There are a couple that would take quite some time to grind out, like summon 200 Greyboughs.
    forty wrote: »
    I don't think there's been any official statement, but my money is on the achievements will be available to complete as they are now, but they'll remove the XP rewards. Seems like just the right amount of dickishness.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
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    well i'll be

    turn 16 DOES exist!

    and it legit won me the game too i think, yup yup

    i was up against a Rakanishu who was going Beasts with like two triple Macaws one normal Macaw two Goldrinns Rivendare and a taunted up Rabid Saurolisk.... So I hit up T6 and I was like "oh shit, a Zapp! That'll be an easy win since it'll snipe his Rivendare!" wrong, cause he pumped his Rivendare to be like a 17/23 or some shit wow crazy

    so next turn i ditched Zapp and pulled Argent Braggart ez win 8-)

    Dibby on
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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    Yilias wrote: »
    Yilias wrote: »
    Anyone know if the Darkmoon achievements will remain available when the spring expansion rolls around? A friend thinks they'll be locked but I haven't heard anything about it.

    There are a couple that would take quite some time to grind out, like summon 200 Greyboughs.
    forty wrote: »
    I don't think there's been any official statement, but my money is on the achievements will be available to complete as they are now, but they'll remove the XP rewards. Seems like just the right amount of dickishness.

    [blue tweet]
    I am batting like .800 lately. Put me in the record books, baby!

    Edit: Side note: The XP achievements mega suck. I think I've completed like two just incidentally playing my "get quests done and climb some ranks" decks on ladder. You're going to get basically very little XP from achievements unless you go out of your way to create decks/craft required cards and grind out games trying to get them.

    forty on
    Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
    Elvenshae
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    Dibby wrote: »
    well i'll be

    turn 16 DOES exist!

    and it legit won me the game too i think, yup yup
    I knew you'd see it eventually!

    Oh, speaking of the thing I noted yesterday about multiple T4 Darkmoon Prizes in games that go to turn 20/24/etc.! Last night I ended up in a full AFK game, so I got to see what happens if you get a slew of T4 prizes. The most interesting thing I found was that multiple Friends and Family Discounts do indeed stack. After playing 2 of them, minions cost only 1 gold to buy. I got another one a number of turns later, at which point minions became completely free. It's totally ludicrous and something that would take astronomical odds to see in practice, but it was pretty amusing nonetheless.

    forty on
    Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    Dibby wrote: »
    well i'll be

    turn 16 DOES exist!

    and it legit won me the game too i think, yup yup
    I knew you'd see it eventually!

    Oh, speaking of the thing I noted yesterday about multiple T4 Darkmoon Prizes in games that go to turn 20/24/etc.! Last night I ended up in a full AFK game, so I got to see what happens if you get a slew of T4 prizes. The most interesting thing I found was that multiple Friends and Family Discounts do indeed stack. After playing 2 of them, minions cost only 1 gold to buy. I got another one a number of turns later, at which point minions became completely free. It's totally ludicrous and something that would take astronomical odds to see in practice, but it was pretty amusing nonetheless.

    Yeah I totally get the point of Turn 16 Prizes now. They're designed to just help you end the fucking game.

    Turns out, a 109/109 will kinda do that quite easily.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    From a couple evenings of watching streams, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say none of the 3 new BG heroes seems strong in their release incarnation. Which I'm fine with, because it's annoying when an OP new hero is only available to people with the pass. Silas was pretty meh at his release too. Maybe his buff in this patch will get him to "decent" status?

    Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    N'zoth can end up being an absolute clown fiesta with enough good deathrattles + treasures to pump up/protect baron

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Beasteh wrote: »
    winstreaked from diamond 5 to legend on NA without dropping a single game, pretty sure this is The List
    Out of curiosity, what's the mulligan strategy? Is it just hard mull for Custodian/Knuckles? Do you keep anything if you don't have those?

    Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    Beasteh wrote: »
    N'zoth can end up being an absolute clown fiesta with enough good deathrattles + treasures to pump up/protect baron
    Yes, I did see a game where someone got the nuts with early Spawns and bomb bots followed up with an early Baron off a triple on T4, but I feel like that's more the exception than what you will typically get. It's like Flurgl/Chenvaala, where if you hit those consistent Murloc/Elemental taverns you just pop off and shoot to top 1/2, but their overall stats are bad because Bob likes to be a dick and offer you garbage.

    forty on
    Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
  • ShadowhopeShadowhope Baa. Registered User regular

    The best and worst combo deck in Hearthstone are the exact same decks.

    It’s an infinite combo that ends the game after 15+ turns.

    I love it.

    I really hope that I never come up against it on ladder. But if I do, I’ll let them do it.

    Civics is not a consumer product that you can ignore because you don’t like the options presented.
    zepherin
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    That's essentially the combo that was in the Trolden video linked yesterday that Dover referenced:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnSwq2-xtR8

    Skip to 8:46. Of course this one ended a little differently...

    Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
    Elvenshae
  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Disgusting.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    Disgusting.

    [snip]

    the part that really gets me is that on Turn 16 your biggest unit was only 84/84

    how fucking long did that game go on for?!

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    WTF, I just had a Battlegrounds game end suddenly, giving me second place, with me and 1 player left after I had just eliminated the third remaining player (in other words, I wasn't dead). I've never seen that before. Why the fuck has this game gotten so buggy?

    Edit: Mother fuckballs it happened again. What is this shit?

    forty on
    Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
    zepherin
  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    Dibby wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    Disgusting.

    [snip]

    the part that really gets me is that on Turn 16 your biggest unit was only 84/84

    how fucking long did that game go on for?!
    So long, but the divine shield mexx ties it up till the rest of my chonk just outstatted them. But I think it went to 21 or 22.

    zepherin on
    forty
  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    Beasteh wrote: »
    winstreaked from diamond 5 to legend on NA without dropping a single game, pretty sure this is The List
    Out of curiosity, what's the mulligan strategy? Is it just hard mull for Custodian/Knuckles? Do you keep anything if you don't have those?

    Given that they are by far the highest drawn/played winrate cards in the deck

    Yes, hard mull for custodian and knuckles

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  • Idx86Idx86 Long days and pleasant nights.Registered User regular
    There have been a few Hero skins that I've thought about buying through the years, but both the Garrosh and Jaina "Book of Heroes" skins have not been one of them. Those things are fucking hideous.

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  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Idx86 wrote: »
    There have been a few Hero skins that I've thought about buying through the years, but both the Garrosh and Jaina "Book of Heroes" skins have not been one of them. Those things are fucking hideous.
    The only skin I just purchased that wasn’t a part of some expansion bundle was the Sylvanis hunter skin. And only because I liked the look.

  • ShadowhopeShadowhope Baa. Registered User regular

    Question: "What is best in life?"

    Answer: "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women." To accidently queue up in Wild with a T3 standard deck, find yourself up against a T1 Wild deck, and to beat the crap out of them anyways despite them having their ideal draw.

    Civics is not a consumer product that you can ignore because you don’t like the options presented.
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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
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    Hey turns out Patches is a great hero now!

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    zepherin
  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    what on earth why is that boi so large

  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    Beasteh wrote: »
    what on earth why is that boi so large

    Triple Nomi :^)

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Dibby wrote: »
    - B.A.N.A.N.A.S.: SUPER GOOD. That's +10/+10 on anything you want, or you can spread it out, I guess. Extremely good though. I bought a 2/4 Hydra and turned it into a 12/14 that very turn. 4/5
    As a note for anyone who hasn't actually picked BANANAS yet, like with Mukkla's personal bananas, each one has a small chance to be a +2/2 banana, so on average, this prize is actually more like +12/12.

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  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    A quest shaman was able to lightning bloom double use yogg. For the most epic ending to a game I’ve ever played. First yogg was spells, which worked out in my favor. Followed by rod of roasting. Which also worked out in my favor. Just incredible.

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  • shergakshergak Registered User regular
    Having a lot of fun with the new battlegrounds update. There's so many more viable options for early and midgame now.

    ...
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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited December 2020
    At first I was fairly cool on the treasures but they do help smooth out games and mitigate RNG

    Beasteh on
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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Y'Shaarj hero power is bugged. It appears you can't cast it if the tavern is empty.

    Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
    Elvenshae
  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    Beasteh wrote: »
    At first I was fairly cool on the treasures but they do help smooth out games and mitigate RNG

    I really really hope they stay. It just feels really good now. And there's some prizes that can *really* help out specific heroes, too, like three free rerolls for Millhouse or Aranna. That kinda stuff is neat.

    My favorite thing is ramping to T3 on 6 gold turn by getting the 2 gold prize. You get to be Omu for a turn, level and buy one, and then you get two T3 minions the next turn.

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  • sanstodosanstodo Registered User regular
    Dibby wrote: »
    Beasteh wrote: »
    At first I was fairly cool on the treasures but they do help smooth out games and mitigate RNG

    I really really hope they stay. It just feels really good now. And there's some prizes that can *really* help out specific heroes, too, like three free rerolls for Millhouse or Aranna. That kinda stuff is neat.

    My favorite thing is ramping to T3 on 6 gold turn by getting the 2 gold prize. You get to be Omu for a turn, level and buy one, and then you get two T3 minions the next turn.

    They also open new design space for both treasures and potential hero powers. I also hope they stay and even expand.

    Dibby
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    Shadowhope wrote: »
    Yilias wrote: »
    How critical is Instructor Fireheart, Beasteh? If I can just run Bogstrok Clacker or Serpentshrine Portal I'd like to get away with not crafting her.

    My list last month didn't have her, and I think that I had a similar win rate on my Legend trip.

    Far Sight might be a better replacement IMO. In my experience, the #1 overriding goal of the deck is to get a weapon equipped ASAP. Far Sight helps you do that; the Portal overloads you and slows down that goal, and while the Claker is fine it's not getting you the weapon faster.
    I'm thinking of giving budget (Fireheart-less) Evolve Shaman a go for my dad legend push this month and plan to go with a replacement since I imagine this deck will be nerfed in a way where I will be sad to have crafted a legendary for it.

    What about a Novice Engineer instead of Far Sight? It gives your deck one more minion for possible Coaster/Mogu/Giant synergy, but of course you don't get that possible discount for a nutty swing card if Far Sight hits the right thing. Of course if Sight hits a 0 or 1 drop you're mega sad.

    forty on
    Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    There's still a "tip" while you're in the Battlegrounds queue about Shifter Zerus. :|

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    zepherin
  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    There's still a "tip" while you're in the Battlegrounds queue about Shifter Zerus. :|

    "Murlocs are strong in the early game, but weak in the late game!"

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  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
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    Chonky soul juggler is good.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    And naturally my first Evolve Shaman game I fail to draw weapons and run into someone teched against me. Fucking trash.

    Edit: Correction: First two games.

    Beasteh give me your fucking RNG.

    forty on
    Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
    zepherinElvenshae
  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    I've seen a lot of people play kobold stickyfinger in standard lately

    I already got 2k legend so I'm just farming arena and bgs

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    How did you play around turn 4 12/12s on your streak to Legend?

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    zepherin
  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    How did you play around turn 4 12/12s on your streak to Legend?

    [snip]

    git gud at drawing revolve, lol!!!

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  • ShadowhopeShadowhope Baa. Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    Shadowhope wrote: »
    Yilias wrote: »
    How critical is Instructor Fireheart, Beasteh? If I can just run Bogstrok Clacker or Serpentshrine Portal I'd like to get away with not crafting her.

    My list last month didn't have her, and I think that I had a similar win rate on my Legend trip.

    Far Sight might be a better replacement IMO. In my experience, the #1 overriding goal of the deck is to get a weapon equipped ASAP. Far Sight helps you do that; the Portal overloads you and slows down that goal, and while the Claker is fine it's not getting you the weapon faster.
    I'm thinking of giving budget (Fireheart-less) Evolve Shaman a go for my dad legend push this month and plan to go with a replacement since I imagine this deck will be nerfed in a way where I will be sad to have crafted a legendary for it.

    What about a Novice Engineer instead of Far Sight? It gives your deck one more minion for possible Coaster/Mogu/Giant synergy, but of course you don't get that possible discount for a nutty swing card if Far Sight hits the right thing. Of course if Sight hits a 0 or 1 drop you're mega sad.

    The list I used had Novice Engineer x2.

    Revolve Shaman
    2x (0) Lightning Bloom
    2x (1) Animated Broomstick
    2x (1) Revolve
    2x (1) Sludge Slurper
    2x (1) Surging Tempest
    2x (2) Cagematch Custodian
    2x (2) Novice Engineer
    2x (3) Desert Hare
    2x (3) Pit Master
    2x (3) Stormstrike
    2x (4) Dread Corsair
    2x (4) Hoard Pillager
    2x (5) Boggspine Knuckles
    2x (5) Derailed Coaster
    2x (9) Mogu Fleshshaper

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    I understand it's an aggro deck, but if you're choosing not to play Hex you have to take your Edwin lumps when they come :P

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