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[Hearthstone] Triggered by Anomalies.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Eh, seems reasonable to me. Now Druid needs more armor combo pieces and/or mana (or coming into the turn with armor) to pull off a crazy Anub turn. It should hurt the consistency of Zok Druid -- or whatever other combo Druid nonsense might come down the pike in the next year -- which was only decent and not that consistent as it was.

  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    edited May 20
    Upbeat Duo in battlegrounds seems to be bugged and activating every turn instead of every two turns. Whoops!

    Edit: it doesn't seem to be consistent? Sometimes it counts down from 2 and other times I'll get a minion per turn.

    Donnicton on
  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    Glad sinful brand got deleted, never want to see that card played ever again

    These nerfs have generally made control even stronger so ctrl priest is pretty much top now imo

    forty
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    forty
  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    BGs seems even less fun than before with the super restricted minion pool

    Everyone power levels and goes for the broken combos and with poisonous being nerfed whoever gets the fattest pile of stats the quickest wins the lobby

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    I think Paladin dodging the nerfs is going to make it a terror outside of legend.

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Meanwhile, I took advantage of the Unholy DK power vacuum to push to dad legend with, yet again, Frost DK. Still using the same deck as pre-nerf, with Rowdy Fan, although I wonder if there's a better choice hiding somewhere out there.

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    OK, C'Thun (Battlegrounds) is insane with Drakkari Enchanter. Not only does it make the hero power trigger twice, it also makes the growth of the hero power happen twice per turn.

    GrobianDonnictonBeastehShadowhopesanstodo
  • GrobianGrobian What's on sale? Pliers!Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    OK, C'Thun (Battlegrounds) is insane with Drakkari Enchanter. Not only does it make the hero power trigger twice, it also makes the growth of the hero power happen twice per turn.

    I think Drakkari is a very nice addition to BGs, it's sadly just overshadowed by the broken shit (mostly Rylak).

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    forty
  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    Rylak has to get removed, whenever you see Reddit posts with billions of stats it's because of that stupid ass card

  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    That and anything multiplicative. Slamma to tier 4 doesn't really solve the problem, and that one elemental that multiplies its health every two turns is the reason you see elementals with <Integer Overflow> health. Those three specific cards I'd assert are why the balance is so off in BGs right now.

    Though personally I'm not much fond of the cleave pirate either. There's a reason why cleaves were generally pretty exotic and hard to build up previously, but now you can casually have a cleave that is easy to bulk up and is practically guaranteed to take 2-3 minions with it.

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    You can and should play around cleave tho

    Grobian
  • antheremantherem Registered User regular
    Cool, a quest taking up one of the spots in the log for two weeks to "Play 3 game[sic] in the Heroic Brawliseum" (which is followed, apparently, by the absolute comedy of "Win 12 games in a single Heroic Brawliseum run")
    With rewards of...some avatar portraits?

  • wazillawazilla Having a late dinner Registered User regular
    Beasteh wrote: »
    Rylak has to get removed, whenever you see Reddit posts with billions of stats it's because of that stupid ass card

    The elemental health doubling dude with the double/triple end of turn effect dude produced a 100/4.3million on a stream I was watching yesterday.

    In general, I'd say Upbeat Duo is enabling a ton of broken comps to become very consistent. Making it no longer a battlecry solved rylak interactions but gave it way more staying power on the board.

    Psn:wazukki
    antheremforty
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    antherem wrote: »
    Cool, a quest taking up one of the spots in the log for two weeks to "Play 3 game[sic] in the Heroic Brawliseum" (which is followed, apparently, by the absolute comedy of "Win 12 games in a single Heroic Brawliseum run")
    With rewards of...some avatar portraits?
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    unga bunga. play 3 game. get thing

  • GrobianGrobian What's on sale? Pliers!Registered User regular
    antherem wrote: »
    Cool, a quest taking up one of the spots in the log for two weeks to "Play 3 game[sic] in the Heroic Brawliseum" (which is followed, apparently, by the absolute comedy of "Win 12 games in a single Heroic Brawliseum run")
    With rewards of...some avatar portraits?

    I just deleted the quest. It's fine. I think they just try to alert people that heroic brawl exists this week because you wouldn't know if you just play the game.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited May 25
    I needed some Rogue games but my Rogue collection is pretty poor. However I found this incredibly cheap Rogue deck on HSReplay (0 epics or legendaries!):
    ### Dagger Rogue
    # Class: Rogue
    # Format: Standard
    # Year of the Gryphon
    #
    # 2x (1) Air Guitarist
    # 2x (1) Deadly Poison
    # 2x (1) Door of Shadows
    # 2x (1) Jolly Roger
    # 2x (1) Swashburglar
    # 2x (1) Tour Guide
    # 2x (2) Eviscerate
    # 2x (2) Fogsail Freebooter
    # 2x (2) Harmonic Hip Hop
    # 2x (2) Instrument Tech
    # 2x (3) Cutlass Courier
    # 2x (3) Mic Drop
    # 2x (3) Pufferfist
    # 2x (3) Swordfish
    # 2x (4) Dread Corsair
    #
    AAECAaIHAA+migSSnwTuoASKsASY2wSa2wT03QTXowXTsgXawwW4xQXSzgW9ngbWngbXogYA
    # To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
    # Find this deck on https://hsreplay.net/decks/p3FaJg4Fm75e77Ijtyec4b/

    And somehow it worked? I ended up going 3-0 tonight with it against a Renethal Priest, Undead Priest, and Frost DK. It's possible I was just highrolling, but it was fun smashing faces in with it.

    I get the feeling any deck that plays some taunts would have no trouble dealing with it, since you generally win by ramming a beefed up weapon into face for a few turns.

    forty on
    ani_game_bum
  • ObiFettObiFett Use the Force As You WishRegistered User regular
    Just had a 3.5k health minion in BGs. Got my blood gems up to +3/50, kept throwing them on a single minion and then elemental (golden) that gains highest health of warband but doubled.

    With venomous being a one time use, there was nothing my opponents could do. I think that change was a mistake.

    Shadowhope
  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    it's funny, i think venomous being one time is a good change...but then they packaged it with the most power-crept stat scaling the game has ever had

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    DonnictonBeastehThe JudgeShadowhope
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    I've still seen boards where people are able to get like 6+ instakills (combination venomous and Leeroy), although that's kind of dependent on Murlocs being in.

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    demons with a good start is kind of cracked if the lobby isn't full of leeroy/divine shield venomous

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Mish-Mash Mosher + Attorney-at-Maw is quite the combo.

  • sanstodosanstodo Registered User regular
    Beasteh wrote: »
    demons with a good start is kind of cracked if the lobby isn't full of leeroy/divine shield venomous

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    I just demolished a demon lobby with this spicy number:

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    Gonna positive post and say that BG is the best it’s been in a while. Lots of great ways to play the game, difficult decision trees, and payoff for nutty high rolls (and punishes for mistakes).

    To give an example of the diversity, my last 5 games went like this:

    Saurfang mechs, 3rd
    Tickatus demons, 1st
    Eudora murlocs, 6th
    Greybough undead, 3rd
    Curator murlocs, 1st

    This is at high ELO (8.3k+, in the top 1%) without battle pass (so only 2 hero choices) and I’m still climbing with maybe 5 games daily. Wins and losses make sense and feel fair (for example, the Eudora 6th place resulted from a mistake, where I should have gone for a safer tempo play rather than trying to high roll to win, and got punished when I whiffed on a couple discovers).

    These metas really reward skill and thus, create consistent results. The armor change has been so healthy for the game. The BG team deserves a lot of praise.

    fortyemnmnmeThe JudgeShadowhope
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited June 1
    Cool Ghoul!

    Also, how are you supposed to use that new 15/15 without cheating it out of your hand or deck? No card in Standard besides Ren adds a great number of cards to your deck.

    EDIT: Oh, and Queen What's-her-face could add 5 spells to the deck.

    emnmnme on
  • AlphagaiaAlphagaia Registered User regular
    O yeah,
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Cool Ghoul!

    Also, how are you supposed to use that new 15/15 without cheating it out of your hand or deck? No card in Standard besides Ren adds a great number of cards to your deck.

    EDIT: Oh, and Queen What's-her-face could add 5 spells to the deck.

    It's the other way around. The less cards you have in your deck, the fewer is it's cost.

    Wanna try my Mario Maker levels?

    Shoot m to BITS (hold Y) [hard] C109-0000-014D-4E09
    P-POWER Switch Palace 3838-0000-0122-9359
    Raiding the Serpents Tomb 1A04-0000-0098-C11E
    I like to move it, move it FCE2-0000-00D7-9048

    See my profile here!
    The Judgefortyemnmnme
  • ObiFettObiFett Use the Force As You WishRegistered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Cool Ghoul!

    Also, how are you supposed to use that new 15/15 without cheating it out of your hand or deck? No card in Standard besides Ren adds a great number of cards to your deck.

    EDIT: Oh, and Queen What's-her-face could add 5 spells to the deck.

    Its like the perfect card to pair with dude that destroys your deck and makes all your minions immune

    forty
  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    ObiFett wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Cool Ghoul!

    Also, how are you supposed to use that new 15/15 without cheating it out of your hand or deck? No card in Standard besides Ren adds a great number of cards to your deck.

    EDIT: Oh, and Queen What's-her-face could add 5 spells to the deck.

    Its like the perfect card to pair with dude that destroys your deck and makes all your minions immune

    zovaal the nepo baby

    liEt3nH.png
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    This tavern brawl is overtuned as shit.

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Totem shaman seems to be insanely strong now. Either that or all the ones I face are just highrolling every time.

  • The JudgeThe Judge The Terwilliger CurvesRegistered User regular
    This is my rage Warrior that I've been going with:

    ### WAR NEVER CHANGES
    # Class: Warrior
    # Format: Standard
    # Year of the Wolf
    #
    # 2x (1) Foul Egg
    # 2x (1) Sanguine Depths
    # 1x (1) Sunfury Champion
    # 2x (1) Verse Riff
    # 2x (2) Anima Extractor
    # 2x (2) Embers of Strength
    # 2x (2) Jam Session
    # 1x (2) Roaring Applause
    # 2x (3) Chorus Riff
    # 2x (3) Imbued Axe
    # 2x (3) Treasure Guard
    # 2x (4) Light of the Phoenix
    # 1x (4) Thori'belore
    # 2x (5) Bridge Riff
    # 1x (6) Decimator Olgra
    # 2x (7) Abyssal Bassist
    # 1x (7) Remornia, Living Blade
    # 1x (8) Grommash Hellscream
    #
    AAECAQcGi6AEgdwEiN8EzZIFtNEFud0FDIe3BP/bBL7iBImDBY+VBaCZBZGjBerQBevQBezQBePkBfTyBQAA
    #

    I am confused that I have not seen other builds with Abyssal Bassist involved. Remornia counts toward the discount and hits it twice in one turn - you can get both off on turn 10.

    Last pint: Lager / Pfriem - Untappd: TheJudge_PDX
    forty
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    It's an interesting idea. I imagine the conflict there is it's two more possible brick draws in a deck that generally wins by getting on the board early and maintaining it. Bassist is basically a dead draw if you don't draw either of your Imbued Axes. With a single weapon equipped, it's just a decent 5 drop. It really needs 2+ weapons equipped to be a good payoff card, which is tough in a deck that only plays 3 total weapons (1 of which is expensive and late game).

    You're talking about turn 10, but in my experience Enrage Warrior has almost always either won or lost by turn 10. I could see it being a little more useful vs. other aggro decks in cases where you're losing the health race.

  • The JudgeThe Judge The Terwilliger CurvesRegistered User regular
    I will agree with that downside. 10 mana is worst case with that combo - I guess my luck has been catching at least an axe or Remornia or both if Bassist wanders into hand, so it's been a pretty good mid-game 5-drop stabilizer or better.

    Last pint: Lager / Pfriem - Untappd: TheJudge_PDX
  • [Expletive deleted][Expletive deleted] The mediocre doctor NorwayRegistered User regular
    Why does hearthstone again put special timed quests in the slots for regular quests? What was the point of the special timed quest slots if they're going to also use the regular slots for even more specialer timed quests?

    Sic transit gloria mundi.
    antheremfortyThe JudgeBeasteh
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    Why does hearthstone again put special timed quests in the slots for regular quests? What was the point of the special timed quest slots if they're going to also use the regular slots for even more specialer timed quests?

    I think I lost my reward for completing the Diablo Tavern Brawl. :disappointed: I got one red card pack pack for winning but because my quest queue was full, I didn't get a second pack from the quest.

  • [Expletive deleted][Expletive deleted] The mediocre doctor NorwayRegistered User regular
    Do FTP BG players not get access to the new hero? I've rerolled so many times hoping to get it with no luck.

    Sic transit gloria mundi.
  • [Expletive deleted][Expletive deleted] The mediocre doctor NorwayRegistered User regular
    Also, have I ever mentioned how garbage the netcode is for this game (on phone)? Drops connections all the time, and god help you if you try to switch to another app to e.g., send an sms (even if the sms goes over cell network and HS over wifi); you will be dropped.

    Sic transit gloria mundi.
    fortyBeastehThe JudgeDonnicton
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Do FTP BG players not get access to the new hero? I've rerolled so many times hoping to get it with no luck.
    They do. I've had a chance to play both the new heroes since the patch. I don't know if having fewer slots means you get them offered less than tavern pass players or not.

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Facing mages is an absolutely miserable experience now. 4-5 Solid Alibis, tons of armor gain, freezes. You just get ground down and they escape death about 10 times a game.

    antherem
  • sanstodosanstodo Registered User regular
    Has anyone else experienced, on mobile, situations where the opponent’s turn never ends but somehow, my turn begins and passes without my knowing it?

    It only appears to happen in arena. The game will show no indication that anything is wrong but the opponent’s turn simply never ends, sometimes with rope, sometimes not.

    But if I reload the game, a bunch of stuff will have happened and often, my turn has come and gone without my knowing it even started.

    I looked at the forums but didn’t find anything conclusive. Until I know what’s going on, I’m simply avoiding anything other than BG on mobile.

  • GrobianGrobian What's on sale? Pliers!Registered User regular
    sanstodo wrote: »
    Has anyone else experienced, on mobile, situations where the opponent’s turn never ends but somehow, my turn begins and passes without my knowing it?

    It only appears to happen in arena. The game will show no indication that anything is wrong but the opponent’s turn simply never ends, sometimes with rope, sometimes not.

    But if I reload the game, a bunch of stuff will have happened and often, my turn has come and gone without my knowing it even started.

    I looked at the forums but didn’t find anything conclusive. Until I know what’s going on, I’m simply avoiding anything other than BG on mobile.

    I had something similar this week where the game board wasn't interactive or showing stuff for me. So my opponent played like normal and I could play anything that didn't target the board itself (so buff spells or targeted battle cries no but hero powers or AoEs yes) but I never saw anything happen on the board. Every time I killed the app and resumed the game it would be updated but happening again.

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    sanstodoBeasteh
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