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PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 17:02 
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This is quite nice, a site that you can practice arena drafts, and see what other serious players (mainly Trump) choose for each round, with commentary.

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 22:46 
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Trump vs Bot ?

He seems pretty sure he's playing against a bot here..... (As I mentioned a couple of months ago, when I was sure I'd played against one.)



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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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Yeah there's a second game where he wins and it's really obvious there. Each move happens after the same delayed interval. Also the players were really stupid - earth shocking a zombie chow etc.

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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Yeah there's a second game where he wins and it's really obvious there. Each move happens after the same delayed interval. Also the players were really stupid - earth shocking a zombie chow etc.


Ahhh right this one.....

The moves from the bot's side when it's got loads of 1/1s say it all.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH PEOPLE WHO FUCKING BOTS FUCKING HEARTHSTONE?

I was convinced I'd played a bot back in June - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9861&p=826795&hilit=bots#p826795



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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:42 
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Saved up enough gold to do the next bit of Naxx (Military Quarter). Two more to go!

Was quite easy, but fun, with the four horsemen being the only one I failed at all (though his card draw that time was about perfect).

Got some cards, but not ones I'm likely to use much. Still want the Undertaker and Mad Scientist ones so I can build a proper Deathrattle deck.

Having a lot of success with my Shaman deck at the moment, that I bolted together in about thirty seconds :D

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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Huh. Was doing well until it came upon a Paladin with about 8 non-Naxx legendaries!

Interesting deck actually. Gave up a lot early on to come back with a ton of healing and then legendary after legendary to take everything out. I particularly dislike The Black Knight, who is currently very popular. I had lethal next turn with a fire elemental hidden behind an earth elemental taunting, and he offed them both and then healed himself back to nigh on 30 in two turns. Then came Rag and Tirion (who I silenced... hah!)

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:08 
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The Black Knight is a great card and well worth crafting, Naxx has brought a lot of taunts back into the meta (both old and new cards).

I don't regret the 1600 dust I spent on him, hold him in your hand until a critical juncture and he can be a game winner.


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:21 
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Aye. It's a great card. If you can use it when the opp only has one massive taunt out there then it it a game changer.

People keep on doing it to me!

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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Got some cards, but not ones I'm likely to use much. Still want the Undertaker and Mad Scientist ones so I can build a proper Deathrattle deck.


I'm having fun at the moment with 2 deathrattle decks , one mage with the mad scientist and a pile of secret cards and the other with a priest (since he can heal up to keep cards on the table and I love using the 'double' deathrattle , soulpriest and suicide a zombie chow into something to do 10 damage to the hero :-)

I also drew yet another legendary http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/203-illidan-stormrage although I cant quite make him fit into any of my decks at the moment - i've put him into my priest one and it sometimes works but I think I was doing better with another Soulpriest instead

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:11 
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This game is great but the amount of bots needs resolving. In the mornings you are lot more likely to play a bot than a real person and in casual this applies most of the day.

The card picking cycle and timings are a give away as is the auto respond.

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They're working on it ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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Just made it to rank 13 after bouncing around 14 and 15 for ages - I can cope with virtually any class but i still get wiped out against zoo unless i draw the right cards :-(


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My Warlock deck seems to struggle against Priests, but most other classes seem to be good against. Paladins are the next most nasty, then Warriors. Basically anyone who heals themselves or whacks on armour and can withstand the initial barrage.

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You must be playing handlock then. As priest defeating zoo always seems impossible if not for absolutely perfect draws.

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
You must be playing handlock then. As priest defeating zoo always seems impossible if not for absolutely perfect draws.


Nope. Always kill off my first useful minions with that Smite thing, Northshire Cleric to keep loads of cards, injured Blademaster and then Soulpriest into Circle of Healing.

Which admittedly is a good draw, but it happens damn near every time. I usually get them down to single figures, but by the end they have tons of health.

I only tend to have a chance if I get a couple of eggs out so the cut price Flamestrike doesn't totally destroy me.

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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I'd be more inclined to watch these if you weren't taking so long to actually open them, although this one was faster than the others ;)

In other pack opening news I just got Captain Greenskin and with the it Captain's Parrot bonus for getting all pirates. Yaaar.

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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That fucking Sylvanas > Reincarnate combo by Shammies is starting to get on my tits a bit.

Not saying it's OP in that it's a hard one to pull off given the lack of card draw Shammies have, and it's a specific two-card combo (one of which is a legendary) - but it's basically a game ender if you get on the wrong end of it.

If you've got one big minion on your side of the board at Turn 8 or later, be careful. In fact, don't even do it.

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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Had a good arena draw, and just lost 3 on the trot from a commanding position in each game, due to my opponent top decking exactly the legendary they needed to win towards the end of the game...


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 16:56 
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The only times I lose are because of legendaries. There's too much advantage if they have them and you don't. I'm in a commanding position and then Rag goes down, and the Sylvannas goes down, and then Ysera goes down. Above a certain level almost all of the opponents have all of them, and you just can't compete unless I fill the deck with specific counters. Even then, I can pop the big boys but have no room left for a deck that'll actually hit to face enough to win.

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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 17:11 
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We tend to play at the same sorts of level out in Ranked, (starting each month at 20-19 and then moving up towards 10 as the month goes on, peaking at 9 in my case and 8 in your case, just in case you want to remind me :D), and I just don't see this as being such a problem?

Decks loaded with big legendaries simply aren't that effective in the current meta, which isn't to say they don't exist or aren't frustrating to play against, but I don't see them as being a game-breaker either.

(And if you watch the best streamers, out in the top ranked and legendary games, no players just stack up on legendaries in the way you're describing, which suggests they're not a default game win as you appear to be suggesting.)

That said, the game has been out for a fairly long time now, so most players are going to have managed to get their hands on a few legendaries, so seeing more of them as time goes by is to be expected if players want to have a play around with them.

If you want to fuck with slow legendary decks, and they're getting on your tits, put together a fast Hunter deck, you'll often have them dead before they can even get a Raggy out.....


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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in the top ranked and legendary games, no players just stack up on legendaries in the way you're describing

You're joking here right? Nearly every top-tier deck has at least 2 legendaries in it.

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in the top ranked and legendary games, no players just stack up on legendaries in the way you're describing

You're joking here right? Nearly every top-tier deck has at least 2 legendaries in it.


ZOMG TWO LEGENDARIES!

That's really not that many, surely? The games been live for what, eight months now? Four packs per week is pretty much in the bag just for doing the daily quests. (I'm consistently managing 10-11 packs every two weeks.)

I think most decks run with a legendary or two now, even my fast Hunter deck finds spots for a Loatheb and a Black Knight.

Outside of Control Warrior I can't think of any deck that stacks up on legendaries to what might be considered an 'unreasonable' degree.

And yes I have spent money on cards, but I haven't bought any packs since May, I paid for Naxx, that's it.


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It's a question of effective play. I can have a good deck, but at the higher ranks everyone has the much-used legendaries and also all of the useful epics. So, what I'm saying is, if I lose I lose because of those specific cards where I don't have equivalent ones.

Plenty of decks have at least four legendaries. Warrior might have Rag, Alex, Sylvannas, Ysera. Black Knight, Harrison Jones maybe, and yeah, Loatheb.

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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Plenty of decks have at least four legendaries. Warrior might have Rag, Alex, Sylvannas, Ysera. Black Knight, Harrison Jones maybe, and yeah, Loatheb.


But its also a question of drawing those - its great to have a hunter deck and have Krush as a finisher but if you never draw it then it does not matter that you have a legendary card in your deck :-)


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Nice rank zaphod :) What class and deck you been playing with?

How have you been coping with all those horrible cheaty legendaries? ;)


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Hearthly wrote:
How have you been coping with all those horrible cheaty legendaries? ;)

From the man that whines that he hates the cheating priest.

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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
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How have you been coping with all those horrible cheaty legendaries? ;)

From the man that whines that he hates the cheating priest.


THIEVING BASTARD PRIESTS!

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Nice rank zaphod :) What class and deck you been playing with?

How have you been coping with all those horrible cheaty legendaries? ;)


Basic hunter (very similar to the one I posted a few pages back)

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I only have one Legendary in there (Krush) , but in general I have enough removal stuff to take them out or just ignore them and go for the face - I do know what others have said as you do get to the stage where after about round 8 its just legendary after legendary from the other player but thats just the way it goes.

In comparison my Priest deck has 4 legendary cards - 2 from Nax (Baron Rivondale / Kel'Thuzad ) along with Rag / Illudan and i'm toying with re-adding Velen so I could just be part of the problem :-)


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread
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My brother was over for a visit the weekend just gone and he's MEGA INTO HEARTHSTONE, however he only started playing three weeks ago and he's not spent any money on the game, so his card collection is seriously lacking.

(He has however been buying at least a pack per day, with the daily quest gold, enough wins to get up to 100 gold thereafter, plus the rewards the game chucks at you early on, so he must have had 30+ card packs opened, but no legendaries and no great epics either though, unfortunately.)

As a treat I bought him the Naxx expansion whilst he was over (he was skint as usual, payday was today apparently), and he diligently played through all the bosses on normal mode, without any resort to Googling whatsoever and using just his limited collection of cards, so I doffed my cap to him for that. (Although he did incorporate the Naxx cards as he moved through the bosses, if you think about it we all went into Naxx with a very good 'base' collection of cards, and he was missing loads and loads, but he still thought his way around them all.)

Thereafter, and armed with all the Naxx cards, he put together a serious pain in the arse pally deck that took some proper effort on my part to beat (five losses on the trot until I cracked it with a shammy deck with lots of silences and removal).

He then took it out in Ranked and had a reasonable run of success with it, although seemed to hit a bit of a wall at around Rank 16, however credit where it's due his collection of 'base' cards is pretty lamentable, so even with the Naxx cards on top of that he's missing a lot of cards we'd consider to be bread and butter type stuff.

It was interesting to see him get to grips with the new cards as they were unlocked through Naxx, and as he was opening his packs (he got the 300 gold Chicken Dinner reward whilst he was over), could see him thinking through how he was going to try and make the cards work in different decks. In particular he's made very effective use of the Naxx legendaries, as they're the only legendaries available to him, and again, it was interesting to see a player whose only legendary choices are those from Naxx, decide how to deploy them. (Because again, we've all been taking a lot of the 'base' legendaries for granted for a while now.)

I reckon by the time he next visits, I could have a pretty damn serious challenge on my hands....


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You must really suck balls if your noob no-card brother can beat you 5 times in a row with *anything* :hat:

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It was a seriously pesky deck, lots of Naxx cards and some choice pally cards that created some really good synergies, with enough taunts to foil fast/miracle decks. I think the fact that he was missing so many 'base' cards and rare/epic pally cards, so had to make do with Naxx and the cheaper/more common pally cards, led to the creation of a pretty unusual and effective deck.

I just went up against it with whatever decks I had in my list (miracle rogue, fast hunter, F2P mage, erratic warrior), although when I did beat it I did so very emphatically with the shaman deck. (It was the same for him out in Ranked, a lot of the 'standard' decks just didn't seem to have answers to it, although when it backfired it did so pretty badly.)

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I think it's funny that you can open 30 packs in this game and still have essentially bugger all. It really is grind-tastic. I still need 60 unique cards and have 1400 dust. Averaging 40 bloody dust a pack it'll take a while before I can sink it in to even one legendary, and I need about another 15 exactly 21 more after that :'(

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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
I think it's funny that you can open 30 packs in this game and still have essentially bugger all. It really is grind-tastic. I still need 60 unique cards and have 1400 dust. Averaging 40 bloody dust a pack it'll take a while before I can sink it in to even one legendary, and I need about another 15 exactly 21 more after that :'(


Oh don't get me wrong he had gained a few solid neutral cards like the Harvest Golem, good class cards like Feral Spirit, Temple Enforcer, Mana Wyrm and Gladiator's Longbow (OK maybe that's not great), but he definitely had more choices available to him than someone who hadn't opened 30 packs of cards. The problem with the class cards is that they were scattered across the classes so didn't make one particularly desirable to try out, but that'll change in time. (He'd also got his first few dupes which he'd been able to dust to craft a couple of desirable common expert and class cards.)

I think I agree with Trump in that the game isn't pay to win, but you can pay to take a shortcut to getting a lot of the cards you want. (And let's be clear that isn't pay to win, from our experiences at least you've got people like me and Trooper who have dropped a chunk of cash on the game, and people like you and zaphod who haven't spent a penny, and yet we all seem to have plateaued at about the same rank, which would suggest it's more down to skill than having more cards available.)

The 80 packs I bought really padded out my collection early on, (no money on packs spent since May!), which has fed into far more dupes with the packs I've opened since then, which has fed into more dust to give me more freedom to create epics and legendaries. (And even then I've burned 1600 dust on shite like Cenarius.)

I'm managing 10 packs every two weeks just from gold accrual, so 80 packs represents a 'head start' of four months in pure card collection terms, but I wouldn't say it's made the game pay to win for me, as our tussles in duels have certainly shown (where you're well ahead), and also my own experiences in Ranked, where my most successful decks have been those lightest on legendaries.

I'd say the closest I get to a legendary heavy deck is my 'Paladin Of Doom' deck (five legendaries) but that's WAAAAAYYYY too slow for the current meta so I only get to take it for a spin in Casual.

I can see why it looks more grindy from your perspective in terms of filling out your card collection, but lest we forget you've been playing this game for many, many months now, and haven't spent a penny!


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I think I could get to legend, I'd just need a month where I could happily play ~300 games. It's made a lot easier with the competitive deck but if you can attain a >50% win rate then eventually you'll get there. At the moment I'm tickling around rank 12 but have done very little except quests, one of which was a particularly good Warlock streak that bumped me up several ranks.

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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
I think I could get to legend, I'd just need a month where I could happily play ~300 games. It's made a lot easier with the competitive deck but if you can attain a >50% win rate then eventually you'll get there. At the moment I'm tickling around rank 12 but have done very little except quests, one of which was a particularly good Warlock streak that bumped me up several ranks.


Well that's the balancing act isn't it :) How many games do you want to play?

The vast majority of my play this month has been Casual and duelling with my brother, I've got to Rank 12 with not much effort, although previous experience suggests it gets much tougher as you head towards Rank 10.

Watching the Trump videos (and other streamers) says to me there's a whole different class of players out there once you push up towards Rank 6 or 5, and even more so towards Legend, so I definitely wouldn't want to make any statements along the line of 'I think I could get to Legend'.

Yes if you can manage >50% at those ranks you'll get there in the end, but I wouldn't like to say I could do that without having ever experienced it. (Remember winning streaks stop at Rank 5 too.)

For me the game stops being fun in Ranked once it gets really ruthless, so even though I'm at Rank 12 **** and on a winning streak, I'm in no great hurry to play my next Ranked game, or try some sort of hard charge to see how high I can get before season's end. I was happy to get to Rank 10 a couple of months ago, less happy to see you get to Rank 9 the same month ( :D ), and maybe I will have a push at it again at some point.

According to Blizzard's own stats I'm in the top 5.5% of players by having got to Rank 10, which I'm happy with, getting to Legend would put you in the top 0.5% of players!......


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I definitely wouldn't want to make any statements along the line of 'I think I could get to Legend'.

I could get to Legend. I will make this statement, bold and confidently ;)

Maybe next month I'll have enough time...

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Hearthside Chat - Mobile Development Update

Greetings to all card-slingers around the world!

Some time has passed since we last sat down and pow-wowed, and in that time a lot has happened. Since launching Hearthstone®: Heroes of Warcraft™ back in March, we’ve:

Let players’ fingers do the dueling with the arrival of Hearthstone on iPad
Survived the creepy-crawly wings of the floating necropolis of Naxxramas
Added Windows 8 Touch compatibility
Raised a mug in celebration of our 20 million players across the world

We’ve created this infographic to share some less well-known (but still important!) metrics we’ve hit together along the way. Check out just how many Hounds have been Unleashed, the number of minions turned to adorable Sheep, and other interesting statistics.

Throughout the past year, many of you have been asking about the release date for Hearthstone on Android. The team has been hard at work to bring Hearthstone to that platform, and is making great progress. We’re taking things one step at a time and we’ve got our sights set on a release for Android tablets, our next new platform, before the end of the year; we’ve just got a few more mana crystals to polish and some Angry Chickens to chase down.

We’re also close to having Hearthstone out to our iPhone and Android phone users, but it’s become clear that we need a little more time to get that version right. While we have a build up and running internally, it needs a bit more work, and we don’t feel like we’ll be ready to share it with you until early next year. It’s very important to us that the phone experience for Hearthstone is just as accessible as the tablet and PC versions. One of the biggest challenges with that is revamping the user interface so it feels intuitive and offers the same quality Hearthstone experience, but this time from the palm of your hand.

Releasing Hearthstone on iPhone and Android phones is something we’re incredibly excited about, but ultimately we’d rather take the extra time to make Hearthstone’s user interface on the phone customized to feel great for the platform, rather than a port that doesn’t take into account the limitations of a smaller screen.

As always, we can’t thank you enough for making the game what it’s become. From the never-ending Fireside Gatherings you’re hosting around the globe, to the insane victories you’re sharing via videos and streams—and even the tough love we get at times—we’re all constantly blown away by our amazing community.

See you at BlizzCon. We can’t wait to show you what’s to come!

-The Hearthstone team


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Just opened another wing of Naxx.

That Grobbulus guy is a pain in the arse. Killed me by turn 4, 4 and 5.

Need to get something with cheap hard removal, as getting 10/6 taunts for 3 mana every turn is getting tiresome.

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Open a pack last night

Rare
Rare
Golden Rare
Legendary (Jaraxxus)
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Not too bad :D


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Turns out when he doesn't draw perfect cards he's easy as a Shaman. Now getting some useful cards. Huzzah!

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Curiosity wrote:
Turns out when he doesn't draw perfect cards he's easy as a Shaman. Now getting some useful cards. Huzzah!


I think the hardest thing in Nax that i've done is the warrior challenge which took me about 10 goes and then the next one it all just fell into place - which says its more about card draw than anything else :-(

(I've not completed the Heroic challenges in Nax for the card back but have done everything else)


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zaphod79 wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Turns out when he doesn't draw perfect cards he's easy as a Shaman. Now getting some useful cards. Huzzah!


I think the hardest thing in Nax that i've done is the warrior challenge which took me about 10 goes and then the next one it all just fell into place - which says its more about card draw than anything else :-(

(I've not completed the Heroic challenges in Nax for the card back but have done everything else)


Heh. Did that one first time with barely getting hit. I think card draw is super important!

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BLIZZARD BANHAMMER BIFFS BOTTERS ON THE BONCE:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... e-accounts

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/16481223

Nothing too controversial about this I'd say, if nothing else a bot will guarantee players the maximum 100 gold per day that can be accrued from wins (10 gold per three wins) so accelerate their acquisition of cards, and also unlock them their golden heroes and suchlike - which isn't fair to the rest of the player base.

As for playing bots I don't really mind, you can tell you're playing a bot within the first few turns and TBH they're usually pretty rubbish.


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So I wonder if thats part of the reason it was un-connectable last night (please wait 15 minutes , oh you've timed out please try again)


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I like the comments on the blog, from idiots who can't read :facepalm:

"They should ban them!" Yes, if you read the blog, that's what they are doing from now.


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Card opening. Lol. I'll be as popular as Chris Moyles on YouTube at this rate.

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Pleased to see the back of the botters (well some of them!)

I spend my gold as soon as I can. Saving up for weeks is not my style, I have quite a good collection now and made a zoo style warlock which got me to level 10 without too much effort.

I will try harder next season. I also have a good Rogue deck which I have developed which seems more effective at the higher levels than zoo.

Still loving this game long time.

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Just went on about a six or seven game win streak to boost up to Level 10 (playing as a Hunter).

One of these days I'll make a concerted effort at Ranked and see how I go.

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