Be Excellent To Each Other

Meh, EXPANSION PACK FOR FREE-TO-PLAY ONLINE CARD GAME FEW HOURS LATE, COMMUNICATION DEEMED SUB-STANDARD.

I think we should call for one of those days of anger things.

I mean, it's not even like the game isn't there, just play with the old cards and decks for a bit longer! I was looking forward to buying my packs when I got home and playing with them, but I'm sure I can fill the terrible void with something else.....

People can't even argue that they're not getting what they paid for, as the cards and game as paid for are all still there and playable.

You don't see me bitching, I'm just pointing out this is clearly quite unintended and subsequently badly handled. Rule 1 is keeping your angry fans mollified with pointless updates and vague ETAs.

I'm fuming! Took the day off work for this event! (seriously)

I have written a very stern letter, ALL IN CAPS (so they can see how angry i am).

bah, this sucks a bit doesnt it

New update: Maintenance at 9pm. Originally said it will last an hour, now says 'A few hours'.

So basically, not launching on the 9th at all. This is pretty bloody shoddy whichever way you look at it.

Never plan anything around a Blizzard launch date or time.

Even when they actually release when they say they will, there's a good chance whatever it is won't work properly for a bit.

It's finally up. Bought 10 packs on top of my starter 3. Got a host of stuff and quite a few dupes, no legendaries but a few epics.

I fear the 7 packs I have just opened have merely whetted my appetite. (got 3 Epics) This is exactly what the game needed imo. Good times ahead!

In my 3 'free' card packs I did not get any legendary cards but did get the warlock onethat gains 2/2 for damage so that will be good to use

There also seems to be an issue right now with arena wins giving out old packs rather than new ones

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/for ... t%3Dnav1#1

and I just got a GvG pack from an arena run I started before GvG was released.

This is soooo much fun. Bought 60 packs which was a bit silly as ended up with loads of dupes. Only got 2 decidedly average legendary cards, but the cards I did get are wreaking havoc on opponents! Put together a mech heavy Druid deck. Unstable Portal for Mage is massively OP, Only played it 4 times and got 2 ledge cards. Needs nerfing asap.

I suppose that's the best I could do with that deck... ah well...

The extra cards you can't see in that deck list were a Blizzard, a 2 Flamestrikes and a Ysera

Nice result there Trooper

I ended up with 26 packs to open (2300 gold plus three extra packs for some reason or another). The end result is I'm utterly bemused and confused and have no idea what's going on now so I'll wait until it all settles down a bit, unlike when Naxx came out I just don't have the time to learn my way around a load of new cards and decks (that's the WoW effect....), so I'll be totally reliant on net-decking.

Gonna take a break from the daily quest as well, as I have no effective decks at the moment and it'll take too long to do.

5/0 Arena to 5/3, because, as always, I hit the fucking bullshit wall of unstoppable opponents. 5 easy wins to 3 impossible-to-win defeats.

I just played a game against a Hunter. A pretty easy game. Afterwards, he wanted to add me as a friend - no doubt to congratulate me on a well fought game. I like friends, so I added him.



I find this kind of thing very amusing. Why do people get so angry? Griefing him at his loss was just too easy.

Why did you leave him hanging?

He unfriended me immediately after the last message. I thought we had some good banter going there too

AND THEN THIS HAPPENED.

48 fucking quid, ha!

Meanwhile I've opened maybe 16 F2P GVG packs and have over half the cards, with doubles of a fair few, already

I don't think £48 is that much money.

It's the works Christmas do tomorrow and that'll probably set me back over £100 by the time I've paid for a taxi home, so £48 to get a decent head of steam into the new card expansion for Hearthstone seems reasonable value, takes my total spend on the game to well over £100 but then again I have been playing it for ten months.

Add in playing WoW again and I've been able indefinitely postpone spending £1500+ on a new PC or doing something really daft like lobbing out a grand on an XBoxOne/PS4 and a massive new telly just to play GTAV.

It's down to what you choose to spend your spare cash on at the end of the day, and what you're comfortable with, and for me my spend on Hearthstone is well inside my comfort and decent value zone. TBH your total determination not to spend any money on the game at all (and strange glee at this state of affairs) looks pretty odd to me

My first new Legendary



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As I've said before, you can spend your moolah on whatever you like, but man. £48! That's a super-expensive premium AAA game price, and that's just for meta elements of a game that is free if you want it to be.

I know you're not bothered, but that's how I look at it. I also grind CS:GO by selling mission rewards to earn enough Steam cash to buy the next campaign for free

Although CS is even more stupid to spend money on, because all of the upgrades are purely cosmetic vanity things that offer zero advantage to the stock guns. People will pay £30+ for a gun that just looks a bit prettier while they shoot it. Amazing business model.

£48 is absolute peanuts if its something you put lots of time into. Like Hearthly said people think nothing of going out at a weekend and pissing £100+ up the wall. Poeple spend that and more weekly on fags.

Having said that well pissed off to only get 2 ledge cards in my 60 packs. My mate got a golden ledge in his 3 free packs ffs.

Well the bill is in for last night, £110 lighter and a modest hangover, although I did bin the session off at about half nine and get a taxi home (£30), at that point it'd been nine hours drinking and I'd had enough. How people of my age manage sessions that finish off in clubs at 3am I have no idea. (Well I do know actually, they basically wave goodbye to functioning for the entire next day.)

Rather stupidly I was running about £50 up on the fruit machines for the entire session, up until the last pub where in my pissed state I made an absolute royal fuck-up of a skill feature that knocked the machine back and it ended up costing me my entire profit to get it to come back.

POINT BEING that £48 for 60 packs of cards seems entirely reasonable for the play I'll get out of the game, in fact, on balance, I'd rather have my £110 back, erase this hangover, and have another 140 packs of cards!

Hmmm... What should I keep... choices, choices...

I'd go for Duplicate there.

I was bored this morning, so I bought 15 packs.

Got one legendary, but not sure how good it is. It's the ogre one that summons a new creature any time your opponent casts a spell.

Liking the look of Hobgoblin for a Zoo deck. Gives +2/+2 to all 1 attack creatures you summon. Also the Iron Sensei or whatever it is called; like that. Adds 2/2 to a random mech at turn end. Some good Warrior cards too.

Had an interesting game earlier against a warlock when the mech that drops a random character when it dies decided to drop Loremaster Cho :-)

Difficult to play around for a while but in the end i killed him using one of their soulfires so i could get some of my secret cards down

Well, I'm not knocking your lifestyle by any means, but I don't live the same way you do. My work xmas lunch cost me £33 and I didn't hang around blarting cash into alcohol or fruit machines. I don't particularly drink, never smoke, don't buy consoles, and generally don't piss £60 up the wall on this or that without serious thought.

It's all a question of what you enjoy really. I'm currently giving serious thought to spending £160 on an entirely stupid robot vacuum cleaner that cleans for me and returns to its charging dock when its getting low on battery. £160 on a single mech and it doesn't even have divine shield!

Had 200 gold for 2 packs.

GOLDEN LEGENDARY! Except it's a Gazlowe, and I got the normal version of him out of my 60 packs the other day.

Oh well.

Also pictured, a seriously awesome pack I got out of the 60! (Golden common, rare, epic, and two legendaries!)

Currently having a ball with Trump's GvG aggro mage, it's a bit erratic IMO but the hilarity potential is off the scale.

There are two Jeeves in there so the idea is - (I assume, I haven't actually watched Trump play the deck) - that you can dump cards with reckless abandon, and hopefully get Jeeves hidden behind some taunts and just keep drawing cards with him.

Had a game against a warrior and I really did feel his pain, as I kept him constantly frozen with Ice Lance/Frostbolt/Snow Chugger to lock down his weapon, and kept clearing the board with my minions and playing as many cards as possible, and every turn Jeeves just did his 'Let me get that for you....' and dropped three cards into my hand at the end of my turn.

Finished the game with only three cards left in my deck and it wasn't much past Turn 10

This is why I'm happy to have bought the card packs, it gives me the freedom to look at a list of the decks some of the top players have been coming up with and picking the ones that look like they might be fun to play with.

Oh yes, Unstable Portal is quite clearly massively OP and has got to be first in line for the nerf bat IMO.

I don't see how unstable portal can be nerfed. If they add 1 to the cost it will completely remove it's useability.

Besides, it's a fun card, and while many times it won the game for me, it also brought me absolutely nothing of value most of times.

If they add one to it then its still a bonus as you spend 3 now to get a minion with 3 less next turn (so a turn 3 play can let you drop a 7 point card on turn 4) , and unlike other cards this really does seem random - i've had a few legendary cards out of it but also some junk.

Oh and the other bonus is that it will give you class specific cards which can work in interesting ways with a mage (so Prophet Velen gives you double points for your standard mage power)

Oh don't get me wrong it's a very fun card, but I also think it's OP.

Loads of minions in the game cost 3 or less mana, so quite often you can play Unstable Portal for two mana and immediately play a three or less mana minion on the same turn.

I appreciate you could get a Wisp or something down at that sort of level, but it seems to me there's a pretty good chance you'll get a solid 3 drop or get to play a good 4-5-6 drop far earlier than would ever otherwise be the case (excepting a druid and he'd had to burn Innervates and/or Wild Growths to get that effect).

Also remember that it synergises very well with other mage cards (which is what Trump has done in that deck), such as Sorcerer's Apprentice and Mana Wyrm (which also synergise with each other).

Maybe I'm on an insanely good RNG run with my Portals, but for me at least it's working out ridiculously well, even if the card is a duffer it doesn't really cost you much in the way of mana, tempo, cards, or board. (A bit like Webspinner, even if it doesn't pay off the downside is negligible.)

And when it pays off very well it's obscene, I've had it deliver a 0 mana (!!!) King Mukla and a 3 mana The Beast, which are basically a 'win game' button.

I'm calling this card now for getting nerfed in the forseeable....

Aaaaand here's the result of the two Portals in my last game, delivering a three mana 7/6 and a six mana Alex.

Seriously, on an Arena draft I'd take 30 Unstable Portals if they were offered.

Live for android in some territories now : https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... earthstone

All of a sudden I want an Android tablet. Wifi hotspot on my phone + tablet = Hearthstone anywhere. This is appealing.

Isn't a good Android tablet like half the cost of an iPad?

To the Android thread-o-tron, I think.

I may be missing something but did not think that Android tablets were locked out of products in the same way that Ipads are so could you not just skip the tablet part and play Hearthstone on your phone ?

The screen on a phone is far too small to play Hearthstone, TBH I find it a bit constricted on Mrs Hearthly's iPad Air, I definitely wouldn't want to go any smaller than that.

The Play store stops you downloading if it isn't compatible with your device, and the android hearthstone client has been set to be not compatible with my Note 3, so I would be very surprised if any other phone if compatible.

You can sideload it, I expect, but... faff.

Is it time for another tournament?

Rules are, you can use any class you like, but you have to create a new deck and immediately hit "done" for each round, so it autofills from your collection. No peeking at your decklist either, start your games as much in the dark as your opponent!

Each round is best of three and we'll do it as a league this time, so everyone gets a chance to play the same amount of games. You get a point for each game you win in the round, so a maximum of three points available each round.
Every round has to be a new deck each time, but you keep the same deck for the 3 games.

Anyone up for it?

Players:
Trooper (Trooper#2226)
RuySan
Curiosity
Hearthly (Chopley#1273)
Zaphod79#2243
Crazyface #2968
Slightly Green

good idea. I'm in

Probably worth posting battletags too, so we can all find each other

In. Can't remember my tag though.

Sounds daft enough to be worth a try, I'm in

I'll ping my brother to see if he fancies it too, as I don't think he visits here that regularly.

Chopley#1273 is me.

In Zaphod79#2243

I'm running it on my Hudl 2 and it runs great. For the money its a top tab.