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Author:  zaphod79 [ Wed Apr 15, 2015 13:14 ]
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Played a game on both Iphone and Android - it works although a little slow in places

For both you get a 'original' card pack for completing the game (win or lose)
Author:  Nemmie [ Wed Apr 15, 2015 15:23 ]
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Also runs perfectly on the Nexus 4 but as I have a 7 inch windows 8.1 tablet that runs the full version I will most likely play that version on my travels.

I am trying out different decks every day now which I am enjoying a lot more than sticking to one deck for sustained periods. I don't take it as seriously which keeps my frustration levels low and has got me back to a place where I am enjoying playing again.
Author:  zaphod79 [ Thu Apr 16, 2015 23:51 ]
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Week 3 is out and they have mixed it up a bit

Beat the first deck with a normal one - had a custom deck (which was fun) for the 2nd and I'm just building a custom for the 3rd
Author:  zaphod79 [ Fri Apr 17, 2015 0:07 ]
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And done - i got the 'perfect' draw for the priest challenge (Alex in hand) which finished on the 3rd turn :-)
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Fri Apr 17, 2015 0:59 ]
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First two Heroics down. Last tomorrow. Second one is a fucker. Everything else a piece of piss.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Fri Apr 17, 2015 18:27 ]
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Last Heroic done, a bit fiddly but I found a way.
Author:  zaphod79 [ Fri Apr 17, 2015 18:41 ]
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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Last Heroic done, a bit fiddly but I found a way.


I did see one way posted was to have 29 spells and the legendary who changes your hero to Rag - wait for them to play the card which 'plays opponents minion' - kill it and then kill rag to win
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Fri Apr 17, 2015 18:45 ]
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Quite a novel idea. I battled through with a scrappy Priest after trying a few different options, including mill Rogue.
Author:  Hearthly [ Fri Apr 17, 2015 20:00 ]
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Blasted through them all on normal, as ever no interest in heroics. Lost against the '1 card 1 mana' boss first time so had to bin off one my regular decks to make a deck with all the heaviest cards in the game. And finally some of the dragon cards seem to be coming through! Plus there was some comedy this time too, which I like.

On a wider note got my daily quest done (5 wins with Paladin or Priest) at work on my lunch break on my phone, perfect way to get the quest done. I don't see the quest as a 'chore' exactly, but I do sometimes see it as something that maybe needs to be done before I play a deck I really want to. (I've no great love for pally or priest at the moment, so they wouldn't be my first choice. However I pulled out the Trump Legend 1 pally deck and blasted through five wins in succession in Casual - job done!)

I really do recommend this game as a mobile experience, it works far better than I'd ever have thought possible.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Fri Apr 17, 2015 21:38 ]
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I find playing on my Android phone to be a lot easier than on the tablet actually. Tablet is too bloody fiddly and even though mine's a 2nd Gen Nexus 7 it's still pretty chuggy even just on the menu screens.
Author:  zaphod79 [ Fri Apr 17, 2015 22:03 ]
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The only real issue i can see with the mobile version is that it does not let you 'queue' up moves so when on the desktop i'll drag the characters to who they are going to kill - hit end move and watch the animations all play out i need to wait and attack each character separately (that was on a 3g connection so that may be part of it)
Author:  Trooper [ Wed Apr 22, 2015 14:24 ]
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I'm L57 with my mage and want to get to 60, but I also don't want to play a mech mage deck.
Slow going :D
Author:  Hearthly [ Wed Apr 22, 2015 18:07 ]
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What type of Mage you playing then?

There's Tempo Mage which is fast without being Aggro or Mech.

I'm still enjoying playing Fatigue and Freeze Mage, there's something very satisfying when you manage to pull the deck off, especially with Fatigue since you're expecting to have to counter all 30 cards in your opponent's deck and then win. (Unlike Gang Up Rogue where you're looking for opportunities to burn as many of their cards as possible.)

The mobile version of the game is fab, usually manage to get my daily quest done on my lunch break :D Although a mate has the game on his HTC M8 and I have to say it runs a lot nicer than it does on my Nexus 5.
Author:  Trooper [ Wed Apr 22, 2015 18:19 ]
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My own version of a mage, it's not doing too bad.
Author:  Trooper [ Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:01 ]
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Well, that was a fun 30 minutes...

The fights are interesting in the new wing, but I one-shotted everything without making any new decks.
Author:  Hearthly [ Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:14 ]
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Trooper wrote:
Well, that was a fun 30 minutes...

The fights are interesting in the new wing, but I one-shotted everything without making any new decks.


Sounds perfect. I just want the cards, preferably without having to nuke any of my deck slots in the process.

One more wing and we'll have all the dragons going on, which should spice the meta up a bit.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:13 ]
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I put together a deck for the Mill dragon. Basically entirely 1-cost minions so that I always had a hilariously full board.

But yeah, all done as well as challenges. Heroic might be a bit more interesting but I've no time for that yet.

I've only got about 100g now so I'll be pushing it to have enough to buy the last wing on time.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Sat Apr 25, 2015 16:53 ]
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Heroics done. Combination of bullshit and RNG but the bastards still went down.
Author:  Hearthly [ Sat Apr 25, 2015 17:05 ]
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The world is a safer place.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Sat Apr 25, 2015 18:11 ]
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Totes. Quite a lot of people saying this time though is that while you can build a deck to beat them, you need the right draw and they need a reasonably average one to have a chance. Think it was probably my 5th roll that beat the last one, and in some matches I was nowhere near.

Also they're confirmed as bugged if you have a taunt and Kelthuzad down. The AI won't attack. Unless the taunt is removed by some AOE the AI will just play minions and never attack with them. People have also said if the AI wasn't so fucking stupid the Heroic matches would be impossible. Probably true.
Author:  Curiosity [ Sat Apr 25, 2015 23:23 ]
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Just opened the new wing and did the first battle.

I wonder what would have hatched had I not killed all the eggs immediately?
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Sat Apr 25, 2015 23:29 ]
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I think in Normal they're 5/4s, and 7/7s in Heroic.
Author:  Curiosity [ Sat Apr 25, 2015 23:56 ]
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Won the 4 normals first pop each time. Was fun though.
Author:  Hearthly [ Mon Apr 27, 2015 14:43 ]
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So there's this Warrior at 29 health and 24 armour, for an effective life total of 53.

He gets OTK-ed, no, really.....

(And this is a Legend ranked game, so it's not some daft confection between a couple of mates to break game mechanics.)
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Mon Apr 27, 2015 14:46 ]
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That was pretty amazing, but would have been slightly better if he'd played out the cards slower.
Author:  zaphod79 [ Thu Apr 30, 2015 16:29 ]
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Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Apr 30, 2015 16:52 ]
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Nice!

Last wing of BRM tonight. I'll *just* scrape enough gold together to get it for free.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Fri May 01, 2015 0:03 ]
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Final wing done minus Heroics. Meeeh. The last fight was slightly more interesting but not by much. The class challenge looked like it had interesting cards but the AI was dead too quickly. The design of them this time has been terrible.
Author:  Hearthly [ Fri May 01, 2015 8:05 ]
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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Final wing done minus Heroics. Meeeh. The last fight was slightly more interesting but not by much. The class challenge looked like it had interesting cards but the AI was dead too quickly. The design of them this time has been terrible.


Do you feel this expansion has been poor value for money?
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Fri May 01, 2015 10:31 ]
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Yeah kind of, 700g for 5 cards and always < 45 mins of entertainment defeating the bosses.
Author:  Hearthly [ Fri May 01, 2015 10:46 ]
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I'd get onto Blizzard and be demanding a refund :p
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Fri May 01, 2015 10:49 ]
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Man, you only asked to set that up didn't you? :P
Author:  Hearthly [ Fri May 01, 2015 10:59 ]
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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Man, you only asked to set that up didn't you? :P


When you get to my age it's all about the small pleasures in life :hat:

I am looking forward to what dragon decks (if any!) become strong in the meta now that everything is out, and the legendary from the last wing looks like it could be anything from awesome to horrible :D
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Fri May 01, 2015 11:04 ]
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I watched Trump briefly last night try a Dragon Paladin, lost horribly, and then declared that someone else would have to get the glory of refining it into something playable. I haven't really added any new cards in to my decks apart from the emperor.
Author:  zaphod79 [ Fri May 01, 2015 11:26 ]
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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
I watched Trump briefly last night try a Dragon Paladin, lost horribly, and then declared that someone else would have to get the glory of refining it into something playable. I haven't really added any new cards in to my decks apart from the emperor.


I've added the one that doubles up on your cards to my Warlock deck as it works on all your other deck draws (like your hero ability)
Author:  Curiosity [ Fri May 01, 2015 19:40 ]
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I need another hundred or so gold to get the final wing. I've paid for 2 or 3 of the wings and used gold on the others.

I'm getting back into arena again at the moment, just for the sake of variety. I've had some awful runs; some my fault some with awful luck. Chose Priest for a laugh and then got almost zero useful Priest cards. Had a good run with a Hunter to 8 wins though.
Author:  Hearthly [ Sat May 02, 2015 10:05 ]
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Servers seem to be on their arse today.

Had a Ranked game crap-out just as it was drawing towards the closing stages, and haven't been able to get back in since.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Sat May 02, 2015 12:19 ]
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Hahaha, you can't play injured blademaster against Maloriak! It makes it a 7/4, and then does 4 damage to it.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Sat May 02, 2015 21:43 ]
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Dusted, but meh. I'm not quite sure what I expected. I might just buy the next one and save the gold for packs.

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Author:  Hearthly [ Sun May 03, 2015 10:55 ]
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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Dusted, but meh. I'm not quite sure what I expected. I might just buy the next one and save the gold for packs.


Well yes one way of looking at it is you've diddled yourself out of 35 packs of cards for the sake of saving £17.49 of real money, whereas 35 packs of cards would set you back thirty quid.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Sun May 03, 2015 11:24 ]
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Or saved myself at least £47.49 by just skillfully grinding the game ;)

I burned out a bit the other month, I'm literally only doing the quests now.
Author:  Hearthly [ Wed May 06, 2015 17:31 ]
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30 million Hearthstone accounts have now been created. That's quite a lot!

Blizz really need to get some sort of catch-up mechanism in there though, a mate of mine has recently taken the game up and whilst he loves it to pieces he's a bit bewildered by the various expansions and the amount of time/money it'll take him to get a decent card collection together.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015- ... -milestone
Author:  Trooper [ Fri May 08, 2015 22:01 ]
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

For zaphod as he was asking. The spreadsheet I now use, which does shit like this...
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Author:  zaphod79 [ Fri May 08, 2015 23:42 ]
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Trooper wrote:
For zaphod as he was asking. The spreadsheet I now use, which does shit like this...


Thanks - i'll see about adding my stuff to it and find out what i'm missing
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Fri May 08, 2015 23:51 ]
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Jesus Trooper talk about overkill, but I like your style ;)
Author:  Nemmie [ Sat May 09, 2015 7:05 ]
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Two down in my pointless but all consuming quest for golden portraits. Mage and Hunter.

Now going for Warlock. :)
Author:  Nemmie [ Sat May 09, 2015 7:06 ]
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Nemmie wrote:
Two down in my pointless but all consuming quest for golden portraits. Mage and Hunter.

Now going for Warlock. :)


That is one impressive spreadsheet.

Note to self : :belm:
Author:  Trooper [ Sat May 09, 2015 8:28 ]
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I stole it from someone else, i'm not that crazy to make something that complicated :D
Author:  Hearthly [ Sat May 09, 2015 11:31 ]
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I'm clearly going to be filling that in today.
Author:  Curiosity [ Sat May 09, 2015 12:03 ]
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Had a couple of fun losses.

One against a priest, he was on 8 health, I had Rag, Dr Boom and a couple more minions. He was on 5 health so had to kill both to survive.

Ruddy lightbomb. Kills them both and he goes on to win!

Next up, I was winning, but we both had a decent board. He trades off all the minions and ends up killing his own last legendary... the one that drops another legendary. It drops Kel Thazad or whatever his name is, and it resurects his entire board! He did apologise!

Also, my first time up against a Mill Rogue. He got a great draw (played six of those Murloc card draw bastards in about 6 turns!) and destroyed me.

All fun games though.
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