Board 8 > Hearthstone Topic:Madness at the Darkmoon Faire

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I thought about coming back for some duels because they looked fun, but the pseudo paywall killed that idea. I did do one run though, my bad collection didn't matter much once I got the swamp zombies passive with band of bees. Between that and a few pen flingers, I only lost to people who didn't need the board to kill me and a guy with the exact same combo but had the hunter power to win the damage race. Fun times.

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UltimaterializerX posted...

Making achievements only doable in ranked in a game with no chat function is laughable idiocy.

I actually think this annoys me more than the battlepass itself. I don't play wild so I can try to do achievements there without worrying about losing rank, mmr, stars or whatever, but the problem is that everyone else is still there to win and win as fast as possible so literally no one will play along even if they realize what you're trying to do.

Was trying to finish the achievement to kill someone with C'Thun from full health, which by the way doesn't work with double battlecries, so I needed the opponent to be at exactly 30 when I played it. This essentially means I can't play against any classes that can take damage from their hero power. Also, one of the C'Thun pieces deals seven random damage so you need to not hit the hero with it unless they have armor to absorb the hits. I finally got the perfect set up as freeze mage, opponent at 30, C'thun in my hand and the board frozen with a Doomsayer set to clear it.

Opponent concedes. Fuck me...

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Trying to grind legend today and after about 4 hours I'm at the exact same spot I started. How do people have the patience for this every month.

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skullbone posted...

Trying to grind legend today and after about 4 hours I'm at the exact same spot I started. How do people have the patience for this every month.

Its a lot of routine honestly, plus its just understanding what the meta is and what you are facing so you beat those decks

Like I barely played other than like, the past 3 days and Im at the Elise/Finley level. Granted, I still have the 10x star bonus despite not really having touched ranked the last couple of months


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Yeah I think I'll be able to do it next month. The meta of today seems to be a lot of ETC Warrior and Aggro Hunter/DH. I can't play Control because I get matched with the aggro decks and I can't play aggro because I get matched with ETC Warrior. Felt like I would play 3 ETC Warrior matches, switch to control and then play 3 aggro decks.

Control Warrior feels like it would beat both common decks today but I don't have enough cards to make it.

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Honestly if you want a really underrated deck to play Pure/broom Pally is probably it but its expensive

Otherwise I guess theres HL Hunter

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I did my first ever Khadgar pivot and it was on an iPhone of all things

it felt so good

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One of the rare positive upsides for me when it comes to the changes, the daily quests to play three games no longer require you to play to <15 life. Just queue and concede. Was able to finish both of my play three daily quests today without having to finish the 800xp quest I'd rather reroll tomorrow.

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LiquidOshawott posted...

Honestly if you want a really underrated deck to play Pure/broom Pally is probably it but its expensive

Otherwise I guess theres HL Hunter

Hit legend today for the first time with Pure Paladin. Thanks for the suggestion! The only matches I lost were other Paladins or crazy highroll face hunter.

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VS predicted the meta's going to come down to Soul DH/Control Warrior/Highlander Hunter but holy moly, is 3-Mana-And-Under-DH ever good!

I decided to make a final hours push for Diamond 5 and got there by winning my first 8 games in a row, with only 2 of them being competitive. The streak wasn't broken until I had lethal on turn 8 against a Warlock who played Twisting Nether into two of the free 6/6 taunts. Even then I dealt with them and had lethal again two turns later, only for him to drop Y'Shaarj and put them both back on the field. Darn!

I kept playing for a while longer and finished 18-4 for the day, on the verge of Diamond 2 when the month ended. Think that's the best extended stretch I've had in Ranked, though I haven't checked my stats to be sure. Silly me, would have had Legend if I'd just started playing a little bit earlier in the night.

Losses were two Control Warlocks, one Quest Druid who got insanely lucky on his board clear, and a weird Priest who discovered 100 removals and then discounted them all to almost 0 mana.

So yeah if you're looking for Legend in December I highly recommend

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Notes:

• VS recommends a second Mana Burn instead of the Kayn, but I think that's crazy talk. He singlehandedly won me 6 or 7 out of those 18 games. If you know you're against someone who's going to put up a taunt wall like Clown Druid or Rez Priest, just cycle hard and keep him in hand and you'll have lethal soon enough.
• (Don't get me wrong though, the Mana Burn wins some games as well, like when it locks Paly out of his Consecration on T4. Overall though I feel the deck can cycle hard and restabilize after a board wipe most of the time, and being able to attack through late taunts is way more important.)
• It's nice that this is such a budget deck but I have to say, the Epic Steppers are absolute must-crafts. The +4 attack out of nowhere got me out of jams on turn 5 about a million times, and your board is full of big threats so constantly that his natural 4 damage often ends up getting home despite his pathetic health.

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Really if theres a reason to run Kayn its not those decks, its Pally

It sucks that the deck is so expensive dust wise.

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I think I've realized that I have no interest in Hearthstone right now. Usually, the awareness that I have daily quests spoiling in my log is enough to spur me into at least attending to them, even if I do nothing more. But right now, I honestly don't care. I was barely even aware of this set releasing before it came out and there's nothing about it that excites me. My battlegrounds pass has expired and I don't want to pay to renew it. I'm just completely disinterested.

Feels kinda weird. I've only taken one even brief pause since the game was released, and that was way back in year 1.

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There are also people smart enough to just... not play Hearthstone.

One day, you might learn how to accomplish that.

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I've apparently started out this month 10-0 in ranked, or at least that's what the achievement says. Outside of a Reno Mage, I think every other game I've played so far has been against Soul Demon Hunter and ETC Warrior.

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https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23584141/19-2-patch-notes

Man they gutted Demon Hunter. Probably deserves it though.

Also Bye Galakrond and Zerus in BG (Also they are skipping totems and just putting in spells for turns)

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They only gutted Aggro Demon Hunter and probably not enough honestly! The soulshard DH deck I've been using only runs blade dance out of the nerfed cards so it probably means people just go back to that version.

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Oh you dont run the soulshard card?

then again its still on a similar power level as Duskbreaker so it would probably still see play

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Blade Dance nerf feels like it's not going to affect anything.

Also, is the Brann nerf directed at wild or is it somehow good in standard and I'm just completely unaware of it?

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Camden posted...

Blade Dance nerf feels like it's not going to affect anything.

Also, is the Brann nerf directed at wild or is it somehow good in standard and I'm just completely unaware of it?

Yeah its pretty good in standard, just a strong on curve play, especially since Polkelt came out and pretty much guaranteed you got it on curve


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Camden posted...

Blade Dance nerf feels like it's not going to affect anything.

Also, is the Brann nerf directed at wild or is it somehow good in standard and I'm just completely unaware of it?

Supposedly Demon Hunter was one of the only things keeping Highlander Hunter in check so they wanted to preemptively nerf it by hitting Brann and Polkelt. Honestly these nerfs just mean that Evolve Shaman and Secret Rogue/Whilrkick Rogue are going to be absolute menaces. This does nothing to actually help classes that weren't tier 1 viable (Warlock, Priest, etc.), and all it does is replace a couple top tier oppressive decks with other top tier oppressive decks, but hey maybe people will stop whining about Demon Hunter for 5 seconds....just kidding that isn't going to happen.

Sadly the only decks I have the cards to play (and even then I have to play budget versions) are Soul DH, Highlander Hunter (a very budget version - I don't have Polkelt, Rifle, Dragonbane), and Face Hunter, so with these nerfs I guess I get to go back to playing braindead budget Face Hunter for the times I need to grind the weekly achievements. Honestly I think I may go the way of everyone else quitting. I got into Hearthstone because of a couple of friends and they've all stopped playing. I like Arena the best but obviously Blizzard couldn't care less about the game mode.

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I'm surprised I haven't been seeing it, it's not like Hunter is hard to come by in ranked or casual.

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As far as new BGs heroes, N'Zoth has potential if you play it right and we will see some really creative builds. Y'Shaarj is really RNG dependent. It will win you fights early and then the hero power is useless by the mid game. C'Thun looks straight awful.

Also, since everyone seems to hate Demon Hunter, here is a list of decks that take as little or less skill than Soul DH to pilot:

Aggro DH
Face Hunter
Evolve Shaman
Pure Paladin
Secret Mage
Rez Priest
Highlander anything

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

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Yshaarj seems like a worse Elise tbh, but given that you could at least use it multiple times it could be ok on bad taverns I guess

Cthun is kinda slow and Nzoth is fun, think the buffed heroes will be interesting too (Looking forward to Zeph and Patches, two valuish heroes that should be more fun to mess with)

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I do decently well with Zephrys already. Making it easier to squeeze his power into earlier turns makes it that much easier to play him.

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Geez, these battlegrounds are ridiculous.

First game:
* Play as Silas
* Face N'Zoth turn 8
* Get the bonus to copy a minion from opponent's warband
* Steal the fish
* Three-ticket into Baron
* Triple my bomb into a Djinni
* Get the new gal that takes the punches for taunts on the next turn
* Watch as my deathrattles go over perfectly and fill my hand with (up to) 8 cards every turn

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Yeah the new girl seems pretty stupidly OP. She controls so much tempo and theres really not much counter to her

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Does the corrupted minion bug make the phantom minions visible to both players, or only the one that owns them? Just curious if my opponent also saw that I had a dozen or so minions.

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So I think the top five heroes in BG right now at something like

Elise, Maeiv, Jandice, Omu, George

With Lich King, Rafaam, Al Akir, Akazam, and either Rag or Millhouse rounding out the top ten (I never got the secret dude but I think at one mana its pretty good)

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Battlegrounds is truly an enigma to me right now. I feel like I have a strong board by turn 9 or 10 and then I get completely demolished and go out in 7th place. It's not a good feeling to have 100+ hours in Battlegrounds and feel like I've made basically 0 progress as a player. I think I need to completely change my entire playstyle or something because it's just not working anymore.

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Weirdest thing just happened to me.

I'm playing battlegrounds, top 3, and I've got a fully-built Goldrinn comp. 1st place is mechs, 2nd is elementals. I get the elemental guy. I'm nervous he might have mega-windfury. He does not. I crush him, in spite of some really healthy bois.

I'm thinking to myself, "okay, I've got this. There's no way mechs can beat me without teching in a Zapp." And then suddenly, the victory screen pops up.

Second place! +300

Um, hello? Like, if the other guy left or got beaten by the ghost, I could understand, but then I should be getting first place. So wtf just happened? I'm low enough rating right now that I can't tell if I was actually awarded first or second place. Did I just get screwed out of stomping on my opponent?

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I assume it has to be a bug with the most recent patch, since I've seen a few other people mention having that same problem recently.

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https://i.imgur.com/nqcKJXi.png

Guess who attacked first

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I'm assuming it wasn't the guy without a taunt.

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UltimaterializerX posted...

https://hsreplay.net/replay/9m7Uyynz6ZuKRkGCMtfLq2

Anyone who thinks this game is skill based is provably stupid.

Now I havent played in a long time and I was just seeing what this game was up to ...

But your draw looked really slow and your deck looked way worse than your opponent

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skullbone posted...

https://i.imgur.com/nqcKJXi.png

Guess who attacked first

I bet I can guess what got attacked first as well. Minions are attracted to shiny, golden things, after all.

I just finished a lobby where pretty much this exact line-up came in a very distant third, and I came in what would look like a very distant second to a C'thun that ended up with something ridiculous like 600/600 in total stats. I had a chance in the middle of the game to kill him at 6HP, but he dodged four or five bullets and managed to force a tie. Next time I matched up with him it was already too late, the only thing that could kill him at that point was poison murlocs and they weren't in the lobby.

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azuarc posted...

I'm assuming it wasn't the guy without a taunt.

The other guy had a 70/70 golden mega-windfury elemental so I got rid of my taunt for another poison.

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Feeling so fed up with Battlegrounds lately. No matter what I do or how strong my comp is I end up taking 25 damage on turn 9 in like 75% of games. Obviously I'm bad but I just have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

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The introduction of the spells as well as some of the new arch types seems to have added a certain amount of chaos to your average run. As a result battlegrounds feels much less "solvable" than it did before.


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