Hearthpwn

Quote from skitzy129 »

RNG mechanics have nothing to do with 2/1s being inherrently bad.  With 3/4 being far superior to 4/3.  With 5/7 being far superior to 7/5.

It's incredibly easy to tell how good a card is in this game based on base stats and mana value.  Hearthstone is absolutely mathematically solved.

Hmmm, if stats and mana value were all that mattered, then by your reasoning pit lord should be a staple in every demonlock deck. and just for the record, a 7 mana 5/7 is worse than a 5 mana 7/5.

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Quote from VeiledSyn »

If there is anything I learned from the GvG launch, it's that 99% of the HearthPwn community has no idea what the meta will be like after a card release. For a month Rogue was considered one of the weakest classes, and now... Priest was also expected to be a top class with the minion Shrinkmeister, didn't happen as planned (though Shrink is questionable).

Very few posters on this forum will really know what's going to happen. Compared to 25 million other independent minds, not to mention you don't see many pros (which largely affect the meta game) around here either. Let them talk and make predictions, then wait and see what really happens when BRM goes live. Not likely to be very close, though with a smaller sample card size, it may not be as far off. Plus, Blizz does like to spoil the more exciting cards right near the launch. I am happy with what I see so far.

What?  The good players knew exactly how GvG was playing out to within 90% before it was even released.  What on earth are you on about?  These trickling releases allow us to figure out everything so far in advance because of Hearthstones severe simplicity and formula.

Except that Trump though Dr. Boom was way too slow and was never going to be played, and pretty much all streamers though Sludge Belcher was garbage.

And 90% of what? Being 90% right about how the meta would pan out? Nobody ever created a post of how great Blingtron is in mech mage, nobody ever thought midrange hunter was possible, and nobody ever said anything about Oil rouge. Where is this 90% coming from?

Quote from skitzy129 »

The game is so well defined at this point that a slow trickle of cards allows you to immediately figure out the overwhelming majority of its potential.

So far Dragon looks terrible and I doubt another 22 cards will change that around given history.  The only card released so far that seems like it has any chance of staying around 3 months from now is Lava Shock and that's likely a one-of.

This slow trickling release is a horrible system for a game as mathematically solved as Hearthstone.  The entire adventure pack is figured out well before release, just like we saw with Naxx and GvG.

Hearthstone and mathematically involved should never be in the same sentence; the game has a cult dedicated to RNGesus for frick sake.

On a serious note, if bliz spoiled all the cards at once, then there wouldn't be any suspense or hype about BRM.

Quote from Pyr0m4nc3r »

Well your first mistake has been pay attention to all those cryers out there, sadly a great part of Hearthstone's player base.

You're obviously right. Also let me add, when we see the Loatheb and Undertaker equivalents people will start first to ignore them due to not see its brutal potential and then to cry aloud praying them to be banned. I guarantee it.

How much do you bet that in the first 2 weeks after BRM Reynad will make an insanely broken deck featuring Dragon Egg and it will eventually get nerfed because the Hearthpwn community cried so much?

Well, you have to forgive players for doing things like that. You will never know how good or bad a card is until you try it out in a deck. Everyone is capable of that mistake, even famous streamers like Trump (when Dr. Boom was first revealed, he claimed it was too slow and wasn't going to be used). I concur that BRM is definitely going to be pretty cool and you can't judge a book by its cover. Besides, who doesn't want to play around with grim patrons?