Hearthpwn

Quote from PPoison777 >>

 Congrats you are the exception to the rule. Very proud of you kiddo. You must be a real big brain clearly.

A very mature response, you must have felt great after posting that.

I'm not the exception to the rule because there isn't a rule to begin with. There are plenty of other people who didn't bother with the perks when they became locked with gold/real money and still get top 4.

You can't honestly say you lost the entire game because instead of being offered the choices Ysera/Milhouse/Lich Baz'hial/Tavish you just got Lich and Tavish, while in the same sentence saying that a person just got extremely lucky in the lobby because guess what? the perks don't increase your chance to find the minions you want.

Like you said, rng is rng, sometimes you go god-like in rolls sometimes you just don't and can at best aim for fourth place.

Quote from PPoison777 >>

 If anyone plays battlegrounds they know the complete obvious pay for rng 100 percent now. It’s literally impossible for me to get above 5th place. Just ended a game where I was at at 32 and guess what happened. A pay fag has perfect rng and hits me for 35 wow so kool so fun. And of course he was playing on a pay board with a special pay finisher. While lil ol me feels like a fool getting punished for not spending real money. 

meanwhile I've been consistently getting 2nd or 1st place to farm for tess's skin which surprisingly took all of a few hours to get (with some 1st wins being at 10 or 15 hp) without spending a dime for the 2+ choices because I always thought it a little silly they changed it from being a reward for opening 25 packs.

I will never understand why this is an excuse for losing/conceding in battlegrounds. Each to their own though, since I've always picked heroes based on what I like not what is "meta".

I'd rather not...imp lock is cancerous and the very opposite of a healthy meta deck. i'd rather have quest hunter back, at least then I sometimes had hope of winning if their draw was bad early or they didn't get their draw cards late-game. this shit has imp-ending + hp + tradeables, decks so focused on aggro shouldn't be able to refill hand so quickly after barfing out their cards.

Quote from Beep_Beep >>

I dont know about the whole time bank thing.  I can see a world where people are playing at a relatively good pace...then right before somebody gets lethaled, they let their time bank go all the way down.  Talk about extended BM.... No Thanks

 

 The world I saw with bank time was the one where players that frequently disconnect (which HS servers are known to do) would lose banked time and be disadvantaged competitively. 

You're describing what is most likely a priest or warrior bot. Beyond annoying, and like you mentioned for those playing on toasters (like me) the rope can sometimes cause you to disconnect and lose the match. But these people who use the auto-clicker/ or just playing taunts aren't "intentionally" wasting yours or anyones time, they are just abusing the system that Blizzard implemented.

You can't say that experience for Rewards track is highest in Ranked modes followed by saying experience is more for the time spent in-game than it is for actually winning the game. This creates an incentive for those who want to farm gold (or reach 400 without massive time dumps on their own) to make bots or just play the delay game into fatigue.

Blizzard can't ban people for this for one simple reason: They aren't gaining something or getting ahead of someone putting in effort. Take Diablo scoreboards as an example. Bots are regularly banned in that game because they are actually taking a spot from someone who works really hard for it. Hearthstone farmers aren't getting to high or even low Legend.

Heroes of the Storm has something similar to Hearthstone in AI farmers who spam chats (They have their own chat though) looking for willing participants to join one-hour long games in Normal AI to get 1.2 Million Exp per game to get more overall levels for more gold/gems to buy more loot boxes. When people thought they were being banned for this, they raised an awareness to avoid farms that was quickly shutdown by the moderators/developers who said that AI farmers aren't doing anything ban-able and that their bans were because of something else.

You could argue that more packs = more opportunities for better decks but no one knows for sure if they're spending their gold farmed on packs and not just cosmetics.

If you don't want to fight a bot and take a free win, just concede and move on. It's not hard to notice them early. A priest player will most likely be using Renethal + Un'Goro Quest followed by a series of never-ending taunts/healing without attacking anything even with the chance too; a Warrior one is either a bot that will constantly hover over their HP indicated by the red glow around it even after it's been clicked (auto-clicker, you can spot them within seconds), or a Taunt Warrior doing much the same as the priest only with armour instead of heals.

Quote from O_GR >>

And by not using it myself, it makes me feel like I’m forced to play with it to stand a chance of winning late game, as otherwise you just fatigue.

sick of getting put against people who have turtle long game decks with 40 cards and hp, I just don’t get how they thought it would make the game better. You shouldn’t have to use a card just because you have to, to compete long game.

 I see more Quest priests playing regular old 30-hp than opposed to XL versions. Same with Relics. A lot of decks that consistently go against XL decks don't even use him and are in fact better without. 

Quote from Dieseloctane >>

Not so much salty about a match, but more so about the fact that arena runs are either 1000g or 10 fucking dollars now?! Gold I can understand but to blatantly jack up the price of Arena is just a major kick in the teeth to people.

Sure, there's plenty of arguments or points of view but I suppose I just didn't expect such  a helping of shit dropped down with the switch to Runestones. They mentioned being able to bundle smaller skins together and what not, but made no mention, afaik, of a price hike to arena. Unfortunate, no matter PoV or opinion you hold. 

 If you fell for Wild Brawlliseum don't come to forums and spread literal lies where people salty enough will believe anything said against Blizzard or the (admittedly predatory, but anyone who plays mobile games knows what they are and nobody sane would defend them at their core.) Runestone system.

Arena prices were and still are 150g. So please, leave your echo chamber and read what you're purchasing.

I'm more curious as to what the test is leading up to, if anything at all.

Edit:  Since I'm from neither zone and didn't get any packs.

Quote from PetiteMouche >>

And nothing more depressing than playing a 40minute game and losing.

Yes, playing a 2minutes game and losing.

 And barely being able to play your five cost cards, cards you added because you wanted to play them.

To OP, One of my favourite games was waiting patiently till my Control Warrior opponent had three cards in hand and 1 card in deck to play the three-cost lazul and taking for myself a second Elysania. I love long games and Renethal makes them possible in the day of Raza hunter and other hyper-aggro decks

Huh. Golden borders are showing now. 

Edit: On topic my opponent conceded turn one after I played the minion "your minions can't be frozen" with the mage spell I had opening hand "your next elemental costs 2 less". 

While in-game reporting may sound good on paper, for a game like hearthstone? I fully expect this to be abused. Do you think Blizzard will monitor who is reported and analyze their game for "inappropriate gameplay" or just have a random set of reports, for just about anything like taking a little longer to use your turn and occasionally ropping while you think, before your account is set locked for a few days.

I wouldn't put much stock in to the former on how this will be done... Player tilt is such a concerning factor in this addition. Any player who feels wronged will just abuse it. Classes who are known to cause major tilt—mage, warrior, Priest, demon hunters— and players who thoroughly love them are doomed...and I'm one of them o_o

I just love how Priest wasn't even mentioned...

When I want an August; no scratch that NEED an August release because I lost two weeks worth of experience when my internet died, they announce a month early....just my luck 

My all time favourite deck will be my "Trio" deck featuring the Ascendant Scroll Quest, Deck of Lunacy and TAR (Evo and C'thun/Yogg didn't drop, you see). Wr was like 45% and I really only won consistently against Priests and Druid, Lock or Warrior depended on how I played around my randomly but mostly useless cards (Barrens wasn't out yet.) and surviving long enough to play Yogg Box and hero card then proceed to pray it didn't overdraw me with fatigue with skull, hand, overflow, nourish, ai....

The friend requests I got when I did win where worth being D, Hunter, and Rogues punching box.

Tl;dr — I love rng mage, never change it. I have fun playing it and chuckling when I lose to it, for I know that all in all? That was probably the first win the player had with their deck in like 5 games. 

Currently I have 2,560 gold, the free gold from the track I used awhile back in late December as I really needed packs to make even one deck that isn't mage or priest, and since I rushed him to 1,000 wins before the release of MotDF since I saw Tickatus being a problem for me in that regard, and was close to 500 wins on mage, DoL dropping and both priest legendaries for level 1/25 were quite useless in terms of building a deck. And the packs dropped a legendary for a deck I have no support cards for, nor the dust to even make a proper deck(thanks to shaman needing so many epics and other legendaries....). 

Now my math(which really isn't that great to begin with so bare with me here) says from now to May 10th, I should get 7,500 gold, so that's 10k gold if I don't buy the set. Now obviously that's the worst case scenario with just getting 1080/exp quests every day and awful re-rolls and I fully expect it to be only 5,000 gold since that math just doesn't seem right. So I'm just wondering if its worth it to buy it or wait for release.

Edit: Thanks for the replies, decided on getting it ^-^.