It is nice they are doing things for battlegrounds.
But this is like a new Tavern brawl every game. Neat for a day or even 3.
I hope this is an event or something like Diablo thing a few months ago.
I already do not want to play any more of it.
I’m sorry to hear this. The anomalies can be overwhelming but after you play enough you learn the hero’s that are good and the hero’s that aren’t so good with each anomaly. The anomalies force you to actively think when choosing a hero and help make the poorer hero’s really good in most cases. The sheer number of combos tossed in makes it all a bit daunting but it does get easier. I think the anomalies give players with no pass a better chance at winning than without them tbh. If you only want to start the game and look at Firestone and pick the best hero based on that then anomalies aren’t for you. If you play on mobile , like I do, you are not choosing your hero from a stats list but instead choose your hero based on the anomaly vs the hero power vs the tribes. Sometimes you have a very easy choice and sometimes it doesn’t seem that clear but the more you play the easier it gets. There is nothing to actually win in BG’s so why anyone would really care about losing is beyond me. You can concede through the track if all you want to do is collect the prizes ;the season is long enough to not have to win a single match to finish it just from quests. I play it just to get through the track and I finish about 6000-6500 just doing that. I will admit that if you don’t want a more challenging puzzle experience then anomalies won’t necessarily be your thing. I can only imagine the frustration when the mini-set hits and anomalies will force people to either adapt their play and change it up or just flat out lose. This will happen and so will just flat out winning when you get the right anomaly. The best decks will be the ones with the most consistency across all anomalies. Learning your deck will be much harder but it will also be extremely harder to just switch decks and win. Sticking with one deck and gaining consistency will be key. Don’t think of anomalies as “random tavern brawls” but instead think of them as an opportunity to think and strategize in a different way to maybe win a matchup that you might have otherwise straight up lost to. There is no penalty for losing so there is nothing to lose. The game has to do something because predictable gets predictably …..boring. I think if people approach this with an open mind they will do a lot better than they think.
Jade rogue is by far the best deck because it has endless value tons of draw and can answer discard aggro. Twist this month is jade rogue mirror matches and mirror matches in general bore me to death. I hit legend with warrior on day 4 and that’s it for me. Very few new cards are even being played. Let’s hope next month isn’t more of the same. I want the new cards to be more relevant. The only thing I do know is that whatever rule changes are implemented they will be centered around the most people not having enough cards to fully enjoy the mode so card packs and/or dust must be bought or used. I hope its like the beta launch where you have multiple dominant decks and you need to learn the matchups to win enough to make legend instead of playing curve ,drawing your deck , and having an answer for everything. Jade rogue is just too easy and so good; that’s the majority of matchups.
So far there are no twist decks on HSReplay. Any ideas whether and when this may happen? In the past, classic decks were available on HSReplay.
You can look up popular decks from the time period and augment them from there. All the current decks are nothing but decks that have already existed before with a few new cards added.
dont play twist lol its just blizz trying to get bozos to buy old packs
Twist was made to keep players engaged and yes to sell cards. Unless you have played since closed beta and have a complete collection like me you might not have had an opportunity to play with the old cards as they existed at the time. Buying anything.is a choice that an individual makes but in no way does it make anyone a “bozo”.
I don’t know why it took almost a decade to implement mass pack opening. Shadowverse had this since it came out. Finally I don’t have to click for over an hour straight to open the 320+ packs I get for each expansion.
I’m not trashing the game despite the name of the thread. It’s a good game but after almost ten years of playing, I just cannot get into anymore. It the same 6-7 net decks starting in the lowest tier of play as soon as the expansion drops. Every single expansion just feels the same and it doesn’t feel like the game hasn’t really evolved in any meaningful way in the last 3-4 years.
again I think a great card game and I’ve been paying and playing since the preorder bundles started. Which I don’t mind, but it just feels a stale. I’ve tried duels which is kinda fun and I pop on battlegrounds occasionally. I just think the standard format needs some love.
Anyone have recommendations on an alternative for a while?
I put the game on auto mercs mode for the first two weeks. I don’t even play and I’m done with the first 100 levels of the rt in about 3 weeks. Aside from clearing the daily and weekly quests in ranked I don’t bother because at this point I just collect everything . I hit d5 for the free dust to add to the quarter million dust pile I have no use for just by clearing out the quests. Cultist simulator is really good . Reading books is great too.. once the meta is established I just play the best deck that clears the quests the fastest. Twist mode was an exception because I played til I hit legend with DH which took a whopping 4 hours over two weeks with almost 70% win rate. Twist was actually decent because you have your best class decks and that’s all you face . You learn to play your deck against the matchup and it’s very consistent with not much to remember and the games go fast. Standard is a long drawn out bore with games taking far too long for my taste with way too many people who just rope in hopes of boring you to push the concede button.
Arena is not even playable all classes get cards from random generating.
You Can't even play at all most of the losses are random the Discover mechanic is ruining the arena and ruining the game in general if they won't remove this mechanic or ban it somehow the game will stay as it is full of Random actions which is not fun tbh.
Unplayable on mobile as well because of constant disconnects . 5G $1400 dollar iPhones and iPads can’t stay connect on a 1gig connection with 30 ms ping times. Microsoft cannot absorb this company fast enough and cut the bloat that can’t get the job done.
I went to legend in twist fairly easy with quest dh after the glide ban. I had over a 70% wr with it. I farm wins in wild with quest dh and beat shamans all the time . Load up your weapon with 5-8 card draws while drawing your entire deck and then drop tony , steal their deck draw a whole hand or frankly burn the cards and you can literally hear them curse your very existence. Very funny and downright hilarious. Wild isn’t so much frustrating as it is BORING. Seeing people play the same tired decks that I took to legend years ago just makes me sigh 😔. What else can most players do though? The cards are what they are and they are good at what they do. I play quest dh not to finish the quest but to enable drawing the entire deck and using tony to effectively defeat all combo and control decks pretty consistently and I can use the minions to beat midrange and aggro decks as well. Twist is great in the respect that it allows you to play one deck and learn all the matchups very quickly and finish the ladder in a couple weeks of casual play, this doesn’t exist in wild. You play so many busted decks there is no consistency and it takes longer. Shudderwock is a very boring deck for me to play that’s why I just farm it for wins. Dh will be my tenth class to 1000 wins then I can work on Dk. Think of new ways to beat the combo or don’t play a board that ,if cleared, will lose you the game. Sometimes to win you have to just dump your hand and hope they don’t have the answer but the majority of the time you can effectively play around it. Focus your efforts to deny that combo and make it worthless.
I have , probably, 30 free arena tickets because i don’t play arena because I got the 12 win key and only had to play 107 games to do it . Maybe there are more people like me that they are trying to get us to use the free runs up with tossing titans into the pool? I’m the player who owns the entire card collection and went to legend in twist weeks ago who doesn’t play modes where there is nothing to collect in game. Instead of putting titans into the mix put in some new cosmetic achievements for these modes. Arena is still a hundred dice rolls even with titans in the mix , that is the essence of the game. I can’t imagine the frustration of losing like that when you are actually spending money or resources ypu paid for with your time., ouch.
At first i think that too. But since you need almost 300 packs to get full content of 1 expansion (and there are many expansions now) its not really tbh.
On a completed reward track 1500 xp is only 50 gold. So 100 xp is only 3.333 gold. Thats nothing, especially if you took a break from playing.
I’ll be done with the reward track in 5 days. I get 200+ free packs each track. It’s not even a challenge.
I like this change and I hope it's done intentionally going forward. Instead of the 50% chance BS to get the skin, you now always get it, for the same price as a Shop skin. Now granted the shop skins do come with 5 packs always (compared to the variable amount of Brawlesium but usually less), but I think most people saw those as a "Nice to have" more than a selling point.
Am I going to do a run for this skin? No. But if I liked the skin, would I be willing to do the Brawlesium for it? Yes.
This was not a change or mistake, but was done intentionally. Leading with the same, play and win 3 games for the skin as last time sets up the expectation for the group. Telling the group you made a “ mistake” , that benefits the group, but was unintended does two things. The first thing this does is humanize those who are admitting to the mistake. The second thing this does is reinforce that humanization with those who admit the mistake by standing by that “mistake” even though it favors the group and puts the other party in a perceived disadvantage. You want the skin but have been told you need three wins to get it. You now are told you only need to “play” x-amount of games to get the skin AND that by participating in the event you are also guaranteed the CHANCE to get the 12 wins skin as well.
I commend Blizzard and their marketing department for using psychological manipulation to drive revenue. One could argue that those engaging in manipulation are less than desirable as people to associate with, BUT in this instance I give them credit for going the extra mile to get those in the group who otherwise wouldn’t engage, to participate. This kind of manipulation happens each and everyday by the usual suspects. Sometimes it is innocuous and others it is clearly evil. I’d love to see the internal numbers this generates , just to validate how powerful this MISTAKE( lmfao) really is.
Don’t hate Blizzard for doing it but instead see it for what it is and let them know who really plays the game.
Five blood dks in a row. This game's playerbase is one of the greatest examples of how shallow, toxic, uninventive, spineless and ultimately depravated humanity can be. Fuck you all. For real.
Good god ! Just play relic dh so when you q up the mmr system won’t match you against a deck your deck is favored against unless there are no other decks in the q at the same time. You have to understand how to manipulate the system. I understand the hate with the time spent letting the world know but this shows you have the motivation to work the system in your favor and get those coveted ladder rewards for your efforts! Are you willing to learn? Send me a dm and let me guide you to legend.
I opened 300 packs 205 were free for completing the reward track to 400. Bought the 80 pack bundle got every card. 3 signature legendary 3 gold legendary not including the 2 from the bundle and numerous golden epics aerates and commons , 5600 extra dust to add to the 215k plus pile. I’ll be done with the RT by the end of the month. Opening packs for me is all about how many gold legendaries I get because I get all the cards and 6 out of 300 packs wasn’t bad. I’ll probably just buy enough gold packs to get them all because I can. So my pack openings are always good. No need to wish and hope here.
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I’m sorry to hear this. The anomalies can be overwhelming but after you play enough you learn the hero’s that are good and the hero’s that aren’t so good with each anomaly. The anomalies force you to actively think when choosing a hero and help make the poorer hero’s really good in most cases. The sheer number of combos tossed in makes it all a bit daunting but it does get easier. I think the anomalies give players with no pass a better chance at winning than without them tbh. If you only want to start the game and look at Firestone and pick the best hero based on that then anomalies aren’t for you. If you play on mobile , like I do, you are not choosing your hero from a stats list but instead choose your hero based on the anomaly vs the hero power vs the tribes. Sometimes you have a very easy choice and sometimes it doesn’t seem that clear but the more you play the easier it gets. There is nothing to actually win in BG’s so why anyone would really care about losing is beyond me. You can concede through the track if all you want to do is collect the prizes ;the season is long enough to not have to win a single match to finish it just from quests. I play it just to get through the track and I finish about 6000-6500 just doing that. I will admit that if you don’t want a more challenging puzzle experience then anomalies won’t necessarily be your thing. I can only imagine the frustration when the mini-set hits and anomalies will force people to either adapt their play and change it up or just flat out lose. This will happen and so will just flat out winning when you get the right anomaly. The best decks will be the ones with the most consistency across all anomalies. Learning your deck will be much harder but it will also be extremely harder to just switch decks and win. Sticking with one deck and gaining consistency will be key. Don’t think of anomalies as “random tavern brawls” but instead think of them as an opportunity to think and strategize in a different way to maybe win a matchup that you might have otherwise straight up lost to. There is no penalty for losing so there is nothing to lose. The game has to do something because predictable gets predictably …..boring. I think if people approach this with an open mind they will do a lot better than they think.
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Jade rogue is by far the best deck because it has endless value tons of draw and can answer discard aggro. Twist this month is jade rogue mirror matches and mirror matches in general bore me to death. I hit legend with warrior on day 4 and that’s it for me. Very few new cards are even being played. Let’s hope next month isn’t more of the same. I want the new cards to be more relevant. The only thing I do know is that whatever rule changes are implemented they will be centered around the most people not having enough cards to fully enjoy the mode so card packs and/or dust must be bought or used. I hope its like the beta launch where you have multiple dominant decks and you need to learn the matchups to win enough to make legend instead of playing curve ,drawing your deck , and having an answer for everything. Jade rogue is just too easy and so good; that’s the majority of matchups.
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You can look up popular decks from the time period and augment them from there. All the current decks are nothing but decks that have already existed before with a few new cards added.
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Twist was made to keep players engaged and yes to sell cards. Unless you have played since closed beta and have a complete collection like me you might not have had an opportunity to play with the old cards as they existed at the time. Buying anything.is a choice that an individual makes but in no way does it make anyone a “bozo”.
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I don’t know why it took almost a decade to implement mass pack opening. Shadowverse had this since it came out. Finally I don’t have to click for over an hour straight to open the 320+ packs I get for each expansion.
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I put the game on auto mercs mode for the first two weeks. I don’t even play and I’m done with the first 100 levels of the rt in about 3 weeks. Aside from clearing the daily and weekly quests in ranked I don’t bother because at this point I just collect everything . I hit d5 for the free dust to add to the quarter million dust pile I have no use for just by clearing out the quests. Cultist simulator is really good . Reading books is great too.. once the meta is established I just play the best deck that clears the quests the fastest. Twist mode was an exception because I played til I hit legend with DH which took a whopping 4 hours over two weeks with almost 70% win rate. Twist was actually decent because you have your best class decks and that’s all you face . You learn to play your deck against the matchup and it’s very consistent with not much to remember and the games go fast. Standard is a long drawn out bore with games taking far too long for my taste with way too many people who just rope in hopes of boring you to push the concede button.
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Unplayable on mobile as well because of constant disconnects . 5G $1400 dollar iPhones and iPads can’t stay connect on a 1gig connection with 30 ms ping times. Microsoft cannot absorb this company fast enough and cut the bloat that can’t get the job done.
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I went to legend in twist fairly easy with quest dh after the glide ban. I had over a 70% wr with it. I farm wins in wild with quest dh and beat shamans all the time . Load up your weapon with 5-8 card draws while drawing your entire deck and then drop tony , steal their deck draw a whole hand or frankly burn the cards and you can literally hear them curse your very existence. Very funny and downright hilarious. Wild isn’t so much frustrating as it is BORING. Seeing people play the same tired decks that I took to legend years ago just makes me sigh 😔. What else can most players do though? The cards are what they are and they are good at what they do. I play quest dh not to finish the quest but to enable drawing the entire deck and using tony to effectively defeat all combo and control decks pretty consistently and I can use the minions to beat midrange and aggro decks as well. Twist is great in the respect that it allows you to play one deck and learn all the matchups very quickly and finish the ladder in a couple weeks of casual play, this doesn’t exist in wild. You play so many busted decks there is no consistency and it takes longer. Shudderwock is a very boring deck for me to play that’s why I just farm it for wins. Dh will be my tenth class to 1000 wins then I can work on Dk. Think of new ways to beat the combo or don’t play a board that ,if cleared, will lose you the game. Sometimes to win you have to just dump your hand and hope they don’t have the answer but the majority of the time you can effectively play around it. Focus your efforts to deny that combo and make it worthless.
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I have , probably, 30 free arena tickets because i don’t play arena because I got the 12 win key and only had to play 107 games to do it . Maybe there are more people like me that they are trying to get us to use the free runs up with tossing titans into the pool? I’m the player who owns the entire card collection and went to legend in twist weeks ago who doesn’t play modes where there is nothing to collect in game. Instead of putting titans into the mix put in some new cosmetic achievements for these modes. Arena is still a hundred dice rolls even with titans in the mix , that is the essence of the game. I can’t imagine the frustration of losing like that when you are actually spending money or resources ypu paid for with your time., ouch.
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I took all low cost cards and gave my opponent all the high cost ones. Played on curve and won handily. I rolled with hunter for this one and done.
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I’ll be done with the reward track in 5 days. I get 200+ free packs each track. It’s not even a challenge.
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This was not a change or mistake, but was done intentionally. Leading with the same, play and win 3 games for the skin as last time sets up the expectation for the group. Telling the group you made a “ mistake” , that benefits the group, but was unintended does two things. The first thing this does is humanize those who are admitting to the mistake. The second thing this does is reinforce that humanization with those who admit the mistake by standing by that “mistake” even though it favors the group and puts the other party in a perceived disadvantage. You want the skin but have been told you need three wins to get it. You now are told you only need to “play” x-amount of games to get the skin AND that by participating in the event you are also guaranteed the CHANCE to get the 12 wins skin as well.
I commend Blizzard and their marketing department for using psychological manipulation to drive revenue. One could argue that those engaging in manipulation are less than desirable as people to associate with, BUT in this instance I give them credit for going the extra mile to get those in the group who otherwise wouldn’t engage, to participate. This kind of manipulation happens each and everyday by the usual suspects. Sometimes it is innocuous and others it is clearly evil. I’d love to see the internal numbers this generates , just to validate how powerful this MISTAKE( lmfao) really is.
Don’t hate Blizzard for doing it but instead see it for what it is and let them know who really plays the game.
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Good god ! Just play relic dh so when you q up the mmr system won’t match you against a deck your deck is favored against unless there are no other decks in the q at the same time. You have to understand how to manipulate the system. I understand the hate with the time spent letting the world know but this shows you have the motivation to work the system in your favor and get those coveted ladder rewards for your efforts! Are you willing to learn? Send me a dm and let me guide you to legend.
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8 votes and no explanation as to why it’s a scam. Can you explain?
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I opened 300 packs 205 were free for completing the reward track to 400. Bought the 80 pack bundle got every card. 3 signature legendary 3 gold legendary not including the 2 from the bundle and numerous golden epics aerates and commons , 5600 extra dust to add to the 215k plus pile. I’ll be done with the RT by the end of the month. Opening packs for me is all about how many gold legendaries I get because I get all the cards and 6 out of 300 packs wasn’t bad. I’ll probably just buy enough gold packs to get them all because I can. So my pack openings are always good. No need to wish and hope here.