I always wonder how people are so sure that they are playing against bots.. I play a lot of hearthstone and there were times, although rarely, i was considering whether my opponent was a bot, but i was never sure. How do people actually tell ?
Sometimes i feel like people heard a streamer say something about bots and they are suddenly convinced that they are playing bots all the time. Maybe they are - i would just like to know how to be sure..
Certain play patterns. Same delay between commands, replies to your first emote only with greetings, hovers over hero power and clicks it even when nothing happens, makes nonsensical trades, no arrows on attacks, doesn't concede when they are in topdeck mode in late game. Not all at the same time, but there are various little things you can pick up on if you have a keen eye...
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Woah, what's up with the production value of that card reveal??
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So, after months of pre-order this and pre-order that, without giving me the slightest hint what this game is supposed to be, I played through the tutorial and opened my starter packs today. Impressions:
1. The game looks terrible, the animations are clunky. This is not even the quality of a mobile game, it feels like those throw-away games on social media (you know, where you don't even have to download anything because it's just so basic and simple). One of the main selling points of Gachas are the visuals, if nothing else. But hey maybe this isn't supposed to be a cashgrab gacha and the gameplay will make up for it. It's Blizzard after all, maybe they can still pull a rabbit out of their hat!
2. Except they don't. Extremely basic combat system, very little room for depth as far as I can tell. Maybe it will develop into something else later, but it doesn't look like it.
3. My starter packs contained only rares and one epic, and some coins (I have no idea what to do with them). I checked the tier lists available so far and noticed the pre-order legendaries being all included at the top - at which point I already lost all interest. The game mode doesn't seem to provide gold, so I would have to spend whatever I can gather in the main modes just to fish for this sad excuse of a gacha.
Overall it feels like they just want to milk what they can out of the remaining playerbase. Good for them if it works, good for anyone who actually has fun with this.
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As a control player? It's never been worse.
Sure there were times when playing control was rough, with the best performing decks floating around 40%-45% winrate (practically meme level). But it was never so bad that I don't even want to queue up anymore.
You lose to anything combo, you very likely lose to aggro, and there aren't enough other control players around to have some fun mirror matches. People are often quick to claim that the game is dead. But for a control player like me it is dead, not exxagerating.
It's dead in standard and super mega dead in wild. Only classic remains with Control Warrior, but well... that's freaking classic.
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You know, I actually remembered. Well, google remembered.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nl_Kripparrian/comments/2ozz0r/trump_loves_hafu_nudes_confirmed/
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You know, I actually remembered. Well, google remembered.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nl_Kripparrian/comments/2ozz0r/trump_loves_hafu_nudes_confirmed/
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Wasn't it Trump who had nude pics of another Streamer on his desktop? What was her name again, something with Huffer?
I imagine this guy would behave exactly like the Blizzard employees who are responsible for the charge. A slimy fratbro.
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Pretty good deck, reached Legend in one quick streak this afternoon (Diamond 4 - Legend)
Used Odd Paladin to reach Diamond 4, but just couldn't mentally handle those games anymore. Felt like my brain was slowly melting with every press of the button, so I looked for something else and tried Shaman instead.
This Galakrond version was pretty fun and effective. However, I swapped the The Lurker Below with a copy of Devolving Missiles. Lurker is simply too conditional for the mana cost and only really reliably effective vs. Odd Paladin, in which case Devolving Missles also does an alright job. Devolving Missles synergizes really well with Diligent Notetaker since it's so cheap, and another Ghetto-devolve is really huge against Priest and Warlock (all types).
So if you're short on dust, I believe Lurker & Instructor Fireheart can be cut without weakening the deck in any way, while I consider the Firemancer & Toxifin combo to the be very reason why this deck can perform in the first place. Don't try this deck if you don't have those two cards!
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DH has currently not a single tier 1/2 deck. Not in standard, not even in wild. For months now.
And the only competetive DH deck in wild that *sometimes* hits tier 2 (Odd Demon Hunter) doesn't even use the Inquisitor.
What am I getting at? That a card shouldn't be viewed on its own. It's a class card in a class it sees little use in, and when it's used then in decks that are inferior in the meta. When they manage to deliver a effective Control DH we can talk again, but as it's stands the Inquisitor is an OP card stuck in the wrong class.
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Magni is great, but I know I wont ever switch from Golden Garrosh after all these years.
The fire animation is so beautiful, and how should I play without "I WILL CRUSH YOU"?
Maybe I still buy Magni with the hope that we can one day combine cosmetics. Like Magni's Hero Power animation with Golden Garrosh and Hamuul's red border.
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"Oh my.... ooops!"
One of the most powerful BMs in the game. Sorry nerfed Jaina, but this Silver Fox is taking over.