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After trying all the classes, I eventually won with Druid. I wouldn't say any of it was fun, though. A win by high-rolling (and the opponent low-rolling) isn't exactly the ideal Hearthstone experience.
I will say, however, that an early Nozdormu helps a lot if you haven't high-rolled a turn-4 victory. And the Sailor Moon theme is rad.
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I was surprised by this. I thought that purchasing the $80 Mega Bundle for Nathria secured me having the option of 4 heroes at least until the next set. This was really disappointing to me…
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I'm actually scared af for the report button for "Inappropriate gameplay".. As there is literally nothing I can think of that would actually be worth banning someone for. You actually have a certain amount of time per turn to think.. So roping can't be a reason to ban someone. BMing is also no problem as people can actually miss lethal and realize later in the same turn that they had lethal to finish the opponent in the next turn. Spamming or memeing emotes also shouldn't be a problem as you can just mute the opponent. Playing really poorly also can't be a problem, as some people just aren't very good, or perhaps are beginners playing on someone else's account. Dragging out the game until fatigue also can't be a reason to ban someone, as that is literally the win condition of some decks. Making lots of unnecessary actions to complete a quest also shouldn't be a reason, nor playing meme decks as many people actually love playing those.
So yeah I'm actually clueless what inappropriate gameplay can even mean, and what a successful and intended report here could be. Anyone have any ideas?
The reason I'm scared af about this is that salty opponents may just report you after they lost, and with how big Hearthstone is there is NO WAY that all reports are checked by a human. What if you face 5 salty opponents on a day and they all ban you for the reason "inappropriate gameplay"? It may actually be very realistic that you just get autobanned then!
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Quote from Toribasher >>Paladins vomit mechs, have a 7 wide board of serious stats on 3 mana.
Mage has some minion that constantly gives 2 extra mana.
First they screwed up Standard several times, then ruined battlegrounds with a weird buddy thing that eliminated minion scarcity and triples from mattering.
Wild was spared the stupidity of standard by having actual counterplay tech cards ...until now. How do you stop Paladin's 2 mana draw 5? You don't.
I'll give it a week to see if the idiots fix Hearthstone with several common sense nerfs, but reality is they have screwed up the game so fast so often since Stormwind none of this is unexpected -- and hoping it might get fixed at this point is foolish of me.
It is just very disappointing seeing this game get ruined. It used to be expansions were a time of excitement and wonder.
I really am in disbelief that they could wreck the game this badly.
Wild is by definition way more polarized than standard. Everything is more powerful, faster, and way more unfair.
That is not the place you want to be to play a balanced game, although there is still kind of a rock/paper/scissor, nothing beats a perfect draw in wild. NOTHING.
Once you figure out what people is playing at your rank, choose a deck for it. If they play Renathal, play some OTK. If they play aggro, play any anti-aggro deck you're good at.
If your own decks aren't strong enough yet, just use other people's lists. Not necessarily scumbag lists, there are many nice lists around. I haven't fully figured out how to fully invent a legend list yet, but I can change someone else's list so that I can get legend with it for the way I play.
Maybe start with that. Or try standard. Or go biking, or running, if you can. Both are much better than Hearthstone.
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The team is aware, and working on a solution.
https://twitter.com/hsdecktech/status/1552820059323568130?s=21&t=I8Oan1n9euCOwY1TseZsfQ
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This was addressed in one of the ask the developers chats. Tavern Brawl was one person's passion project, and he is no longer with Blizzard. Once he left nobody picked up the baton and ran with it.
They probably don't want to remove it because people would get salty about losing the free pack, but there hasn't been support for it on the dec team for a long time. The people who would have worked on it were doing Mercenaries and Battlegrounds, IIRC
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Next week's brawl is gonna be clash at the crossroads again
Aren't you forgetting something? Next week is the release of the expansion! Which brawl makes users buy more packs to be "competitive"? Brawliseum. Or at least some variation of "standard meta" brawl (much less so though). So it should be Brawliseum next week!
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Shaman is pretty consistent in this mode
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It's pretty clear they've basically abandoned brawl mode. The only time they make new ones anymore is for special festival events. Even still, this is pretty bad repetition even by Blizz's standards. Next week's brawl is gonna be clash at the crossroads again, watch.
At the very least the could do the 10 mana brawl more than once a year. If they're gonna do brawls repeatedly I LOVE that one at least.
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Didn't we got this like 2-3 weeks ago
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Reverse Discard deck might be slightly more accurate. Although if you replace Lord Godfrey with Rin, the First Disciple you can also make this a real good Mill deck :-)
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I dropped Lord Godfrey for another Gnomeferatu, and have gone 5 and 1 since. Fun deck. Even if you lose, it's always going to be close.
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My .02 worth would be if they did something similar to the Hunter mechanic - IOW where you are choosing what to discard. Yes, some of the fun (if you're the opponent) is to watch the one card they need to win go "poof" when they have to deal with a tactical issue early on - but it's yet another RNG trigger. If they wanted to make it stronger and NOT add a graveyard option (which IMHO would cause major issues with other cards), then I think this would be their best bet.
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Dropped the Stormforged Axe for another Acolyte of Pain, and have had pretty good success. Ancestral Spirit has made even a Totem Taunt an effective delaying tactic.
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Thanks for the card list. This made an easy "one and done"!
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Haven't found a priest yet that this doesn't lose to. Not enough pressure early game, and late game not enough card draw.
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PanjaSoul's suggestion is good, but you would be well served to get King Krush into your lineup. Just beat a priest who used a Spiteful to luck into a 4/8 Taunt. Was still able to win by having King remove the taunt, and then kill with the other cards he had let alone after he dropped the taunt and was sure I'd be dead next turn.
For myself, I substituted 2 Flares for the 2 Tracking. Yes they cost 1 mana more, but you don't end up throwing away two cards, and you have a defence against Mage and any other Hunters.
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So having played a number of different games, and kind of wondering why losing at HS seems to bother me more than most of them, I think it comes down to the fact that to win you have to semi-literally kill the other player. PTCGO (as one example) has you fighting until you're out of cards in your prize pool, or out of cards on the bench. I never threaten "you" in any way. Other games have you winning by having the most of X or more of X in Y time. HS is one of the very few card games where it's pretty much "I and/or my minions attack YOU". From a Psych perspective I can almost see this ratcheting up the ol defense and adrenaline responses. Not sure there's any way to fix that other than have more game options where you team up to beat the AI or such.
My .02 on this anyway...
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Fun deck, and given how many folks expect you to be running the quest version, it carries a nice element of surprise. My only question is why two Mountain Giants rather than just one of those and a Yogg-Saron given how many spells there are?
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OK, hopefully someone is actually reading this, but what "I" would like to see is a mode that is a number of different quests like the one brawl where you were paired up with someone and you both had to defeat the AI. I think there are a number of different ways you could put that together, and perhaps if we were teaming up to beat something rather than playing to beat someone, the salt level would be lower.