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Bytheway, to anyone who's pointing at it's winrate to say Shudderwock is not too strong: He requires a very specific deck, and we're only on day 3 of the expansion. Many players probably just crafted Shudderwock and are losing games because they don't have the right support cards and don't know how to play the deck.
Just take a wild guess what his winrate will be in a month from now. Edit: Have a look at all pro players go 100-0 with this deck to help you make the right guess.
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I cant believe someone has to tell you this. Because those two topics are incredibly polarising and people take those things to heart. Only bad things can happen when discussing it and it usually ends in a flame war.
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Quote from RichardSRocha >>I'm a non-native English speaker and I think "mare" is not an obscure word at all. And, judging by the translation Blizzard made for the card to my native language - Portuguese ("Égua Esquelética" ), I assume they they used the gender specific word for "mare" on other languages too. So, pretty obvious to me.
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anduin would be totally fine if the heropower only refreshed on spells. it would still be strong. that's why i don't get how blizzard could ever release it like this.
even if the overall winrate of the deck is not as high as prenerf jade druid or any previous cancer deck, it is just disgusting how this one card has transformed the whole priest class. even without raza the card is good and gets played in every priest deck. and the class that was always about control and had the lowest burst damage potential is now all about "pew pew machinegun in your face".
i miss the old priest :/
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I strongly disagree on the absolute value you attribute to the game, but I have to agree about custom decks.
If from custom decks you remove all the memes, you are still left with a quantity of refined decks, with a quantity of internal synergies, that were simply pushed out of the meta. In other words, you can still make your own viable decks, you can ladder up with many of them, but you will be piloting a sub-optimal archetype most of the times.
In other words, the gap between viability and meta optimality is too big, in average. And this also affects obvious packages that they attempted to push with releases, but failed at the test of the meta (eg Freeze Shaman).
It's like playing on a higher difficulty level: you can do it, but you are making your life harder for the miserable achievement of playing your own creations - and often you ask yourself whether it's really worth it.
I am not yet on the point of irritation that I am considering quitting the game, but yeah, I totally feel the problem.
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Sign.
Sorry if someone finds those teasers for entertaining, but for me they are nothing but annoying.
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The problem is just that there are some shrines that are waaay waaaaay better than others and also very frustraiting cause the way most late game champions have of beating you is just straight up bullshit ridiculous unrealistic tempo swing that can only be done cause of artifical difficulty bs that Blizzard implemented on their deck so they could not just be beaten every single game but it's the kind of play that's just ridiculously unfair and that wins the game for them immediatly, like the one Voone has that's like a 5/10 minion that kills all your board and gives him 2 armor for each minion it killed... Like really? WTF is that, how can you even comeback from that.
The main issue is that it's just artificially difficult and they didn't bother trying to give the opponents good deck and tune their AI so they don't make stupid and inefficient plays but they only have that one cards that read: No matter how fucked you are, play this card and win cause there's just no way your opponent can comeback from this bullshit. This same applies to shrines, like the gain armor recover all mana crystals loti has is just impossible to beat if you get get at like 7-8 or 9, it's just too stupid.
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It's not fun, it's not challenging, it's just a pain in the butt.
Everything is so random, you have no control over building a deck with good synergy.
But even if you manage to do so and had the pleasure to start with a decent shrine, you just know that the final boss will be a counter match up or/and will draw godly and you will draw complete shit.
At least that's my experience so far. Either I die at the first or second boss due to simply not having a chance with the given deck, or I have no problems up to the final boss where I never had the slightest chance due to bad draw or unholy draw by the boss.
I'm playing Hearthstone for over 4 years now, played every possible single player mode to completion and have achieved anything a normal hs player can think of (rank Legend, several 12 win arena runs, but not every hero golden), so i think my opinion is not complete waste.
This mode is utter shit. Nonstop frustration due to unfair matchups or bad starts plus boredom and random cards offers who can ruin a decent run just don't form an amazing single player experience. For some it may sound salty, but i like hard and challenging, it's just that the Rumble Run is completely bad design from start to finish and should not exist in this form.
I hope Blizzard will do much better next time, it's sad to have this Rumble Run experience where something awesome could have see the day of light.
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Awesome find! I recently discovered that some of the cards somehow seem to resemble characters from a game named world of warcraft.
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Replacement for Boom and his bots?
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Most unfair, maybe. Most poweful maybe not.
Mysterious Challenger, Dr. Boom, Grim Patron, Knife Juggler were way more powerful and opressive.
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Interesting fact: card was not in portuguese on the stream, differently from the card revealed from the italian streamer which was in italian.
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I knew nothing good could come from a brazilian sports TV. Here they give little air time to other sports besides soccer... in no way they would dedicate some attention to a virtual card game. Blizzard should have given this oportunity for some brazilian HS streamer like it did with the italian one.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/news/3862-kobolds-and-catacombs-week-1-reveal-schedule?page=4#c98
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The title sounded like a sex ad.
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It's Esporte Interativo, a brazilian TV station that almost all the time covers soccer and just occasionally (when it's paid for) covers eSports (LoL, specifically).
When the schedule was posted here on heatpwn I pointed it out and a lot of people downvoted me. Now they screw it as I was expecting.