Hearthpwn

Yeah dude, it's a great hunter card, and always will be. No matter what deck you build (excluding odd, obviously), it's the first card you put in. IMO it's the saftest craft out of all the rotating class cards, ever.

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Second thing is doing push ups and sit ups in between games. Exercise helps calming me down. And it is healthy. 

 Dude, I seriously thought I was the only fucking weirdo on the planet to do this. Peace out, brother!

Take a step back, have a drink, smoke, punch a bag, whatever, a learn from your mistakes. That way you never lose. You either win, or you learn. Take pride in the fact that you get emotionally invested in a competitive scenario, use the anger to fuel improvement.

Practical: Personally (and I do this for everything I get pissed off with), I hold in the emotion, do the above, and go boxing almost daily, and then recall EVERY SINGLE THING that pissed me off, and run through it as I destroy the bag/sparring opponent. It screws up my elbows, shins and wrists, but boy, does it feel great :D

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What are peoples' heal/draw/combo balances with the deck? Are people going for the double banker/actual OTK, or are you finding 25 damage enough (bearing in mind that DKs are still around for 35 EHP, or hunters for 40 due to Zul'jin as well)? Is it worth lobbing in something like Hemet to get to fatigue faster after drawing a banker? Has the downside of blowing up Time out/equality, but gives you speed, and you don't need a lot of those cards in slower MUs. Not entirely sold on Ashmore, as you need to be at fatigue to win anyway, so probably going to Tirion in that slot just for survivability. Also seen Zola mentioned as an additional use of Shirvallah.

Only once has more than one Holy Wrath been needed for the OTK, and that's because the first one hit a 50/50 chance non Shirvallah card. Just wear down your opponent's face instead of trading. They'll usually trade anyways.

To add to my few previous posts right at the start about how good the Zul'jin Spell Hunter build is, Bazookadin is strong. Time Out! is going to drive people nuts.

Weird - I take it back. When playing against it, I've wrecked it, but playing with it, I'm unfairly hammering everyone. It actually is a super solid deck XD

Really? I absolutely wrecked every Big Spell Mage I came across today. My Zul'jin feasted on their souls.

Artifact is terrible, worst money I've spent in a while. I expected a dev team that good to produce something a little more exciting and well thought-out.

Plus, literally zero addiction aspect, it's actually dreary to play.

Only syncing half my collection of new RR cards, weirdly oO

So... so far I'm loving it playing with the Whizbang decks. I had a shitty pull from 80 packs so stuck to my original plan of playing arena and Whiz the first month until the arena settles.

First impressions:

Hunter with Zul'jin is amazing. I mean truly overpowered. And the other Midrange build is effective as hell, reminds me a lot of Odd pally, in the sense that you can get an insanely buffed token board and a huge hyena very quickly. Really good. 9/10

Druid was meant to be crap? It's effective, the Gonk effect with the cheap attack buffs are better than Sul'thraze, and it's basically a slower, stronger version of token Druid. I can't see how Druid isn't still going to be relevant. 8/10

Odd mage isn't all that. It's fun to play, but doesn't have legs in its current state, Someone will crack it and make something better, but it's by far the most overhyped one I've played. 5/10

The less said about Shaman, the better. Clunky as fuck. 2/10

Priest is alright, still hasn't regained any form of ladder viability from what I've seen. 5/10

Literally 0 games with Rogue, so no comment. N/A

Pally is good, but too slow to be effective. I played against one who pulled 4 Shirvallahs against me as Zul'jin, + the 25 Holy Wrath combo, and still didn't beat me. It's not the archetype that will be around in a month. 5/10

Warlock is fun, intuitive, and will be refined to be a nightmare. Outside the Whizbang decks, I played a well-built discolock and got annihilated. 8/10

Dragon Warrior is super fun, but again, I feel it was too slow off the mark to be effective. 4/10

Can't wait to see what the talented deckbuilders brew up, this set feels super fresh, and I'm loving it.

(before I start: please be gentle, and know that this is simply a wish list of mine that has been in my head, and I wanted to put it into words).

To Blizzard/Team 5,

I've been an avid Hearthstone player since October 2014, and I do enjoy the time I've invested.  A plethora of changes have been made and every change seems to be to increase the health and longevity of the game.  I'm also a Heroes of the Storm player (perhaps not for long...) and I was pleased when that game essentially went into a version 2.0 a year ago, and I would like to see Hearthstone undergo a similar change (my hope is that the base for HS is so much greater than Heroes that such a change would not be catastrophic).

With that said, here are some changes that I would like to see (with the note that I'm sure plenty of others have already suggested these changes in the past, present, and will do so in the future):

1. Move some cards from the Classic set to the Basic Set; keep Basic evergreen; then, move the Classic set into the Hall of Fame.  Right now, you have the ability to nerf cards, which is powerful.  However, with such a large card database, and many other expansions to come, it's time to consider giving the Classic set a proper retirement.  The hope is that Standard will become even more diverse, as the prototypical cards found in every deck will no longer be available except in Wild.  I haven't researched which cards to move, but I'm sure there are several candidates, keeping in mind to move cards into Basic that respect the identity of the class.  With this move, I would also consider reverting some cards to their pre-nerf status only for mana cost, not for card text.

2. Adjust the deckbuilding rules for Constructed play.  This is the one knob that hasn't changed since the start of the game, and while limitations breed creativity, options bring a diverse play pattern.  Those changes are: deck minimum of 30 cards, maximum 40 cards; continue to limit 1 legendary, 2 epic and rare class cards, but allow 3 common/basic cards.  The first complaint may be that mill decks will no longer become viable, but the mill decks in HS are based on excessive card draw.  There are very few actual mill cards printed (Gnomeferatu).  Arena deckbuilding remains the same at 30 cards, which is expected for a Limited environment.

3. Increase the maximum mana crystals for each player.  Players still receive one mana crystal at the start of the turn, until they reach 10.  Then, every two turns after, that player receives another mana crystal until they reach 20 (the new maximum).  It is expected that only Druids would reach this maximum based on their cards that generate mana.  Speaking of Druids, this should not eliminate card draw based on maximum mana crystals.  Therefore, at 10 mana, any card that would generate another permanent mana crystal would become a Choose One card, where the player can choose to gain the mana crystal, or receive the Excess Mana card, and then draw.  Special note: Biology Project would always give mana crystals to the opponent; the player that plays the card gets the Choose One choice.

4. The Standard Brawliseum (and even a Wild Brawliseum) should be always available.  Feel free to call it something else if you like, but the idea of being able to play in a competitive format at any time with a gold cost is absolutely what I want to see!  Now, maybe this is what will be borne out of the soon-to-come Tournament Mode.  If so, awesome.  If not, this is truly worth consideration.  You can open it as you do on Wednesday, and close it on Sunday.  5 days per week.  Feel free to expand it if you want, by allowing us to enter with three decks, and at each matchup, the players ban two of the decks.  Or, Conquest - best 2 out of 3, with one ban.

With these changes, my general hope is that the game thrives much longer.  If none of the changes can be made permanent, then as a partial prize, it would be nice to see a Tavern Brawl rotate in with these changes, just to see how they would hold up.  Until then, I'll continue to play and enjoy as I have.

Good but I really like 2 copies of divine favor. It's just such an overpowered card.

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Legends say, even a trained monkey could have achieved a 55% winrate with the old odd pally deck. 

 Says the guy with two forum posts. Every (good) deck in hearthstone requires significant thought and planning in order to achieve the best results. PART of the reason Odd Paladin had a high winrate was because it's been around a long time - anyone who was playing it in the last month has probably played it A LOT. And the meta was pretty favorable. So, that's why it was an unusually high winrate.

I promise you, there have always existed hard counters to odd pally. As far as strong decks go, it was not even in the top 10 strongest decks in hearthstone history. And it definitely required significant thought, just like EVERY good deck does.

Mech Odd Paladin is still a thing, and it's still rockin'. Or, you know, you could just play Odd Rogue now that one of it's biggest threats is gone. Or you can just play any Hunter deck. Looks like the game went from Druidstone to Hunterstone within a few hours.

Stop whining about nerfs and get back out there on the Ladder!

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Fun fact: According to VS, Kingsbane Rogue is Tier 2 and played by 5.74% of players, Spell Hunter is Tier 1 and played by over twice the number of players (11.96%), with 23.3% of all decks being Hunter. Shudderwock Shaman is Tier 3 and played by 3.98%. All archetypes of druid combined account for 9.9% of all decks.

Yep yep, totally sensible decisions and all based on empirical evidence.

Omegafacepalm.

 "We only nerf top tier decks according to VS."

-Blizzard, 20neverteen