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Bro, we get it. You don't like how they do business and think it's a big conspiracy. What do you get out of annoying people who clearly don't agree with you over and over again? It's weird and unhealthy.
Move on with your life. Go find a game or company that you do like. Pick up a new hobby. Learn a new language. Go to therapy. Do something productive with your time. Enjoy yourself instead of spreading negativity.
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Play Classic then you dumbells.
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I mean, they did release new treasures and balance changes in this phase.
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This question doesn't make any sense. It absolutely depends, you always discover different stuff and there are different match-ups. If it's a tempo match-up and I happen to discover something that will gain tempo then I pick the tempo card and play whenever it's more tempo efficient but if you're playing something like Control Priest it's still very dependable, like sometimes you need something for the immedite turn and sometimes you're just planning ahead and saving a board clear you found or whatever.
The only instance where this question might be relevant is if you discover and important card for a certain match-up and you also run that card in your deck. Let's say you're playing priest and you discover a Hysteria. You should almost always play the Hysterias that you run in your deck before playing the generated one if possible. That's because a discover can be anything but your opponent more than likely knows you run 2 Hysterias (or will know most cards on your deck anyways). This basically means that if you play your discovered Hysteria your opponent still knows that you have 2 on your hand/deck and will try to play around it as much as he cans but if you play your main deck hysterias then as I said, the discovered card could be literally anything and while good players will still play around potentially good discovered cards, it's still much harder to do and to justify from the opponent's POV.
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If every paladin archetype in standard doesn't continue to run 2 copies of this card, I'll eat my shoes.
You are undervaluing the power of the average random 1 drop. So many can be generated from other classes that are infinitely better than anything paladins can run normally in their deck.
These paladin nerfs are pretty damn tame considering the overall paladin dominance since rotation and IMO still don't address the class's core problems. Any paladin nerf is welcome to be sure but Blizzard is fooling themselves if they think these particular changes will have any meaningful impact on bringing the power of paladins down to more closely match that of other classes. But, they even say as much in their explanation post, so expect another round of paladin nerfs after another 6-8 weeks or so.
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Updated to the latest patch and now Glaivebound Adept is completely missing. Anyone else missing items?
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How'd you manage to lose casual? You just can't find the button or.....?
It's still there, dude. Idk what you're confused about here.
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Because its random and if its random then its ok.
Except it is not quite random why it is so good. Sottle tweeted about this, but like most of the 3 drops that you Lunacy turn into 6 drops and a SIGNIFICANT amount of 6 drops draw cards, and then there's the 4 drops that have a high chance of being Lunacy'd into Nagrand Slams.
So it's not all that random, but actually quite consistent, which is why more and more people are playing it. It just consistently gets you winning results.
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You're definitely confusing something, OP. The duplicate protection works fine.
Post some screenshots to confirm.
IMO it works only for Legendaries and Epics
There is no "IMO". We know exactly how it works.
And it works for all rarities.
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Personally, I stopped watching the "Blizzard Lies" video as soon as the personal attacks began. It seemed pretty clear that the fellow was simply cashing in on the latest reddit shit-storm - his own shit-storm videos get about ten times as many views as his regular content.
FWIW - the game has never seemed more F2P friendly. Under the old system, completing Dailies rewarded about 7500 gold for each expansion. Owing to no-duplicate protection, those 75 packs produce full sets of Commons and Rares (86 cards in Darkmoon), and about 15 different Epics and 5 different Legendaries. With the dust from duplicates, golds and trash Epics and Legendaries, any F2P will be able to craft one or two good Legendaries, and two or three Epics. Call the total 110 cards. That's 82% of the set, for free, about twenty minutes after the set launches. Blizzard also gives the F2Ps an additional pair of Legendaries on the Reward Track. After a week of play, F2Ps can easily have 85%-90% of a new set without ever spending any money on it.
As far as the new system goes - the new system was announced with plenty of promises. One of them wasn't "on launch day, you will be able to accurately calculate how much gold you'll earn over the next four months, because we won't be adding anything else to the reward track." In fact, one of the people who was called a liar made the opposite promise on the subreddit, weeks before the system actually launched - "going forward, new content will be added." Pointing out that the comment was made earned some bastard 170 down-votes (probably more, by now). Blizzard has already added 1300 gold to the track, after deleting the shitty late-track rewards - it isn't exactly unlikely that more shit will be added during special events or seasonal promotions.
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FWIW - the numbers on HSReplays suggest that the card is already one of the highest "win-rate when drawn" and "win-rate when played" cards at 3-mana in the class. Different classes excel at different aspects of the game - if AC were a Warlock or Mage card, it wouldn't see much play. But it's not. The three Hunter decks which currently run the card already dominate the Mage and Druid decks the OP cites as "better" 3-mana decks - and they do fine against DH, with win-rates in the mid- to high-40s.
Instead of complaining about a problem that doesn't appear to exist, it might prove more rewarding to the OP to figure out why Hunter has win-rates in the 60s and low-70s against the decks he cites as having "better" early-game plays . . .
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Judging by the HSReplays numbers, the deck has a 44% win-rate and 1% play-rate - a nerf might not be needed . . .
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I assume that "work from home" orders have caused Team 5 to re-organize internally. We haven't seen a new Tavern Brawl in months, and the PvE content for the two adventures this year hasn't exactly been thrilling. I wouldn't be surprised if folks are being taken off less essential HS projects in order to ensure that the cool stuff is completed - the three expansions, and the forthcoming new game mode. All things considered, it isn't the end of the world if the peripheral HS stuff is sub-par, given everything else that has happened.
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It's also worthwhile observing that Firebat's claim that the event "started an hour early" is dishonest - the check-in time was the check-in time. He chose to set his alarm well after the check-in time, knowing in advance he would be disqualified if matches began early. He took the risk, accepting the consequences, then bitched about it when it bit him on the ass, instead of apologising for wasting nearly an hour of everyone's time. Blizzard did more than their rules suggested they should have in order to accommodate him.
As to your point - Blizzard pays the players to play their games. Firebat didn't show up, so he doesn't get paid. They don't "collect" anything, though I'm sure they would appreciate any "good luck" you choose to send them . . .
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Observing that uncompetitive, off-meta home-brews aren't competitive in eternal formats isn't exactly enlightening . . .
However, it's also worth recognising that the format isn't close to being competitively optimised, and half-decent players can certainly pilot half-decent home-brews successfully. Looking at the HSReplays numbers, for example, one of the reasons that folks are complaining that "Rogue is in the dumpster" is that Burgle Rogue has a play-rate more than three times that of Odd Rogue, despite having a win-rate about 13% worse - unsurprisingly, the class win-rate reflects this. Rogue is at the bottom of the heap, despite having one of the best Tier 2 decks in Wild, as attested by a couple of the sites which actually track the format.
As far as complaining about diversity in Wild - the power level in eternal formats typically reduces, rather than expands, the pool of viable decks. Despite having over 20,000 cards to choose from, the Vintage format in MtG has been dominated by the same handful of decks for most of the past quarter century. As Wild matures, decks will inevitably emerge which survive the perpetual addition of new content - this isn't a "problem" that lazy designers could simply solve, if only they weren't so lazy. Vintage would open wide up if Black Lotus, FoW, Dual Lands and the Moxen were all nerfed - but playing those cards un-nerfed is the entire allure of the format. If you don't like playing degenerate decks, or having them played against you, you probably won't like playing eternal - but not liking a format doesn't mean it's busted . . .