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    posted a message on 31.0.3 Patch Notes - Balance Changes Standard, Wild & Battlegrounds

    I appreciate the patch and I can tell there's some goodwill here:

    Yeah, our bad... Every expansion we like to make a few “dreamy” cards that get players thinking about how far they can push the game. These cards aren't supposed to be the most competitively viable; the fun of them is wondering “what if.” Quasar mostly fell into that category—it certainly got the dreamers cooking and it hasn't turned out to be a competitive power outlier—but the experiences when this card does work are too sharp and end games too early, turning the dream into a nightmare to play against.

    The parts in bold are comforting to read. I thought they would downplay their mistake but they admit it. I especially agree with the 'nightmare' part. It really, really was. 

    I also appreciate dealing with the overabundance of face damage cards, at least some of them. There's still some work to be done there, however.

    While I realize that balancing a card game must be difficult, I find it hard to imagine that they couldn't foresee the problem with reno/dormant spaceship, especially considering expansions are planned a year in advance. Even without Q&A, a player could see how dormant spaceships would clash with Reno, let alone an experienced designer. Maybe they thought players would launch spaceships before T10? 

    I personally can't muster the will to play the game again, too many mistakes were made and I can't trust their decision making. I do think this is a step in the right direction however. I'll keep an eye out for the future patches, there's hope yet that they'll roll out good patches like this one. I

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    posted a message on How do you like the new expansion so far?

     

    Alright, I uninstalled.

    Just played against a rogue, T5 OTK. He had played 12 cards by the time I died (but was still at 5/5 mana). I am now dead certain that the team behind the game is incompetent. You can't fuck up your job this bad and somehow remain employed, this is lunacy. Maybe the team is great but the shot caller is incompetent.

    There's no way they didn't know this would happen, no way. Keep in mind that I had a board (not that it matters since it's just straight face damage). 

    Keep this in mind: I had 4 turns to beat my opponent. 4. Name one class which can OTK (in standard) on T5 besides Rogue? None. 

    I had no agency whatsoever. There was absolutely nothing I could do. Nothing. I had more agency with Big Spell Mage, at least you had 5 or 6 turns.

    I am beyond words by the sheer incompetence. Not only did they design spaceships which are board centered while still allowing Reno, which is major blunder 1. Major blunder 2 is designing a card (Quasar) which allows OTK on T5 with no agency. Nevermind the bastards who choose to play the deck and kill any and all interactions. In a card game for christ's sake. 

    Why would a bastard play such a deck? What's the point? There's no game, no interaction, nothing. *They're* not even technically play the game. This is as close as it can get to printing a card = automatic win. I sometimes figured, ''Would people play a card which meant automatically winning the game'' and now I have my answer, some bastards would even if it leads to non-games.

    I've been beaten by aggro priest, meteor shaman and just about anything but in every game I thought: ''Well, I could've played this, I should remove this from my deck and use this instead''. That's fine, it happens. But that T5 OTK, sorry no. 

    Don't bother telling him it's not even a good deck and relies on luck. I don't care. If you have a deck which can lead to a card played =  T5 OTK, you've fucked up to such a degree, you should resign and leave your post someone else since, somehow, no one is firing you. Have someone else in the team call the shots. 

    It's really too bad because this game could be so good but somehow they can't help but fuck up repeatedly. If it's not Azurite Snake, it's Big Spell Mage and now it's rogue with T5. They can't seem to release an expansion where there's no outrageous oversight going on. Sure, maybe they never draw Quasar and therefore lose. That's not even better. It's flipping a coin to win a strategy game.

    Keep in mind that Azurite Snake was nerfed a couple of days after being printed. You didn't win by playing 12 0 cost cards on turn 5 however. And yet, it was nerfed right away. How long is it going to take before they patch this shit and nerf it? A couple of weeks, no doubt. 

    Holy. Shit.

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    posted a message on Deck building is going to be insane this expansion

    I'm sort of puzzled about you guys take, maybe you can open up my eyes. I've been watching streamers for the last few days and I haven't seen a lot of variety.

    Where are the 'tonnes of great deck building choices'? Tonnes? I get it's an hyperbole but is there any way to get a list? Maybe I'm watching the wrong streamers.

    Hearthstone has a life cycle which repeats itself. It's like a funnel. At the very beginning, the funnel is wide, a lot of variety. The longer the meta lasts, the higher the rank, the less a variety of builds there are (the funnel becomes narrower and narrower). It's not Hearthstone's fault, it's typical of card collecting games in a hyper-competitive environment. 

    Hopefully, I'll be proven wrong and this will be *the* meta where we have, quote, tonnes of great deck building choices. Until then, I remain very skeptical of that assertion and I suggest other people do the same. If ''tonnes'' means one or two different decks for each class, then it's the same as usual and there's really nothing new under the sun here (and tonnes is a bit of a misnomer is, since it's pretty rare to conflate tonnes and less than three). Time will tell and hopefully I'm just being jaded but I think you'll end up up backtracking on that statement.

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    posted a message on Imik's HearthPwn Theorycrafting Stream - With Drops and Giveaways!

    It's so weird to have an expansion like this one which is so different but no boards. Making the board is so worth the investment by Blizzard. 

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    posted a message on Group therapy! Need to blow off steam? Mega salty? Here is the place! V2

    The worst part about the new rogue deck is the TIME IT TAKES TO BUFF THE MINION!!! Holy christ, make it stop, please. Blizzard, get your shite together, and have all the animations speed up. I've waited two minutes for the buff to trigger 30x times for fuck's sake.

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    posted a message on New Shaman Legendary Card Revealed - Murmur

    Great, more OTK incoming, just what the game needs.

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    posted a message on Group therapy! Need to blow off steam? Mega salty? Here is the place! V2

    It feels great to lose to: crown: double ragnarok. The player agency is outstanding.

    Also, COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT:

    Please don't play HS while checking out porn, doing brain surgery or painting a cathedral. If you don't have time to play, just DON'T. Your opponent doesn't enjoy waiting while you're doing whatever else you shouldn't be doing while playing. Get a clue.

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    posted a message on My Vampire Rogue! You should try it

    Ok so: why do everyone misspell 'rogue' as 'rouge'. I never got that. Maybe you can tell me? Is it a running joke or a reference to something? 

    Rouge (n.): red or pink powder put on the cheeks to make the face look more attractive

    Rogue (n.): dishonest or bad man

    Rouge (n.) (adj.): In French, the color red.

    I get that people make spelling mistakes all the time but for some reason 'rogue' is always mistakenly written 'rouge' by everyone on the net.

    As for the rest, your deck makes me think of weapon rogue but with a single weapon. Did you reach diamond with star bonuses? At a glance I feel like this deck would be ruined by a Viper but 67% is a very high winrate. Can you share your HS Replay, I'd like to see?

     

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    posted a message on Ranked or Casual

    Once you reach legend once, it's almost impossible not to reach D5. You get so many bonus stars for each win, anyone can get there. It's just getting there the first time which requires more work and is more of a challenge. Once at D5, you stop getting bonus stars so the last stretch is longer than all the previous stages.

    I stopped casual because people don't care. 

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    posted a message on 30.6.2 Patch Notes - Balance Changes Standard, Wild & Battlegrounds

    Yeah, you're right. Nothing says ''Panic mode'' than playing Kobold. It's not a meaningful buff. The other nerfs are nice though.

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