People complain about tier deck in casual because they just wanted to go there and play a meme deck for fun (and also win of course). The problem is that MMR goes down a hell of a lot slower than it goes up - do well in casual and it won't be long before it looks a lot like the ladder and your meme deck is a sure-fire loss. It has to be this way or a different scenario would unfold - griefers would go to casual and throw a modest number of matches, dropping their MMR back to zero. They would then stomp noobs, roping, emoting, dick-friending, etc. for about 10 matches, and repeat the process again all night, every night.
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So I'm not the only one considering [cardFlameguard Destroyer[/card] as an alternative to Draenei Totemcarver? Are you satisfied with the card?
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Dear Blizzard
When the #TavernsOfTime event ends, please retain the daily quest goals and scrap the original ones.
I’ve truly enjoyed the Taverns of Time. The extra dust was nice, the high gold rewards was nice, but the thing that made Taverns of Time really great was quest goals that can be easily achieved while laddering with your favourite deck(s). If you love Hearthstone, but have limited time to play, the normal quest goals can sometimes be a drag.
Most players crave for gold, to buy packs, increase their collection and be able to play even more decks that are fun. So you do the quests, if you like them or not. Even the «Everybody! Get in here!» - unless your able to swap them for something better.
If you’re spending what little spare time you have, trying to climb the ladder with your Odd Paladin or Even Warlock, playing 30 Priest cards or 6 Pirates isn’t fun. It’s just wasted time. So you throw together a stupid Pirate Priest deck, play some uninspired matches in Casual and hope you get time over for a ranked match later on.
The Taverns of Time quest goals are SO MUCH BETTER. Taking a number of turns, drawing a number of cards or playing a number of spells can be done with most tier 1, 2 or 3 decks (ok, Spiteful decks don’t run many spells, but …). You can prove that you are an active player and earn your gold while you play the decks you like and do things that you find meaningful.
It’s nice to promote diversity, which I think is the idea behind the original quest goals. But it must be even nicer if you can increase the time people feel it is fun playing the game. Playing decks you like is fun. Playing decks you don’t like is not fun, even when you get paid gold to do it. So do the right thing. Use the off-meta reports to promote diversity and give us quest goals that can be achieved while playing what we like.
Best regards,
Zuiderman
PS. Spread the word if you agree.
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Lord Godfrey
Warpath
Chameleos
Militia Commander
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It's definitely worth it, in my opinion.
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Go with Murloc Paladin. The tribal synergies secures a pretty resilient board, and the ability to refill with Call to Arms and Divine Favor (when they have equipped Aluneth) also gives you reach. If you really want to punish Secret Mage, you could tuck in an Ooze and EoS too, but it should normally be quite unnecessary.
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Consider a future Hearthstone where card packs were no longer available.
Instead of Gold, you were awarded twice the amount in dust. “Play 10 secrets” would grant you 100 dust instead of 50 gold, and the weekly Tavern Brawl would grant you 200 dust instead of a pack.
Instead of buying packs, you could buy
Interesting or not?
For someone like myself, buying the pre-purchase package and the occasional 15 packs 3-4 times a year, it would not make much of a difference economically, but I would have a far better chance of building a collection of cards I actually want. That said, Runespear and Lynessa is nice to look at ;)
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I've tried it, but usually the opponent is taking fatigue damage before I'm able to play the last seal.
If you're looking for an expensive replacement for Fen Creeper, Rin is OK I guess. Otherwise she's not.