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March 28th 10am: Shudderwocks scheme (3) - Your next battlecry happens twice (upgrades each turn) 

What do you think?

Hey folks, can you help me out with what you’d consider regular etiquette when asking someone to help you complete a quest?

I have a player on my friends list who often messages me asking for help to complete their, “Challenge a friend for 80 gold” quest. I don’t mind helping at all. I have over 100 players on my friends list and none of us are salty.

But this particular player...I just don’t think they get how rude they’re coming across?

I finished a game early by conceding after receiving their message asking for help to complete their quest. Of course, I get 80 gold too, so there is an incentive. I waited for the challenge.

Once accepted, they immediately refuse my request to borrow a deck. Huh? Are we doing friendly here or what? It’s the only time we can really explore new decks and play something we don’t know the ins and outs of, surely? It part of the fun of completing the challenge?

Then we open the game and I get no greetings, thank you, not even a Wow! Complete silence. I soon discover I’m met with the Paladin OTK deck - total tier net deck with every card, and they’re drawing through them as fast as they can.

After my request to share decks was refused, I chose a quest priest from my collection, complete with Velen and mind blast. I played it all the way through to completion and won the game.

I messaged thanking the player for the game and the gold. Nothing back. Total silence.

It’s really miffed me that this particular player is always like this. It’s not even like they’re a new player. They’re usually always around rank 5 when they ask for my help with a quest.

I never ever play a meta deck against friendly challenges, and I always share my decks too. I don’t play full on, nor do I go face. If I figure out they’re using one of my decks I’ll usually play sub-optimally to ensure they get long enough to explore the feel of the deck and the synergies available as the game evolves through early, mid and late game states. And after the match (however it ends) we always at least message each other with a thanks, if not a fuller discussion about each others decks and maybe share the deck codes.

So who’s the odd one out here? Me, or this particular player? Am I just expecting a bit too much based on my own perceived etiquette of how friendly matches should be?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

So I woke up this morning, did some chores, then thought ... quick game of Hearthstone? Why not?

Picked up my phone to be greeted with the log-in screen and country selection menu when I opened Hearthstone. How very odd?

After 3 login attempts, and 3 red messages that my account could not be found (an account with 90% of all the cards in it btw) I panicked.

Ran to my PC to login through the Blizzard app and the same thing again. Somehow...I don't know if it was an old cookie in Chrome or something, but I browsed to Blizzard on the web and opened the 'my account' link, l and I was still logged in with my username! Phew. Took a look at my account details and my email had been changed to BEIKUP341@163.COM.

I checked my emails, and it turns out this happened at 2AM this morning while I was sleeping.

I very quickly changed my email back again, changed my password, downloaded the authenticator app and then submitted a ticket to Blizzard to let them know of the account breach. On checking my collection, none of my cards have been disenchanted thankfully, but what a scare!!! I assume there's a bot going round trying to break through unsecured Blizzard accounts.

So please folks, if you haven't already, download the Authenticator app for your phone and secure your Hearthstone account. It's currently at risk if you haven't.

Has anyone else here been hacked before? :(        

Hey everyone, 

I'm really interested to know what we all do in 'real life'?

I'm in my early 40's and run businesses and properties - and for the purpose of this thread I'll say 'some well, some others could be better. I'm certainly not rich or anything by lottery standards' because the competition stays inside the game; right?

I've amassed loads of friends in Hearthstone after some great games from all over Europe. We chat about our decks and strategies and share ideas. 

I've recently tried to introduce 'real life' friends to the game, and I've noticed a key trend when we play friendly matches. The younger people are, the more likely they are to 'emote threats' or just use 'general bad manners' during a game...such as the passive stance of staying completely silent until they play the winning move with their spell hunter, and emoting "Greetings" once they've won.

So to go off on a tangent; this festive season was all a bit shite for my family. I found myself in A&E (ER for our American cousins) when I had to call an ambulance to my home for my 'better half'. They are looking OK now hopefully, but when your other half is stretchered out of the family home and ambulanced to hospital, you do weird things - like look for routine once you get there with them by going for a cigarette outside.

Once outside, I'd find myself opening my phone and opening the Hearthstone app for a quick game while I had my cigarette. Anything to keep me calm.

I played that long night against many who couldn't possibly have known the state I was in. Their victories were well earned, but would they have BM'd me as much, had they known what I was going through? I'd like to think not. I wouldn't expect them to concede, but it did get me thinking (because of my previous experience, that they may be younger).

But then tonight I went out to a 4 year old's birthday party - first night out since our nightmare of a Christmas. I'm really close to the lad, but I'm not biased when I say this - he made me reflect on my views - (maybe it 's not because they're younger - it's because of how they feel about life?)

So rather than 'how old are you' (which has been done) I thought it might be interesting to ask 'where are you now?'         

I'm going to stand up for the OP here and say that they probably aren't trolling, and that it's just a case of them being younger.

If they are trolling, it's a parody of being a younger person today.

I employ younger people regularly on apprenticeships (aged 16-18) and I once tried to help an apprentice appreciate that the pop group Bananarama (who they hadn't heard of) were like the Spice Girls of the 1980's.

I was met with the question, "Who are the Spice Girls?"

We need to appreciate that 16 year olds today were born in 2002. The Twin Towers falling, the Berlin wall being taken down (nevermind built) and the launch of the Euro to replace all European currencies are just things that get talked about in History at school (assuming they took it in their options). 

Indiana Jones preceded even the earliest of these events by 8 years. So yes, to a young person, the Indiana Jones franchise may as well be Gone With The Wind and Harrison Ford didn't hook up with a Kardashian so who the hell is he? 

We need to accept that we're getting older folks. I have a friend just 6 years younger than me who refuses to watch certain movies I recommend because they're not available in HD on his Kodi box.

I would say to the OP...what did you think of Indiana Jones? Did you enjoy it as much as we did?

Merry Xmas everyone...young and old(er)!

:)  

"Mirror Mirror on the wall, your cards look great, I'll take them all!"

Hi guys,

I wanted to share a deck I've been building over the past couple of days, and ask for your help by you playing it and helping refine it.

This deck is great fun to play (almost feels like you're playing a Wild deck!), and has a surprising win rate too. I wouldn't say it's ready for ranked play, but it's getting there.

I put it together after seeing that Priest is the lowest rank on HSReplay in Standard play. Obviously, if we have been given no amazing cards this expansion, we'll just have to go out there and steal some for ourselves.

Already with this deck I've played the new Hunter card "cast every spell you played this game" against my opponent 4 times in the same game :), I've Shudderwocked the Shaman more times in one game than they could even Shudderwock me (stealing their cards and hand as I go), and I've laid out 3 Ragnaros the Firelords against my Mage opponent neatly in a line.

I'm onto something here...I can feel it. The power of this deck, is that whilst your opponent is limited to one each of their legendarys, you have no such limits in play with them. You can play multiples of their legendarys and keep clearing the board too.

The deck needs refining now though...give it a couple of play throughs and see what you think we could drop and replace.

Card draw isn't an issue - if anything, you're sometimes stuck between playing cards just to be rid of them or replacing a great hand via Azalina to reduce your chances of being milled.

Chamaleos is VERY strong in this deck - he can be used to get a preview of your opponents strategy and possible next 2-3 moves. With your manipulators in hand, you can be ready to copy said minion and then return it to your hand to take advantage of the battlecry (e.g. Shudderwock).

Benedictus isn't played until the end game, so perhaps he could be replaced with a Spirit to ensure you end up with the best cards going back into your deck? I haven't tried that yet, but I'd assume if we did that, it would also free up some of the psychic scream slots?

Mulligan is easy - keep your low cost cards, and begin stealing ASAP as well as healing yourself until you build up a nice collection of your opponents cards.

Let me know what you think? If we work together on this I'm sure we can come up with a viable ladder deck!

Thanks and have fun! :)

It's 'kind of' worked for me.

However, on the decks page of this website, I still see "??" for every deck in the 'dust required' column.

Is this something I've done wrong at my end, or is this still to be fixed?

I've logged in and out of both Innkeeper and this site too?

Thanks.

Same here ... but what's even worse is that it's also 'taken cards out of my collection' on Hearthpwn too, so I can't even rely on my previous collected cards being correct. :(

Based on your collection I’d be opening classic packs as well as Kobolds packs. You still have quite a few classic commons to get, so start with those.

good luck and have fun.

edited to add: I thought you played wild as well as standard based on your collection, so I’ll change my advice and drop the kobolds suggestion as it rotates in April. Just focus on classic for now.

alternatively ... play wild more. It’s great fun :) 

I've been trying out some Wild decks over the past few days whilst waiting for the new expansion to launch, and honestly ... just watch what happens in this replay! 

I could not believe it. I won't spoil the ending, but my opponent was playing as Tess Rogue, and I was playing as Mage with Yogg's End (for those who don't know that card, Yogg casts a random spell for every spell you've played this game...yup...similarish to the new Hunter hero!) But this game didn't just end with Yogg ... my opponent had a lifesteal weapon with something like 17 durability and plenty of minions too...what happened next, and then kept happening, blew me away!

I'd honestly recommend anybody who is thinking about playing Wild to watch the replay, then go craft Yogg as your first Wild minion! The rest of the deck can be any spells you already have. 

So now I'm wondering if the new Hunter Hero could be placed in a Standard deck to achieve similar results come Tuesday? Anyone have any idea?

https://hsreplay.net/replay/GH5pA7mMSSGWn3ztJn6QLG

Is this a recent change? There have been a lot of dragons in hs for a long time. Unless we can confirm this only started happening recently it's nothing to note.

Community: Blizzard supports China, we must uninstall their games

Also community: Riot, 100% owned by China, created new game, we must install it

Me: Confused screeching

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it wont be a "hearthstone killer" couse hearthstone is already dead. im expecting it to be alot more

 Is it just me, or is it super weird that someone would post over 200 times on the forums of a fan site for a dead game?

Or even once, for that matter.

Frozen Throne was revolutionary! 

Kazakus is a tri-class card for mage, warlock, and priest. So pretty much you can only use him in those classes.

Can confirm. Am Gay. Still like boobs and blood.

Thank God... At least now I might be able to go to a Hearthstone Forum that doesn't tell me that “You are a WINNER! SPIN THE WHEEL!!!"

 😂 

Ok, after playing a few of these brawls and some self-debating, here are my conclusions.

• Speaking in general:
  • It's kind of fun to play in some champ's shoes, so to speak
  • It may be fun to play the pre-nerf cards and combos, ok
  • It might even be fun, albeit to some extent, to see decks from different epochs compete;
• BUT the above is totally spoiled by the complete and utter umbalance in power-level. What chances does 2014's Chillwind Yeti stand against cards from, say, some 2018 deck? Next to none. Which in turn ruins the whole experience, sorry about that.

And please don't tell me "it's a brawl, this is only for a classic pack / 40 dust / some fun".

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This is probably the best idea for brawl of all of them.

 Very, incredibly, strongly, highly, disagree. To the fullest extent of a disagreement.

 me too, this is the one brawl that banks on you rolling stupid pre-nerf undertaker hunter or a pre-nerf pre-standard broken aggro deck and not going against one.

 This is the best part of it, playing with pre-nerfed cards one last time.... Brawl is for fun, it is not competitive, if you are getting angry about losing a match on a brawl then you need to rethink about the way you live your life bro.

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This really scammy behavior could be the reason for me to avoid this site in the future. I hope the problem is taken seriously by the administrators.

Let me give you some basic insight into how ad networks work globally and why they are plagued by such problems.

1. Ad network exists. Sites place Javascript on them to load ads and make money.
2. Ad network allows anyone to run ads without anything beyond some basic level of verification.
3. That person who signed up to the ad network to run ads can now post anything they want.
4. Person puts up a "bad ad" or multiple. They propagate through the network and display to users.
5. Users of websites of the ad network see the ads and report them to the website owners.
6. The website owners get in touch with the ad network to tell them they've dun goofed again and allowed nonsense through.
7. Ad network removes the bad ads, preventing anyone else from seeing them.

You're able to get around a lot of the garbage ads by not allowing really cheap ad campaigns from showing up on your site, but it isn't perfect. There are times when we notice an uptick in bad ads which we elevate our minimum bids for ads to help shelve crap which hurts our income because then ads may not even be displays but its done to protect users.

I have been informed there was a massive, global "ad attack" the other day when the ads shown in this thread and was described as the "2nd largest malvertising attack ever recorded" and was industry wide - usually things aren't this bad.

So yes, this is taken seriously, and when people give me the correct info, I can actually report it to our ads team who will then make sure the ads get removed. It sucks that there aren't better verification processes in place before ads can be put out into the wild but that's sadly not something I, or anyone here can change since its an industry wide thing.

When people respond saying "there was a pop up" or "i got redirected" and dont include a screenshot or a url they ended up at,  I then have to ask them for more information. It seems like 80% of the time they never come back with additional info so those bad ads can't be removed.

What craigrs84 did was the correct way to report bad ads and I'm happy we were able to report that problem so quickly because of it. Be like craig, if you find a problem with an ad, it can even just be that the ad itself has become misplaced, tell us and give us good info so it can be resolved upon initial report.