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    posted a message on Streetwise Investigator

    So I'm a little pissed off at Blizz.  During their open applications for a junior card designer, they required applicants to submit a card idea.  From my cover letter, dated May 28, 2016:

    Stratholme Night Watch (Neutral) (Rare) 

    5 Mana, 3/3 

    Battlecry: All enemy minions lose stealth. 

    Voice(human, perhaps a peasant turned militia or a footman/knight): 

    Appearance: “Who’s there?” 

    Attack: “Come out, come out, wherever you are!” 

    Death: “To arms! (cough)” 

    Art: Human in Stratholme, prior to the culling.  Holds a staff or pike in his right hand, left hand holds out a lantern.  Camera is situated in an alley, and the Night Watch is peering into it. 

    In looking at Whispers of the Old Gods, I feel like there’s a lot of design space in an expansion for a stealth-heavy set, or one where there are cards that play off stealth.  The Stratholme Night Watch would be a reasonable counter to the meta.  5 mana might be high for the body, but if there’s a card that relies on other minions having stealth to activate it’s ability, this turns into a very solid hoser very quickly.  Given what it does, it could probably be an Epic alongside Big Game Hunter, but I feel a rare will make it much better for what it does.  It’s narrower in scope than BGH, but still worthwhile that it would be a bomb in limited if stealth minions were a thing.  Otherwise, it’s rather good against druid and rogue.

    So, yeah.  They lifted my card idea, didn't give me the job, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.  The contract I agreed to when I submitted my application gave them full rights to the content.

    Posted in: Streetwise Investigator
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    posted a message on Dust Question

    If you're referring to the deck lists here on Hearthpwn, the blue cost is total dust required, red is how much dust you need based on your collection.  You need to use Inkeeper to use this feature.

    Posted in: General Discussion
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    posted a message on Turna's Aggro Shaman - Europe Spring Championships 2016

    Anyone have video of Turna's matchups?  I wanna see him play this deck.

    Posted in: Turna's Aggro Shaman - Europe Spring Championships 2016
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    posted a message on Zooter (....Hunter Zoo....for funsies)

    Personally, I'd remove Dire Wolf Alpha for Knife Juggler.  I feel it'd have better synergy with the deck overall, especially those Snake Traps.

    Posted in: Zooter (....Hunter Zoo....for funsies)
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    posted a message on Mike Morhaime on Combating Racism in Hearthstone

    The one question I have is, what can Blizz reasonably do?  They do not control who uses twitch, nor do they have a means of really policing the actions of people not using their service.  Now, maybe it's just me, but Terrence seems like a really chill guy.  I get the impression he doesn't want conflict, as much as he doesn't want the hate speech.

    To me, this feels like someone out there is grousing to Blizz about something Blizz has no control over, and they're taking the PR avenue.  Mike has no tolerance for bullshit, though.  I think he will implement something on the Blizz side, but won't do anything to twitch.

    Posted in: News
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    posted a message on I feel terrible for F2P new players
    Quote from Poodris >>

    Some people have really good decks, but real life commitments make it so that they can only play for an hour a week. 

    Perhaps the best solution should be to also provide rewards for losing a game without conceding (a random common card 3 for every 10 games played,  win or lose, for example). This would allow new players to build a better collection quicker and is a meaningless reward for more veteran players. 

     That's...actually not a bad idea.  It would help newer players build out their card base and veterans get an extra 5 dust.  Restrict it to basic set to make it even more appealing for new users.
    Also, f*** Jackson Howard. Real men play Scorched Earth with their NBN. :P
    Posted in: General Discussion
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    posted a message on Coldlight Oracle needs a nerf, Mill rouge is the cancer in wild and it's not healthy to the development of the mode.

    Mill Rouge?  What's wrong with a red mill? /spellingnazi

    In all seriousness, it's not OP.  It's still not to the point of needing a nerf.  Mill Rogue needs more than just Coldlight to be viable.

    Posted in: Card Discussion
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    posted a message on Hearthstone for Weight Loss
    Quote from Atlas9802 >>
    Quote from ddrfr33k >>

    I did something similar at one point with Planetside 2.  Any time I died and didn't get revived, I did 5 pushups.  It worked decently, I'd do a good 20-30 pushups an hour.  For not being in shape, that worked well!

    Oh wow I did the same when I played Planetside 2!

     When you think about it, either you git gud or you git swole.  Either way, you win. :P
    Posted in: General Chat
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    posted a message on Hearthstone for Weight Loss

    I did something similar at one point with Planetside 2.  Any time I died and didn't get revived, I did 5 pushups.  It worked decently, I'd do a good 20-30 pushups an hour.  For not being in shape, that worked well!

    Posted in: General Chat
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    posted a message on Budget C'thun

    Had a bunch of high cost cards in opening hand, fished all of them for a double Azure Drake and the lone Flamestrike.  My opponent got me down to 3 health, my one saving grace was the Archmage Antonidas that I dropped in place of another card.  C'Thun at 17 attack cleared out a board for me, gave me more of a chance to stabilize.

     

    Close game, tons of fun.  Would recommend.

    Posted in: Budget C'thun
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    posted a message on New Priest Card - Embrace the Shadow

    Honestly, I plan on dusting these if I get them.  There's not a situation I can think of where this over Auchenai Soulpriest would be a good idea.

    Posted in: Card Discussion
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    posted a message on Hearthpwn content blocking ad space

    And here I thought people knew about AdBlockPlus.  I mean, good grief, it's been around for almost a decade now...

    Posted in: Site Feedback & Support
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    posted a message on Nostalrius shut down by Blizz
    Quote from NumberSept >>
    the numbers of suscribers is down to 3 million
     No way.  Seriously?  They were down a million two years ago, but still had 8 million.  That's a crazy huge loss!
    Posted in: Other Games
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    posted a message on Nostalrius shut down by Blizz

    Signed.  I for one would like to see a legacy WotLK server set up.

    Posted in: Other Games
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    posted a message on Best Class for C'Thun

    Given the dark nature of the coming set, I suspect Rogues will get another opportunity in the spotlight.  Rogues always struck me as more of a control playstyle, even though they haven't in recent years.  I feel like they'd be like Blue spells in Magic, lots of bounce, deft combat tricks, and ways to impede the enemy without actually doing damage/destroying things.  Playing up the whole cloak and dagger thing, you know?

    Posted in: General Deck Building
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