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It's written right there in the article:

And the previous method of immuning or Armoring up against the damage no longer works, since Blizzard made the change to this effect to curb these effects.

Same here.

Small indie company, yadda yadda yadda.

Standard Blood DK annihilates it.

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 "In retrospect, it's pretty impressive that they had the Lynxes just ready go to."
 "In retrospect, it's pretty impressive that they had the Lynxes just ready to go."

Uh... OK? I don't see the difference and I'm pretty sure I'm not drunk. Maybe I'm blind or something.

Unfortunate interaction of the week: Magtheridon with its 1/1 clone. The 12/12 awakens first, then the clone destroys the 12/12. I don't think my opponent intended to clear the board in that particular way...

Aaaaaand mercenaries pack opening is broken. Small indie company, I know, I know.

Stupidest combo ever: tried Priest with Blessing of the Pig and drew a Sand Drudge. Infinite 1/1 Zombies with taunt, and a frustration concede by the opponent on turn 5.

And now the EU servers have entered full potato mode again. Small indie company, I know.

Yeah, because Microsoft has never ever been this kind of greedy company that's only interested in extracting every last penny out of its users and doesn't care about the quality of its products. Right.

Somebody had to do it.

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it's crazy how they have to make the free heroes the most unfun to play against, marin is already at the same level as kael'thas in term of being annoying to play against for me and it's only been 3 matches

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Truer words were never spoken, my friend.

I don't like the showdown nerf as it will also target decks like Highlander paladin or Earthen paladin (decks that are actually enjoyable). It's already a terrible card when not combined with other cards like beam.

Just hit Crusader Aura and make it give +1+1 or +1+2 or something so it is harder for the flood paladin to finish their opponent. It's clearly the biggest outlier in the deck.

The runs are never free, because they are meant to get the money of the whales, so they need to buy the mini expansion for money instead of gold.
Because the community went wild because of the missing free pack for a normal brawl win, they give us this quest. You can play any HS game, it doesn't have to be a brawl one.

Hi there,

I define myself a daily-yet-casual player. I've played at least 30 minutes every single day since the beta, even on holidays or while abroad. I was recently concerned about that addiction to be honest. But the tripling of the Weekly Quest Chores might be about to cure me of my addiction.

Maybe I'm slightly off topic but I sense there are a lot of converging facts happening, in addition to that tripling of the Weekly Quest Chores.

First, I LOVED playing Duels, much more than regular Hearthstone actually. To me, Duels was a way to finish those grindy achievements without dropping too much in Hearthstone Ranked (I hit Platinum once. I was shocked). 

It was a way to get that weekly Quest faster, too – the one where you had to win 5 [now 15] Brawls, Battlegrounds or Arenas [or Duels, in the good old days]. 

So without Duels it's possibly harder to get achievements rewards XP and Quest XP, right? Which means less Gold at the end of the season.

Secondly, the latest expansion has very few achievements (albeit more rewarding) as compared to the previous ones (hence less XP to gain, hence less Gold to get).

Duels had no paying option: you had to play with regular Hearthstone cards. No avatars or anything to spend real money on. On the contrary, Battlegrounds is all about cosmetics and Battle pass and such, and I can only guess a lot of people do pay to enjoy all that (to me, at least) insignificant stuff. Even Regular Hearthstone sells avatars and diamond cards and cosmetics.

So in my opinion killing Duels is a way to reroute players to Battlegrounds and Ranked Hearthstone, whether they like it or not, while rewarding less and less Gold to casual players. One stone, two birds.

The tripling of the Weekly Quests chores is another example. Such a shitmove can only drive casual players away from the game. How will that help Blizzard getting even more money though? I do not know. Most non-hardcore players now have a choice to play for fun and for climbing the ladder OR play to finish those gawddamn Quest chores in time. 

To me, Blizzard was a genius company once (I've been a hardcore solo Warcraft 2 and 3, Starcraft 1 and 2, Diablo 1, 2 and 3 player) which died when Activision/Vivendi and most of all Micro$oft bought the dream away.

So maybe it's time for me to abandon Hearthstone for good. There's never been such a nice Conjunction of the Spheres.

So increase prizes for 50 % but force us to play 300% time more. Seams fair.

Maybe balance the game first, so playing standard is actually fun? A$$holes

Increasing from 5 t o15 is 200% increase, not 150%, which is even worse. 3x harder for +20% reward, makes quest worth only 40% of what they were worth before the change. That is fucking insane. Moreover, even if it was 2x harder for equal 2x reward, it still would be a change for worse in my opinion, making it a chore to complete quests weekly.
I played fairly reqularly since GvG, but as many people wrote, I too consider quitting at this point. Kinda sucks, cuz i felt like new expansions and updates were getting in fact better and better, but Blizzards greed continues it's killing spree. RIP HotS & now HS too.