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I feel like it should say
"Battlecry: Gain +1/+1 for each enemy minion with Deathrattle." instead of
"Battlecry: Gain +1/+1 for each enemy Deathrattle minion."
Similar to Scarlet Purifier (Battlecry: Deal 2 damage to all minions with Deathrattle.) Nerub'ar Weblord (Minions with Battlecry cost (2) more.) and Frostwolf Warlord (Battlecry: Gain +1/+1 for each other friendly minion on the battlefield.)
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Agreed. Crafted him and he's just sitting pretty in my hand most of the time. He haven't won me a single game. Huge disappointment.
PS: but he's very badass, I'll give him that.
PSS: actually I take some of it back, he gets more useful for me as I climb up in ranks and he did win a couple of games for me already. Could win two more, but got hit by ragnaros both times, which made me wonder whether my face is a target for ragna while I'm immune.
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Quote from Adeimantuss »Quote from boredbadger »As for doing quests in ranked at r20 or thereabouts, cheap decks made out of basic cards are more than enough, especially if you mix in some value expert commons/rares. There shouldn't be that many "real" decks at those ranks aside from the 1st week of every month (ladder reset). Faster decks work better, because you can get more games in, win or lose (and if your goal is to grind dailies, you shouldn't mind losing as long as it's quick).Meanies like to farm noobs in that 19-20 range for gold/portraits (altho there may be a reprieve with the release of new content). At least that's how it was when I started playing in August. Even people who are legitimately there are probably using more than basic cards I'd venture.
This is so true. I went back to ranked, and I played against a fully decked-out secret mage with Duplicate and Archmage Antonidas. To be honest, I really don't want to play against this shit. The guy has 2-3 secrets on the board after turn 6, and all the creatures in my hand were like Bolderfist Ogre and Fire Elemental... what the hell am I supposed to do? He doesn't let a totem live, so I couldn't play around Vaporize, so I tried to do other productive things waiting hoping to draw into an Acidic Swamp Ooze to try and play around both. But then killingArchmage Antonidas is a damned-if-you-damned-if-you-don't kind of moment, because you know the final secret is Duplicate.
I just think that if a player doesn't have any legendaries and naxx, you shouldn't be obligated to play against it. If he hadn't had Duplicate and/or Archmage Antonidas, I would have won. I had him down below 10 health before this crap happened. And of course I lost the game.
People don't buy packs to get legendaries just to face off with other legendaries, they do it so that they can cream those who don't have them.
The very basic model of f2p is to match players who spend with players who don't, so that players who don't will get creamed and feel tempted to spend, and those who are doing the smashing will feel satisfied that their money is well spent and will encourage them to spend even more.
10 health? Puhleeeze, health means nothing when it comes to stabilizing, plenty of games were won by hanging on to 2 health points. In fact, hp management is so important that i've had games where i would've won if i had let my hp dipped for one more turn instead of getting impatient and wasted my cards one turn earlier. If he stabilizes, he stabilizes, whatever health is left doesn't matter, because that's how control and tempo decks roll.
P.s: you shouldn't have boulderfist ogre and fire elemental in the same deck.
That's true, but it can give people a pretty negative impression of the game when fresh out of the gates you are getting run train on by a guy with golden Tirion. Your first thoughts after said golden Tirion guy has had his way with all of your orifices, may not be 'gosh I should spend loads of cash on this sweet game'. I'd hazard they'd be more along the lines of 'fuk this p2w shit, I'm going to play mine sweeper'. From a business stand point you want to nurture your noobs, allow them to grow fond of the game a bit before throwing them to the wolves.
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Quote from Adeimantuss »Quote from boredbadger »As for doing quests in ranked at r20 or thereabouts, cheap decks made out of basic cards are more than enough, especially if you mix in some value expert commons/rares. There shouldn't be that many "real" decks at those ranks aside from the 1st week of every month (ladder reset). Faster decks work better, because you can get more games in, win or lose (and if your goal is to grind dailies, you shouldn't mind losing as long as it's quick).Meanies like to farm noobs in that 19-20 range for gold/portraits (altho there may be a reprieve with the release of new content). At least that's how it was when I started playing in August. Even people who are legitimately there are probably using more than basic cards I'd venture.
This is so true. I went back to ranked, and I played against a fully decked-out secret mage with Duplicate and Archmage Antonidas. To be honest, I really don't want to play against this shit. The guy has 2-3 secrets on the board after turn 6, and all the creatures in my hand were like Bolderfist Ogre and Fire Elemental... what the hell am I supposed to do? He doesn't let a totem live, so I couldn't play around Vaporize, so I tried to do other productive things waiting hoping to draw into an Acidic Swamp Ooze to try and play around both. But then killingArchmage Antonidas is a damned-if-you-damned-if-you-don't kind of moment, because you know the final secret is Duplicate.
I just think that if a player doesn't have any legendaries and naxx, you shouldn't be obligated to play against it. If he hadn't had Duplicate and/or Archmage Antonidas, I would have won. I had him down below 10 health before this crap happened. And of course I lost the game.
People don't buy packs to get legendaries just to face off with other legendaries, they do it so that they can cream those who don't have them.
The very basic model of f2p is to match players who spend with players who don't, so that players who don't will get creamed and feel tempted to spend, and those who are doing the smashing will feel satisfied that their money is well spent and will encourage them to spend even more.
10 health? Puhleeeze, health means nothing when it comes to stabilizing, plenty of games were won by hanging on to 2 health points. In fact, hp management is so important that i've had games where i would've won if i had let my hp dipped for one more turn instead of getting impatient and wasted my cards one turn earlier. If he stabilizes, he stabilizes, whatever health is left doesn't matter, because that's how control and tempo decks roll.
P.s: you shouldn't have boulderfist ogre and fire elemental in the same deck.
That's true, but it can give people a pretty negative impression of the game when fresh out of the gates you are getting run train on by a guy with golden Tirion. Your first thoughts after said golden Tirion guy has had his way with all of your orifices, may not be 'gosh I should spend loads of cash on this sweet game'. I'd hazard they'd be more along the lines of 'fuk this p2w shit, I'm going to play mine sweeper'. From a business stand point you want to nurture your noobs, allow them to grow fond of the game a bit before throwing them to the wolves.
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Personally I think Sylvanas Windrunner or The Black Knight are useful more often than Rag. Can't go wrong with any of them, though.
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Ragnaros the Firelord was the first legendary I every crafted and I think it was a good move. He is RNG dependent and not always useful, but is playable in almost any deck. You will not regret crafting him.
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Hearthstone is a great and fun game with lots of creativity involved, I have enjoyed spending my money to buid my collection and play all the way to legend, once, but it's flaws must be pointed out.
first of all, it's progress is incredibly slow if you are going free, I get it is a freemium game, but still the slowest thing that exists, 10 gold every 3 wins capped at 100 gold/day and the daily mission for a possible total of 200 gold/day which is 2 boosters or 1,5 arenas/day, fine if you break the arena and go infinite. Each booster is worth a minimum of 40 dust, enough to craft a common card, the crafting system drives me crazy 40/100/400/1600 to craft each card tier and each tier is DE'ed for 1/4 it's original value(1/8 for common cards, which is the ones you have the most), why not half the value?? What if you feel like buying some packs, some extra money and pay for the 40-pack bundle, assuming you got utterly unlucky and opened only rares and commons, DE all the cards for one legendary.
After struggling some time you put togheter a tier 1 deck, you are very trained with it and decided to go the high stakes, the most hateful aspect of the game is the ranked system, which does not reward you for playing well, but for playing your brains out, to reach legend you need to play an ungodly amount of time, it took an eternity for me to reach legend swithching between handlock, warrior control and undertaker hunter, which I played way more than usual reaching 4-5 hours a day from 2 hours a day and ending the season at ranks 5-7, it's very annoying that in order to play at high level you need to give up studying, working or going out and getting pissed everytime Im matched with my bad matchup.
lets discuss
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the effect is symetric, genius.
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Does "Highmane" mean something? is it a word made by Blizzard?
It means 'OP in the value it has with its deathrattle effect'.
Somewhere out there the Mayor of Value Town will nod in agreement that Scar is quite scary.
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I would use Twisting Nether card if it Silence + kill all + gives you a one cost minion Voidwalker.
Silence just makes sense since they are launched into the void, would balance the card nicely.
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I like how @ 3:30 in the video, you have to combo an eviscerate just to deal with a 1-mana minion. Glad that stupid card was nerfed.
EDIT: OMG.. @ 14:00, you had to both Prep and combo an Eviscerate to deal with a 1-mana card. Just unbelievable - 2 cards and 2 mana to kill 1 card that cost 1 mana.
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I played a bunch at low ranks with a deck similar to this - kolento's version - and it's just silly. Goblin Blastmage is so strong. One time I wiped 3 implosion tokens. Another time I kill a scarlet crusader. I can't even imagine how an opponent can come back from losing his 3-mana play for absolutely nothing while you still get a 5/4 on the board. What a sick card.
I would imagine that the wins won't be as easy as I go up in the ranks, but this is definitely a good deck to use for grinding out quests quickly.
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I understand those arguments. But if your deck only has 15% threats, and if you randomly burn away those threats, especially the top ones, and all you have left is stuff that won't win you the game... and on top of this, it puts a clock on you to lose the game... then the card is the reason you lost.
The card has some merits, but it seems to be a very big gamble that doesn't pan out all of the time. Why take on such a liability for? If you're zoo, then fine, but if you're not zoo, then your deck is less redundant and you shouldn't run this card.
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I don't like Crackle actually. No matter what happens, someone is pissed off. It's just a poorly designed card. It works well to kill 3-toughness minions, but I'd rather play Lightning Bolt. There's just so many times where I play Crackle, trying to do 4-7 damage and it rolls a 3, forcing me to waste an Earth Shock to finish off the minion. With so many 5-toughness creatures now as well, even with a spell-power totem, you run the risk of not killing that minion 25% of the time. You can basically win or lose a game based on RNG, which is just terrible. I don't like the card.
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The problem with this card is that you spent 9 mana and did nothing while your opponent spends 3 mana, puts a 4/2 in play, negates your last turn and then spends 6-7 mana developing their board. It is such a big tempo play that you actually can't design your deck to be so weak to this play. You're going to lose if you play Mal'Ganis as a way to bait out removal. You were better off playing Kel'Thuzad, which many top level players also say is a bad card because it requires that you have minions on the board and doesn't help you come back from a losing game.
Yes, every card can be answered, but there's a big difference if your card got some value before it was answered or not. A Ragnaros the Firelord that dies to BGH still did 8 points of damage to something or someone's face. Mal'Ganis does absolutely nothing unless you have demons in play, to which you were better off with Kel'Thuzad in that scenario. On top of this, Kel'Thuzad doesn't die to BGH, so they may have to spend at least 1 card to remove him, and you've likely already got some value worth at least 1 card off him already. See why this is a better value and tempo play compared to Mal'Ganis?
If you're going to spend your entire turn playing a card, that card has to have an impact on the board. In most scenarios, without Voidcaller, this card is a do-nothing and is super weak for a 9-drop. I have seen nobody play this card and win if they weren't winning anyway, and I've definitely seen it have no impact or be the reason why a Warlock lost during many more games than that.
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Opponent's turn 9: Big Game Hunter
Turn 10: Sad Warlock who wish he had put something else in his deck
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They didn't have to make this card worse than Druid of the Claw by miles, did they? Just how often are you going to have 3 beasts in play for it to become better? I think I'd rather just play Sludge Belcher.
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I don't understand the downvotes. Lots of pros today have come out and said they'd prefer to play Sludge Belcher over this. I know it looks good, but it is what it is.
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As a card in isolation, this should have cost 3.5 mana, going either way. But since Hunter is powerful, it's understandable that during development, the mana cost must have been changed.
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While this weapon is often less good today because many 1- and 2-drops have 3 health after Naxx and GvG, at least it doesn't feel bad to hit sticky minions with this if you have to - it's the only way as a shaman to avoid losing card advantage against sticky minions other than using Earth Shock. Often times you need Spell Power and the damage from totems to get a full card's value out of Earth Shock, such as using it against Haunted Creeper for example. It has to be said that minions with 3 health, such as Piloted Shredder, pose shaman a lot of problems. That 3-health range on sticky minions is brutal, to which Fire Elemental is the only value-based to really deal with it other than neutral silence effects.
Overall great weapon, but less good now that power creep has happened. Because of this, Crackle may be a better option, because at least it deals with the 3-health problem and has a chance to kill much bigger minions too, without taking loss of health.