Hearthpwn

Responding to a few comments:

• Obviously, you need to start with an extra card in your hand to keep the game balance
• It does impact a FEW cards (like Clockwork Giant) but those cases are so marginal as to be meaningless
• Mill strategies become very mildly more viable ...

The core idea is to give me a bit us a more to think about on the opponents turn (making their turn more interesting, maybe fewer people will "watch youtube"), which could help my turn (and the game) go a bit faster.

Another approach might be to not DRAW another card, but make it so that I can hover over my deck to see the next card - then there's no impact whatsoever on game mechanics. 

Here's a simple idea that could have a significant impact on the enjoyment of hearthstone, and speed it up a bit: Draw your card at the END of your turn instead of the start.

There are at least two major benefits:

1. You plan out your turn during your OPPONENTS turn, giving you more to do than just watch your opponent play.

2. Your own turn will go faster, because of #1, speeding up the whole game.

I can't think of any real downside, other than missing the "thrill" (or disappointment) of a great (or terrible) top-deck.

Thoughts?

It's not just the case for f2p players, I bought the pre-release bundle, + 100 packs from gold, and only opened 5 legendaries. I'm looking at all the popular decks and there's not one I have the needed legendaries for - and I don't want to risk valuable dust on a legendary that might not be good. Super super frustrating.

I think you forgot to mention that in addition to nerfing druid and paladin, the should also nerf face warrior, shard demon hunter and aggro rogue. They're all too strong. My Chiliwind Yeti mage cannot compete.

What I don’t understand is why somebody who sees that his opponent has lethal and doesn’t want to watch more cards get played out wouldn’t concede.  

Two clicks, even with a low APM it takes less than two seconds to concede. You could probably build a keyboard shortcut to do it in less time than it would take to write a salty 4 paragraph post. 

Handlock, patron warrior, miracle rogue, in that order.

This seems like it could be a legendary...

Quote from odreasoven >>

what is kekw?

It basically means LOL on Twitch ...  but everywhere else means “look at me I know an acronym you don’t, I am so smrt”. 

The power level of this set seems off the charts - if you meet the right conditions. Looks like we've moved on from old days of curvestone to swingstone ... which personally I think is more fun.

Quote from Popeye123 >>

The meta slaves on this forum will disagree with you and give you hate but I totally agree with you. I will never understand people that spam stuff like odd pally secret mage and odd rogue on ladder. Like, how is that fun? And screw “not having the emotional intelligence to understand people disliking deckbuilding etc” that’s complete bs. People that netdeck and say that dont have the general intelligence to build their own deck so they let someone do it for them and then post their legend picture or brag about their rank on Reddit like they accomplished something. And then they get so sensitive when people hate on netdecking like deckbuilding isn’t sort of the point of the game, and yet they cannot for the lives of themselves construct a deck even in a 3 card tavern brawl. Sad imo, they’ll never get to truly experience hearthstone at its greatest, Full of whacky combos and interactions. Let them be content with playing their sad deck a stranger constructed for them that lets them drag and click on a portrait every turn, we can have all the actual fun. Smd meta dependents lmao

This is like playing a pool tournament and complaining that your opponent is potting their balls whilst you are trying to slam trick shots.

If you want to dick around in Hearthstone you will probably have to play casual games with friends. Or get really, REALLY good to the point where you can make meme lists work to a reasonable degree (this is possible, just very hard in Hearthstone). But playing on ladder and expecting your opponents to play janky shit that the game clearly isn’t balanced to cater is mind numbingly stupid.

If you want to play ranked games with janky decks then you’re going to have to find another game which caters to it.

Agreed, every card in the game needs to be turned into either a 10 mana 1/1 with no text or a 10 mana spell that deals no damage. 

Quote from memo333 >>

In one game someone highrolled me, nerf the card

 There, fixed it for you.

My turn 1 humble achievement

You gotta know, most of all Hearthpwn users are in top 1000 legend and tournament veterans. And everyone here knows that the REAL game starts once you are in the current .01% of all players. That's why reaching legend or having a good winrate with Paladin on lower levels doesn't matter. At all. To anyone!

If your legend rank is 1008, you might as well be a literal baby playing on daddy's phone who got lucky a few times. Only once you are at 999 and better, you can consider yourself a "decent" player with "skills" who's granted the privilege to join the very serious and thoughtful discussions going on here. Unless you play the wrong class and deck of course. I shouldn't even have to mention this, but if you have a single win on your account with Hunter or even Demon Hunter, you are a brainless (as in, your brain must have been surgically removed) "aggro player", and nobody will ever take you seriously and you should probably uninstall the game.

And for the top 1000 players, the real players, with skills and brains and all that, it is obvious, undeniable fact, beyond doubt, and confirmed by his holiness, the pope himself, that Paladin is literally unplayable, the worst class in the game, and every single new Paladin card, even the unrevealed ones, are the worst of the entire expansion, just like in every expansion ever, and Paladin will remain the worst class for all eternity, as the skilled players have, in their boundless wisdom, have correctly deducted.

Sure, you might find that Paladin isn't all that bad right now, but you are not a top 1000 player, so your opinion doesn't matter to anyone. And you might find that some people exaggerate in their very mild and perfectly justified anger over recent Paladin card reveals, but they are absolutely in the right. They are among the top 1000 players after all. Ok, maybe not, but they totally would be, if Paladin wasn't so utterly horrible.

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To be fair: I originally thought that this card was user created when I first saw it on reddit.

I can completely understand the outrage on this one. Bad move by Blizzard to release it this early and without context/gameplay. 

 I am not saying it's not potentially broken - who knows. I can easily see this. In my personal opinion I would say the card has an obvious flaw - it's designed for aggro, yet not suitable against aggro. If this card would elevate a deck to being a top contender in the meta, then meta would be full of mirror matches, causing this to be a bad card. Knowing there is a top deck using this in the meta, you just play said deck or any other aggro and vomit your hand to a point, where it helps you more than the opponent actually playing it.

But this is irrelevant, just my opinion. Whatever the card ends up to be - broken or not played - to start any discussions about nerfing, it should at least be out! This topic is honestly ridiculous and when I saw the title for a second I thought it was somehow released outside of the entire expansion and people can already play with it. This is how hilarious it is.

This is how I would rebalance Glide:

• Change cost 4 -> 10
• Change rarity to Legendary, so you have only one copy in your deck
• Move it to Hall of Fame immediately on release day
• Change the card text to: "Deal 30 damage to your Hero. Outcast: Deal another 30 damage to your hero"

The effect of the dual class cards depends on which class you’re playing. For example, Lightning Bloom gives you two mana crystals if you play it as Druid, but if you play it as shaman it just overloads two of your mana crystals. 

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