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Quote from RavenSunHP >>

I think whining about QR shifted from opness to how polarised and uninteractive games are with it, a while ago.

I think very few players are playing QR for the winrates. More for laziness maybe.

QR is still a meta deck (assuming a meta deck is anything above 50% wr). Problem is its bad design, and that's well-known.

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Quote from steamedmilk >>

Did we receive our packs for this and I just never noticed? Or are we still waiting? 

 I think we did. I got 3 packs 1 to 2 weeks ago, if it was 3 for rutgers that should be it

Did we receive our packs for this and I just never noticed? Or are we still waiting? 

Golden Clutchmother Zavas and Meteor . 

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Quote from TallAr92 >>

If you get 1 pack a day just from setting up a bot its already good. Like think about it. 7 days = 7 packs. Its not nothing. Obviously you can get much more packs by farming arena but not everyone likes arena. For instance i dont because its so fuckign random bullshit that i just cant stand it.

 you can get a pack a day regardless with pirate warrior. 30 wins takes what, an hour and a half? if you dont win by turn 6 you concede, and move on. average game should take about 3 minutes

 

Quote from GangreneElbow >>

>Plays Pirate Warrior Aggro on Wild ladders

>Wonders if I'm getting accused of being a bot

>Rembers that I am only half paying attention, watching netflix, and reading through HP forums, probably making poor decisions.

I play mostly on weekends and later at night so maybe that skews the data but I am still meeting roughly 20% pirate warrior bots at rank 5. Very easy to spot as they still strongly favour trades into azure drake , antique healing bot , brann & kazakus over face dmg. Won't always do it but will do it way more often than a human. Occasionally when I am curious I just play one down to fatigue to learn a little more about the programming but yea still a lot of them in Wild! 

I opened 98 packs launch of mean streets and received 4 legendaries and all were Raza (the 4th literally required me to go for a few hour hike to work the rage out!)

This expansion I opened 7 legendaries out of 114 packs and only 1 duplicate (Rogue Quest) so I can relate to peoples misery but it is most likely rng and groupthink!

End of season boredom led me to make anti-pirate deck and just drop back down to rank 5 and hunt pirate players trying to rank. Not sure blizzard would approve of using their new locked rank 5 system for this but I thought it would be great therapy!

I conceded constantly unless my opponent was a warrior and after doing this for 17 warriors games I can say there are a ton of pirate bots! I lost 1 game won 16 and of the 16 I won only 3 conceded the rest were most likely bots who let me build up tons of armor and never gave up trying to win an impossible game.

In the end the therapy was useless because beating bots isn't satisfying and the actual humans realized what was going on and quit pretty quickly. I guess in the end it's what I deserve for trying to get joy out of others misery! 

Quote from Legend_Entomber >>

At the beginning of expansion launch and new meta, 70-80% of the time I play Standard and the rest is Wild.

As time goes on and the meta goes stale, I play more Wild and less Standard.

Eventually at the end of the meta and before the next expansion launch, I mostly play Wild and barely any Standard, like currently. 

Quote from Maukiepaukie >>

I remember actually facing one at rank 6 by the way. I noticed he took about 5 seconds between each action he made, and he made some very weird plays. I tried to test whether he was a bot so I greeted him, but to my surprise he greeted back. I actually was very surprised, but then I tried out some more and it turned out the bot responded with a specific emote for each emote I used at it. Never saw that in a bot before so it was pretty cool. Seriously though, these bots can get rank 5. That definitely shows there is a problem with pirate warrior.

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Quote from iann1928 >>

actually this card can be very good, if you combo with innervate it generates 2 more mana crystals for the next turn, innervate becomes gain 2 mana crystals

 Mike Donais just revealed on Trump's stream that Innervate and Coin don't have synergy with the card, temporary mana crystals don't summon Living Mana tokens

Queued into 5 Pirate Bots at Rank 5 in Wild this afternoon. So still plenty around and clearly good enough to rank up.

Quote from EternalHS >>

Oh, so you don't want to play a potentially good deck? Well, if it turns out to be powerful than thnx for providing the rest of us with ez wins.

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Quote from steamedmilk >>

Before anyone asks Shifting Shade - So it costs less helping the priest legendary quest, isn't played on turn 4 where a 3 health minion trades really badly and has elemental tag which we assume will be useful this expansion. 

Why would you ever play shifting shade now which is why I view this as power creep. Will it be played? Hard to say with so many cards left to reveal but it is definitely better than Shifting Shade.

 Power Creep is when a card is strictly better than another, except possibly in extremely fringe cases. Tar Creeper, for example, power creeps Am'gam Rager, as it is always better except in fringe cases, like against The Black Knight.

Shifting Shade is a 4 mana 4/3. It can, for example, take out a Tomb Pillager or Blackwing Corruptor (both rotating, but you get the idea), whereas this 1 mana 1/1 can't. I can imagine playing both cards in a Deathrattle Priest deck.

I get that power creep is a thing that is happening in the game, but we really shouldn't just start using it for everything. I could call every card an Aggro card if I wanted to, wouldn't make it true.