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I won with an even worse team but it took me 19 turns (mission is 18 or under) so I'll need to do it again if I want to finish the last mission.

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Wow I just played against Kibler on stream for like 20 minutes. I was playing my Control Warrior deck and I would have won but I only had 1 To The Front in my deck.

Embarrassing to lose that way in front of 2500 people

My game against Kibler:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1228626410?t=08h30m03s

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I was playing a Control Warrior list yesterday that functions like old Control Priest (90% removal and armor gain) and it WRECKED those Druid lists. I mean it lost to every combo deck but I think if combo gets nerfed then aggro is dead this expansion.

People really want these combo decks nerfed but they're the only thing keeping the cuckoo control decks in check.

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Got my first 500 win hero today with Paladin. Kinda surprising that it was my first 500 class but I did play quite a bit of Libram Paladin last year.

Next is Rogue at 425, Hunter at 391, Warlock at 385, and Mage at 362. All of the others are in the 200s (or 154 for DH).

I doubt I'll ever hit 1000 wins with a class at this pace.

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Pushed through and hit legend with OTK Owl Warlock. There's absolutely no way this deck doesn't get nerfed within the next two weeks so if you're looking for an easy legend push I'd recommend doing it quickly. They need to kill the entire healing package for Warlock though because if Owl gets nerfed people are just going to switch back to Fatigue instead.

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Short day 1 anecdotal notes

Freeze Shaman doesn't feel good to play. I've lost to some swingy stuff with Bru'kan + Parrot shenanigans but the deck is a little too easy to play around. Most of the time I see people using freeze spells on their own minions just so that their Beareon will actually summon minions.

OTK Owl Warlock seems to be VERY good. It plays almost identical to Fatigue Warlock from the last set but the win condition is a little easier to pull off because you're not trying to finish your quest. You just focus on removing stuff until you draw your combo and win on turn 9/10. I went 6-0 with this deck and I think I could get legend today if I had more energy but I'm getting a headache.

Zoo Warlock seems pretty good but you can REALLY run out of steam quickly. I know that's true of most aggro but it felt especially bad in this deck topdecking an egg I couldn't do anything with.

Quest Paladin with Dun Baldar Bridge is pretty interesting. You can summon so many minions each turn it's pretty ridiculous. I still beat the 1 I played with OTK Owl but I could see that deck making people on Reddit mad.

Korrak Rogue is fun but I drew sketchy informant and summoned Korrak every game I played. I would be interested to see how it feels if you have to manually play Korrak from hand. I'm guessing pretty bad.

Hero Power mage still doesn't feel great but the new Dawngrasp hero feels surprisingly solid. The only bummer is that if you play Wildfire before you play him then he doesn't buff his own hero power when he plays his copy. It doesn't make much sense to me why it works that way.

That's about all I played today, might play some more later

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Yeah it really sucks how they did this free giveaway thing but I have a feeling the community outcry has been enough that they'll fix it.

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Opened 125 packs without getting Vandarr so I think I win the expansion.

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BlueCrystalTear posted...

FYI: I'm still just mashing buttons instead of using any strategy. The battle system is a little too much to adjust to right now since they're just giving me text and have only demoed the basics.

Spoilers this never changes for the whole game if you stick to Velvet as your battle character. I remember some late game fights that were won by just spamming my square attack and R2.

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Okay the category is actually "has a sibling that didn't try to kidnap your son"

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Tarble and Master Shen respectively

Pretty sure that category is just "has a sibling"

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Playing Handlock and I get 3 Celestial Druids in a row (auto loss). Switch to Hunter for a few games to counter and I get Libram Paladins (basically auto loss). Switch back to Handlock and I bet you can guess who my next opponent was.

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I did the discounts and got a STR Kefla dupe and two trash SSR

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Not really interested in this new Kefla card

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Battlegrounds has existed for 2 years and my skill has not improved at all in that time I think. I really suck at transitioning into the mid game but I don't know how to get better at this point.

I mean I've hovered around 7k for pretty much the entire shelf life of BGs so I'm not COMPLETE trash compared to the whole player base but still.

My last 5 games:

8th place
7th place
7th place
8th place
8th place

I'm clearly missing something that's allowing other players to wreck me in the mid game.

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Badmouthing ladder makes sense but praising duels in the same post does not.

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The entire ladder right now is either Aggro Hunter or Aggro Warrior and you can only tech to beat one of them. It's my fault for playing Hearthstone right now I guess but this expansion needs to hurry up already.

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https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23751629/22-0-patch-notes

So the "and other stuff" for Battlegrounds was Scabbs and cosmetic boards. Looks like we'll need to deal with Sneed for another 6 weeks at least. Bummer but BGs is still in a pretty good spot.


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UltimaterializerX posted...

That bad, huh? BGs are usually far better balanced than this.

Since they added armor BGs has actually been in a really good spot assuming you don't have Diablo or Sneed in your lobby.

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Thank goodness Diablo is getting removed.

Now Blizzard let's talk about Sneed...

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Beat Diablo on Turn 4 very easily

Turn 8 he hits me for 27 damage

Can we remove this guy already?

Also I have no idea how to play Sneed but that's unrelated.

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Priest also has a 1/4 they can buff into a 6/6 on turn 2 with Bless. The only awkward thing is that it's not a shadow spell so you're losing the shadowform hero power but maybe it doesn't matter.

Or you could turn Irondeep Trogg into a 4/4 on turn 2 and now your opponent can't play any spells.

But I think the way that Trogg works is he summons after the spell resolves so maybe it's not THAT strong. Like if you deal 3 damage to a 4/4 Trogg then the Priest would summon a 4/1 Trogg.

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Everyone remember to dust your Garrote and Mage Questline cards before the deadline. There's no risk if you decide to craft them again later but I doubt they're going to see much play after the nerfs.

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Her new hero power is "Shuffle a Rift into your deck and draw a card". The rift card is cast when drawn summon a 3/3 imp.

So unless you're talking about the 2HP loss for quest warlock it's just better.

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New expansion has leaked and it's Alterac Valley

I'd say it's about 75-80% reliable based on the sources on the reddit.

First card leaked is Shaman Legendary

7 mana 6/6
For each Frost spell you cast this game, summon a 3/4 Elemental that freezes.

Yep that's a Shaman card alright

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Well the only quest decks that are going to be around after the nerfs are Warrior, Rogue, and maybe Hunter. Does Juggernaut win the game by itself against Control Warrior? IDK but I guess we'll see!

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I think Control Warlock without the quest might make a comeback. It basically functions like old control priest with tons of removal, AOE, healing, and card draw.

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Yeah I mean that was partially a joke but also nobody cares about wild lol

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Mr Smite + Rockbiter + Windfury = 18 damage on turn 10

Not quite a GG combo but I could see this card being changed to "Your other pirates have charge".

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Might have just had the nail in the coffin Hearthstone game for me.

It was an OTK DH mirror and I completed Kurtrus by turn 5. Opponent uses Illidari Studies into Glide on turn 5 to complete his quest and shuffle my Kurtrus away.

Next turn I use Illidari Studies and get the card that can shuffle one of his cards into his deck. I shuffle Kurtrus obviously and he draws it the next turn WITH sigil of alacrity bonus. So I basically discounted his Kurtrus by one for him.

He eventually wins like 5 turns later after drawing through his whole deck and meanwhile Kurtrus didn't appear for me at all. It was probably the bottom card in my deck and his got put right on the top.

RNG is gonna RNG but I haven't had fun in Hearthstone in probably like 2 months so I was already pretty close to quitting. After this game I think I really just need to uninstall so I'm not tempted to play or spend any more money at this point.

And yeah I could have played around glide by completing the quest and playing Kurtrus on the same turn but who cares.

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New 1 mana Druid card

Druid of the Reef
Choose One: Either 3/1 with rush or 1/3 with taunt

Uhhh am I crazy or this is stupid strong for 1 mana.

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Why are so many people playing Miracle Priest on ladder

Stop playing Priest

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You need to spend a total of 900 gold to build your little mercenary village but that's the only investment from actual hearthstone.

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The closest comparison I could make is a REALLY basic version of Pokemon. You build a team that has a mix of types (red, green, or blue) and each character has 3 abilities they can use in a fight. In a fight both people pick their abilities and then the speed of each ability determines the order that combat triggers. Red does double damage to green, green double damage to blue, and blue double damage to red (Fire > Grass > Water > Fire).

Your minions level up after each fight and they keep their new stats and abilities forever. You get new cards directly from packs or from shards in packs like a mobile game.

There's some interesting strategy from building your team and using abilities with speed that work together. Like for example a card might have an ability that gives an ally +5 attack so you want it to trigger BEFORE the card attacks.

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I played it for about an hour today and honestly it's not too bad. It's a very chill mode and it'll really appeal to you if you like to see numbers going up.

That being said I'm not sure how long it'll hold attention but it's fun so far.

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I have to keep remembering to do my quests every 3 days. Hopefully this mini-set really shakes things up (seriously doubt it will though based on previous mini-sets) because game is stale AF right now.

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