I've started (and ended, lol) playing Avorion with a semi-overhaul mod pack (XAvorion). Stopped because one of the mods cannot be reverted thus basically forcing a new game (and i need a break for now). Definitely coming back to it soon.
Also started a few games of Millenia. Looks interesting but it's barebones and some things are off. Not gonna entertain the Paradox money making scheme either (20$ game + 500$ dlcs). The game needs much more to even consider buying it. At least some of the concepts are different and interesting, yet really fit for meta-game play (which i deeply hate).
I'd also really like to play linkblade's Hero Power Druid in Standard, but I don't have Fog anymore :/
Zok Fogsnout is not the greatest card; it probably shouldn't be in there even with the Hero Power package being the goal of the deck. For every time he's created two 7/18s or whatever that truly save me, there are other instances where he just sits dead in hand because he costs too much or the Taunts get ran over because I gave up the board.
I'm assuming you could replace Zok with a major Taunt minion of your choice or some other stabilization tool and still be fine. Siamat's back in Core, or you could go with Greybough, Night Elf Huntress, Eonar, the Life-Binder, Primordial Drake, etc. I would consider stripping out the Audio Amplifier as well, if you do that - it's only there to make Zok better. Hell, I might remove them both anyway: lack of consistency for an oft-underwhelming result equals "bye bye".
If you want to get even sillier, there's always Cho'gall, Twilight Chieftain to consider hehe. I've looked through the list: it's not all that bad, with only the "+1 Health to a minion each turn" being a one-sided bonus not in your favor.
Spell Token Hunter is the main thing I used last month to climb; I basically played that list up top except I swapped in two copies of Bunny Stomper for Observer of Myths because it was insanely good in the mirror (I think I went 4-0 against other Aggro Hunters, small sample size but every single win was because I could control my opponent's board with Rush Beasts).
I don't have Pip, so I'm trying to brew up a Zarimi Priest deck that doesn't go quite so heavily into copying 1 drops. Right now I'm building around Party Animal buffs and I'm really liking it in combination with Rolling Stone as the Elemental. Probably not a good deck, but I'll still fool around with it. I might try running Glacial Shard for Demon Hunters.
I'm also kinda messing with the Mech Rogue that tries to cheese games with Power/Virus Zilliax. The dream is using Drone Deconstructor and Sonya Waterdancer for a ton of Magnetic minions, and I'm trying to work with that synergy currently.
All in all, a really fun set with lots of interesting things to try out.
I'm back on the Baldur's Gate III train. Started over, this time with fem-Tav as a Sorcerer/Warlock, Lae'zel as an Eldritch Knight, Shadowheart as a Tempest Cleric/Paladin, and Karlach as a 4-Elements Monk. Attempting to make a "storm"-themed comp, focusing on Lightning, Cold, and Thunder damage. It's...currently not as good as just straight-up hitting things, but I'm only level 5 so the best stuff is waiting for me ahead.
Hearthstone is there too but I kinda gave up on Marvel Snap again, if only because my attention has been elsewhere. Lots of spinning plates to maintain already between BG3, Hearthstone, health concerns, a mentally-taxing job, and other IRL responsibilities.
Still haven't finished Armored Core VI or Sea of Stars; barely even started them, really, if you consider the total time required to complete them.
Nothing too exciting for April in terms of new games I want, but next month is Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door on May 23rd. Definitely playing that, so everything this month is kinda just "filler".
I restarted Oblivion about 2 weeks ago or so. I love that sometimes you get sights like this.
Owning an inn right next to an Oblivion Gate feels like it's pretty bad for business.
And though I haven't done that much of actually *playing* Hearthstone since Whizbang's Workshop came out, but what I have been doing is making a custom expansion. Here's one of my favorite parts of what I've made so far:
Hey! Latelly I have been really into Hearthstone and played "It Takes Two" with my wife. We are really enjoying it!
Also I have finally finished all DLC Blueberry Academy trades in Pokemon Scarlet just yesterday.
Also having lots of fun with Battlefront Classic Collection and Payday 3. This games did not have the best launch but not being able to play a lot makes me enjoy them more as every time I play stuff has already been fixed (had luck and played Battlefront 1 first so I missed most of the bugs) and in case of Payday 3, we are getting really slow updates, but I barelly manage to level up and play with the new skills before they add more. So pretty lucky not having that much time at home?
Will probably take a look at Overwatch as I do not have to grind to play new heroes and play Assassins Creed Brotherhood. Been trying to replay all AC Games and then go into the newer ones but I do not play them all back to back to avoid burnout.
This month I'm planning on playing a bit more of the new Path of Exile Necropolis league. I'm also planning on jumping back onto WoW to participate in the monthly trading post goodies and maybe some of the pre-cataclysm events going on inside Classic.
I also really want to do a few long F1 2023 sessions before the new game comes out this year. I just need to find the time. I also want to finish Far Cry 6 with my friend because we started a playthrough in December and haven't gone back to it since then. Oops.
I've had the last week off so time wasn't much of an issue. Adding to that, Whizbang's Workshop has completely surprised me - I haven't had that much fun playing Standard in years, if ever! The result was me reaching legend with Tempo Demon Hunter despite running out of bonus starts on plat 5 (only the third time I ever got there in Standard!). What a great way to make use of my newly acquired 1.000 wins portrait :-)
Other than that meta deck, I've enjoyed a DK list that is almost identical to the one linkblade posted and some Wheel of Death games. Forge of Wills is an absurdly strong card and this deck is one of the biggest surprises for me. Seems like most everybody took the wheel for a meme card but it turned out being the center piece of a tier 2 (?) meta deck!
In Wild I've tried out Draggro Priest. It feels super strong when it gets rolling, but after some testing I've decided the inconsistency isn't worth the potential extra turn. Maybe I'll look into a non-Shadow tempo version next. Then I've toyed around with some of the new cards that could fit in Pirate Rogue, not sure which build is the best yet though. I've only ruled out the new Garotte version so far, which is very popular among the pros (Corb got rank 1 with it today), but feels just as inconsistent as Draggro Priest to me. Maybe it's just a big brain deck? I don't know. The month was finished with some Wheel of Death (turn 3 Coin Bloodbloom Wheel lol) and Reno Hunter shenanigans (all golden since last week!), so I was super surprised once more when I learned that my rank 851 finish was enough to earn that elusive 11x bonus!
Not sure where to go this month yet. I've found a Highlander Rogue that looks fun for Standard on twitter and my first few wins in Wild came in by playing a Crescendo Warlock. Might try to get the latter to legend, it's fun and takes people by surprise. I'd also really like to play linkblade's Hero Power Druid in Standard, but I don't have Fog anymore :/
I've been going back and forth between my two Day-1 creations: "Rainbuff" DK, and "Hero Power, Round 2" Druid.
The Death Knight deck was intended to build upon the BBU Handbuff recipe, making it better by replacing some Core cards and other subpar choices. My version is a Rainbow deck, although Northern Navigation is the only Frost card. I stormed out of the gate with it on Day-1, and while the deck still performs admirably, it's a "known quantity": DK is all about being no-fun with the Plagues, or Handbuffing, so when they queue into you it's not hard to decipher what's about to happen.
Meanwhile, the Hero Power Druid is entirely my own homebrew-design. It uses the Festival of Legends package (Free Spirit, Groovy Cat, etc.) and combines it with a few choice pieces that came out over the past year, like Sing-Along Buddy, Celestial Projectionist, Popular Pixie, and Joymancer Jepetto. You remove threats by driving your face into them, slamming the opponent directly when you can; eventually, they run out of steam (and/or leave an opening) and you give 'em the ol' KAPOW with a 28+ damage combo: Sing-Along Buddy -> Hero Power -> Popular Pixie -> Hero Power again.
The deck is very fun, seems to perform well, and no one expects it. The other players all assume you're running Dragons or Spell Damage; when you play Free Spirit on turn 1, there's a notable pause of confusion and they hover over it like they've never read the card. The lethal combo catches a *lot* of people off guard. The main concern is that a knowledgeable opponent will catch on that you can only HP one enemy at a time, and they flood the board to overwhelm you. Not always a problem - that's what the rest of the deck is built to deal with - but it still happens.
Finished the month at Platinum 6 without many stars to aid me in the back half (I don't think I lack stars because I'm bad; I just don't play enough). Not the best deckbuilder, so it could totally be refined more, but regardless it seems better than the Druid decks Blizzard "expects" people to be playing. Last I knew class winrates were in the dumpster, and yet I'm doin' just fine :)
I wonder if Jeff would be open to a Twitter/X HS Q&A sometime. He seems like a good addition to the team and definitely makes all the right choices on these card changes 👍👌💯
I don't think the optional download exists for the computer/laptop version. Just the mobile.
Could it be an issue with character skins interacting with video settings on the laptop? That's the first thing that comes to mind for me that would make it fail on a laptop but work on mobile.
That was my first thought, but I can't seem to find that option anywhere. It's right there in mobile, but not on the laptop. Looked both in game and in the battle net app.
Just a quick update, I did get Whizbang as my lvl 50 legendary and even though I still want to wait for others nerf to dust, I went ahead and destroyed some rares that if anything will be buffed to make him golden. Time to play with him and craft Zyliax next nerf round
That all depends on your rank I'm sure. Probably not facing much if any of the bots I was seeing if you are sitting in Legend. I never really push for anything more than Diamond ranks because I want to play more than what the meta says I can.
I kept seeing people on other forums complain about the massive amounts of Mech Rogue bots and hadn't seen any myself. Then I suddenly I had multiple days of nothing but Mech Rogues or decks from random classes running nothing but basic cards from starter decks. The starter decks roped every. Single. Turn...
For the most part EZ wins, but annoying and boring. I guess they had won enough games against each other to climb into upper Plat, lower Diamond MMR matches where the fun loving off-meta players like me tend to live!
What Are You Playing? - April 2024 Edition
I've started (and ended, lol) playing Avorion with a semi-overhaul mod pack (XAvorion). Stopped because one of the mods cannot be reverted thus basically forcing a new game (and i need a break for now). Definitely coming back to it soon.
Also started a few games of Millenia. Looks interesting but it's barebones and some things are off. Not gonna entertain the Paradox money making scheme either (20$ game + 500$ dlcs). The game needs much more to even consider buying it. At least some of the concepts are different and interesting, yet really fit for meta-game play (which i deeply hate).
The Massive Impact Yu-Gi-Oh Has Had on Meme Culture
The one that comes to mind, on a regular basis, is the good old " Would you look at the time ? "
Hearthstone Reveals Surprise Patch 29.N0 With Some Big Updates
My favorite:
What are your favourite Whizbang's Workshop decks so far?
Zok Fogsnout is not the greatest card; it probably shouldn't be in there even with the Hero Power package being the goal of the deck. For every time he's created two 7/18s or whatever that truly save me, there are other instances where he just sits dead in hand because he costs too much or the Taunts get ran over because I gave up the board.
I'm assuming you could replace Zok with a major Taunt minion of your choice or some other stabilization tool and still be fine. Siamat's back in Core, or you could go with Greybough, Night Elf Huntress, Eonar, the Life-Binder, Primordial Drake, etc. I would consider stripping out the Audio Amplifier as well, if you do that - it's only there to make Zok better. Hell, I might remove them both anyway: lack of consistency for an oft-underwhelming result equals "bye bye".
If you want to get even sillier, there's always Cho'gall, Twilight Chieftain to consider hehe. I've looked through the list: it's not all that bad, with only the "+1 Health to a minion each turn" being a one-sided bonus not in your favor.
What are your favourite Whizbang's Workshop decks so far?
Spell Token Hunter is the main thing I used last month to climb; I basically played that list up top except I swapped in two copies of Bunny Stomper for Observer of Myths because it was insanely good in the mirror (I think I went 4-0 against other Aggro Hunters, small sample size but every single win was because I could control my opponent's board with Rush Beasts).
I don't have Pip, so I'm trying to brew up a Zarimi Priest deck that doesn't go quite so heavily into copying 1 drops. Right now I'm building around Party Animal buffs and I'm really liking it in combination with Rolling Stone as the Elemental. Probably not a good deck, but I'll still fool around with it. I might try running Glacial Shard for Demon Hunters.
I'm also kinda messing with the Mech Rogue that tries to cheese games with Power/Virus Zilliax. The dream is using Drone Deconstructor and Sonya Waterdancer for a ton of Magnetic minions, and I'm trying to work with that synergy currently.
All in all, a really fun set with lots of interesting things to try out.
What Are You Playing? - April 2024 Edition
I'm back on the Baldur's Gate III train. Started over, this time with fem-Tav as a Sorcerer/Warlock, Lae'zel as an Eldritch Knight, Shadowheart as a Tempest Cleric/Paladin, and Karlach as a 4-Elements Monk. Attempting to make a "storm"-themed comp, focusing on Lightning, Cold, and Thunder damage. It's...currently not as good as just straight-up hitting things, but I'm only level 5 so the best stuff is waiting for me ahead.
Hearthstone is there too but I kinda gave up on Marvel Snap again, if only because my attention has been elsewhere. Lots of spinning plates to maintain already between BG3, Hearthstone, health concerns, a mentally-taxing job, and other IRL responsibilities.
Still haven't finished Armored Core VI or Sea of Stars; barely even started them, really, if you consider the total time required to complete them.
Nothing too exciting for April in terms of new games I want, but next month is Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door on May 23rd. Definitely playing that, so everything this month is kinda just "filler".
What Are You Playing? - April 2024 Edition
I restarted Oblivion about 2 weeks ago or so. I love that sometimes you get sights like this.
Owning an inn right next to an Oblivion Gate feels like it's pretty bad for business.
And though I haven't done that much of actually *playing* Hearthstone since Whizbang's Workshop came out, but what I have been doing is making a custom expansion. Here's one of my favorite parts of what I've made so far:
What Are You Playing? - April 2024 Edition
Hey! Latelly I have been really into Hearthstone and played "It Takes Two" with my wife. We are really enjoying it!
Also I have finally finished all DLC Blueberry Academy trades in Pokemon Scarlet just yesterday.
Also having lots of fun with Battlefront Classic Collection and Payday 3. This games did not have the best launch but not being able to play a lot makes me enjoy them more as every time I play stuff has already been fixed (had luck and played Battlefront 1 first so I missed most of the bugs) and in case of Payday 3, we are getting really slow updates, but I barelly manage to level up and play with the new skills before they add more. So pretty lucky not having that much time at home?
Will probably take a look at Overwatch as I do not have to grind to play new heroes and play Assassins Creed Brotherhood. Been trying to replay all AC Games and then go into the newer ones but I do not play them all back to back to avoid burnout.
What Are You Playing? - April 2024 Edition
I'll kick things off here.
This month I'm planning on playing a bit more of the new Path of Exile Necropolis league. I'm also planning on jumping back onto WoW to participate in the monthly trading post goodies and maybe some of the pre-cataclysm events going on inside Classic.
I also really want to do a few long F1 2023 sessions before the new game comes out this year. I just need to find the time. I also want to finish Far Cry 6 with my friend because we started a playthrough in December and haven't gone back to it since then. Oops.
How Were Your Whizbang's Workshop Pack Openings?
Whizbang brought me the craziest pack I've ever opened! I wonder what score this would have made in our on site pack opener :D
What are your favourite Whizbang's Workshop decks so far?
I've had the last week off so time wasn't much of an issue. Adding to that, Whizbang's Workshop has completely surprised me - I haven't had that much fun playing Standard in years, if ever! The result was me reaching legend with Tempo Demon Hunter despite running out of bonus starts on plat 5 (only the third time I ever got there in Standard!). What a great way to make use of my newly acquired 1.000 wins portrait :-)
Other than that meta deck, I've enjoyed a DK list that is almost identical to the one linkblade posted and some Wheel of Death games. Forge of Wills is an absurdly strong card and this deck is one of the biggest surprises for me. Seems like most everybody took the wheel for a meme card but it turned out being the center piece of a tier 2 (?) meta deck!
In Wild I've tried out Draggro Priest. It feels super strong when it gets rolling, but after some testing I've decided the inconsistency isn't worth the potential extra turn. Maybe I'll look into a non-Shadow tempo version next. Then I've toyed around with some of the new cards that could fit in Pirate Rogue, not sure which build is the best yet though. I've only ruled out the new Garotte version so far, which is very popular among the pros (Corb got rank 1 with it today), but feels just as inconsistent as Draggro Priest to me. Maybe it's just a big brain deck? I don't know. The month was finished with some Wheel of Death (turn 3 Coin Bloodbloom Wheel lol) and Reno Hunter shenanigans (all golden since last week!), so I was super surprised once more when I learned that my rank 851 finish was enough to earn that elusive 11x bonus!
Not sure where to go this month yet. I've found a Highlander Rogue that looks fun for Standard on twitter and my first few wins in Wild came in by playing a Crescendo Warlock. Might try to get the latter to legend, it's fun and takes people by surprise. I'd also really like to play linkblade's Hero Power Druid in Standard, but I don't have Fog anymore :/
What are your favourite Whizbang's Workshop decks so far?
I've been going back and forth between my two Day-1 creations: "Rainbuff" DK, and "Hero Power, Round 2" Druid.
The Death Knight deck was intended to build upon the BBU Handbuff recipe, making it better by replacing some Core cards and other subpar choices. My version is a Rainbow deck, although Northern Navigation is the only Frost card. I stormed out of the gate with it on Day-1, and while the deck still performs admirably, it's a "known quantity": DK is all about being no-fun with the Plagues, or Handbuffing, so when they queue into you it's not hard to decipher what's about to happen.
Standard · Handbuff Death Knight · by StormKnightSera · 2 years, 5 months ago
Meanwhile, the Hero Power Druid is entirely my own homebrew-design. It uses the Festival of Legends package (Free Spirit, Groovy Cat, etc.) and combines it with a few choice pieces that came out over the past year, like Sing-Along Buddy, Celestial Projectionist, Popular Pixie, and Joymancer Jepetto. You remove threats by driving your face into them, slamming the opponent directly when you can; eventually, they run out of steam (and/or leave an opening) and you give 'em the ol' KAPOW with a 28+ damage combo: Sing-Along Buddy -> Hero Power -> Popular Pixie -> Hero Power again.
The deck is very fun, seems to perform well, and no one expects it. The other players all assume you're running Dragons or Spell Damage; when you play Free Spirit on turn 1, there's a notable pause of confusion and they hover over it like they've never read the card. The lethal combo catches a *lot* of people off guard. The main concern is that a knowledgeable opponent will catch on that you can only HP one enemy at a time, and they flood the board to overwhelm you. Not always a problem - that's what the rest of the deck is built to deal with - but it still happens.
Finished the month at Platinum 6 without many stars to aid me in the back half (I don't think I lack stars because I'm bad; I just don't play enough). Not the best deckbuilder, so it could totally be refined more, but regardless it seems better than the Druid decks Blizzard "expects" people to be playing. Last I knew class winrates were in the dumpster, and yet I'm doin' just fine :)
Standard · Hero Power Druid · by StormKnightSera · 2 years, 3 months ago
Hearthstone Reveals Surprise Patch 29.N0 With Some Big Updates
I wonder if Jeff would be open to a Twitter/X HS Q&A sometime. He seems like a good addition to the team and definitely makes all the right choices on these card changes 👍👌💯
Hearthstone Issues its Three Largest Banwaves Ever This Week, Over Half a Million Accounts Banned
Aww, the climb from Diamond 5 to Legend is going to be so much harder now!
(Bronze to Diamond is never hard if you have stars.)
Hearthstone Reveals Surprise Patch 29.N0 With Some Big Updates
I know it's a joke, but I would gladly trade all of my Garrosh skins for the Boulderfist skin.
Hearthstone Reveals Surprise Patch 29.N0 With Some Big Updates
OMG SUCH CRAZY CHANGES ON THIS APRIL 1ST!!! ... wait...
Pitmin
hello, nice to meet you. Do you want to play merge fruits with me?
Mercenaries out of commission?
I don't think the optional download exists for the computer/laptop version. Just the mobile.
Could it be an issue with character skins interacting with video settings on the laptop? That's the first thing that comes to mind for me that would make it fail on a laptop but work on mobile.
Icesteak
yes
Mercenaries out of commission?
That was my first thought, but I can't seem to find that option anywhere. It's right there in mobile, but not on the laptop. Looked both in game and in the battle net app.
How Were Your Whizbang's Workshop Pack Openings?
Just a quick update, I did get Whizbang as my lvl 50 legendary and even though I still want to wait for others nerf to dust, I went ahead and destroyed some rares that if anything will be buffed to make him golden. Time to play with him and craft Zyliax next nerf round
Mercenaries out of commission?
Check your settings pane.
Mercenaries data has an optional download component now (has for a little bit) and maybe that isn't downloaded.
Hearthstone Issues its Three Largest Banwaves Ever This Week, Over Half a Million Accounts Banned
That all depends on your rank I'm sure. Probably not facing much if any of the bots I was seeing if you are sitting in Legend. I never really push for anything more than Diamond ranks because I want to play more than what the meta says I can.
I kept seeing people on other forums complain about the massive amounts of Mech Rogue bots and hadn't seen any myself. Then I suddenly I had multiple days of nothing but Mech Rogues or decks from random classes running nothing but basic cards from starter decks. The starter decks roped every. Single. Turn...
For the most part EZ wins, but annoying and boring. I guess they had won enough games against each other to climb into upper Plat, lower Diamond MMR matches where the fun loving off-meta players like me tend to live!
Queues Are Up for Necropolis
Queues Are Up for Necropolis
We may or may not have some content planned around it :D
I still haven't logged over to my Windows machine soooo I hope I don't get in too late.