It’s better than it’s ever been because of the new cards, not quite meta but I managed to beat tier 1 decks like Pirate Warrior and Combo Druid with it multiple times. Pretty fun quest if you like buffing.
Not that I'm aware of, but good points bringing up Mercenaries. Ultimately it will depend on what Blizz did (not) forget about when reusing the code for Mercs collection manager. Some parts ended up being more functional than others. With filters, we will have to discover what works and what doesn't by trial and error most likely.
Still sad that most Hearthstone Wild players are so uncreative and win-centric that they simply flock to whatever is broken. It'd be nice if they found a way to make it what it should be: a melting pot of archetypes that ppl actually want to play.
I need 80 more wins with Druid to reach 500 (it's my last class under 500) and so I crafted Elise & Hadronox to have some fun during the grind :) Having alot of fun so far in the few games I've tried. Beast Druid in standard can get a bit stale.
I didn't craft Floop and instead threw a Wrath in there.
It's been 10 years since the last online multiplayer Yu-Gi-Oh pvp game, Yu-Gi-Oh Online (2004-2012) was the last one. That game allowed players to trade digital cards and it had single elimination tournaments with up to 512 players. One could say that was the golden era of Yu-Gi-Oh. The game shutdown with 4 million players. It was shutdown because it competed with the real life paper card game as people were able to sell digital cards on eBay. Hence, Duel Links was created as a Speed Duel simulator which allowed Konami to profit from both the digital card game and the real life card game.
Now, we are in 2022, Master Duel has been released, but it is not an accurate reflection of the real card game. There are several problems:
1. No side deck - Every game is a best out of 1 (bo1). This is likely due to the fact that the average duration of a duel is about 30 mins. Even if bo3 was added, duels could take over 1 hour which would not be fun nor good for the ranking algorithm.
2. Custom banlist - The banlist used in Master Duel is neither the OCG or the TCG one. The card pool is also different. This is also likely that more banlists divides the playerbase and the queue. Having one queue pools all the players into the ranking. However, by doing it this way, they are not competing with the real life card game.
3. Gameplay speed - While the animations and graphics are up to modern standards, it has severely impacted the game speed. Yu-Gi-Oh is a card game that requires several different cards in sequence to reach a end game state. Fan-made simulators like YGO Omega have been able to balance the animations with the game speed. This is done because summon animations in YGO Omega are async (asynchronous) which mean that there is no delay or pause during the animations. The animations don't pause the timer nor cover the entire screen. In Master Duel, the animations cannot be disabled from Settings. There is one setting for disabling Special Summons, but this only stops a portion of the animation. Then there is just the animation of placing cards on the field itself. Master Duel also has added several confirmation clicks for each card. Normally, a single click is for selection and then a final click to confirm. However, in Master Duel, each individual click on a card requires its own confirmation. This leads to double the clicks. It has reduced misclicks but created a UI where the user may find fighting to use over the long run.
4. Alternate formats - The game is not just missing several cards, but also several formats. In fan-made sims, one can create a game to play any format. This appeals to all players, both casual and competitive. Currently, a player is forced to play competitive only in Master Duel.
There are however many good points:
1. Graphics - The animations for summons and attacks are beautiful.
2. Card crafting - This has surpassed even MTG (Magic the Gathering) Arena's way of acquiring cards. Most players can hop in and finish the solo mode to get sufficient gems to craft any 40-card deck.
3. Music - I think they hired an orchestra for this. It's truly magnificent.
4. Best official simulator for Yu-Gi-Oh - This has single handedly killed most of the other games like Duel Links and even the real life card game. During the pandemic, players now have an official way to play Yu-Gi-Oh online.
5. Solo mode - It's easy for players that are new to Yu-Gi-Oh or returning to use the solo mode to learn the rules. Only Konami could have made a proper tutorial mode with lore.
Overall, this was needed for Yu-Gi-Oh to grow. Games like Hearthstone have been around for a long time and are doing better than Yu-Gi-Oh, which has been around since 1998. The growth of any game requires the number of new incoming players to be higher than the outgoing players. This will bring many players to the game.
Hey sorry, I usually have like 17 notifications on this account at any given time and I don't really have time to answer them all.
For my stats I start with a tier list and then cross check winrates. Occasionally looking at play rates as well.
I agree that pirate aggro is S tier along with Mobalytics its essentially maintained a 56% -> 58% winrate for as long as the deck has existed.
Its meta resistant, easy to play, consistent and has stood the test of time even longer than midrange plunder which has fallen off the map.
As for the resurgence of Scouts that might be a temporary thing but enjoy it while it lasts I say.
Kenin Ahiri is obviously great, but the truth is play rates are low across the board. To the point that debating which is the best deck gets exceedingly difficult.
So at the end of the day the equation should look like this.
Odd Hunter: Losing one of its key card was a huge blow; now Tier 3 at best
Quest Pirate: If you look at it in a vaccum the nerf only resulted in a minor decrease in power level; however the deck now gets hard countered in a lot of matchups, especially Freeze Shaman, so the actual power level decreased quite significantly
Well this brings us to the new perpetrator. I only played for like 2 hours post-nerf but in this time around 50% of the matches were against Freeze Shaman, which is clearly the new Tier S deck. I could not win a single game. They can freeze your board for turns and just slam you in the face and if you should survive this well its Shudderwock. Not found a counter yet, I am thinking of some kind of Spell Mage but not sure yet. 100% sure this will get nerfed soon. So my first impression is that one obnoxious deck replaced the other.
Sigh. I had been considering dabbling in Wild again. Pre-Stormwind I played it more than Standard, but barely touched it since.
No matter how you swing it, getting your board permanently frozen is never fun. I'm honestly amazed they gave Shaman the potential for so much AoE freezing after that was the entire cause of frustration against Freeze Mage, and the very thing they told us they wanted to avoid when making Freeze Shaman back in KotFT. It's almost like they knew what they were doing when they made it meme-tier weak...
Bit disappointed to see Fusion Destiny go to semi because I actually play HEROs, granted it's understandable given that they refuse to ban Predaplant Verte Anaconda do get an extra copy of A Hero Lives though, so that probably makes up for it
I got a few months ago using the emulator trick. I must admit that it took way too long to get the cardback. It looks pretty, but is not really worth the hassle.
Unseen Gleams card back
I have logged in on Huawei phone and i do not have the card back in my collection, nor do i see it among the ones i don't own. What gives then?
Acolyte of Yogg-Saron
Omfg why can i not find an answer on the internet what this does....
Miniset
Official? No.
Speculations? Yes.
Obelisk Priest - Wild Hearthstone Full Deck & Guide
It’s better than it’s ever been because of the new cards, not quite meta but I managed to beat tier 1 decks like Pirate Warrior and Combo Druid with it multiple times. Pretty fun quest if you like buffing.
What's the Best First Guess in Cardle, the Hearthstone Version of Wordle?
I used Vicious Fledgling for Wild. Works like a charm!
How To: Collection Filters
Not that I'm aware of, but good points bringing up Mercenaries. Ultimately it will depend on what Blizz did (not) forget about when reusing the code for Mercs collection manager. Some parts ended up being more functional than others. With filters, we will have to discover what works and what doesn't by trial and error most likely.
Obelisk Priest - Wild Hearthstone Full Deck & Guide
Love/hate relationship with the Quest, but i like it more than i hate it for sure :D
Post-Nerf Wild
Still sad that most Hearthstone Wild players are so uncreative and win-centric that they simply flock to whatever is broken. It'd be nice if they found a way to make it what it should be: a melting pot of archetypes that ppl actually want to play.
BEST Control Priest In The Game! Exodia Quest Shard OTK! Fractured in Alterac Valley | Hearthstone
someone mixed up their deck titles
Reno Druid
Nice, glad you like it!
Reno Druid
I need 80 more wins with Druid to reach 500 (it's my last class under 500) and so I crafted Elise & Hadronox to have some fun during the grind :) Having alot of fun so far in the few games I've tried. Beast Druid in standard can get a bit stale.
I didn't craft Floop and instead threw a Wrath in there.
Hearthstone Rolls Out a Hotfix for Dust Refund Issues, Mercenaries Training Grounds, 1000-Win Portraits
It seriously cost 400 dust to craft a golden common? I never noticed
How To: Collection Filters
Is there a similar article for the Mercenaries collection filters ?
I found those to be working:
I'd like a "not maxed" filter but I couldn't find one. level:<value> is not working.
Miniset
any news?
Post-Nerf Wild
Thank you all for commenting.
so, should I dust the warrior quest line or keep it for now?
Konami's Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel Surpasses 250,000 Concurrent Players on Steam
It's been 10 years since the last online multiplayer Yu-Gi-Oh pvp game, Yu-Gi-Oh Online (2004-2012) was the last one. That game allowed players to trade digital cards and it had single elimination tournaments with up to 512 players. One could say that was the golden era of Yu-Gi-Oh. The game shutdown with 4 million players. It was shutdown because it competed with the real life paper card game as people were able to sell digital cards on eBay. Hence, Duel Links was created as a Speed Duel simulator which allowed Konami to profit from both the digital card game and the real life card game.
Now, we are in 2022, Master Duel has been released, but it is not an accurate reflection of the real card game. There are several problems:
1. No side deck - Every game is a best out of 1 (bo1). This is likely due to the fact that the average duration of a duel is about 30 mins. Even if bo3 was added, duels could take over 1 hour which would not be fun nor good for the ranking algorithm.
2. Custom banlist - The banlist used in Master Duel is neither the OCG or the TCG one. The card pool is also different. This is also likely that more banlists divides the playerbase and the queue. Having one queue pools all the players into the ranking. However, by doing it this way, they are not competing with the real life card game.
3. Gameplay speed - While the animations and graphics are up to modern standards, it has severely impacted the game speed. Yu-Gi-Oh is a card game that requires several different cards in sequence to reach a end game state. Fan-made simulators like YGO Omega have been able to balance the animations with the game speed. This is done because summon animations in YGO Omega are async (asynchronous) which mean that there is no delay or pause during the animations. The animations don't pause the timer nor cover the entire screen. In Master Duel, the animations cannot be disabled from Settings. There is one setting for disabling Special Summons, but this only stops a portion of the animation. Then there is just the animation of placing cards on the field itself. Master Duel also has added several confirmation clicks for each card. Normally, a single click is for selection and then a final click to confirm. However, in Master Duel, each individual click on a card requires its own confirmation. This leads to double the clicks. It has reduced misclicks but created a UI where the user may find fighting to use over the long run.
4. Alternate formats - The game is not just missing several cards, but also several formats. In fan-made sims, one can create a game to play any format. This appeals to all players, both casual and competitive. Currently, a player is forced to play competitive only in Master Duel.
There are however many good points:
1. Graphics - The animations for summons and attacks are beautiful.
2. Card crafting - This has surpassed even MTG (Magic the Gathering) Arena's way of acquiring cards. Most players can hop in and finish the solo mode to get sufficient gems to craft any 40-card deck.
3. Music - I think they hired an orchestra for this. It's truly magnificent.
4. Best official simulator for Yu-Gi-Oh - This has single handedly killed most of the other games like Duel Links and even the real life card game. During the pandemic, players now have an official way to play Yu-Gi-Oh online.
5. Solo mode - It's easy for players that are new to Yu-Gi-Oh or returning to use the solo mode to learn the rules. Only Konami could have made a proper tutorial mode with lore.
Overall, this was needed for Yu-Gi-Oh to grow. Games like Hearthstone have been around for a long time and are doing better than Yu-Gi-Oh, which has been around since 1998. The growth of any game requires the number of new incoming players to be higher than the outgoing players. This will bring many players to the game.
What's the Best First Guess in Cardle, the Hearthstone Version of Wordle?
Auctioneer was definitely a contender until I figured out how the expansion arrows worked.
Final Meta Changes - Pre Expansion
Hey sorry, I usually have like 17 notifications on this account at any given time and I don't really have time to answer them all.
For my stats I start with a tier list and then cross check winrates. Occasionally looking at play rates as well.
I agree that pirate aggro is S tier along with Mobalytics its essentially maintained a 56% -> 58% winrate for as long as the deck has existed.
Its meta resistant, easy to play, consistent and has stood the test of time even longer than midrange plunder which has fallen off the map.
As for the resurgence of Scouts that might be a temporary thing but enjoy it while it lasts I say.
Kenin Ahiri is obviously great, but the truth is play rates are low across the board. To the point that debating which is the best deck gets exceedingly difficult.
So at the end of the day the equation should look like this.
Win rate + time dominating = top tier
What's the Best First Guess in Cardle, the Hearthstone Version of Wordle?
I wasn't so far off. My first guess was Gadgetzan Auctioneer
zoe lux
Zoe/Lux is one of my favs - but tbh - I run a total different card pool:
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I can relate to Sunburst which I sometimes play for fun. But Mountain Scryer?
Post-Nerf Wild
Sigh. I had been considering dabbling in Wild again. Pre-Stormwind I played it more than Standard, but barely touched it since.
No matter how you swing it, getting your board permanently frozen is never fun. I'm honestly amazed they gave Shaman the potential for so much AoE freezing after that was the entire cause of frustration against Freeze Mage, and the very thing they told us they wanted to avoid when making Freeze Shaman back in KotFT. It's almost like they knew what they were doing when they made it meme-tier weak...
Yu-Gi-Oh Announces Updated Ban List, Effective February 7th
Bit disappointed to see Fusion Destiny go to semi because I actually play HEROs, granted it's understandable given that they refuse to ban Predaplant Verte Anaconda do get an extra copy of A Hero Lives though, so that probably makes up for it
Spiteful Warrior
Dr Boom is the best Hero Card for this deck no need for 2.
You can substitute the Scrapyard colossus with another Shieldmaiden if you think its too much greed
Three New Hearthstone Card Backs Added in Patch 20.8 Including a Huawei Device Exclusive
It's activated!
Unseen Gleams card back
I got a few months ago using the emulator trick. I must admit that it took way too long to get the cardback. It looks pretty, but is not really worth the hassle.