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Fallen hero is an interesting inclusion. Why not Amplified Snowflurry? Its basically another tour guide.

I think there's enough justification to swap Deep Freeze with Rune of the Archmage, which will likely improve your matchup against midrange decks that aren't paladin. Deep freeze doesn't curve into dawngrasp anyway.

Never spent any money on cosmetics before. Still won't, but that snowflipper rexxar is getting me closer than ever before

You cant do that. Unless youre from brazil, where legislation forces blizz to split the bundle.

No you can't,

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Now it seems like every other week there's a bundle of 5-8 dropping, or maybe two bundles. I don't feel compelled to collect them, and don't care if other people want them. And hey, if you don't want the bundles, there's the 14 or so on the rewards track. Plus the 200 level portraits. Go Nuts with trying to get them! No complaints. 

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I think not feeling compelled to collect them is an important part of why I'm actually more on-board with the flood of them than the relatively small number a year+ ago. Once it became pointless to own them all (since there are too many to realistically make good use out of them), I started only getting the ones that genuinely interest me, which is a healthier approach to it.

I am generally a packs whale, and won't buy the skins this time. That said, I think there are a lot of cool skins in these bundles - lots of fun art.

I think it is a good thing. If skins keep on selling well, maybe it can become easier and easier to collect sets. I have not played BG in a while and I would imagine it would be confusing.

I ended up with this list after your comments:

Hero Power School

Wild · Unknown Mage · by aposteljoe · 4 years, 9 months ago

• 1 Armor Vendor x 2
• 1 Shivering Sorceress x 2
• 1 Wildfire x 2
• 2 Fallen Hero x 2
• 2 Manafeeder Panthara x 2
• 2 Starscryer x 2
• 3 Ice Barrier x 2
• 4 Deepwater Evoker x 2
• 4 Multicaster x 2
• 4 Reckless Apprentice x 2
• 5 Arcane Overflow x 2
• 6 Grey Sage Parrot x 2
• 7 Deep Freeze x 2
• 7 Magister Dawngrasp x 1
• 7 Mask of C'Thun x 2
• 8 Mordresh Fire Eye x 1

5,720 Dust 781 0 Copy Deck Code

I did two ranked games which I lost. One against a Control/DR/N'Zoth Priest which is a bad matchup. I could not create much pressure, so I lost before opp even was forced to play Xyrella hero. In Casual (I may have a worse MMR there) I played two Paladins, which seems to be a good matchup. I won both. In the second match I beat 3 Librams of Hope + Cariel Hero. My Hero Power was at 11 and I was at around 30 health. I didn't have to use Mordresh which was my bullet if they could stick another board. But Mordresh was already worse than Reckless Apprenticse. In fatigue I was favoured with 6 dmg vs 2 dmg each turn.

So my conclusion after a small sample size: inconsistent, but fun. Needs some refinement.

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I'm probably the only person who feels this way because I'm a bit of a curmudgeon, but is anyone else finding the proliferation of skins a bit... much?

I started playing (mostly F2P, but I did get the two most recent Tavern Passes) back around TGT. There were some alternate skins then, but not a crazy number. I remember being so stoked when I got my first (Morgl, I think?) because of their (relative) rarity.

Now it seems like every other week there's a bundle of 5-8 dropping, or maybe two bundles. I don't feel compelled to collect them, and don't care if other people want them. And hey, if you don't want the bundles, there's the 14 or so on the rewards track. Plus the 200 level portraits. Go Nuts with trying to get them! No complaints. 

But it does seem like each time I load Battlegrounds I have trouble recognizing which hero is which. Every time* (*obviously not every time) I open the game there's new pop ups with ads for more bundles. I queue into a match and I'm kind of bewildered what my opponent is (particularly if playing on mobile).

It's not that it's bad, per se, but it seems a little overloaded to me.

Maybe I shouldn't tell you about the number of card backs...

Well, we're definitely overloaded by skin, but there's this feeling mainly because Team 5, for some reason, refused to experiment with cosmetics until recently.

I take everything that's free as something good, but making the quest as "Ranked Standard" is bs... It should just be "Ranked", why do people that don't play standard be forced to play the mode...

I already know that a lot of the player base don't care about Wild nor Wild players, and I'm not complaining, just pointing out that it's pretty shitty for people that don't play the mode (The same could go for the duels quest, but I'm biased about it because I enjoy the mode).

Anyways... Rexxar looks like a total badass psycho.

u can, but in the bn app

you can buy them separately

I'm probably the only person who feels this way because I'm a bit of a curmudgeon, but is anyone else finding the proliferation of skins a bit... much?

I started playing (mostly F2P, but I did get the two most recent Tavern Passes) back around TGT. There were some alternate skins then, but not a crazy number. I remember being so stoked when I got my first (Morgl, I think?) because of their (relative) rarity.

Now it seems like every other week there's a bundle of 5-8 dropping, or maybe two bundles. I don't feel compelled to collect them, and don't care if other people want them. And hey, if you don't want the bundles, there's the 14 or so on the rewards track. Plus the 200 level portraits. Go Nuts with trying to get them! No complaints. 

But it does seem like each time I load Battlegrounds I have trouble recognizing which hero is which. Every time* (*obviously not every time) I open the game there's new pop ups with ads for more bundles. I queue into a match and I'm kind of bewildered what my opponent is (particularly if playing on mobile).

It's not that it's bad, per se, but it seems a little overloaded to me.

"skin bundle" just sounds so funny though

yeah, wish they would stop the "skin bundles" as usually there are only 1 or 2 I want, and won't use the others, so wont waste the $.

You probably need either Ice Barrier as the only ice spell or you might need to play Fire Sale as well, depending on the meta. Magister Dawngrasp has been buffed but the issue with survivability still stands, and I really dont think you can get away with not having some defensive tools around for a 7 mana card.

Yes, it might be funny to see dawngrasp having a 5 damage hp, but I think if you breached the 3 damage barrier your hp is already good enough to win the game on its own, so there's no reasons why you need Wildfire as the only fire spell.

Ping mage might not need so many heavy spells to win games. I havent tried it myself, but I think you just never play stuff like Mask of C'Thun or Deep Freeze. Even Rune of the Archmage seems too much, because you always just want modresh to finish the game. For that reason, you'd want stuff like Taelan Fordring. Some spell tutors like Starscryer and Frostweave Dungeoneer is almost too crucial as well, because you always want your wildfires early. Of course, if you plan to put heavy spells in, you should also consider Deepwater Evoker, which can provide some health along with tutoring a spell.

Beautiful (constructed) skins! I would love to buy the Priest skin - but 25$ is to expensive. :(

Im rather surprised to see that they didn't sell those skins separately like they did with the mech skins. Kinda sad, because Im pretty sure that there are plenty of players who will buy one or two skins, but certainly not 25 bucks for 4.

As a whale, the Cheer and Chill bundles are way too goddamned expensive. They should’ve put them into one bundle and charged $30.00. I think the mech hero skins we just had were $15.00 per bundle if I’m remembering correctly, and if I am these skins are terrible value

Edit: The mech bundles were $30.00 as well, still too pricey

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I mean...just consider how many people genuinely didn't know which races belonged to which faction when it came to Merc alignment.

 

So many of the Mercenary skills/stats/abilities are totally lost on me. Even the whole double damage blue->green->red (or whatever it is). I've twigged that 'spell casters' are blue (and so on), but that's about it

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As a non BG player... could somebody explain to me how mechanic "Avenge" works? Unable to find it on the search.
For Dazzling Lightspawn When 2 other minions dies it applies this effect??

Thanks!

I think the important distinction is when friendly minions die...the Avenge counter ticks. Therefore, having token creators is helpful.

Unfortunately the Ranked bundles are not even being offered on the B.net shop. Presumably they don't have the technology there to go from Rank 1 to Rank 2. Silly, eh.