Ok, that's one I managed to figure out quickly, although I'm stumped on most others for games I don't play. For the trick or treat one, that's the wrong part of the question to focus on. That's just for flavor, but think about a minion you play in HS that you just can't understand what its voice lines are saying. Also, it's a spooky one to fit with the theme.
Alright so the Death Metal one is easy. Just think of any character that might combine both music and….well…death. They're from a more recent set.
The headless part doesn't refer to a card, but rather, as the clue implies, a costume of sorts. I'm sure you'll figure it out that way.
Can't help with the first one though, I have no idea what that one could possibly refer to. I don't remember any voiceline that's close to "trick or treat" or really any female character that speaks some sort of incomprehensible gibberish.
So...I'm not even gonna bother with the Magic ones, that game has waaaay too many cards so searching off these clues is just the proverbial needle in the haystack. I thought I had the vampire one, but apparently a stake is not what is referenced here....curious.
Also stumped on the Trick or treat one. I feel like there's a lot of cards that can be described as "not saying trick or treat".
No hush, minimorph, or stress defense, or frostbite, or hard removal of any kind that must be some insular high end deck building stuff because I laugh at Lee Sin everytime.
Admididly all my lists even the midrange ones are pretty reactive, and establish a board that is scary enough that they can barely even play Lee Sin they are so busy juggling keeping their eye of the dragons alive and their life total high.
"There are people who are so fond of facing only their A.I. buddies they might concede on the spot against any actual human opponents."
That's exactly what I do, farming AI is very relaxing. I just get my 4 daily chests (10 wins) against AI on every reset and call it a day. As you said, 3-6 wins would be more efficient, but the system caps you at 5 wins so I go for those extra 4 (why not).
"The ultimate irony, come to think about it. Many of us wanted to hit level 30 as fast as possible at first, on as many mercenaries as possible. Now there are people who would rather just… not, so they could keep amassing coins while fighting against their artificial buddies. That is one strange relation. "
Very good point also, once I noticed you can "farm" coins from the AI I started leveling my mercs one by one, you need to milk those levels for what they're worth
Excellent article by the way I love all the detail, quite a nice read.
Lee Sin is definitely one of the top dogs. Hush don't see much play and there aren't that many deck that use Minimorph, those that do only run two copies, it's 3 lee vs 2 mini you do the math. If you managed to get rid of all their Lee (good luck with that) they still have Zoe level up as secondary win con. Removing Eye of the Dragon is easier said than done, the card itself is decently tanky with it's 3 health and Ionia/Targon combination have the best protection spells in the game. Fortunately the deck is hard to pilot correctly, so most players shouldn't have trouble beating it by exploiting misplays but when you encounter a good Lee Sin player it's one of the few deck that can make you feel like there nothing you can do to beat it.
That aside I really hope they revert the nerf to Stalking Shadows nightfall is my favorite aggro deck because it actually requires to plan you move ahead rather than just play on curve and go face but right now playing the deck just feels like you doing twice the work for half the reward.
Just gonna go over this article pretty quickly, and present my.own thoughts.
Dragons, plunder, Lurk, Sivir, and Sion are solid midrange decks and for that reason they are good right now, are they exceptional, hard to say but solid 9/10 decks for sure.
Lee Sin Zoe...no just no this deck has never been worse right now. Enjoy getting minimorphed, getting your eye of the dragons removed etc.
I would add quite a few more to the list, I belive landmark aggro with Renekton post buff and Ziggs can do some scary stuff, kind of a low ramp midrange list honestly.
Top end wise, turbo ramp into like a auto leveled Asol is scary as hell. Probably a lot worse with counters, but as something you run into once in a blue moon you'll get run over.
The buff to nightfall is actually relavent where playing multiple Champs still gives you his play effect, turns out thats huge. You can run better decks but you can climb with this.
A high rolled Ekko can be absolutely disgusting, I've seen some r and g nightmares where they pull crystal and duplicate it and play ekko leveled on curve into a automatic time wind, like really unbeatable situations.
Swain, Viktor, these niche Champs are also seeing some really strong winrates again due to their midrange identities, Lux can do work, and yes even in very small instances Braum.
So yeah play midrange or aggro-midrange and win games...that's the real lesson from the post patch meta.
Yeah, not a big deal if people cheat. You can already do a few things to help find words and if you're really crafty, there's other stuff you can do too.
Its not even like we could even properly enforce it server-side. There's always a way around it and we're going to rely on user input somewhere. Inb4 server-side authoritative word searches so people just start bruteforcing them.
It might not be, it seems to be following a pattern:
Rarity: Common > Rare > Epic
Mana: 2 > 5 > 8 (+3 for next "tier")
Attack: 3 > 5 > 9 (x2 -1 for next "tier")
Health: 2 > 4 > 8 (x2 for next "tier")
Battlecry dmg: 3 > 6 > 12 (x2 for next "tier")
So all the increments have (now) clear pattern, which looks intentional. One could argue that we could have guessed how would Maddest Bomber look like long ago, but without seeing it, it wasnt as apparent that this would be it.
So we are probably not getting a legendary, since 11 mana without any reduction is stupid :D And also we have ran out of superlatives for names :D
Bolner isn't a battlecry. Presumably, Macaw will copy whatever battlecry you played on your previous turn, then more battlecries will make that battlecry happen again?
It should read "deal damage split among all other characters until a player dies" though, to justify legendary status, maybe with the play condition, that all other mad bomber types have to have been played at least once this game. I'd love to see all the jank decks people come up with to exploit it.
i wouldnt mind if madder bomber ever comes back as a core set card in the futur
i think it would be to chaotic, and still think is plausible, spells tht deal damage, and minions with deathrattle or battlecry that deal damage would count, this could force a lot of draws on turn 10 so i wanted at least to make a condtion to fullfill before it happens in a game, it could be reduced to 7 cards but i think fine like it is :)
Oozefest 2
oh my god, I had her in the back of my mind the entire time, but I just didn't make the connection so I didn't bother to check.
Oozefest 2
Ok, that's one I managed to figure out quickly, although I'm stumped on most others for games I don't play. For the trick or treat one, that's the wrong part of the question to focus on. That's just for flavor, but think about a minion you play in HS that you just can't understand what its voice lines are saying. Also, it's a spooky one to fit with the theme.
Oozefest 2
"or really any female character that speaks some sort of incomprehensible gibberish"
There's one in particular. Perhaps part of a ritual to summon some dark demonic being?
Oozefest 2
Alright so the Death Metal one is easy. Just think of any character that might combine both music and….well…death. They're from a more recent set.
The headless part doesn't refer to a card, but rather, as the clue implies, a costume of sorts. I'm sure you'll figure it out that way.
Can't help with the first one though, I have no idea what that one could possibly refer to. I don't remember any voiceline that's close to "trick or treat" or really any female character that speaks some sort of incomprehensible gibberish.
Oozefest 2
The magic the gathering clues are not that difficult, I've got all 3 and never played the game.
Here's a hint. I'm needing additional clues for all HS ones though 🤦♀️
Oozefest 2
So...I'm not even gonna bother with the Magic ones, that game has waaaay too many cards so searching off these clues is just the proverbial needle in the haystack. I thought I had the vampire one, but apparently a stake is not what is referenced here....curious.
Also stumped on the Trick or treat one. I feel like there's a lot of cards that can be described as "not saying trick or treat".
Top dogs post patch meta
No hush, minimorph, or stress defense, or frostbite, or hard removal of any kind that must be some insular high end deck building stuff because I laugh at Lee Sin everytime.
Admididly all my lists even the midrange ones are pretty reactive, and establish a board that is scary enough that they can barely even play Lee Sin they are so busy juggling keeping their eye of the dragons alive and their life total high.
PvP Season 1 of Hearthstone Mercenaries Is Not Ending Just Yet, and How That Might Be Worth Your While
That's exactly what I do, farming AI is very relaxing. I just get my 4 daily chests (10 wins) against AI on every reset and call it a day. As you said, 3-6 wins would be more efficient, but the system caps you at 5 wins so I go for those extra 4 (why not).
Very good point also, once I noticed you can "farm" coins from the AI I started leveling my mercs one by one, you need to milk those levels for what they're worth
Excellent article by the way I love all the detail, quite a nice read.
Hearthstone Duels is Getting Over 20 Balance Updates This Week - Here Are Our Thoughts on The Changes
Look nice, I keep playing duels once I don't have to ladder or do specific quests anymore so I like changes to the mode.
Bug: buy old adventures for gold
I've just tried it and I was able to buy first wing of BRM and LoE after setting the date to 2016.
Karazhan was also in the list, but when entering it just shows a message and you can't start the prologue, so cannot buy it.
Naxx wasn't show, but as stated on a previous message just set the date to 2015 and it will.
The trick is that you hace to confirm the date change after the Heartstone title appears, not before.
Top dogs post patch meta
Lee Sin is definitely one of the top dogs. Hush don't see much play and there aren't that many deck that use Minimorph, those that do only run two copies, it's 3 lee vs 2 mini you do the math. If you managed to get rid of all their Lee (good luck with that) they still have Zoe level up as secondary win con. Removing Eye of the Dragon is easier said than done, the card itself is decently tanky with it's 3 health and Ionia/Targon combination have the best protection spells in the game. Fortunately the deck is hard to pilot correctly, so most players shouldn't have trouble beating it by exploiting misplays but when you encounter a good Lee Sin player it's one of the few deck that can make you feel like there nothing you can do to beat it.
That aside I really hope they revert the nerf to Stalking Shadows nightfall is my favorite aggro deck because it actually requires to plan you move ahead rather than just play on curve and go face but right now playing the deck just feels like you doing twice the work for half the reward.
Oozefest 2
Maybe it's a bit too concerning that I knew exactly what this "trick" is...
Brilliant Macaw
yeah but if you play Bolner and then two parrots without having played any battlecries previously it should loop infinitely
Maddest Bomber is the Newest Epic Deadmines Card to be Revealed - What a Throwback!
Pretty disappointing, indeed.
Top dogs post patch meta
https://mobalytics.gg/blog/lor-top-dogs-post-bandlewood-balance-patch-meta/
Just gonna go over this article pretty quickly, and present my.own thoughts.
Dragons, plunder, Lurk, Sivir, and Sion are solid midrange decks and for that reason they are good right now, are they exceptional, hard to say but solid 9/10 decks for sure.
Lee Sin Zoe...no just no this deck has never been worse right now. Enjoy getting minimorphed, getting your eye of the dragons removed etc.
I would add quite a few more to the list, I belive landmark aggro with Renekton post buff and Ziggs can do some scary stuff, kind of a low ramp midrange list honestly.
Top end wise, turbo ramp into like a auto leveled Asol is scary as hell. Probably a lot worse with counters, but as something you run into once in a blue moon you'll get run over.
The buff to nightfall is actually relavent where playing multiple Champs still gives you his play effect, turns out thats huge. You can run better decks but you can climb with this.
A high rolled Ekko can be absolutely disgusting, I've seen some r and g nightmares where they pull crystal and duplicate it and play ekko leveled on curve into a automatic time wind, like really unbeatable situations.
Swain, Viktor, these niche Champs are also seeing some really strong winrates again due to their midrange identities, Lux can do work, and yes even in very small instances Braum.
So yeah play midrange or aggro-midrange and win games...that's the real lesson from the post patch meta.
Celebrate Oozefest With a Spooky Word Search - Dem’ Dry Bones
This.
Have fun doing the puzzle or have fun breaking it. Either way, wins a win!
Celebrate Oozefest With a Spooky Word Search - Dem’ Dry Bones
Yeah they always have been.
Celebrate Oozefest With a Spooky Word Search - Dem’ Dry Bones
Yeah, not a big deal if people cheat. You can already do a few things to help find words and if you're really crafty, there's other stuff you can do too.
Its not even like we could even properly enforce it server-side. There's always a way around it and we're going to rely on user input somewhere. Inb4 server-side authoritative word searches so people just start bruteforcing them.
Maddest Bomber is the Newest Epic Deadmines Card to be Revealed - What a Throwback!
It might not be, it seems to be following a pattern:
So all the increments have (now) clear pattern, which looks intentional. One could argue that we could have guessed how would Maddest Bomber look like long ago, but without seeing it, it wasnt as apparent that this would be it.
So we are probably not getting a legendary, since 11 mana without any reduction is stupid :D And also we have ran out of superlatives for names :D
Celebrate Oozefest With a Spooky Word Search - Dem’ Dry Bones
I mean the point of these is to have fun, not to cheat it to get it done easy, but to each his own :) Thanks for pointing this out tho :)
Brilliant Macaw
Bolner isn't a battlecry. Presumably, Macaw will copy whatever battlecry you played on your previous turn, then more battlecries will make that battlecry happen again?
Maddest Bomber is the Newest Epic Deadmines Card to be Revealed - What a Throwback!
i wouldnt mind if madder bomber ever comes back as a core set card in the futur
Maximus Bomber
i think it would be to chaotic, and still think is plausible, spells tht deal damage, and minions with deathrattle or battlecry that deal damage would count, this could force a lot of draws on turn 10 so i wanted at least to make a condtion to fullfill before it happens in a game, it could be reduced to 7 cards but i think fine like it is :)
Celebrate Oozefest With a Spooky Word Search - Trick or Treat
Would be interesting to have a leaderboard based on how fast we complete these puzzles :D
PvP Season 1 of Hearthstone Mercenaries Is Not Ending Just Yet, and How That Might Be Worth Your While
Excellent article and a nice beckon for people that might be intimidated by pvp. I usually only play one pvp match a day, to get my little chest.