The genre is LitRPG - Literature RPG, and basically this is a science fiction book about a guy, who is forced to play an RPG in virtual reality. Great fun, starting from level 1 as a Shaman Jeweller and working his way up until owning his own guild.
I really love this style - this really is like watching a very good twitch gameplay, reading about a shaman who is for example as a low level charecter grinding killing rats to get a +2 pickaxe instead of his regular one and using the knowledge of game to get a faster leveling experience.
Had a funny win in Duels yesterday...my opponent was at 15 health, and dropped a Robes of Protection to protect the 4 minions on their board. I only had an Optimistic Ogre on my board, summoned when I cast a Firelands Portal. So figuring all was lost, I just cast Pure Cold to hit my opponent for 8 in the face (with my passive Fireshaper hitting for 1 extra face damage), then decided to trade away my Ogre to their Blood of G'huun. Lo and behold, my Optimistic Ogre went face for the win!
Again, never concede. An Optimistic Ogre lethal! It turns out that 50% of the time, it works every time.
Little interrogation here: does Sulfura works from the bench? It would à game changing equipment, specially in antonidas/geddon/diablo starting team combo... giving the extra 20 hp would allow them to survive. And wipe out fighters and enemy of your choice.
Well, I don't like to read at all. But in childhood, when the father forced me to read some books, I finded a "The Stainless Steel Rat" series of sci-fi novels by Harry Harrison. Books tell about life of James Bolivar diGriz. He goes by many aliases, including "Slippery Jim" and "The Stainless Steel Rat". He is a futuristic con man, thief, and all-round rascal. I read them in one breath.
Now going to read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality...
Second and third books are like a totally different series, which although makes you scratch your head, are really good books! I ended preferring the books than the second and third games.
Anybody read the "World of Watches" series, by Sergei Lukyanenko?
I just finished the last book, and got to say... Wow.
Really well explained story, incredible ambiance, really cool characters, and as almost everything in Russian novels, a lot of philosophical and political background.
If anyone wants to read a mix of sci-fi/fantasy they are really good.
Would you say Grand Magus Antonidas is integral to the deck? I get that he puts the Fire in "Firepower", but I don't own him nor want to craft him. Wondering if I can get away with something like Reno the Relicologist instead despite the inability to go face.
Without Antonidas, I might remove the Emperor because you lose out on the potential Brann+Antonidas combo. Then I can include Kazakus perhaps.
Edit: Went 0-3 in Bronze Ranked :( Even Handlock, Un'Goro-Quest Ignite Mage, and a Rogue. Literally everyone had the 1000-win portrait; don't get why I'm playing against them when I definitely don't have those, but whatever.
Which cards seem to be the weakest performers when you play it? Maybe cut Thaurissan since LPG is a much stronger effect. If you do include LPG you might want to revamp the deck to include more minions in general and the minion that makes it cost 0 or casts the highest cost spell in your hand.
Thanks so much, i guess i will have to pick the ones which i have most or all of the cards from. Its a shame as i am a f2p player and cant really afford to craft wild cards, but the decks on here make a great baseline and hopefully the swaps i have to do will be good enough :) thanks of rall your help and keep up the great work!
Yes exactly. By putting them in a 3rd category of ultra rare it is effectively saying "yes these will break the game so only a handful of people will be lucky to get them" which essentially is runing the integrity of the game by effectively making these treasures the primary way to get a 12 win run, as it is unlikely for a regular set of tresures to beat an ultra rare late game, unless they have a clever way of offsetting the treasures with lower grade buckets, which would be a good idea imo, if it were possible.
I'm only at Level 86. Took me two weeks to reach my stated target of Level 83, but I've just been so busy with work lately. I played with a lot of Overload Shaman just before the questline was nerfed, piloting the Doomhammer variant to counter all the Warlocks and Mages. Whacking them in the face over and over again felt soooo good.
After the nerfs, I tried to play Even Handlock in Wild, and while the format definitely benefited from The Demon Seed ban, it's still extremely fast. I racked up a lot of losses with that Evenlock deck in Platinum ranks as I faced countless aggro decks that I just couldn't keep up with. It's a shame since the deck is pretty fun to playi f only it could be allowed to execute its game plan, but I'm almost always dead within turn 6 or 7. Again, screw Wild.
Now I'm stuck without a deck to play in Standard. I tried Hero Power Mage (Kibler's version) but it's a middling deck at best, and the only other deck I saw success with was Elemental Shaman which I've more or less grown bored with. Hunters seem to be the dominant archetype now, with the endless charge of Trampling Rhinos bashing me in the face.
Not really sure when I'll be able to hit Level 100 since XP is hard to come by. Hopefully I get there before the mini-set comes.
Staff of Chaos would be pretty op, if you're playing with Jaraxxus and Samuro. Samuro can spawn copies of himself, which dies at the end of the turn and Samuro is a Orc.
So I was able to build a version of the deck in Standard, and got the combo off… kind of!
I remembered why the quest was important when I got to the turn: You run out of board space quick! So the double battlecries make the corrupted Medics into free Alexstraza the Life Binders that Bolnar keeps giving you more of.
Had to use the free Medics to clear a few minions, only sent one 4 dmg shot face. But filled my hand with corrupted Medics (full cost after my turn), had a full board, and my opponent had nothing onboard with three cards left. So it worked out!
I imagine a way around the board space issue is to try and get some corrupted Dunk Tanks going. Just hope you have at least one free Medic and a space to play it after dropping all free Tanks on their face.
After DMF released I loved running a Standard list with Y'Shaarj, Circus Medics, and Dunk Tanks combined with the quest. Never really carried it over into Wild but will have to try this one. If it works the way it should you could still do this without the quest in Standard too. Play at least one corrupted Medic, then on turn 10 Y'Shaarj, Bolnar, Bloom, the free Medic, get another free Medic (or two) and just keep doing that until you either win or you run out of time.
This is pretty cool, have you considered adding in a Luna's Pocket Galaxy and Potion of Illusion? You can set Mordresh Fire Eye to 1 mana and do a 40 damage to all enemies combo where you do Brann into 1 mana Modresh into Potion of Illusion into another Modresh. This works even if Brann is fully cost but Mordresh was set to 1 mana. Similar type of combo with Janalai and you can add in the deal 8 damage or restore 8 health Alexstrasza to do a 32 damage otk with her too. Just something to consider, I think pocket galaxy is fun and it can lead to some very powerful swing turns and otks against control decks that manage to clear your board all the time.
Books
If you like World of Warcraft or other MMORPGs try The Way of Shaman series by Vasily Mahanenko (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25342750-survival-quest)
The genre is LitRPG - Literature RPG, and basically this is a science fiction book about a guy, who is forced to play an RPG in virtual reality. Great fun, starting from level 1 as a Shaman Jeweller and working his way up until owning his own guild.
I really love this style - this really is like watching a very good twitch gameplay, reading about a shaman who is for example as a low level charecter grinding killing rats to get a +2 pickaxe instead of his regular one and using the knowledge of game to get a faster leveling experience.
Highly recommend.
Books
@doingtheobvious: Thanks for the recommendation of Earth Abides, I've bookmarked that one
@Fedrion: I didn't like the first Watch movie very much, is that an indicator for the books?
@R: I hope you enjoy hpmor as much as I did, have fun!
@Demonxz95: Had not heard about it yet, the descriptions I've seen so far a pretty vague. What is it about? Would you recommend it?
The Pepper Thread - Share Some Good Vibes!
Had a funny win in Duels yesterday...my opponent was at 15 health, and dropped a Robes of Protection to protect the 4 minions on their board. I only had an Optimistic Ogre on my board, summoned when I cast a Firelands Portal. So figuring all was lost, I just cast Pure Cold to hit my opponent for 8 in the face (with my passive Fireshaper hitting for 1 extra face damage), then decided to trade away my Ogre to their Blood of G'huun. Lo and behold, my Optimistic Ogre went face for the win!
Again, never concede. An Optimistic Ogre lethal! It turns out that 50% of the time, it works every time.
Ragnaros
Little interrogation here: does Sulfura works from the bench? It would à game changing equipment, specially in antonidas/geddon/diablo starting team combo... giving the extra 20 hp would allow them to survive. And wipe out fighters and enemy of your choice.
Books
Gonna recommend The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson of course. The books all start off really slowly but have great pay offs at the end
Books
I'm not currently reading anything right now, but I have a question for you guys. How many of you here know about this book?
Books
Well, I don't like to read at all. But in childhood, when the father forced me to read some books, I finded a "The Stainless Steel Rat" series of sci-fi novels by Harry Harrison. Books tell about life of James Bolivar diGriz. He goes by many aliases, including "Slippery Jim" and "The Stainless Steel Rat". He is a futuristic con man, thief, and all-round rascal. I read them in one breath.
Now going to read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality...
Books
Second and third books are like a totally different series, which although makes you scratch your head, are really good books! I ended preferring the books than the second and third games.
Anybody read the "World of Watches" series, by Sergei Lukyanenko?
I just finished the last book, and got to say... Wow.
Really well explained story, incredible ambiance, really cool characters, and as almost everything in Russian novels, a lot of philosophical and political background.
If anyone wants to read a mix of sci-fi/fantasy they are really good.
Firepower Mage
Would you say Grand Magus Antonidas is integral to the deck? I get that he puts the Fire in "Firepower", but I don't own him nor want to craft him. Wondering if I can get away with something like Reno the Relicologist instead despite the inability to go face.
Without Antonidas, I might remove the Emperor because you lose out on the potential Brann+Antonidas combo. Then I can include Kazakus perhaps.
Edit: Went 0-3 in Bronze Ranked :( Even Handlock, Un'Goro-Quest Ignite Mage, and a Rogue. Literally everyone had the 1000-win portrait; don't get why I'm playing against them when I definitely don't have those, but whatever.
Firepower Mage
Which cards seem to be the weakest performers when you play it? Maybe cut Thaurissan since LPG is a much stronger effect. If you do include LPG you might want to revamp the deck to include more minions in general and the minion that makes it cost 0 or casts the highest cost spell in your hand.
Avalon's 12 Wins C'thun Warrior
Thanks so much, i guess i will have to pick the ones which i have most or all of the cards from. Its a shame as i am a f2p player and cant really afford to craft wild cards, but the decks on here make a great baseline and hopefully the swaps i have to do will be good enough :) thanks of rall your help and keep up the great work!
Hearthstone Duels Gets an Update This Week - Oppressive Treasures Being Moved to "Ultra Rare" Pool
Yes exactly. By putting them in a 3rd category of ultra rare it is effectively saying "yes these will break the game so only a handful of people will be lucky to get them" which essentially is runing the integrity of the game by effectively making these treasures the primary way to get a 12 win run, as it is unlikely for a regular set of tresures to beat an ultra rare late game, unless they have a clever way of offsetting the treasures with lower grade buckets, which would be a good idea imo, if it were possible.
Darkseeker's channel - 13th November update: KOtsosKOtsos' Reno Evolve Shudderwock Shaman - ft. Archivist Elysiana
26th September update: hsWhiteDelight's Reno Double NZoth Shaman: My best game ever vs Questline Hunter!
N'Zoth, God of the Deep
N'Zoth, the Corrupter
Reno Jackson
The Shudderwock
Double Dirty Rat!!
This deck is glorious. It gave me my best game ever against Odd Questline Hunter!
Deck code: AAEBAaoIHP4N+g7DFuCsAva9AovOAqfOAoLiAsPqAqfuAqbwAu/3AuL4AqCAA62RA7WYA7mYA6GhA/yjA8O2A4/OA5vYA5jqA6juA+PuA5TwA8H2A6iKBAHfxAIA
More on this deck: https://twitter.com/hsWhiteDelight/status/1440583610176655363
More Shaman decks: http://discord.gg/nU2bkEV (For Doomhammer Shaman Discord server).
https://youtu.be/_4y1dpDOI44
Rewards Track: Current progress 3.0
I'm only at Level 86. Took me two weeks to reach my stated target of Level 83, but I've just been so busy with work lately. I played with a lot of Overload Shaman just before the questline was nerfed, piloting the Doomhammer variant to counter all the Warlocks and Mages. Whacking them in the face over and over again felt soooo good.
After the nerfs, I tried to play Even Handlock in Wild, and while the format definitely benefited from The Demon Seed ban, it's still extremely fast. I racked up a lot of losses with that Evenlock deck in Platinum ranks as I faced countless aggro decks that I just couldn't keep up with. It's a shame since the deck is pretty fun to playi f only it could be allowed to execute its game plan, but I'm almost always dead within turn 6 or 7. Again, screw Wild.
Now I'm stuck without a deck to play in Standard. I tried Hero Power Mage (Kibler's version) but it's a middling deck at best, and the only other deck I saw success with was Elemental Shaman which I've more or less grown bored with. Hunters seem to be the dominant archetype now, with the endless charge of Trampling Rhinos bashing me in the face.
Not really sure when I'll be able to hit Level 100 since XP is hard to come by. Hopefully I get there before the mini-set comes.
Firepower Mage
Thanks for the suggestion! What would you cut for LPG? I'd need to craft the card but YOLO :D
Firepower Mage
Yeah that's a bug that happened to me too several times already. I'll ask Flux on the Discord server. Thanks for your kind words!
Firepower Mage
Just FYI, when copying your deck code, it looks like you left out a card, appears to be missing Ice Block. Nice deck though.
Mercs’ launch: who are you going to level up first?
They're available in packs like everybody else. The pre-orders are just a way to guarantee you get them.
Mercs’ launch: who are you going to level up first?
Are the pre-orders mercs going to be available later or will they be pre-order exclusive? I couldn't find an answer on Google.
Gul'dan
This is true: you could gain Fel Damage every-other turn with Samuro's Mirror Image. I don't believe I thought of that; good call :)
Gul'dan
Staff of Chaos would be pretty op, if you're playing with Jaraxxus and Samuro. Samuro can spawn copies of himself, which dies at the end of the turn and Samuro is a Orc.
Fel Demons - Anti-Aggro Combo Deck
what would you suggest instead of the Soul Shard
Weekend of Wild Decks - Highlander Ping Mage, Corrupt OTK Shaman, Libram Paladin & More!
So I was able to build a version of the deck in Standard, and got the combo off… kind of!
I remembered why the quest was important when I got to the turn: You run out of board space quick! So the double battlecries make the corrupted Medics into free Alexstraza the Life Binders that Bolnar keeps giving you more of.
Had to use the free Medics to clear a few minions, only sent one 4 dmg shot face. But filled my hand with corrupted Medics (full cost after my turn), had a full board, and my opponent had nothing onboard with three cards left. So it worked out!
I imagine a way around the board space issue is to try and get some corrupted Dunk Tanks going. Just hope you have at least one free Medic and a space to play it after dropping all free Tanks on their face.
Weekend of Wild Decks - Highlander Ping Mage, Corrupt OTK Shaman, Libram Paladin & More!
After DMF released I loved running a Standard list with Y'Shaarj, Circus Medics, and Dunk Tanks combined with the quest. Never really carried it over into Wild but will have to try this one. If it works the way it should you could still do this without the quest in Standard too. Play at least one corrupted Medic, then on turn 10 Y'Shaarj, Bolnar, Bloom, the free Medic, get another free Medic (or two) and just keep doing that until you either win or you run out of time.
Quite brilliant, really!
Firepower Mage
This is pretty cool, have you considered adding in a Luna's Pocket Galaxy and Potion of Illusion? You can set Mordresh Fire Eye to 1 mana and do a 40 damage to all enemies combo where you do Brann into 1 mana Modresh into Potion of Illusion into another Modresh. This works even if Brann is fully cost but Mordresh was set to 1 mana. Similar type of combo with Janalai and you can add in the deal 8 damage or restore 8 health Alexstrasza to do a 32 damage otk with her too. Just something to consider, I think pocket galaxy is fun and it can lead to some very powerful swing turns and otks against control decks that manage to clear your board all the time.