12th September update: Boltzmann's Wild MURLOC Druid: A great off-meta deck to relax you on a Saturday night!
I continue to ignore the Warlocks, and attempt to have fun on the Wild ladder. A Boltzmann Murloc Druid deck helps tremendously with this. Playing this on a Saturday evening brought back memories of playing World of Warcraft back in 2014 - nearly 20 years ago - racing through Elwynn Forest and being attacked by Murlocs :-)
Man these "bad" poppy decks I made sure do win a lot just started my climb after meeming hard easy gold. Then on to Plat and we'll see if I have the patience for Diamond again depending on how busy I get with RL.
All without a single meta deck 😝
So much for "conjecture"
Nobody said your decks were bad. And nobody cares which decks you use climbing through gold. The "conjecture" has no connection with how your personal climb was on the ladder, but it does connect with how you ignore the winrates of certain decks and just say they are bad anyways.
@Tetsuo: I did not test if the exploit was fixed in the meantime since I completed the achievement already weeks ago. I think there was no mention of it in the patch notes. So, please report back to us all whether it still works after your try 😅
I tried this out...and I can confirm that it still works! Tried it out in Casual Duels. Do this now if you still haven't, they might fix this in the next patch. Thanks a lot for pointing this out, this saved me some serious grind!
I'm at level 76. Not much progress again because I didn't play for two days this week. Not too much success in the achievement front either, but I finally completed those that I've been grinding for a while:
The Brave and the Bolner - achieved it in a casual duels deck
Share Your Pain - I finally completed this using one of MarkMcKz's meme decks; a super mill Warlock where you discard multiple Hand of Gul'dans using Expired Merchant, Baron Rivendare, and Spiritsinger Umbra to deal obscene amounts of fatigue damage. What's lame is that it doesn't show your opponent's health in negative figures once you pull off the combo, but I'm guessing you can deal up to 120+ fatigue damage. It's fun to pull off!
Yoggchamp - Posted about this in the Pepper Thread
It's so Fluffy! - I played a lot of Questline Rogue, so I managed to finish this old achievement
WTS (2nd tier) - I haven't been playing a lot of decks with tradeable cards in them so the tradeable achievements are still a ways to go, but that's gonna change now that I know casual duels count towards achievements. I'll play in that mode more from now on.
This was the only way to deal more than 100 damage with cthun btw if you didn't know.
Dane made a video about this while playing against a control warrior, where he buffed a cthun up to, I want to say 300/300 with blade of cthun, but I don't remember. And it stopped at a cap way before it killed the warrior. It's a shame.
From what I've seen as an introduction, Mercs is a heavily-monetized autobattler designed for phones. None of that appeals to me. I think the best response from the devs is [paraphrasing]: "Just play it, you might like it." and that might be true. I will def. give it a go.
On one side I want Classic to stay Vanilla Classic, because this way it stays a format "where the world is still ok" and no broken stuff is around.
On the other side I would like to play old metas from time to time. I like Classic Zoolock so far very much, but one of the best memories I have is Naxx Zoolock with Eggs and POW. I play HS since open beta but this was the time I "really learned how to play HS" because there were so many small details how you could improve your Zoolock gameplay (especially how to position your minions optimally, how to use your mana and how to trage most efficient).
@IksarHS Will we be getting “new” Diamond cards for older sets any time soon? Are there any chards in particular you think would be cool Diamond ones?
@NateWolfeTCG We'll get there, just taking some time. Mercenaries has been a heavy lift for the team so most features beyond current content upkeep have been on hold while we gear up for release.
I wish I had a list of everything that Dean has said was put aside for Mercenaries. He’s brought that up a lot.
11th September update: Boltzmann's WILD Embiggen Dragon Druid: Ignore the Warlocks and have fun!
He did it again. Another Boltzmann deck. I had fun. That's all I ask for. Ignore the Warlocks. Have fun.
We start the video by looking at Aragorn's speech from Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King. The speech describes this deck perfectly. Stand up against Warlocks. Either tax them, or ignore them.
Apologies for the variable quality of the footage - recorded on my PC, iPad and phone!
I knew that because Flesh Giant would be my ten drop, I would be looking to pick up some cards from the "Pain" buckets to reduce the cost more quickly. So I chose Joras Thuldoom with the thought that he would give me the potential to easily rebuild a board when needed. In reality, he was a complete dud, I literally never played him the entire run.
I absolutely hate this meta right now. I HATE IT. Here are the decks I've been facing all day:
Questline Mage
Questline Warlock
Celestial Druid
Questline Shaman
ALL of them can kill you in a single turn. ALL of them. So what, I have to play hyper aggro every single time now? Is that it? It's NOT FUN, and it's NOT FUNNY ANYMORE.
I really, really wish the devs have a bad day today. They destroyed this game, those morons.
Was looking for Wild balance news, and this is what was said:
@IksarHS Will the balance team address the role of warlock, and to a lesser extent mage, in wild? Every expansion we seem to get a new uninteractive warlock OTK that makes the game unenjoyable until a balance patch happens Its class identity in wild seems to be "better than the others"
@Oakijak_HS At any point in a card game, there will be some classes more powerful than others. In Standard, this shifts more often because the card pool is smaller and sets have a bigger impact. It also happens because of set rotation. (Source)
@Oakijak_HS In Wild, individual expansions have a smaller impact because the card pool is bigger and the cards in the format never rotate out. (Source)
@Oakijak_HS This is the long way of saying I don't think it's that all Mage and Warlock cards are busted, power just shifts very slowly in Wild due to the nature of the format. (Source)
I hope seedlock will be addressed soon. I'm wondering if I'm going to actually win 5 games to get the cardback this month :)
Just like the poster in Iksar's Q&A, I'm also really enjoying Classic -- been trying to reach legend there for the past few months -- and I hope there will always be a place where we can experience that format in its purest form.
If they feel they need to add the old expansions back, it would ideally be in a separate mode. In effect, you would have "Classic Prime" (just Classic with initial balance changes when it was officially released) and "Classic Advanced" (Classic + a certain number of expansions + relevant balance changes).
Quest Trading - Play A Friend!
Battletag: gaetaen#21861
Region: EU
Trade Only?: Yes, will show mine as proof
Group Therapy! Need to blow off some steam? Mega salty? Here's the place!
Why do rogues always fucking rope. Oh right because their animations are slow as fuck and they play 128030123981 cards a turn
Neoguli's "Cyber Zone" Custom CCG - Fan Community Spotlight
Finally it's there. :D
I can do an AMA under this comment to answer some questions.
Quest Trading - Play A Friend!
Still got ma quest :D
Battletag: Dragnlord666#2153
Region: EU
Trade Only?: Yes, will show mine as proof
Darkseeker's channel - 13th November update: KOtsosKOtsos' Reno Evolve Shudderwock Shaman - ft. Archivist Elysiana
12th September update: Boltzmann's Wild MURLOC Druid: A great off-meta deck to relax you on a Saturday night!
I continue to ignore the Warlocks, and attempt to have fun on the Wild ladder.
A Boltzmann Murloc Druid deck helps tremendously with this.
Playing this on a Saturday evening brought back memories of playing World of Warcraft back in 2014 - nearly 20 years ago - racing through Elwynn Forest and being attacked by Murlocs :-)
Deck code: AAEBAZICBOAF5gWEF5HkAw2nCM27Ap3CArWYA8qrA/utA8bRA7nSA4zkA5ToA7WfBKugBNugBAA=
More Boltzmann decks: http://discord.gg/nU2bkEV (For Doomhammer Shaman Discord server).
Boltzmann Twitter: https://twitter.com/boltzmann2718
https://youtu.be/RiGHjinkznY
The Most Even of Weekend of Wild Decks Featuring Druids, Paladins, Hunters, and Warlocks! Bonus: Highlander Shaman
It's Create Your Own.
Meta Changes No One Will Talk About But Me
Nobody said your decks were bad. And nobody cares which decks you use climbing through gold. The "conjecture" has no connection with how your personal climb was on the ladder, but it does connect with how you ignore the winrates of certain decks and just say they are bad anyways.
The Most Even of Weekend of Wild Decks Featuring Druids, Paladins, Hunters, and Warlocks! Bonus: Highlander Shaman
But where's Even DH deck though?
Questline Priest - Master Duelist 1.2: From Zero To Hero
Yeah ahah definitely
Questline Priest - Master Duelist 1.2: From Zero To Hero
Quesline Priest was cut out for this challenge (0 to Hero) ^^
The Pepper Thread - Share Some Good Vibes!
I just got a message that someone reached legend for the first time ever with a deck I posted, makes me really happy.
Rewards Track: Current progress 3.0
I tried this out...and I can confirm that it still works! Tried it out in Casual Duels. Do this now if you still haven't, they might fix this in the next patch. Thanks a lot for pointing this out, this saved me some serious grind!
I'm at level 76. Not much progress again because I didn't play for two days this week. Not too much success in the achievement front either, but I finally completed those that I've been grinding for a while:
The Brave and the Bolner - achieved it in a casual duels deck
Share Your Pain - I finally completed this using one of MarkMcKz's meme decks; a super mill Warlock where you discard multiple Hand of Gul'dans using Expired Merchant, Baron Rivendare, and Spiritsinger Umbra to deal obscene amounts of fatigue damage. What's lame is that it doesn't show your opponent's health in negative figures once you pull off the combo, but I'm guessing you can deal up to 120+ fatigue damage. It's fun to pull off!
Yoggchamp - Posted about this in the Pepper Thread
It's so Fluffy! - I played a lot of Questline Rogue, so I managed to finish this old achievement
WTS (2nd tier) - I haven't been playing a lot of decks with tradeable cards in them so the tradeable achievements are still a ways to go, but that's gonna change now that I know casual duels count towards achievements. I'll play in that mode more from now on.
My target for next week is level 83.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (Hearthstone Riddles)
Here, Catch! Careful it's Sharp.
It's Like you have Conviction Now!
At My Side Job I Make it Look 4 Stars.
I'm Quite Blue! No Wings, How?????
Blizzard Has Fixed the C'Thun and Maxima Blastenheimer Bug - No More Turn 5 Coin OTK!
This was the only way to deal more than 100 damage with cthun btw if you didn't know.
Dane made a video about this while playing against a control warrior, where he buffed a cthun up to, I want to say 300/300 with blade of cthun, but I don't remember. And it stopped at a cap way before it killed the warrior. It's a shame.
Dean Ayala's Hearthstone Community Q&A #29 - Naxxramas Timing in Classic, Battlegrounds Balance, Large Duels Update, & More!
From what I've seen as an introduction, Mercs is a heavily-monetized autobattler designed for phones. None of that appeals to me. I think the best response from the devs is [paraphrasing]: "Just play it, you might like it." and that might be true. I will def. give it a go.
Dean Ayala's Hearthstone Community Q&A #29 - Naxxramas Timing in Classic, Battlegrounds Balance, Large Duels Update, & More!
On one side I want Classic to stay Vanilla Classic, because this way it stays a format "where the world is still ok" and no broken stuff is around.
On the other side I would like to play old metas from time to time. I like Classic Zoolock so far very much, but one of the best memories I have is Naxx Zoolock with Eggs and POW. I play HS since open beta but this was the time I "really learned how to play HS" because there were so many small details how you could improve your Zoolock gameplay (especially how to position your minions optimally, how to use your mana and how to trage most efficient).
Dean Ayala's Hearthstone Community Q&A #29 - Naxxramas Timing in Classic, Battlegrounds Balance, Large Duels Update, & More!
I wish I had a list of everything that Dean has said was put aside for Mercenaries. He’s brought that up a lot.
Dean Ayala's Hearthstone Community Q&A #29 - Naxxramas Timing in Classic, Battlegrounds Balance, Large Duels Update, & More!
Agreed. I have a mostly-complete Classic set. I have no Naxx cards, so once that rotates in the mode is dead to me.
Dean Ayala's Hearthstone Community Q&A #29 - Naxxramas Timing in Classic, Battlegrounds Balance, Large Duels Update, & More!
If someone would talk to me like that guy talked to Iksar, I would rip his entitled ass a new one
Darkseeker's channel - 13th November update: KOtsosKOtsos' Reno Evolve Shudderwock Shaman - ft. Archivist Elysiana
11th September update: Boltzmann's WILD Embiggen Dragon Druid: Ignore the Warlocks and have fun!
He did it again. Another Boltzmann deck. I had fun. That's all I ask for.
Ignore the Warlocks. Have fun.
We start the video by looking at Aragorn's speech from Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King.
The speech describes this deck perfectly. Stand up against Warlocks. Either tax them, or ignore them.
Apologies for the variable quality of the footage - recorded on my PC, iPad and phone!
Deck code: AAEBAZICBPoOhReIsAOwigQN4QSCtQLoiQP7rQP9rQOMrgPnsAP/sAOFsQPw1AP03wOL5AP09gMA
More Boltzmann decks: http://discord.gg/nU2bkEV (For Doomhammer Shaman Discord server).
Boltzmann Twitter: https://twitter.com/boltzmann2718
https://youtu.be/3tE3_UuUn6M
Master Duelist 1.2: From Zero To Hero - Submission Thread
I knew that because Flesh Giant would be my ten drop, I would be looking to pick up some cards from the "Pain" buckets to reduce the cost more quickly. So I chose Joras Thuldoom with the thought that he would give me the potential to easily rebuild a board when needed. In reality, he was a complete dud, I literally never played him the entire run.
Group Therapy! Need to blow off some steam? Mega salty? Here's the place!
I absolutely hate this meta right now. I HATE IT. Here are the decks I've been facing all day:
Questline Mage
Questline Warlock
Celestial Druid
Questline Shaman
ALL of them can kill you in a single turn. ALL of them. So what, I have to play hyper aggro every single time now? Is that it? It's NOT FUN, and it's NOT FUNNY ANYMORE.
I really, really wish the devs have a bad day today. They destroyed this game, those morons.
Dean Ayala's Hearthstone Community Q&A #29 - Naxxramas Timing in Classic, Battlegrounds Balance, Large Duels Update, & More!
Same, I'm not into classic yet but I'll play it in the near future and I wouldn't want that format to change
Dean Ayala's Hearthstone Community Q&A #29 - Naxxramas Timing in Classic, Battlegrounds Balance, Large Duels Update, & More!
Was looking for Wild balance news, and this is what was said:
I hope seedlock will be addressed soon. I'm wondering if I'm going to actually win 5 games to get the cardback this month :)
Dean Ayala's Hearthstone Community Q&A #29 - Naxxramas Timing in Classic, Battlegrounds Balance, Large Duels Update, & More!
Just like the poster in Iksar's Q&A, I'm also really enjoying Classic -- been trying to reach legend there for the past few months -- and I hope there will always be a place where we can experience that format in its purest form.
If they feel they need to add the old expansions back, it would ideally be in a separate mode. In effect, you would have "Classic Prime" (just Classic with initial balance changes when it was officially released) and "Classic Advanced" (Classic + a certain number of expansions + relevant balance changes).