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Wonderful! I was just looking for some duel decks today. Perfect timing. 

-1 Health is nothing, just is going to continue with this...

Avalon, do you feel like some of the new treasures are overtuned?  Specifically Meek Mastery, Party Replacement, and Oops All Spells?

I consistently see those treasures from opponents and that means 1 of 2 scenarios: They are the strongest and therefore are more often picked.  Or they are the strongest and therefore are killing off people who chose other (worse) treasures.

Party Replacement is super strong, but out of the 3 I mentioned seems to be the most beatable if you have enough tools/degenerate combos in your own deck.  (at the end of the day it just ends up being a free 2/2 which in early games is impactful, but later on is less dangerous.

Generally I primarily play casual duels when I play duels mode (because it's free!) so I'm unsure if the opponents I'm facing are just lucky, or just conceding and farming runs until they get "perfect passives" because of the free nature of casual duels.

I tend to agree with you. And let's forget about Captured Flag, an Ultra Rare Tier 2 Passive that got powercrept by Meek Mastery, a regular Tier 1 Passive.

These days, you need some serious proactive tools to beat those a high wins: Rally the Troops does it, as well as Party Replacement, but other than that there's just [Hearthstone Card (Ooops, all spells!) Not Found] degeneracy and nothing more...

Hmm, dunno if folks are busy or this is much harder than I thought. Let me know if I need to give another hint. I may do so later today anyways.

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FOUR nerfs targetting the same deck? Wow that's what I call hate.

On the other hand, was Flawless Duet actually used?

A more accurate statement would be four nerfs targeting an engine used by multiple top tier decks.

And I am really confused by that question. What do you mean by "was Flawless Duet actually used?" Of course it was, have you never faced an Azir/Irelia? Something that is very unlikely if you have been playing the game for the last 4 months. 

I thought "Why would it summon turtles now?" and you made me realize how slow I was.

These are some good changes and the nerf to flawless duet in pretty brutal, I would have like it if they also nerfed some cards in the Ionia elusive rally decks but in the end of the day this is just a hotfix not a balance patch so I understand.

Individually, the shurima card nerfs can seem a bit underwhelming. But the three cards are often run together so decks that use them will take a huge blow.

FOUR nerfs targetting the same deck? Wow that's what I call hate.

On the other hand, was Flawless Duet actually used?

Im amazed that these builds actually reached 12 wins without either captured flag or meek mastery. The entire top end of duels is filled with nothing but these builds.

Mostly played with a friend this expansion as I did not like the meta (we are making some really fun matches with decks like "Chef Rogue" and "Sleepy Folks Druid" so I did not advance that much this time.

Though I am almost level 70 right now. Well almost 69, but my "win 5 ranked games" weekly is almost finished.

Edit: Level 70 reached. That last XP boost is something I needed

Congrats for the result and thanks for the submission!

Passive Treasures Chosen

First pool - Mysterious Tome

Second pool - Endurance Training

revaz142's 10 Wins Clown Druid

Wild · Clown Druid · by Avalon · 5 years ago

• 0 Innervate x 1
• 1 Nature Studies x 1
• 3 Dreaming Drake x 1
• 3 Moontouched Amulet x 1
• 4 Circus Medic x 1
• 4 Thickhide Kodo x 1
• 5 Teacher's Pet x 1
• 5 Twilight Runner x 1
• 6 Moonglade Portal x 1
• 7 Guardian Animals x 1
• 7 Strongman x 1
• 8 Cenarion Ward x 1
• 9 Carnival Clown x 1
• 10 Survival of the Fittest x 1
• 10 Y'Shaarj, the Defiler x 1

3,800 Dust 914 0 Copy Deck Code

The huge difference between a Merciless Hunter and the likes of Fiora and Aphelios is: they are winconditions that you actively want to protect because they will win you the game if the live long enough, if your Merciless Hunter dies you won't be too sad about it because it's just a 3 mana fearsome unit afterall 

Also is the Legion Rearguard example a different case because the card literally had as it's only benefit to be overstatted as a 1 drop (which afterwards it wasn't anymore and totaly lost it's purpose)

Yesterday I´ve finally achieved my second 1000 win portrait :D YAY!

Took me much longer than I´ve expected, but hey, I finally did it!

My current state (compared to the last time 6 months ago):

Hunter 1200 (1050)

Druid 1000 (800)

Warlock 850 (650)

Paladin 820 (700)

Mage 800 (680)

Warrior 400 (300)

Demon Hunter 300 (120)

Priest 240 (200) lol

Rogue 150 (50)

Shaman 140 (40)

Looks like my next 500w will be Warrior and the next 1000w will be Warlock. Hope it won´t take another half a year :D Let´s see...

The health nerf for both cards means that they mostly cannot survive more than one combat in many cases. One of the advantages of Merciless Hunter was being able to remove something and survive to gain a 2-for-1 advantage - that's a LOT less likely now.

One of the bonuses of Ruin Runner is being alive for multiple attacks, or being able to block and then also still attack. With only 3 health, it's almost certainly only getting in one attack turn and dying to a blocker.

So, I think the changes are more impactful than you're giving them credit for. Just look what one health nerf did to Fiora, Aphelios, and Rearguard (a much older example that was reverted to put him back to 2 health, but he was literally never used as a 3/1) - just as historical examples.

So, after another week, I´ve jumped to lvl 80 and claimed that cool Summoner Tamsin portrait. Looks I´m back on earning 10 lvls a week, just like the previous climbs. My XP achievement count is on 80% too, grinding the Vengeance and Share your pain right now, both of them are indeed pain to complete :D My gold count is 60 shy of 2000g, so I´m ready for the Mini set, the rest from now on will be saved for the next expansion (or some rare cardbacks/heroes, if they ever become available).

So far it feels good for me, next week I should claim the coin. How are you all doing so far? Thanks for sharing your progress, it´s cool to see where is everyone at :)

Or is pupbot herding/leading the sheep to somewhere? Regardless looking forward to meeting!

The quote from blizzard are not patch notes. The warlock nerfs would be added to patch notes when released along with the above battlegrounds changes and sometimes some bug fixes and improvements

Are the Warlock neefs in place with this patch?  If so, odd it wasn't announced in this article. 

That has anti-synergy with itself: You want to buy them for the elemental part, but eat them with the demon part. Just buy them and go full elementals.