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You shouldn't judge Mercenaries based on the performance of Duels. Team 5 have put over a year's worth of work into Mercenaries and the last major game mode that required a lot of work was Battlegrounds which received good reviews. I'd imagine Duels was an after thought that probably took a week to make (Coz it's already based off of Dungeon run), just to keep players happy while they worked on Mercenaries. 

But ofc, we still have no idea how the game mode will turn out. So lets just remain optimistic till we see video footage on the 31st 🙃

I am kinda missing Poppy supports on the list but I guess we will see soon enough if that concept can come together.

I expect for the meta to polarize stronger with the likes of darkness control and trap tribal setting the standards for lategame oriented decks, poppy and Sion setting the standards for midrange and for aggro I see some nami/ziggs lists doing their thing but we can't know for sure right now.

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Stay strong, we can do this! September 3rd for me but it’s a big one.

Fortunately I’ll have “plenty” of time once the mode releases!

It’s not about the packs, it’s about the fact that I will binge that stream from start to finish even though I should be studying. 
Don’t know how you took this with such a negative vibe.. it’s not like I could be upset about finally learning more about this hyped up mode 

went 7-3 first run with crystal gem and battle totem.

I'm 10-1 so far on the second run, with crystal gem and rally the troops (this one is really amazing). Lost vs a shaman with Meek mastery and battle totem.

Almost lost (but didn't =) the last game vs priest with meek mastery and the adventurer thing. As you said, meek mastery is insane and shall burn in hell !

Ranked mode is genuinely god-awful now. I fucking hate this meta-game so muc

I thought I would take a quick 5:th ranked win for the weekly quest before some more relaxing console gaming yesterday night. Odd questline Hunter in wild would do the job quickly, I though. 4-5 straight losses and some embarassing misplays later I don't like that deck anymore.

How about keeping a discovered Pressure Plate in hand the turn before APM mage hit the combo for lethal? Or being greedy with Rhok'delar (from Lock and Load) vs Renomage and waiting for my minion the be drawn instead of using avaible mana for 4 + 4 face damage? I still would have won if I had drawn Flare but no no no.

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Questline rewards are like best Duels passives, so Blizz just brought the Duels experience to all HS play modes

You probably don't want to hear this, but the modes are still in beta because they are still planning to change fundamental aspects of it. Think about the permanent 25% Darkmoon Prizes chance in BG, the complete tribe overhauls or how synergistic the offers during a Duels run are.

That's what beta means from a developer standpoint.

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If a landmark finish it's countdown would that count toward Xerath's level up? Because the countdown keyword description does say " Round Start: Count down 1. At 0, destroy the card with Countdown and activate the effect."

If that's the case leveling Xerath would be very easy and you got yourself a powerful removal machine on board.

 

I'm wondering too. If that count countdown landmarks expiring then Xerath looks like a very stronk control wincon. If not it looks... Eh ?

Also what about Rolling Sands ? It says "Destroy me".

Man I've been so disensitized by bad removals at this point that I'm actually seeing this as potentially playable if you're planning to go for a non-SI/Freljord control gameplan that includes Bandle City. But they really could have made a Ruination that also destroyed landmarks and it would have made sense.

I am like those who seek in the current

But my companion is always in a hurry

He knows that if I should catch up to him

My net will be the least of his worries!

Battlegrounds and Duels are both still in beta. Do you think it's because they haven't worked out the tech yet?

No, it's because they haven't figured out how to monetize them without pissing everyone off. I don't think they'll make that mistake a third time. They'll have a money-making plan from the very start with Mercs.

The downvotes just make it all the sweeter when I come back in October and say I told you so.

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Why even bother giving Targon and Ionia a single card lol. Just seems weird.

Loping Telescope is also Targon, so Targon 2, Ionia 1, Targon being better than Ionia in something, im impressed. (And technically, Hungry Owlcat is Ionia/Bandle City, but it doesn't count, is a token (?)

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It's just 30 min total for 2 packs and you have almost all day (US side). AFK with a stream on.

It constantly amazes me how so many people have time to bitch about something online rather than just do it right.

30 mins and two packs.  Not hard if ya WANT them. 

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Veigar don't have any connection with Shadow Isles either nor does Teemo with P&Z or Lulu with Ionia. They are probably just gonna add a line or two in their flavor text to justify their presence in said region.

Veigar has the connection of being tortured by Mordekaiser for years at least, who made him mAd & eViLLLL, Teemo is easily connected to PNZ because the shrooms, and Lulu can be in Ionia, cuz she enter a magical forest in his lore, who can easily be in Jonia. Ziggs doesn't have a thing to in Shurima. Only bombtesting, who they made he do, so...

Veigar : So what if he was tortured and became evil ( well as evil as Yordle can get ), you don't belong in Shadow Isles because you are evil, you need to have so connection to the black mist.

Teeno: Teemo puffcaps growing in P&Z was only added in Legends of Runterra.

Lulu: The magical forest is not Ionia it's the Glade, it's a middle area between Bandle City and the rest of Runeterra 

Teemo: Makes perfect sense growing the shrooms on PNZ, its the home of fellow yordles and the home of the science, and the fuck!ng exploding mushrooms probably come from the Runaterra version of Monsanto, would probably be in PNZ. (More of this at the end)

Veigar: Is not a need to be a Mistwraith to live in the Isles. Is a very powerful place magically talking, and you skipped the part of Mordekaiser torturing Veigar, and yes, Mordekaiser tecnically is a part of the pre-noxian folk (The Noxii) who live were now is Noxus (and being real, Veigar was imprisoned in the Immortal Bastion, and lived with the Noxii, so he can be easily a BC/Noxus) but he has a VERY strong conecction to the Isles, so i dont mind he being secondary from SI. Also, Veigar is constantly portrayed as the meme supervillain, so were you're gonna put it? 

Lulu: You got me in there, the Glade is an ambigous place, but knowing that Ionia is the most-magical-zone you can stretch it and can be accurate to connect the dots and the Glade to Ionia.

Also, i thinked in the day and Riot with Ziggs demonstrated that the Regions really doesn't matter at all to them, they wanted Ziggs to have some landmark-destruction thing (who is very flavorful), so they made him Shurima, cuz Shurima is the landmark region and PNZ dont have landmark sinergy, and they justified it with all the desert bombtesting thing, who is neat, they did the same with Teemo and the shrooms connecting he with PNZ, and also with Lulu, putting all the fae-like things in Ionia. The real problem with multiregion cards is why Riot decided to make them only Bandle City exclusive, cuz much cards have potential to be double region and make neat interactions (For example, Senna being Demacia/SI, they would be funny and flavorful)

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I might be crazy in saying this, but I like the meta. It is very simple. You see your opponents class and you know what to mulligan for. It might just be because I am playing Quest WL.

Yes, it is. And that's somewhat a problem, since diversity is supposedly the target. The meta has gotten to such an extent that its linear, and that's never a good thing if you're seeking to have fun other than winning.

We're witnessing a repeat of the pre-nerfed crystal caverns rogue meta again, where there's quest rogue on one side and hyper aggro on the other. Quest decks are too consistent honestly. Even if the meta is fine, I still hope that there's more space for different decks to exist, and that cannot be done if there's a constant air of inevitability while playing.

Well, the small gift window and me having actual work to do means I'll be missing out, which sucks honestly. Especially since I'll likely to watching this thing later anyway, which prompts me to ask: if the gift window is so small, the reward being fairly big (2 stormwind packs), and the fact that it's likely to piss at least one segment of the world because of timezone differences, why not just give us the packs? Or at least broaden the gift window so the whole world could have a go at it instead of asking its audience to frantically turn on the tube just to ignore it.

At least mercenaries is something new. Let's see if the gameplay hold up, because if it doesn't its likely to end up like the innumerable dungeon adventures that currently sit lifeless on the sidelines of single player, given that there's likely no rewards other than the usual one cardback for finishing it.

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I don't know the lore for Ziggs but is there a cause for him being tied to Shurima from a lore perspective? I would have thought he'd be P&Z or something. I mean if there is a reason for it then that's fine but otherwise if they needed a champ for Shurima/BC I feel it would've been better to make an entirely original one.

Absolutely zero things who make Ziggs in Shurima logical. Ziggs may be in PNZ, literally he works with Heimerdinger. In LOR, they established Shurima as a safeplace for the yordles to make bomb testing i think, so is only for that, thing that to me, a lore fanatic and enthusiastic to the level of being barely and expert, makes me angry. And they dont have to make an original yordle for Shurima/Bandle, they got Amumu, who is confirmed to be a yordle, they got Rumble, who in a Universe story is in Shurima and in canon doesn't have a second region (He only lives in Bandle) and having the scrapyard mech + desert they could make a mad-max reference theme (Rumble also have's a skin of that!) and also, if they were insane, they could make Kled, being Noxus/Shurima, being Shurima for being conquering the newest Noxian lands!
Ziggs is only Shurima by game needs, who makes me sad.

Amumu is not confirmed to be a Yordle, in the lore no one know his true origin, some Shuriman believe that he was a prince from the first imperial family while other think that he was a Yordle.

The Amumu lore is like the Fiddlesticks one, he is a like a folk-legend in Shurima, they're plenty histories and one is he being a yordle, also is very unlikely that having a race of little people they want to have Amumu being a dead child, it was the first idea and its a thing that only League have, but not making Amumu a yordle will be a very missed hit. I know for sure you seed the yordle-Amumu fan reworks, they're amazing, but i falls on being fan speculation like all what i said, but it will be very clever making him a yordle, idk, in my mind works. Also, something i dont said up, the effects on Ziggs are so "simple" that Amumu or Rumble can be him making his effect the Amumu bandage toss or the double taser for Rumble. Sorry if my english is bad.

I’m just glad they confirmed that Kazakus is a dragon

Then you are extremely unlucky person. Are you didn't draw apprentice? Sometimes you have both Chandlers, and have to drop one to cycle some spells - this increases your chances to draw apprentice next turn.

I still like it better than her standard hero portrait, where she looks like she needs to concede the game and go immediately to the chiropractor.