You pretty much nailed it. I also feel that overload mechanic becomes more and more outdated as time goes. Other classes get stronger cards at the same mana cost or lower, without having to pay the tax.
Yay I did the rogue one!!!!!! (I know the world solved it ages ago)
Rather than try to tackle the linear algebra I wrote a program to iterate through the combinations with repetitions looking for a resulting code that had all the same digits.
I wanted to see if possible to use all the boxes, and this sequence works!
1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 6 7 7
Code snippet below that is probably horribly inefficient* with external pow() calls etc. Don't care but would matter if needed to do billions of iterations. function should be type void etc etc....
Numbers show what box to attack.
Yes - I have time on my hands :P :P
*actually if I just set it to try 11 moves, it checks all 12376 possible moves and completes in 0.371 seconds or 30 moves (1947792 possible) takes 150 seconds on my low powered media server box. 100 moves? Write better code and use better PC :) Better yet do it with maths instead.
Not sure if I´ll be helful here, but I got Diamond Ragnaros achievement two days ago, but I don´t own Elite Tauren Chieftain or Gelbin Mekkatorque, and never did. Counted my classic Legendaries and it´s on the number 34 (including Old Murk-Eye), but I still got the 36 legendary achievement along with 100g for the classic set completion after the patch.
Note: I crafted the rest of the Classic set before the Legacy set introduction, the requirements might differ now, as you´ve stated.
Doing well so far with this deck (4-1). Priest was cake, lost barely to a face hunter, Mage was cake, and had a nice game against a secret Paladin who was ahead on board but he lost it to buffed Zixors.
Hardly. The person asked if they can disenchant Mankrik, because they have 2 copies. And saying "never" is really bad imho. At least to the extra copies. Hell, 4 of those Battle-ready decks that you can buy in the shop now include Mankrik, so if you were to buy those, you would get 2nd copy of him ... which you cannot DE. How stupid is that?
So for the first mystery, how do you win without your opponent automatically killing you? The keys don't have windfury or anything so you can only attack once per turn with the first minion then end your turn, the board state resets and the minions stats increase and automatically go face and then you dead. How are you meant to attack 9 times, unless I'm missing the plot here.
Edit: ok so after watching Regis' vid, seems like it was bug where my left most minion would only attack once 😒 it's attack should've reset but didn't, yay.
DH is gonna come out on top after the balance changes. question is what archetype? The constant Vengeance or the more slower deck called : Demons? Demons
While true that it is a business thing as well, why not both? You think just by doing "ads" as you call them, they will grow the game? How are they going to reach broader audience if they keep showing off the same faces? A little thing called investment is also something to consider. They invest in helping the community to grow and in turn, they get a bigger community, more consumers and potential money-spenders. But i see you already made your opinion.
I was actually looking at the cards' watermark (called it tag) in Legacy set, it still differs for former Promo cards. But yeah, it's probably just Classic format cards that matter.
Yeah, the watermarks in the Legacy set are confusing. In my collection it looks like everything that wasn't in the original Classic set (promo cards and Hall of Fame replacements) has the Legacy watermark, but the cards that were originally in Classic could have either that or the old Classic swirl. I assume they want everything to have the Legacy watermark but things bugged out a bit.
All the Classic format version have the correct watermark though.
Thanks, Shuckie. So the unfortunate case is basically confirmed. :(
I was actually looking at the cards' watermark (called it tag) in Legacy set, it still differs for former Promo cards. But yeah, it's probably just Classic format cards that matter.
Funny, I actually randomly bought a Classic pack and opened golden Cairne, and almost immediately crafted missing Ysera and Edwin. It would be such a bad feeling to realize I need to spend additional 3200 dust on ETC and Gelbin. So maybe this will help somebody not to rush it like I almost did.
I don't know the exact answer to your question I'm afraid. But I can tell you that I have diamond Ragnaros and do not have Elite Tauren Chieftain or Gelbin Mekkatorque.
I suspect that is because you got the achievement for all legendaries in the old Classic before the recent changes. So I'm thinking they probably 'moved the goalposts' when they messed around with the Classic and Legacy sets, but didn't strip anyone of their achievements.
Edit: I also counted legendaries with Classic tag, there are 33 of them. ETC, Gelbin and Old Murk Eye have promo tag, but I my assumption was that they are also required, since I have the murloc and the numbers fit.
The promo tag doesn't exist anymore. They are either Classic (for the Classic format only) or Legacy. I believe the achievement now refers to the Classic format set, where there are indeed 36 legendaries, including the old promo ones.
I have to admit, that's a pretty unfortunate change for most players.
Thanks for your answer. Could you maybe check in your completed achievement description, does it say 33 or 36 legendaries? :) Maybe it could give some clue.
I don't know the exact answer to your question I'm afraid. But I can tell you that I have diamond Ragnaros and do not have Elite Tauren Chieftain or Gelbin Mekkatorque.
The argument that control is out because of Tickatis is incomplete. Dean said previously that they plan to keep supporting control warlock and were willing to address Tickatus if need be because of that alone. So control tools are still on the menu for all relevant classes. I think it's pretty clear Tickatus is going to be hit sooner or later. I just wish they'd stop waiting for it to become a 5% larger problem and just change him already so the discussion can turn somewhere else (fingers crossed for next week).
Tickatus aside, warlock would still win a value war at the moment because of Jaraxxus and Rustwix. That's fine for other control decks as long as warlock is still iffy against aggro. It's only when warlock becomes a proper counter to aggro that other control decks will lose their niche in the meta.
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I also don't want to see burn decks get buffed. With Doomhammer being shaman's main approach right now, I doubt they'd be the target anyway.
As for elementals, I expect they are things that are waiting on support in the mini-set or later expansions. Whether that is that case or not, the elementals shaman got this expansion lean more towards midrange than aggro, with all of them being somewhat reactive, which is a step in the right direction. I'm not even sure it is towards the more aggressive end of midrange. It is only Arid Stormer that goes in that direction, and I'm pretty sure that would be the last one to get a buff.
So would I classify elemental shaman as a tempo deck? Not really. The definitions of aggro, tempo and midrange are all blurry enough that you can, but I think it's more representative to call it midrange. Especially as it gives you the tools that could be used for aggression or control, and not just trying to maintain a board.
Hi all, I was wondering if anybody here know, do we need to craft Elite Tauren Chieftain and Gelbin Mekkatorque in order to get that Diamond Ragnaros. I checked multiple times, and although I'm missing only Ysera and Edwin, the counter shows 32/36. I also have 3 golden legendaries, I guess they are counted in.
Also, I assume this has something to do with the intro of the Legacy set, I guess people who completed their Classic collection before got their Ragnaros without problem. So I'm mainly asking if someone recently crafted legendaries to get Ragnaros and had the same issue.
Edit: I also counted legendaries with Classic tag, there are 33 of them. ETC, Gelbin and Old Murk Eye have promo tag, but I my assumption was that they are also required, since I have the murloc and the numbers fit.
Even if its not going to murlocs, its likely going somewhere towards a tempo shaman. I suspect its likely their elementals get buffed and assuming its a worthwhile buff and shaman gets to tier 2 at least, its likely going to be a tempo deck.
Control is out. If it ever gets viable then tickatus warlock takes center stage and we know that's something team5 would never want to see.
Burn is out too. Trust me, you don't want to see burn shaman ever in tier 1.
His answer still makes it possible none of the caravans gets buffed. We can blame the wording of the question for that, although I suspect Dean wouldn't have answered if it hadn't asked about all caravans together.
Personally, I'd rather shaman's buff(s) didn't go towards murlocs. The game doesn't really need more viable aggro/tempo decks.
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You pretty much nailed it. I also feel that overload mechanic becomes more and more outdated as time goes. Other classes get stronger cards at the same mana cost or lower, without having to pay the tax.
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
Yay I did the rogue one!!!!!! (I know the world solved it ages ago)
Rather than try to tackle the linear algebra I wrote a program to iterate through the combinations with repetitions looking for a resulting code that had all the same digits.
I wanted to see if possible to use all the boxes, and this sequence works!
1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 6 7 7
Code snippet below that is probably horribly inefficient* with external pow() calls etc. Don't care but would matter if needed to do billions of iterations. function should be type void etc etc....
Numbers show what box to attack.
Yes - I have time on my hands :P :P
*actually if I just set it to try 11 moves, it checks all 12376 possible moves and completes in 0.371 seconds or 30 moves (1947792 possible) takes 150 seconds on my low powered media server box. 100 moves? Write better code and use better PC :) Better yet do it with maths instead.
Diamond Ragnaros requirements
Not sure if I´ll be helful here, but I got Diamond Ragnaros achievement two days ago, but I don´t own Elite Tauren Chieftain or Gelbin Mekkatorque, and never did. Counted my classic Legendaries and it´s on the number 34 (including Old Murk-Eye), but I still got the 36 legendary achievement along with 100g for the classic set completion after the patch.
Note: I crafted the rest of the Classic set before the Legacy set introduction, the requirements might differ now, as you´ve stated.
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Very. I would rather delete it then because it's pointless to have 2.
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why not
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Doing well so far with this deck (4-1). Priest was cake, lost barely to a face hunter, Mage was cake, and had a nice game against a secret Paladin who was ahead on board but he lost it to buffed Zixors.
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Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
I somehow lost the hand axe along the way ... 20 minutes wasted. how is that even possible?!
Edit: Second try went smooth until i mixed up the enchanter and the alchemist.. my head ..
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Hardly. The person asked if they can disenchant Mankrik, because they have 2 copies. And saying "never" is really bad imho. At least to the extra copies. Hell, 4 of those Battle-ready decks that you can buy in the shop now include Mankrik, so if you were to buy those, you would get 2nd copy of him ... which you cannot DE. How stupid is that?
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Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
So for the first mystery, how do you win without your opponent automatically killing you? The keys don't have windfury or anything so you can only attack once per turn with the first minion then end your turn, the board state resets and the minions stats increase and automatically go face and then you dead. How are you meant to attack 9 times, unless I'm missing the plot here.
Edit: ok so after watching Regis' vid, seems like it was bug where my left most minion would only attack once 😒 it's attack should've reset but didn't, yay.
Dean Ayala's Community Q&A #17 - Upcoming Balance, Mystery Puzzle, Battlegrounds Tribes, and More
DH is gonna come out on top after the balance changes. question is what archetype? The constant Vengeance or the more slower deck called : Demons? Demons
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`isn´t Iksar always part of the thumbnail... oh.. its cursed, thanks
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While true that it is a business thing as well, why not both? You think just by doing "ads" as you call them, they will grow the game? How are they going to reach broader audience if they keep showing off the same faces? A little thing called investment is also something to consider. They invest in helping the community to grow and in turn, they get a bigger community, more consumers and potential money-spenders. But i see you already made your opinion.
Diamond Ragnaros requirements
Yeah, the watermarks in the Legacy set are confusing. In my collection it looks like everything that wasn't in the original Classic set (promo cards and Hall of Fame replacements) has the Legacy watermark, but the cards that were originally in Classic could have either that or the old Classic swirl. I assume they want everything to have the Legacy watermark but things bugged out a bit.
All the Classic format version have the correct watermark though.
Diamond Ragnaros requirements
Thanks, Shuckie. So the unfortunate case is basically confirmed. :(
I was actually looking at the cards' watermark (called it tag) in Legacy set, it still differs for former Promo cards. But yeah, it's probably just Classic format cards that matter.
Funny, I actually randomly bought a Classic pack and opened golden Cairne, and almost immediately crafted missing Ysera and Edwin. It would be such a bad feeling to realize I need to spend additional 3200 dust on ETC and Gelbin. So maybe this will help somebody not to rush it like I almost did.
Diamond Ragnaros requirements
I suspect that is because you got the achievement for all legendaries in the old Classic before the recent changes. So I'm thinking they probably 'moved the goalposts' when they messed around with the Classic and Legacy sets, but didn't strip anyone of their achievements.
The promo tag doesn't exist anymore. They are either Classic (for the Classic format only) or Legacy. I believe the achievement now refers to the Classic format set, where there are indeed 36 legendaries, including the old promo ones.
I have to admit, that's a pretty unfortunate change for most players.
Diamond Ragnaros requirements
Thanks for your answer. Could you maybe check in your completed achievement description, does it say 33 or 36 legendaries? :) Maybe it could give some clue.
Diamond Ragnaros requirements
I don't know the exact answer to your question I'm afraid. But I can tell you that I have diamond Ragnaros and do not have Elite Tauren Chieftain or Gelbin Mekkatorque.
Dean Ayala's Community Q&A #17 - Upcoming Balance, Mystery Puzzle, Battlegrounds Tribes, and More
The argument that control is out because of Tickatis is incomplete. Dean said previously that they plan to keep supporting control warlock and were willing to address Tickatus if need be because of that alone. So control tools are still on the menu for all relevant classes. I think it's pretty clear Tickatus is going to be hit sooner or later. I just wish they'd stop waiting for it to become a 5% larger problem and just change him already so the discussion can turn somewhere else (fingers crossed for next week).
Tickatus aside, warlock would still win a value war at the moment because of Jaraxxus and Rustwix. That's fine for other control decks as long as warlock is still iffy against aggro. It's only when warlock becomes a proper counter to aggro that other control decks will lose their niche in the meta.
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I also don't want to see burn decks get buffed. With Doomhammer being shaman's main approach right now, I doubt they'd be the target anyway.
As for elementals, I expect they are things that are waiting on support in the mini-set or later expansions. Whether that is that case or not, the elementals shaman got this expansion lean more towards midrange than aggro, with all of them being somewhat reactive, which is a step in the right direction. I'm not even sure it is towards the more aggressive end of midrange. It is only Arid Stormer that goes in that direction, and I'm pretty sure that would be the last one to get a buff.
So would I classify elemental shaman as a tempo deck? Not really. The definitions of aggro, tempo and midrange are all blurry enough that you can, but I think it's more representative to call it midrange. Especially as it gives you the tools that could be used for aggression or control, and not just trying to maintain a board.
Diamond Ragnaros requirements
Hi all, I was wondering if anybody here know, do we need to craft Elite Tauren Chieftain and Gelbin Mekkatorque in order to get that Diamond Ragnaros. I checked multiple times, and although I'm missing only Ysera and Edwin, the counter shows 32/36. I also have 3 golden legendaries, I guess they are counted in.
Also, I assume this has something to do with the intro of the Legacy set, I guess people who completed their Classic collection before got their Ragnaros without problem. So I'm mainly asking if someone recently crafted legendaries to get Ragnaros and had the same issue.
Edit: I also counted legendaries with Classic tag, there are 33 of them. ETC, Gelbin and Old Murk Eye have promo tag, but I my assumption was that they are also required, since I have the murloc and the numbers fit.
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Even if its not going to murlocs, its likely going somewhere towards a tempo shaman. I suspect its likely their elementals get buffed and assuming its a worthwhile buff and shaman gets to tier 2 at least, its likely going to be a tempo deck.
Control is out. If it ever gets viable then tickatus warlock takes center stage and we know that's something team5 would never want to see.
Burn is out too. Trust me, you don't want to see burn shaman ever in tier 1.
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Rumor has it that he was never actually "unbanned" so doubt we'd see him in future tournaments
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tradition
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His answer still makes it possible none of the caravans gets buffed. We can blame the wording of the question for that, although I suspect Dean wouldn't have answered if it hadn't asked about all caravans together.
Personally, I'd rather shaman's buff(s) didn't go towards murlocs. The game doesn't really need more viable aggro/tempo decks.