It's almost like it was the idea of the deck to spam attacks and attack triggers...
I mean yeah it's kinda interesting for some hours but given all you cards do very similar things and that the deck is doing it's one thing every game more or less the same way because it is so consistant at doing it... is getting kinda boring and spamming 1 effect over and over again doesn't feel really deep as a concept.
Probably not going to do much else with the actual card database filtering to do anything specific to battlegrounds other than is what there already, but I do want to do some more targeted Battlegrounds content so we can showcase what is available and direct players to builds and such.
Battlegrounds stuff just keeps getting pushed back. I'm only one person unfortunately and I have so many other things to do. I was way too optimistic in thinking we'd able to get a bunch of dedicated stuff up shortly after the mode had launched. RIP
I'm trying the first challenge with Rogue. I've failed twice now...can you ONLY play those 5 cards in that turn? I've dropped a minion first so I can play Potion of Illusion both times. I play the minion and all 5 cards and then end my turn, and I don't get the "?" card added to my hand. So my guess is the turn has to only play those 5 cards and no more, but I'm not sure. Any help? Thanks!
Board state is thus: Opponent (of course it's paladin, is there any other class?) has two big Kazakus golems and a 3/4. I have a Kazakus and a big Kazakus golem with lifesteal. Opponent has had Steed secret up for most of the game; I've been very patiently playing around it and it's worked out well so far. The only other secret played this game has been an Oh My Yogg! Last turn, my opponent played a Secret. To play around Oh My Yogg! (because of course I have to play around a second copy), I target my big lifesteal with Psyche Split (What's the worst that can happen? I think). Well, the second Oh My Yogg! turns Psyche Split into Malevolent Strike, which (you guessed it) targets my big lifesteal instead of any of the other minions on board.
Related: Can anyone confirm whether Oh My Yogg! picks new targets for spells? I swear I've played other targeting spells that had their targets change post-Yogg (and often to my detriment).
Yes, it's random: it choose a random best target to piss you off. Stupid Secret, even worse than Counterspell.
I wanted to request a feature for filtering battle ground minions- instead of "Add a filter" and then choosing a tribe, maybe there should be an option to filter several tribes at once, maybe by excluding 2 to three tribes.
I was excited for Irelia/Azir and built it as soon as I could. I’ve only had time to play 4 games, but I won them all. And they all felt pretty boring. Spam allies, then win. I didn’t make any interesting decisions or get used to quirks of the new cards. Just spam-attack until I win.
I’m not going to give up on it yet, but I’m getting worried.
I've been enjoying Warrior with the 'deal 1 damage' hero power very much. You may not always get so far, but winning the first two games feels guaranteed with Grommash and Alexstrasza on your side. Same thing goes for Quest Mage with a spell damage package.
I wholeheartedly disagree. I was watching the WoW Secret Finding Discord channel when they solved the first two riddles and it was amazing. People from all over the world working together to get this done, it was so chaotic and so so beautiful. Granted, the difficulty of this thing is beyond crazy but that probably was the whole point of it: it was never meant to be solvable by any one person.
Some explanations for more clarity:
Step 1 was finding out that the flavor texts of the Druid, Warrior, Rogue and Hunter mercenary contain clues for the 4 parts of the achievement. I wasn't around at the time but I guess what makes them stand out is that the characters quote themselves in their flavor texts.
Step 2: They hint at cards you have to play against the innkeeper. To find out which cards exactly are needed, people from different countries helped together because the hints were more straight forward in some languages.
Step 3: Solving the riddles themselves. Some people tried to apply really advanced math to the Rogue one but got beaten by trial and error people because no one knew what to look for. For Druid it was a matter of patience once someone had the brilliant idea that it was a maze. I mean: Hiding a fucking maze in a HS board state. This must be the most genius thing in the history of Easter Eggs. Warrior was the old classic of bringing the sheep and the wolf over the river. I'm in love and no, I haven't participated in any of it. Just watching it unfold piece by piece was amazing.
The mercenary flavour texts in the form ["blah blah blah" - Merc. name] hinted at the cards you need to trigger the puzzle. Beyond that I assume they just have to work with what the ??? cards give them.
I had a mind to try to working things out for myself, but it looks like it would be more effort than I really have time for if doing it all from scratch, which is kind of a shame because I can't really feel like I solved any of it.
Been hanging out and trying stuff in the Discord group since it started, was so much fun this morning (EU time) when the first pieces started to fall into place.
Edit: Got the card back now, time to sleep! Shoutout to Cel and the disc community!
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
More importantly: it CANNOT BE vs a human player. You have to play against the Innkeeper to trigger the secret task.
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It's almost like it was the idea of the deck to spam attacks and attack triggers...
I mean yeah it's kinda interesting for some hours but given all you cards do very similar things and that the deck is doing it's one thing every game more or less the same way because it is so consistant at doing it... is getting kinda boring and spamming 1 effect over and over again doesn't feel really deep as a concept.
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
You shoudnt play the minion
Feature Request- Battle Ground Minion Type Selection
Probably not going to do much else with the actual card database filtering to do anything specific to battlegrounds other than is what there already, but I do want to do some more targeted Battlegrounds content so we can showcase what is available and direct players to builds and such.
Battlegrounds stuff just keeps getting pushed back. I'm only one person unfortunately and I have so many other things to do. I was way too optimistic in thinking we'd able to get a bunch of dedicated stuff up shortly after the mode had launched. RIP
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
You can try finding them from other cards. In the case of Yoink!, for example, you can discover it from Wandmaker or Venomous Scorpid
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
I'm trying the first challenge with Rogue. I've failed twice now...can you ONLY play those 5 cards in that turn? I've dropped a minion first so I can play Potion of Illusion both times. I play the minion and all 5 cards and then end my turn, and I don't get the "?" card added to my hand. So my guess is the turn has to only play those 5 cards and no more, but I'm not sure. Any help? Thanks!
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Yes, it's random: it choose a random best target to piss you off. Stupid Secret, even worse than Counterspell.
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
Either craft the cards and consider it the 'cost' of the card back, plus you will keep the cards.
Or get some cards that generate cards and get lucky.
Or dont get the cardback. Tho the achievement should be there at least for Barrens reward track, and probably even after that.
Feature Request- Battle Ground Minion Type Selection
I wanted to request a feature for filtering battle ground minions- instead of "Add a filter" and then choosing a tribe, maybe there should be an option to filter several tribes at once, maybe by excluding 2 to three tribes.
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I was excited for Irelia/Azir and built it as soon as I could. I’ve only had time to play 4 games, but I won them all. And they all felt pretty boring. Spam allies, then win. I didn’t make any interesting decisions or get used to quirks of the new cards. Just spam-attack until I win.
I’m not going to give up on it yet, but I’m getting worried.
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
Just not have the card back?
I mean there must be lots of things, particularly cosmetics, that you go without as f2p?
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I've been enjoying Warrior with the 'deal 1 damage' hero power very much. You may not always get so far, but winning the first two games feels guaranteed with Grommash and Alexstrasza on your side. Same thing goes for Quest Mage with a spell damage package.
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
it is, just like pratice mode in Overwatch,
you are draining resources from servers, you arent alone playing the game,
its an online service game, so every match you Q you are pulling the servers with you, regardless if against someone else or not.
Im not tech savy so of course my use of the terminology is probably insulting to those that know about this, but hey i tried.
Progress on the "???" Puzzle found !
I wholeheartedly disagree. I was watching the WoW Secret Finding Discord channel when they solved the first two riddles and it was amazing. People from all over the world working together to get this done, it was so chaotic and so so beautiful. Granted, the difficulty of this thing is beyond crazy but that probably was the whole point of it: it was never meant to be solvable by any one person.
Some explanations for more clarity:
Step 1 was finding out that the flavor texts of the Druid, Warrior, Rogue and Hunter mercenary contain clues for the 4 parts of the achievement. I wasn't around at the time but I guess what makes them stand out is that the characters quote themselves in their flavor texts.
Step 2: They hint at cards you have to play against the innkeeper. To find out which cards exactly are needed, people from different countries helped together because the hints were more straight forward in some languages.
Step 3: Solving the riddles themselves. Some people tried to apply really advanced math to the Rogue one but got beaten by trial and error people because no one knew what to look for. For Druid it was a matter of patience once someone had the brilliant idea that it was a maze. I mean: Hiding a fucking maze in a HS board state. This must be the most genius thing in the history of Easter Eggs. Warrior was the old classic of bringing the sheep and the wolf over the river. I'm in love and no, I haven't participated in any of it. Just watching it unfold piece by piece was amazing.
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
Create the cards you need with dust
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
They disabled practice mode because servers fell over. If only it could have been foreseen this might happen :P
https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/1390347131370622981
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
I have a question...
If someone f2p as me may not have the epics of 1st part...
What should we do?
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
The mercenary flavour texts in the form ["blah blah blah" - Merc. name] hinted at the cards you need to trigger the puzzle. Beyond that I assume they just have to work with what the ??? cards give them.
I had a mind to try to working things out for myself, but it looks like it would be more effort than I really have time for if doing it all from scratch, which is kind of a shame because I can't really feel like I solved any of it.
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
I have too much time on my hands :P
But I did the Druid one!!!! Went old school instead of you kids and your fancy new fangled spreadsheet answers :P
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
That's not completely true. Some of the Mercenaries flavortexts hinted at the cards you have to play in order to get to the puzzle.
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
A chinese guy finished the last puzzle. I repeat, the puzzle is solved.
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
how the hell did people find out what they needed to do? Nothing hinted at these actions. Very impressive.
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I don't know... I have 70% winrate against APM mages even without copying their ice block, so meh
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
Been hanging out and trying stuff in the Discord group since it started, was so much fun this morning (EU time) when the first pieces started to fall into place.
Edit: Got the card back now, time to sleep! Shoutout to Cel and the disc community!
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
Spaghetti Code
Or intentional server partitioning
However is the case, theory is practice mode has less server resources than online mode for some reason