To be fair, your decision to treat monthly cosmetics as something that "shows your loyalty to the game" isn't Blizzard's problem - you choose to give the rewards the meanings that you choose to give them.
As far as Blizzard "spitting in your face" for choosing to give a different meaning to those cosmetics - again, you are free to feel betrayed, and perfectly free to post about your feelings if you choose to do so. You'll concede that choosing to feel betrayed isn't the same as actually being betrayed - the same holds being spat upon.
The internet won't break if you stop pretending to be upset every time you use it.
I am currently at level 108 and I picked up Demonbane Illidan, but did not use him ever since yet. Demon Hunter is not one of the top dogs now unfortunately.
I have to agree with the meta being quite boring at this moment. Hopefully Team 5 will address it soon™.
By the way, did anyone notice that the seasonal epic card (of April) was a duplicate? I am missing quite a few Wild epics still, but did not receive any of them. Perhaps only Standard cards are offered as seasonal rewards? Although somewhat understandable, it is not mentioned specifically anywhere in-game 🤔
Grats with lvl 100. With that speed you will be lvl 400 waay before the next xpac hit
Í feel there should be a Toggable option to change if you want to receive wild random cards or not. Turn it off by default so no standar only player is affected, and then let people who will benefit from that turn it on.
Did anyone notice that the ranked ladder seasonal reward epic card (of April) was a duplicate? I am missing quite a few Wild epics still, but did not receive any of them. Perhaps only Standard cards are offered as ranked ladder seasonal rewards?
Although somewhat understandable, it is not mentioned specifically anywhere in-game, I think 🤔
This is not really meant as a complaint, but it does feel bad that the Wild cardpool is not included (at least so it seems). Especially since you can reach Diamond 5 also in both Wild and Classic modes nowadays.
Ha, two battlegrounds projects within a day of each other, nice coincidence! I really really like this, changing Bob's Tavern (he will be missed) to the Grim Guzzler is such a cool idea. I like your Dark Iron tribe, it feels different enough to the Quillboars to be cool, and flavour wise its a whole other kettle of fish. Your heroes are cool and unique and I like the expansion of Frenzy as a mechanic within Battlegrounds. Great job!
I am currently at level 108 and I picked up Demonbane Illidan, but did not use him ever since yet. Demon Hunter is not one of the top dogs now unfortunately.
I have to agree with the meta being quite boring at this moment. Hopefully Team 5 will address it soon™.
By the way, did anyone notice that the seasonal epic card (of April) was a duplicate? I am missing quite a few Wild epics still, but did not receive any of them. Perhaps only Standard cards are offered as seasonal rewards? Although somewhat understandable, it is not mentioned specifically anywhere in-game 🤔
EDIT: Seasonal ranked ladder rewards are indeed Standard only cards according to this official Blizzard blog post.
Everyone, get in here and welcome to the Grim Guzzler! I'm Plugger Spazzing, the boss of this place, and from now on I'll be your host. Our beloved Bob unfortunately had to take a break for reasons totally unrelated to me (just ask my laywer). Six years ago, a horde of adventurers paying a children's card game ransacked my bar just for fun. But now, we're back in business! If you like beer, brawls, literal hot chicks, brawls, and getting in here, this is the place for you! Did I say brawls already? 'Cause that's important! Here's what we have in store today:
30 new minions!
4 new heroes!
Frenzy : Something good came out of the Barrens after all! Patrons LOVE to hurt each other!
Pints : What would the Grim Guzzler be without its Dark Iron Ale? For the very affordable price of 1 Coin, you can give a minion +3 Health!
Dark Iron dwarfs : A brand new minion type! Dark Irons like three things: taking damage, having high Health, and BEER!
(Note: I started this before Quilboars were revealed, I didn't expect they would have such a similar mechanic)
THE SET
4 New heroes
Emperor Thaurissan
Coren Direbrew
(only available when Dark Irons are present)
High Justice Grimstone
War Master Voone
30 New cards
★ Tier I (4 minions)
★★ Tier II (5 minions)
★★★ Tier III (6 minions)
★★★★ Tier IV (6 minions)
Do note that Nagmara's availability is tied to the Demon tag and not the Dark Iron tag, due to the fact that she generates Pints herself so her effect isn't useless when DI are absent.
★★★★★ Tier V (5 minions)
Do note that Nagmara's availability is tied to the Dark Iron tag and not the Elemental tag. Unlike Nagmara, Alemental would be useless without DIs.
Soul Juggler gains the Dark Iron tag. Do note that ot will still only appear when Demons are present.
The Rat King gains a King of Dark Iron Dwarves HP.
PLUGGER SPAZZRING'S LINES
The new bartender isn't as nice as Bob...
Spazzring Lines
Start of game
Welcome to the Grim Guzzler. Please remember that we disclaim all liability if you get killed, maimed, poisoned, vaporized, corrupted, frozen, hexed, mind-controlled, banished into the Twisting Nether, or if your clothes get stained.
Random during preparation phase
There is NO evil elemental lord under the Grim Guzzler! Any contrary statement constitutes libel and will be challenged into court!
The arena? Ha! The Guzzler is where the REAL fighting happens!
Yesterday there was this pyromancer chick here. She was freaking hot! Like, hotter than Ragnaros!
Why hire any personnel when I can just summon it from the Twisting Nether and not pay them?
A dwarf, an orc, and a tuskarr go into a bar...I forgot the rest of the joke.
If you're looking for your 'Hand of Justice' or 'Savage Gladiator Chain' you're at the wrong place.
I hope you're not like that Windsor guy who was here last week and completely ransacked the place for no reason at all!
I swear, if I hear 'Everyone get in here' one more time, I'll set Phalanx on BERSERK mode!
Our drinks are home-made! No conjured stuff!
I asked Nagmara out yesterday. She told me 'I only see you as a master'. I got warlockzoned again!
I really struggle to find new patrons. I'm starting to think that opening the bar inside an active volcano full of monsters might have something to do with it...
I'm working on a brand new beer recipe whose main ingredient is LAVA! It will ROCK the entire beer industry!
Toilets are on the left. Please leave them at least as dirty as when you found them.
Today is a peaceful day at the bar. Only 10 people died....so far.
If you think this place is shady, you've never been to Lion Pride's Inn in Goldshire...*shudders*
Random when buying minion
That's the dumbest move I've ever seen.
Are you seriously recruiting THAT idiot?
What the...is there any logic behind that?
I've met gnolls who take smarter decisions than you!
Goldenize a minion
Ooh shiny!
Hey, as the owner of this bar I'm entitled to a share of the benefit!
Why does this Patron have a blue arrow on him? Huh.
Upgrade Tavern
The VIP lounge is this way, <Sir/Madam>! [based on hero's gender]
Freeze minions
How did you manage to freeze them?! We're literally inside of an active volcano! With lava everywhere!
Alright, who messed up with the air conditioning again? We're freezing here!
Before fight
BARFIGHT!
Alright, try to not get killed.
I don't want to look. Tell me when it's over!
You're gonna get CRUSHED!
Try to not destroy too much stuff please.
[If 1st position] You're the king of the mountain! Beware of the envious!
[If 1st position] You got them all! By any chance do you want to become my personal bodyguard?
After fight (win)
Oh come on! I bet ten bucks on the other guy. Why did you do this to me?!
Damn, you're violent! Did you just get out of jail or something?
BTW we're hiring bouncers. Just sayin'.
After fight (lose)
Damn, you really suck.
Hahahaha! you're a loser!
Don't try to blame bad RNG. You're just bad.
After game (promoting Tavern Ticket)
*whispers* Hey! Psst! If you want to upgrade your performance, I've got stuff for you!
This card's effect is pretty good. It's similar to Aftershock in that it deals 3 damage for 4 mana with additional utility, except this can't target the enemy Nexus and is Fast instead of Slow. It's not the most mana-efficient effect, but it's pretty versatile, which is a very valuable trait to have, especially in a region with almost no other damage-based removal spells.
The big problem is the landmark requirement. Most Targon meta decks have exactly zero landmarks: Zoe + Lee, Zoe + ASol and Nightfall decks would just be getting a 4-mana stun spell, which is pretty bad. Soraka + TK has 3 landmark cards, which is insufficient to give this card any kind of consistency. Right now this only seems viable in potential Malphite decks. 3/5
6 mana buys you a lot of value with this card... IF you fulfill its 4 landmark requirement, which is not easy. Even then, the 6/4 body will be most useful on defense, threatening to trade with a big enemy threat, because no combat abilities makes him pretty questionable on offense. Unless the entire enemy board was stunned by Malphite's Unstoppable Force, I suppose. 3/5
1. You can advance his level up progress by playing units. Landmarks generated by Rock Hopper and Blue Sentinel count as 2-mana landmarks each.
2. Stunning all enemy units with Unstoppable Force is reminiscent of the Swain Leviathan combo, but there's a big difference: Unstoppable Force only works on offense, not on defense, because you get a fleeting copy of it whenever you gain the attack token.
Malphite himself is very strong, and will likely be the main win condition of any deck he's in. This is a massive boost to landmark-heavy decks, and while Malphite will do a ton of work in those decks, the question is whether his supporting cards will be good enough to make for a competitively viable deck. 5/5
After another week I´ve hit lvl 90 with 90% achievements done (missing the 200 sigils, 600 Sermon buffs,100 rank spells, copying 5 secrets and building golems rank 2 and 3, since I don´t own the Kazakus). Got the coin and feel pretty much as h0lysatan above me, it´s getting quite boring. After hitting lvl 100 you got nothing to be excited for, just plain gold.
Anyway, where are you all? How far are you with your XP achievements? Which hero are you choosing this time? Any other thoughts? Let us know :)
Happy leveling all!
Take it easy, you are quite far in the track compared to most people, you wil just burn out. But yeah, hoping for more achivement xp reward so it encourage you to try diffrent deck
I crafted 2 golden Renounce Darkness's back in the day and it's my favorite card by a mile, the complete opposite of mindlessly playing a meta deck. Big surprise factor and amazing for the amount of positive friend requests it generates. But honestly the decks never been that good and were too dependent on the mulligan.
This deck has a lot of cards I hadn't considered including, and is so much better than what I had before, even if you are super unlucky. I was at 5hp with both RD's and 1 Council at the bottom of the deck. Drew Soularium, it drew a Renounce and I would have been able to play Reno. Unfortunately it also drew the one bomb in my deck, but I still felt good about it. :)
Happy to have given you a reason to recraft the quest! Toxmonger is also one of my favorite cards, I also used to run it with elven archer back in the day. I tried Pen Flinger in this list for a while but there are so few spells it hardly ever got bounced and then it got nerfed anyway.
Well, it's not exactly a hidden issue that Taliyah is the worst champion in the game by far. I held some hope and expectations that the new Landmark synergies such as Zilean or Malphite would be enough, but I often wouldn't include her in the deck in the end. Regardless if Landmark decks are good, not a lot of the new cards synergize well with her, in my opinion, so she would probably still be unplayable.
Now I'm not going to suggest what kind of buff she needs because she has a lot of issues that any buff suggestion would become reasonable. The question now is, will she get buffed? Will Riot think ahead and buff Taliyah alongside the release of the new expansion so that people will actually play Taliyah?
If they are going to do it, I don't actually think that we should wait for 2-4 weeks after the release because I don't want to play the new decks with Taliyah in them and get absolutely stomped. I'm actually betting that they are going to buff Taliyah, and I'm also going to bet that the buff will not be enough to make her playable as a competitive deck but rather a meme deck. I did hear through some rumors that Shurima's landmark support won't end here but would also continue towards the next expansion, but I really don't want to wait for 2 more months for Taliyah to be sorta ok. So hopefully, by the end of this, I was either wrong and Taliyah is actually good, or I shouldn't have doubted Riot in the first place and they actually had buffed Taliyah. I'm not even a Taliyah simp or a Taliyah main in League. I just don't to see a Champion with a depressing 30% WR.
New Ionia Card - Dancing Droplet
A new Common Ionia Unit, Dancing Droplet, has been revealed!
Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!
Learn more about Empires of the Ascended
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New Ionia Spell - Shadows of the Past
A new Rare Ionia Spell, Shadows of the Past, has been revealed!
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New Targon Landmark - Eye of the Ra-Horak
A new Rare Targon Landmark, Eye of the Ra-Horak, has been revealed!
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New Targon Card - Solari Sunhawk
A new Common Targon Unit, Solari Sunhawk, has been revealed!
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Will Taliyah Receive a Buff?
I think they said they will try to balance more often so I doubt they will go with "she got more support let's see what it does to her"
A Site for Hearthstone Sounds - HearthSFX
Awesome resource! Thanks
Hearthstone is Getting a New Esports Card Back for Masters Tour Event Competitors - Golden Skies
To be fair, your decision to treat monthly cosmetics as something that "shows your loyalty to the game" isn't Blizzard's problem - you choose to give the rewards the meanings that you choose to give them.
As far as Blizzard "spitting in your face" for choosing to give a different meaning to those cosmetics - again, you are free to feel betrayed, and perfectly free to post about your feelings if you choose to do so. You'll concede that choosing to feel betrayed isn't the same as actually being betrayed - the same holds being spat upon.
The internet won't break if you stop pretending to be upset every time you use it.
GLHF.
Rewards Track: Current progress 2.0
Grats with lvl 100. With that speed you will be lvl 400 waay before the next xpac hit
Darkseeker's channel - 13th November update: KOtsosKOtsos' Reno Evolve Shudderwock Shaman - ft. Archivist Elysiana
2nd May update: GhostDog's Renolock: A versatile deck in a diverse meta!
An interesting version of Renolock, that can have good matches against aggro, but also against slower opponents due to the Brann / Tickatus combo.
This video features a couple of tense games - against Reno Priest and Mecha'thun Warlock.
Ghostdog is an awesome member of the wild community and you should go-ahead and follow him! (https://twitter.com/Ghostdog_HS )
Deck code: AAEBAf0GHtwGjg7DFoQXhRfgrALYuwKXwQLfxALTxQKPxwLnywKuzQKX0wLo5wLD6gLF8wKc+AKggAOhoQP8owOdqQPrrAOntQPEuQPXzgP0zgPO4QP44wOS5AMAAA==
https://youtu.be/VjAnN0JlPCY
Weekend Wild Hearthstone Decks - Quest Hunter, Spell Damage Mage, Big Demon Hunter, & More!
If someone plays a card on Turn 1, you might as well concede.
Ranked ladder rewards are Standard cards only?
Í feel there should be a Toggable option to change if you want to receive wild random cards or not. Turn it off by default so no standar only player is affected, and then let people who will benefit from that turn it on.
Empires of the Ascended Seasonal Tournament Results & Top Decks
Seeing Lissandra/trundle getting run over by Scout deck with Stony Suppressor was very satisfying.
Ranked ladder rewards are Standard cards only?
Did anyone notice that the ranked ladder seasonal reward epic card (of April) was a duplicate? I am missing quite a few Wild epics still, but did not receive any of them. Perhaps only Standard cards are offered as ranked ladder seasonal rewards?
Although somewhat understandable, it is not mentioned specifically anywhere in-game, I think 🤔
This is not really meant as a complaint, but it does feel bad that the Wild cardpool is not included (at least so it seems). Especially since you can reach Diamond 5 also in both Wild and Classic modes nowadays.
CHEESE'S BATTLEGROUNDS EXPANSIONS (14/07/2021: New Uldum-based expansion)
Ha, two battlegrounds projects within a day of each other, nice coincidence! I really really like this, changing Bob's Tavern (he will be missed) to the Grim Guzzler is such a cool idea. I like your Dark Iron tribe, it feels different enough to the Quillboars to be cool, and flavour wise its a whole other kettle of fish. Your heroes are cool and unique and I like the expansion of Frenzy as a mechanic within Battlegrounds. Great job!
Will Taliyah Receive a Buff?
I hope so, Taliyah has too many weakness right now.
Rewards Track: Current progress 2.0
I am currently at level 108 and I picked up Demonbane Illidan, but did not use him ever since yet. Demon Hunter is not one of the top dogs now unfortunately.
I have to agree with the meta being quite boring at this moment. Hopefully Team 5 will address it soon™.
By the way, did anyone notice that the seasonal epic card (of April) was a duplicate? I am missing quite a few Wild epics still, but did not receive any of them. Perhaps only Standard cards are offered as seasonal rewards? Although somewhat understandable, it is not mentioned specifically anywhere in-game 🤔
EDIT: Seasonal ranked ladder rewards are indeed Standard only cards according to this official Blizzard blog post.
Group Therapy! Need to blow off some steam? Mega salty? Here's the place!
FUCK aggro.
CHEESE'S BATTLEGROUNDS EXPANSIONS (14/07/2021: New Uldum-based expansion)
GRIM ENCOUNTERS
A Hearthstone Battlegrounds expansion
Everyone, get in here and welcome to the Grim Guzzler! I'm Plugger Spazzing, the boss of this place, and from now on I'll be your host. Our beloved Bob unfortunately had to take a break for reasons totally unrelated to me (just ask my laywer). Six years ago, a horde of adventurers paying a children's card game ransacked my bar just for fun. But now, we're back in business! If you like beer, brawls, literal hot chicks, brawls, and getting in here, this is the place for you! Did I say brawls already? 'Cause that's important! Here's what we have in store today:
(Note: I started this before Quilboars were revealed, I didn't expect they would have such a similar mechanic)
THE SET
Emperor Thaurissan
Coren Direbrew
(only available when Dark Irons are present)
High Justice Grimstone
War Master Voone
Do note that Nagmara's availability is tied to the Demon tag and not the Dark Iron tag, due to the fact that she generates Pints herself so her effect isn't useless when DI are absent.
Do note that Nagmara's availability is tied to the Dark Iron tag and not the Elemental tag. Unlike Nagmara, Alemental would be useless without DIs.
PLUGGER SPAZZRING'S LINES
The new bartender isn't as nice as Bob...
Start of game
Random during preparation phase
Random when buying minion
Goldenize a minion
Upgrade Tavern
Freeze minions
Before fight
After fight (win)
After fight (lose)
After game (promoting Tavern Ticket)
New Targon Spell - Ground Slam
This card's effect is pretty good. It's similar to Aftershock in that it deals 3 damage for 4 mana with additional utility, except this can't target the enemy Nexus and is Fast instead of Slow. It's not the most mana-efficient effect, but it's pretty versatile, which is a very valuable trait to have, especially in a region with almost no other damage-based removal spells.
The big problem is the landmark requirement. Most Targon meta decks have exactly zero landmarks: Zoe + Lee, Zoe + ASol and Nightfall decks would just be getting a 4-mana stun spell, which is pretty bad. Soraka + TK has 3 landmark cards, which is insufficient to give this card any kind of consistency. Right now this only seems viable in potential Malphite decks. 3/5
New Targon Card - Stonebreaker
6 mana buys you a lot of value with this card... IF you fulfill its 4 landmark requirement, which is not easy. Even then, the 6/4 body will be most useful on defense, threatening to trade with a big enemy threat, because no combat abilities makes him pretty questionable on offense. Unless the entire enemy board was stunned by Malphite's Unstoppable Force, I suppose. 3/5
New Targon Champion - Malphite
A couple notes on Malphite:
1. You can advance his level up progress by playing units. Landmarks generated by Rock Hopper and Blue Sentinel count as 2-mana landmarks each.
2. Stunning all enemy units with Unstoppable Force is reminiscent of the Swain Leviathan combo, but there's a big difference: Unstoppable Force only works on offense, not on defense, because you get a fleeting copy of it whenever you gain the attack token.
Malphite himself is very strong, and will likely be the main win condition of any deck he's in. This is a massive boost to landmark-heavy decks, and while Malphite will do a ton of work in those decks, the question is whether his supporting cards will be good enough to make for a competitively viable deck. 5/5
Rewards Track: Current progress 2.0
Take it easy, you are quite far in the track compared to most people, you wil just burn out. But yeah, hoping for more achivement xp reward so it encourage you to try diffrent deck
Renounce Council
I crafted 2 golden Renounce Darkness's back in the day and it's my favorite card by a mile, the complete opposite of mindlessly playing a meta deck. Big surprise factor and amazing for the amount of positive friend requests it generates. But honestly the decks never been that good and were too dependent on the mulligan.
This deck has a lot of cards I hadn't considered including, and is so much better than what I had before, even if you are super unlucky. I was at 5hp with both RD's and 1 Council at the bottom of the deck. Drew Soularium, it drew a Renounce and I would have been able to play Reno. Unfortunately it also drew the one bomb in my deck, but I still felt good about it. :)
[Wild Legend] Carnassa Quest Hunter
Happy to have given you a reason to recraft the quest! Toxmonger is also one of my favorite cards, I also used to run it with elven archer back in the day. I tried Pen Flinger in this list for a while but there are so few spells it hardly ever got bounced and then it got nerfed anyway.
Will Taliyah Receive a Buff?
Well, it's not exactly a hidden issue that Taliyah is the worst champion in the game by far. I held some hope and expectations that the new Landmark synergies such as Zilean or Malphite would be enough, but I often wouldn't include her in the deck in the end. Regardless if Landmark decks are good, not a lot of the new cards synergize well with her, in my opinion, so she would probably still be unplayable.
Now I'm not going to suggest what kind of buff she needs because she has a lot of issues that any buff suggestion would become reasonable. The question now is, will she get buffed? Will Riot think ahead and buff Taliyah alongside the release of the new expansion so that people will actually play Taliyah?
If they are going to do it, I don't actually think that we should wait for 2-4 weeks after the release because I don't want to play the new decks with Taliyah in them and get absolutely stomped. I'm actually betting that they are going to buff Taliyah, and I'm also going to bet that the buff will not be enough to make her playable as a competitive deck but rather a meme deck. I did hear through some rumors that Shurima's landmark support won't end here but would also continue towards the next expansion, but I really don't want to wait for 2 more months for Taliyah to be sorta ok. So hopefully, by the end of this, I was either wrong and Taliyah is actually good, or I shouldn't have doubted Riot in the first place and they actually had buffed Taliyah. I'm not even a Taliyah simp or a Taliyah main in League. I just don't to see a Champion with a depressing 30% WR.