It all feels very rush, like we've been sitting down here twiddling our thumbs for the last 2 weeks only to find out that the reveals lasts less than a week before the final dump.
Wonder who was that genius in blizz that decided this was a good idea. I mean, they're having that theorycrafting giveaway, but then proceed to give us somewhere around 1 day after the full reveals to submit a list out.
Besides which, what about your own giveaway @Fluxflashor? Since submissions will end on the 18th (that's like day 3 of the reveals), is there any plans to push the date further up now that blizz has revealed their hand?
Pretty sure there is some sort of delay involved. I'm almost certain that the original release date was supposed to be the 23rd, but for reasons unknown it had to be delayed by a week (reasons that may or may not have occured shortly before or after Blizzcon) which is why this all feels rushed (when in reality it's just sort of pushed together instead of spread out evenly)
Yeah, but I think Rook was asking more of when does patch 20.0 launch? They said it'd be before the expansion launch. My guess is maybe following the final reveal, or the day after. But definitely going to be sometime after the final reveal but before the Pre-Release weekend (March 26). They need the cards patched into the game so people can open them and use them during the pre-release event.
yeah, a bit tired of BM kibler, day9 or krip always on the streams, is always good seeing new faces
Kibler still pretty involved, but I don't think I've seen Kripp on a final reveal stream in a LONG time. And pretty sure Day[9] quit playing Hearthstone around Rastakhan's Rumble. I know this because the launch day for that set I noticed all the HS streamers I follow on Twitch were in opening packs and/or playing the game, but he was playing MtGA. I don't know exactly when, but some time during the Boomsday expansion after MtGA came out he stopped with HS and that's basically his only CCG he plays now. Not counting things like Slay the Spire
Well he hates women, so he'll probably hide all of the breasts! Because he finds them to be quite disgusting! LOL
For those who don't know or watch Lt Eddy: First, you are missing out. Second, this is in reference to something said on one of his Mishaps videos. It's meant as a joke. Don't freak out!
With the Galakrond shaman cards and Spirit Claws unnerfed, all of my class wild cards unnerf wishlist has been fulfilled. If they unnerfed Undertaker and Dragonqueen Alexstrasza, then I'll be the happiest man alive.
It all feels very rush, like we've been sitting down here twiddling our thumbs for the last 2 weeks only to find out that the reveals lasts less than a week before the final dump.
Wonder who was that genius in blizz that decided this was a good idea. I mean, they're having that theorycrafting giveaway, but then proceed to give us somewhere around 1 day after the full reveals to submit a list out.
Besides which, what about your own giveaway @Fluxflashor? Since submissions will end on the 18th (that's like day 3 2 of the reveals), is there any plans to push the date further up now that blizz has revealed their hand?
Anyone else concerned that there's only 20 cards revealed by the community/new sites? Afaik, previous expansions have had more than double that number...
They usually take a while to get them all up. I don't know why, but there are times where we're still adding them even during the reveal period itself.
I'm guessing a lot of it is left to last minute and people are slow to respond to their emails confirming they will be a part of reveal period. I can confirm though we weren't invited :
I actually left them obnoxious intentionally as a way to very easily identify which ones need to have custom names on them. Today has been a tad busy though so it hasn't been handled yet >.>
I'm not even sure if I'm more happy or more concerned, but Odd Rogue is a beast. I've had two or three losses from start of the season to Diamond 5 with a 9 star bonus. That's what, 75%? 80%? The longest win streak was 9 games because I played and lost with another deck on one or two occasions. It's insane how aggressive this deck is, the synergies are almost at Secret Mage level.
Super highroll highlight: a Darkglare Warlock had won the board and threatened lethal. I had nothing helpful in hand. My only out was Secret Passage into Leeroy Jenkins into Nitroboost Poison. Which is exactly what happened.
(Don't get me wrong, I know this was insanely lucky. Most of the other games weren't. The deck is so consistent it reminds me of Secret Mage, and I'm not even a good Rogue player (190 wins or something).)
Bringing in another incident report, yeah! we had a couple hours of downtime this morning due to issues with our hosting provider.
What makes this scary was when I went to sleep the night before knowing that OVH's SBG-2 data center burned down to the ground. Not kidding, it caught on fire and is a total heap of trash now. It also took out a part of SBG-1. SBG-3 and SBG-4 which are the other two parts of that deployment were taken offline and OVH is currently working on getting what is left of SBG-1 and 3+4 back online over the next 9 days.
Now, this fire didn't occur where we host Out of Cards so that wasn't an issue. But when your host is OVH and you wake up to a dead server, what do you think my first thought was?
Event Log
All times in Eastern.
7:52 AM - Alarms sound that the site is offline.
7:52 AM - Automated notification of a hardware fault on our server from our data center.
10:31 AM - Site is back online.
What Happened
It turns out your server goes offline when they decided to re-cable all the gear!
OVH went through and replaced "a large number of power supply cables" due to a potential problem with their insulation. The maintenance required was critical and also took out networking for some time on the rack our hardware is in which extended our downtime.
In an ideal situation, we'd have better failover protocols and hardware in place if something were to happen at our primary data center. Unfortunately, it isn't justifiable at this point in time to have that with the costs involved. We keep regular multi-location backups so that we can be up and running somewhere else if disaster strikes within a fairly short time frame, having containerized infrastructure helps quite a bit with the agility here, but there will always be some downtime if that happens. We lost some ad revenue and I know it was an inconvenience for people trying to access the site. I think we'll all live though!
Today's downtime gave us an opportunity to confirm our disaster recovery situation and that our backups work properly. If you were to learn something from this situation its that you shouldn't wait until a potential disaster strikes to make sure you have stuff in working order. Your backups are only good if they actually work!
I feel bad for everyone who lost critical information in the fires today. Sometimes it isn't even the fault of developers or the IT department for having poor backup practices. Sometimes your CEO just doesn't think it is necessary to spend money on a backup solution elsewhere to keep your data synced to at least one outside source. It's always fun when that same person who said it wasn't needed starts screaming and asking why there aren't backups in place when something really goes wrong and puts the blame back on them. We call those people assholes.
I don't recommend torching your data center as a method to wake up though.
Tavern brawl is just a zombie of its former self, done just for the sake of it and to award a weekly pack to those who would suffer it. And I'm completely okay with that.
Of course, for every good brawl there's always going to be bad ones, this one for example and perhaps the worst of the worst the brawl with raven idol in it. But at its core, it has always been a more laid back mode for casual play, one that rarely requires its participants to sweat over it.
Could it be better? Sure. I've never understood why team5 didn't just use the weekly tavern brawl for actual experimentation of nerfs, buffs, new card descriptions, or just to offer us a glimpse of a new mode, etc. The data would have been invaluable; play testing planned changes in exchange for a pack. Perhaps its because then there would be a need to constantly patch the game and they couldn't be bothered to do it or risk bugs, but it does seem to me a waste.
Good for Regis. I don't mind Kibler. Both he and Kripp offer reasonable insights into the new cards. Kripp doesn't always seem to remember cards from other recent expansions bc he only plays standard for about 2 weeks after expansion launch, but really no big deal. I feel like Regis would give a more casual player's opinion. Though, i'm sure that they all have talking points given to them by blizzard on the cards during these events.
Forged in the Barrens Launches on March 30! Final Reveal Stream on March 22, Twitch Drops, Mega Bundles Giveaway
can't wait for Kripp to give great insight via his founded knowledge on the current state of the Standard meta :^)
Forged In The Barrens - Card Reveal Schedule
Pretty sure there is some sort of delay involved. I'm almost certain that the original release date was supposed to be the 23rd, but for reasons unknown it had to be delayed by a week (reasons that may or may not have occured shortly before or after Blizzcon) which is why this all feels rushed (when in reality it's just sort of pushed together instead of spread out evenly)
Forged in the Barrens Launches on March 30! Final Reveal Stream on March 22, Twitch Drops, Mega Bundles Giveaway
Yeah, but I think Rook was asking more of when does patch 20.0 launch? They said it'd be before the expansion launch. My guess is maybe following the final reveal, or the day after. But definitely going to be sometime after the final reveal but before the Pre-Release weekend (March 26). They need the cards patched into the game so people can open them and use them during the pre-release event.
Blizzard Confirms the Hearthstone Nerf Reverts for Shaman, Warlock, and Warrior
Shame that the spell damage totem is being replaced, which makes Spirit Claws much worse, but ah well.
Forged in the Barrens Launches on March 30! Final Reveal Stream on March 22, Twitch Drops, Mega Bundles Giveaway
Kibler still pretty involved, but I don't think I've seen Kripp on a final reveal stream in a LONG time. And pretty sure Day[9] quit playing Hearthstone around Rastakhan's Rumble. I know this because the launch day for that set I noticed all the HS streamers I follow on Twitch were in opening packs and/or playing the game, but he was playing MtGA. I don't know exactly when, but some time during the Boomsday expansion after MtGA came out he stopped with HS and that's basically his only CCG he plays now. Not counting things like Slay the Spire
Forged in the Barrens Launches on March 30! Final Reveal Stream on March 22, Twitch Drops, Mega Bundles Giveaway
He's done the final stream at least once before. I forget which set he did it for. Maybe one of the Year of the Dragon sets.
Forged in the Barrens Launches on March 30! Final Reveal Stream on March 22, Twitch Drops, Mega Bundles Giveaway
Well he hates women, so he'll probably hide all of the breasts! Because he finds them to be quite disgusting! LOL
For those who don't know or watch Lt Eddy: First, you are missing out. Second, this is in reference to something said on one of his Mishaps videos. It's meant as a joke. Don't freak out!
Blizzard Confirms the Hearthstone Nerf Reverts for Shaman, Warlock, and Warrior
With the Galakrond shaman cards and Spirit Claws unnerfed, all of my class wild cards unnerf wishlist has been fulfilled. If they unnerfed Undertaker and Dragonqueen Alexstrasza, then I'll be the happiest man alive.
Blizzard Confirms the Hearthstone Nerf Reverts for Shaman, Warlock, and Warrior
So basically, nothing changes?
Forged in the Barrens Launches on March 30! Final Reveal Stream on March 22, Twitch Drops, Mega Bundles Giveaway
Theorycrafting by a bunch of battlegrounds streamers, give it to some lesser known constructed streamers instead.
Forged in the Barrens Launches on March 30! Final Reveal Stream on March 22, Twitch Drops, Mega Bundles Giveaway
Hide the bobs Eddy
Forged In The Barrens - Card Reveal Schedule
It all feels very rush, like we've been sitting down here twiddling our thumbs for the last 2 weeks only to find out that the reveals lasts less than a week before the final dump.
Wonder who was that genius in blizz that decided this was a good idea. I mean, they're having that theorycrafting giveaway, but then proceed to give us somewhere around 1 day after the full reveals to submit a list out.
Besides which, what about your own giveaway @Fluxflashor? Since submissions will end on the 18th (that's like day 3 2 of the reveals), is there any plans to push the date further up now that blizz has revealed their hand?
Hearthstone's 300th Tavern Brawl is Just a Hallucination... I Hope - The Disappointing Nature of Tavern Brawl
Maybe theyre gonna do once Diablo 4 will come out/has come out
New Neutral Minion - Razormane Raider
Feels like pack filler
New Neutral Minion - Mankrik
Kinda wish the card we found was the spirit of mankricks wife from the shadowlands.
Forged in the Barrens Launches on March 30! Final Reveal Stream on March 22, Twitch Drops, Mega Bundles Giveaway
Cool, I got that day off. Going to have a comfy day of HS pack opening and playing new decks
Forged In The Barrens - Card Reveal Schedule
They usually take a while to get them all up. I don't know why, but there are times where we're still adding them even during the reveal period itself.
I'm guessing a lot of it is left to last minute and people are slow to respond to their emails confirming they will be a part of reveal period. I can confirm though we weren't invited :
New Neutral Minion - Peon
I cant wait to hear the voice lines
Hearthstone's 300th Tavern Brawl is Just a Hallucination... I Hope - The Disappointing Nature of Tavern Brawl
If only I mentioned that in the article :P
Little tweak?
I actually left them obnoxious intentionally as a way to very easily identify which ones need to have custom names on them. Today has been a tad busy though so it hasn't been handled yet >.>
The Pepper Thread - Share Some Good Vibes!
I'm not even sure if I'm more happy or more concerned, but Odd Rogue is a beast. I've had two or three losses from start of the season to Diamond 5 with a 9 star bonus. That's what, 75%? 80%? The longest win streak was 9 games because I played and lost with another deck on one or two occasions. It's insane how aggressive this deck is, the synergies are almost at Secret Mage level.
Super highroll highlight: a Darkglare Warlock had won the board and threatened lethal. I had nothing helpful in hand. My only out was Secret Passage into Leeroy Jenkins into Nitroboost Poison. Which is exactly what happened.
(Don't get me wrong, I know this was insanely lucky. Most of the other games weren't. The deck is so consistent it reminds me of Secret Mage, and I'm not even a good Rogue player (190 wins or something).)
Out of Cards Incident Report - 2021-03-10
Hey all,
Bringing in another incident report, yeah! we had a couple hours of downtime this morning due to issues with our hosting provider.
What makes this scary was when I went to sleep the night before knowing that OVH's SBG-2 data center burned down to the ground. Not kidding, it caught on fire and is a total heap of trash now. It also took out a part of SBG-1. SBG-3 and SBG-4 which are the other two parts of that deployment were taken offline and OVH is currently working on getting what is left of SBG-1 and 3+4 back online over the next 9 days.
Now, this fire didn't occur where we host Out of Cards so that wasn't an issue. But when your host is OVH and you wake up to a dead server, what do you think my first thought was?
Event Log
All times in Eastern.
7:52 AM - Alarms sound that the site is offline.
7:52 AM - Automated notification of a hardware fault on our server from our data center.
10:31 AM - Site is back online.
What Happened
It turns out your server goes offline when they decided to re-cable all the gear!
OVH went through and replaced "a large number of power supply cables" due to a potential problem with their insulation. The maintenance required was critical and also took out networking for some time on the rack our hardware is in which extended our downtime.
In an ideal situation, we'd have better failover protocols and hardware in place if something were to happen at our primary data center. Unfortunately, it isn't justifiable at this point in time to have that with the costs involved. We keep regular multi-location backups so that we can be up and running somewhere else if disaster strikes within a fairly short time frame, having containerized infrastructure helps quite a bit with the agility here, but there will always be some downtime if that happens. We lost some ad revenue and I know it was an inconvenience for people trying to access the site. I think we'll all live though!
Today's downtime gave us an opportunity to confirm our disaster recovery situation and that our backups work properly. If you were to learn something from this situation its that you shouldn't wait until a potential disaster strikes to make sure you have stuff in working order. Your backups are only good if they actually work!
I feel bad for everyone who lost critical information in the fires today. Sometimes it isn't even the fault of developers or the IT department for having poor backup practices. Sometimes your CEO just doesn't think it is necessary to spend money on a backup solution elsewhere to keep your data synced to at least one outside source. It's always fun when that same person who said it wasn't needed starts screaming and asking why there aren't backups in place when something really goes wrong and puts the blame back on them. We call those people assholes.
I don't recommend torching your data center as a method to wake up though.
Hearthstone's 300th Tavern Brawl is Just a Hallucination... I Hope - The Disappointing Nature of Tavern Brawl
Tavern brawl is just a zombie of its former self, done just for the sake of it and to award a weekly pack to those who would suffer it. And I'm completely okay with that.
Of course, for every good brawl there's always going to be bad ones, this one for example and perhaps the worst of the worst the brawl with raven idol in it. But at its core, it has always been a more laid back mode for casual play, one that rarely requires its participants to sweat over it.
Could it be better? Sure. I've never understood why team5 didn't just use the weekly tavern brawl for actual experimentation of nerfs, buffs, new card descriptions, or just to offer us a glimpse of a new mode, etc. The data would have been invaluable; play testing planned changes in exchange for a pack. Perhaps its because then there would be a need to constantly patch the game and they couldn't be bothered to do it or risk bugs, but it does seem to me a waste.
Little tweak?
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Tricky, as it all does it consistently hide the links :D
Love a bit of flex-ing
Forged in the Barrens Launches on March 30! Final Reveal Stream on March 22, Twitch Drops, Mega Bundles Giveaway
Good for Regis. I don't mind Kibler. Both he and Kripp offer reasonable insights into the new cards. Kripp doesn't always seem to remember cards from other recent expansions bc he only plays standard for about 2 weeks after expansion launch, but really no big deal. I feel like Regis would give a more casual player's opinion. Though, i'm sure that they all have talking points given to them by blizzard on the cards during these events.