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Thanks sinti. I had to google what Phoenix Point was. Took a while but now I can clearly see that it's a tentacle-claw thing.

Hey, hello.

This deck looks megafun, but I'm missing Chillmaw and Whatley. How good is this deck? Or maybe any ideas for replacements? Thanks!

I like his concept, as for his viability I can't tell for sure before playing him but he look like a worse version of Riven.

I do. That hair! Ugh!

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I forgot that she'll get a book of heroes. Thats the only one I'm excited for and will probably buy. 

My prediction is that the biggest difference between Valeera's BoH skin and her basic one will be the absence of those glorious and utterly ridiculous shoulder spikes. There's a small chance of white hair and demonic runes (she better at least have those in one of the Tavern Pass skins!), but her clothing has never really changed much beyond the shoulders. 

Her story itself should be a nice little detour from the main Warcraft storyline that all the others tell, though it does link up with quite a few of the HS heroes (there's one event where Valeera, Anduin, Jaina, Thrall and Garrosh are all on the same side in a fight, and I assume Valeera will be the one to tell us about it). I'm most interested to see how they handle some of the stuff which involves Med'an, and is therefore in a weird quantum state of being both canon and non-canon.

Fun fact: the first two volumes of the comic that tells most of her story credit a certain Ben Brode for 'additional development'. So that might be a hint about who first suggested using her as the basic rogue hero.

I've never liked the Hall of Fame at all, so I'm hoping that there will be a bit of rotation during each expansion meta, with some of the basics and classics rotating in and out, something along those lines. . . the wild meta seems just too set in its OP ways for any real meta changes, so the HoF becomes a kind of permanent exile for any cards that don't make that particular cut (which is nearly all cards that rotate into wild). I think periodic returns of cards like Sylvanas and Edwin, or even Power Overwhelming and the despicable Ice Lance can only help in keeping the meta fresh and interesting in those 4 month stretches.

Just as needlessly-complicated as the real thing! lol

I'll have to try that Menagerie Taunt Warrior: I love Fire Plume's Heart, and I have everything but Ringmaster Whatley. I'm surprised there's no Sword Eaters, though.

Nice event!

I opened my gifts, but the shop doesn't say I already have them. I see I do have those borders in account management.

I hope there won't be any possibility of someone who already had them from the gifts purchasing them from the shop and simply wasting their snowflakes.

I liked being able to get full dust for any card going to the HoF. I guess if they make new dust sources it will be okay. No point in freaking out until we know their full plans at any rate.

My biggest fear is that we would have a repeat of Galakrond Shaman. Thankfully that doesn't seem to be the case. Not being able to Boggspine and Dread Corsair on the same turn should help a little bit, but it remains to be seen if shaman will still dominate.

I don't know if making Boggspine have 1 durability would make the deck too weak, but I think I'd rather that than making the evolve a battlecry, as that would kill any chances of getting evolve off of Pillager.

Sunstruck Henchman?

Thanks for your feedback linkblade.

I think I will post as soon as I'll get to home, but I have one question for anybody who would have time to answer: If I would choose to submit Balance Keeper, do you think it would be good to change its text to Choose One: Your next card costs (1) less; or your opponent's one costs (1) more, of course with some stats tweaking, as well as long as the longer text doesn't make the card inelegant, though I will be able to judge myself.

It´s all right, mate :) I ain´t affraid of little friendly competition :D

I forgot that she'll get a book of heroes. Thats the only one I'm excited for and will probably buy. 

Level 50 portraits: weirdly, I kinda like all of them but don't want any. They all seem too busy for thumbnail portraits. Full art probably awesome. I'll pick Nightslayer Valeera. 

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Relax and wait? Have you been around last year?
EVERY TIME there is a change, it's in our worst interest. Battle pass, rewards, new modes, always motivated by greed.
From now on, reacting as soon as possible, because - and save my words on this - blizzard will try to screw us from the get go.
The battle pass was the perfect incarnation of that:
- present by e-mail a test on battle pass to see some reaction
- people freakout with the model, say "it's just a version, not the definitive thing"
- implement  an even worse/greedier  version
- be silent for a month, A F#$%ING month
- after that, implement a battle pass that is what should have been the first version, but since they released such a crap one, it seems great by this time.

No, no wait and relax!

I mean, what else do you want to do? Complain about something you don't even know about?

Besides that:

-the implemented battlepass version was better than the one from the survey

-they were NOT silent for a month. They made posts explaining their intentions(Including that their intention is to give more gold/non gold rewards) and made smaller Adjustments before the final one.

- the xp discount for the rewards track was planned to be given out during the Christmas event. So even the base version of the Battlepass wa s objectively better than the old system. People just couldn't realise it because Blizzard didn't communicated the event xp well enough.

That's not a place to talk about balance patches though.

I do want to play him now. I only crafted him a couple weeks ago anyway because I'm fairly new (1 year exp), didn't have him, have decided rogue is my favorite class, and thought (like everyone else) he'd get the HoF treatment, and I'd get my dust back. 

I'm not mad. I just have the same questions and anticipation for what is coming with this future rotation thing. Blizzard does have a plan, and they're doing things that are consistent with it, but we don't see the whole picture and can easily get frustrated with the lack of clarity. 

My thoughts right now on these nerfs & potential next meta:

-Edwin VanCleef: This is a GIANT nerf, that is like 6 years overdue. This weakens Edwin VanCleef a bit, BUT the Foxy Fraud into [Hearthstone Card (Backstep) Not Found] into Foxy Fraud into 0 mana Edwin VanCleef combo still exists.. This nerf will make BIG Edwin VanCleefs that steal games less common which is always a good thing. Also now by the time you play the BIG [Hearthstone Card (Edwin Cancleef) Not Found], your opponent will now have a 3 drop on the field. So that makes it easier to clear it. 

The most interesting thing is that i heard people say that edwin rotates? (Didn't see any RECENT announcement about it yet, but i do remember that they said that they were keeping a close eye on edwin last year.) If Edwin rotates that will be a big hit to all rogue archetypes, so i hope they will add a GOOD, and not a broken legendary in exchange. (And i kinda hope they will buff Edwin back to 3 mana if it rotates, it's not THAT bad in wild. Most good/meta wild Rogue decks don't run Edwin, last time i checked..)

-Boggspine Knuckles: AMAZING NERF! The +1 mana cost option wouldn't have really changed things, but this 1 attack nerf is HUGE. Now Shamans can't go FACE with their 4 Boggspine Knuckles for 32 Damage! Now they only deal 24 damage if all swings go FACE! Not only that, but now Dread Corsair can't get reduced to 0 mana, now Shamans actually need to pay 1 mana for it! This will seriously tone down Evolve shaman and i'm so glad it gets toned down! But i also feel bad about Shaman players. First their main favorite class was the worst in the game, and then it became meta OP AF and now their going back to being close to, if not the worst class again. Why is Shaman ALWAYS horrible, or OP AF and never inbetween?...

Well with these 2 aggro BEASTS of decks nerfed, i think the meta will change i little bit. Pure paladin remains a strong deck, and now it's biggest counter Whirlkick Rogue took a big hit, so that deck is a lot better than before. Actually now that i look at it, Pure Paladins only really bad matchup is Galakrondlock and Secret Rogue. Both of those decks were completely oppressed by Evolve Shaman so they might be playable now? And those 2 decks are both weak to Face Hunter. And Face Hunter is HORRIBLE against Pure Paladin. So my guess is that the next "meta" triangle will be:

Pure Paladin -Beats-> Face Hunter -Beats-> Galakrondlock & Secret Rogue* -Beats-> Pure Paladin. 

*Galakrondlock has good WR against Secret Rogue so that might weaken Secret Rogue a bit.

That being said i really hope the next meta will be a lot more fun! Cuz that's what i feel HS needs a lot more right now.

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