I rather spend 1000 gold on packs, or saving it for next expansion, than gambling it on this thing. (or spend it on... the arena *shudders*) The average player gets around 3 wins in this, so it's a HUGE waste of gold. The only players that can truly benefit from this are either: 1: EXTREMELY lucky/RNGesus himself, or 2: HIGH Legend players, like top 100, or 3: Professional HS players that go to tournaments like Firebat, Thijs & Hunterace. I'm not "angry" because there is no free ticket, as that only happened once before. But i still feel a bit... disappointed as this was the only real way to earn some kind of reward this event. And because this is the tavern brawl, were losing out on one of the weekly free packs.
When are we getting a REAL event? Like "get gold & dust as quest rewards" (60 gold quest gives 60 gold & 60 Dust), increased amount of gold from quests, that new gamemode that was teased in the 2020 road map (i really hope that wasn't just Book of Heroes), specials tavern brawls + lot's of rewards (Doom in the Tomb, Etc.), or something else that's big like buffs to some bad cards/archetypes? The only thing we got without having to pay lots of money, or gold is 40 dust 1 free mage pack... Heck, even the new battlegrounds heroes were locked behind the battlegrounds perks 2000 gold paywall.
Now that i think about it, it almost feels like the mage pack from book of heroes was rather some kind of compensation for the loss of a classic pack because of the heroic brawliseum...
Thanks for the nice guide! Played standard to the legend for 9 seasons a row now and started to play wild ladder (EU) a few days ago. I started with your list at first but didn't get so good success with it so I made little bit changes for it and added a dragon package to it.
I'm 7-0 now with this list and thoughts about Malygos, Aspect of Magic is that it adds more removal vs these Priests, Druids and Warlocks. Especially when played it with Brann. Also 1 mana sheep is great with Frost Lich Jaina. Anyway, I'm only at Diamond now but having a great success and decided to share my changes to you also.
Dragonqueen Alexstrasza gives me more pressure vs control matchups and can even give me a win condition if lucky but that isn't necessarily.
My feels about Barista Lynchen is that usually an opponent just removes my board before I can get enough value of it and when I can get enough value of it I'm already winning that match. Also I got tons of value already with Brann Bronzebeard + Zola the Gorgon
Yeah they definitely announced all their stuff too early imo. Game development takes a long time, even with a preexisting IP like with what Second Dinner was doing and when they announced their first project, it was very much just saying "hey we got the approval for this" instead of any actual proof of concept.
Activision is slowly transforming every game it owns on "random mobile cash grab trash". HS is going down this road for a while now: decks now need more legendaries and epics, less free things over the whole year, more "spend this gold you carefully saved for months if you want some fun!" and now they will mess with how much gold you can get between expansions with a rework of daily quests.... there is also the tinfoil theory that this whole new ranked mode "find an opponent equal to your skill and not in your rank" just to manipulate a custom skinner box for each player, so they can spend more time playing, not necessarily having fun (no more casual players waiting until end of the month and rushing rank 5).
I always managed to save 8-9k gold between expansions, this expansion is the only one that i barely played, can't craft anything...
Yes. She left HS to work on another department on Blizz. But she announced shortly thereafter that she got offered a better deal and is leaving Blizzard after all. It turns out it was this new company.
I love how most of us (if not all) expecting a freebie from tavern brawl this week. ~(˘▾˘~).
Clearly, Hearthstone doesn't know how to satisfy our need as gamer.
They could've easily turn Arena Mode itself to be a Heroic mode (or create a new heroic mode) and still doesn't dissapoint most player who doesn't play it.
This is too much. This is truly the definition of lazy.
They are still chugging along on their Marvel licensed title. No idea what the project is; haven’t had any game updates in a while. But occasionally see announcements of staff they’ve added. So I assume either the Marvel game or some other title are still being worked on
I played against you today didn't I? I was completing the quest and I remember you having Solarian and Janalai but otherwise it was my list.
Janalai is really really slow. I used to have her as well in the list but meta is just too fast nowadays for her. If you don't have Ragnaros yet,try Siamat or Cloud Prince instead of him. Both of those Elementals have some nice synergies with the deck and Cloud Prince may rival the spotof Ragnaros in overall utility(they both have strong pros and cons)
Solarian is a good choice and you indeed swapped Starscryer for her. Both cards have their usability in the deck. In our match we could clearly see that Starscryer was more important. I found my DK Jaina way more earlier since I had more cycle and I denied your by Dirty Rating the Jepetto. However even with early Jaina the game could go way more longer, but you wasted both Zola and Barista for pressuring value instead of going infinite value. Which was crucial for my victory once we start hitting fatique, where Bankers,Baristas and Branns started their full shennanigans.
Gg. Good luck in your next games and hopefully my rambling about card choices helped)
Let's see, 1000g entry fee, you need 5 or 6 wins to break even, my average wins in Arena is 2.5, ... <types furiously on calculator> ..., yeah, it is a hard pass on this one.
That's a very narrow minded view my friend. Take the example of the They Who Endure deck, it existed since the beta but back then it was considered to be nothing but a meme deck, because you did nothing but spam blockers hoping that you would draw They Who Endure and Atrocity before your opponent could finish you off. It's not until the release rising tides that the deck became top tier, because it got access to the infamous Blighted Caretaker into Cursed Keeper combo among other things. allowing you to trade effectively while boosting They Who Endure.
Long story short if it wasn't for the card mentioned above endure wouldn't be seeing much play.
I think that the true problematic card is [Hearthstone Card (Warning Shot) Not Found] that card enable so many powerful play for free ( Sejuani, Riptide Rex, any plunder card ) and worst of all you can't interrupt it.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
This is really tough. Lets try to pick it apart.
Letter - could be a that archaic form of e-mails that usually contains bills or other bad news; or: a part of the alphabet
fever - first associations are sick(ness) and hot
Jaffa - I actually had to google this. It's a former city in Israel, being part of Tel-Aviv today. There are also Jaffa-oranges and -cakes.
Urban - first associations are city, town. But there were also no less than 8 popes of that name.
It might not be important, but I noticed that Letter, Jaffa and Urban are written with capital letters while fever isn't.
Heed these words to pull back the curtain - immediate association is One Night in Karazhan
So far I haven't been able to put the pieces together. Maybe we should all go back to giving reasons for our guesses so we can work it out together?
Heroic Brawliseum
I rather spend 1000 gold on packs, or saving it for next expansion, than gambling it on this thing. (or spend it on... the arena *shudders*) The average player gets around 3 wins in this, so it's a HUGE waste of gold. The only players that can truly benefit from this are either: 1: EXTREMELY lucky/RNGesus himself, or 2: HIGH Legend players, like top 100, or 3: Professional HS players that go to tournaments like Firebat, Thijs & Hunterace. I'm not "angry" because there is no free ticket, as that only happened once before. But i still feel a bit... disappointed as this was the only real way to earn some kind of reward this event. And because this is the tavern brawl, were losing out on one of the weekly free packs.
When are we getting a REAL event? Like "get gold & dust as quest rewards" (60 gold quest gives 60 gold & 60 Dust), increased amount of gold from quests, that new gamemode that was teased in the 2020 road map (i really hope that wasn't just Book of Heroes), specials tavern brawls + lot's of rewards (Doom in the Tomb, Etc.), or something else that's big like buffs to some bad cards/archetypes? The only thing we got without having to pay lots of money, or gold is 40 dust 1 free mage pack... Heck, even the new battlegrounds heroes were locked behind the battlegrounds perks 2000 gold paywall.
Now that i think about it, it almost feels like the mage pack from book of heroes was rather some kind of compensation for the loss of a classic pack because of the heroic brawliseum...
Legendary Reno DK Mage
Thanks for the nice guide! Played standard to the legend for 9 seasons a row now and started to play wild ladder (EU) a few days ago. I started with your list at first but didn't get so good success with it so I made little bit changes for it and added a dragon package to it.
- Removed Depth Charge, Explosive Sheep, Flame Ward, Barista Lynchen and Jepetto Joybuzz
+ Added Arcane Breath, Cobalt Spellkin, Malygos, Aspect of Magic, Dragonqueen Alexstrasza, Kalecgos
I'm 7-0 now with this list and thoughts about Malygos, Aspect of Magic is that it adds more removal vs these Priests, Druids and Warlocks. Especially when played it with Brann. Also 1 mana sheep is great with Frost Lich Jaina. Anyway, I'm only at Diamond now but having a great success and decided to share my changes to you also.
Cobalt Spellkin most of the time gives me a great 1 mana spell like another Evocation.
Dragonqueen Alexstrasza gives me more pressure vs control matchups and can even give me a win condition if lucky but that isn't necessarily.
My feels about Barista Lynchen is that usually an opponent just removes my board before I can get enough value of it and when I can get enough value of it I'm already winning that match. Also I got tons of value already with Brann Bronzebeard + Zola the Gorgon
Mike Morhaime Announces Dreamhaven, Two New Game Studios Alongside Hearthstone and Blizzard Veterans
Ahh got it. Thanks for the info.
Mike Morhaime Announces Dreamhaven, Two New Game Studios Alongside Hearthstone and Blizzard Veterans
Yeah they definitely announced all their stuff too early imo. Game development takes a long time, even with a preexisting IP like with what Second Dinner was doing and when they announced their first project, it was very much just saying "hey we got the approval for this" instead of any actual proof of concept.
Heroic Brawliseum
I too, rolled this quest lol
Heroic Brawliseum
Activision is slowly transforming every game it owns on "random mobile cash grab trash". HS is going down this road for a while now: decks now need more legendaries and epics, less free things over the whole year, more "spend this gold you carefully saved for months if you want some fun!" and now they will mess with how much gold you can get between expansions with a rework of daily quests.... there is also the tinfoil theory that this whole new ranked mode "find an opponent equal to your skill and not in your rank" just to manipulate a custom skinner box for each player, so they can spend more time playing, not necessarily having fun (no more casual players waiting until end of the month and rushing rank 5).
I always managed to save 8-9k gold between expansions, this expansion is the only one that i barely played, can't craft anything...
Mike Morhaime Announces Dreamhaven, Two New Game Studios Alongside Hearthstone and Blizzard Veterans
Yes. She left HS to work on another department on Blizz. But she announced shortly thereafter that she got offered a better deal and is leaving Blizzard after all. It turns out it was this new company.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Flame Juggler?
Heroic Brawliseum
I love how most of us (if not all) expecting a freebie from tavern brawl this week. ~(˘▾˘~).
Clearly, Hearthstone doesn't know how to satisfy our need as gamer.
They could've easily turn Arena Mode itself to be a Heroic mode (or create a new heroic mode) and still doesn't dissapoint most player who doesn't play it.
This is too much. This is truly the definition of lazy.
Heroic Brawliseum
Better rewards and you don't play arena cards.
Definitely not for everyone (not for me too), but some people like the challenge and the high risk thrill.
Heroic Brawliseum
Going to be honest, I don't think this is Blizzard's fault.
Posts of the rewards structure are everywhere, and you are warned with the cost of entry before starting.
Mike Morhaime Announces Dreamhaven, Two New Game Studios Alongside Hearthstone and Blizzard Veterans
So, Hadidjah Chamberlain eventually left blizz?
I thought based on the previous news, she left HS but stayed with blizz.
Heroic Brawliseum
Impulse Bought
2-3
3 packs
I coulda got more rewards out of two arena runs with the same win rate
Thanks Blizz very cool
Heroic Brawliseum
I like to imagine that this brawl is being run by the Bilgewater Cartel, and that helps me stomach the idea of it a little better.
Granted, I’m still not going to enter, but if goblins were in charge of this scheme, then at least it has some flavor.
”Time is money, friend!”
Heroic Brawliseum
The worst thing is - not even a Classic pack this Wednesday.
Heroic Brawliseum
Me and my two friends got "play three tavern brawls" quests, after 100 years. A coincidence, hahaha.
Mike Morhaime Announces Dreamhaven, Two New Game Studios Alongside Hearthstone and Blizzard Veterans
They are still chugging along on their Marvel licensed title. No idea what the project is; haven’t had any game updates in a while. But occasionally see announcements of staff they’ve added. So I assume either the Marvel game or some other title are still being worked on
Legendary Reno DK Mage
Thanks man. Appeciate the feedback)
I played against you today didn't I? I was completing the quest and I remember you having Solarian and Janalai but otherwise it was my list.
Janalai is really really slow. I used to have her as well in the list but meta is just too fast nowadays for her. If you don't have Ragnaros yet,try Siamat or Cloud Prince instead of him. Both of those Elementals have some nice synergies with the deck and Cloud Prince may rival the spotof Ragnaros in overall utility(they both have strong pros and cons)
Solarian is a good choice and you indeed swapped Starscryer for her. Both cards have their usability in the deck. In our match we could clearly see that Starscryer was more important. I found my DK Jaina way more earlier since I had more cycle and I denied your by Dirty Rating the Jepetto. However even with early Jaina the game could go way more longer, but you wasted both Zola and Barista for pressuring value instead of going infinite value. Which was crucial for my victory once we start hitting fatique, where Bankers,Baristas and Branns started their full shennanigans.
Gg. Good luck in your next games and hopefully my rambling about card choices helped)
Mike Morhaime Announces Dreamhaven, Two New Game Studios Alongside Hearthstone and Blizzard Veterans
This news makes me wonder, whatever happened to Ben Brode? Did his new company ever publish anything?
Heroic Brawliseum
Let's see, 1000g entry fee, you need 5 or 6 wins to break even, my average wins in Arena is 2.5, ... <types furiously on calculator> ..., yeah, it is a hard pass on this one.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Not Undercity Huckster.
Letter and fever refer to the first word in the name, Jaffa and Urban the second.
À La Card - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Ok that was not such a good card idea I have to admit. Thanks for all the feedback. How about this one?
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Undercity Huckster?
Why No Bilgewater Nerfs?
That's a very narrow minded view my friend. Take the example of the They Who Endure deck, it existed since the beta but back then it was considered to be nothing but a meme deck, because you did nothing but spam blockers hoping that you would draw They Who Endure and Atrocity before your opponent could finish you off. It's not until the release rising tides that the deck became top tier, because it got access to the infamous Blighted Caretaker into Cursed Keeper combo among other things. allowing you to trade effectively while boosting They Who Endure.
Long story short if it wasn't for the card mentioned above endure wouldn't be seeing much play.
I think that the true problematic card is [Hearthstone Card (Warning Shot) Not Found] that card enable so many powerful play for free ( Sejuani, Riptide Rex, any plunder card ) and worst of all you can't interrupt it.