If you enjoy BGs, I'd say go for that. I think that mode will give you more replyability than the others you have mentioned. I enjoy the PvE adventures, but after the first run, they lose their shine for me.
On the other hand, if you want to invest in future expansions, GA is the option. As that set contains some key cards.
You can find lethals out of nowhere, but you lose the board too easily, and Reno decks can Control you pretty well. I'm afraid the good ol' Oil/Miracle days are over, forever.
I think the same goes for generic hyper-Aggro.
I'm sure good players can churn some extra winrates from Aggro Rogue, but in general it's too easy to out-Tempo.
So, up until yesterday I had saved around 9.2k gold for SA packs. My only wish was to obtain Illucia and after opening 80 packs (including freebies), I finally got her. Right now I have 2k gold remaining and I don't feel like buying any more packs - my current legendaries are Infiltrator Lilian (freebie), Ace Hunter, Malicia, Ras and Illucia. Normally I would like to have Alabaster, Polkelt and Sphere as well, but I am not that likely to open another legendary, yet alone one of the desired three in the next 20 packs. So, I considered the following options: Buying two wings of an adventure or the BG-bundle. And right now I just can't decide what I should go after.
From the pve adventures I only want Naxx tbh, but since I missed the chance to buy the first wing, I can't use gold to purchase it, so that's out of the question. I considered whether I wanted to buy BrM and ONiK and I figured, it's not worth to do it for the sake of new cards, since most of them don't see any play and the ones, that do, are so derp cheap, that I can craft them easily with dust. This led me to the following options - GA or the dungeon-run adventures in RoS/SoU. Now, my goal is mainly to have fun. I have heard, that GA was a bit underwhelming and it didn't offer much replayability, so I am leaning towards the other picks, but I would like to hear your opinion on those three adventures.
Regarding the BG-bundle: I play bgs casually. My rating is 6.3k, so you can see, that I am not that devoted to it. It was another thing I decided to buy due the fun factor.
So, those are my options. I would like to hear what you guys think and what you could recommend me. Btw, I am aware, that I could save my gold for the next expansion, but I think I will accumulate enough, when it hits. Not to mention, I am not in the mood for such long-term investments.
Would you mind sharing the list? I haven't looked into wild yet but I'm running low on dust and will have to make difficult decisions soon. This sounds like something I might have all the cards for.
For me this was the shortest expansion and I've had HS since beta (played frequently since Knights of Frozen Throne). Never have I seen so many players who refuse to put any new card on their decks on day 1. And they are right, I guess. Because this expansion provided with new cards but no new decks or decent archetypes for wild. So I want to try a good token druid with the new cards but somehow I've played against 0 of them in ladder. Does anyone have a good list for it? just want to have some fun with the good cards and actually win :/
Edit: actually if you have any other decent ideas for other decks, feel free to share :)
This was entertaining when it could be pulled off, but Paladin, Druid, and Shaman were giving me a rough time. More control options could be useful, though I jumped ship to the dark light side to play around with Libram/Pure Paladin =/ Join 'em before they get nerfed!
This is one area that HS is actually better than LoR. HS rope is not much different than LoR if the person is roping to be toxic, but at least it doesn't give an afker 15 goddamn bonus trolling seconds every Fskin PLAY!!! We def need shorter play rounds in this game. No one should need so much time per turn, and when the bar is gone, you get no more plays. Also, remove the option for autopass. This needs to be automatic and mandatory. If you have no plays, the game passes the round.
I don't like that idea, mostly because of cards like Thernogenic Beam. When you have 0 mana left and thst card in your hand, the game won't skip automatically because you could play it for 0.
Since it is one of very few cards that cost 0 you basically tell your opponent that you have this card in your hand.
I played Magic for many years. Sometimes players took like 10 minutes to decide wether to play that one card or another. I think the waiting time in LoR isn't that big of a problem.
But LoR could work just as fine if turns were only 60-80% as long. Thinking fast is a skill too, isn't it?
Aggro Alura Paladin is meh. Sometimes I managed to snowball hard, but most of the time I got out valued. Haven't played Pure Alura yet and the games against that deck felt fair.
Making a pointed effort to grind for 500 wins is something I do not want to do again. It takes away enjoyment of the game. I'll focus on trying lots of decks in the new meta this time.
Starting AoO, I started keeping a spreadsheet of all my pack openings in my main account to remove my confirmation bias and reduce my tilt for being unlucky. The approach has been working well for me so far.
I also bought the pre-purchase offer, so in my 80 packs I had the following results:
I got 7 legendaries total (this included the guaranteed legendary in the first 10). Started off really well (3 in 10 packs) but tapered off really quickly after that. With 1 in 20 being the average, I was satisfied with my pulls.
22 Epics total. Also started really well but tapered off quickly. With 1 in 5 being the average, also satisfied with my pulls. They didn't include the epics I wanted though.
It took me 30 packs to get all my commons.
It took me 65 packs to get all my rares.
50% of my packs were minimum packs (40 dust)
For my 5 golden, I got these:
1 Legendary (Headmaster Kel'Thuzad -> Happy with this since I was planning to craft him)
3 Epics
60% of my packs were minimum packs (300 dust)
Overall, I'm happy with my pulls. Not the greatest, but above average (I'm usually unlucky)
EDIT:
Ugh, my next packs were brutal. Bought 45 with gold.
Hit my first legendary at pity timer 34 (and it's Archwitch Willow too :( ) [timer continued from my first 80].
If you're wondering if you can pull a King Togwaggle with Mindrender Illucia, sadly, if you play her twice in one turn, your decks will still be swapped to your original ones at the start of your next turn. ShadowDragon was the poor fellow who helped me find this out after playing the card against me as a Rogue, Shadowstepping it, and playing it again. The guy even played Plagiarize, and I played right into it, but I ended up getting all my cards back, including the Plagiarized cards ShadowDragon got. It's not all bad though. ShadowDragon got to turn into Rogue's Galakrond, the shadowy-est of dragons, so that's something at least.
I don't know why anyone would give you a thumb down on your achievement - let me correct this and bring back the balance ; voilà - even for a Demon Hunter's Hater, this is not the spirit we want to encourage on those threads. Anyway around, it is what it is ..
On a different note, I wanted to congratulate you for your commendable exploit ; 500 wins with DH in so little time is impressive to me. Yes, I have accomplished a lot of milestones in HS, but I also been at it for 6 years, so it does put in perspectives the numbers too. I have maybe 70-80 wins on record with that latest class, so seeing a golden one makes it even more impressive. Hats off!
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Same for me. My profile picture and title is reset every time.
Got 2k gold. Just wondering how to spend it.
If you enjoy BGs, I'd say go for that. I think that mode will give you more replyability than the others you have mentioned. I enjoy the PvE adventures, but after the first run, they lose their shine for me.
On the other hand, if you want to invest in future expansions, GA is the option. As that set contains some key cards.
Day 1: What works and what doesn't?
In Wild, Kingsbane is still inconsistent, despite Secret Passage.
You can find lethals out of nowhere, but you lose the board too easily, and Reno decks can Control you pretty well. I'm afraid the good ol' Oil/Miracle days are over, forever.
I think the same goes for generic hyper-Aggro.
I'm sure good players can churn some extra winrates from Aggro Rogue, but in general it's too easy to out-Tempo.
I'll try Secret Passage in Tempo Thief.
Our Thoughts on Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Shaman Cards
I applaud you for doing all that math for a single card. Thank you for your work.
Does anyone have a *wild* Token Druid with new cards?
cool, thanks ^^
Does anyone have a *wild* Token Druid with new cards?
Here's one. I already tested it pre-Scholomance, and it worked to some extent. Not sure now, but with new cards it should be better.
It's a token deck, but more Tempo than pure swarm (which I generally don't like, because they tend to lack comebacks).
Wild · Odd Druid · by RavenSunHS · 5 years, 2 months ago
Got 2k gold. Just wondering how to spend it.
Hi, all.
So, up until yesterday I had saved around 9.2k gold for SA packs. My only wish was to obtain Illucia and after opening 80 packs (including freebies), I finally got her. Right now I have 2k gold remaining and I don't feel like buying any more packs - my current legendaries are Infiltrator Lilian (freebie), Ace Hunter, Malicia, Ras and Illucia. Normally I would like to have Alabaster, Polkelt and Sphere as well, but I am not that likely to open another legendary, yet alone one of the desired three in the next 20 packs. So, I considered the following options: Buying two wings of an adventure or the BG-bundle. And right now I just can't decide what I should go after.
From the pve adventures I only want Naxx tbh, but since I missed the chance to buy the first wing, I can't use gold to purchase it, so that's out of the question. I considered whether I wanted to buy BrM and ONiK and I figured, it's not worth to do it for the sake of new cards, since most of them don't see any play and the ones, that do, are so derp cheap, that I can craft them easily with dust. This led me to the following options - GA or the dungeon-run adventures in RoS/SoU. Now, my goal is mainly to have fun. I have heard, that GA was a bit underwhelming and it didn't offer much replayability, so I am leaning towards the other picks, but I would like to hear your opinion on those three adventures.
Regarding the BG-bundle: I play bgs casually. My rating is 6.3k, so you can see, that I am not that devoted to it. It was another thing I decided to buy due the fun factor.
So, those are my options. I would like to hear what you guys think and what you could recommend me. Btw, I am aware, that I could save my gold for the next expansion, but I think I will accumulate enough, when it hits. Not to mention, I am not in the mood for such long-term investments.
Day 1: What works and what doesn't?
Would you mind sharing the list? I haven't looked into wild yet but I'm running low on dust and will have to make difficult decisions soon. This sounds like something I might have all the cards for.
Does anyone have a *wild* Token Druid with new cards?
For me this was the shortest expansion and I've had HS since beta (played frequently since Knights of Frozen Throne). Never have I seen so many players who refuse to put any new card on their decks on day 1. And they are right, I guess. Because this expansion provided with new cards but no new decks or decent archetypes for wild. So I want to try a good token druid with the new cards but somehow I've played against 0 of them in ladder. Does anyone have a good list for it? just want to have some fun with the good cards and actually win :/
Edit: actually if you have any other decent ideas for other decks, feel free to share :)
Ryvius's Control Shaman - Scholomance Day 1 Deck
Can't wait to test it. Thanks for sharing!
Midrange: Shrink Priest
Seems like a fun idea. Can't wait to try it
Hadidjah Leaves a Goodbye Easter Egg in the Scholomance Academy Pack Opening Animation
Gosh, I must be so blind, didn't even see this while opening my measly 40 packs xD
Will looks out for it in future though, so cute.
Pew Pew Pew Mage - Scholomance Theorycraft
This was entertaining when it could be pulled off, but Paladin, Druid, and Shaman were giving me a rough time. More control options could be useful, though I jumped ship to the dark light side to play around with Libram/Pure Paladin =/ Join 'em before they get nerfed!
toxic players
I don't like that idea, mostly because of cards like Thernogenic Beam. When you have 0 mana left and thst card in your hand, the game won't skip automatically because you could play it for 0.
Since it is one of very few cards that cost 0 you basically tell your opponent that you have this card in your hand.
I played Magic for many years. Sometimes players took like 10 minutes to decide wether to play that one card or another. I think the waiting time in LoR isn't that big of a problem.
But LoR could work just as fine if turns were only 60-80% as long. Thinking fast is a skill too, isn't it?
DeathstarV3's Midrange Hunter - Scholomance Day 1 Deck
Since when deck has most expensive card at 4 mana is called Midrange? What's wrong with you?
Day 1: What works and what doesn't?
Yeah 2 12/13 minions on turn 6 is fair...
Day 1: What works and what doesn't?
For those who cared about wild, Odd Rogue is absolutely insane. I grinded from bronze 20 to legend today. Cutting Class, Vulpera Toxinblade, Secret Passage, Tour Guide, and Jandice Barov are all incredibly insane additions that shot this deck right back up to tier 1.
Tour Guide
Waterboy
ahem...
Golden Hero Portrait - Completionist & Grind
Thanks, man! I really appreciate it :D
Making a pointed effort to grind for 500 wins is something I do not want to do again. It takes away enjoyment of the game. I'll focus on trying lots of decks in the new meta this time.
Good luck on your games!
Pack opening story and analysis
Starting AoO, I started keeping a spreadsheet of all my pack openings in my main account to remove my confirmation bias and reduce my tilt for being unlucky. The approach has been working well for me so far.
I also bought the pre-purchase offer, so in my 80 packs I had the following results:
For my 5 golden, I got these:
Overall, I'm happy with my pulls. Not the greatest, but above average (I'm usually unlucky)
EDIT:
Ugh, my next packs were brutal. Bought 45 with gold.
Hit my first legendary at pity timer 34 (and it's Archwitch Willow too :( ) [timer continued from my first 80].
Still no legendary till now. Pity timer is at 25.
I guess my initial run burned all my luck.
Hadidjah Leaves a Goodbye Easter Egg in the Scholomance Academy Pack Opening Animation
Watch your tongue! This is a family friendly Christian website.
Mindrender Illucia
If you're wondering if you can pull a King Togwaggle with Mindrender Illucia, sadly, if you play her twice in one turn, your decks will still be swapped to your original ones at the start of your next turn. ShadowDragon was the poor fellow who helped me find this out after playing the card against me as a Rogue, Shadowstepping it, and playing it again. The guy even played Plagiarize, and I played right into it, but I ended up getting all my cards back, including the Plagiarized cards ShadowDragon got. It's not all bad though. ShadowDragon got to turn into Rogue's Galakrond, the shadowy-est of dragons, so that's something at least.
Golden Hero Portrait - Completionist & Grind
I don't know why anyone would give you a thumb down on your achievement - let me correct this and bring back the balance ; voilà - even for a Demon Hunter's Hater, this is not the spirit we want to encourage on those threads. Anyway around, it is what it is ..
On a different note, I wanted to congratulate you for your commendable exploit ; 500 wins with DH in so little time is impressive to me. Yes, I have accomplished a lot of milestones in HS, but I also been at it for 6 years, so it does put in perspectives the numbers too. I have maybe 70-80 wins on record with that latest class, so seeing a golden one makes it even more impressive. Hats off!
Day 1: What works and what doesn't?
ArcWitch Willow doesn't work.
Not because she has no minions to summon - but because of Warlocks draw you're more likely to draw your minions before you can play her.
At least I didn't craft her
Pack opening story and analysis
I got Mindrender Illucia for logging in and golden Disciplinarian Gandling from the 85 pack pre-order. I opened Turalyon, the Tenured in the fifth pack. I also opened Infiltrator Lilian and Doctor Krastinov in the first 40 packs and in the last pack I got Jandice Barov. So it was a little light on legendary cards compared to other pre-orders, I've participated in.
I received 19 epics, one of them golden, so I think that's above average.