The new Survival of the Fittest Druid deck just cheats mana liking nothing else. Their boards are huge and they can get all that done around turn 7. Very frustrating. Also played against a DH who did the thing that i predicted was going to drive me nuts: used Glide to pretty much discard my hand.
I was having a lot of success with self-damage and soul fragment zoo. I didn't queue into anything super aggressive, which might counter the deck, but I was able to climb to plat pretty effectively.
Confession time: I have been know to, after my opponent makes a game-swinging play and decides to celebrate by sending multiple Braum emotes, decide that that is the time for me to make an impromptu mid-game bathroom trip. O:-)
He asked for it.
Interesting because of Jynx quote when the player is iddle: "Are you pooping?"
My Zombie Ashe deck runs 3x Ruination. It does help against Demacia; however not so much against that popular Frejlord + Noxus deck: Accessor gives them disgusting card draw and any clever opponent will hold on to some cheap 5 attack minions as Ruination insurance.
This is not a complaint thread, more of a commentary and attempt at a neutral analysis of my pack opening.
First off I need to set the stage. I am 100% free to play and typically save up at least 8k gold between expansions. My philosophy is to purchase 60 decks and use whatever freebies Blizzard hands out to form the basis of my collection. If I get close to the legendary pity timer at the end of opening those packs, I'll buy a few packs at a time until I hit the timer. This time around I already had three packs waiting from my monthly ladder rewards and I completed day 1 of the special quests to get two more packs before I opened anything.
My login reward was Infiltrator Lilian. I guess it has some promise, but it wasn't my first choice. I suspect with the Self-Sharpening Sword and Secret Passage there will be some decks out there that will make use of her.
I got my first legendary Ras Frostwhisper at pack 3, not even halfway into the first 10 timer for a new set. He looks pretty cool and I think there is some potential for a spell power mage deck to work with this.
My next one came 19 packs later, Lord Barov. I'm not too excited about this one, but who knows. Two out of my first 5 epics in this stretch were Secret Passage, so I've at least got that much nerf dust coming to me. :-)
The next one did not come until 39 packs later. I can't tell you how anxious I got waiting for that gold glow. This one I do feel good about, Sphere of Sapience should be integral for a few decks that come up. And that was the end of my notable cards. My most notable pack was having an epic show up in the same pack as my last legendary. My golden count was 9 (1 epic, 4 rare, and 4 common).
Interestingly enough, 65 packs was the exact amount I needed to get all the rare cards. I double checked using 'missing' and 'extra' searches in my collection, and I have exactly two of every rare card. I also got 12 total epic cards and the three legendary. With the epic timer at 10, that probably makes five packs the average, so I'm right on the money there. If we remove the first legendary and the first 10 cards that puts me at 2/50 which is slightly below average.
I do have some dust stored up that I can comfortably craft a few must have epic or legendary cards. I'll just be patient and wait to see which ones those are.
I just played almost 5 hours straight after Scholomance Academy's release and I'd like to discuss our first impressions here. I'm aware of the fact that nothing is solved yet and it's probably way too early to judge the meta, but let's just put together our observations, shall we?
For me, Beast Spell Druid was the most successful deck I played. I don't remember losing a game with it. I'm not even sure if this can be kept in line by aggro anymore.
Soul Fragment Handlock was fun and looks promising, but needs some refinement. I don't own Kelidan, but I think he might be a good addition to this deck.
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.
Priest seems to be in a good place. I queued into lots of buff Priests and they are very hard to beat imho. Will probably try this out this weekend.
Zoolock was very underwhelming. This needs much refinement.
I tried a Deathrattle Hunter list for a few games, but it wasn't very exciting. Much depends on drawing Teron in time.
Big Warrior appears to be a thing. Very hard to beat if you cant apply lots of pressure early.
Demon Hunter looks cool. Not OP, just fun to play imho. I got Kreen as a golden legendary from the bundle and I'm really happy with that.
What surprised me most was mage. I got all the legendarys and finally crafted Solarian and Kalecgos but neither the Spell Damage nor the Highlander archetype worked for me. I played Flux's Pew Pew Pew Mage for almost and hour and won only two games (one was a disconnect and the second a frustrated but unnecessary concede after a misplay). Can someone please explain to me how Mozaki is supposed to work? Either I don't draw her or I'm not able to hold on to enough cheap spells to do something significant. I wanted to make this work so badly, but I'm at a loss right now. Maybe I tried too many of the new cards at once.
So what are your first impressions? I haven't seen much of Rogue, how are they doing? Have you made similar experiences like me? Where do you disagree? Any advice for mage?
I absolutely hate people who play the same cancerous decks on launch day.
Sick of Rez Priest. Convincing Infiltrator and Khartut Defender can suck one.
Why can't it be like the old days, when everybody used to play brand new decks on launch day. Think it was around Ungoro time, when Kripp made a video about how you should play top tier decks on launch day to rank up easily. Since then launch days have been shit IMO.
My Zombie Ashe deck runs 3x Ruination. It does help against Demacia; however not so much against that popular Frejlord + Noxus deck: Accessor gives them disgusting card draw and any clever opponent will hold on to some cheap 5 attack minions as Ruination insurance.
Before we dive in, we've got some important timing info on the next few patches. As we just announced over on the Riot Games site, Riot's taking the week of August 10th off to disconnect, recharge, and reboot. To make sure we're not just shifting more work onto people in the following weeks, we're adjusting timelines for the next few LoR patches.
Patch 1.7 will go live normally tomorrow, but will last an extra week (so three weeks in total rather than the usual two) before we update again.
Patch 1.8 will go live August 26 (rather than August 19), and will also last for three weeks. 1.8 will contain a couple minor card changes but won't be a full-fledged balance patch, though it may feature a few other things…
Patch 1.10 (yes, we're skipping 1.9) will land on September 16, and will contain our next significant round of balance updates. This patch will last the usual two weeks and resume our normal update cadence.
This patch-note fills me with uncertainty regarding a new region actually coming out anywhere near August, unless they are really trying to keep it a surprise for some reason.
The general consensus on reddit is that Aug 28th's "a few other things" is the new region + its champions and support cards; may or may not include new cards for other regions at that time.
So I opened all my 181 Scholomance packs, plus the 5 golden packs. Got the 80+5 bundle, the rest with gold or rewards from last month. I got Professor Slate as my free "choose your own Legen..." I mean my free golden Legendary from pre-order. Got Omu as my free one for sign in, then opened 12 legendaries in my 181 packs. Best thing out of the golden packs was one golden Epic, the Paladin "Braggart" card, 2 mana.
Anyway, I was pretty pleased with that. All I was missing for the whole set were 9 legendaries, and I had some golden epics that some believe could be on a nerf list very soon, meaning I'm not mass DE and golden card purging like normal. Waiting patiently to see what happens.
But then, something crazy happens! I had signed out after opening all my packs. I am absolutely CERTAIN that I opened them all. But after about 30 minutes I signed back in... there was a pack in my inventory. Open it to find a Vectus waiting for me! NICE!!!
Hope everyone had a great pack opening today (or during prerelease).
Losing to random bullshit isn't fine, your opponent gk rogue shouldn't win when they don't have anymore cards in hand and are almost in fatigue. But they find a draconic lackey who gives them DQ alex (i swear is the most discovered card against me) so they win i guess; nice deck the first hour of the new expansion by the way.
Also, how it is possible that in the first hour i played the same druid deck 4 times (in like 7 games i had)? Do people know that if you don't play a tier 1 deck your account will not be erased, your cards will not be disenchanted and a blizzard employee will not come to your house to tell you you suck?
Yep. Hoping they fix this. It has always been a reset before, we were rightfully expecting another.
In past years when Arena was just Standard like it is now, there were not Arena resets just for one new set being introduced. In fact, way way back they used to never reset. I remember watching Kripp get on Twitch and a stream sniper would queue into him with a deck that contained old, powerful Wild cards that should not have been legal anymore. This happened because those snipers liked to hold high power level decks and wait to try and queue into streamers to get easy wins. Things like that are the only reason they started doing resets at rotations.
While I personally was not expecting a reset I also had a run started. But I was able to do so with an Arena ticket from the pre-purchase bundle so it cost me nothing to do so.
The only reason you should expect an Arena reset is if the card pool is seeing massive changes. A few examples would be the start of a new Standard year with three sets rotating to Wild, a special Arena event like the Dual Class Arena we tend to see around the Hallow's End event, or if they go back to the Standard/Wild Limited mix like we saw all of last year, when they were changing the card pool for Arena every two months.
I'm stuck at work and can't get my login stuff until after work, unfortunately. D: But 9 Legendaries is pretty good too! 1/4 of the way to obtaining them all. best of luck with your future packs, dude! :D
I think it is because your old decks are still legal in the current arena rotation. The reason they had to end runs before (and hence give out arena tickets) was because the pool of cards changed such that old decks did not use cards available in the new pool.
Opened 87 packs (5 golden), got 9 legendaries (3 golden) 8 legendaries (2 golden). I also did, for science, open first 5 regular packs and then the golden packs. After not getting any legendaries in the first 5 regular packs, my first golden pack got me one. I then got a regular legendary from my 7th regular pack, so I guess that means... well just that I am lucky I guess.
EDIT: I had originally counted the free golden legendary.
About the new expansion launch; bought the big pre-order bundle. So got a free golden legendary out of that. And a regular for logging in as well.
Go nothing special from the golden packs, just a couple of rares and an epic. But then the pack openings begon; out of 84 regular packs, I got THREE golden legendary's, and 5 regular ones. And lots of useful epics as well. Best openings ever. I'm hyped!
I've been playing a beast druid I made and I have been having lots of success. Lost a couple though, one in particular to Soul Mirror.
I've seen lots of Temp/Buff priests so far and Libram Paladins. I wouldn't anything is bad though. The one thing I have noticed so far is just how "swingy" the games are but that might be just the deck I am playing.
Confession time: I have been know to, after my opponent makes a game-swinging play and decides to celebrate by sending multiple Braum emotes, decide that that is the time for me to make an impromptu mid-game bathroom trip. O:-)
2 hours later - what's the new "cancer" deck?
The new Survival of the Fittest Druid deck just cheats mana liking nothing else. Their boards are huge and they can get all that done around turn 7. Very frustrating. Also played against a DH who did the thing that i predicted was going to drive me nuts: used Glide to pretty much discard my hand.
Hadidjah Leaves a Goodbye Easter Egg in the Scholomance Academy Pack Opening Animation
No. The first instance was "Well played!".
Day 1: What works and what doesn't?
I was having a lot of success with self-damage and soul fragment zoo. I didn't queue into anything super aggressive, which might counter the deck, but I was able to climb to plat pretty effectively.
toxic players
He asked for it.
Interesting because of Jynx quote when the player is iddle: "Are you pooping?"
Is It Time For 3 Ruinations?
True, but The Ruination just to clear Sejuani is already worth it.
Pack opening story and analysis
This is not a complaint thread, more of a commentary and attempt at a neutral analysis of my pack opening.
First off I need to set the stage. I am 100% free to play and typically save up at least 8k gold between expansions. My philosophy is to purchase 60 decks and use whatever freebies Blizzard hands out to form the basis of my collection. If I get close to the legendary pity timer at the end of opening those packs, I'll buy a few packs at a time until I hit the timer. This time around I already had three packs waiting from my monthly ladder rewards and I completed day 1 of the special quests to get two more packs before I opened anything.
My login reward was Infiltrator Lilian. I guess it has some promise, but it wasn't my first choice. I suspect with the Self-Sharpening Sword and Secret Passage there will be some decks out there that will make use of her.
I got my first legendary Ras Frostwhisper at pack 3, not even halfway into the first 10 timer for a new set. He looks pretty cool and I think there is some potential for a spell power mage deck to work with this.
My next one came 19 packs later, Lord Barov. I'm not too excited about this one, but who knows. Two out of my first 5 epics in this stretch were Secret Passage, so I've at least got that much nerf dust coming to me. :-)
The next one did not come until 39 packs later. I can't tell you how anxious I got waiting for that gold glow. This one I do feel good about, Sphere of Sapience should be integral for a few decks that come up. And that was the end of my notable cards. My most notable pack was having an epic show up in the same pack as my last legendary. My golden count was 9 (1 epic, 4 rare, and 4 common).
Interestingly enough, 65 packs was the exact amount I needed to get all the rare cards. I double checked using 'missing' and 'extra' searches in my collection, and I have exactly two of every rare card. I also got 12 total epic cards and the three legendary. With the epic timer at 10, that probably makes five packs the average, so I'm right on the money there. If we remove the first legendary and the first 10 cards that puts me at 2/50 which is slightly below average.
I do have some dust stored up that I can comfortably craft a few must have epic or legendary cards. I'll just be patient and wait to see which ones those are.
Anyone else care to share their experience?
Tidal Wave
When they flood the board, you flood them back!
Day 1: What works and what doesn't?
I just played almost 5 hours straight after Scholomance Academy's release and I'd like to discuss our first impressions here. I'm aware of the fact that nothing is solved yet and it's probably way too early to judge the meta, but let's just put together our observations, shall we?
For me, Beast Spell Druid was the most successful deck I played. I don't remember losing a game with it. I'm not even sure if this can be kept in line by aggro anymore.
Soul Fragment Handlock was fun and looks promising, but needs some refinement. I don't own Kelidan, but I think he might be a good addition to this deck.
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.
Priest seems to be in a good place. I queued into lots of buff Priests and they are very hard to beat imho. Will probably try this out this weekend.
Zoolock was very underwhelming. This needs much refinement.
I tried a Deathrattle Hunter list for a few games, but it wasn't very exciting. Much depends on drawing Teron in time.
Big Warrior appears to be a thing. Very hard to beat if you cant apply lots of pressure early.
Demon Hunter looks cool. Not OP, just fun to play imho. I got Kreen as a golden legendary from the bundle and I'm really happy with that.
What surprised me most was mage. I got all the legendarys and finally crafted Solarian and Kalecgos but neither the Spell Damage nor the Highlander archetype worked for me. I played Flux's Pew Pew Pew Mage for almost and hour and won only two games (one was a disconnect and the second a frustrated but unnecessary concede after a misplay). Can someone please explain to me how Mozaki is supposed to work? Either I don't draw her or I'm not able to hold on to enough cheap spells to do something significant. I wanted to make this work so badly, but I'm at a loss right now. Maybe I tried too many of the new cards at once.
So what are your first impressions? I haven't seen much of Rogue, how are they doing? Have you made similar experiences like me? Where do you disagree? Any advice for mage?
Group Therapy! Need to blow off some steam? Mega salty? Here's the place!
I absolutely hate people who play the same cancerous decks on launch day.
Sick of Rez Priest. Convincing Infiltrator and Khartut Defender can suck one.
Why can't it be like the old days, when everybody used to play brand new decks on launch day. Think it was around Ungoro time, when Kripp made a video about how you should play top tier decks on launch day to rank up easily. Since then launch days have been shit IMO.
Is It Time For 3 Ruinations?
My Zombie Ashe deck runs 3x Ruination. It does help against Demacia; however not so much against that popular Frejlord + Noxus deck: Accessor gives them disgusting card draw and any clever opponent will hold on to some cheap 5 attack minions as Ruination insurance.
Reminder: New Expansion on Aug 26
The general consensus on reddit is that Aug 28th's "a few other things" is the new region + its champions and support cards; may or may not include new cards for other regions at that time.
2 hours later - what's the new "cancer" deck?
Yeah druids absolutely busted with so little counter play aswell...
The Pepper Thread - Share Some Good Vibes!
So I opened all my 181 Scholomance packs, plus the 5 golden packs. Got the 80+5 bundle, the rest with gold or rewards from last month. I got Professor Slate as my free "choose your own Legen..." I mean my free golden Legendary from pre-order. Got Omu as my free one for sign in, then opened 12 legendaries in my 181 packs. Best thing out of the golden packs was one golden Epic, the Paladin "Braggart" card, 2 mana.
Anyway, I was pretty pleased with that. All I was missing for the whole set were 9 legendaries, and I had some golden epics that some believe could be on a nerf list very soon, meaning I'm not mass DE and golden card purging like normal. Waiting patiently to see what happens.
But then, something crazy happens! I had signed out after opening all my packs. I am absolutely CERTAIN that I opened them all. But after about 30 minutes I signed back in... there was a pack in my inventory. Open it to find a Vectus waiting for me! NICE!!!
Hope everyone had a great pack opening today (or during prerelease).
Hadidjah Leaves a Goodbye Easter Egg in the Scholomance Academy Pack Opening Animation
Wait, so is this the first instance of swearing in Hearthstone?
Group Therapy! Need to blow off some steam? Mega salty? Here's the place!
Already tired of the new expansion.
Losing to random bullshit isn't fine, your opponent gk rogue shouldn't win when they don't have anymore cards in hand and are almost in fatigue. But they find a draconic lackey who gives them DQ alex (i swear is the most discovered card against me) so they win i guess; nice deck the first hour of the new expansion by the way.
Also, how it is possible that in the first hour i played the same druid deck 4 times (in like 7 games i had)? Do people know that if you don't play a tier 1 deck your account will not be erased, your cards will not be disenchanted and a blizzard employee will not come to your house to tell you you suck?
Unfinished Arenarun - no new one.
In past years when Arena was just Standard like it is now, there were not Arena resets just for one new set being introduced. In fact, way way back they used to never reset. I remember watching Kripp get on Twitch and a stream sniper would queue into him with a deck that contained old, powerful Wild cards that should not have been legal anymore. This happened because those snipers liked to hold high power level decks and wait to try and queue into streamers to get easy wins. Things like that are the only reason they started doing resets at rotations.
While I personally was not expecting a reset I also had a run started. But I was able to do so with an Arena ticket from the pre-purchase bundle so it cost me nothing to do so.
The only reason you should expect an Arena reset is if the card pool is seeing massive changes. A few examples would be the start of a new Standard year with three sets rotating to Wild, a special Arena event like the Dual Class Arena we tend to see around the Hallow's End event, or if they go back to the Standard/Wild Limited mix like we saw all of last year, when they were changing the card pool for Arena every two months.
Scholomance Academy Launch Survival Guide - Everything You Need to Know & Day 1 Decks to Try
I'm stuck at work and can't get my login stuff until after work, unfortunately. D: But 9 Legendaries is pretty good too! 1/4 of the way to obtaining them all. best of luck with your future packs, dude! :D
Unfinished Arenarun - no new one.
I think it is because your old decks are still legal in the current arena rotation. The reason they had to end runs before (and hence give out arena tickets) was because the pool of cards changed such that old decks did not use cards available in the new pool.
Scholomance Academy Launch Survival Guide - Everything You Need to Know & Day 1 Decks to Try
Opened 87 packs (5 golden), got 9 legendaries (3 golden) 8 legendaries (2 golden). I also did, for science, open first 5 regular packs and then the golden packs. After not getting any legendaries in the first 5 regular packs, my first golden pack got me one. I then got a regular legendary from my 7th regular pack, so I guess that means... well just that I am lucky I guess.
EDIT: I had originally counted the free golden legendary.
The Pepper Thread - Share Some Good Vibes!
About the new expansion launch; bought the big pre-order bundle. So got a free golden legendary out of that. And a regular for logging in as well.
Go nothing special from the golden packs, just a couple of rares and an epic. But then the pack openings begon; out of 84 regular packs, I got THREE golden legendary's, and 5 regular ones. And lots of useful epics as well. Best openings ever. I'm hyped!
Hadidjah Leaves a Goodbye Easter Egg in the Scholomance Academy Pack Opening Animation
This is actually so clever and wholesome :) a
2 hours later - what's the new "cancer" deck?
I've been playing a beast druid I made and I have been having lots of success. Lost a couple though, one in particular to Soul Mirror.
I've seen lots of Temp/Buff priests so far and Libram Paladins. I wouldn't anything is bad though. The one thing I have noticed so far is just how "swingy" the games are but that might be just the deck I am playing.
Deck ID Not Found
toxic players
Confession time: I have been know to, after my opponent makes a game-swinging play and decides to celebrate by sending multiple Braum emotes, decide that that is the time for me to make an impromptu mid-game bathroom trip. O:-)
Pew Pew Pew Mage - Scholomance Theorycraft
I might go with Evocation rather than Mozaki. But good deck nonetheless.
Kripp's Aggro Druid - Scholomance Day 1 Deck
Update - missing x1 Voracious Reader so substituted it for a Crystal Merchant
My opening hand was Gibberling and Adorable Infestation - woop!
Won my first game, super fun deck from my first impression of it!