I've been trying to find a go-to, decent, reliable and established news portal for Gwent and kinda failed to do so, hence the question and desire for you guys to do it heh:) I do think that you could be filling a hole there and could metaphorically "strike gold";) but if you deem the audience as not sufficient for the effort (I don't know the popularity of the game in comparison to its competitors) then fair play and I understand completely. Cheers
I think the Demon Hunter class was overall very well-designed. The Outcast mechanic, the class identity of being attack-based, the synergy of its core cards that formed its identity...everything was well-designed and thought of, and some classes would kill to have core cards as great as DH (looking at you, Paladin).
The main problem was how overtuned and overpowered everything was. 5-mana Skull of Gul'dan, Priestess of Fury, Altruis the Outcast, 0-mana Eye Beam...basically every nerfed card used to be oppressive that they just terrorized the meta from the start. The class was too efficient and powerful, as compared to the other classes whose identity and power level kind of bogged down due to numerous expansion sets and a weak core set to begin with.
I'm interested for DH to have more control-based archetypes in the next expansion. In fact, it's already got great tools for a variety of archetypes, and I won't be surprised if the class gets terrible cards in the next expansion to prevent it from dominating again. That said, I'm still excited to see what direction they'll take the class in for the future.
My all-time favorite deck is Odd Taunt Warrior back in the Witchwood/Boomsday meta. I just loved the control style of it that doesn't rely on fatigue; it has a viable way for you to kill your opponent (Sulfuras). Armoring up and saving your removal tools for when you turn into Ragnaros so you can keep lobbing fireballs to your opponent's face is just sooooo satisfying.
I tried many iterations of this deck, my favorite being the beast package with Oondasta and Amani War Bears.
Hey, I used and loved that deck as well! I took it to wild after the quest rotated and played it casually there once in a while. To actually find a use for Oondasta was a big part of the pleasure. :)
Any specific reason for not running Evocation? I would certainly consider adding it to any no minion mage list. It is not a super vital card but has the potential to save your ass in the late game.
I can relate to so much of this! When I first started playing the game I didn’t know what net decking was, and I avoided the ladder. I missed many months of card backs because I only played casual thanks to ladder anxiety. I only have two golden heroes (hunter and warlock) which belies how long I have been a daily player.
Now I don’t worry about rank or falling on the ladder, and I want to work towards 500 wins on all the other classes. The grind is brutal!
I also really want to get the 1000 win Gul’dan. I think it’s my favorite art in the game.
Difficult topic for me. I decided to grind to golden Warlock a little more than a month ago and while I'm really looking forward to reaching this goal, the games themselves feel somewhat meaningless. I'm only 30 wins away now, so I'll finish this grind, but I'll also try to remember not to do this anymore in the future.
Congrats to King Anduin anyway. It's a really cool portrait!
Congrats on almost reaching golden Warlock! I did that push back during SoU. A few weeks back I picked it back up to start working on my 1000 win Warlock. Discardlock in Wild works really well for the grind right now. You can get some really fast wins on turn 4.
I'm at 696 with Warlock right now. I'm also throwing in some Hunter games here and there to hit my 1000 with Hunter. I'm at 905 with Hunter at the moment. I just care more about getting the Warlock portrait than "derp-face Rexxar". I'll stick with Sylvanas, except for Face Hunter decks. I feel the 1000 win Rexxar is the perfect portrait for a Face Hunter deck.
Here's my complete list (all classes lvl 60 unless specified(aka DH)):
What's sad is the OG 9 classes would all be golden, with many 1000 win classes had I not started playing the game with an irrational fear of the ladder. I felt out of my league on ladder and had an anger management issue when it came to losing stars and rank. I also sometimes get pulled away in the middle of the game, so I hated having to leave in the middle of a ranked match because real life called.
I used to just play Casual mode and hit ladder for the minimum required to get the card back each month. Then slowly over the years ventured more and more onto ladder, hitting rank 10 each month, then rank 5. Now, I have gotten over that and don't care at all about what rank I am or how many stars I am. Hit at least Diamond 5 each month with no effort, and am 2x Legend. Hit legend last month without even noticing that I was going to hit legend.
I have 8990 total wins on my account. That's 4382 wins that I should have applied to ranked mode for my portrait wins. So I'm playing catch-up from years of avoiding ladder. Oh well, live in learn.
Bonus Fun Fact: The first class I took to ladder was Priest back during Whisper of the Old Gods with some janky home brewed deck. Maybe that's why I felt out of league on ladder? Hunter was the first class I started trying to force myself to get good with and play on ladder. Started playing Secret Hunter on ladder in MSoG. Not much better experience... Hunter was first to hit 500 during Boomsday? (fuck I don't remember when I got my first golden...)
No dude, his speech is not mutually exclusive, so its possible he fought for both Legacy and Glory, but Legacy comes first and foremost. His sentence can be interpreted in a few different ways, but i don't think he meant one is better then the other. For me, what he is trying to say is:
"Your youngsters can only fight for Glory now because our generation fought for your current legacy".
I like that you highlighted that no Hunter card won. I honestly feel there were a few weeks that the only reason I lost was because of some (possibly in the sub-conscience) Hunter hate.
This is an interesting point to bring up.
I feel like there's rarely any hatred towards a WCDC card purely for the class, even if it's dominant in the current meta. That said, some people will have visceral reactions to various deck archetypes which will cause some negative opinions and lower scores on your card if it supports said archetype, whether or not the archetype is currently in its state of dominance as it has been. Although understandable, it's not necessarily always "fair", although there's not much that can be done about this.
Some ideas I have had that I think would be nice improvements
1.) Site achievements for 2nd and maybe even 3rd place. Give some love to those people who get so close to winning. Doesn't need to be a fancy border, just something to recognize their achievement. 2nd place out of 40 submissions is still impressive.
2.) On the Competition Home page after a competition has been completed, I feel there needs to be a section that separates the finalists from the rest of the entries. Currently to see the finalist cards for a past competition, you have to open transparency report and find the cards in the Competition Entries.
The current layout of the Competition Home page is this:
Winner
"This Week's Theme"
Your Entry
Competition Entries
I propose the layout be something like this:
"This Week's Theme"
Winner
Finalists (in order excluding the Winner)
Your Entry
Competition Entries (excluding Winner and Finalists)
This makes going back and seeing who the finalists were easier, and would showcase the 2nd place and 3rd place winners.
3.) Discussion Thread - can be overwhelming, and I feel there are some people who are afraid to post on there. It can get chaotic, and some people's cards can get a shit load of feedback, while others can get passed over or get very little. I don't have any ideas for improvements, and I really am not sure if there even could be a way to make any. Just throwing it out there as a thought.
I think Level 1 Braum should have the text “When I survive damage, create a Mighty Poro in hand” so that he’s worse in non- Poro decks like Anivia Braum and requires self damage or Poro support cards to be good. I dislike him being another low synergy powerful card like Sejuani.
I'm surprised you didn't win this season. You'll get it next season for sure!
I'm going to respond to your improvements/suggestions for sake of discussion and to get the idea juices flowing.
1) I actually don't agree with this even though I used to. I think there is another solution to the finalist voting that will still allow the finalists to take part in the final voting process. (more on that in #3)
2) I think it would be interesting to hold a vote on a starting time. My only complaint about the current starting time is that I feel like I'm waiting forever on Monday's for the new week to start. It would be nice to have a new WCDC to help me procrastinate starting my work week on Monday morning's.
3) I think the voting system is perfect for the first round of voting. With how many submissions there are, asking people to do more than a simple 5 star rating would be too much. I try to give each card enough time, because I know the amount of effort that people put into their cards, and I want to give them the amount of time on their card that they deserve. But sadly, life is life, and we can't always have the time to do that. There were a couple of weeks that I had other things going on and I wasn't able to vote on every single card.
When it comes to the finalist voting however, I feel there is room for improvement. The 5 star rating doesn't feel right for how we are voting. Since all the cards are displayed for us to look at, we are rating the cards in a vacuum scoring it as so. Instead we are comparing the cards to each other and are choosing the one(s) we want to win, and the one(s) we don't want to win. Finalists vote their card 5 stars, and all others 1 star.
I propose instead of rating, we choose the order we think cards deserve to be in. This way, finalists would still be able to vote on their card choosing it to be #1. But they would be forced to choose a card to be #2, #3, #4, #5 and so on...Take the averages of how everyone ordered the cards and you will get the top order of all the finalists.
Just an idea which I'm sure has it's own set of flaws too. But it's here for discussion!
I like that you highlighted that no Hunter card won. I honestly feel there were a few weeks that the only reason I lost was because of some (possibly in the sub-conscience) Hunter hate. And definitely some weeks where my Hunter cards should have made the finals at least. Makes me not want to make Hunter cards, which sucks because it's my favorite class and I really like designing cards for it.
As for Season 2, I am looking forward to the discussion on what improvements could be made. Don't get me wrong, the system that is already in place has some amazingly solid bones! There's just always room for improvements once everyone experiences and learns!
Thanks again to all the mods for an amazing season! I'm glad I was able to squeeze in a victory in the last couple of weeks. Maybe I'll practice making Paladin cards to prepare to take on linkblade next season! ;)
Let's scout ahead! Reporting in
Recently used a ton of Wildcards to craft all my missing Commons and Rares because as you will learn later in the post, I have too many of those.
All regions: 100%
Collection: Missing 11 copies of various Champions.
Date: July 8th, 2020
Time: Started whenever Open Beta started.
Wildcard:
17: Gold
40: Purple
77: Blue
252: Green
Shards: 78722
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I am a new player in LoR and when i checked the store and saw the possibility to buy coins using pre paid cards.
As far as i'm aware about there are no LoR pre paid cards in stores only LoL RP cards.
So i wonder if i buy those LoL RP cards can i use the codes to get coins in LoR?
Gwent
Thanks for the reply, appreciate it!
I've been trying to find a go-to, decent, reliable and established news portal for Gwent and kinda failed to do so, hence the question and desire for you guys to do it heh:) I do think that you could be filling a hole there and could metaphorically "strike gold";) but if you deem the audience as not sufficient for the effort (I don't know the popularity of the game in comparison to its competitors) then fair play and I understand completely. Cheers
Phase 1 - What were the 2 locked features?
Thanks this answered by question.
Didn't notice they updated the roadmap. This article also used the old roadmap, so didn't occur to me it was updated.
Ike's Recurring Villain Paladin
This deck has only 2 draw.
It's slow as hell, you'll run out of resources in no time.
Post-AoO look into the Demon Hunter Class
I think the Demon Hunter class was overall very well-designed. The Outcast mechanic, the class identity of being attack-based, the synergy of its core cards that formed its identity...everything was well-designed and thought of, and some classes would kill to have core cards as great as DH (looking at you, Paladin).
The main problem was how overtuned and overpowered everything was. 5-mana Skull of Gul'dan, Priestess of Fury, Altruis the Outcast, 0-mana Eye Beam...basically every nerfed card used to be oppressive that they just terrorized the meta from the start. The class was too efficient and powerful, as compared to the other classes whose identity and power level kind of bogged down due to numerous expansion sets and a weak core set to begin with.
I'm interested for DH to have more control-based archetypes in the next expansion. In fact, it's already got great tools for a variety of archetypes, and I won't be surprised if the class gets terrible cards in the next expansion to prevent it from dominating again. That said, I'm still excited to see what direction they'll take the class in for the future.
What is your favourite thing about your favourite deck?
Yeah, Oondasta was a good way to cheat out Baku the Mooneater, since she was always awkward to play lol
Phase 1 - What were the 2 locked features?
it's the new Deamonhunter class and a free DH deck, they updated the image
No Minion Mage
Any specific reason for not running Evocation? I would certainly consider adding it to any no minion mage list. It is not a super vital card but has the potential to save your ass in the late game.
Golden Hero Portrait - Completionist & Grind
I can relate to so much of this! When I first started playing the game I didn’t know what net decking was, and I avoided the ladder. I missed many months of card backs because I only played casual thanks to ladder anxiety. I only have two golden heroes (hunter and warlock) which belies how long I have been a daily player.
Now I don’t worry about rank or falling on the ladder, and I want to work towards 500 wins on all the other classes. The grind is brutal!
I also really want to get the 1000 win Gul’dan. I think it’s my favorite art in the game.
Phase 1 - What were the 2 locked features?
New hero portrait might be the other one.
Golden Hero Portrait - Completionist & Grind
That's why I drop a golden one on the board! ;)
Congrats on your new portrait! Now go onto the next grind!
Golden Hero Portrait - Completionist & Grind
Congrats on almost reaching golden Warlock! I did that push back during SoU. A few weeks back I picked it back up to start working on my 1000 win Warlock. Discardlock in Wild works really well for the grind right now. You can get some really fast wins on turn 4.
I'm at 696 with Warlock right now. I'm also throwing in some Hunter games here and there to hit my 1000 with Hunter. I'm at 905 with Hunter at the moment. I just care more about getting the Warlock portrait than "derp-face Rexxar". I'll stick with Sylvanas, except for Face Hunter decks. I feel the 1000 win Rexxar is the perfect portrait for a Face Hunter deck.
Here's my complete list (all classes lvl 60 unless specified(aka DH)):
Hunter (905), Warlock (696), Paladin (634), Shaman (600), Rogue (576), Priest (270), Warrior (236), Druid (178), Mage (175), DH (112 lvl 37).
What's sad is the OG 9 classes would all be golden, with many 1000 win classes had I not started playing the game with an irrational fear of the ladder. I felt out of my league on ladder and had an anger management issue when it came to losing stars and rank. I also sometimes get pulled away in the middle of the game, so I hated having to leave in the middle of a ranked match because real life called.
I used to just play Casual mode and hit ladder for the minimum required to get the card back each month. Then slowly over the years ventured more and more onto ladder, hitting rank 10 each month, then rank 5. Now, I have gotten over that and don't care at all about what rank I am or how many stars I am. Hit at least Diamond 5 each month with no effort, and am 2x Legend. Hit legend last month without even noticing that I was going to hit legend.
I have 8990 total wins on my account. That's 4382 wins that I should have applied to ranked mode for my portrait wins. So I'm playing catch-up from years of avoiding ladder. Oh well, live in learn.
Bonus Fun Fact: The first class I took to ladder was Priest back during Whisper of the Old Gods with some janky home brewed deck. Maybe that's why I felt out of league on ladder? Hunter was the first class I started trying to force myself to get good with and play on ladder. Started playing Secret Hunter on ladder in MSoG. Not much better experience... Hunter was first to hit 500 during Boomsday? (fuck I don't remember when I got my first golden...)
Unites that say things that make no sense.
No dude, his speech is not mutually exclusive, so its possible he fought for both Legacy and Glory, but Legacy comes first and foremost.
His sentence can be interpreted in a few different ways, but i don't think he meant one is better then the other.
For me, what he is trying to say is:
"Your youngsters can only fight for Glory now because our generation fought for your current legacy".
Phase 1 - What were the 2 locked features?
Good point. DH wasn't listed.
I'd agree its one of those.
Let's scout ahead! Reporting in
Report your current progress:
All regions: 100%
Full Collection: 3x copies of every single card.
Date: 07/07/2020
Time: 6 months
Wildcard:
01: Gold
00: Purple
00: Blue
41: Green
Shards: 8131
Fan Community Spotlight - WCDC Season 1 Recap
Entirely on me. (oops)
I think I had you listed when I thought you won a competition, but later turned out that you didn't.
Good thing Frosty came to the rescue to fix.
Fan Community Spotlight - WCDC Season 1 Recap
This is an interesting point to bring up.
I feel like there's rarely any hatred towards a WCDC card purely for the class, even if it's dominant in the current meta. That said, some people will have visceral reactions to various deck archetypes which will cause some negative opinions and lower scores on your card if it supports said archetype, whether or not the archetype is currently in its state of dominance as it has been. Although understandable, it's not necessarily always "fair", although there's not much that can be done about this.
Fan Community Spotlight - WCDC Season 1 Recap
Some ideas I have had that I think would be nice improvements
1.) Site achievements for 2nd and maybe even 3rd place. Give some love to those people who get so close to winning. Doesn't need to be a fancy border, just something to recognize their achievement. 2nd place out of 40 submissions is still impressive.
2.) On the Competition Home page after a competition has been completed, I feel there needs to be a section that separates the finalists from the rest of the entries. Currently to see the finalist cards for a past competition, you have to open transparency report and find the cards in the Competition Entries.
The current layout of the Competition Home page is this:
I propose the layout be something like this:
This makes going back and seeing who the finalists were easier, and would showcase the 2nd place and 3rd place winners.
3.) Discussion Thread - can be overwhelming, and I feel there are some people who are afraid to post on there. It can get chaotic, and some people's cards can get a shit load of feedback, while others can get passed over or get very little. I don't have any ideas for improvements, and I really am not sure if there even could be a way to make any. Just throwing it out there as a thought.
Damn but Braum is annoying now.
I think Level 1 Braum should have the text “When I survive damage, create a Mighty Poro in hand” so that he’s worse in non- Poro decks like Anivia Braum and requires self damage or Poro support cards to be good. I dislike him being another low synergy powerful card like Sejuani.
Fan Community Spotlight - WCDC Season 1 Recap
I'm surprised you didn't win this season. You'll get it next season for sure!
I'm going to respond to your improvements/suggestions for sake of discussion and to get the idea juices flowing.
1) I actually don't agree with this even though I used to. I think there is another solution to the finalist voting that will still allow the finalists to take part in the final voting process. (more on that in #3)
2) I think it would be interesting to hold a vote on a starting time. My only complaint about the current starting time is that I feel like I'm waiting forever on Monday's for the new week to start. It would be nice to have a new WCDC to help me procrastinate starting my work week on Monday morning's.
3) I think the voting system is perfect for the first round of voting. With how many submissions there are, asking people to do more than a simple 5 star rating would be too much. I try to give each card enough time, because I know the amount of effort that people put into their cards, and I want to give them the amount of time on their card that they deserve. But sadly, life is life, and we can't always have the time to do that. There were a couple of weeks that I had other things going on and I wasn't able to vote on every single card.
When it comes to the finalist voting however, I feel there is room for improvement. The 5 star rating doesn't feel right for how we are voting. Since all the cards are displayed for us to look at, we are rating the cards in a vacuum scoring it as so. Instead we are comparing the cards to each other and are choosing the one(s) we want to win, and the one(s) we don't want to win. Finalists vote their card 5 stars, and all others 1 star.
I propose instead of rating, we choose the order we think cards deserve to be in. This way, finalists would still be able to vote on their card choosing it to be #1. But they would be forced to choose a card to be #2, #3, #4, #5 and so on...Take the averages of how everyone ordered the cards and you will get the top order of all the finalists.
Just an idea which I'm sure has it's own set of flaws too. But it's here for discussion!
Fan Community Spotlight - WCDC Season 1 Recap
I like that you highlighted that no Hunter card won. I honestly feel there were a few weeks that the only reason I lost was because of some (possibly in the sub-conscience) Hunter hate. And definitely some weeks where my Hunter cards should have made the finals at least. Makes me not want to make Hunter cards, which sucks because it's my favorite class and I really like designing cards for it.
As for Season 2, I am looking forward to the discussion on what improvements could be made. Don't get me wrong, the system that is already in place has some amazingly solid bones! There's just always room for improvements once everyone experiences and learns!
Thanks again to all the mods for an amazing season! I'm glad I was able to squeeze in a victory in the last couple of weeks. Maybe I'll practice making Paladin cards to prepare to take on linkblade next season! ;)
Damn but Braum is annoying now.
I think they should make his lvl.1 summon a random 1/1 poro instead.
Phase 1 - What were the 2 locked features?
New class was probably one of them.
Phase 1 - What were the 2 locked features?
I prolly just missed it, but what were the 2 locked features of Phase 1?