These are the cards Sinti and I don't agree on. We'll discuss them a bit and would love to hear what you think. Which of us do you agree with, and why?
I think im most surprised about Imprisoned Scrap Imp and Bulwark of Azzinoth, why do you think the Imp is so weak? The 2 turn delay? I admit the later you get it the worse, but it can just blow up the entire game if you get it early and provide game winning advantage.
On the other hand, Bulwark while cute, warrior already has the Hero Power to gain some life and he will ideally want to use another weapon to attack, not to sit on this. And chances are, this will not stop that much damage anyway. Honestly, even if it stops like 20 damage, wouldnt you rather have another legendary that will most likely help you to actually win the game rather than just prolong it?
I think the idea is that you "lose" Akama Prime if the regular Akama gets Bamboozled. You're correct that you can't lose the Prime itself to the secret unless some mass Silence happens before that. And at that point you wouldn't mind losing a bare 6/5 minion.
But then again, Akama has stealth itself, so you could time it to die and prevent Bamboozle. Plus you could delay playing a secret early if you want to trade with Akama more efficiently. I think you could run Akama in a secret deck with no problems.
Players who have an active Arena run when rotation happens will have their current run retired and will receive an Arena Ticket as compensation (plus any reward for current number of wins for that run).
Play out your run to x-2 (x wins and max. 2 losses) if you want more rewards from your run, or just leave it at 0-0 if you dont want to bother playing.
Friendly Neighborhood Gladiator: if you do plan on leaving your run at 0-0, you might as well start two games and concede to two players, getting some positive karma :) You will get the identical rewards for 0-0 and 0-2 score.
FAQ
Q: When should I start my run to receive a free Arena Ticket for a retired run?
A: Ideally several hours before the rotation, arena entries are generally closed few hours prior.
Q: Where are my rewards for the retired run? I opened my arena rewards but didn't get any pack or gold/dust.
A: This is a known bug, arena rewards are actually awarded to you once you finish your last arena game, before you open up the reward boxes. When an arena reset happens, it gets even more confusing because this happens on log in; sometimes you have to restart the game.
People often see (1) pack in their inventory, don't think much about it, open it and then go collect arena rewards only to find out they didn't get anything. But the fact is, that (1) pack on log in was actually the one from the retired arena run. Same with gold/dust, it was already added to your account even before you opened the arena rewards. You didn't lose anything.
Edit: This issue shoudl be fixed now, but i will leave it here regardless.
It worked for me after leaving my fireside gathering:
Go step by step on how you did it then.
Did you use a copy and pasted decklist?
decklist ? Which decklist ?
We're using the deck that we got after prologue and I assume this is the only way. At least this is the working way which I am doing. Probably that's why you can't play. Just use the deck the game gave you. Don't try to use a deck that you copied to your game. Were you trying to use deck which is theorycrafted in some streams ? That won't work probably. Use the deck the game added to your collection. If you deleted it, say goodbye to your early access and just wait for actual release.
Step by step which I've done;
1-) Open Solo Adventures, 2-) Choose Galakrond's Awakening Heroic 3-) Choose the E.V.I.L campaign 4-) Choose Sir Finley 5-) Choose the Demon Hunter deck which game gave you, it was the first deck on my list so it should be the same for you aswell. 6-) Enjoy.
i've rotated my cards out in the past week & half/2 weeks and been playing highlander priest. I'm currently floating in gold and have been doing alright against all classes except for hunter and druids. I have and can beat them it' just a matter of having early aoe and making some board presence.
Thanks for featuring "my" deck (I surely wasn't the first one to come up with it)! I understand the hate it gets, it's a frustrating archetype to play against. I'm currently grinding out the last 50 wins to the 1.000 hero portrait with this out of nostalgia. Back when I started playing Hearthstone (summer/autumn 2015?), Tempo Mage was the first really competitive deck I built. It was centered around Mana Wyrm (pre nerf at 1 mana), Sorcerer's Apprentice and Flamewaker. Good times!
I keep getting the same error as well and i'm not in fireside i made sure. Not that i desperately need to play DH right now just wanted to give it a go while i had opportunity. I can certainly wait it out for 3 more days.
Yesssssssss, BURN THEM, CUT THEM IN HALF, ALL OF THEM...... i think i develpoed some kind of mixture of hate and obsession againts this archetype. I literally never hated any archetype more than this(maybe odd pally, but even that can be countered by control deck to some degree).
These are the cards Sinti and I don't agree on. We'll discuss them a bit and would love to hear what you think. Which of us do you agree with, and why?
4th April update: Zeddy's Jade Druid with Kael'thas: Outlasting Big Priests / Praising Yogg (1080p)
All of my previous Jade Druid videos have focused on either dragons, or on Ysera Unleased. This video marks a departure from that strategy, as I try to get to grips with Kael'thas. Turns out, you actually need to think and plan ahead!
We take down a Reno Priest, Secrets Mage, Pirate Warrior and Mech Paladin. Some pretty cool Yogg moments in this video, as well as a very long game against a Big Priest. A few misplays from me - but, we still outlast the Priest and survive multiple waves of threats. Exhausting, but fun.
Priest gets quite a makeover with the newly introduced cards, as well as the buffs (and one nerf) to existing cards. Overall, the class certainly looks stronger coming out of all of the changes. For the most part, the buffed cards were good in the arena prior to being tweaked, so they are even stronger now. If I'm being honest, only the Soulpriest and Cleric will be truly missed from the cards heading to the Hall of Fame. As a whole, the net gain is positive when comparing the HoF'd cards to the cards that will replace them. I'm excited to get a priest draft so I can see the effect of these changes.
Priest New Cards: Natalie Seline - 5 - Incredible removal piece that leaves a big body behind in the process. Shadow Word: Ruin - 4 - The low cost makes this quite strong. Even if it only kills one enemy minion, it's assassinate for 1 less mana, because priest doesn't have enough incredible removal. Certainly some downside if you have a 5+ attack minion but should be manageable. Kul Tiran Chaplain - 4 - Top stats for a 2 drop with a great upside when it buffs health. Scarlet Subjugator - 3 - Decent 1 drop with a useful ability but 1 drops aren't all that desirable when drafting. Power Infusion - 4 - Adding +8 stats for 4 mana is good. The extra health buff is always great for Priest to trade and heal. Psychic Conjurer - 3 - High variance for this one so it's tough to score better than average. A 1/1 for 1 is not very good on board, either.
Priest Buffed/Nerfed Cards: Holy Smite - 5 - This improves as a minion removal piece because face burn (reach) is rarely priest's win condition. Shadow Word: Death - 5 - This was great as spot removal and is now cheaper. Thoughtsteal - 4 - This was a decent card that gets a better now that it costs one less. Shadow Madness - 3 - This got a cost reduction, as well, making it a more effective means of removal. Holy Nova - 5 - Wow. This was already a great card that is now cheaper at the expense of 2 points of face damage, which is a very worthwhile trade off. Power Word: Shield - 2 - Another "wow" but for the opposite reason. This was a great card as a 1 mana, +2 health with a cantrip but gets nuked into oblivion in its new form. Temple Enforcer - 5 - He was very strong as a 6 mana 6/6 and is clearly better now as a 5 mana 5/6.
Priest Removed (rotated to Hall of Fame) Cards: Auchenai Soulpriest - A strong card that will be missed. Divine Spirit - A decent card that didn't see tons of play. Holy Fire - A good card that will be missed. Northshire Cleric - She has always been a great 1 drop and will certainly be missed. Prophet Velen - He is a legendary minion that wasn't in decks all that often. Shadowform - Good card that provided some versatility as a strong 2 point ping.
Mythgard. We haven't heard anything about the expansion yet (apart from a few leaks a couple months ago), but it's on the road map that it should come out this month.
1. Highlander DH - I have watched firebat pilot that deck and he obliterated nearly everything. It was very impressive.
Tier 1:
2. Midrange DH
3. Highlander Stealth Rogue
4. Some kind of Hunter (probably Dragon Hunter)
Tier 2:
5. Midrange/Control Warrior
6. Secret Rogue
7. Aggro DH
8. Face Hunter
Tier 3:
9. ZooLock
10. Demon Warlock
11. Some kind of Paladin Deck (probably highlander libram+x style) honestly I don't know why so many of you get hyped because of those new cards. I just can't see it...
12. Embiggen Druid
Tier 4.
Priest - MAYBE Zetalot will be able to build some kind of viable Tier 3 deck, but with the loss of Mass hysteria and no real resurrect/if combo I just can't imagine a stronger deck.
Shaman - was too strong (looking at you GK) got nerfed, got a little 1 drop unnerfed that benefitted an aggro playstyle and now loses many core cards for that arctype. Shaman players will have a hard time
Mage - The loss of Zilliax hits Mage hard in my opinion and I don't see any strong deck variant around the corner right now. There are way too many cards pointing in different deck directions (only spell, tempo, highlander control, minion generators)
it works for me too, just queue up one of the solo adventures and click on the demon hunter as your deck. Has worked over Naxx and Blackrock mountain normal and heroic.
Quest Trading - Play A Friend!
Battletag: Chanchi#21891
Region: EU
Trade Only?: No
Group Therapy! Need to blow off some steam? Mega salty? Here's the place!
Pre salt for knowing I am going to have to buy 85 individual packs for 100 gold each instead of being able to mass buy them all at once
Ashes of Outland: Arena Impact
I think im most surprised about Imprisoned Scrap Imp and Bulwark of Azzinoth, why do you think the Imp is so weak? The 2 turn delay? I admit the later you get it the worse, but it can just blow up the entire game if you get it early and provide game winning advantage.
On the other hand, Bulwark while cute, warrior already has the Hero Power to gain some life and he will ideally want to use another weapon to attack, not to sit on this. And chances are, this will not stop that much damage anyway. Honestly, even if it stops like 20 damage, wouldnt you rather have another legendary that will most likely help you to actually win the game rather than just prolong it?
Demonic Obsession - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Good luck to everyone in the initial voting, and again for those who become finalists tomorrow :)
Ashes of outland Pre-purchase last date
The expansion comes out on the 7th, so presumably the 6th (Monday) would be the last day to safely buy the pre-order.
Ashes of outland Pre-purchase last date
What is the last date to pre-purchase Ashes of outland bundle ?
[PSA: Free Arena Ticket] Ashes of Outland 1st rotation (April 7)
Sinti - The Arena God, Savior of Tickets.
Our Thoughts on Hearthstone's Ashes of Outland Rogue Cards
But then again, Akama has stealth itself, so you could time it to die and prevent Bamboozle. Plus you could delay playing a secret early if you want to trade with Akama more efficiently. I think you could run Akama in a secret deck with no problems.
[PSA: Free Arena Ticket] Ashes of Outland 1st rotation (April 7)
1st Arena rotation for Ashes of Outland is coming on April 7.
Drafting Pool
"Free" Arena Ticket
Players who have an active Arena run when rotation happens will have their current run retired and will receive an Arena Ticket as compensation (plus any reward for current number of wins for that run).
Friendly Neighborhood Gladiator: if you do plan on leaving your run at 0-0, you might as well start two games and concede to two players, getting some positive karma :) You will get the identical rewards for 0-0 and 0-2 score.
Q: When should I start my run to receive a free Arena Ticket for a retired run?
A: Ideally several hours before the rotation, arena entries are generally closed few hours prior.
Q: Do Arena Tickets stack?
A: Yes. (proof)
Q: Do Arena Tickets expire?
A: No.
Q: Where are my rewards for the retired run? I opened my arena rewards but didn't get any pack or gold/dust.
A: This is a known bug, arena rewards are actually awarded to you once you finish your last arena game, before you open up the reward boxes. When an arena reset happens, it gets even more confusing because this happens on log in; sometimes you have to restart the game.
People often see (1) pack in their inventory, don't think much about it, open it and then go collect arena rewards only to find out they didn't get anything. But the fact is, that (1) pack on log in was actually the one from the retired arena run. Same with gold/dust, it was already added to your account even before you opened the arena rewards. You didn't lose anything.
Edit: This issue shoudl be fixed now, but i will leave it here regardless.
Our Thoughts on Hearthstone's Ashes of Outland Rogue Cards
I don't really think that Paladin has a specific straight tho :v...
Blizzard Lied
decklist ? Which decklist ?
We're using the deck that we got after prologue and I assume this is the only way. At least this is the working way which I am doing. Probably that's why you can't play. Just use the deck the game gave you. Don't try to use a deck that you copied to your game. Were you trying to use deck which is theorycrafted in some streams ? That won't work probably. Use the deck the game added to your collection. If you deleted it, say goodbye to your early access and just wait for actual release.
Step by step which I've done;
1-) Open Solo Adventures,
2-) Choose Galakrond's Awakening Heroic
3-) Choose the E.V.I.L campaign
4-) Choose Sir Finley
5-) Choose the Demon Hunter deck which game gave you, it was the first deck on my list so it should be the same for you aswell.
6-) Enjoy.
Group Therapy! Need to blow off some steam? Mega salty? Here's the place!
Mage is so bullshit. Even more than Embiggen Druid. Even more than Face Hunter. Even more than any Galakrond.
It's simply unbearable. You can't play around anything because even they don't know what will happen. And Evocation has not been released yet.
Man I hate the class.
Who has started converting their decks to prepare for post rotation?
i've rotated my cards out in the past week & half/2 weeks and been playing highlander priest. I'm currently floating in gold and have been doing alright against all classes except for hunter and druids. I have and can beat them it' just a matter of having early aoe and making some board presence.
A Weekend of Wild Decks
Thanks for featuring "my" deck (I surely wasn't the first one to come up with it)! I understand the hate it gets, it's a frustrating archetype to play against. I'm currently grinding out the last 50 wins to the 1.000 hero portrait with this out of nostalgia. Back when I started playing Hearthstone (summer/autumn 2015?), Tempo Mage was the first really competitive deck I built. It was centered around Mana Wyrm (pre nerf at 1 mana), Sorcerer's Apprentice and Flamewaker. Good times!
Blizzard Lied
I keep getting the same error as well and i'm not in fireside i made sure. Not that i desperately need to play DH right now just wanted to give it a go while i had opportunity. I can certainly wait it out for 3 more days.
A Weekend of Wild Decks
Yesssssssss, BURN THEM, CUT THEM IN HALF, ALL OF THEM...... i think i develpoed some kind of mixture of hate and obsession againts this archetype. I literally never hated any archetype more than this(maybe odd pally, but even that can be countered by control deck to some degree).
Ashes of Outland: Arena Impact
These are the cards Sinti and I don't agree on. We'll discuss them a bit and would love to hear what you think. Which of us do you agree with, and why?
Darkseeker's channel - 13th November update: KOtsosKOtsos' Reno Evolve Shudderwock Shaman - ft. Archivist Elysiana
4th April update: Zeddy's Jade Druid with Kael'thas: Outlasting Big Priests / Praising Yogg (1080p)
All of my previous Jade Druid videos have focused on either dragons, or on Ysera Unleased. This video marks a departure from that strategy, as I try to get to grips with Kael'thas. Turns out, you actually need to think and plan ahead!
We take down a Reno Priest, Secrets Mage, Pirate Warrior and Mech Paladin. Some pretty cool Yogg moments in this video, as well as a very long game against a Big Priest. A few misplays from me - but, we still outlast the Priest and survive multiple waves of threats. Exhausting, but fun.
Deck code: AAEBAZICCv4B6awCtLsCh84CmdMCxf0C1pkD9q0D9rADrroDClaKDsu8AqDNApjSAp7SAoTmAr/yAo/2AtulAwA=
https://youtu.be/jplEA4-ziEE
Ashes of Outland: Arena Impact
Priest gets quite a makeover with the newly introduced cards, as well as the buffs (and one nerf) to existing cards. Overall, the class certainly looks stronger coming out of all of the changes. For the most part, the buffed cards were good in the arena prior to being tweaked, so they are even stronger now. If I'm being honest, only the Soulpriest and Cleric will be truly missed from the cards heading to the Hall of Fame. As a whole, the net gain is positive when comparing the HoF'd cards to the cards that will replace them. I'm excited to get a priest draft so I can see the effect of these changes.
Priest New Cards:
Natalie Seline - 5 - Incredible removal piece that leaves a big body behind in the process.
Shadow Word: Ruin - 4 - The low cost makes this quite strong. Even if it only kills one enemy minion, it's assassinate for 1 less mana, because priest doesn't have enough incredible removal. Certainly some downside if you have a 5+ attack minion but should be manageable.
Kul Tiran Chaplain - 4 - Top stats for a 2 drop with a great upside when it buffs health.
Scarlet Subjugator - 3 - Decent 1 drop with a useful ability but 1 drops aren't all that desirable when drafting.
Power Infusion - 4 - Adding +8 stats for 4 mana is good. The extra health buff is always great for Priest to trade and heal.
Psychic Conjurer - 3 - High variance for this one so it's tough to score better than average. A 1/1 for 1 is not very good on board, either.
Priest Buffed/Nerfed Cards:
Holy Smite - 5 - This improves as a minion removal piece because face burn (reach) is rarely priest's win condition.
Shadow Word: Death - 5 - This was great as spot removal and is now cheaper.
Thoughtsteal - 4 - This was a decent card that gets a better now that it costs one less.
Shadow Madness - 3 - This got a cost reduction, as well, making it a more effective means of removal.
Holy Nova - 5 - Wow. This was already a great card that is now cheaper at the expense of 2 points of face damage, which is a very worthwhile trade off.
Power Word: Shield - 2 - Another "wow" but for the opposite reason. This was a great card as a 1 mana, +2 health with a cantrip but gets nuked into oblivion in its new form.
Temple Enforcer - 5 - He was very strong as a 6 mana 6/6 and is clearly better now as a 5 mana 5/6.
Priest Removed (rotated to Hall of Fame) Cards:
Auchenai Soulpriest - A strong card that will be missed.
Divine Spirit - A decent card that didn't see tons of play.
Holy Fire - A good card that will be missed.
Northshire Cleric - She has always been a great 1 drop and will certainly be missed.
Prophet Velen - He is a legendary minion that wasn't in decks all that often.
Shadowform - Good card that provided some versatility as a strong 2 point ping.
Ashes of Outland Giveaway Results
Eyy i won something!
Legends of Runeterra Official Launch, Mobile Access and New Card Set on April 30!
Mythgard. We haven't heard anything about the expansion yet (apart from a few leaks a couple months ago), but it's on the road map that it should come out this month.
Ashes of Outland: Meta prediction and Class ranking
S-Tier:
1. Highlander DH - I have watched firebat pilot that deck and he obliterated nearly everything. It was very impressive.
Tier 1:
2. Midrange DH
3. Highlander Stealth Rogue
4. Some kind of Hunter (probably Dragon Hunter)
Tier 2:
5. Midrange/Control Warrior
6. Secret Rogue
7. Aggro DH
8. Face Hunter
Tier 3:
9. ZooLock
10. Demon Warlock
11. Some kind of Paladin Deck (probably highlander libram+x style) honestly I don't know why so many of you get hyped because of those new cards. I just can't see it...
12. Embiggen Druid
Tier 4.
Priest - MAYBE Zetalot will be able to build some kind of viable Tier 3 deck, but with the loss of Mass hysteria and no real resurrect/if combo I just can't imagine a stronger deck.
Shaman - was too strong (looking at you GK) got nerfed, got a little 1 drop unnerfed that benefitted an aggro playstyle and now loses many core cards for that arctype. Shaman players will have a hard time
Mage - The loss of Zilliax hits Mage hard in my opinion and I don't see any strong deck variant around the corner right now. There are way too many cards pointing in different deck directions (only spell, tempo, highlander control, minion generators)
Legends of Runeterra Official Launch, Mobile Access and New Card Set on April 30!
but MtG and HS were already planned for many months right? no idea about LoR cause its a new game and whats the other game im missing here?
Blizzard Lied
it works for me too, just queue up one of the solo adventures and click on the demon hunter as your deck. Has worked over Naxx and Blackrock mountain normal and heroic.
Legends of Runeterra Official Launch, Mobile Access and New Card Set on April 30!
This is the 4th card game that decided to drop an expansion this month. WTH?