I first heard about it on a Hearthstone podcast I was listening to as they were talking about the Twitch drops. However, I have tried to find it in Twitch's T&C and I cannot find it anywhere. Some people on reddit tested it and found it to be true by seeing if the viewer was lost when a stream was muted. Then there are others saying that's not the case *shrug*.
I am not sure it would be something Twitch would advertise anyway. It could also be down to Chrome and nothing to do with Twitch.
I'll go with just turning the volume down if I'm not actively watching it just in case. I usually watch all the EU / NA games I can anyway.
I hope everyone enjoys the article. :) I have several openings for topics coming up, and can't decide what to write on. So, this week, I'd really appreciate idea submissions for future lore topics if you would be so kind.
Preordered it already, but only because I had leftover Amazon coins. Otherwise, I'd probably have used in-game gold. I have really been enjoying all the adventure content they've done, and expect this to be great too.
I do really miss the original model from Naxx through Karazan. I miss building a streamlined deck designed to exploit each boss's weakness.
Yes Janalai is against slower decks and I will give you some examples why I kept this card in the deck and how she can be possibly replaced.
So basically. She is against slower matchups meaning those are : Renolock,Reno Mage, Reno Priest,Shudderwock battlecry decks,Reno decks in other classes,ocasional Big Priest,Arcibishop Priest,Odd Warrior,Big Shaman and others.
Most of the time she has 3 ways how she can be played.
1. Against other Kabal Reno decks: This is the race of you 2 who will have better Rat. Who will reach fatique faster. And who will clear the board and eventually either wins the board or outvalues the opponent. In toe to toe matchups like this Janalai is extremely powerful minion providing another Ragnaros in late game,which as I mentioned above is powerfull,improves your Kazakus ressurection pool and puts both proactive and reactive minion into play which has synergy with your DK form. At worst cases it helps you dodge the Rat meaning that more important minions like Brann,Zephrys or Kazakus are protected.
2. Against so called outgrinders aka Odd Warrior or Arcibishop Priest: Those deck want to outgrind all the resources,greed and value that you have. Too bad for them, the deck is capable of winning trough huge boards as well. Janalai coming online in later stages of the game can be comboed with Brann or as standalone pushing more damage and demanding more answers from your opponent.
3. Anti Control decks like Shudderwock battlecry Shaman or Big Priest: Again. She can be droped as standalone. Or she can be comboed with Brann to push 16 damage the turn she is played putting your opponent on the clock. Against Shudderwock Shamans this is crucial. Because against that deck you either Rat their Shudderwock,or you kill them before Shudderwock turn. You simply can't outvalue or kill him once the infinite Shudder chain starts going off. With the amount of clears and proactive plays that this Reno Mage offers you,you are becoming the aggressor and Shamans which usually don't run a big amount of healing(especially Jade variants) are forced to clear your board every turn. In a games like this, Freezing the opponents board with Atiesh equipped and going face or putting Janalai into play is the key to win.
Those matchups are the reason why I kept her and I have no plans on replacing her. However,if you are unsatisfied with the results of this card there are some replacements which are definitely good. To name a few: Siamat aka slightly worse Zilliax but still good card. Dr. Boom which is okayish play on turn 7 and whose Boombots have synergy with Zilliax and Frostlich Hero Power. If you want to go into more value oriented approach, go for Malacrass or Barista Lynchen which are both good in Reno Mage or go for value and body which is Sindragosa(she used to be in older versions of the build)
Can I just say something that might help those that are not getting packs.
You might just be unlucky which is very possible, I personally only got two packs but I learned something that helped.
If you have the volume muted (so there is an X over the volume button) you are not counted as a viewer on Twitch and therefore not eligible for packs. I say this as I know there are lots of people (including myself in the past) that had a tab open and muted just so I was 'watching' the stream.
You can have the volume right down to just above the minimum and that still works. I don't know whether muting the tab (in Chrome) works or not, it should but I've not tried it.
Only watched yesterday and got 1 pack. FeelsFineMan I didnt get any from last weekend though despite that I watched satur-sun.
I wonder how many of the viewers that have actually tied their bnet account to their twitch. Hard to estimate your odds without this knowledge, but looking from people's experience, chances seem slime
This weekend i left the stream open uninterruptedly and only got 2 or 3 packs, which is not that bad to be honest, since i already stopped buying packs for this expansion.
Yes i already did, i have bought every adventure since the beginning and this time would be no different.
I don't think using gold to buy adventures is a good deal, regardless of what kind of player you are, so i always buy with money and keep the gold for the expansions.
When I pulled Pressure Plate, it was after having faced a lot of Quest Shaman. I use that slot now to tech in whatever secret I feel is most useful against what I'm seeing. Thanks for checking out the deck, and I hope it brings you a lot of luck!
Thanks for the explanation. I am content with most of your explanations. Except one.
1. Janalai - so this card only viable in one type of matchup? Control vs Control. Isn't that a bit greedy? I don't have much experience with the deck yet but "charging up" Jan'alai takes 10+ turns. It's a fine late game option if you ever get to that. Before that it's a dead card for too many turns in my view.
Not sure if the deck is really random. My opponent's paladin deck has murlocs like half of his deck with cheating lens and Tip the Scales. When he summon 7 murloc it's GG.
I also tried a few different Highlander Builds for Hunter regarding more Mech Synergies etc. and it´s doing pretty good!
Not sure tough about the change regarding Pressure Plate - i think this card is pretty strong and most of the times the opponent does not play around it ... but i will still try this one to see how it performs !
Btw, Zilliax and SN1P-SN4P are basically EVERYWHERE, from Aggro to Renodecks, compelling for even more Mechs to be included in any deck.
Not even unnerfed Patches the Pirate reached that point, as at least the Pirate package was restricted to Aggro decks. Yet he was nerfed because of overpopularity...
Yeah, saw it the first time yesterday and was not sure if it is a new one - but i like it! And i'm pretty sure that there is a hidden Interaction like the League of Explorers Theme on the other board!
Anyone get packs from Twitch Grandmasters?
I got a pack two days ago despite the stream being mostly muted. Pretty sure I got packs while muted during season 1 as well.
Anyone get packs from Twitch Grandmasters?
I first heard about it on a Hearthstone podcast I was listening to as they were talking about the Twitch drops. However, I have tried to find it in Twitch's T&C and I cannot find it anywhere. Some people on reddit tested it and found it to be true by seeing if the viewer was lost when a stream was muted. Then there are others saying that's not the case *shrug*.
I am not sure it would be something Twitch would advertise anyway. It could also be down to Chrome and nothing to do with Twitch.
I'll go with just turning the volume down if I'm not actively watching it just in case. I usually watch all the EU / NA games I can anyway.
Traversing Azeroth - The Troll Loa
I hope everyone enjoys the article. :) I have several openings for topics coming up, and can't decide what to write on. So, this week, I'd really appreciate idea submissions for future lore topics if you would be so kind.
Will you buy tombs of terror?
Preordered it already, but only because I had leftover Amazon coins. Otherwise, I'd probably have used in-game gold. I have really been enjoying all the adventure content they've done, and expect this to be great too.
I do really miss the original model from Naxx through Karazan. I miss building a streamlined deck designed to exploit each boss's weakness.
Legendary Reno DK Mage
Yes Janalai is against slower decks and I will give you some examples why I kept this card in the deck and how she can be possibly replaced.
So basically. She is against slower matchups meaning those are : Renolock,Reno Mage, Reno Priest,Shudderwock battlecry decks,Reno decks in other classes,ocasional Big Priest,Arcibishop Priest,Odd Warrior,Big Shaman and others.
Most of the time she has 3 ways how she can be played.
1. Against other Kabal Reno decks: This is the race of you 2 who will have better Rat. Who will reach fatique faster. And who will clear the board and eventually either wins the board or outvalues the opponent. In toe to toe matchups like this Janalai is extremely powerful minion providing another Ragnaros in late game,which as I mentioned above is powerfull,improves your Kazakus ressurection pool and puts both proactive and reactive minion into play which has synergy with your DK form. At worst cases it helps you dodge the Rat meaning that more important minions like Brann,Zephrys or Kazakus are protected.
2. Against so called outgrinders aka Odd Warrior or Arcibishop Priest: Those deck want to outgrind all the resources,greed and value that you have. Too bad for them, the deck is capable of winning trough huge boards as well. Janalai coming online in later stages of the game can be comboed with Brann or as standalone pushing more damage and demanding more answers from your opponent.
3. Anti Control decks like Shudderwock battlecry Shaman or Big Priest: Again. She can be droped as standalone. Or she can be comboed with Brann to push 16 damage the turn she is played putting your opponent on the clock. Against Shudderwock Shamans this is crucial. Because against that deck you either Rat their Shudderwock,or you kill them before Shudderwock turn. You simply can't outvalue or kill him once the infinite Shudder chain starts going off. With the amount of clears and proactive plays that this Reno Mage offers you,you are becoming the aggressor and Shamans which usually don't run a big amount of healing(especially Jade variants) are forced to clear your board every turn. In a games like this, Freezing the opponents board with Atiesh equipped and going face or putting Janalai into play is the key to win.
Those matchups are the reason why I kept her and I have no plans on replacing her. However,if you are unsatisfied with the results of this card there are some replacements which are definitely good. To name a few: Siamat aka slightly worse Zilliax but still good card. Dr. Boom which is okayish play on turn 7 and whose Boombots have synergy with Zilliax and Frostlich Hero Power. If you want to go into more value oriented approach, go for Malacrass or Barista Lynchen which are both good in Reno Mage or go for value and body which is Sindragosa(she used to be in older versions of the build)
Anyone get packs from Twitch Grandmasters?
I had the tab open and muted for ~27h, and didn't get any. Last week I received two with the same practise.
Steal the Opponent's Quest!
Kudos for your ideas. But If u win a Match with It, you should some lottery
To make this work, You ...
- have to meet a quest deck
- need to start first
- need to have at least one of the needed Cares
- need to have RNG in your Side... Like reeeeally on your Side.... 1:5
Tried 10 Matches
Will you buy tombs of terror?
Preordered for money.
Anyone get packs from Twitch Grandmasters?
Could you please add some proof of that? Because i had the stream muted for the most part of the time and i still got packs.
Anyone get packs from Twitch Grandmasters?
Can I just say something that might help those that are not getting packs.
You might just be unlucky which is very possible, I personally only got two packs but I learned something that helped.
If you have the volume muted (so there is an X over the volume button) you are not counted as a viewer on Twitch and therefore not eligible for packs. I say this as I know there are lots of people (including myself in the past) that had a tab open and muted just so I was 'watching' the stream.
You can have the volume right down to just above the minimum and that still works. I don't know whether muting the tab (in Chrome) works or not, it should but I've not tried it.
Neutral anti-Reno tech
Ok, I believe I have created the final one, Dr.4 (compare with Loatheb). It was so obvious I can't believe how I wouldn't think of it first.
Steal the Opponent's Quest!
IMHO you should mark this deck as 'Just for Fun', not 'Ranked'. :)
Steal the Opponent's Quest!
Dude you come up with some ridiculous deck idea's, +1 just for that. Love the deckidea although just for fun i'll have a go at it.
Quest Trading - Play A Friend!
Battletag: dingo#22701
Region: EU
Trade Only?: Yes
DONE
Anyone get packs from Twitch Grandmasters?
Only watched yesterday and got 1 pack. FeelsFineMan I didnt get any from last weekend though despite that I watched satur-sun.
I wonder how many of the viewers that have actually tied their bnet account to their twitch. Hard to estimate your odds without this knowledge, but looking from people's experience, chances seem slime
Anyone get packs from Twitch Grandmasters?
This weekend i left the stream open uninterruptedly and only got 2 or 3 packs, which is not that bad to be honest, since i already stopped buying packs for this expansion.
Will you buy tombs of terror?
Yes i already did, i have bought every adventure since the beginning and this time would be no different.
I don't think using gold to buy adventures is a good deal, regardless of what kind of player you are, so i always buy with money and keep the gold for the expansions.
My Highlander Hunter deck made the front page, so I thought I'd ask for input
When I pulled Pressure Plate, it was after having faced a lot of Quest Shaman. I use that slot now to tech in whatever secret I feel is most useful against what I'm seeing. Thanks for checking out the deck, and I hope it brings you a lot of luck!
Legendary Reno DK Mage
Thanks for the explanation. I am content with most of your explanations. Except one.
1. Janalai - so this card only viable in one type of matchup? Control vs Control. Isn't that a bit greedy? I don't have much experience with the deck yet but "charging up" Jan'alai takes 10+ turns. It's a fine late game option if you ever get to that. Before that it's a dead card for too many turns in my view.
Three Wishes
Not sure if the deck is really random. My opponent's paladin deck has murlocs like half of his deck with cheating lens and Tip the Scales. When he summon 7 murloc it's GG.
My Highlander Hunter deck made the front page, so I thought I'd ask for input
Very nice!
I also tried a few different Highlander Builds for Hunter regarding more Mech Synergies etc. and it´s doing pretty good!
Not sure tough about the change regarding Pressure Plate - i think this card is pretty strong and most of the times the opponent does not play around it ... but i will still try this one to see how it performs !
SoU Wild meta
Btw, Zilliax and SN1P-SN4P are basically EVERYWHERE, from Aggro to Renodecks, compelling for even more Mechs to be included in any deck.
Not even unnerfed Patches the Pirate reached that point, as at least the Pirate package was restricted to Aggro decks. Yet he was nerfed because of overpopularity...
New game board
Yeah, saw it the first time yesterday and was not sure if it is a new one - but i like it! And i'm pretty sure that there is a hidden Interaction like the League of Explorers Theme on the other board!
Will you buy tombs of terror?
Already bought it - i always buy the Solo Content - mostly with in Game Gold - this time with Money - do not know why, just did :)
Anyone get packs from Twitch Grandmasters?
Last weekend I got lucky: 2 packs on Friday, 2 on Saturday, 1 on Sunday.