Hello everyone,

how do I aquire the new "task 7" item? I had Natalie in my team in the Avalanchan heroic bounty (still need Ragnaros and 4 coins are missing). But I didn't get her task 7 item. It doesn't help that the bugged tooltip shows "task 6". *rolleyes*

Or is this not for the old Mercs just for Balinda, Wrathion & co?

Someone on Twitter spotted this -- the collection manager now shows a "Sha Illidan" hero, which apparently you get by buying the "Evil from Pandaria" bundle. Could that be the next expansion?

this week was patch week if i not mistaken why out of cards didnt post the patch notes? i am  away from runeterra for a while playing other stuff but i was looking foward to a new patch to see some new path of champions stuff. any info will be apreciated, thanks in advance guys!

Talking about mobile client here.

Is there any way to see how much progress the Merc has? If you click on the xp bar the Merc gets the XP and the training stops and starts again after a 20 second delay. Is there any possibility to see the progress in advance without stopping? On the other hand: I had the  xp bar im the TG filled by like 10 % before I clicked it. What is the percentage about? Time from max time? 

I tried to switch the trained Merc. Dragging a new one in results in "no free slots" message, but I couldn't dragg the training Merc back either. I had to stop it by clicking thr bar and could remove him during the delay. Is this the only way to do it?

Bug: you can select Mercs you don't own but are able to craft in the TG selection list. Dragging them onto a training slot will result in freezing the game.

We got some pretty big shifts in the S tier again.

Not gonna waste much time.

Pirate aggro is in S tier again, some would argue mostly me that it never left based solely on the numbers it just got outshined by pre nerf Poppy.

Scouts, hey can't complain about this deck being in S tier, it has a clear champ focused wincon and Quin is just kinda cool from a design perspective.

Spiders drops down, to A only because one pure aggro deck gets to be in S tier and pirate aggro has always been more consistent for like the last two years...but it's nice to see the rankings reflect the obvious.

Zed rally drops down too, mainly because Kenin Ahiri can stun Zed all day and rallies become useless.

Honestly minus Kenin it's basically Bilgewater meta, and if you liked that you will be happy, if you hated it well too bad.

We'll talk about something other than meta shifts when there is something else to actually talk about.

Competition Theme: One Card To Rule The Brawl

You've only got one card to win this Tavern Brawl, so you'd better make sure it counts!

• You must create a card that could be used in a "All 30 cards in your deck are this card" Tavern Brawl
  • Think cards like Unstable Portal or Hallucination - it must still make sense as a normal Hearthstone card!

Sometimes keeping it simple is better - and Jhamel wants you to keep the deck as simple as possible this week!

As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Jan 24 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Jan 29 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jan 29 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Jan 30 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jan 30 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Jan 31 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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Now I play this game off and on, mostly just to log in and have some fun with a few fun decks I have and play some mercs but when I heard about the dust refund thing I logged in right away.

When I fired up the menu, I had 2 pop-ups saying I gained 1600 dust. But when actually looked I didn't get anything at all. 

Now since I haven't been following the game somewhat I knew people were upset about the dust refund but i didnt know why. Is this why?

I made a custom cards hearthstone expansion! its called (Forged by the War) and it has 55+ custom cards in it, and i'm constantly adding more!

Hope you Enjoy :D

Link: http://www.hearthcards.net/setsandclasses/#7772-Forged-by%20the%20War

I am so sick of playing against these T1 decks over and over again...

What do you think will happen?

what do you thing will happen?

Deadmines, the latest miniset will leave the shop on January 24th.

On January 25th we will got a new big patch. 

So, I suppose the new miniset will launch with the big patch on January 25th

Why is no one talking about it? It is only 5 days away. Spoilers, please!

Basically I "only" got 1600 dust from the thingy today and I was wondering who I should make for my freeze sham Bru'kan or Bearon since I can only make one. I figured Bru'kan might be good since he can fit in more decks but I don't really have the best endgame in my freeze deck right now. So what's your guys' takes?

Wild Changes

Sorcerer's Apprentice + 2 Mana

Rapid Fire + 1 Mana | +1 damage

Standard Changes

Incanter's Flow + 1 Mana

Cloak of Shadows + 1 Mana

Raid the Docks unknown changes to later parts of the questline

Rokara, the Valorous + 5 Armor

Shadowcrafter Scabbs + 1 Mana

Wildpaw Gnoll now a 6 Mana 3/5

Mercs Content and changes:

Portraits now have their own frame when opening them

Training Grounds:

• passively levels your mercs
• level 1: 1 Mercenary at the same time | 100 gold
• level 2: 2 Mercenaries at the same time | 200 gold

New Mercenaries:

• Sinestra (Dragon) | rare | fighter
• Lokholar (Elemental) | rare | protector
• Wrathion (Human) | epic | fighter
• Galvangar (probably Orc) | epic | unknown
• Belinda (human) | legendary | fighter

New PvE Zone:

• Altarac

Just logged into HS and got a pop-up saying I received 8800 dust. Anyone know why?

Sorry in advance if this is too silly of a question to ask, kinda new player here, started playing after Arcane though I had tried the game before, mainly a HS player. 

I was playing versus a Shurima deck with my Trundle/Aurelion Sol deck. I didn't want to use my 6 mana daybreak removal (6 damage and silence one) because I knew he can place his Azir in the stasis thingie, Ancient Hourglass I think is the name. So feeling smart I discovered (invoked) the 6 mana obliterate a unit or landmark and expected it to work ... But it didn't. Question is: Why? I know effects work in reverse play order, so Azir should be placed in the stasis first, but being a landmark it should still be destroyed by the spell, no? 

Edit: If this is considered a better fit for General forum and less of a card discussion, please move my thread. Seemed more like a card question to me.

Hey guys!

First of all, I would like to apologize for my grammar. This is my first post and English is not my first language, but well, let's get to the point: The Bard.

I've been working on this class for almost two years since the release of Demon Hunter, and now I want to introduce it to you.
I'd love your honest opinion about the class, but I still don't know how to create a full post on this site, so you can check out the basic ant initiate bard set at this link: http://www.hearthcards.net/setsandclasses/#7819-Bard

Competition Theme: Legendary Loot

Man, the loot tables for these encounters are crazy, I can't keep up. Could you guys help me out and show me the Legendary drops?

• You must create a Legendary weapon which doesn't depict a traditional weapon
  • Think Sphere of Sapience or Prismatic Jewel Kit - no swords or spears for this competition!

BasilAnguis has been dungeon crawling this week, and wants us all to see the loot they got. Why don't you share your loot too?

As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Jan 17 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Jan 22 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jan 22 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Jan 23 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jan 23 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Jan 24 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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This is something that I wanted to talk about for a while. If you look at some of the recent top tier decks that used Demacia ( Sivir/Akshan, Poppy/Zed, Pantheon) you notice that it is is mostly used as a support region, you basically use Demacia whenever you need the following cards ( Single Combat, Concerted Strike, Golden Aegis, Sharpsight, Brightsteel Protector ).

Barring a few exception Demacia's followers and champions don't seem to make it into competitive decks, the reason for that is, well at least in my opinion, is because Demacia lacks finishers unit's that can ignore chump blocker to deal damage directly to face, most of Demacia champions and followers are good at trading but they struggle with closing the game.

Regions like Shurima, Targon and Ionia tend abuse the above cards because they have access to unit's with overwhelm and elusive. If you opponent use a Cataclysm on Jarvan IV that just mean your going to lose a unit but a Cataclysm on Pantheon usually mean that you will lose the game. 

Taking all of that into account it's no surprise that the Demacian champion who had the most success in the competitive scene is Fiora because she had an alternate win con, that also why Jarvan/Shen could never be as dominant as Fiora/Shen despite sharing 90% of it's card with that deck.

So how do we fix this problem? how do we give Demacia finisher? Well the obvious answer would be just give them unit's with elusive or overwhelm. But that just seem to be a lazy fix to me, plus elusive does not make sense from a lore perceptive ( Demecia is know for it's big mighty army, that is as far from stealthy as it get's ).

The first one is fearsome Cithria the Bold is one the few, good Demacian finisher having seen play in both MF/Quinn and Fiora/Shen and what does she do? she give your board fearsome plus a stat boost, plus it fits from lore perspective big armies are fearsome and let's no forget about the anti-mage secret police that kingdom have.

The other mechanic that comes to mind is the very underused give unit "can't block," Demacia is know for petricite a substance that nullify magic, mageseekers use it to restrain mages preventing them from defending themselves similar to how "can't block " prevent your opponent from using his unit's to defend his nexus.

Anyway this post ended up being longer than expected, so what do you guys think?

I just recently got back into playing, and I'm definitely having fun.

I think I'm a bit weird in this small community, given that I actually play on ladder, and I don't really get stressed about it. After the recent balance changes, I played a fair bit with Daring Poros, because I will always have a soft spot for those guys. My first ever Masters was accomplished with Poros, back when no one thought they were any good.

Still, I did want to play a bit with some actual champions, so I have also been using Lulu/Ahri and enjoying that as well.

When not competing on the ladder, I've managed to clear Path of Champions with the first 5 champs and got the rewards and all. It was definitely engaging, but I'm not sure how much motivation I'll have to keep playing that. At least not as much as I had for playing the old, original Lab of Legends.

What about the rest of you fine folks? What are you enjoying these days?

https://youtu.be/dweH2TQ-Vdw

All jokes aside there are certain early indicators that perhaps the excitement for the overall direction of the game is starting to decline.

Bruised By God 3 weeks ago went on a meta rant with reddit and largely hasn't been playing much since (largely saying Champs aren't as flexible as they used to be aka are worse)

Mogwai and Swim typically spend more time not covering the game than they do over the past year. Like Swim used to break Runeterra with his decks like it was a fulltime job.

Generally awareness and excitement for the game among casual players and the community at large is fading.

Like at the end of the day of Champs aren't A) flexible B) win cons C) flashy nobody is going.to play this game over Hearthstone which has literally been on the market for like 20 years.

Am I trolling not really, the more time every one spends with their panties in a bunch the faster the game will die with us too afraid to have legitimate discussions about design and balance.

Case study: In MTG when Tefari Time Raveler was released in Dominaria he basically broke the game...and that was okay he had a good run and he got banned when necessary but God what a good card sold well too.

When Ekko released in Legends he was fun but under-powered in-flexible and under-baked. He remains at a negative winrate in the only deck he's playable something like 6-8 month after release. This is bad people...it's bad for hard-core players its bad for monetization at Riot and it's bad for the casual player base too.

Case study 2: Nautelus the coolest Champ Riot has made remains at a negative winrate 2 years after release...yes this is also bad people. Better to let the card be broken like Oko for 3 months than for him to stay like wet fart in the wind. God I feel bad for deep players they literally only get 1 playable deck and it's bad.

Case study 3: Yassao! Literally a ronin samurai with a katana, and practically one of the faces of League of Legends and he's unplayable...Jinx is too. The reality is that 95% of the Champs in this game are bad, and if they arent bad they were nerfed until they were bad.

I dont want to play a card game where the main selling point of its existence as a video game is being massochistically tortured out of its own design philosophy.

Hey fam, I'm creating this thread as a spot for tips, tricks, and comps for tackling a specific PvE bounty. 

If there's a better space for this kind of thing, let me know. 

An example, Lord Banehollow's crew have Holy weakness, so bring your holy damage to finish them off. 

Second example: I'm stuck on Rend Blackhand. What did you do against a boss that can deal 200 damage in one shot? 

https://lor.mobalytics.gg/meta-tier-list

Hey look they did that thing I suggested...hey look spider aggro is in S tier who guessed that....maybe you guys should stop bad mouthing me when my calls and suggestions literally are meta before the meta?

S tier - Spiders, Ahiri, rally, Pantheon

A tier - everything else

Wow they literally even kicked Lee Sin of the tier list entirely not sure who called that? Need I go on guys, money talks bs walks.

Like some of the high minded stuff like the general decline of champ based win cons in favor of over powered followers...we might not really see the ramifications of that for a other year but it will happen if Riot doesn't start changing up its knee jerk champ nerf reactions in favor of buffing other weaker under played Champs.

Like its not enough that a ton of amazing decks have either dropped a tier or have disappeared all together practically overnight? How big and bright does the bat signal need to be till we start taking notice?

Does anyone knows if there is a way of de some extra cards that are in classic set?

When I try to de there is warning that doing this will also de its classic version.

I do not want to use mass disenchant button though. 

It is bugged for sure. No sure if it only displays wrong number of cards. I don't want to hurt my classic collection and get some dust ;)

Edit:

Well.. Looks that I have found solution. Ofc its Blizzard way. Changed collection collection filter to CLASSIC cards and then there is no warning and it seems it won't remove the classic cards (tried by disenchanting Faerie Dragon..). However one have to be careful because you can disenchant all copies and there is no warning about having less than 2 left. Undo works but after confirming there is no coming back.

Competition Theme: Keep On Ticking

It's time for a different kind of counting this week, but don't worry - your cards will be keeping track for you this time!

• You must create a card which uses a counter similar to those of the Objective spells or the Sigils
  • That's the little marker above your hero that counts down how long an Objective lasts for, or how long until a Sigil activates. So long as your card is counting something, you're good to go!

AeroJulwin is counting on us to do some counting this week - so make sure your cards are keeping track of it!

As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Jan 10 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Jan 15 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jan 15 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Jan 16 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jan 16 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Jan 17 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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