Really struggling at the moment, HS seems to lose connection a lot. I have to restart battle.net and hs to reconnect.

By then, I've usually had two rounds of face smashing and I can't recover :(

Just not 3.

Valve Software on Twitter made their first tweet.
https://twitter.com/valvesoftware/status/1196566870360387584

We’re excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our flagship VR game, this Thursday at 10am Pacific Time. Can’t wait to share it with all of you!

My mind = blown. After leaks this morning that Half-Life: Alyx was going to be a thing, and ones that looked very reliable, I thought we'd be in the dark until the actual announcement but it looks like Valve went and took charge on it to confirm.

It has been a long time since Half-Life 2 Episode 2, and although this is not likely to be a continuation of the story due to the "Flagship VR" nature of the game, getting to go back into that universe with 2019 tech is going to ROCK.

I don't even know what I want out of it. That oculus sure is going to come in handy though!

What class will you play to level? 

I recently had a lot of fun with a Witch Doctor and then the last days with a monk and the new Set which already drops after the patch. Got all pieces and its insane power increase (from 4 to 6 pieces) and fun to play sort of. Might get boring after a while :) Set is also looking great.

I did some 65 HR with 6xx paragon some ancients and some specific gear for build. Maybe will finally get that 70 HR! Problem is definitely not the dmg I do (with some deaths I clear with 5 mins left) but they tend to one-shot you at some point.

Did anyone here watch the first weekend of the Hearthstone Global Games? I feel like the marketing, prize money, production value, attention given and tournament duration are all way under par for a tournament which could be the largest event in Hearthstone. I would have loved to root for my country all tournament, but now they're already knocked out after 3(!) games. The viewership was very low as well, probably because most people didn't even know it was going on or who were playing in it. What are your opinions on this tournament?

Heya guys.

I'm curious to see whether you have the same experience as me so that I can decide whether it's me lucky for the past 7-8 days or it maybe changed for better.

Basically the thing is that I get mostly 60g quests from the new type (play 3 games with x, y or z). And these are quite nice. You can either play them if you enjoy the classes or gift the victory to the opponent while going AFK for example.

What do you think?

I cannot play battlegrounds since yesterday, and I do not know what the problem is. It is stuck on the opponent search screen - photo.

Normal now and Tavern Brawl are just fine, but I have these bad BG cravings... He's someone experiences anything similar?

Hello everyone,

Just lost another Arena game because of disconnect near rope. I find this really frustrating, I even hate when I win this way and I even occasionally concede when I feel I would surely lose if they didn't DC. I wanted to see your opinion on the idea: introducing the timeout timer in case of player disconnecting. 

I played MtG Arena a while ago, and remembered that there was a similar feature when a played is AFK (as I recall you get 3 of them). I really liked it. I thought that it would be great if HS got some kind of DC protection, like at least additional 30 s just in case of DC specifically, once during a game. I don't see any drawbacks to this, as long as afk-ing is excluded, but I might be wrong.

What do you think? Would you like it, would it be helpful?

Do I keep the cards I have unlocked when this game goes public, or will it reset?

Hey everyone, I got early access and was playing a bit the last days, but now I wonder what happens if I dont claim my rewards today (vault day)... 

Does anybody know wether I can get the rewards later or they just expire? 

Thanks in advance

The card is pretty cool but the reward for emptying your hand is too small. She can be easily removed from the board with spells and you can't even use the mega rocket after you tried so much to upgrade her.

Hello there,

After using the 80g trading thread a few times, I noticed somethings :
The first observation was that each time I opened that forum thread, I was getting back at page 1 ... and now that there is over 26 pages worth of posting, this may create an obstacle for user to actually use the thread. Secondly, I noticed that some of the latest posts were already a few hours old, implying a slow or low traffic on said thread. In absence of actual data on thread usage, I was left wondering  if the first cue wasn't also causing the second?

I'll leave the actual investigation work aside and suggest a friendlier user-experience navigating and re-opening threads. Especially when using the Recent thread links from the main page, it would be great to get to the latest post instead of the 1st one.  

Thank you in advance for looking into it 

Hi all! My name is JagBone! Welcome to my thread where I post videos about wacky Wild decks and highlights of my plays. I will be uploading 3 videos a week around Fridays and the weekends in the morning. So expect wacky, funny edits and weird moments when I play these fun Wild decks!

I have been playing Hearthstone since 2017. I first started when Un'Goro was just being promoted. I love to play Druid, Warlock and Priest Classes. I love playing Druid the most as I like to play big things and do bombastic stuff. That's why I really love to play combo decks or decks with strong finishers. I play on the America server and I will upload videos once a week during the mornings of weekends.

I mostly play Rank and Casual. For now, I am just uploading videos of my plays in YouTube and yet to do streaming. I'll see how it goes before I go to stream Hearthstone. Anyways, welcome once again and subscribe to my channel if you want to see more wacky and fun Wild Decks!

It's time for Battlegrounds! For today, we will be going off with a Beast comp. Although... at the start I tried to make a Demon comp but ended up with a Beast-Demon hybrid weird comp. Anyway, enjoy!

turn 2 spam sn1p sn4p  as much as you can..

played it  and against it it's disgusting.. seriously mechwarper needs a ban or a nerf "can't cost less than (1)" will do it also for wild balance of course I am not sure why Blizzard didn't do that yet..

top 3 was always one of my fav brawls.. but this time around no, I am not playing it cause of this sn1p sn4p madness there is no counterplay for it.

The cost of embarking is either 400 Riot Coins or 4000 crystals, the equivalent of one champion wildcard. We were made aware at the start by devs that the minimum payout would be a random champion card - so, if your goal is complete colection, entering the expedition is essentially free.

While this is great for players worried about trying the game mode out, the reward I got for 14 wins - a Champion Capsule and 4000 crystals back - is not all that enticing; Sure, you essentially get a free champion capsule, but the probability of that is so low that I feel like it's underwhelming, despite it being among the best pack-equivalents the game has to offer.

So, to sum up, I feel like the mode would be more rewarding if the maximum payout was higher, even if it would necessitate lowering the minimum - tough that might be a hard sell. What do you all think? And also, is the reward capped at 7 wins from one trial, or do they sum up when you get both trials to the highest posible score? (I'm still unclear on that last one)

I am probably missing something big but this is one of the intended archtypes Riot was aiming for, did someone found a good build for this deck?

the strategy is to self damage minions and get braum to level up quickly as well, it lacked late game big time but I didn't found good late game cards to include in the deck.. any suggestion for improvements?

Edit: deck code works now :D

Hi,

I wonder why neither Blizzard through the launcher, nor this website has announced the start of the HGG 2019.

Or I missed it?

No news either about the legendary quests these days..

Below some shitty comments about Runeterra news, Flux replied there was few news to talk about in HS recently.

My deck has four cards, it's locked and no action is possible

How to proceed? Tks

Hey, sorry if this is in the wrong forum. Feel free to move it or whatever if this isn't the place.

Alright, so I have a problem login in on the EU server on my laptop. It gets stuck on the loading screen (tavern doors with the HS logo). Since this has been going on for a week now, and I tried all the possible solutions I could find online, I submitted a ticked on the Blizzard website. There, the only response I got was a link to the troubleshooting page, all of which I tried before to no avail. After that no more responses. So I thought I could maybe ask here for advice?

To summarize:

- I can log in on the America and Asia servers on my laptop;

- I cannot log in on the Europe server on my laptop;

- Other accounts on my laptop can log in on all servers;

- I can log on all servers on my mobile phone and tablet;

Anyone who potentially has a clue on how to fix this? If my phone or tablet were playable, or if I had progress on the other servers, I could've adapted, but alas. Normally I'm quite good at figuring out problems like this, but this time I'm stuck :/

Additional notes, I think the problem started after I updated the OS to Catalina: 10.15.1, although I couldn't find evidence online that this has anything to do with it. The "failed" patch came around that time as well, but since that has since then been fixed, it's probably not that.

Anyone knows when the game goes live again?

Vicious Syndicate published the Wild Data Reaper Report #20:

https://www.vicioussyndicate.com/wild-vs-data-reaper-report-20/

Here's their tier list:

T1:
Odd Rogue, Aluneth Mage, Odd Paladin, Mech Paladin, Sn1p-Sn4p Warlock, Even Shaman

T2:
Reno Mage

T3:
Murloc Shaman, Reno Warlock, Mech Hunter, Reno Shaman

T4:
Reno Hunter, Reno Priest, Quest Shaman, Big Priest, Thief Rogue

As I already stated in the pepper thread, I am still surprised of the low amount of Sn1p-locks between rank 15 and 5. VS blames that on the high skill cap of that deck while also mentioning that it's pretty much unbeatable in the right hands. What also matches my experience are the huge numbers of aluneth mages swarming said ranks. It's a pity that warrior has no really competetive deck right now, when they just got an awesome new hero skin :/ Let's hope for a strong standard deck with the arrival of DoD.

The big surprises for me are Odd Rogue and Evolve Shaman. I can't remember playing against a single Odd Rogue this month, but according to VS it sits right there on top of T1. They go even further with Evolve Shaman, which they don't have enough data for to place it in the regular tier list, but strongly support the claim the deck is T0.

What are your experiences? Do you agree with the provided data and the following conclusions?

I cannot get to tavern brawl, it says that it is temporarily disabled (EU region)

Does your work?

Hello there. I’ve played Hearthstone for the past 2 years or so, so I have seen quite a lot and have a pretty good understanding of how the game works. Since the launch of the open beta of Battlegrounds, I’ve played quite a lot of games, so I've gathered some thoughts here to provide as feedback.

First of all, positives:

+The UI is great. Although different from the usual Hearthstone UI, the Battlegrounds one is quite enjoyable too.

+The heroes are pleasing to play as. Save for the fact that it'd always be pretty cool to play as The Lich King or Yogg-Saron, or Ragnaros, they are all thematic, their hero powers fit them quite well.

+The music is thematic as well. Both tracks that play in the Battlegrounds make you feel like you're in a tavern, chatting with a stranger, while waiting for your beer to come. I’d also like to suggest one of my favorite OSTs from WoW, the Kul Tiras Tavern Day 2 track: https://youtu.be/x9jH1UM3IbA

Now, negatives:

-The turn time is not enough, especially for mobile. I know this would be hard to balance, as if there was more time, it would get boring and tedious because of the waiting, but neither is it okay to have 20 seconds at Bob's Tavern sometimes. What I'd suggest would be to shorten the animation times, or add the option to.

-There are not so many strategies to adopt. I guess this is harder to fix, as it’d require adding more cards, but I’d quite like to see some new tribes being introduced as cards. It would be interesting to see Dragons with their in-hand synergies and Elementals with theirs and so on.

Now, some nitpicks:

-It’s a little disappointing that there are no voiced emotes. Remember how earlier I said that it’s cool to play as The Lich King or Yogg-Saron, or Ragnaros? You know what would be twice as cooler? Yeah, playing as those same heroes, but with fully voiced emotes. I know it would be hard to have 24 and soon more fully voiced heroes, because of the casting, but it would be a great improvement nevertheless.

-There are no clickables in the background. Sometimes, especially in the early game, you finish your turn quickly. And what is there left for you to do? Nothing. You can’t click on candles in the background to make them explode, you can’t brew potions, you can’t activate traps in ancient temples. It just breaks the whimsical and silly feel of the game.

So, those are my thoughts! I know it's only still beta, but I thought it'd be useful for the developers if I provided some feedback, you never know if they'll read it!

-Good luck

-Siupanifan93#2762

So this season has been the contrary of the last one: I climbed fast from Rank 10 to rank 5 with Tempo Rogue without any important difficulties. I was lucky with Quest Druid (I didn't encounter many of them, and I was lucky in some matches). Now that I achieved my objective, I plan to chill making the dailies, if possible with Pogo Rogue.

What about you?

Let me start with my latest run, i had to beat the final boss three times! It was nerve wracking, but also super amazing! What are your special moments?

Hey, folks! So, because I have WAY too much time on my hand, I've decided to see how the Tags in Mythgard (stuff like Valkyries, Vampires, Constructs etc.) are spread out, and I've found some... interesting stuff. A few things before we begin:

• I've purposefully left out some tags that I don't feel are really useful for this experiment (stuff like 'Life', 'Death', 'Legendary' etc.) as well as the 'Token' tag, though I have counted unique tokens as separate units.
• I'm also counting units with more than one Tag multiple times for each tag (so Parsa Clarion will be counted twice, both as an Angel and a Zealot)
• I didn't count any Spells, Enchantments and Artifacts, only minions.
• I'll be referring to them as Tribes from here on out.
• Finally, there are a lot of tags with the same number of minions, so I'll group those together and highlight any that I find worth talking about.

Without further ado:

We stand alone

So here's a fun fact: did you know that there are SEVEN Tribes with only ONE minion: Mollusk, Thrall, Dwarf, Elephant, Geomancer, Artist and Shaman. I can only assume Rhino is planning on adding more in the future. (though how many Mollusks can there be?)

It's worth noting that both Eirsdottir and Cataphract are dual Tribe, with their other tribe being FAR more populated.

The 3 biggest Tribes

I've a total of 47 Tribes for this experiments, and most of them share the same number of units (Elves, Heroes and Spiders each have 6 units, for example), but there are 3 that have a lot more units than the others: 

It's ruff being the smallest of the biggest...

In case that pun didn't give it away, the third most populated tribe are the Canines, at 17 units. About 35% of these are also Soldiers, thanks to Green's Volkovs. They are also the only Tribe among the 3 that have tribal synergies.

I'm going to Construct a wall!

The second most populated Tribe are the Constructs, with 24 Units. Those are pretty much everything mech, statues that come o life, vehicles  and... food... apparently. Most constructs can be found in Yellow, Orange and Purple.

That's the Spirit!

Finally, the most populated Tribe are, surprisingly, the Spirits, at 26 Units. The most are found in Green and Purple, with 34% and 38% respectively. The rest are spread as such: 1 in Blue, 2 in Red, 1 Token in Orange and 2 dual-colours.

The 3 most diverse Colors

There are 3 Colors in the game that have a good number of Tribes exclusive to them. First, there's Red, with 4 Tribes: Vampire, Minotaur, Satyr and Thrall. Of those, only the Vampires have more than 3 Units.

Then, there's Purple, with 5 Tribes: Avatar, Ninja, Outlaw, Geomancer and Artist. Only first 2 of those have more than 2 Unit in their tribe.

And finally there's Orange, who's in a bit of a weird spot. They have 4 Tribes all their own: Zealots, Angels, Jinns and Elephants. 

But there's also a 5th tribe that is important to orange, but that it shares with all the other classes: the Centaurs. A.K.A.:

THE HERALDS OF RAGNAROK

Those are, so far, the only Cantaurs in the whole game, and that, along with the obvious thematic connection, make this a very unique Tribe.

Umh... What are you doing here?

So, there are some cards that don't seem to really belong in their tribes, but that make sense upon further inspection that I want to showcase here. For example:

Why is Grinning Kolobok a Construct? Surely it's a Demon or something similar, right? But if you look up it's myth, you'll find that it's actually a type of sentient food, who was "Constructed" in an oven.

Or those two:

Those are clearly people, how are they Constructs? But if you get into the lore of the game, you'll learn about proxys: human-like constructs that people can control from a distance.

Finally, there's Tyr:

Why is the Norse god and 'Undead'? But if you remember, the game takes place AFTER Ragnarok, and Tyr dies in that battle, so the only way he'd be here is if someone brought him back to life.

Closing paragraph 

Hope you enjoyed this piece I've put together. I'm going to leave you with a table of all the Tribes I've considered for this, along with the number of units in each (each '*' means there's that many tokens in that tribe):