Is Shadow Priest still any good at higher ranks? I'm at gold 5 because I'm a Wild main and haven't touched Standard in a while, but it works well enough for me there.
Pretty similar story to Tetsuo's actually. A colleague at work told me about the game in the summer of 2015. I was looking for some game I could play to chill down after work but that wasn't as braindead as Candy Crush. Hearthstone struck a nerve and I became a solo class Mage player because f2p at the time. I think the first preorder I bought was The Witchwood and I graduated to dolphin over the years. The colleague left after a year and quit Hearthstone as well.
What looks the most funny in hindsight are all the assumptions I've had since I've started playing and that turned out wrong:
- I'll never spend money on a game I play on my phone. - Must be several hundred €€ by now.
- I'll never play anything else than Mage so I'll just dust all the other classes' cards. - Pretty much everyone of them these days, whatever feels fun for me.
- I'll never play Wild so I'll just dust all the rotating stuff. - I've been maining Wild for about a year or two.
- I'll never get to Legend. - I'm proud that I've achieved this before the ladder revamp once. No surprises here, but it gets easier if you have more time, more cards and more experience.
I meant Highlord Fordragon, but since you've solved both parts of the riddle that counts anyway :) You're next!
Sorry, I got confused by the Fondragons. First two lines are Bolvar Fordragon (dead minions = sort of blood magic), second part and the solution is Highlord Fordragon. I say R wins anyway, the riddle was practically solved.
I absolutely agree with you that adjusting them *somehow* would be the sensible thing to do to balance the game. I just don't expect that to happen because nerfing 2 or more legendaries so shortly after their release will result in more than a few dust parties for people who pulled them in gold from their preorder packages.
I'm on your side that there's an issue inherent to the Questline mechanic that isn't just adressed by nerfing single support cards. I'm really curious if and how this will be adressed though, because changing all the Questline rewards would result in massive dust refunds and I just can't believe they'd do this. The analyses by Kibler is pretty acurate imho and I'm not ashamed to admit that I have no idea how to solve this puzzle.
Then again, maybe we just have to come to terms with the fact that this is the new Hearthstone. Control as we knew it is dead, no more Reno decks in Wild, games are over by turn 10. This expansion certainly provided the biggest shake up in Wild that I can remember and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
You're first try was closer: try Rogue and Deathrattle again, but have a closer look at the first line. The last line is flavor related and might be missed if you don't play the game in English.
I got offered the whale bundle as well but I'm not much interested in golden cards.
Did buy the other one though and got Highlord Fordragon and [Hearthstone Card (the final showdown) Not Found] as well as Lothar from the packs. Diamond Benedictus I'm coming for you!
Wow, that skin gets me actually tempted to buy the bundle. Second best only to the 1.000 wins portrait, but that's still a long way down the road for me.
I'm almost exclusively playing Wild and it looks like the meta is healing there. Shortly after release everybody was playing QL Warlock, now the ladder is full of hyper Aggro decks, we're even having our own version of Shadowpriest. The logical next step would be the return of Control lists that counter the aggro fiesta and voilà: we're back at rock-paper-scissors with Secret Mages laughing their asses off because they just don't care.
Very flavorful and well executed expansion, great work!
Is Shadow Priest still any good at higher ranks? I'm at gold 5 because I'm a Wild main and haven't touched Standard in a while, but it works well enough for me there.
Spirit of the Frog?
Pretty similar story to Tetsuo's actually. A colleague at work told me about the game in the summer of 2015. I was looking for some game I could play to chill down after work but that wasn't as braindead as Candy Crush. Hearthstone struck a nerve and I became a solo class Mage player because f2p at the time. I think the first preorder I bought was The Witchwood and I graduated to dolphin over the years. The colleague left after a year and quit Hearthstone as well.
What looks the most funny in hindsight are all the assumptions I've had since I've started playing and that turned out wrong:
- I'll never spend money on a game I play on my phone. - Must be several hundred €€ by now.
- I'll never play anything else than Mage so I'll just dust all the other classes' cards. - Pretty much everyone of them these days, whatever feels fun for me.
- I'll never play Wild so I'll just dust all the rotating stuff. - I've been maining Wild for about a year or two.
- I'll never get to Legend. - I'm proud that I've achieved this before the ladder revamp once. No surprises here, but it gets easier if you have more time, more cards and more experience.
I meant Highlord Fordragon, but since you've solved both parts of the riddle that counts anyway :) You're next!
Sorry, I got confused by the Fondragons. First two lines are Bolvar Fordragon (dead minions = sort of blood magic), second part and the solution is Highlord Fordragon. I say R wins anyway, the riddle was practically solved.
Negative, but close.
Once I dabbled in something akin to Blood Magic
To bolster my own strength; that was kinda sick.
Today I prefer to fight with shielded guys;
Nobody gets hurt, but there's still profit in the sacrifice.
*"Ahaa" in Archmage Antonidas voice:
Immortal Prelate likes to be buffed and starts with Mana Wyrm stats!
(my guess is Immortal Prelate, just to be clear here)
I absolutely agree with you that adjusting them *somehow* would be the sensible thing to do to balance the game. I just don't expect that to happen because nerfing 2 or more legendaries so shortly after their release will result in more than a few dust parties for people who pulled them in gold from their preorder packages.
I'm on your side that there's an issue inherent to the Questline mechanic that isn't just adressed by nerfing single support cards. I'm really curious if and how this will be adressed though, because changing all the Questline rewards would result in massive dust refunds and I just can't believe they'd do this. The analyses by Kibler is pretty acurate imho and I'm not ashamed to admit that I have no idea how to solve this puzzle.
Then again, maybe we just have to come to terms with the fact that this is the new Hearthstone. Control as we knew it is dead, no more Reno decks in Wild, games are over by turn 10. This expansion certainly provided the biggest shake up in Wild that I can remember and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Call to Adventure?
Very nice idea, I'll definitely participate :)
That's correct, you're next!
You're first try was closer: try Rogue and Deathrattle again, but have a closer look at the first line. The last line is flavor related and might be missed if you don't play the game in English.
I got offered the whale bundle as well but I'm not much interested in golden cards.
Did buy the other one though and got Highlord Fordragon and [Hearthstone Card (the final showdown) Not Found] as well as Lothar from the packs. Diamond Benedictus I'm coming for you!
Wow, that skin gets me actually tempted to buy the bundle. Second best only to the 1.000 wins portrait, but that's still a long way down the road for me.
None of those, but you're on the right track.
I might be a rare sight
But I can cause a real plight
My candle sheds a shaky light
You better watch your backside
Dreaded Mount
I'm almost exclusively playing Wild and it looks like the meta is healing there. Shortly after release everybody was playing QL Warlock, now the ladder is full of hyper Aggro decks, we're even having our own version of Shadowpriest. The logical next step would be the return of Control lists that counter the aggro fiesta and voilà: we're back at rock-paper-scissors with Secret Mages laughing their asses off because they just don't care.