The match against The Dark Portal: do you have Equality + Consecration by turn 8? Auto win. If not, go ahead and concede. Took me at least 10 tries. Really lame!
I think I got it on fourth or fifth attempt, but had to Equality pre-emptively a turn before and believe in the heart of the cards to get Consecration (which I eventually got from my Prismatic Lens topdeck).
Uther's deck just lacks all proper early minions for good trades and Dark Portal's token-creating cards just steamroll over you way too easily. The deck is built as a Holy Wrath Paladin but you definitely either get the board control or lose before even getting close.
Lost more than I'd like to admit, definitely the hardest one so far for me. Some matchups felt like I need to draw very specific cards or the boss needs to have a slow start to have a real chance in the fight.
I was going to say they might add a couple of new constructed ones with the new set, but then again, when showing us their rewards track calculations, they used the current max achievement xp in those which makes me think no new xp-rewarding achievements until Expansion 1 of 2021. The current ones will stay until that, but lose the xp rewards afterwards (as far as I understand).
I believe Riot has stated that they'll start by only using existing LoL champions, but they will run out of them at some point. Additionally, Cithria has a lot of lore for a non-Champion on the League side too, just saying...
You can only get the Duels xp during Darkmoon, I think they've said the xp goes away with the next expansion's reward track. Unless they figure out more achievements for the format, there shouldn't be any xp there anymore.
The other upcoming new game mode, however, could get some.
I agree that this should be their first attempt. It would also prevent 0-Cost Dread Corsairs being played alongside it, which is a huge deal tempo-wise. Changing the effect to Battlecry or Deathrattle would just kill the card, as would a mana cost increase, although I personally would mind since I hate the evolve strategy.
Changing Hoard Pillager's effect to Deathrattle also sounds like a smart nerf that Bomb Warriors could've also used in the previous meta. It's also more flavorful that way: she hoards the goods until she's forced to give them up. But I'm ok with just Boggspine nerf (at least for now).
I'm definitely expecting it to arrive in a couple of weeks as well, at the same time when the Duels update is supposed to happen. No official word about it yet but Blizz employees are just returning from holidays.
We got DMF 2-3 weeks earlier than we should've (based on the old schedule), and Outland released April 7th. I'm fully expecting a late March expansion.
the Greybough one is killing me as I don´t own the legendary and need to pick Druid, get it in my buckets AND get to play him and resummon, if I´m lucky enough not to have him hexed or polymorfed. Takes ages so maybe that´s where my XP are comming from :D
I feel your pain. I've done quite many achievements that way, now only missing these "get this exact card in buckets, draw it and so on". I think my Greyboughs are at 23 now, but I'm not going to exhaust myself and try to get...200, was it? I do fully intend to force the ETC achievement though, Blizzard give me the damn buckets where he is included.
On topic, I'm currently just beyond lvl 60 (got 61 or 62 this morning).
You definitely won't know if you haven't seen the full art since she's pretty well cropped out. You can just about see some fingertips on the right side.
I'll take the blame there. I knew it was a thing but forgot to re-check the date; I didn't guess they'd play over the holiday weekend. But in my defense Blizzard has only posted about it in Taiwanese sites (in English though), nothing on English playhs or even hsesports twitter.
Haven't seen any mention of drops anywhere though, not that I would doubt your word but that's definitely something they didn't communicate.
EDIT: There will be a constructed tournament in the same event tomorrow, so if you don't get the pack(s?) today, you can try again then.
Noxus/P&Z aggro is still alive and well, and multiple variants seem to be top tier at the moment: Teemo/Draven, Ezreal/Draven, and Jinx/Draven. If you want something less aggro, Shen/Fiora continues to be a thing as well. Hyper Aggro Endure is also a strong archetype even with a budget, and we had an article about it lately.
My runner-up favourite would be C'Thun Renolock from Gadgetzan era, another expansion meta that people generally don't have the fondest of memories. Both are also "third expansion of the year" metas, maybe I just love variation then (although MSG meta was quite certainly not that diverse, basically pirates vs highlanders).
I almost called it "linkblade-approved menagerie list" :D Maybe I should've since I would've been right.
Yes, they are placeholders. They will get proper costs at some point, currently they were only available from our Christmas gifts.
I think I got it on fourth or fifth attempt, but had to Equality pre-emptively a turn before and believe in the heart of the cards to get Consecration (which I eventually got from my Prismatic Lens topdeck).
Uther's deck just lacks all proper early minions for good trades and Dark Portal's token-creating cards just steamroll over you way too easily. The deck is built as a Holy Wrath Paladin but you definitely either get the board control or lose before even getting close.
Lost more than I'd like to admit, definitely the hardest one so far for me. Some matchups felt like I need to draw very specific cards or the boss needs to have a slow start to have a real chance in the fight.
It was his new year's Twitter resolution to be a better community engager. So far he has been doing excellent job, if you ask me.
I was going to say they might add a couple of new constructed ones with the new set, but then again, when showing us their rewards track calculations, they used the current max achievement xp in those which makes me think no new xp-rewarding achievements until Expansion 1 of 2021. The current ones will stay until that, but lose the xp rewards afterwards (as far as I understand).
I believe Riot has stated that they'll start by only using existing LoL champions, but they will run out of them at some point. Additionally, Cithria has a lot of lore for a non-Champion on the League side too, just saying...
You can only get the Duels xp during Darkmoon, I think they've said the xp goes away with the next expansion's reward track. Unless they figure out more achievements for the format, there shouldn't be any xp there anymore.
The other upcoming new game mode, however, could get some.
I agree that this should be their first attempt. It would also prevent 0-Cost Dread Corsairs being played alongside it, which is a huge deal tempo-wise. Changing the effect to Battlecry or Deathrattle would just kill the card, as would a mana cost increase, although I personally would mind since I hate the evolve strategy.
Changing Hoard Pillager's effect to Deathrattle also sounds like a smart nerf that Bomb Warriors could've also used in the previous meta. It's also more flavorful that way: she hoards the goods until she's forced to give them up. But I'm ok with just Boggspine nerf (at least for now).
I'm definitely expecting it to arrive in a couple of weeks as well, at the same time when the Duels update is supposed to happen. No official word about it yet but Blizz employees are just returning from holidays.
We got DMF 2-3 weeks earlier than we should've (based on the old schedule), and Outland released April 7th. I'm fully expecting a late March expansion.
I feel your pain. I've done quite many achievements that way, now only missing these "get this exact card in buckets, draw it and so on". I think my Greyboughs are at 23 now, but I'm not going to exhaust myself and try to get...200, was it? I do fully intend to force the ETC achievement though, Blizzard give me the damn buckets where he is included.
On topic, I'm currently just beyond lvl 60 (got 61 or 62 this morning).
It's a card.
You definitely won't know if you haven't seen the full art since she's pretty well cropped out. You can just about see some fingertips on the right side.
It is one of my favourite clues though :D
For reference:
Activate Reforge OR
Play Games (Wins count double)
0/10 OR
0/6
Well that's new. I wonder why they wanted so many Reforge activations that they had to include an alternative way to complete it.
I'll take the blame there. I knew it was a thing but forgot to re-check the date; I didn't guess they'd play over the holiday weekend. But in my defense Blizzard has only posted about it in Taiwanese sites (in English though), nothing on English playhs or even hsesports twitter.
Haven't seen any mention of drops anywhere though, not that I would doubt your word but that's definitely something they didn't communicate.
EDIT: There will be a constructed tournament in the same event tomorrow, so if you don't get the pack(s?) today, you can try again then.
Noxus/P&Z aggro is still alive and well, and multiple variants seem to be top tier at the moment: Teemo/Draven, Ezreal/Draven, and Jinx/Draven. If you want something less aggro, Shen/Fiora continues to be a thing as well. Hyper Aggro Endure is also a strong archetype even with a budget, and we had an article about it lately.
My runner-up favourite would be C'Thun Renolock from Gadgetzan era, another expansion meta that people generally don't have the fondest of memories. Both are also "third expansion of the year" metas, maybe I just love variation then (although MSG meta was quite certainly not that diverse, basically pirates vs highlanders).
"One win and out"- kind of week for you then? Otherwise you should've seen plenty of these offered lately.