I noticed that minions in the deck are not 1/1s. For example, a "draw two 1-health minions" effect will only draw minions that are normally 1-health minions.
It seems there are also a few bugs. One of my minions got devolved into a dormant minion (Imprisoned Felmaw) and it had full stats when it woke up, then was set to 1/1 at the end of my turn. My opponent used Muck Pools to evolve a 10-cost minion and got an 8/8 giant that turned into a 1/1 after they played another card.
I won my first game with questline Paladin using many buff & draw minions.
Wow, those are some intense nerfs! I'm not saying it's bad, but its a lot. I think Marvelous Mycelium just went from being one of the best signature treasures to being worse than having no treasure at all. Who wants to run a card that does nothing for you on the turn you play it?
Well this is going to be difficult; I don't have any location cards in my collection yet. I wonder if thief priest is my best bet. I have yet to see a single location card offered in the Duels buckets. I usually play Wild, but maybe there are some discover effects that would help me out in Standard where the card pool is smaller.
I think the "Complete 3 United in Stormwind Questlines" quest was a fine idea at the time, but if they wanted to put it in, they should have also given each player a random questline for logging in when the expansion launched, like they did with key mechanic legendaries for some other expansions.
Man, I even checked earlier today to see if there was going to be an AMA. I didn't realize I need to check every 90 minutes if I don't want to miss it.
This is a poorly-worded card. I can't tell from the text whether or not I get a copy of the card I pick, and I can't tell who won't be able to play the card next turn: me (assuming I do get a copy) or my opponent.
I got Out for Blood in Wild playing Reno Hunter, but not the way I planned! I was matched against questline warrior and had ramped up Bloodseeker to 4 attack via honorable kills. My opponent played Cap'n Rokara, and the first random weapon equipped was Cursed Blade, so I just hit him in the face for 8 damage and got the achievement!
My province in Canada recently had a binding referendum on daylight savings time. 50.2% of us voted against changing to year-round daylight time. It saddens me, especially because I think that if the vote had been to adopt year-round standard time instead of year-round daylight time, it would have passed. Before the vote, social media blew up with people complaining that if we change, the sun will rise an hour later in the Winter. I never understood the objection: it's Canada; we all wake up in the dark all winter long anyway. Sunrise was at 8:38 this morning in my city.
"It is important that we point out that you can open the opposing faction leader in card packs even though they can be earned on the legendary questline."
The same has been true of the golden cards on the rewards track since Forged in the Barrens. Opening Primordial Protector in a card pack before reaching the point in the rewards track where you get the second golden copy was basically like getting a rare (of your choice) in that pack instead of an epic. As a free-to-play player, I feel like missing out on an epic when its avoidable is not something I can afford to do, so I've been waiting until I have all of the guaranteed golden cards from the rewards track before I open any card packs, and I intend to hold off on opening FiAV card packs until I have my golden Drek'Thar. I don't like it that I have to do this in order to avoid getting a useless extra copy of Drek'Thar, but I'll do it anyway.
In Forged in the Barrens, I actually decided to open a few card packs right away, just until I got that guaranteed legendary in the first 10 packs. I figured the chance of getting a Primordial Protector before I got the first legendary were pretty small. Guess what my first epic was? It sucked. Never again.
Don't be too hard on yourself or the staff. That was a lot of news to report on at once and you made an understandable mistake. We're not mad. :)
I really like that you read the comments people post and take the time to respond. It feels like you haven't just created a community; you are also a part of it.
I think this is factually inaccurate. Didn't the lady in the mercenaries video say that you get the Sarge mount in WoW by playing through the mercenaries intro and doing your first bounty or something like that? The 6-month sub gives the tavern passes and card packs (and a Sapphire Skyblazer mount and Imp Ball pet), not the Sarge mount.
Oh man, as a free to play player, seeing that I made it into the top 7 but didn't win is frustrating, exciting, and an honour. Thank you for this giveaway! I have to agree that KANSAS's guide is better than mine, though. I hope you do this again for the next xpac so that I have a chance to step up my game. :)
I'm mostly fine with the Stealer of Souls ban. I only play Wild and Duels, and taken by itself, I really don't mind a new card being banned in Wild. It's just like it was never added.
The problem I have is that the mini-set was announced just days before it was released, and it takes something like 4 weeks of completing 13,000 xp of quests per week to earn 2000 gold, so I am still trying to save up enough gold to buy the mini-set. As a result, I'm not going to be able to play with this card in Wild before it is banned, which is a bit of a bummer. I would still be totally ok with it if not for the fact that there is an achievement based on it! As soon as I saw the announcement of this ban last week, I gave up on the idea of being able to get the achievement in the intended way in Wild, so I put together a deck based on getting the achievement with Cho'gall instead, only to find that casting a warlock spell after playing Cho'gall doesn't give credit toward the achievement like you would expect! Incidentally, it also doesn't ramp up Lesser Amethyst Spellstone like you would expect.
Oh well. I'll just have to see about putting Stealer in a Duels deck, I guess. I'm not interested enough in the achievement to play Standard just so that I can get it.
My favourite solo adventure content was definitely Icecrown. I just don't find content compelling if I can't build my own deck from my collection (solo content aside, I love Duels because I can build my own starting deck and often choose buckets that synergies well with what I've chosen, but I don't like BGs or Arena much at all; I would never play them just for fun). Icecrown was enough of a challenge that it felt like an accomplishment to win, and the card packs and legendary waiting at the end were a compelling reward. Older adventures were not challenging enough to have particularly fun gameplay for a player with a decent card collection, though I did enjoy them for the narrative and rewards. Older heroic adventures have enough of a challenge to them that I do like to play them just for fun, but because the rewards are purely cosmetic, I only play them when I have some reason for not wanting to do PvP content that day. Dungeon Run and Rastakhan's Rumble were a bit fun; I didn't mind doing them when I had a quest to do so, but I enjoyed them less than anything that let me build my own deck, and the lack of rewards meant that I would only play them when I had a quest for it. Witchwood was similar, but had a more compelling narrative, such that I definitely wanted to defeat each of the final bosses. The Puzzle Lab was also quite fun, but the lack of rewards made it not as compelling as Icecrown. The Dalaran Heist and Tombs of Terror sounded good in concept, but because the cost-reward ratio was worse than simply buying card packs, I just couldn't justify buying them. Book of Heroes and Book of Mercenaries are totally worth playing for the story, but the lack of deck building really cuts down on the fun factor for me.
Given the above, it's no surprise that I would not be at all interested in Dungeon Run being updated with new cards, treasures, and bosses. I would prefer that effort to be put into Duels, or more challenging and rewarding solo content like Icecrown.
Seeing as I'm at the point of 50g/1500xp now, and I'm confident I will be again in less than 3 months, I don't see why I would bother saving my quests in order to get xp on the new track instead of the current one. It will all work out the same.
I noticed that minions in the deck are not 1/1s. For example, a "draw two 1-health minions" effect will only draw minions that are normally 1-health minions.
It seems there are also a few bugs. One of my minions got devolved into a dormant minion (Imprisoned Felmaw) and it had full stats when it woke up, then was set to 1/1 at the end of my turn. My opponent used Muck Pools to evolve a 10-cost minion and got an 8/8 giant that turned into a 1/1 after they played another card.
I won my first game with questline Paladin using many buff & draw minions.
Wow, those are some intense nerfs! I'm not saying it's bad, but its a lot. I think Marvelous Mycelium just went from being one of the best signature treasures to being worse than having no treasure at all. Who wants to run a card that does nothing for you on the turn you play it?
Well this is going to be difficult; I don't have any location cards in my collection yet. I wonder if thief priest is my best bet. I have yet to see a single location card offered in the Duels buckets. I usually play Wild, but maybe there are some discover effects that would help me out in Standard where the card pool is smaller.
I think the "Complete 3 United in Stormwind Questlines" quest was a fine idea at the time, but if they wanted to put it in, they should have also given each player a random questline for logging in when the expansion launched, like they did with key mechanic legendaries for some other expansions.
Man, I even checked earlier today to see if there was going to be an AMA. I didn't realize I need to check every 90 minutes if I don't want to miss it.
This is a poorly-worded card. I can't tell from the text whether or not I get a copy of the card I pick, and I can't tell who won't be able to play the card next turn: me (assuming I do get a copy) or my opponent.
This is awesome! Thank you so much!
I got Out for Blood in Wild playing Reno Hunter, but not the way I planned! I was matched against questline warrior and had ramped up Bloodseeker to 4 attack via honorable kills. My opponent played Cap'n Rokara, and the first random weapon equipped was Cursed Blade, so I just hit him in the face for 8 damage and got the achievement!
My province in Canada recently had a binding referendum on daylight savings time. 50.2% of us voted against changing to year-round daylight time. It saddens me, especially because I think that if the vote had been to adopt year-round standard time instead of year-round daylight time, it would have passed. Before the vote, social media blew up with people complaining that if we change, the sun will rise an hour later in the Winter. I never understood the objection: it's Canada; we all wake up in the dark all winter long anyway. Sunrise was at 8:38 this morning in my city.
"It is important that we point out that you can open the opposing faction leader in card packs even though they can be earned on the legendary questline."
The same has been true of the golden cards on the rewards track since Forged in the Barrens. Opening Primordial Protector in a card pack before reaching the point in the rewards track where you get the second golden copy was basically like getting a rare (of your choice) in that pack instead of an epic. As a free-to-play player, I feel like missing out on an epic when its avoidable is not something I can afford to do, so I've been waiting until I have all of the guaranteed golden cards from the rewards track before I open any card packs, and I intend to hold off on opening FiAV card packs until I have my golden Drek'Thar. I don't like it that I have to do this in order to avoid getting a useless extra copy of Drek'Thar, but I'll do it anyway.
In Forged in the Barrens, I actually decided to open a few card packs right away, just until I got that guaranteed legendary in the first 10 packs. I figured the chance of getting a Primordial Protector before I got the first legendary were pretty small. Guess what my first epic was? It sucked. Never again.
Don't be too hard on yourself or the staff. That was a lot of news to report on at once and you made an understandable mistake. We're not mad. :)
I really like that you read the comments people post and take the time to respond. It feels like you haven't just created a community; you are also a part of it.
No, you're not bad at reading. I'm fairly confident that you are right and Flux got this one wrong.
I think this is factually inaccurate. Didn't the lady in the mercenaries video say that you get the Sarge mount in WoW by playing through the mercenaries intro and doing your first bounty or something like that? The 6-month sub gives the tavern passes and card packs (and a Sapphire Skyblazer mount and Imp Ball pet), not the Sarge mount.
Edit: Flux corrected the article. Thanks, Flux!
Thanks, NinoMH!
Oh man, as a free to play player, seeing that I made it into the top 7 but didn't win is frustrating, exciting, and an honour. Thank you for this giveaway! I have to agree that KANSAS's guide is better than mine, though. I hope you do this again for the next xpac so that I have a chance to step up my game. :)
I look forward to play testing this deck I just theorycrafted if I am able to get Defend the Dwarven District:
I'm mostly fine with the Stealer of Souls ban. I only play Wild and Duels, and taken by itself, I really don't mind a new card being banned in Wild. It's just like it was never added.
The problem I have is that the mini-set was announced just days before it was released, and it takes something like 4 weeks of completing 13,000 xp of quests per week to earn 2000 gold, so I am still trying to save up enough gold to buy the mini-set. As a result, I'm not going to be able to play with this card in Wild before it is banned, which is a bit of a bummer. I would still be totally ok with it if not for the fact that there is an achievement based on it! As soon as I saw the announcement of this ban last week, I gave up on the idea of being able to get the achievement in the intended way in Wild, so I put together a deck based on getting the achievement with Cho'gall instead, only to find that casting a warlock spell after playing Cho'gall doesn't give credit toward the achievement like you would expect! Incidentally, it also doesn't ramp up Lesser Amethyst Spellstone like you would expect.
Oh well. I'll just have to see about putting Stealer in a Duels deck, I guess. I'm not interested enough in the achievement to play Standard just so that I can get it.
My favourite solo adventure content was definitely Icecrown. I just don't find content compelling if I can't build my own deck from my collection (solo content aside, I love Duels because I can build my own starting deck and often choose buckets that synergies well with what I've chosen, but I don't like BGs or Arena much at all; I would never play them just for fun). Icecrown was enough of a challenge that it felt like an accomplishment to win, and the card packs and legendary waiting at the end were a compelling reward. Older adventures were not challenging enough to have particularly fun gameplay for a player with a decent card collection, though I did enjoy them for the narrative and rewards. Older heroic adventures have enough of a challenge to them that I do like to play them just for fun, but because the rewards are purely cosmetic, I only play them when I have some reason for not wanting to do PvP content that day. Dungeon Run and Rastakhan's Rumble were a bit fun; I didn't mind doing them when I had a quest to do so, but I enjoyed them less than anything that let me build my own deck, and the lack of rewards meant that I would only play them when I had a quest for it. Witchwood was similar, but had a more compelling narrative, such that I definitely wanted to defeat each of the final bosses. The Puzzle Lab was also quite fun, but the lack of rewards made it not as compelling as Icecrown. The Dalaran Heist and Tombs of Terror sounded good in concept, but because the cost-reward ratio was worse than simply buying card packs, I just couldn't justify buying them. Book of Heroes and Book of Mercenaries are totally worth playing for the story, but the lack of deck building really cuts down on the fun factor for me.
Given the above, it's no surprise that I would not be at all interested in Dungeon Run being updated with new cards, treasures, and bosses. I would prefer that effort to be put into Duels, or more challenging and rewarding solo content like Icecrown.
Seeing as I'm at the point of 50g/1500xp now, and I'm confident I will be again in less than 3 months, I don't see why I would bother saving my quests in order to get xp on the new track instead of the current one. It will all work out the same.
River Crocolisk is all grown up! I don't think this will see play, at least in Wild.