Could be talking about the Dollmaster Dorian + Plot Twist, Bloodbloom + Cataclysm combo. I think the Bloom nerf killed that.
At launch of Barrens a list similar to this one that ran Hemet could win by turn 8 if you had the Coin and got lucky draws. Same idea: 0 mana minion, Shadow Hunter to swap with the only other minion in your hand, Mecha’thun, and then Cataclysm. 9 mana total for the combo turn. Just had to make sure you didn’t play Hemet until after you draw a 0 mana minion.
When the expansion launched and the OwlTK became a thing I used that package for some Maly Lock hijinks. I thought while playing my Malygos list, “This package could easily be used for some Mecha’thun BS!” I never tried it but obviously many others had the same thought as the Mecha’thun Warlocks started popping up quickly while the Owl was suddenly nowhere to found in Wild.
As you already kind of eluded to, they are in their end of year break where the whole company takes a few weeks off. So not much will be done about it until maybe next week at the earliest. It does seem odd that they couldn't get the fixes in before the break since the expansion released 12/7, however, I do believe they had some other bugs they probably focused on first. Then I'm guessing they focused on deciding balance changes to push out after Worlds. I understand that being priority as if they waited until January to do any balance changes people would have been super pissed! So maybe that took all their time prior to the end of the year break?
The one that has to be really annoying is for people playing a lot of Paladin with the Cariel hero card. Most of them have probably actually hit their achievement goal of damage prevented by the turtle shell and it shows no progress at all.
That's odd. It worked for me back when I played the deck to get it. In fact I got it very fast playing this deck. Hopefully they are aware of it and get that fixed ASAP.
Thanks as always for the highlight! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!
For anyone trying the Korrak deck, mulligan hard for Sketchy Information and the Necrium Blades and/or Cavern Shinyfinder.
Because Sketchy can pull the Blades you may want to swap them for Counterfeit Blades instead. Maybe one of them at least. Necrium is a good Sketchy pull though when you have a Korrak or more on board already though. And Necrium breaking with Snowfall Graveyard in play can generate 4 additional Korraks.
I've tried them both out in a few things. Roffle had a Secret Hunter list with Drek'thar to pull out Gossipers and Cloaked Huntresses. Using that and Dane's Big Deathrattle Rogue list I completed the objectives achievement, as well as the Snowfall Graveyard achievement and the Hunter secrets achievement for this expansion.
I thought it was just me but I had noticed an oddly high number of Alliance opponents over the last several weeks. Can Alliance actually be winning this thing?
I swear Wildfire used to persist and got silently nerfed a while back. When it first came out I tested it with Frostlich Jaina and it carried over. Guessing they originally didn’t intend it to do that but I’m glad it’s back to doing so.
Swizard has been a very active member in the community, posting many of the Wild decks on here and even creating site content such as the “Wildest Wednesdays” articles going into depth on a single Wild deck.
In this case, an announcement like this is not only okay but almost necessary! I personally will miss his presence here.
Thanks! I'm off to a 7-0 start though so I might hold off for now! I was actually just thinking the same exact package of draw, survival, and discounts could be used to pull off an even more meme-worthy combo involving Treachery and Soulbound Ashtongue. Stuff like Librarian and Backfire are already great for buffing up Lesser Amethyst Spellstone, which can get up to 112 damage if you can copy two [Hearthstone Card (Mo'arg Artificers) Not Found] for a total of four. After reductions play the Ashtongue, give it to the opponent, play all the Mo'args, Spellstone the Ashtongue to make your opponent go boom! And you heal to full! So that is nice!
While I appreciate the inclusion, my Egg Warrior list deck guide actually says about my list “don’t play it.”
I was just trying to think of ideas for Reflecto Engineer and the two that came to me are eggs and Linecracker Warrior combo’d with Charge and Inner Rage, and a second IR for the 30+ OTK hit.
Anyone thinking of trying that list, do so at your own peril!
Yeah. I only ever add for things like that, or maybe to see if they’ll share a full deck list because they were playing something interesting and fun. But same thing, no one usually accepts. It’s for those rare moments I usually do accept them. But I can also just brush off the abuse, even in instances that I end up reporting. Only when I myself am in a bad mood do I ignore to avoid getting pulled into their BS.
The people who flame others are sad people, who have a very fragile sense of self worth that requires validation at all times. If they are having a bad day in Hearthstone and losing a lot of games, they seek that validation via putting others down. Which is at it's core, pathetic! While I don't disagree with you that this type of behavior needs to be stopped, I'm not sure what the long term solution is. Realistically the only way to stop the abuse from happening is that players could just not accept the requests from recent opponents.
I have gotten some unexpected "Challenge a Friend" quests from recent opponents in a few instances, and in fewer instances even made long term friends in game via recent opponents. So sometimes I think maybe I should accept them. But most often I am told I am a lot of things I won't retype here. My recent favorite was on Oct 31 by someone saying I should "suck a d*** and die of coronavirus b****!" He said something before that about how I had the nerve to emote him before I won... I know I didn't because I rarely use the emotes. I don't remember the circumstances but I think my hero may have said one of their "thinking" emotes as the turn progressed, happened to be right as I was ending the game. Just FYI, it was in Standard, my opponent was an Aggro Druid (one of the best decks in the format) and I was playing Tempo Ping Mage. Basically meta deck versus homebrew meme! Also, in this instance I reported the player, which I only do if they really cross a certain line. As someone who works in physical therapy and currently has several patients recovering from the effects of the mentioned disease, as well as a wife, multiple family members, and countless friends and colleagues working in various healthcare roles through the last 20 months, I was not amused in this instance.
Anyway... While the behavior is awful, the only way to stop it is if we the players don't accept the requests. You almost have to expect that clicking the checkmark will result in them calling you all sorts of terrible things. If you can't handle that or it could be potentially triggering for you, don't click it. If you do accept and get hit with all sorts of terrible crap, you need to understand that they are just unhappy with themselves and unjustly taking it out on you, and also know how to report the behavior from the Launcher chat if you think necessary to do so. (Open the chat, right click a line of text with the hate speech or other reportable offense, and click Report)
It would make the minion have 0-Health and it would die when played. Similar to when the Spellburst for Ceremonial Maul goes off after playing The Coin or some other 0 mana spell. There is an achievement called Reflecto Failure which is to play a 0-health minion and I was trying to figure out how to do that, and it's this card!
Interested to try it out in a Wild Egg Deck of some kind, and if the Wild meta somehow slows down some perhaps a combo with Reflecto Engineer, to set up a turn 10 play of 10/5 Linecracker, Charge, and 2x Inner Rage. Maybe even a Tempo Egg Warrior that just has this as a back up finisher! But if things slow down we'll probably see a bunch of Big Priest again full of Taunts. So yeah...
I’m assuming Recombobulaters are for the Gnolls. Use them to rush and kill something, then make them into a Deathwing or some other big board presence instead of a 5/2 or 5/1. Very cool!
Could be talking about the Dollmaster Dorian + Plot Twist, Bloodbloom + Cataclysm combo. I think the Bloom nerf killed that.
At launch of Barrens a list similar to this one that ran Hemet could win by turn 8 if you had the Coin and got lucky draws. Same idea: 0 mana minion, Shadow Hunter to swap with the only other minion in your hand, Mecha’thun, and then Cataclysm. 9 mana total for the combo turn. Just had to make sure you didn’t play Hemet until after you draw a 0 mana minion.
When the expansion launched and the OwlTK became a thing I used that package for some Maly Lock hijinks. I thought while playing my Malygos list, “This package could easily be used for some Mecha’thun BS!” I never tried it but obviously many others had the same thought as the Mecha’thun Warlocks started popping up quickly while the Owl was suddenly nowhere to found in Wild.
As you already kind of eluded to, they are in their end of year break where the whole company takes a few weeks off. So not much will be done about it until maybe next week at the earliest. It does seem odd that they couldn't get the fixes in before the break since the expansion released 12/7, however, I do believe they had some other bugs they probably focused on first. Then I'm guessing they focused on deciding balance changes to push out after Worlds. I understand that being priority as if they waited until January to do any balance changes people would have been super pissed! So maybe that took all their time prior to the end of the year break?
The one that has to be really annoying is for people playing a lot of Paladin with the Cariel hero card. Most of them have probably actually hit their achievement goal of damage prevented by the turtle shell and it shows no progress at all.
That's odd. It worked for me back when I played the deck to get it. In fact I got it very fast playing this deck. Hopefully they are aware of it and get that fixed ASAP.
Thanks as always for the highlight! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!
For anyone trying the Korrak deck, mulligan hard for Sketchy Information and the Necrium Blades and/or Cavern Shinyfinder.
Because Sketchy can pull the Blades you may want to swap them for Counterfeit Blades instead. Maybe one of them at least. Necrium is a good Sketchy pull though when you have a Korrak or more on board already though. And Necrium breaking with Snowfall Graveyard in play can generate 4 additional Korraks.
Hello, 2021! This deck still works!
Used Drek’thar in a Secret Hunter list, but that’s it. Also I’m in the final stage of the Honor gain so I guess DE himwhile I have the chance, right?
I've tried them both out in a few things. Roffle had a Secret Hunter list with Drek'thar to pull out Gossipers and Cloaked Huntresses. Using that and Dane's Big Deathrattle Rogue list I completed the objectives achievement, as well as the Snowfall Graveyard achievement and the Hunter secrets achievement for this expansion.
I mean, I definitely took Vanndar for the higher combo potential in Wild.
I thought it was just me but I had noticed an oddly high number of Alliance opponents over the last several weeks. Can Alliance actually be winning this thing?
I swear Wildfire used to persist and got silently nerfed a while back. When it first came out I tested it with Frostlich Jaina and it carried over. Guessing they originally didn’t intend it to do that but I’m glad it’s back to doing so.
Swizard has been a very active member in the community, posting many of the Wild decks on here and even creating site content such as the “Wildest Wednesdays” articles going into depth on a single Wild deck.
In this case, an announcement like this is not only okay but almost necessary! I personally will miss his presence here.
Thanks! I'm off to a 7-0 start though so I might hold off for now! I was actually just thinking the same exact package of draw, survival, and discounts could be used to pull off an even more meme-worthy combo involving Treachery and Soulbound Ashtongue. Stuff like Librarian and Backfire are already great for buffing up Lesser Amethyst Spellstone, which can get up to 112 damage if you can copy two [Hearthstone Card (Mo'arg Artificers) Not Found] for a total of four. After reductions play the Ashtongue, give it to the opponent, play all the Mo'args, Spellstone the Ashtongue to make your opponent go boom! And you heal to full! So that is nice!
Calling it "wonky" is being generous! :)
While I appreciate the inclusion, my Egg Warrior list deck guide actually says about my list “don’t play it.”
I was just trying to think of ideas for Reflecto Engineer and the two that came to me are eggs and Linecracker Warrior combo’d with Charge and Inner Rage, and a second IR for the 30+ OTK hit.
Anyone thinking of trying that list, do so at your own peril!
Yeah. I only ever add for things like that, or maybe to see if they’ll share a full deck list because they were playing something interesting and fun. But same thing, no one usually accepts. It’s for those rare moments I usually do accept them. But I can also just brush off the abuse, even in instances that I end up reporting. Only when I myself am in a bad mood do I ignore to avoid getting pulled into their BS.
The people who flame others are sad people, who have a very fragile sense of self worth that requires validation at all times. If they are having a bad day in Hearthstone and losing a lot of games, they seek that validation via putting others down. Which is at it's core, pathetic! While I don't disagree with you that this type of behavior needs to be stopped, I'm not sure what the long term solution is. Realistically the only way to stop the abuse from happening is that players could just not accept the requests from recent opponents.
I have gotten some unexpected "Challenge a Friend" quests from recent opponents in a few instances, and in fewer instances even made long term friends in game via recent opponents. So sometimes I think maybe I should accept them. But most often I am told I am a lot of things I won't retype here. My recent favorite was on Oct 31 by someone saying I should "suck a d*** and die of coronavirus b****!" He said something before that about how I had the nerve to emote him before I won... I know I didn't because I rarely use the emotes. I don't remember the circumstances but I think my hero may have said one of their "thinking" emotes as the turn progressed, happened to be right as I was ending the game. Just FYI, it was in Standard, my opponent was an Aggro Druid (one of the best decks in the format) and I was playing Tempo Ping Mage. Basically meta deck versus homebrew meme! Also, in this instance I reported the player, which I only do if they really cross a certain line. As someone who works in physical therapy and currently has several patients recovering from the effects of the mentioned disease, as well as a wife, multiple family members, and countless friends and colleagues working in various healthcare roles through the last 20 months, I was not amused in this instance.
Anyway... While the behavior is awful, the only way to stop it is if we the players don't accept the requests. You almost have to expect that clicking the checkmark will result in them calling you all sorts of terrible things. If you can't handle that or it could be potentially triggering for you, don't click it. If you do accept and get hit with all sorts of terrible crap, you need to understand that they are just unhappy with themselves and unjustly taking it out on you, and also know how to report the behavior from the Launcher chat if you think necessary to do so. (Open the chat, right click a line of text with the hate speech or other reportable offense, and click Report)
Slightly different list but same idea using Shudderwock for the more freezes through all the repeated battlecries.
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It would make the minion have 0-Health and it would die when played. Similar to when the Spellburst for Ceremonial Maul goes off after playing The Coin or some other 0 mana spell. There is an achievement called Reflecto Failure which is to play a 0-health minion and I was trying to figure out how to do that, and it's this card!
Interested to try it out in a Wild Egg Deck of some kind, and if the Wild meta somehow slows down some perhaps a combo with Reflecto Engineer, to set up a turn 10 play of 10/5 Linecracker, Charge, and 2x Inner Rage. Maybe even a Tempo Egg Warrior that just has this as a back up finisher! But if things slow down we'll probably see a bunch of Big Priest again full of Taunts. So yeah...
I’m assuming Recombobulaters are for the Gnolls. Use them to rush and kill something, then make them into a Deathwing or some other big board presence instead of a 5/2 or 5/1. Very cool!