Hearthstone

Someone on Twitter spotted this -- the collection manager now shows a "Sha Illidan" hero, which apparently you get by buying the "Evil from Pandaria" bundle. Could that be the next expansion?

Now I play this game off and on, mostly just to log in and have some fun with a few fun decks I have and play some mercs but when I heard about the dust refund thing I logged in right away.

When I fired up the menu, I had 2 pop-ups saying I gained 1600 dust. But when actually looked I didn't get anything at all. 

Now since I haven't been following the game somewhat I knew people were upset about the dust refund but i didnt know why. Is this why?

I am so sick of playing against these T1 decks over and over again...

What do you think will happen?

what do you thing will happen?

Deadmines, the latest miniset will leave the shop on January 24th.

On January 25th we will got a new big patch. 

So, I suppose the new miniset will launch with the big patch on January 25th

Why is no one talking about it? It is only 5 days away. Spoilers, please!

Basically I "only" got 1600 dust from the thingy today and I was wondering who I should make for my freeze sham Bru'kan or Bearon since I can only make one. I figured Bru'kan might be good since he can fit in more decks but I don't really have the best endgame in my freeze deck right now. So what's your guys' takes?

Wild Changes

Sorcerer's Apprentice + 2 Mana

Rapid Fire + 1 Mana | +1 damage

Standard Changes

Incanter's Flow + 1 Mana

Cloak of Shadows + 1 Mana

Raid the Docks unknown changes to later parts of the questline

Rokara, the Valorous + 5 Armor

Shadowcrafter Scabbs + 1 Mana

Wildpaw Gnoll now a 6 Mana 3/5

Mercs Content and changes:

Portraits now have their own frame when opening them

Training Grounds:

• passively levels your mercs
• level 1: 1 Mercenary at the same time | 100 gold
• level 2: 2 Mercenaries at the same time | 200 gold

New Mercenaries:

• Sinestra (Dragon) | rare | fighter
• Lokholar (Elemental) | rare | protector
• Wrathion (Human) | epic | fighter
• Galvangar (probably Orc) | epic | unknown
• Belinda (human) | legendary | fighter

New PvE Zone:

• Altarac

Just logged into HS and got a pop-up saying I received 8800 dust. Anyone know why?

Does anyone knows if there is a way of de some extra cards that are in classic set?

When I try to de there is warning that doing this will also de its classic version.

I do not want to use mass disenchant button though. 

It is bugged for sure. No sure if it only displays wrong number of cards. I don't want to hurt my classic collection and get some dust ;)

Edit:

Well.. Looks that I have found solution. Ofc its Blizzard way. Changed collection collection filter to CLASSIC cards and then there is no warning and it seems it won't remove the classic cards (tried by disenchanting Faerie Dragon..). However one have to be careful because you can disenchant all copies and there is no warning about having less than 2 left. Undo works but after confirming there is no coming back.

When I play Ignite Mage, in several cases I cannot go lethal because the rope time out.

While I have seen several opponents that in the same situation continue to Ignite even after the ropes end .... what is the technicality to play more ignites? tks

Happy New Year everybody! Let's get it started! My first three games played this year were against :

  (1) Questline Warlock  (2) Questline Warrior  (3) Questline Mage

Hahahaha - here's to new beginnings! Cheers! 

Which one variant is better? 45 regular packs or 10 golden packs?

I play decks that take actual thinking like Thief Rogue, Handlock, and Menagerie DR DH. You play decks that take simple computing like Pirate Warrior, Elemental Shaman, and Face Hunter.

I am a human. You are a robot.

What piques my interest when a new set comes out are cards that look enjoyable and can lead to different paths each game. What you care about is which are over-tuned and will lead to 100''s of repetitive games.

I am a human. You are a robot.

When I net-deck something that looks good I'm happy to throw in a few cards I find fun, and I still win. You among millions shudder at the thought of deviating from the list.

I am a human. You are a robot.

When I win with my deck I know that I had a lot to do with it. When you win with yours, trust me it was more the deck.

I am a human. You are a robot.

I play Arena because it's fresh every time and takes some skill to get far in. You play Duels with the same 15 cards every time in every class; playing against other robots and whoever gets the more busted treasures and passives wins.

I am a human. You are a robot.

I put enjoying myself playing a video game above winning while you are a sad android that can't stand to lose.

I am a human. You are a robot.

This has been driving me nuts, and I'd be willing to wager that there are a ton of other people that feel the same.  I normally love to go in and bust out these achievements for the new expansion as it gets you more XP and higher on the rewards track to earn more gold with each level.  This time around though, does anyone else feel that Blizzard has taken their sweet time in addressing these bugs?

I had posted/reported a number of bugs with these achievements since day one and I am still finding myself at a loss for words.  I've not heard of any announcement of when/if they are planning on addressing these bugs.  I have been checking the forums of several sites and Blizzard numerous times and I haven't seen anything.

I work in software, so I know that this time of year... virtually nothing gets done.  Most people are taking time off for the holidays and such.  So I can anticipate there being a delay.  But even in most software environments it feels that there is some kind of information available.  But for this expansion it sounds like crickets. 

What are everyone else's experiences with this so far?

I'm more of a collector and thus never got into deck building in Hearthstone although I'm playing HS since the very beginning. Since the meta is getting more and more boring for me, I want to take a look at deck building. I feel, it is a good point in time, since next year a lot of sets will rotate and the card pool will be rather small.

However I can't find any real detailed guide about how to approach deck building at all. The best one I found is the Beginners Guide over at Icy-Veins, which is quite superficial.

Can you recommend any good guides (YT or Twitch Videos would be okay too), that go beyond the basic tips?

Well, I actually knew this was a thing a few days back but since only Reddit is showing it, I thought I should at very least keep all informed that Thjis is hosting an invitational tournament today (21st Dec) on 2pm CET. Watch it via his twitch or through the other participants. Far as I know, Kibler, bunnyhopper, nohandsgamer, gaby, and curiously Cora (currently in blizz as designer) are part of it.

At very least because its less serious than blizz run tournaments we can expect there to be a mix of tier 1-2 decks along with a few less viable but fun decks as well. It is, after all, the first tournament post patch.

For anyone serious about hearthstone esport, or just ranked standard should give it a watch. Its one of those rare non-blizz tournament I've seen in ages.

I'm probably the only person who feels this way because I'm a bit of a curmudgeon, but is anyone else finding the proliferation of skins a bit... much?

I started playing (mostly F2P, but I did get the two most recent Tavern Passes) back around TGT. There were some alternate skins then, but not a crazy number. I remember being so stoked when I got my first (Morgl, I think?) because of their (relative) rarity.

Now it seems like every other week there's a bundle of 5-8 dropping, or maybe two bundles. I don't feel compelled to collect them, and don't care if other people want them. And hey, if you don't want the bundles, there's the 14 or so on the rewards track. Plus the 200 level portraits. Go Nuts with trying to get them! No complaints. 

But it does seem like each time I load Battlegrounds I have trouble recognizing which hero is which. Every time* (*obviously not every time) I open the game there's new pop ups with ads for more bundles. I queue into a match and I'm kind of bewildered what my opponent is (particularly if playing on mobile).

It's not that it's bad, per se, but it seems a little overloaded to me.

Hello together,

I'm not very good at deck building. But I have an idea for a deck and I need you help. I want to use the new buffed mage cards (Parrot, Dawngrasp, Wildfire), but it should not be a Big Spell Mage. Of course we need at least some good spells >5 mana for the Parrot. I like Mask of C'Thun and [Hearthstone Card (Arcance Overflow) Not Found], because it's sure they hit enemies. I'm thinking about Deep Freeze and Rune of the Archmage, too But I don't want to add other big spell stuff like Balinda, Clumsy Courier or Tower. So tboth of them might be too expensive. At least Deep Freeze is a Frost spell, which is good for Dawngrasp.

The second idea is to narrow the spells that Dawngrasp will cast, e.g. he/she/it should always play Wildfire as the only Fire spell. So I would probably only add max only one other Fire spell, maybe Fireball to close out games. By this I expect the hero power of Dawngrasp to be at least 4 damage from the beginning. 

So the synergies I want to build around are Hero Power + multiple Spellschools + >=5mana spells that target enemies. The Parrot should cast Mask, or Overflow (or Deep Freeze). Dawngrasp should cast Wildfire, Mask, Overflow (and/or Deep Freeze).

This is the current skeleton I created containing the core cards of my idea.

(incomplete) Buffed Mage

Wild · Hero Power Mage · by aposteljoe · 4 years, 3 months ago

• 1 Shivering Sorceress x 2
• 1 Wildfire x 2
• 4 Multicaster x 2
• 4 Reckless Apprentice x 2
• 5 Arcane Overflow x 2
• 6 Grey Sage Parrot x 2
• 7 Magister Dawngrasp x 1
• 7 Mask of C'Thun x 2
• 8 Mordresh Fire Eye x 1

4,960 Dust 600 0 Copy Deck Code

There are obviously some HP synergy cards missing (Manafeeder, Tour Guide, Fallen Hero, Coldarra) and the Frost spell(s) (Deep Freeze and/or Ice Barrier?) that I'm unsure about how much and which to take. I thought about Starscryer, too. Can you help me to put some flesh onto the bones?

Am I wrong or there were supposed no nerfs today?