Hearthstone

I know we all like to argue here about game design, card balance, etc, but can we all agree that the people who write and voice the characters in the game are super talented, creative and awesome? I always laugh at some lines, no matter how often I've heard them. I particularly enjoy Tavish's "My beard has FLEAS scarier than you!" and literally every single one of Squeamlish's lines from the Rise of Shadows adventure.

Sure, we've all hated sitting there listening to "Hey loser! ... Wasn't me!" over and over again, but even then it's still pretty funny.

Kudos to Hearthstone's creative writers and actors! I hope some of them see this post.

Why is it that EVERY single time I am thinking on my turn and have a minion ready to attack but of course im not gonna cuz it's a bad trade (eg they have a big taunt) my opponent has to highlight it in an attempt to try to persuade me to?

I don't barge into your house and start touching your pets family or houseplants. Please afford me the same respect. Thank you in advance.

I just saw that I can craft Sneed for 100 coins. So I thought "No I won't craft a rare Merc". But than I searched for missing epics and Sneed was shown in the results! I checked on this site and he is marked as epic, too.

So is this a bug in my favor or is the rarity gem incorrect?

Though I can only name 2 mercs that do extra damage based on race, (off the top of my head), being able to prep for the possible trash fights can save some time in a bounty.

there are a couple of databases with the base info for the trash characters, but I can't find any info on which bounties they usually appear on. and they all show the level 1-30 info.

does anyone know what the system is for possible trash fight for a certain bounty?

(also, the 2 I can remember that deal specialized damage aregruul, Kurtrus Ashfallen

I think there was one that I can't remember the name of)

if there are more I can't think of, please name them

It's probably past your mind before. What if there was an event where quests were offered maybe..... 25% of the time. Or 100 if we're going nuts. And you'd be offered a random of the 3 quests for every class (sorry dh) and a higher chance of receiving the necessary support cards for them if you do select to take it. On paper it sounds really fun. Do you think it would work?

Greetings everyone, and welcome to the submission thread of third challenge of Master Duelist!

General Information

This challenge will begin today, November 11th, and will end on November 30th. During this window of time, you'll have to start a Duels run with a starting deck including at least 5 spells belonging to just one Spell School. School-less spells are allowed and Signature Treasures count towards the restriction.

Everyone who'll post proof of a 7+ wins run in this article's comment section will be awarded with a different amount of gold, an in-site currency you'll be able to earn from different activities and that will be used to purchase cosmetics in our in-site shop.

Submission Rules

In order for your run to count towards the challenge, you'll have to provide an appropriate proof of your feat; otherwise, your result won't count. To be precise, you will have to reply to this forum thread including:

• a picture of how your run ended;
• a picture of your starting deck;
• a picture(s) of your final deck.
• any other information you want: even though it's not necessary, it may help other players or generate a discussion!
  • you can submit as many runs as you want: we'll always pick the best one. Don't be afraid to show what you experimented with: let's start a discussion here!

Remember that we have to make sure you actually played following the rules, so please help us in doing so - disqualifying players feels bad, and we'd want to avoid it if possible! No exceptions will be made.

Challenge Rewards

Here's a quick breakdown explaining the rewards you'll receive based on your performances:

Time Criteria

Those which follow are the time criteria we'll use to determine the winner in case of identical scores:

• An Heroic run will be considered more difficult than a Casual one, therefore Heroic players will have the priority.
  • If you get the best score overall with a 10-wins run in Casual and somebody else gets a 10-wins run in Heroic, the latter will be the winner of the challenge.
• In case of more people getting the same score, the winner will be decided by the submission time.
  • If more players will get to 12 wins, losses will count as well: a 12-0 will be considered better than a 12-2 or a 12-1. 
  • You could get the highest score on the first day as well as on the last day of the challenge, but if someone submits the same score before you do, then they'll be the winner.

Closing Information

If you want to learn more about this challenge, make sure to visit our guide page, where you'll be able to find a couple of starting decks provided by ourselves in order for you to take inspiration for your runs.

Moreover, don't forged to share your own creations with the community by adding them to our deck database via our deckbuilder.

No idea if this helps make constructed  good again.... But awesome!!!

Hi,

I am about to craft a legendary demon, and was thinking of Tickatus. That got me thinking:

1) Usually I am crafting the wrong card, so wanted to know if anybody is playing the dude?

2) On HSreplay he is performing lower than I expected, why?

3) With this big boy on the list, why distruptlock doesn't see a comeback?

Any thoughts?

Thanks for sharing :) 

Competition Theme: Jurassic Card

We can't let Un'Goro Crater have all the fun - what could possibly go wrong bringing some more Dinosaurs out to play?

• You must create a minion that uses a Dinosaur in its art
  • We'll accept fossilised and mechanised Dinosaurs - or anything else a bit out there - so long as it's clearly recognisable
• Your minion cannot be from the Journey to Un'Goro expansion
  • We've seen what that expansion has to offer, so let's branch out a bit!

Nirast is looking for us to travel back in time this week, so bring your best prehistoric cards to the table!

As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Nov 8 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Nov 13 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Nov 13 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Nov 14 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Nov 14 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Nov 15 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

No thread rules were added to this season. Please populate and manually edit this thread with them.

So I didn't do one of these for Stormwind because I wasn't really in the mood at the time, but apparently someone else picked up the slack on that so we're good. This miniset doesn't really seem to have any super complicated achievements because I've already completed them all with very little overall effort (although that might vary depending on your collection). Anyways, here goes as usual:

Even Playing Field

Tedious but manageable. JUst fill one half of your deck with card draw and the other with minions with 1-3 attack and upwards of 4 health (Silverback Patriarch meta pog). It'S gonna take a while and it is boring as fuck, but with only 20 hits total it's doable. Something tells me they used to have more and cut them down during playtesting after the Sigil fiasco.

?Por Que No Los Dos?

Same grind as the previous one, although you can speed it up with Moonlit Guidance to create extra copies. Bouncing the Jerrys also works.

Carrion My Wayward Son

Apparently bugged as of now, but should be easy to complete. Not sure how the game tracks triggering different Deathrattles over multiple games, but basically all you need to do is switch out your Deathrattle cards after each game. If you manage to build a deck without beasts you can easily tutor for the Parrot as well.

I Prefer Leftovers

Requires a bit of setup. You can use the Quest to get +3 spell damage and then fill the rest out with Talented Arcanist, Imprisoned Phoenix or Aegwynn. Alternatively, double Phoenix set up into a single spell damage minion also gets you there. Use Terrorguard Escapee to guarantee a 1/1 to shoot.

Robin Hood

Shield of Honor and Blessing of Might make it easy. Make sure you have your 1-damage ping of choice ready to activate Shield.

Should Have Seen This Coming

Possibly the most difficult one. The best way is to build a Shadow Priest deck with a lot of copy cards (such as Thoughtsteal and Mind Vision) and hope you find some burn or a sturdy minion. Everything else is just classic aggro gameplay. This is best to do in Wild because you get access to Mind Blast, which is cheap burst damage that allows you to get lethal out of nowhere and kill your opponent before they conced. Voidtouched Attendant also helps with damage breakpoints. Seance is very useful card for this one because you can actually choose a useful minion to copy.

Alternatively you can also try a more control based approach with a Mind Blast finish where you try to gaslight your opponent into thinking you don't have as much reach.

They're More Like Guidelines...

Very annoying if you don't own the two legendaries that allow you to cheese it: Lorewalker Cho and Valeera the Hollow.

First one means playing CHo, stealthing him with the stealth Gadget from Find the Imposter and possibly adding Divine Shield from Guardian Augmerchant and then hoping your opponent takes up the shenanigans.

The other is a bit more elaborate. You want to find both your Parrrley and transform into Valeera the Hollow. From there you play double Educated Elekk and play 3 Parrrleys, which then nets you a total of 6 shuffled into your deck once the Elekks die. From there you draw the remaining ones with Stowaway (or whatever else you want) and then hopefully survive long enought to play 5 more. Best done in Wild if you run into some sort of slow Priest deck. I was fortunate enough to meet a DMH Warrior who clearly didn't mind getting his entire deck swindled from him.

Thanks for the Loaner, Thrall

Best done in Wild. There are currently 4 6-mana weapons in the game. 2 of those are Epic, the other 2 are Legendary. This means that by equipping Doomhammer or Boggspine Knuckles and playing Suckerhook the next turn you have a 50% chance of instantly completing the achievement. Try until you succeed. It's easy.

Who Ordered Imps?

You need to trade 3 times, have an empty board and most importantly not run out of cards before you fully upgraded because you can't trade into an empty deck. Don't run more than 1 copy of Wicked Shipment, it'll only make it harder.

Hammer DOWN!

Trivial thanks to the multitude of weapon tutors in Warrior. The Quest is one, Corsair Cache is another two and if you really need it you can also get Forge of Souls.

Magician's Assistant

Best done with Rogue. You have access to Brain Freeze, Shadowstep, Potion of Illusion, and various poisons for 4 spell schools already. Wand Thief will likely get you a Fire spell (and an Arcane one too if you don't own Potion). Additionally you can use Shadowjeweler Hanar to get yourself a Holy Secret (or a Fire one too)

Sneed's New Shredder

(formerly Chuck's). JUst throw him into any of the other decks (except DH). It takes a while but it'S not so bad. If you want to target farm it, throw it in a Druid deck with Ramp and Moonlit Guidance for extra copies. Bouncing works too.

That's it, that'S all I got. See you next expansion.

I am playng the Nature team (Malfurion, Guff, Brukhan) and a couple of times I had mirror matches.

I have level 30 and apparently we had same equipment, but their starting statistics were a few points better than mine.

How they achieved that ?

Tks

I know it was mentioned few times before, mercenaries have only race in tags and because of that we aren't sure which character is horde/alliance/neutral.

But to mess it up more, in last patch they added "Pirate" tag, which obviously isn't a race, right? Wrong! I have Mr. Smite and went to run with Lady Anacondra, I picked up +3/10 buff for elves and taurens and it didn't work for Mr. Smite (and humans buff probably doesn't work with Edwin). So Smite and Edwin belongs to mysterious Pirate race and they only look like common races. Blizzard please...

I really wanted to share this card. It's obviously inspired by Demon Companion, but with an increase to the stats instead. For this cost, it did feel right to let the player discover the Companion to play around the board, rather than just summoning a random one. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts.

The removal option. I wanted the Huffer alternative to have Rush rather than Charge. The card is intended to be allround, and I didn't want there to be a go-to option.

The buffing option. It felt necessary to scale up the Attack buff. It could be used in a token deck just for this option, but still wouldn't be bad in other decks if you already have a few minions on the board.

The value/stalling option. Pretty straightforward. 

Wanted to add this as a bonus. Originally made these cards in an attempt to revisit spell Hunter for a custom expansion that I will never finish, because finding art takes forever and I don't even have a theme nor keyword for it yet.

It is clear the pronouns were used so that they could upload all the mercs data in mass. With that in mind, it seems kind of unecessary to do so... especially when you consider people are coming to read about the merc's abilities and not their pronouns.

Is anyone else finding their Filter section becoming stuck on? 

I'm having to save the deck, close it, turn the filter off and then re-open the deck to continue editing it. 

I suck at deck building. Especially since I only have access to a PC and can only play on mobile devices it's really hard to get sth. together on the small display. I'm looking for an idea for an Diablo deck. I have only the 3 dmg hero power and fire stomp. My plan was to auto complete a deck, but I don't find the option to do this. Should I build around the WL Questline? I don't have any idea ... 

As I just plan to play to complete the Legendary quest i could throw in any cards, but I like to have at least some kind of synergy.

I quit Hearthstone a few months ago, after years, because it was basically making me unhappy to play it.  I just returned, got the new mini-set, figuring I'd see if anything has changed.  It's just worse than it ever was, at least to me.

I'm not angry, just sad.  I remember when the game was interactive, people actually played minions and figured out strategies as the game went along.  Now, it's just people performing repetitive tasks until they win.  It finally occurred to me that I'm wasting my life sitting here watching unhappy people hyperactively perform OCD rituals, as if there's some sort of meaning in that.

Perform some sort of repetitive task until you win the game, or puke cards and go face.  It amazes me how people can find the game fulfilling.  I gain no pleasure from mindless puking a bunch of little cards.  I mean, what the point in winning a silly little game if you have to get a lobotomy to do it.  Or just perform the same sequence over and over, thinking that there's somehow value in performing an OCD ritual that gets you wins in a silly game.

I already have OCD.  It's not like I need to indulge it further by just performing rituals and calling it a game.  And it makes me sad to just sit there and watch someone just repeat the same sequence over and over, getting all hyper over repeating the same meaningless task again and again.

Where's the fun?  Where's the interaction?  People just seems so stressed and unhappy, and just behave so poorly and childishly.  I really get the feeling that so many people are unhappy and are just doing the same thing over and over without even knowing why or asking themselves if the game is a fun addition to their lives like it should be, or if it's just a stressful obsession.

I won't even go into the fact that Blizzard is a master of exploiting their customers' weaknesses in order to exploit the prevalence of OCD-related tendencies and get them dopamine-addicted.  I just see so little evidence that people are happy, with most people being poor losers, and, even more amazingly, extremely poor winners.

It just doesn't seem as if it's a game anymore, as opposed to just an obsession that brings out the worst in people.  I suppose exploiting OCD and inducing dopamine addiction is good for business, but the game just makes me sad at this point.

I watch people hyperactively cycle through their decks in casual and think great, I just wasted some time watching your perform an OCD ritual for no reason, and you just wasted some of your precious time on earth just performing the same sequence of meaningless actions for the hundredth time.  What fun.

People wonder why such an extraordinary percentage of young people are unhappy and feel their lives are meaningless.  People thrive on interaction, and it's bad enough, and unhealthy enough, that people are isolated on their phones and computers.  Hearthstone wasn't necessarily genuinely social even when gameplay was interactive, but, now, it's really just a parody of isolation, just perform your repetitive task and  toss a passive-aggressive emote at your opponent when you win because you don't even recognize him or her as being human.

I really only mean to comment on how mind-numbingly boring gameplay has become, but it's hard not to wonder why people just keep on playing and don't really seem to care that they're becoming automatons.  That's the problem with dopamine addiction and OCD, you get a charge like you accomplished something, but, actually, deep down, you know you've accomplished nothing.

Not that gaming is ever really a meaningful accomplishment in the overall scheme of things, but there's no harm in challenging yourself and having some fun.  I just don't see mindlessly performing repetitive tasks and puking cards as either.

Just a thought, and, of course, your mileage may vary.  But, if you feel depressed, quit petulantly every time you lose, am always getting angry over the game, need to be passive-aggressive and abusive to your opponent in order to feel something, etc., it's something to consider.

It's amazing how less-stressed and happier I was not playing the game for a few months.  The compulsion is still there, but it's gotten to the point, after taking time off, that it's just too obvious how unhappy the game makes me.  Not that dopamine and OCD doesn't induce you to ignore the fact that you're unhappy, but it's better to face the truth.

I hope I'm wrong and all of you people are happy and having genuine fun.  I know some people will inevitably say that some people don't care that they're not being interactive or that their deck is designed to minimize the difference between good and bad players and keep people spending money, that winning is what they enjoy.  It's amazing how much that sounds like an addict talking.  Don't care how I get my fix as long as I get it.

Maybe people should look at games like this the same way that they look at other addictions, don't indulge if you need it as opposed to want it.  Or just go ahead and repeat the same repetitive sequence for the thousandth time, as if you'll look back from your deathbed and think that was time well-spent.

Life is short.  Be happy.  Goodbye Hearthstone.

Pretty great sample size work was done that shows every fight you partake in substantially increases the chance that the mystery node is Mystery Strangers. Sick of 8 potatoes in a row? Start doing at least 3 fights to get to the node. See the number of fights and their chance to proc Mystery Strangers in this reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HSMercenaries/comments/qmmbf4/hc_banehollow_mysterious_stranger_worth_it_to_do/

I did it everyone I got the spicy pretzal mustard thanks to Malygos elementals and just wanted to let you know :)

So mercenaries is brand new and everyone is waiting for features and tools. I've found this website to be ahead of the curve in many respects for mercenaries content, but I had a lot of difficulty in writing a guide for a party. I wanted to help others with how to do just that so we can get more community content out there while we wait on features to get cleaned up and finished (thanks to the devs here for what we have already!).

So first thing's first, you need to create a party. This step is straight forward and easy, you just go to Party Builder link which is easily found on the mercenaries home page or drop-down menus. Some filters here would be nice but I assume that's a feature in the works. Find your mercenaries for your party and click on them, and then click on the equipment for your build, and that adds that mercenary to your party. The rest of the party basics are straight forward (name, mode, tags etc.)

Once your party is saved, it will get a chronological numerical unique ID and a link like this:

https://outof.cards/hearthstone/mercenaries/parties/106-forum-guide-test-party

You can always find this party by visiting your profile page for the site. I make mention of the link above because it's important when we want to write and then update a guide, but we lack features to make that easy. When at first there is no guide, you do get a prompt to write one, and the link is prepended with "edit-guide/" like this:

https://outof.cards/hearthstone/mercenaries/parties/106-forum-guide-test-party/edit-guide/

You need to save this link or know how to edit your original party link in order to update your guide once it's written, because the first time you save content to the Guide section of your party, the useful "create a guide" link goes away forever. I'm quite sure a nifty "Edit Guide" button will be added and prominently displayed in the future, but for now, subsequent edits to your guide require you to know how to get there without a link given to you.

Okay so now we know how to edit our guide (and edit it again and again as needed), let's talk about how to go about writing a guide. One thing I love about this site is the way links and objects are set up, such as for Mercenaries and Cards. Just like for Thrall and his ability For The Horde 1 or his equipment Doomhammer {0}. 

What makes this a little bit difficult for us though is that the parent mercenary link:

https://outof.cards/hearthstone/mercenaries/heroes/33-thrall/

Lists out all of their abilities and equipment at level 1. If we're writing a guide we obviously are most likely wanting to link to the max level of the ability, or maybe in certain cases actually recommend a lower level of an ability (ex. King Krush might want rank 4 or lower Apex Predator 4 to be slower than other abilities so you can ensure use of the Deathblow). All abilities and equipment are classified here as cards. All ranks of each ability get their own card link. So there are two ways you can link different ability ranks - finding the exact card ID or typing in the name, like this:

You should be able to copy-paste the ability name with its rank from the top-level mercenary sheet inside the card tags, but just in case, you can find the card ID by going to the Cards search link and searching for the ability name there. Here you can find all the ranks for the ability (or equipment) and get the direct link to it and in the link is the card ID. Also in case you want it handy, I've found that the Mercenary search link isn't always intuitive to get to.

And that's basically what I wanted to get out there. How to edit your guide after you initially save one, and how to link out to different ranks of abilities which I found cumbersome. From there of course you would create your guide as you see fit. I hope this is helpful and I hope we'll get feature updates that make this guide unnecessary (thanks again to the devs for this amazing resource).