Hearthstone

So this expansion doesn't have a theme song? And, brode isn't here to rap one for us so what's gonna happen? Are we just going to have to make our song this time around?

Just wondering, will DH be a one set class?

Since it will be introduced in the next xpac, will it only have 1 set?

Whereas all the other 9 class will have 4 (3 from year of the dragon, 1 from new xpac).

Or will blizzard retroactively print new cards for the year of the dragon for the DH class?

It looks like Demon Hunters are going to be synergizing with cards that gain power or trigger effects based on whether or not they have attacked this turn, which plays well into their Hero Power design. With it only requiring 1 mana, we'll likely be making frequent use out of attacking with our hero.

Are both cards for Demon Hunter that appear in their Basic set and highlight the hero attack mechanic. We've also got two other basic cards that buff your Attack.

I for one am excited to see hero attacks coming to a class as a core mechanic. It also looks like they've got weapons (Flamereaper) which is awesome to see. It would have been a crime to put in Demon Hunters without weapons.

What do y'all think about this being a core class mechanic?

Hearthstone is getting a 10th class!

Blizzard said for years they were going to stick to 9 classes but things have changed with the release of Ashes of Outland.

I just stumbled upon this gaming Website who released their post a day to early!

https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/16/21181241/hearthstone-ashes-of-outlands-expansion-new-class-demon-hunter

The Article not only states that the new Expansion is ashes of outlands but that we are also getting a new class the DEMON HUNTER!. Priest basic set is also going to get a rework and the PvE will be free again! I think it's entirely possible that this leak is real, so LOOK FOR YOURSELF!

Seems like potential for the cancellation of the Hearthstone stream. Don't get me wrong, precautions for the virus are completely justified. But it would be quite disappointing even so, especially after the constant 'announcements of announcements' and lack of actual information given out up until this point.

Has anyone tried making a deck with Questing Explorer, Licensed Adventurer and Sky Gen'ral Kragg and activating those cards via sidequests instead of main quests?

For Druid, the main quest more or less builds the deck for you, so I thought that would be an interesting class to try this on. This was the result: (click it for the guide with more details)

Embiggen Sidequest Druid

Wild · Embiggen Druid · by Zelgadis · 6 years ago

• 0 Embiggen x 2
• 1 Secure the Deck x 2
• 1 Strength in Numbers x 2
• 2 Breath of Dreams x 2
• 2 Licensed Adventurer x 2
• 2 Questing Explorer x 2
• 3 Ferocious Howl x 2
• 3 Swipe x 2
• 4 Escaped Manasaber x 2
• 4 Frizz Kindleroost x 1
• 4 Sky Gen'ral Kragg x 1
• 5 Big Ol' Whelp x 2
• 5 Leeroy Jenkins x 1
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Emerald Explorer x 2
• 6 Evasive Wyrm x 2
• 9 Alexstrasza x 1
• 9 Ysera x 1

13,000 Dust 2,711 5 Copy Deck Code

Did anyone else try using sidequests like this? And if so, what were the results?

As you know they released the teaser image and in it, we see Medivh, Lunara, and Morgl turned into stone, but there's someone behind Morgl's hand. I would assume Tyrande or Maiev since they're both the only free heroes not there. But unfortunately, this is ruled out when we see the figure doesn't appear to have elven ears. They are wearing a robe though and they're tall so that once again narrows down our suspects. And so finally our suspect list comes to ... Khadgar!

No elf ears rules out Tyrande, Maiev, Elise, Liandrian, Sylvanas, and Aleria. Tall human shape rules out Sir annoy-o, Nemsy, and Magni plus Morgl is already stone in the front. Robe rules out Arthas, Mecha J, Rastakhan, Lei Shen, and maybe Lazul, but she is covered in the normal ear category.

So finally by my hypothesis, Khadgar is also there just behind Morgl's hand unless I'm wrong in which case OH WELL! If I missed anything let me know

Dreamed of making this thread, but after 4 years of playing didn't think it would ever happen.  It's a bit self congratulatory but I hope this one time that's ok.

Was rank 13 wild starting last season and managed to get to Rank 1 for the first time ever.

This month I decided it was time to properly try - I'd just play up to 10 games each night until the season was over or I hit legend for the first time, and earn that card back (which I won't use because I don't actually like it lol).

I used my version of Dragon Jade Druid which I really like.  My 4 year old Druid isn't even level 60 so it's fair to say I'm not an expert Druid player:)

Had 82% winrate - 27-6

Even better Rank 1 final boss emoted Well Played so I added him (I give kudos to anyone who emotes WP on a loss) and we had a great chat after.  Explained first time legend situation and he was really kind and we kinda of shared it together :P  Props to him.

Anyway, rambled enough so just to say if you are trying to do the same, there's lots of advice out there.  But you can do it if you play, practice and a bit of good RNG helps too :)

Thanks all!!!!  Beer time!

I haven't received my legendary quest for the day I was just wondering if anybody else had that problem

I'm been messing around with a weird Even Highlander Mage deck recently, and it got me thinking. How good could some of the other Odd/Even decks be?

Obviously certain decks have seen play (Odd Warrior, Odd Mage etc), and certain decks still pop up in Wild fairly often (Odd Paladin, Even Shaman)

I played a bit in the deckbuilding challenge on the old site, and thought I'd see if there was much interest here for a more constrained challenge. Build an Odd or Even deck for each class, and see if you can pick up a win with it on the ladder. In the interest of getting people involved, I'll ask if you could limit completions to one every 8 hours (per person), so everyone can have a chance to get involved. If there is interest in this, maybe we could move to a more open, winner sets the challenge deck building thread.

Completions:

Odd:

Mage:

Shaman:

Druid: Shaveyou 12/03/2020

Paladin:

Warlock:

Hunter:

Warrior:

Rogue:

Priest:

Even:

Mage: Shaveyou 07/03/2020

Shaman:

Druid:

Paladin:

Warlock:

Hunter:

Warrior:

Rogue:

Priest:

Anyone else notice?

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//sinti: fixed that for you :)

Hey all. Anyone else still having connection issues?

I had problems last week when the patch dropped. These seemed to get better last saturday when I reinstalled via the amazon app. Logged in a bunch of times tonight and I'm getting the  'We ran into a network problem as we were loading up your cards...' message. Just tried to reinstall again but it's made no difference. Grr

Any similar stories or suggestions for a fix?

Hey guys, lurker doing his first post

I really enjoy playing Highlander mage, especially using The Amazing Reno.  However, one thing that I see most people agree on is that his hero power is... lacking, to say the least.

What I was thinking is that you add Raid the Sky Temple into the deck.  Maybe you mulligan it back into your deck, or keep it.   It depends on what you think that matchup is going to be.  Then, after you play reno, you complete the quest and get back a decent hero power, at least one that's better than random spells milling your entire deck.  This strat may be to slow, but if it's against Hunter, maybe you just mulligan the quest.

Open to Hear Suggestions

Shout out to all the wild players! 

I've been jumping in and out ever since big warrior got retired from standard - from the latest wild pack bundle I got my old favourite card back - Kingsbane (which i stupidly dusted a while ago when I was adamant I wouldnt get into wild...how wrong i was...)

I'm looking to try going for legend with kingsbane (havnt managed it in wild before, need that notch on the belt)

I gather this is more of an aggro deck now since the lifesteal was nerfed - I'm looking for good combo's and reccomended build types. I've tried the pirate version and had some fun, but does anybody use sonya with it anymore? or the DK? is a Mill version worthwhile? Which is best vs aggro or control? 

Many thanks in advance for any comments - 

There is been a lot of hype since the Hearthstone Summit and I am looking forward to them revealing what they are planning.   Just have a few comments on some of the hype.  First, this idea of a Hearthstone 2.0.  If they  do one then they better transfer all cards to the new one because the will lose a lot of players if they do not.  I for one will not start collecting all over again after spending 6 years on my current collection.  Should be no problem transferring cards because after all what does 2.0 meant to a card game?  Really it is just like an expansion, so current cards should be included.  Second, they seem to be putting a lot of resources into Battlegrounds.  Even though I am not a big fan or a regular player of Battlegrounds, I will not knock it or suggest that they should not support this mode because clearly it has a following.  What I will say is that I do not see the source of revenue produced from this mode for Blizzard.  Basically, revenue comes from packs and packs have no value for Battlegrounds.  So clearly Blizzard is going to have to find a way to increase their revenue through packs in order to support Battlegrounds.  How they intend to do this is what is peaking my interest.

With the new year announcement just around the corner, what are everyone's predictions for which cards get sent to the Hall of Fame this year?

My predictions:

Divine Spirit and/or Inner Fire - this should have happened last year

Edwin VanCleef - it's time for Rogue to stop being able to steal wins with an early Edwin. This card is used in too many Rogue decks, and I feel a change is needed to keep things fresh.

Leeroy Jenkins - I'm torn about this. Leeroy I have a love/hate relationship with. Having a Charge minion for an aggro finisher is important to the health of the meta. But really, how many more years are we going to be able to put up with hearing "Leeeeroy Jenkins!!!" right before we die? It's a classic card, with amazing flavor. I appreciate everything this card is... but I think it's time to send him out of Standard.  

There's always a pack opening thread right after new expansion for people to gloat/complain/commiserate, so I was curious if anyone else who's as data-driven as I am bothers to track their progress over the course of an expansion? Usually about a month out from the new expansion I stop buying packs at a "final" legendary and start hoarding gold for the next one, and I got that final Legendary today (Bandersmosh btw...cool...) so since I'm done getting DoD packs I thought I'd dump my stats here and if anyone else wants to chime in, get on in here:

233 DoD Packs opened 

11 Legendaries - so Avg. 1 per 21.4 packs. Shortest time between pulls was 4 packs (which was NOT the one from your first 10 - that one came at pack 9...), longest was 37. 1 was Golden.

58 Epics - so Avg. 1 per 4.0 packs. Only 2 were Golden.

133 "40 Dust-er" packs - so 57.1% of all packs were the bare minimum.

Overall I'm fairly pleased with this expansion. I seemed to be right around the generally-believed "averages" on openings. Only dark spots were 1) that most of the Legendaries I got were ones I haven't found good use for (yet?), so most of the Dust generated this expansion went to crafting the good Legendaries. 2) I know the "end Epic duplicates" has been discussed to death, but despite my getting 58 Epics - which could have given 2 copies each of every single Epic (54 card) and I'd still have 4 "extras" - I'm still missing 13 Epic copies (and that's also after crafting a handful). So it's kind of crazy to see in stark terms that ~30% of the Epics I opened were duplicates.

Hello everyone. I'm Raktoner.

For a while now I've been thinking of making a video expressing certain concerns I had with the way the Year of the Dragon has been handled by Blizzard. Unfortunately, I have no audience to start with, nor do I have the equipment (and frankly, knowledge) to make a video I'd be truly proud of. I've been commenting on this forum a bit lately and decided... Maybe this could be the place to start. It's important to note as I put in the title--this is an opinion piece. I am not speaking objectively. This is strictly subjective. 

I can't say I have terribly many qualifications, since I'm not exactly a Hearthstone personality, or a "pro player." However, I have some I can list that I hope will set my apart and show my opinion comes from the view of an above average Hearthstone player.

I am a 5x legend player--Two of those during the Year of the Raven, and the remaining 3 occurring in November, December, and January. I play for my University's TESPA team, where we were finished 3rd in the East and then went 2-2 in the playoff rounds. I have placed 1st in three local tournaments. Safe to say, I played a lot this year--it's why I feel I have a strong argument for my problems with this year.  

With that intro out of the way, I'd like to express my concern with the Year of the Dragon, going expansion by expansion. I'd then like to express my concern for what this means for the upcoming year rumored to be titled Year of the Phoenix.

Let's get started then.

Rise of Shadows

I think it's safe to say we were all excited for Year of the Dragon. Year of the Raven soured many people with the frustrating experience that came along with Genn and Baku's even and odd decks. Blizzard started off with a bold move: Moving all of the Even and Odd cards to the Hall of Fame, preventing them from controlling the meta for another year. This year promised us something we'd never seen before--a year long narrative. We were excited to see the return of Villains from Hearthstone history. Rafaam, Dr. Boom, Hagatha, Lazul, and Togwaggle all came back in an exciting way. But as their legendaries were revealed, the first two small problem started. First, Dr. Boom and Hagatha were and still are both represented in Standard already with their hero cards. Why were they getting legendaries again? This ended up not mattering much to people--a problem swiftly avoided as people realized: This doesn't matter, actually. I agree. But the next problem stuck the whole year: They were class legendaries. This struck fear in some people; I admit to being concerned as well. The 5 classes were branded the League of Evil, and were given the Scheme mechanic that saw little success outside of Hagatha's scheme. But the promise of the year long mechanic in the Lackey mechanic brought many people over to the evil classes.

In response, the "good" classes, who saw so little representation in the first expansion they didn't even get a team name, got... Twinspell. And Twinspell is a really good mechanic! For at least some point in the year, every Twinspell card saw play. It was a success! But the success of the mechanic stands much too short against the excitement brought by the Evil classes. We saw far more attempts by people to make Evil decks work, as Bomb Warrior and Tempo Rogue became the dominant decks of the meta, edging out Conjurer Mage. The "good" classes were flat out not as exciting as the Evil classes, and it showed. Blizzard attempted to balance this out in the next expansion, but made what I feel was a crucial error...

Saviors of Uldum

The good classes finally had their heroes. The League of Explorers returned, as Reno, Finley, Elise, and Brann brought with them the much loved Singleton mechanic. Concerns for Bomb Warrior ruining this mechanic were swept away quickly at launch, as Bomb Warrior was simply incapable of keeping up, especially after the August 26th patch nerfing the Dr. Boom hero card to 9 mana. Along with them, they brought an extremely powerful friend, the hardest to program card in Hearthstone's history: Zephrys the Great. A neutral legendary. Yes: a NEUTRAL legendary. 

Again, the Evil classes ended up being much more exciting. Four mechanics were re/introduced this set: Quests, which were for everyone, Reborn, which was for everyone, Plagues, which were for Evil only, and Singleton, which, thanks to Zephrys, was for everyone. Not to mention, the new Titanic Lackey really only saw play in the Evil classes that could properly support Lackeys. Hell, during this time, the best Quest was far and away the Shaman quest. This meant that again, the Evil classes were the favorite, more exciting classes. Thankfully the best Highlander decks during the Saviors of Uldum meta, and even during the Doom in the Tomb event, were the Good-Now-Explorer classes. This did not last.

Descent of Dragons & Galakrond's Awakening

The promised Dragons heavy expansion has finally arrived! This was the most excited I'd been for a Hearthstone expansion I'd been to date. I clearly had fun playing it; I've made legend twice during the event. But I won't lie to you all: the first time making legend was an absolute joke. The laughably overpowered Galakrond Shaman carried me to an 80% win rate as I reached legend on only the second day of the expansion. However, before I get in my own way, allow me to rewind a bit.

Descent of Dragons brought us two new mechanics: Invoke, one of the strongest mechanics to ever become part of the game, and Sidequests, a mechanic that like Twinspell has been really strong, but just doesn't bring the excitement of the Evil classes. We of course can't forget new Lackey synergy cards and the new Draconic lackey, or most importantly: Galakrond. Five brand new hero cards that were only for the Evil classes, again showing these 5 favor over the Explorer classes. Invoke and Galakrond was such a powerful mechanic, that the Shaman version of it was nerfed a mere two weeks in, and some cards with the mechanic got nerfed AGAIN a few weeks later. It was the most botched expansion launch in a while; not since The Witchwood has a new expansion come in and been nerfed so quickly. It left a terrible tastes in our mouths; how did Blizzard not see how freakishly overpowered this set was?

I did not forget about Zephrys. What should have been the most exciting card for the explorers robbed them of what made them most unique: The Singleton mechanic. Since Descent of Dragons, we've seen Highlander Rogue, Warrior, and Shaman all arrive in some form. Highlander Hunter remains the strongest, to be sure; but it's not what I've been hammering on this whole post. It is not exciting. Mage, Hunter, Druid, and Paladin were all powerful at some point during this year--but none of them have the excitement the EVIL classes brought. Their identities were pushed aside for Blizzard to focus on only five of it's nine classes.

Looking Forward

I hope people noticed something as they read this. I did talk about balance, sure, but that wasn't the main point I was talking about. It feels like Blizzard gave up on 4 of the 9 classes, and it showed throughout the year. When only five (or four, sorry Priest) classes are fun, the Meta isn't fun. The most fun I've had this year has been playing Battlegrounds--a game mode that provides us with no helpful rewards to help our collections, save for the occasional "play Battlegrounds" quests. This makes me concerned for the rumored Year of the Phoenix. What will Blizzard do?

Are we going to have a Witchwood situation? Is Descent of Dragons and Galakrond's awakening going to be so god damn powerful and fun that the first expansion of 2020 will be pushed to the wayside? 

Is Blizzard going to try to balance itself out, and then leave the 5 Evil classes in the dust by over focusing on the Explorer classes? 

Blizzard has already announced they will not be continuing the year long story. Why? The story and connected mechanics have at least been well received, if not without their problems.

As we face Hearthstone 2020, what does the future hold in store? 

I don't think there's any simple solutions, especially in the case that my opinions here don't reflect strongly on others opinions. I just hope that 2020 brings cool, fun stuff for all the classes, not just half of them.

I appreciate you taking the time to read all of my thoughts. I love Hearthstone. I love playing Hearthstone. I just played so much of it this year, I couldn't ignore these problems, and I wanted to share my thoughts somewhere. Thank you. <3

for me personally its the year of the dragon cardback i like the design and also a card back for free why thank you