Hearthstone

We know that Ragnaros the Firelord and N'Zoth, the Corruptor are going to be included in the group of 23 cards that will be in standard for the upcoming event. Let's start some speculation on what the other 21 cards will be.

We know that it will have to be cards that are currently in Wild or the Hall of Fame. I suspect that it won't be just legendary cards that get added in. The announcement said it would be "some of the most popular and game-changing cards from across Hearthstone history".

I'm going to say that Sylvanas Windrunner and Dr. Boom will be cards that they bring back. I also think that Grim Patron has a chance to make an appearance.

Anyone else have thought as to what might show up? Do you think they will include Death Knights?

Edits: Card linking

Anyone else experiencing the same problem? I'm opening hs, it has just the tavern in the background glowing, after 10+ minutes still the same. At downdetector possible battle net problems, with some reports on hs problems. Europe server

Hey

I am really bored with Highlander Hunter. Quest Paladin is fun but I lose most games so the fun wore off pretty quick.

There are a few decks that run Leeroy Jenkins that I have been looking at. 1600 is a lot of dust for me so I wanted to get your opinions on if it is worth getting.

Any thoughts?

Not having a clear cut identity is what getting priest into the problem in wild. 

We know that Blizzard's first priority is standard & wild will always be a red headed stepchild to them. So in the context of card design they will always prioritise cards that will work outright in the standard format, while its utility in wild is always an after thought. 

So with each expansion release we are seeing Priest constantly getting its identity changed. For a while it was resurrect which was not well supported & then came the buff one. But with the recent talk with them shifting divine spirit to HOF & Priest once again getting its identity removed, buff priest will not be well supported in the future either. The benefit of having clear identity is that some other classes are seeing their new cards getting trickled down to their Wild decks. Like secret Mage, battlecry shaman or thief rogue, taunt warrior, kun aviana otk druid, mech pally etc. 

Many of the previous priest archetype that didn't work in the past got no support (like shadowform), So now majority of them have made the entire collection to be filled with dead cards that won't get any support in the future. Many popular archetype didn't receive any support in future expansion either like Dragon priest, resurrect priest, death rattle priest etc. So once a strong deck is now losing its relevancy while weak deck being dead for eternity. While other classes are getting support from their standard set, Priest is getting nothing. Also they completely killed big priest quite successfully. 

Priest was quite bad against aggro & now days with this excessive aggressive environment in wild  it is getting shafted again. some of the deck like mech pally or secret mage have gotten to hard to counter. Attrition & control two of the strongest aspect of Priest gameplay are getting fizzled out as well. 

In the current situation I think Pirest has lost its relevancy in wild & won't be viable anytime soon.

Un-nerfing Raza will be a positive step ( not much but still a positive) but I don't think Blizzard will do that. 

I convinced a friend of mine to start playing Hearthstone some time ago and for the moment he prefers being Free-to-Play. He plays a basic mage deck and with my "help" we managed to get to rank 17. He is not new to cards games (we played MTG together) so he has a good understanding of the mechanics and such.

The problem is that as he gets a lot of wins, the algorithm matches him now with golden-portrait players with all-golden decks etc. He couldn't reach his Rank 15 goal, so I advised him to farm a bit in lower ranks, since he wishes to remain F2P for the time being. The problem actually got even worse at bottom ranks. Golden players farm wins and gold at these ranks apparently and ruin the experience for newer players. How are they going to love this game which treats them without respect? Would any of them stay or spend money to get bullied by dudes like them (trust me some of them are really toxic)? I do understand that as people play the game for longer and the skill cap of players get higher, we are going to see more and more of this.

Anyways, I believe that if anyone has been to Rank Legend or has over a certain amount of wins (1500+ wins lets say), the game should not let them drop under rank 15. Maybe if some of them have returned after a long time, there could be some "outs" for them. What do you think of this? If you were new to Hearthstone, would you invest any time, effort or money in a try-hard-looking, overpriced game like this?

EDIT: Apparently some clarification is much needed here. My friend is playing an almost all- basic Mage deck. Not just some basic net-deck. He started playing during summertime (a couple of months ago), so he didn't play consistently, meaning that his collection is non-existent. He ranked up from the first 30 ranks with ease and now faces the situation described above. He is not looking to win everyone he faces, but rather enjoy a card game and having something to discuss over while on break.

"Git gud" kind of commenters fail to see the real problem. Even being a "pro" at Hearthstone won't cut it here, since an under-developed F2P collection is as good as it gets. I think it makes sense that, one would remain F2P if got bullied by top-tier decks (or ditch the game entirely). Spending money to upgrade their collection would feel a bad investment on their behalf; I know I would, but thankfully I started years ago.

Golden players with complete collections farming that low, are a disgrace to the game and should be looked at more carefully by the developing team. That's the point I am making here: the matching system should not allow unfair matchmaking from happening in the first place and also try limiting the ranks in which old/pro/golden/2000+ win players can downgrade to. New players would lose their mind if those players prey upon them all the time. Would you return to the game after that? I don't think so..

Hey, sorry if this is not the place to do this. 

Im looking to add people since most of the time I dont have people to spectate for quest or to complete the 80g. My battletag is Engineer8#1978 on NA.

Cheers!

With SoU bringing back so many key characters from WoW I expected at least some special dialogues.

It's kinda disappointing that nothing happens between two on-board Branns or Reno or between the Elise hero and any of the now numerous Elises (seriously - this is getting out of hand).

And these are just the obvious ones - nothing like "You'll pay! For Rhonin!" where you'd have to know the lore to get it. 

Now I understand mobile storage is limited and also something about indie company but what in your opinion should've been some catchphrases ? 

Hey guys,

I have a repeating issue and was wandering if anyone knows about a possible fix...

Each time they release an update or patch all the assets, golden animation and sounds, disappear. Its a real pain to download all of it over and over again.

I play on mobile, iPhone. 

Thanks. 

Hey everyone! Like a lot of you I switched to this site when I first heard about the split.

On occasion I would still check out hearth pwn to see how it was doing. After awhile, when I would go there on mobile, I would almost always get redirected by some spam pop-up thing where I would be on a new page saying ive won something. I cant even click back to return to where I was. This happens almost everytime I go there and eventually I just stopped trying. Never had a problem like that on this site!

This happen to anyone else? 

Just curious. If there were to be 60 cards mode, would you play it or not? I would like to see that implemented because Hearthstone has little to offer when it comes to game formats.

I usually build a basic frame around ideas I get then ask the people for options to test.. 

This time it's a blank page and a challenge: build a quest hunter deck trying to get as many Queen Carnassa as possible. Minimum of 3 and you don't even have to play them all- just get a lot.

Little tip: Zul'jin replays The Marsh Queen  

After testing the vault quest I realised it's not as exciting as paying a 5 mana 8/8 and seeing the raptors rush to your deck.

Excited to see if anything good pops up.. I got a deck but Ill share later.

Just fought the second plague lord for the first time and was almost able to kill him with my 35 attack Phaoris' Blade. Then he played Spreading Madness while he had 3 health and I had 1 (+some big minions on the board). Props to the AI for playing to his outs I guess? lol

Regardless I've been having a lot of fun with the tombs of Terror so far, feel free to share your crazy experiences as well. :)

As seen in HSreplay and Hearthpwn, both sites have their individual card database maintenance softwares for players and I have to admit that it's extremely helpful for players wanting to build specific decks from the site.

I have seen the "Your Cost" column in out of cards and would just like to request the team to put up the card database software as soon as possible. The decks put up here are super impressive and I'm sure many players like myself who play on a tight budget would like to know how much dust they would need to spend on building a certain deck.

Thanks very much in advance.

... quite healthy actually. I find myself rather surprised to discover that 6 out of 9 classes have an overall positive winrate (according to hsreplay), and 5 of those 6 are extremely closely matched. And even the three classes that are overall less than 50% winrate still have at least one good deck available that is above 50%. All I can say is that I'm pleasantly surprised. 

I feel like there needs to be a "refreshing" of the daily quests - not so much the gold (though more would be great obviously) but just the quests themselves are feeling a bit stale and don't really "add" much usually. So am curious if anyone has thoughts on new quests they'd like to see and what quests would you be happy if they removed forever?

My additions would be more around deckbuilding goals. They already have the "play 6 pirates"/"play 6 cards that cost 8 or more"/etc. so I think they should expand on that to keep the flavor going on each expansion and to encourage using the new cards. This already happened once with Witchwood with "I Can't Even/The Odds Are Against Us" for even/odd costed cards, so it's a shame that seems to be the only time they've ever tried that. So for example on Boomsday they could have added 50g -"magnetize 5 Mechs" or 60g - "create a Magnetized mech that's at least a 10/10", SoU they could have 60g - "complete 4 quests" or 80g "defeat your opponent before they complete their quest". That type of thing.

As for what I'd love to see go, the "Win X Games With [Classes]" needs to be buried forever for two main reasons: 1) I don't have data to support this, but my strong belief is that for most people who don't tend to a play a class they get the quest for, they just grab the strongest netdeck they can build and jump in Casual to complete their quest. This sucks when I'm trying to meme it up in Casual and run into say Murloc Paladin. I've actually friended a few people over the years that have done this and most have actually said that's why they were playing a T1 deck in Casual - to complete their quest as fast and easily as possible or becuase they were new to the game and it was the only way they'd be able to do it. 2) Again totally anecdotal but whenever I get this quest I cannot seem to STEAL the win(s) needed to complete it. This is the genesis of my creating this thread today - Win a game with Rogue quest, so I'll just use my Quest Rogue I have a 51.4% win rate with. Oh look at that - I lost 5 games in a row before finally getting a win. This happens so much I cannot stand it because it just feels extra bad to lose when "there's something on the line" so to speak.

So what does everyone else think? Good ideas for new quests? Quests you want burned to the ground?

If I play the sidekick with an Amet in play. Targeting the Amet with the sidekicks battlecry.

Shouldn't the battlecry of the sidekick trigger first, giving the amet 9 life, and then gain 9 life itself?

Now the battlecry triggers, but the sidekick comes in play with 7 life. 

I wanted to ask for some opinions of which variant of Highlander Hunter is strongest or most efficient in most situations. I have seen many variants but can't quite make upmy mind about it. Would appreciate as many answers as possible :)

Just trying to have fun with the hunter quest and I figured I might as well get help from the neat people here.

Prototype Questrattle

Wild · Quest Hunter · by ARES · 6 years, 6 months ago

• 1 Flare x 1
• 1 Play Dead x 2
• 1 Timber Wolf x 2
• 1 Unseal the Vault x 1
• 2 Explosive Trap x 1
• 2 Hunting Mastiff x 1
• 2 Pressure Plate x 1
• 2 Revenge of the Wild x 2
• 2 Snake Trap x 1
• 2 Wandering Monster x 1
• 3 King of Beasts x 1
• 3 Ramkahen Wildtamer x 1
• 3 Rat Pack x 2
• 3 Unleash the Hounds x 2
• 4 Cult Master x 1
• 4 Dire Frenzy x 2
• 5 Subject 9 x 1
• 6 Deathstalker Rexxar x 1
• 6 Seeping Oozeling x 2
• 6 Swarm of Locusts x 1
• 7 Silver Vanguard x 1
• 8 Violet Wurm x 2

7,420 Dust 806 0 Copy Deck Code

-I'm definitely adding another Rat Pack in there- it's just great in this deck.

-Don't like the SN1P-SN4P- Oozeling interaction and the microbots are not beasts anyway..

-speaking of beasts, there might be a way to use the fact that all the tokens are beasts but Idk it yet.

To my big surprise, a new game board is here (I lost in turn 4 against Wild mech-hunter)

I was chatting with MalcolmReynolds about King Phaoris, and thought I might throw some attention on this deck I've been running in wild, around Rank 12. It's very fun, and can win many match-ups. Your early game options are super strong (Blackwing Technician, Garden Gnome, etc.) and they should guide your mulligan. If you have a Netherspite Historian or Firetree Witchdoctor, for example, keep a dragon, even if it's big. Garden Gnome? Maybe hold onto that Overflow.

I cut Nourish as I had hand size issues, and Grand Archivist because he kept punching me in the nuts, the bastard.

Make it to turn 7 without losing the board, and you should be able to go the distance.

Have fun! Let me know how it goes!

Spellz n Dragonz

Wild · Big Druid · by Pezman · 6 years, 7 months ago

• 2 Brightwing x 1
• 2 Firetree Witchdoctor x 2
• 2 Netherspite Historian x 2
• 3 Blackwing Technician x 2
• 3 Nightmare Amalgam x 1
• 4 Garden Gnome x 2
• 4 Scaleworm x 2
• 4 Twilight Drake x 1
• 4 Twilight Guardian x 1
• 5 Anubisath Defender x 2
• 5 Blackwing Corruptor x 1
• 5 Sunreaver Warmage x 2
• 6 Moonglade Portal x 1
• 6 Skulking Geist x 1
• 6 Spiteful Summoner x 2
• 6 Spreading Plague x 1
• 7 Overflow x 1
• 8 Primordial Drake x 2
• 8 The Forest's Aid x 1
• 10 King Phaoris x 1
• 10 Ultimate Infestation x 1

8,700 Dust 1,304 2 Copy Deck Code