Hearthstone

It's always bothered me that I couldn't find a single source for Hearthstone's card and hero sounds. So, as someone trying to learn how to code, I built one as my first significant project!

HearthSFX

I spent most of the last couple months extracting and mapping the game sounds for each card and hero - Scholomance Academy included.

The site includes every play, attack, death, trigger, and entrance sound for each minion where applicable - including tokens and other non-collectible cards. The heroes and hero cards have all their available gameplay (thinking, out of cards, out of time, etc.), emotes, errors, and holiday voice lines. Any special interactions between cards and heroes are mapped in as well.

It's best viewed on non-mobile devices at the moment, but I plan on improving this for smaller screens in the future.

Please let me know what you think!

So, there is this survey that has been going around about a Battlepass that may replace gold gained from quests with an experience system. The short version of it is:

1) no more quests/gold per 3 wins
2) you receive experience through game modes that reward less gold and packs than you would usually grind for
3) disables you from saving 8000+ gold for an expansion launch
4) grant hero skin upgrades (which have little value compared to cards/gold/dust)

The worry is that this system is put in place to look like value is retained (like the AMA claimed) but the rewards themselves are worth less. If you gain less packs when the expansion launches and only earn some over the next months, these packs are worth less. Instead you are pushed to buy packs with real money to keep up with a meta.

Her eis a video by Hearthstone mathematics that goes into the issue:

not like that

We're ~4 months away from the achievement system reveal and I wanted to get everyone's feel for what they think (or predict) some of the achievements and rewards will be. I've thought of three so far.

 

Not So Common: Win 100 Standard Ranked games with only Common rarity cards.
- Reward: 10 classic packs.

A Deck For Everyone: Win 100 Standard or Wild Ranked games with only neutral cards.
- Reward: 10 classic packs.

(Insert Class here) Expert: Win 100 Standard or Wild Ranked games with only class cards.
- Reward: 10 (Insert Class here) Packs.

 

I'm curious to see what you guys think will come about.

So Quest Hunter has been my favourite competitive deck during the DoD meta because of how versatile and unique it was. Thanks to Leeroy Jenkins it basically played like a combo deck, but instead of just burning through your deck like a lobotomite until you have lethal you had to use your ressources as efficiently as possible and get in chip damage until you get into a position where your opponent can't possibly win anymore.

After Leeroy got HoF'd the deck just kind of fell apart because despite having a strong payoff it now struggled to actually close out the game (and the lack of Zilliax certainly didn't help either). During AoO the deck was essentially dead. The only support it received was Zixor, Apex Predator which just wasn't a good enough replacement. So I just kind of accepted this deck was a one-expansion gimmick and moved on..

However, due to me being bored by the current trend of Hunter being either a braindead face deck or an equally brain dead amalgamation of overstatted cards (also known as Highlander Hunter) I tried to find new ways to play the class. After trying (and failing) to build some from of Deathrattle Hunter (and wasting 3600 dust on Vectus and Teron Gorefiend in the process) I eventually ended up in a situation where I realized that Nine Lives works exceptionally well with Zixor, effectively giving your 4 additional Primes over the course of the game. I then continued testing with a Quest Hunter build where I ended up cutting all the Deathrattle stuff (which was just too slow and pointless) and instead went hard on a Zixor package aiming to just simply outressource the opponent by spamming Cyborg-lizards until they are out of removals...and it worked surprisingly well.

Priest absolutely cannot deal with it (unless you let them steal Zixor or are dumb enough to play into Mindrender), Warrior's only actual out is Rattlegore (which is actually pretty effective and you can't deal with it), Demon Hunter, Hunter, Shaman and Highlander Mage all have a chance but you can most certainly push them off the board and set up lethal. Druid is...broken...but still manageable if they don't get the perfect curve (Veranus is key, but an early Lake Thresher just fucks your shit completely). Paladin can be difficult if they snowball but I have put in the tools to somewhat deal with it. Only Rogue is a truly terrible matchup based on the fact that Stealth counters Rush.

At the end of they day it's a counter deck to specific matchups, but at the very least it's fun.

Anyways, I'm genuinely proud of this build and surprised it works as well as it does:

Greetings there! I'm here to present you my version of how I would change Mage's Core Sets. I'm jumping the bandwagon a bit with the changes after seeing some other people trying their reworks and generally accepting classes may need some updates.

This time, I've put crossfire onto Demon Hunter. This one is different, becuase DH doesn't have a Classic Set yet, but this will be a fun opportunity to theorycraft a potential one for the new class. Keep in mind that this change also includes an overhaul to their Hero Power, making it costing (2), but giving +1 more Attack on each version. It's more to streamline the class, to not confuse new players and to get a new perspective on the balance.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

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New Sets

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Explanations

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Hall of Fame

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Some cards that were considered, but didn't make the cut

Does anyone else find that Priest's and is increasingly un-fun to play against? Like unless you're also a Priest and have or you're playing equally un-fun Mage secrets, there's no way to deal with it. 

I'm not trying to be salty here, just really tired of running into this. I don't even know how you'd fix it. Nerf Vargoth to 6 mana? Does Blizzard even care enough about Wild mode to do something? 

https://youtu.be/3-bwJzmuDX4

Greetings there! I'm here to present you my version of how I would change Mage's Core Sets. I'm jumping the bandwagon a bit with the changes after seeing some other people trying their reworks and generally accepting classes may need some updates.

This time, I've put crossfire onto Hunter. While it's very hard to actually do them, please don't think I'm going to make changes for literally every class, altough if I get bored, I might do in near future. Also chose Hunter this time, because it's time to finally change Starving Buzzard to not be the overnerfed relic of the past, and time to give Hunter a bit proper control tools to make this dream come true.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

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New Sets

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Explanations

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Hall of Fame

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Some cards that were considered, but didn't make the cut

Has anyone else been experiencing this? I'm getting disconnected way more than usual over the last week or so. Cost me 2 games today, one yesterday, and several others I lost track of. I'm on a laptop, and it's not my internet (checked it every time). I'm so frustrated!!!

Greetings there! I'm here to present you my version of how I would change Mage's Core Sets. I'm jumping the bandwagon a bit with the changes after seeing some other people trying their reworks and generally accepting classes may need some updates.

After a long time, I've put crossfire onto Mage. While it's very hard to actually do them, please don't think I'm going to make changes for literally every class, altough if I get bored, I might do in near future. Also chose Mage this time, because while their core sets are cohesive and fulfill the fantasy, over time, some of the cards have become either problematic or obsolete. I'm also adding some new class identity to the class - mainly Dragons and RNG.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

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New Sets

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Explanations

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Hall of Fame

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Some cards that were considered, but didn't make the cut

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Deck Recipes

It was stated at the end of competition 1.20 that you guys were looking at starting season 2 around the mid expansion time, are there any updates on a more specific date for it?

I've tried a lot of different versions, some that are more midranged with Dragon synergies, some that are more aggressive with lots of 1-drops, but I keep finding that they just don't cut it. They're not fast enough to be consistent against control decks, and the other classes that support aggro and tempo decks are often better at it, so if you don't have a 1-drop into Power Word: Feast as your opening play, you're often dead in the water. Relying on getting at least one cheap buff in your opening hand has been a struggle.

First of all, this is not a salt thread about aggro decks. I know everybody enjoys different types of decks and I am not the one to judge. However, I do not enjoy aggro decks. I don't want games to end on turn 5, I don't want my highest cost card to be a 4 mana card. I want to play expensive cards, I want to control the board, I want to assemble my win condition and I want big swing turns. I am a control/combo player, that is what I enjoy about hearthstone.

Last expansion was the first time I generally experienced fatigue and stopped playing for a couple of weeks. The introduction of demon hunter and how blatantly overpowerd basically all of their cards were and how it was a stupid strong deck even after 10+ cards got nerfed just tilted me so much that I could not enjoy the game anymore. 

Then the new expansion came and I got excited again, so many cool new legendaries with unique effects, but also a lot of veeeeryyy strong tools for aggro(a better jeeves, really?). I jumped into the first day, opened my packs, crafted some exciting cards and went right in and it was so fun. I played highlander warrior and priest, ripper warrior, control-soulshard-warlock, paladin paladin and more. Druid seems stupid again with all the ramp but that is nothing new. Besides that I had a lot of fun the first couple of days. Paladin paladin also seems very strong but not op and I saw loads of different decks and archetypes. But after a couple of days, the thing that always happens happened. Aggro came through. Suddenly a majority of players started playing aggro rogue, hunter or druid, all petty much the same lists and they are very strong. The reload they gave rogue is insane(1 mana draw 5 seems like a good idea, right?) , token druids win condition has been savage roar for years and I am sick of it and even hunter has so much card draw and value generation, that it seems impossible to outvalue/outlive them with any type of control deck.

It just seems there is no place for control decks any more, and if you want to play a combo deck you better combo your opponent to death before turn 7 or you are just dead. Which means you gotta play druid and that just feels like tossing a coin to me.

I want to know how you feel, has anyone made similar experiences? What do you do to still enjoy the game? Or is hearthstone just not the right game for me anymore? 

Hey guys thought i would upload some of the decks ive been refining since release day. Please upload yours if you wish.

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really fun great against control, would love some feedback on this one

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a bit draw dependent but hilarious if you get good starting hand. good against decks who like clearing your board turn after turn

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another hurt me deck but my own take on it that i theorycrafted two weeks ago

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really good against druid and other decks that cant deal with big minions

so thats it please show me your fun decks from SA

Hope this is the right section/anyone could help me.

When I start the Hearthstone app on my smartphone, it goes smooth and everything. After the time required to play 2/3 game, it starts lagging; restarting the app, makes Hearthstone go smooth until it starts to lag again.

It started doing this like a month ago, but I have no idea how to solve this. Does anyone have any advice?

My smartphone is a Xiaomi Mi 9T btw.

Thank you in advance

It's clear now that blizzard will never nerf the rez mechanic, a mechanic in wild that is so abused and annoying to play against, yet so easy to pilot that a lot of people are still playing it even now. And it's clear there is no stopping it, since bliz is even now releasing cards like Raise Dead and Vectus for the neverending bullshit that is Convincing Infiltrator spam. And i have gotten tired of trying to voice my opinion about it just to hear people tell me it's fair and balanced and fun to play against just because it's their favorite deck to play in wild. So i'm just going to make this thread three times a year, or until the mechanic is fixed.

 

What is this thread you ask? Well a year ago there was a deck:

made by morkimus to combat the endless spam that is the rez mechanic. That was when rise of shadows came out, where rez decks were still big decks, and not just designed to be as annoying and grindy as possible until they got their quest reward online to start hitting you in the face with big minions you couldn't remove. In retrospect that version was more tame. But i digress. This thread and the ones to come, will be about adapting this deck to the current expansion's rez priest. When morkimus made their deck they included a lot of cards to where the deck might not auto lose to other matchups, and i think that is redundant now. I think it should be 100% focused on destroying rez priest entirely.

 

Okay that's enough of my rambling, here's where you come in, i will be testing these changes out myself but other opinions are always welcome :)

 

Potential additions by expansion:

 

 

Saviors of Uldum:

Reno the Relicologist

Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron(?)

Zephrys the Great(potential highlander possibility in wild. zephrys can get Cabal Shadow Priest early)

Golden Scarab(potentially more Polymorph)

 

 

Descent of Dragons(and Galakrond's Awakening):

Malygos, Aspect of Magic(mainly for Malygos's Polymorph, but eight damage from Malygos's Flamestrike wouldn't be bad either or even Malygos's Intellect for draw)

The Amazing Reno POOF

 

 

Ashes of Outland:

Evocation(potentially more Polymorph)

Magtheridon(i would never craft this card for this deck, but it does make sense for the matchup.)

Infectious Sporeling(sounds good but probably doesn't work, priest has removal for things like this)

Terrorguard Escapee(one of the new cards for this deck. Mostly an excuse as to why they haven't nerfed the rez mechanic, but it could work nicely)

 

 

Scholomance Academy:

Devolving Missiles(potentially not good enough, but i'll try it out.)

[Hearthstone Card (Lorekeeper polkelt) Not Found](basically freeze mage, play polkelt topdeck blizzard freeze them out for an OTK, Just keep telling yourself the whole time, that running Mindrender Illucia in a rez deck is bad deck design and don't be too upset when they play it anyway.)

Sphere of Sapience(tutor for polymorph effects)

 

If there's anything i missed let me know, but i think i got pretty much everything. In closing rez priest is not a hard opponent to beat with the right deck, just about any control deck with [Hearthstone Card (chef gnomi) Not Found], and enough removal can beat it. But this deck isn't designed for that. It's designed to make the rez priest feel bad they picked that deck to play. It wants to make them question every mage they see might be the unwinnable matchup. To make the priest stop joining games with their rez deck and think they've won on turn one because they had Convincing Infiltrator and two Resurrect in their mulligan. It's for that reason. If you have a similar deck let me know i'm down to check it out!