Hearthstone - That other, other, other Blizzard game

You shouldn’t craft anything early, pool it while you keep opening packs (through arena preferably) and craft once you have a larger library.

Once you use your gold in arena /buy packs, you hopefully will pull a card you can build a deck around from there. Until then it’s best to just build your collection up.

Yeah I’ll just disenchant whenever I have a 3rd of a card, but save the dust for when I have a bigger collection. I always do arena rather than buy packs, it is probably my favorite part of the game. Ur drafting/deck creating skills are put to the test in addition to your skill at playing. I get to use cards I don’t have, and thus learn more about those cards as well. A few other things I want to say…

  1. Is the hearthstone official forum representative of the playerbase? Cause it is really ugly. Seemingly every thread is this or that card needs a nerf, or this class is stupid, or it isn’t fair that my opponent has 20 legendaries in their deck, and sometimes accompanied with silly demands like “I’m planning to quit”. Are peoples’ egos so fragile they blame everything except themselves?

  2. That being said balance changes are sometimes necessary, I hope they are just done very carefully and not influenced by angry mobs. (Kind of glad Druid is my favorite, it seems to be a beloved hero that draws zero complaint).

  3. This is probably something everyone knows, but it seems best to wait til u have 3 quests up for dailies. Cause many times they will overlap and u can get double or even triple credit.

  4. What classes does everyone play?

It actually isn’t beneficial to wait until you have 3 for one reason.

You get 10 gold for every 3 wins. Chances are you’re giving up 20-30 gold every time you wait to do a ton of quests at once. It adds up.

Official blizzard forums has always been a cesspool filled with the very worst of players.

In fact i check there daily to see any new complaints looking specifically for deathrattle priest complaints because right now it’s REALLY good and what do i find replacing all the hunter whine?

NERF THOUGHTSTEAL

NERF INNER FIRE/DIVINE SPIRIT

NERF MIND CONTROL

Also they’re the same kind of people that thought leeroy was a top 1 must craft legendary that you should put in every deck.

Don’t go to the battle net forums for anything really.

I play all classes, depending on my mood and what I wanna try out unless I’m trying to get up the ladder

Also as far as balance changes, they’ve been REALLY patient with letting things rock before changing shit.

Only one they immediately changed was like… Mage having 1 mana cost cheaper freeze spells barring frost bolt and people finding out about freeze mage about a year ago. They IMMEDIATELY nerfed that.

Hell they’re even slow with bug fixes mechanics wise. Kelthuzad still resummons himself when hit by Rag.

But when they do change things, they are capable of nerfing shit to oblivion. buzzards

Yeah buzzards, while it probably needed a change, completely killing the card seems to be directly influenced by angry fans. It doesn’t seem to be an objective balance decision. That really worries me.

They probably wanted to kill it and redesign the class via giving them new cards to adjust their playstyle in a future update. They wouldn’t kill the card without a plan in mind.

There is a possibility that a viable buzzard would scale absurdly well with the new beasts, like it did with something that was considered eh like Webspinner. So killing it gives them more options to add new beast synergy without it being immediately converted into more draw.

It’s a theory/assumption at best i guess. Blizzard is also capable of making completely stupid design choices like WoW SEASON 5 DEAAATHHHH KNIGHTSSSSSSS *
but that was under Ghostcrawler and he’s not here so yeah. *

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Wow. Everybody is using handlock lol. Its pretty fun catching them off guard with Hunter lol

Yeah man, Hunter is so good right now.

Thank you, nerfs.

It’s a hidden buff in a way for hunters for the season. Mega nerfs brought back a bunch of handlocks, the masses are too busy whining about everything but Hunter. Hunter still shits on handlock and still has a viable deck but it’ll take weeks for the masses to whine about them again.

If there’s anything thats more better than playing a counter to the meta, it’s one that no one ever expects.

I’m playing a variation of aggro hunter, and it’s definitely not to be overlooked. By turn 6 I usually have multiple ways to hit lethal.

You basically abuse 3 of the best cards in the game that happen to have great synergy… Undertaker, mad scientist, and freezing trap. The only times I’ve lost (small sample size, but still), I never saw those cards.

Really tempted to craft cairne and sylvannas to play Kibler priest after having it wreck me a few times. Looks like a fun deck.

Lol I just killed a Hadlock with an angry chicken

Also a freezing trapped Alexstraza is the best. Fuck you handlocks

Freeze trapping anything from handlock is basically gg. It’s great.

Test piloted a handlock in a friend’s account… It was a lot of fun. He’s just running the core deck without jaraxxus or Alex, but it works.

Played a hunter who emoted “my apologies” before playing flare while I had 2 secrets up…only to get it counterspelled.

“that didn’t quite hit the mark.”

Also, this happened today.

http://i.imgur.com/OQ3ffQS.jpg

I like having the coin against mage. Really good for triggering counterspell.

It’s a shame you didn’t get Harrison a few weeks ago when trap hunter was all the rage. He was a must have.

Here’s how my current arena run is going

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The damned stand the damned stand the damned stand ready

Oh yeah, I forgot to say:

The Hearthstone NA Qualifiers are on right now, and they will continue tomorrow.