Hearthstone - That other, other, other Blizzard game

Aw, I never got my golden Gelbin. Oh well, not like I would have used him anyway. :lol:

Still in beta for us in the EU until tomorrow. Can’t wait to dust my tinkmaster and get The Beast or King Krush.

Finally.

I didn’t think it was possible to hate toughtsteal more than I already do but lo and behold…

They always manage to get my kill command or explosive shot :lol:.

I’m telling you guys, Priest is top tier, don’t care what the general opinion is. He essentially has access to every card in the game, and he can take key minions away from you. Mind Vision has the added side effect of giving the priest knowledge of what’s in the opponent’s hand. If you happen to get a legendary, you can prepare for when the opponent plays his. The only problem is he can’t OHKO 4-attack minions, so he’d have to boost/lower their attack before he can get rid of them.

Thinking of getting a Greenskin myself, his is body is weak compared to Spiteful Smith but his effect is immediate. The Battlecry is worth up to 4 (6) raw damage with the base knife and 8 (10) with Assassin’s Blade (Deadly Poison) which is pretty impressive.

Just DE’d my tinkmaster…gotta rethink what I wanna do now…was feeling prettty good with my druid deck…maybe i craft an illidan and run miracle druid?

That’s not the only problem at all. First of all, a lot of the best minions in the game are 4 attack. Gadgetzan Auctioneers, Dark Iron Dwarves, Azure and Twilight Drakes, Chillwind Yetis, Injured Blademasters, Ysera, etc. are all commonly played and good cards that Priest can’t deal with well directly. Every other class has better options for dealing with those guys.

Second, there are some ways around that limitation, such as using crazed alchemist or inner fire to increase/decrease the attack, but they still require you to burn multiple cards for the kill and reduce your options going forward. If every 4-attack minion requires a multi-card play to remove, you’re going to have to keep a lot of non-minion cards in your deck just to deal with those situations. It’s challenging to find a balance between removal and minions.

Thoughtsteal is good, but it’s not without its tradeoffs. It’s Arcane Intellect except it pulls from the opponent’s deck. You get two cards for one, and the card could be something great you don’t currently have, plus it gives you insight on your opponent’s deck. On the down side, it slows the tempo of your play if played early (which Priest often can’t afford). You could pull an unusable card (unlikely, but possible). It also won’t get you any closer to pulling that card from your own deck that you really want. Mind Vision isn’t very good in most situations because you’re trading one card and 1 mana to get 1 card. It requires a lot more luck to be useful than Thoughtsteal.

Too many mages. There’s an imbalance that needs to be corrected.

Also, I don’t like that you can’t put the game into the background anymore. And I’m getting intermittent slowdown that wasn’t there during beta.

Get cenarius or ysera first imo. Illidan is just a 3rd violet teacher in a specific deck that still has its bad matchups while Ysera is great for miracle druid and other druid decks. I often deck out from the insane card draw once I reach late game so Ysera’s draws can help extend the amount of cards you have to play or help generate tokens or card draw from auctioneer.

Illidan is a great fit but not something i’d craft before other solid legendaries. I’d probably even get malygos over illidan.

My game hasn’t even finished updating. What to do?

check the threads at official forums, bug section and look for a thread with a similar issue. Should find one, if not then make a thread yourself.

Yeah, it’s been saying Launching… for the past 45 minutes now…and no questions are being answered over on the forums from what I can tell.

If it still doesn’t work then just reinstall the game

You just gotta love rush hunters that hits you in the face with arcane shot turn one. :lol:

I also got the beast after dusting my tinkmaster and it’s been putting in work :tup:.

I’m all about rushing as a to-the-face hunter, but there’s limits to how ā€œto-the-faceā€ you can be.

Turn 1 Arcane Shot to the face leaps past all of those limits.

I know a better opening than that. Arcane shot, coin, Arcane shot to the face. GG

So Pimp got me to download Diablo 3, and I figured I’d try Hearthstone as well since it was a free card game. Been having a lot of fun with it so far. Tag is: GraveTitan#1244

How do friends work in battle.net? And is there a way to invite somebody to a game in Hearthstone?

Friends are shared between all games on battle.net. Inviting is as easy as clicking the little crossed swords icon next to a friend’s name.

I understand that friends are shared between games, my question’s how do I add friends? I haven’t been able to find a social/friends tab on either the website or the launcher. Sorry if it’s really obvious and I’m just being a blind dunce. Thanks for answering the invite question.

Finished the freebie Arena run going 1-3 and got ~40 gold and a pack. Seems that spending 150 gold for the Arena is much more efficient than spending 100 gold for a single pack even if your run isn’t particularly good. I wonder if they use the same skill-matching thing they use in normal play. Anyone wanna get some games in?