Hearthstone

Man I hate the OTK Warrior deck. I played it again and beat it but it was not a fun experience.

Whenever I see a Warrior, I know the potential is there for a OTK deck. I played very conservatively and kept him juggling in the 19 health range. At one point in my hand I had 2 innervates, Ragnaros, and a Druid of the Claw so I saw my path to victory. But it took me 6 turns after realizing how to win to be able to pull that off. At one point I had to play an Ancient of Lore and give him the 5 point heal just to keep him out of the combo range. I finally got my chance though and sent everything I had to his face and smooshed him for 21 points of damage (had to go through some armor as well).

Also hit Rank 5 today. I stopped playing ranked for awhile for no real good reason. I got the win 5 as a Warlock quest and decided to take the board control lock deck to rank. It took me 6 games to finish my daily and get hit rank 5 from 1 star rank 6.

Dunno if I'd really advise playing like that against every warrior, there are several different varieties of OTK and you could've been raped by Alex+gorehowl, gorehowl+Bloodsail raider, or Worgen+faceless combo.

And at this point, its not just the potential to be an OTK deck, it's pretty much guaranteed to be some flavor of OTK deck.

The most "not fun" experience I've had playing against a warrior OTK deck is when I slammed Tirion thinking I was safe from combo, and then he plays Sylvanas+brawl, giving him my Tirion. Now that's some infuriating fucking bullshit.

Okay, I just got suckered into wanting to try this out. Anyone have beta invites available?

LiquidDeath_sl said:

Okay, I just got suckered into wanting to try this out. Anyone have beta invites available?

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Should have just kept your account opted into Blizzard's betas, doesn't affect you to do so and you'd have had an invite by now probably. Might still be seeing open beta "soon" though.

Curi removed mukla from that warlock control deck from last page for the very reason we said, wild pyromancers be too popular these days.

Open beta could be any day now, should be sometime this month at least.

I figured the open beta might be a little postponed since they couldn't figure out how to reset the ranked season.

Famm_sl said:

Should have just kept your account opted into Blizzard's betas, doesn't affect you to do so and you'd have had an invite by now probably. Might still be seeing open beta "soon" though.

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I actually have had my account set to opt in for years now. Do they just send you an e-mail still?

As far as I know you have to specify which games you'd like to opt-in to any betas. I had to opt-in the d3 expac even though I had already opted in for d3.

Bah. Fucking Blizzard.

elidib_sl said:

Dunno if I'd really advise playing like that against every warrior, there are several different varieties of OTK and you could've been raped by Alex+gorehowl, Alex+Bloodsail raider, or Worgen+faceless combo.

And at this point, its not just the potential to be an OTK deck, it's pretty much guaranteed to be some flavor of OTK deck.

The most "not fun" experience I've had playing against a warrior OTK deck is when I slammed Tirion thinking I was safe from combo, and then he plays Sylvanas+brawl, giving him my Tirion. Now that's some infuriating fucking bullshit.

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I don't disagree that you can't always play that particular way against all Warriors. You need to feel things out to try and get an idea of what variant of a OTK deck they're running. Also, as I mentioned, if he had Brawl it would have been over for me but I'm guessing that this guy was new to the OTK deck and either hadn't crafted them yet, included them or got SUPER unlucky and had them buried in the last 5 cards of his deck.


The combo doesn't always work but someone who knows what they're doing and has practice with the deck can get pretty consistent results. The combo is 5 cards (Warsong Commander, 2x Molten Giant, and 2x Young Brewmaster). That might seem like a lot but a Warrior will mulligan aggressively for pieces of the combo and they fill the rest of the deck with ways to injure themselves (like weapons to get them to the magic health), removal, and card draw. It's not rare to see a Warrior cycle through a huge chunk of their deck with draw abilities which leads to consistent results. It's by no means a guarantee but they're trying to tilt the odds in their favor as much as possible.

This is another deck (and the gorehowl, Alexstraza variants) that I fully expect Blizzard to nerf. They don't seem to like one turn kills (especially when you can take an opponent from 38 health to dead). I'm not really sure how they're going to go about it though. I think the, obvious, method is to put a minimum cost on the giants (or increase their mana cost to something like 25 base). However, knowing Blizzard they will nerf charge mechanics which will leave the Giants overpowered until a new deck figures out a way to utilize them (much like what Warriors did after Frozen Giants were nerfed).

mures_sl said:

Curi removed mukla from that warlock control deck from last page for the very reason we said, wild pyromancers be too popular these days.

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Makes sense to cut him on that rationale. It also seems that Rogues are getting a lot of playtime these days as well since a few high ranking people posted some decks and King Mukla against a Rogue is bad news. I'm glad I didn't disenchant my Mukla but I think I'll be following suit as well. When you get him out early, he's a monster but as a late game draw he can be detrimental. For those who do play him though, the thing to remember is that just because you got a turn 2 or 3 5/5 big boy on the board doesn't mean you should be slamming him against your opponents face. The reason he's so valuable in Curi's deck is because he trades insanely well with all other 2 or 3 mana drops and often requires 2 or 3 minions (plus the bananas) to get rid of him that early in the game.

LiquidDeath_sl said:

I actually have had my account set to opt in for years now. Do they just send you an e-mail still?

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Yeah you have to keep an eye on it and check off the games as they become available to opt in unfortunately. I only had it checked from going to make sure my accounts were checked for that MOBA I don't even care about.

I checked myself as available for Hearthstone Beta about 6 weeks ago. Got my email about 4 weeks ago.

Blood Imp number 8!

And Blood Imp number 9! The worst part is that I haven't bought a pack with real money in quite awhile. But yesterday I got the win 1,000 games achievement for 300 gold for Blood Imp number 8 and today I opened number 9 after completing my daily.

Goddamn I want to strangle the guy who invented this warrior shit. At least with mage bullshit its over by turn 8 or 9. Also there are so many versions that you have no idea what to expect...seems a lot of them are running random ass legendarys other than silvanas, rag and alexstrasza and oh hey its a motherfucking brawl so I cant just sit there and not attack. So frustrating

Amusing ending considering his day so far (10 previous episodes) on an attempt to get to Legendary. I think he started at level 7. Try-hard, failed. Trying for fun gimmicks, failed. Then in the end of this video he goes try-hard again...

Man that OTK warrior is fun.

Wait like 6 rounds or so while you constantly get cards while shielding yourself then unleash the pandas and Giants.

I'm sure they are going to nerf that charge card eventually.

I'm not so sure. It doesn't seem to be winning tournaments, and the HP minigame is actually kind of fun compared to banging your head against freezes/ice blocks and goldfishing hunters.

It would be sad if every deck was only fighting for board control.

Change warsong commander to give the first minion you play in a turn charge and nerf ice block in some fashion please.