Hearthstone

That feeling when an armor farmer runs out of removal and you know it's safe to uproot.

Had lethal next turn against a priest with an empty board. He Barnes out a Ragnaros that proceeds to ignore 6 minions and go to my face for lethal.

If I ever meet Ben Brode I'm going to beat him with a pool cue until he gets detached retinas.

I've got the play a friend quest, if anyone has one themselves, let's trade each other. enzee #1750.
Otherwise, I'll pick randomly from whoever is online tomorrow.

trololol

Warrior - Deckbuilder - HearthPwn

Playing Questing Miracle rogue versus some homebrew priest.

Past turn 10, he clears my board. His board is clear. I'm at 28 health and have a bunch of good shit in hand. He's at 21 health. I drop Questing Adventurer, Dagger, Poison my dagger, drop 2 Arcane Giants, Conceal everything. I have lethal next turn even if he goes full health.

He drops Yogg. First spell, Yogg drops Mirrow Images. 6 targets on board now. Second spell, Yogg Brawls. Yogg wins the brawl. I concede immediately.

I dominated the whole game. Had a 99% chance to win. I SHOULD have won. Except i didn't because of RNGesus.

No clue how i didn't break my phone - which i was playing on.

I've barely been playing in the past while. I have no desire. The game is shit. However, for reference, i've seen 8 Yoggs in the games that i've played (i dissed mine) and he only killed himself once. 1 game was a terrible Yogg for the caster, 6 others were completely favorable.

The patch did nothing. And i see midrange shaman is just as strong. GG Blizzard.

Game is run by a bunch of incompetents. Shame.

Try and make a fun zoo paladin deck to work on golden paladin. After about the 5th game I finally get a really good hand/draw against a control warrior. I bait out the first brawl and then flood the board only to have his 2nd brawl in his first 10 cards. /flipsdesk

Everyone (maybe not here) was praising how they nerfed without destroying the cards for a change. Turns out that this approach doesn't actually fix the problems very well. Doesn't help that shaman simply has an embarrassment of riches with value cards.

The nerfs were fine for what they were, slight adjustments which don't kill the cards like you mentioned. It just isn't nearly enough to fix the problem with Shamans. Shaman's have been strong for the past year, and been warping the meta since Old Gods. People forget but aggro Shaman is essentially a Wild Deck you play in standard, it's just two cards off since Shamans can use crackle there. Warriorstone a couple months ago was mostly because warriors were one of the two classes which could contest Shaman, and Zoolock was weak vs. warrior. So the meta devolved into differing warrior archetypes, hunters which only really beat warrior, and aggro Shaman.

Karazhan giving Shaman top tier early game board removal, combined with their existing early game board development, basically pushed out any Shaman counters. Ironically, the execute nerf probably was more of a Shaman buff than any of the other cards in the change list.

I don't think Blizzard is going to do anything else to fix them before the next set is released though. Which is a shame. If you look at Undertaker Hunter vs. Face Hunter after the nerf, it was definitely a huge change in power level, where Midrange Shaman pre-nerf and post nerf is practically the same. Too be fair though hunter match-ups didn't change very much back then either (Hunter still beat Miracle Rogue which was the #2 deck at the time). I guarantee that Shaman is still strong after the next set in december, and I have a sneaky suspicion they're still going to be powerful next Standard rotation as well. They retain their Karazhan stuff, and Thing from Below and the 4 mana 7/7, only really losing Trogg and Totem Golem.

But yeah, I'm also quickly losing desire to play the game. You get the feeling your decisions don't really matter when you get blown out by aggro who mulliganed well and play their shit on curve, OR you lose to Barnes grabbing a Ragnaros and other lovely RNG. But the worst thing for me is the lack of variety. What kills it for me is the fact that if you point to a format I can tell you what class 30% of your matches are going to be against.

They are retards. This is clear.

The game has huge potential. The lore alone is a massive draw. I started playing mostly because of the Warcraft setting. And i'm sure they make a ton of money, but alas, like a lot of corporations that are sitting on "natural" goldmines, they let retards run the show. Hey, it's making a profit, right? "They must be doing something right" - logic.

Trogg and Totem Golem aren't just important aggro tools, losing them will hurt the midrange archetype just as much. Right now midrange is far more viable than aggro anyway, aggro takes a huge hit from the rockbiter change. Without them the potential for crazy early game value curves falls off significantly. Spirit Claws has turned out to be pretty nuts, but that alone isn't going to provide strong early game that you need in this tempo driven vision Blizzard has created for HS. Its entirely possible that shaman dies back a bit and some other classes take over after the new sets and the rotation.

This week's Brawl:

Step 1: Choose Priest
Step 2: choose mechwarper

You just won

I might try that. Waiting to see if Dark Peddler loses to anything first.

Glad the brawl this week is a simple one. Got the 5 brawl quest on Sunday and was like NOPE.