Hearthstone

Lol Noggerfogger's ability stacks

Oh I also wanted to mention with Finja. If he would have died, but pulls a warleader and the buff then allows him to survive he will.

Enzee said:

what in the god damned fuck.. I just had four 0-3 arena runs in a row. I didn't even do that bad in the first week of playing this damned game.
The craziest shit keeps happening to me. Had a mage go raging worgen into lance carrier + ping, did 24 damage in two turns, killed me on turn 5 or whatever.. I had THREE frostbolts, 2 flame cannons, a polymorph, 4 two drop minions that all could have dealt with that.. didn't see a single one in a full mulligan and all 5 draws.
That recent deck had three flamestrikes as well, was offered a 4th but took flame cannon instead. fucking 0-3. That deck was similar in quality to my first 12 win run deck, and I didn't even get one win.

It's like every possible decision that could be made, the opponent has the absolute worst punish for whichever I pick. ex: I'm priest against mage, got a huge toad and friendly bartender in hand with coin. I'm gonna coin a 2 drop out, generally just best to put out a 3/2 over a 2/3 for the extra damage but since it's mage I'm afraid of ping + something, but I go with it. Sure enough, opponent has annoy-o-tron to punish.

I swear I'm going crazy or blizzard is literally fucking with me. Before the 0-3 runs, it was all 3-3 or 4-3, which was already tilting me. Did some fundamental aspect of arena change and I just didn't get the memo?!

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Like this fucking horseshit?

Game after that I had 3 Seal of Champions in my hand and another spell and my Silvermoon Portal made Lorewalker Cho. GG. I haven't played in a while, but it does feel more RNGey than ever. I think each expansion increases arena rng (adds variables and reduces your chance to get a somewhat balanced deck) and reduces what skill can do. That's why they need to implement some sort of set rotation to arena one day.

God Grimestreet Protector is ridiculous though; 7 mana for a 6/6 taunt is good as is, and you give adjacent minions divine shield? Holy shit. Paladin has a ton of amazing arena cards again. I've had some serious crazy snowballs with Paladin so far. Only really lose to the above if you get a decent curve and a few of the new tempo swing cards like the Grimestreet guys (Outfitter, Enforcer, Protector mainly).

Mures said:

Oh I also wanted to mention with Finja. If he would have died, but pulls a warleader and the buff then allows him to survive he will.

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On that note, Lotus Illusionist will transform even if it takes lethal. Not like it will almost ever happen

Pirate warrior is gay as fuck

Morrow said:

Like this fucking horseshit?

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edit: just realized the screenshot isn't of the scenario you described, the one in the pic is very much what I'm talking about.. jesus christ.

Sort of.. That kind of crap is infuriating as well, but it's very clearly a 'bad rng' situation. I'm talking about like, you try to play around A or B, A seems 80% likely to be in there hand, B is only 10-20%, so you play around A.. and they have B to punish.

Like, I lost two different games because a mage played a secret that I had figured out was either vaporize or ice block, but I only had a huge minion on board and couldn't 'clear' the vaporize. I couldn't take the chance that it wasn't vaporize, would have lost if it killed the minion, so I had to wait to crack it. Turns out to be iceblock, and they get exact lethal on me from like 15-20 health on the extra turn.

I ranted about it on another message board, and someone pointed out that there's probably a lot of BAD players in arena right now and that was something I hadn't thought of. It feels like opponents are just taking crazy greedy plays, super high risk/reward, but it somehow keeps working out for them. That would line up with there being more bad players playing then normal right now. If I was trying to make plays based on my opponent doing the 'right' thing and they do the crazy greedy play, that could cost me some games. Combined with a new meta, me not playing much for a week and just shitty variance, it seems a little more possible to just have those kind of results.

Golden Raza the Chained. It's a sign from god I need to play priest.

I think/hope deathrattle shadowcaster rogue with jades can now be a thing finally.

I have been crushing everyone today with Freeze mage I won 7 games in a row 5 of them Jade druid.

ex-genj said:

I think/hope deathrattle shadowcaster rogue with jades can now be a thing finally.

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I played a rough version I threw together for a bit last night, did pretty well and I'm not great at deck building. I'm better at refining an existing list or learning to play it well. So, it looks promising.
Had some absolutely sick combos with aya and the raptor.. 6 mana 5/3 that summoned a 6/6 on entry, then a 7/7 on death.. I felt bad for my opponent.

Doesn't seem like a thing unfortunately. I kept making it more and more fast i.e. no nzoth, double argus, double mistress of mixtures and can't handle aggro and get out valued by mid/control. Shrug.

So I still don't like the 'buff a minion in your hand' card, but jesus fuck when alley armorsmith comes into play as a 4/9 (or bigger) any kind of aggro deck just loses instantly.

ex-genj said:

Doesn't seem like a thing unfortunately. I kept making it more and more fast i.e. no nzoth, double argus, double mistress of mixtures and can't handle aggro and get out valued by mid/control. Shrug.

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I could see it being weak to aggro, but im astounded you say it gets out valued by mid/control.
By the end, every threat brings a huge body along that 2 for 1s them at worst.

You can really screw over reno decks too (which is what most control decks are now) by running ambushes too.

Enzee said:

I could see it being weak to control, but im astounded you say it gets out valued by mid/control.
By the end, every threat brings a huge body along that 2 for 1s them at worst.

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Eh I played about 15 games and had several of those "turn 6 and I have 6 cards and nothing to play" that bad decks get all the time so gave up. Ymmv though.