Hearthstone

Famm said:

Maybe if you had greeted him nicely he would have become a good new friend.

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I actually accepted a friend request from a guy and immediately started talking shit to get the jump on him for once, and then he said nice match and asked questions about how i developed the deck. I apologized and we talked for a bit and I think he's still on my friends list. Felt like such a douche though even if he thought it was funny.

I've had some people turn out to be cordial for sure. But my newer strategy is to just let the request sit for at least 24 hours before accepting. They either forget all about why they requested you and just stay on your list and sometimes talk to you or use you for questing (when the 80G or spectates were more common) or just drop you silently not knowing who the fuck you are. Either way higher chance they just turn out better. Unless you find it amusing for the stories or screenshots.

I've been really busy lately so I just now finally got around to buying packs of the new expansion. Opened 60 packs. Only two fucking legendaries - the Priest and Mage ones. Shitty.

What are the hot takes on decks out there? I haven't played in like a month.

Out of 72 games over the past few days, i've faced 0 paladins and only 1 hunter.

I got the 80 gold play a friend quest again, if any of you bros want some easy gold this morning. Vorphen#1312

Edit: Finished it, but you can add me if you want.

Currently 19:11 and up to rank 5 with this jade shaman deck. A lot of the midrange shaman shell, with the jade stuff thrown in in case the game goes deeper.

Doing pretty well all around. Some of these new pirate aggro decks can beat it when they draw well at the start, but good draws on my end can also destroy anything. Usually beat pirate war no matter the draw, but pirate shaman and rogue are tough since they can clear my taunts easily. I've done well against Reno locks and absolutely destroyed all jade druids.

How's white eyes working for you?

Be ready for the aggro shaman, Reynad is streaming an aggro shaman that he is top 5 legend na w/ and climbing eu. Played 3 games with it so far and absolutely destroyed 3 different decks. On his stream now, I'll post it later.
Shaman - Deckbuilder - HearthPwn

Wow, if you haven't played a pirate yet and have a flametongue and southsea deckhand with a weapon equipped its just insane value as patches will enter to the right with proper placement and with the ss deckhand charge, its just disgusting.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Famm said:

How's white eyes working for you?

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I think that he's OP in a N'Zoth shaman deck, especially if it's one of the slower ones that runs Ancestral Spirit. In this deck, he's ok. Generally he doesn't survive the turn as he's perceived as a major threat, well and he's a taunt minion so if there's shit on the board it has to go through him. Either way, it's a good card. I think it's well statted for 5 mana and, in the current meta, any taunts are good. Obviously the Thing From Below shits on it and the situational 3 mana 4/5 taunt (Second Rate Bruiser) might actually be better, since you won't get to summon the 10/10 in most games. If you do though, shit is dope.

Mures said:

Be ready for the aggro shaman, Reynad is streaming an aggro shaman that he is top 5 legend na w/ and climbing eu. Played 3 games with it so far and absolutely destroyed 3 different decks. On his stream now, I'll post it later.
Shaman - Deckbuilder - HearthPwn

Wow, if you haven't played a pirate yet and have a flametongue and southsea deckhand with a weapon equipped its just insane value as patches will enter to the right with proper placement and with the ss deckhand charge, its just disgusting.

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I see that a lot of the streamers have been praising this deck. I've been debating about trying it, but i'm missing some cards that i don't want to craft. I just think the whole direction is pretty aids. I feel dirty enough playing the midrange shell, much less this. Also, as good as this kind of deck is for grinding, it is fucking boring to pilot.

zzeris said:

Nice deck. I subbed out white eyes(don't have) and one of the jinyus. Got wrecked by control warr but won the other 3 games so far.

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If you find that you need a taunt equivalent, run Second Rate Bruiser. I think it might even be better and you can run two of them.

slippery said:

Ladder is such a shithole of agro, I'm not even winning with Dragon Priest. The decks are just so fucking fast, turn 4 games should not be the norm in Hearthstone

Edit: I guess I just need to slant really hard against agro

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I ended up going 21:16 with my dragon priest (ranks 15 through rank 8ish), but i think i was lucky to have done that well. I think there's a lot of shit that it doesn't match up well against, especially some of these hyper aggro decks. Also, it's generally not fast enough against Reno decks, so it gets wrecked there. It's good against other midrange decks, which there aren't enough of. I was going to test another build that includes Divine Spirit and Inner Fire as a potential surprise finisher. It can synergize well with a Twilight Guardian and basically any high health minion.

Twilight Sparkle said:

This is why we can't have nice things.

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Indeed. Went from 15 to 7 w/ one loss. Got more than 1 turn 4 kills.

And the same day Reynad's aggro shaman deck takes the world by storm tempostorm drops their first new shapshot....with aggro shaman listed as number one. What a coincidence!

Dragon/pirate warrior seems pretty ok. I like it better than the all-in aggro pirate, just not my style.

WTF if you have a golden paladin and you play Vilefin Inquisitor your hero power murlocs aren't golden. FU Blizz.