Hearthstone

wormie said:

Taunt warrior does ok vs silly infinite damage mage?

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Ravishing said:

2x dirty rat is a good card

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Dirty rat and the fact they can't freeze your hero power gives taunt warrior much better chances.

Ravishing said:

Taunt warrior lists are far from optimized yet. Here's mine from last night and I also found Sjow's to compare:

Ravishing Taunt Warrior

• 1 x Fire Plume's Heart
  
• 1 x Whirlwind
• 1 x Slam
• 2 x Execute
• 2 x Brawl
• 2 x Acolyte of Pain
• 1 x Deathwing
• 2 x Shield Block
• 2 x Fiery War Axe
• 2 x Ravaging Ghoul
• 1 x The Curator
• 2 x Alley Armorsmith
• 2 x Dirty Rat
• 2 x Sleep with the Fishes
• 2 x Tar Creeper
• 1 x Direhorn Hatchling
• 2 x Stonehill Defender
• 1 x Ornery Direhorn
• 1 x Primordial Drake

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Mine is -1 acolyte, +1 shield block, -2 sleeping with the fishes, +2 bloodhoof brave, -1 direhorn hatchling, +1 primordial drake, -1 deathwing, +1 king mosh.

Mures said:

Had a shaman quest and had most the cards for elemental shaman except the new shaman legendary and since its clearly a very good card went ahead and crafted it. Tried Ozruk just to see and he's as trash as anyone would expect, ended up removing him because he was always just sitting in my hand or not impactful. I put a spirit echo in my deck, the 3 mana spell that gives all your minions deathrattle add this minion to your hand, and it is amazing. Really easy to get good value out of it, and you have the elementals that reduce elementals cost so its easier opportunity to get the buff on multiple minions. And there are so many cards you don't mind more copies of servants of kalimos, for more discovery and more value, fire elementals, blaze callers, stone sentinels, kalimos. Really enjoying the deck.

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Deck list is
2x Fire fly
1x bloodmage thalnos
2x fire plume harbinger
2x flametongue totem
1x kobold geomancer
2x maelstrom portal
1x spirit claws
2x hex
1x hot spring guardian
2x igneous elemental
1x lightning storm
1x spirit echo
2x tar creeper
1x evolved kobold
1x tol'vir stoneshaper
2x servant of kalimos
2x fire elemental
2x blazecaller
1x stone sentinel
1x kalimos
I swapped one kobold geomancer for evolved kobold simply because I have a golden evolved kobold, but it has fit in nicely also. Debating on swapping the tol'vir stoneshaper for a 2nd hot spring guardian or something else maybe. You have to be careful in that the stoneshaper is not an elemental, I made the mistake twice already playing fire plume harbinger thinking I'd get a discount on it. Kalimos is so versatile, his 12 point heal has saved me on multiple occasions already.

So far I've crafted:

Rogue Quest
Priest Quest
Mage Quest
Hunter Quest
Warrior Quest
Kalimos Legendary Bro

Primordial Drake x1 (opened the other).

And about 12 good rares like Crystaline Oracle/Mimic Pod/Mirage Caller. Had to disenchant my golden Rag/Sylv for dust (always like to keep a 5k buffer for any new finds), but overall I've crafted a shit ton. It's pretty lame that they've made these quests so integral and fun and yet legendary and seemingly rarer than other legendaries. All they needed to do was change out that Rogue quest for Maieve with something that allowed people to pick a quest of their choice and it would have been much better. Or you know, make one neutral legendary that any class can play that initiates their quest. It's pretty messed up, but I'm lucky to have excess dust from my arena days. My gf has played like 45 mins+ of HS every day for over a year now, outlasting me, and yet she hasn't really been playing much at all since the release, even though she was able to craft 3 quests. it's just too daunting if you aren't willing to drop $100+. And that seems to be the story for many people if you read the reddit.

Anyways the only thing I regret crafting so far is the Mage quest. I just don't see the point. If you last that long and control that hard you are going to win most of the time anyways. And I also just don't like it, maybe a better list will come out and I'll try it and like it, but it's the only quest that I've crafted and dislike. I have no interest in crafting the Paladin/Warlock/Druid quest whatsoever and only a slight interest in the Shaman quest.

The quests I've crafted are all pretty equally fun and I'm really happy with how fun they are and impressed with there being so many cool (so far viable) decks out there. The Priest is probably my favorite, even though it has very little to do with the quest and more with the other shenanigans it can do.

Fun levels for me personally: Priest > Rogue > Elemental Shaman > Warrior > Hunter > Mage.

wormie said:

Divine spirit/inner fire deck is a thing too.

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It's annoying that Inner Fire isn't working properly on the tar guys and that Amara is not working as her wording states (she kills you if you play her with an Auchenai Soulpriest out), which is stupid, it clearly words "set your health" just like Alexstrasza does. Come on Blizzard, come on.

I think bitching that Blizz uses the same words to mean two different mechanics is fair though

I don't know exactly where the Quest Rogue falls out tier wise, but its absolutely God Tier for causing me to rage uncontrollably.

Inner Fire works exactly like it's supposed to.

Gavinmad said:

Inner Fire works exactly like it's supposed to.

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Does it? If that were the case the minions attack would lower whenever you damaged it, like a light spawn; but I don't believe that is the case with an inner fire'd minion, or is it?

Mures said:

Does it? If that were the case the minions attack would lower whenever you damaged it, like a light spawn; but I don't believe that is the case with an inner fire'd minion, or is it?

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You don't expect me to fact check my arbitrary proclamations before I make them do you?