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Arbitrary

Tranny Chaser
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Right click -> Squelch is the game's optimal turn one play. Good players make good decisions. Be a good player. Make the best play.
 
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TJT

Mr. Poopybutthole
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Nerfs coming for sac pact, albatross, felwing, and kael'thas, as well as open the waygate and bloodbloom.

Albatross? Can't have one shitty card as a safety valve against powerful highlander decks now can we!?

Nerfing sac pact now is just dumb too. The only reason that card has seen play is because you introduced another class that has tons of demons in it's core set.
 

Gavinmad

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Albatross? Can't have one shitty card as a safety valve against powerful highlander decks now can we!?

Nerfing sac pact now is just dumb too. The only reason that card has seen play is because you introduced another class that has tons of demons in it's core set.

Well it's an objectively powerful card because it's not just shutting down highlander decks, it's also gumming the other deck up with shit draws. That being said, it's still only a staple in two lists that I see, Galakrond Lock and Rez Priest, so it's weird that they would be targeting it.

The fact that some non-highlander decks run Zephrys should be a bigger warning sign.
 
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TJT

Mr. Poopybutthole
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Well it's an objectively powerful card because it's not just shutting down highlander decks, it's also gumming the other deck up with shit draws. That being said, it's still only a staple in two lists that I see, Galakrond Lock and Rez Priest, so it's weird that they would be targeting it.

The fact that some non-highlander decks run Zephrys should be a bigger warning sign.

Galakrond warlock doesn't run Singletons at all but runs dragonqueen and sometimes zephrys too.
 

jooka

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Grandmaster's is confusing right now. I see on the schedule page people are playing matches today already but we aren't getting to see it.

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slippery

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Yeah, I'm really not sure how I feel about this new format. It's very weird. If I'm reading and understanding it right they basically play a tournament every week off stream, and then on the weekend we see the playoffs portion of it. Format the first 3 weeks changes. Then the last 4 weeks they get seeded into groups that have some pretty serious relegation implications (top 8 have 6 guaranteed in playoffs, bottom 8 have 2 guaranteed relegated, regardless of what happens the last 4 weeks).

I dunno, I'm not really a fan. I like how it played last season. I guess from the players it might feel better, because they play a lot more matches? We'll see how it goes I guess
 

jooka

marco esquandolas
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Ya, that doesn't sound very good for viewers. More matches does seem better for the players tho
 

jooka

marco esquandolas
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So out of all the different DH decks I've been trying, this one has become my favorite list so far.


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Gavinmad

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Woo, Diamond 5, i can finally take a break and dick around a bit.

Really thinking I need to invest some dust if I want to take DH to legend and still have a respectable winrate. Maybe I can keep being a cheapass and not craft metamorphosis or kayn, but I'm thinking at least one warglaive. Warblades don't seem to have enough oomph and the lifesteal is really only relevant in the mirror. Warglaive lets you sacrifice life to stay ahead on the board, or blast through a taunt if necessary.
 

Xequecal

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Yeah, now I know why I stopped playing this. Absolutely nothing but bullshit combo decks. At least 50% of my opponents are now either OTK Hunter, OTK DH, or Kael'thas Druid, which might as well be a OTK.
 

Gavinmad

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Yeah, now I know why I stopped playing this. Absolutely nothing but bullshit combo decks. At least 50% of my opponents are now either OTK Hunter, OTK DH, or Kael'thas Druid, which might as well be a OTK.

I feel like the person(s) who designed Kael'thas must have done so in a vacuum, completely separate from and ignorant of the development of Ashes.
 
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jooka

marco esquandolas
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I would say most fun but I also have a pretty good win rate with it but low attempts still. 16-6 currently.
 

Ishad

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funny watching DH slowly creep back up to its pre-nerf winrate.

Despite the first set of balance changes, Aggro Demon Hunter is still broken as hell.


Next set of nerfs:

The second Ashes of Outland balance patch is planned for early next week. Looking to make changes to Battlefiend, Altruis, Glaivebound Adept, Kael'Thas, Bad Luck Albatross, Frenzied Felwing, Open the Waygate, Bloodbloom, and Sac Pact. Details will come later on official channels.
 
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Gavinmad

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Trying to grind at Diamond 5 has reminded me about the stupid RNG faggotry that is 99% of this game.
 
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Arbitrary

Tranny Chaser
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Trying to grind at Diamond 5 has reminded me about the stupid RNG faggotry that is 99% of this game.

Since you can't decay concede a few hundred games in a row on turn one to tank your MMR and then start playing for real. While you're advancing to Legend you'll be playing against only shitters as matchmaking now uses your MMR instead of your rank to determine who you play against.