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Gavinmad

Mr. Poopybutthole
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So I wake up to being unable to purchase the wing because they still haven't fixed the shit. What a fucking joke. Fuck Blizzard is so retarded.
 

Sinzar

Trakanon Raider
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Buffed up lightwells destroy both noth and loatheb.

Heigan was rough, had to restart a few times, but on the winning game he turn 3 and 4 used that draw/gain crystal card, then he dumped his hand on turn 5, which an auchenai / double circle cleaned up nicely. Trivial win from there with him only topdecking.
 

Pyros

<Silver Donator>
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Took me quite a few tries to beat Noth, at first I was trying to mill him but the 4/6 untargettable were too annoying to deal with so switched to a priest deck, no lightwells though didn't think of it, only big defense mobs with innerfire/divine spirit, think I had a 24damage maexna at the end. Heigan took a few tries, I started trying with a priest deck also but it didn't work that well, switch to secret mage and worked fine, dropped the +2/+2 per turn guy on left side then played duplicate while freezing/flamestriking and dropping more stuff. One shot loatheb with normal zoo deck, got the right cards at start, argent squire+elven archer and drew voidwalker on turn 2, so basically turn 1 argent, turn 2 drop void, use elven archer to pop the spore, gg.
 

Neph_sl

shitlord
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Interesting interview of Ben Brode and Jason Chayes from PC Gamer; mostly Naxxramas and balance.

Hearthstone Curse Of Naxxramas interview: | PC Gamer


Tidbits:
* Heroic encounters are supposed to be puzzles you create a deck around. In other words, "cheesing" is intended
* They're planning on waiting for all of Naxx to release before considering nerfs to cards like Leeroy and Auctioneer
* No neutral weapons since it blurs class lines
* No cards that will destroy opponents mana or cards (discounting milling with Northshire Cleric in Priest vs Priest)
* Tournament / Spectator mode current priority, hopefully before Blizzcon
 

Morrow

Trakanon Raider
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I wonder when they are going to come with a mechanic where if the creature is alone on your side of the board, it gets bonuses, to counter the zoo strats

Amaz made a deathknight:Amazs Death Knight Class Concept for Hearthstone - Imgur
The hero ability is a great idea. I bet they already have that in the works, I don't see any other possible balanced, unique DK ability. The Requiem he's designed is too op with the hero power synergy tho.
 

bixxby

Molten Core Raider
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That hero power would be hilarious because it's another dick in the face of paladins. Seriously, when they going to make the paladin HP decent.
 

Angelwatch

Trakanon Raider
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It's fun and all to create concept cards that "fit" well within a character's theme. It's a lot harder to balance those cards against the other 400 cards that already exist.

Anti-Magic Shell is one example of a card that is simply too good. There's a reason that only a few cards can't be targeted with hero powers and spells. A card that gives that ability to any neutral minion is just asking for a nerf down the road.
 

Zaphid

Trakanon Raider
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The ability to trigger requiem for 2 mana is a bit crazy with 1 damage on top, that would definitely need some tweaking, maybe make them 0/2 with taunt and they die at the start of your turn. Then you have the card that kills your own minion, combo that with nerubian egg and you have 4/4 + 4/5 turn 3 ...
 

Gavinmad

Mr. Poopybutthole
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I mean it's an interesting start for a hero, but yeah that hero power being able to trigger your main synergy at will is too strong.
 

Derpa

Trakanon Raider
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* No neutral weapons since it blurs class lines
* No cards that will destroy opponents mana or cards (discounting milling with Northshire Cleric in Priest vs Priest)
Those along with their focus on "minion playing and trading" is why I barely play this anymore.
 

Caal

Lord Nagafen Raider
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I thought Loatheb was pretty challenging. Even when I won, felt pretty lucky to get there.