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I dumped a bunch of of gold into arena because I figured it would be cool to check out the new stuff and fill out my classic cards before arena switched to GvG. Got three gadgetzan engineers and two stormforged axes out of three pack opens. That's some wonky RNG.
So I ran a Druid with my free run last night, and it was really crap ended up 1-3. But one thing I did learn is that Explosive Sheep + Poison Seeds is NOT a board clear. Everything is destroyed, deathrattles trigger (including the 2 damage to all minions), and then the 2/2s spawn.
Enob
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The two cool things I've seen so far:
Mage opponent in arena. Coin, unstable portal, drop a free dark cultist. Out of every minion in the game to coin that card into, that is hands down the best possible.
Gahz'rilla out of a webspinner in ranked. Pretty sure that's the only card that can pull the new cards outside of arena but interesting for a few days. I lost.
I was excited about the random effects unlike most people but just reading this thread confirms they are awesome. Everyone is excitedly telling stories just like the above. It's shifting more towards playing the odds but the odds are rarely a 50/50 coin flip. Good players just have to account for all the various probabilities and make plays accordingly. I think that's fine. The game is much more fun now by including all these moments and it doesn't hurt the competitive scene at all in my mind since it's a card game and already RNG as fuck. It just wasn't as obvious before.
Mage opponent in arena. Coin, unstable portal, drop a free dark cultist. Out of every minion in the game to coin that card into, that is hands down the best possible.
Gahz'rilla out of a webspinner in ranked. Pretty sure that's the only card that can pull the new cards outside of arena but interesting for a few days. I lost.
I was excited about the random effects unlike most people but just reading this thread confirms they are awesome. Everyone is excitedly telling stories just like the above. It's shifting more towards playing the odds but the odds are rarely a 50/50 coin flip. Good players just have to account for all the various probabilities and make plays accordingly. I think that's fine. The game is much more fun now by including all these moments and it doesn't hurt the competitive scene at all in my mind since it's a card game and already RNG as fuck. It just wasn't as obvious before.
Yeah I had a hunter I was against get a Malorne from a webspinner. Not awesome.
Brand
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You saw a Gahz'rilla in ranked play? You should report it. That is clearly not intended. At least not until Monday.
Gavinmad
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Not if the Zoo player isn't retarded. The matchup is only lightly in favor of hunter. The smartest zoo players all switched to Huntertaker though.
Yeah all the collectible GvG beasts were added to the pool that webspinner pulls from. It probably is too much trouble to be worth fixing, given how narrow it is.
Enob
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It's not like reporting it would matter. They probably already knew about it but they definitely aren't going to hotfix it. It's the start of a new season and it will all be resolved by just waiting a couple days. A random low % effect like that isn't going to significantly buff or nerf hunter's win % enough to matter.
Vaclav
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Technically they've said the cards are in, and for stuff that pulls "random" there's no reason that it shouldn't end up pulling everything.
It feels weird, but it's accurate. Honestly though, they should make the "random" stuff has some collection restrictions.
Morrow
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Someone on my friends list that was usually never above like rank 12 got to Legend 2 seasons ago with Huntertaker... Huntard is worse than Zoo imo, but they both are definitely skills piles of shit.
Fuck me I just played against a Druid with 3 Mech Cats (the 6 mana 7/6 that whenever it takes damage, they get a Spare Part)... that shit got really annoying. He kept getting Freeze, and it won him the game.
Anyone played Fel Reaver yet? Just picked it in my 2nd arena as Paladin. Wondering just how bad it can fuck you over. Saw 3 Mini-Mages, fml.
I was switching around streams last night, went into Hafu's stream for a minute just in time to see her opponent play Fel Reaver, and Hafu fatigued him to death... so prob not a super good card... I think Kripp drafted one last night but I went to bed before he got a chance to play it.
Kept getting flying machines in my paladin draft, but I also drafted 2 Blessing of Kings... already had a game where my opponent underestimated the flying machine, double kinged him, made him a 9 atk 12 heath windfury minion, rofl.
Card sucks otherwise though.
Card sucks otherwise though.
Morrow
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Well Fell Reaver + Cog Hammer just clenched a win for me. But yeah it was scary watching 12 cards disappear in one turn (particularly scary against Warlock).
It's a pretty shitty design and dumb giant. Most other giants usually end up costing you around 5 on average anyways, and they don't have such a huge drawback. Most of the epics in this set blow.
It's a pretty shitty design and dumb giant. Most other giants usually end up costing you around 5 on average anyways, and they don't have such a huge drawback. Most of the epics in this set blow.