Hearthstone

^^^ You made it past the main screen as well, actually able to play?

Angelwatch_sl said:

Wow. There's a 24 minute queue just to get onto Battlenet.

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I just got disconnected for no good reason in between games, "connection timed out" bullshit. Come back to try and log in and it just sits at the main screen and then says playful sprites have disrupted service.

DDOS? Pretty random day/time for this shit to be happening.

Edit: Got a <1 min queue, got past it, and then playful sprites. Definitely smells like DDOS.

Oh and that spreadsheet posted was the right one I was looking for, thanks!


Edit 2: LOL finally got past my 34 minute queue only for it to fail to connect and start back over after making me wait 60 seconds to try again and NOW it's a 42 minute queue. Fuck you Blizzard, fuck you.

Walley reporting in:
Shit is broke!

4 different 30-40 minute queues that all went to shit *the moment* they were up. Why do queues at times like this even exist if after you wait, you can't get in and have to immediately start over at the back of the line? Shit is so third world retarded. I like how they "confirmed" it isn't DDOS and that they know what it is and that it's on their end and that it will be fixed in an hour (2 hours ago)... but it's not DDOS...

Utnayan_sl said:

Yeah they seem to have a lot of BattleNet issues lately. And the queue is worthless. Tried three times now, queue runs up, disconnect and start all over. Why not just take the damn server down and bring it back up so people do not waste their time.

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Third world levels of retarded up in here.

Barraco Bisi_sl said:

Been watching Forsen play for about an hour and a half and he's only won one game. Cancer nonstop.

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Forsen also sucks with control warrior. Has a whirlwind in hand, the other dude telegraphs an implosion but doesn't play it, Forsen doesn't save the whirlwind. Ends up getting saved by a 1/4 rag to the face.

That OTK deck posted here, you should just auto-concede against warrior right? I've done my best against multiple types of warrior decks and it's just pointless.

It's an unfavorable matchup, but it's not an autoloss. I've won it before, basically you have to draw into both worgen combos before he gets both shield maidens and shield blocks.

Not sure if mentioned here or people knew:

Opponent plays Archmage Antonidas and stealths it with spare part. I have Vol'jin in hand and had wondered this yesterday as well, but assumed it was like Cabal Shadow Priest in that with no targetable minion it drops onto the board with no benefit and no chance to hit escape and back out like with some cards. Decided to google it real quick and discovered that not only can you not swap health with a stealthed minion, but if you try to drop him on an empty board he will DIE! Saw multiple threads complaining about it, not sure if fixed or random or everytime or what, but good to know.

This is a dumb question, but you never know with all the HS inconsistencies and weird logic. Does Gazlowe work on 1 mana creatures, or is it just spells? I still can't decide what to craft, ugh. But it's mainly between Troggzor and Toshley. Winning criteria is whatever I can play in the most decks.

Toshley
Troggzor

Famm_sl said:

Not sure if mentioned here or people knew:

Opponent plays Archmage Antonidas and stealths it with spare part. I have Vol'jin in hand and had wondered this yesterday as well, but assumed it was like Cabal Shadow Priest in that with no targetable minion it drops onto the board with no benefit and no chance to hit escape and back out like with some cards. Decided to google it real quick and discovered that not only can you not swap health with a stealthed minion, but if you try to drop him on an empty board he will DIE! Saw multiple threads complaining about it, not sure if fixed or random or everytime or what, but good to know.

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Wow, that's a huge bug... two actually. Good to know.

Gazlowe is just spells - he's pretty amazing though if you keep 1 mana spells in mind for him (keep in mind "spare parts = 1 mana spells")

Vaclav_sl said:

Gazlowe is just spells - he's pretty amazing though if you keep 1 mana spells in mind for him (keep in mind "spare parts = 1 mana spells")

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Ahh, thought so. He's a pretty niche legendary though and I'd also need Toshley to properly utilize him. I could craft both but I'd be completely out of dust and I need to craft a few missing epics first.

Has anyone (including top streamers/players) playtested Foe Reaper 6000 extensively yet? I wrote him off when I first saw him, but I've been hearing good things about him. Perhaps he's been overlooked... it's happened before.

Morrow_sl said:

This is a dumb question, but you never know with all the HS inconsistencies and weird logic. Does Gazlowe work on 1 mana creatures, or is it just spells? I still can't decide what to craft, ugh. But it's mainly between Troggzor and Toshley. Winning criteria is whatever I can play in the most decks.

Toshley
Troggzor

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Troggzor is crap IMO. I think Tosh would fit in more decks. Gaz seems like its only really going to be great with mage, and even then, how good is debatable and you have to build too much of the deck around him.

No epics you'd like to have instead?

Famm_sl said:

No epics you'd like to have instead?

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I have most of the good epics of GvG and all classic epics. I'm missing maybe 5-8 copies of good playable GvG epics in total and like 4 misc. niche epics (x2 Crush, x2 Tree of Life, x2 Coghammer, x2 Lightbomb, x1 Cogmaster's Wrench, x2 Demonheart, x1 Steamwheedle Sniper, x1 Hobgoblin, x1 Fel Reaver, x1 Piloted Sky Golem) some of those are pushing it and I have just over 3200 dust. So I'm definitely ready to craft a new Legendary, just can't seem to decide which.

What's your logic on Troggzor being crap? Do you find it most often removed via minions? Seems like if you cast it at the right time, you're getting huge value with even just 1 Rockjaw Trogg. Even if you don't get one, you've most likely forced them to miss a good trade.

Famm_sl said:

Troggzor is crap IMO. I think Tosh would fit in more decks. Gaz seems like its only really going to be great with mage, and even then, how good is debatable and you have to build too much of the deck around him.

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Gazlowe is great in many decks - all goes with the quality of 1 mana spells for the class- it actually turns Naturalize for druids into a decent trade for most matchups for example. (They're down 1 high quality creature for 1 mana but up 2 random cards [if you're not milling a Handlock], you're up a Mech so a higher quality creature than average, versus two random). Claw was never bad before, etc.

And most of the "spare part" creatures are already good anyhow - 2/1 for 1 is good, Yetis were never bad and "giving a part away" is trivial anyhow 99% of the time. And of course it lets you trade them freely early on. And of course Mech-Bear-Cat is a great parts engine as well with the right board status and appropriate use of the stat flip/bounce parts

He's great for not running out of steam for tons of builds that I'd do that I would have a great short game but then get owned by anything that could draw out the game. With the aforementioned druid build, it was high end taunt heavy - but once my trees were down previously I was done for - with Gazlowe the stamina on the build is a ton higher (and unlike Auctioneer which performs similar functions, doesn't push me any closer to fatigue since it's not really drawing cards).

Not sure if he'll ever be top tier - I'm not a top tier player - but he's got some potential for sure thanks to the constant quality reloading he allows to keep threats a constant from you. [And on Foe Reaper - I've only gotten him from Gazlowe a few times [opened him, but he's too expensive for my curve to put it in over a tree] but he's only been noteworthy versus Zoo which at that point was already decided anyhow - just made it easier for the rest of my stuff to get through while he was spamming shit out to delay the inevitable]