Hearthstone

The Ancient_sl said:

Yeah, before any more expansions I'd like them to make some basic UI fixes. At least 3 decks per class is absolutely necessary, and ideally make golden cards stack on regular in collection.

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Stack with normal with a "prefer to use Golden/Normal" toggle FTW.

That deck is expensive. I have very few pally cards. This game is too much of a money sink to play constructed some times.

So, whats winning right now? I've been out of the loop for a bit due to other games. But I kind of want to get my rank 20 before I forget.

ex-genj_sl said:

wow I threw this together today and went 14-5 so far going from 12 to 9. Crushes face hunter and haven't had a bad matchup yet, maybe mech mage. You can do some ridiculous stuff with flamewakers.

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I can't seem to get this to work at all, is there a basic strategy you could outline? Flamewalker always gets killed really early, or if I don't draw it then the deck seems to get out tempod really easily. Not sure im doing it properly.

Sithro_sl said:

So, whats winning right now? I've been out of the loop for a bit due to other games. But I kind of want to get my rank 20 before I forget.

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Face Hunter always wins. The new Zoo is really strong as well. At least against me. I, basically, auto-lose to it with Tempo Mage since I can't out-tempo them. Drawing two cards to my one in the late game + tons of sticky minions means it's easier to just concede at this point.

Right now my Tempo Mage is decent. The new Zoo is my only terrible match up. It's a deck that shouldn't use too many tech cards but I do have two included. I have one Acidic Ooze and one Kezan Mystic. Mystic was standard for the deck I was using with the idea that I could steal my own secrets back if the opponent played their own Mystic. I've read that you really should only use Mystic if, roughly, half your game is against decks that use Secrets but I'm reluctant to cut it. When playing against secrets and I get to use my Mystic, it breaks their back. The Ooze is my other tech card. I added it because I was facing a shit load of Face Hunters and I needed a way to slow down their aggression. Harrison Jones might be the stronger card with the card draw attached but at 5 mana he's also way too slow. Games against Face Hunter are over, one way or the other, by turn 5 or 6. And nobody expects an Ooze these days. But I'm not running into a lot of Hunters so it's another card I'm really tempted to swap.

66 more wins for Golden mage and then I can move on to something more competitive. I've been stuck at rank 8 - 6 for weeks now.

What is the new Zoo? I really liked Zoo back in the day, so I'm curious.

Got to 12 wins (which is very rare for me) with mage in arena. It wasn't the most impressive draft, but I had Onyxia into Stormwind Champion win me a few games. No flamestrikes, no water elemental, just one fireball/frostbolt/flamecannon, but I had a decent curve and didn't have many dead turns at all. Also, hungry dragon in arena just eats people. Being able to ping off most of the one drops after turn 5 doesn't hurt either.

skribble_sl said:

I can't seem to get this to work at all, is there a basic strategy you could outline? Flamewalker always gets killed really early, or if I don't draw it then the deck seems to get out tempod really easily. Not sure im doing it properly.

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This deck has been really successful for me in the past couple days so I don't think its a fluke though definitely drop emp for sludge. As someone said don't play waker if you don't get value (2+ spells) or can get duplicate or echo. With so much removal its pretty easy to hold tempo in my experience. It does great against hunter warrior druid and at least ok against the rest, maybe not great against non face hunter aggro but oh well. The later you can play a waker the better. I've been mulligan for a 2 mana removal and wyrms. Obv hold waker vs hunter though. There's a variant on hearthpwn that uses more secrets and scientists at the cost of the 4 mana minions but when I try that I wind up with 6 useless spells in my hand on round 7 or something.

jooka_sl said:

Anyone else getting massively laggy games? Seems like every third game I've played today is just complete crap

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I haven't had massive lag, but I have definitely noticed the occasional delay when trying to do stuff (on EU).

Its not just you. Not sure what it is but seems to be server side since I read somewhere its been happening in HotS as well. Its the same crippling lag that was happening during Naxx launch.

Massive lag, aye.

Wow, never experienced this type of lag in HS. Wonder what's going on? It's awful right now.

Krag_sl said:

Got to 12 wins (which is very rare for me) with mage in arena.It wasn't the most impressive draft,but I had Onyxia into Stormwind Champion win me a few games. No flamestrikes, no water elemental, just one fireball/frostbolt/flamecannon, but I had a decent curve and didn't have many dead turns at all. Also, hungry dragon in arena just eats people. Being able to ping off most of the one drops after turn 5 doesn't hurt either.

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Lol, that's an amazing draft. 2 Legendaries and almost all high value cards.

Had an interesting bug today during immense server lag. I cast an Azure Drake and drew a card, and then the server caught up, sent Azure Drake back to my hand (apparently I didn't play it in time?) But I kept the card I drew, and then drew another one the next turn when I replayed the Azure Drake.

I had that happen to me before, I documented it a couple weeks ago with a defender of Argus.

I ended up playing Argus, it buffed the minions then went back into my hand, and I played the same card again next turn.

It probly has to do with the server lagging as you are at the end of the turn so it thinks it wasn't played, but you still get the benefit of the buffs you dropped on the board.

My recent lag bug was watching the Flametongue Totem I just dropped in the middle of my board freeze in mid-air for several seconds during the lag spike and then teleport to the far right side, costing me lethal.