Hearthstone

DrLifetilt_sl

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So... I'm a couple years late to jump on the Hearthstone train... I've never really been a CCG kinda guy, is it difficult to get into / are there limitations that I'll just never be able to catch up to because of being a few years behind the people that have the game "beat" already?

How much of it is pay to win versus I'm assuming you can also do decently without resorting to paying hundreds of dollars for cards?
Some of the competitive decks are really cheap to make (i.e. Face Hunter).
 

a_skeleton_02

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I was excited for Troggzor, but then Dr Boom completely blew him out of the water at the 7 drop slot. And Reynad would have been right about Fel Reaver being a huge thing for aggro if Dr Boom hadn't caused a meta shift that resulted in 2/3rds of the decks on the ladder adding BGH.
Yeah, its not like troggzor or fell reaver were bad cards or "overrated" its just that Dr.Boom completely overshadowed them to the point they became irrelevant.

The biggest mistake the "pros" made was not picking up on Dr.Boom sooner. He was obviously the sleeper of the set.
 

Ravishing

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pretty bad:

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if you need this card you should just add BGH for 3 mana which adds a minion to the board lol.
 

Angelwatch

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It's expensive but it's not bad. It's worthless against Aggro which doesn't run high health minions but it's good in control or, potentially, Tempo. For example most Tempo Decks don't run BGH (tech cards are hard to use in tempo mage since they don't have a ton of card draw and it's hard to draw into specific answers).

With that said, it's pretty boring and I'm not sure what I'd swap out for it. It's "not bad" but by no means is it good.
 

Northerner

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It's horrible and will be played in zero decks really. It's Assassinate Jr and even useless against divine shield or 9+ health and so on. Make it deal 8 damage to a minion, draw a card for 6 and it might see play.
 

Amzin

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It's awful, even in arena. 1 mana more than fireball for 2 more damage that's less versatile. 1 mana more than polymorph which is better anyway. It's not an alternative to anything and it's not filling some role that isn't already filled out.
 

Gavinmad

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Yeah, its not like troggzor or fell reaver were bad cards or "overrated" its just that Dr.Boom completely overshadowed them to the point they became irrelevant.

The biggest mistake the "pros" made was not picking up on Dr.Boom sooner. He was obviously the sleeper of the set.
My favorite was all the people saying Undertaker was fine.

At least they aren't spewing the same shit about Patron now. God what a fucking awful, meta destroying deck.
 

Palum

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Wow, that is fairly bad. I wonder if they are going to make Arena selectable or fixed sets, maybe tournaments on that idea vis-a-vis MTG down the road? I mean if that's the case a lot of these fairly worse cards could be very competitive in a 'this is the best you can choose' sense.
 

jooka

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Missed most of it now, think its the last match of the day, but challengestone is going today and tomorrow. Rules are can only use cards that targets other minions or heroes
 

slippery

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I think at some point they'll have to expand arena to more than 3 picks tbh. There will be too large a card pool.

They really need to back track on the random pack reward though, that's just fucking terrible.
 

Derpa

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I think at some point they'll have to expand arena to more than 3 picks tbh. There will be too large a card pool.

They really need to back track on the random pack reward though, that's just fucking terrible.
I still wish they would do something like MTG draft or sealed. Pick any class you want when you build the deck
 

Morrow

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Did people really say healbot sucks? That's crazy.
The only card that I can recall I was wrong about was Shiedmaiden. I still think Healbot is too strong and said so from the beginning. I also said Fel Reaver would be garbage and in my opinion, I still think it's garbage. Anyways, sure, people are wrong about cards all the time, but from what I am seeing around the net on various forums, more people are saying this set is pretty universally garbage than any other set in the past. It's pretty ubiquitous. We still have 100 cards to go though, so there should be at least a few decent cards. But I don't see anything meta redifining coming up :/ We can only hope at least. I personally hope the rest of the set sucks so it can finally be the kick I need to quit the game. The random arena pack is *almost* enough to make me quit and it might be enough even if the set turns out to be decent, but if the set is also shit, I'll be able to quit no problem, and I actually think I'll be happy abou that. I'm just addicted.
 

The Ancient_sl

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I think that 3/3 which summons a 1/1 with inspire should see a lot play if inspire ends up used at all.

As will that 3/2 mage card which adds +1 to your hero power just because of the immense value you get from coining it.

The shaman 3/2 totem summoner is a given.
 

slippery

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There are definitely playable cards. It only takes a few really good cards to shake things up a lot. I feel like a lot of the cards so far have been good arena fodder