Hearthstone

Skrigg

Golden Squire
229
1
Man, after making it to 5 stars in rank 2, I went on an epic losing bender with trashadin. Even switched decks and lost like 2 more. Sucked balls.

Here's my tentative plan for control warrior after stupid Naxx finally unlocks.

2x Execute
2x Shield Slam
2x Whirlwind
2x Fiery War Axe
2x Slam
2x Armorsmith
2x Cruel Taskmaster
2x Unstable Ghoul
2x Shield Block
2x Acolyte of Pain
1x Gnomish Inventor
1x Brawl
2x Azure Drake
1x Loatheb
1x Cairne Bloodhoof
1x Sylvanas Windrunner
1x Gorehowl
1x Grommash Hellscream
1x Ragnaros


Those drakes will probably become spectral knights after week 3.

*edit* Also I'm betting cash money Loatheb gets nerfed into the ground. On Twitch I'm even seeing him IN miracle rogue, where he definitely won the game for the rogue.
Playing a similar deck right now, crushes zoo unless terrible draw. This was after 2 armor smiths 2 other minions and an unstable ghoul went off.

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Amzin

Lord Nagafen Raider
2,917
361
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What I've been playing today. Definitely the most fun I've had in constructed in a while. Helps that it beats zoo every fuckin time, which I loathe. Lots of fun combos that blow games up.
Thanks for the deck, definitely amusing. I don't have Grom and actually had to create a couple of the cards I was missing but it's a hoot so far. Few ideas for tweaking it if I care enough to.

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Gavinmad

Mr. Poopybutthole
44,395
53,773
Thats fucking twice so far tonight that I suspected a disconnect, immediately restarted the client, and somehow two turns had already gone past. Fucking buggy garbage.
 

Duppin_sl

shitlord
3,785
3
I think I'm bored with this already. Unless you're willing to spend RL money or spend a lot of time grinding, you don't get fun new cards fast enough.
 

Column_sl

shitlord
9,833
7
I ruined my wing experience this round. Last round I beat the streamers by a large margin so I was able to figure it out myself, this round since China/Korea launched during the day I ended up watching people run through it.

Meh, next round no streamers.
 

Duppin_sl

shitlord
3,785
3
Which is fine. I haven't played many other CCGs. I wasn't even really saying it as a flaw; just a reason it's not clicking with me personally.

Although I think they'd be well served to maybe give you a single card as an occasional quest reward or something, instead of doing it all via packs.
 

Column_sl

shitlord
9,833
7
You can average 5 cards a day just doing the daily.. It usally averages to around 100 gold since you have to win at the same time.
 

Duppin_sl

shitlord
3,785
3
Yeah, I'm not really saying what I mean very clearly.

Grinding gold to buy packs just is an unexciting way to do it, even if you get to basically the same result eventually. It'd be cool to have a quest pop up occasionally where you got, say, a rare for ten wins.
 

The Master

Bronze Squire
2,084
2
Hearthstone is the cheapest CCG ever. You can get all foils for like $2k (minus the ones that you get from leveling all classes).
 

Duppin_sl

shitlord
3,785
3
That's why you only have it have it pop up once in a while?

It's an idea, not something I've fully fleshed out. I just think that the current way of doing it could use some spicing up. You're grinding one resource, to buy another resource, that you then open to get yet ANOTHER resource.
 

Phanton

Trakanon Raider
111
215
Ugh, I finally thought I had Heroic Noth when I juiced up a Stoneskin Gargoyle with defender of argus, divine spirit, and inner fire. Thanks a lot, Plague.

Edit: Got him a couple of attempts later with Lightspawn + defender of argus + x2 divine spirit. lol
 

sebur

Bronze Squire
1,174
0
Ya, I know that feeling Phanton....as someone else mentioned my success was with lightwell. Double divine spirit, power word shield and inner fire and then proceeded to kill him in 2 turns. Won by round 5 I believe.
 

Alexzander

Golden Knight of the Realm
520
39
Yeah, I'm not really saying what I mean very clearly.

Grinding gold to buy packs just is an unexciting way to do it, even if you get to basically the same result eventually. It'd be cool to have a quest pop up occasionally where you got, say, a rare for ten wins.
like another poster mentioned, you do get single cards as arena rewards already.
 

Morrow

Trakanon Raider
3,341
948
I think I'm bored with this already. Unless you're willing to spend RL money or spend a lot of time grinding, you don't get fun new cards fast enough.
You do if you enjoy drafting and get good at it. I'd never spent a dime in the first 4 weeks of playing and I had 4 legendaries, 9 epics and dozens of rates. In total I now have a little over a dozen legendaries, including all of the good ones and nearly every single important epic. Missing a second Big Game Hunter, a second Faceless Manipulator, a second Doomsayer and a second Blood Knight, but that's it really. All from drafting. If you don't enjoy drafting, then yeah, it'd be near impossible to build a good free collection. It just takes time though, even if you don't draft, as long as you play for around 90 minutes a day and win at least 50% of your games, you'll earn around a pack a day. That's 28 packs per month. If you get good at drafting, which isn't that difficult really, you earn around a pack every 90 minutes of playing. You get spammed with packs. Arena is the best way of earning cards, even if that doesn't make any sense.