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I played Spell Only mage when Ashes came out (you had Incanter's Apexis and Font for the synergy), and yeah it wasn't very good. It was mostly fun when DarkmoonFaire came out so you had a good finisher in C'thun, rather than just hoping for BS from Reno Hero. It was more of a control deck. I never ran Lunacy, but Lunacy only came to the forefront with the rotation and the smaller card pool. It was a dumb deck and Lunacy deserved the nerf. I kept on with a C'thun Spell Mage. But Refreshing Springwater was insane in the deck. Never used Cram session though I could have with Primordial studies, but I just didn't. In those decks, you needed an early Incanter's flow for the off chance of getting your 5 drops down to 4 so you could survive, otherwise you pretty much ended up dead by T6 against the aggro decks that were about. It was useful, but you had a lot of high cost cards, so the 0 mana spell degeneracy wasn't that much of an issue with that kind of deck. You could maybe get off two big spells together that you wouldn't otherwise been able to. I've moved on to Ignite mage, which doesn't run Incanter's, so I've dodged that nerf. And I haven't lost to a Quest mage except when I've drawn literally the worst possible way (this is with all decks since the expansion not just ignite) and would have lost to almost anything. They can get their questline done, and play the reward, and then they die if you've gotten some good pressure in and have your reach. Quest Warlock can just get the reward done on T5 easily enough unless they absolutely brick the mulligan. Maybe with the darkglare nerf it'll slow them down a turn or 2, but they probably need significantly more slowing down. For the other quests, I've probably got to build it better, but Quest Shaman seems pretty slow as is. Quest priest is slow by design. Haven't seen much of the others, but DH probably doesn't even care too much about the reward for their OTK, just the intermediate rewards can be help enough.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 00:46 |
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AnacondaHL posted:This 4 mana card almost had a higher mulligan win% than the busted 1 drop. If you or your opponents were not keeping that card in your opening hands y'all were playing the deck Wrong.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 01:29 |
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finished some quests with secret paladin before key portions of its bullshit get whacked. how are people - players with golden heroes, honest, I've seen it - how are people still playing quests going second into a paladin secret. you have the coin. just test for oh my yogg. why would you let me do this to you
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 01:34 |
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I would guess they're either on autopilot or they just plain forgot it existed (I've only faced like two Secret Paladins this whole season). Or maybe they're just bad.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 01:46 |
Doctor Spaceman posted:Is nerfing it (Granite Forgeborn) from 5 health to 4 health really going to change that though? nope!
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 02:02 |
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Has anyone finished the priest quest? This seems impossible.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 02:08 |
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I saw a Regis vid where he finished it, shuffled the shard into his deck and then used Alura to cast it from deck.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 02:12 |
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Of course the paladin quest doesn’t work with the duels dude hero power. Why would it
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 02:40 |
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What streamer is playing this loan shark Rogue? Yet another deck that you can't interact with.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 03:38 |
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Which deck is this? Is it a Garrote Auctioneer miracle thing or something else?
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 04:03 |
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Amoeba102 posted:Which deck is this? Is it a Garrote Auctioneer miracle thing or something else? I guess that's it? They get a ton of Coins and then draw all of their deck with Auctioneer, leaving only the cards that damage the enemy hero. Didn't know it was a thing until today.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 04:04 |
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Yeah it's the current Miracle Rogue. It's been around since day one of the expansion but it doesn't have a good winrate.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 04:04 |
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jeff posted:Has anyone finished the priest quest? This seems impossible. I did it in Wild a couple times. It's a neat animation, the Naaru rises up and blasts your opponent with a beam. The problem is, I'd have probably won those games anyway through control and attrition, the quest just provided a forced ending and may have caused some losses in other matches by omitting other cards to make sure it could be played.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 04:43 |
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Quest Paladin is... good? At least in low Platinum. Pretty fun too, though you can DEFINITELY get some bad early draws that screw you over.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 04:54 |
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jeff posted:Has anyone finished the priest quest? This seems impossible. Opened a golden one and got it in literally my first game after the expansion came out, and never again. Made my day that the dude sat around for a turn and let me cast it and didn't concede
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 05:16 |
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I got blasted by the Priest reward. Had forgotten that card was in the game and was very confused.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 05:46 |
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goferchan posted:Opened a golden one and got it in literally my first game after the expansion came out, and never again. Made my day that the dude sat around for a turn and let me cast it and didn't concede It's a real dick move that the game shows the opponent when you draw it so they can immediately concede.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 05:59 |
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Quest Paladin is... good? At least in low Platinum. Pretty fun too, though you can DEFINITELY get some bad early draws that screw you over. Yeah I'm at D3 with quest Paladin, it's pretty consistent when you run 27 1-cost cards (plus Lothraxion and Battlemasters). Quite good against Warlock but bad against Mage. Always funny to catch a Rhino or Giant with a Judgement of Justice. Nerfs are going to hurt, I expect I'll end up switching the Conviction for a different 1-drop.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 08:18 |
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As I take 24 damage from two Minions on Turn 5 being allowed to live, and simultaneously watch people in this very thread tell me this expansion is good actually. "Am I out of touch? No, it's the forums that are wrong!"
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 14:51 |
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Shockeh posted:As I take 24 damage from two Minions on Turn 5 being allowed to live, and simultaneously watch people in this very thread tell me this expansion is good actually. Don’t worry, it’ll happen on turn 6 soon!
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 15:03 |
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Shockeh posted:As I take 24 damage from two Minions on Turn 6 being allowed to live, and simultaneously watch people in this very thread tell me this expansion is good actually. This is how I felt about druid in classic.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 15:19 |
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Shockeh posted:As I take 24 damage from two Minions on Turn 5 being allowed to live, and simultaneously watch people in this very thread tell me this expansion is good actually. FWIW this is one of my least favorite standard metas ever and I have played since beta. It's a shame too because I like a lot of the card designs from this set so I'm hopeful after a couple rounds of balancing it will be fun for me again.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 15:52 |
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Chernabog posted:FWIW this is one of my least favorite standard metas ever and I have played since beta. It's a shame too because I like a lot of the card designs from this set so I'm hopeful after a couple rounds of balancing it will be fun for me again. Same, except I mostly play wild and it is genuinely the most unplayable it's ever been with quest warlock and crystallizer. The quest needs to be retuned to instances of life lost and not a raw number. That would help at least a little bit, but I'm not sure even that would solve the problem.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 16:00 |
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I like this meta an awful lot -- I like quicker games, I like seeing a lot of classes in contention, and I like questlines, I think they've worked very well. I will, however, say this: As a general rule, if you're sitting at 20+ health against an empty board, you really ought to be safe.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 19:03 |
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The only thing that I'm not loving about this meta is this week getting the 'Use your hero power 50 times' quest and realizing that I may not finish before the end of the week.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 19:15 |
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NorgLyle posted:The only thing that I'm not loving about this meta is this week getting the 'Use your hero power 50 times' quest and realizing that I may not finish before the end of the week. Odd Demon Hunter in wild gets that done real quick.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 19:18 |
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got about 6600 dust from all copies of the nerfed cards nice stuff
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 19:21 |
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NorgLyle posted:The only thing that I'm not loving about this meta is this week getting the 'Use your hero power 50 times' quest and realizing that I may not finish before the end of the week. Battlegrounds is where I finish that quest.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 19:21 |
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Raza + Anduin is my go to for that one. I guess new hunter quest ain't bad either.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 19:24 |
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Shwqa posted:Battlegrounds is where I finish that quest.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 19:25 |
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NorgLyle posted:The only thing that I'm not loving about this meta is this week getting the 'Use your hero power 50 times' quest and realizing that I may not finish before the end of the week. Others have chimed in already but Even Hunter in wild is where I do that quest and also where I got my 12 straight win achievement lol
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 19:27 |
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Is it too soon to know what's best post-nerfs? Because I am getting Legend this month, no loving way do I hit D5 with 19 days to go and not make it.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 20:17 |
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CapnAndy posted:Is it too soon to know what's best post-nerfs? Because I am getting Legend this month, no loving way do I hit D5 with 19 days to go and not make it. From what I’ve seen/heard Quest Handlock is still really good along with Quest Shaman and Quest Rogue. I’ve also heard that rush warrior is doing pretty well too. I’m in the same boat lol, I hit d5 on the first day of the expansion and I’m trying to push for first time legend this month
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 20:22 |
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My guess is slow quest lock and ele shaman since those barely got touched. I think paladin will still be good despite the nerfs.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 20:38 |
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Cry Havoc posted:got about 6600 dust from all copies of the nerfed cards nice stuff 8.5k here, kept two copies of Flow, Forgeborn and Battlemaster. PSA: Remember you can filter your collection for "refund" to see all nerfed cards eligble for a full dust refund.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 21:59 |
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Holy poo poo I had a golden conviction, free legendary!
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 22:03 |
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Shockeh posted:As I take 24 damage from two Minions on Turn 5 being allowed to live, and simultaneously watch people in this very thread tell me this expansion is good actually. Well, Paladin's entire win condition right now is 'have 2 minions stick after t5'.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 22:18 |
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Once again Paladin is the worst part of the meta.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 23:05 |
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Every time it was my opponent's turn, the game would disconnect and then reconnect. And now this Note that neither side has any mana. We've been doing nothing for the last five minutes. I have lethal so I'm not conceding.
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# ? Aug 17, 2021 23:23 |
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The golden standard pack for beating all the book of heroes thing is still broken. Relogging, rebeating it don't work.
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