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Charity Porno posted:The meta was mostly solved before buddies so this is definitely a shakeup but it's also made the mode pretty stupid in a lot of ways They should rotate buddies in and out the way they rotate minion types. This run has Demons and Elementals and Armor, and THIS run has Buddies and Beasts and Murlocs. Hell, throw in a few Darkmoon prize rounds and Ragnaros while their at it.
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Feel like they’ve drastically undervalued Tribe on them, too. Some of the Buddies have Tribal synergies which is potentially massive given the synergies, whilst most are Tribeless. It’s ‘just’ a keyword, but when the mode typically runs on keyword synergy abuse… E: I'm actually irritated by this - Battlegrounds might have been 'solved', but it was also in quite an interesting place where you player Agency mostly won. Now, following the pattern of Standard, we've got 'Oh it's way more fun to have WHEEE RANDOM EFFECTS', because apparently we just need colours and lights. Shockeh fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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Shockeh posted:Feel like they’ve drastically undervalued Tribe on them, too. Some of the Buddies have Tribal synergies which is potentially massive given the synergies, whilst most are Tribeless. The worst poo poo in the format isn't random events, it's people having 30/30 dragons on turn 7.
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Jan 28, 2022 01:25
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I think rather than everyone having a buddy they maybe should have dropped armor and given the underperforming characters one since it's still a character slot so it is a choice whether or not to use one
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Jan 28, 2022 03:20
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Buddies are fine conceptually. They will need a lot of time for balance though. After a few patches I think this will be for the better.
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Jan 28, 2022 03:29
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Hope much time do you all spend trying to do achievements? I've just about finished all the current ones that I can be bothered with without it feeling super grindy. I wish there were more that encouraged specific build-around decks, I have a lot of fun with those. The Saidan the Scarlet one was a good one this time around, I think I got him up to around 50 attack. I also finished the Bless achievement with a 96/96 Reliquary Prime.
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victorious posted:Hope much time do you all spend trying to do achievements? I've just about finished all the current ones that I can be bothered with without it feeling super grindy. I wish there were more that encouraged specific build-around decks, I have a lot of fun with those. The Saidan the Scarlet one was a good one this time around, I think I got him up to around 50 attack. I also finished the Bless achievement with a 96/96 Reliquary Prime. I'd do more if there were decks built for them. Last season I built a life steal paladin deck to get that achievent and ended up doing really well with it.
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Jan 28, 2022 10:34
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I did all of them this time around except the Pathfinder one I hate "do X with Y different cards" achievements because you need to manually list them to avoid repeats
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Jan 28, 2022 14:40
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I don't think about them at all until they pop up as being completed.
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Jan 28, 2022 15:09
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I went on a bit of an achievements bender when they first came out but can't be bothered with them now. It does kill your love for the game when you get stuck going for lovely ones, it was the loving Yogg one that got me, killing your opponent with the 5% Pyroblasts. I finally did it with Blur DH but at what cost to my sanity? Could have been lucky and got it first time but no, took me over 30 casts of bloody Yogg and probably like 50 odd games considering the times I didn't make it that far.
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Jan 28, 2022 17:15
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If you could do the achievements in casual I would probably chase them more. Sometimes I'll try for them at a rank floor, but usually it's not worth the grind for me.
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Jan 28, 2022 17:23
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Yea, the design of the achievements got worse and worse after the first 2 expansions, and I already dedicated donating my Wild MMR to doing them, but even so now it's not worth my time other than ones that can be done in a single game.
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I gave up on achievements after being unable to complete the sword of a thousand truths because everyone would concede before I got to win.
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Chernabog posted:I gave up on achievements after being unable to complete the sword of a thousand truths because everyone would concede before I got to win. I've let a few people kill me with it assuming they were doing the achievement. However I generally insta-concede if they decide it would be fun to BM after equipping it 
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I got Spicy Pretzel Mustard unintentionally with Patches. Which is cool because I was never going to legit try for it.
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Achievements might influence which decks I play from the ones I've made but that's about it.Chernabog posted:I gave up on achievements after being unable to complete the sword of a thousand truths because everyone would concede before I got to win. That one really didn't take me too long to do, though it was frustrating along the way.
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Is there some sort of bug with Tamsin's phylactery and the imp that shuffles in primes or casting phylactery twice? I fired off two casts and got the envoy as the second death rattle but it never triggered.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Is there some sort of bug with Tamsin's phylactery and the imp that shuffles in primes or casting phylactery twice? Yeah, apparently Rustwix has a bug with Phylactery. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.
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I kind of hope they don't, if you use tamsin to double the phylactery up you can easily eat up your opponent's turn with 14X animations of shuffling primes and it breaks the game
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Got one in before the Tarecgosa and/or Brukan nerf.  Don’t sleep on that Foe Reaper though. We’re talking about a 300 attack cleave after all divine shields have been cleared out. Elysium fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jan 29, 2022 |
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This is a 4th place comp:
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There is this rear end in a top hat who plays Quest Pirate Warrior over and over in Casual Wild and I FINALLY loving Tonked their sorry rear end. So easy to mulligan against someone when you know their deck inside and out. I've had convos about how annoying they are with a couple of other Casual Wild players and now I get to brag to them that I have taken them down, finally. gently caress you ShadowStorm. I haven't been this happy about a victory since I hit Legend.
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Jan 31, 2022 00:48
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Battlegrounds really desperately needs a 'Done' button so you and your sole remaining opponent aren't sitting there staring at the screen for 105 seconds after each round when neither of you really has much to do to improve your comp.
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NorgLyle posted:Battlegrounds really desperately needs a 'Done' button so you and your sole remaining opponent aren't sitting there staring at the screen for 105 seconds after each round when neither of you really has much to do to improve your comp. Really they should have a Done button that you slap whenever you're done that also banks your unused time so on a turn where you're playing Ticketus and you're going to play the prize that doubles battlecries with your last two Buddies also allows you to spend your gold because that has hosed me multiple times. I just totally run out of time with 10 gold because I was sorting my prizes
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Jan 31, 2022 08:31
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Speculation is going around that the likely date for the Mini Set is February 15th, so start saving up that 2k in gold if you care about having a complete collection asap.
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At first they were fun, but now I absolutely hate the buddies. Especially if someone quits early and doesnt play any minions you're just so far behind because you dont get any significant progress on getting your buddy if you face a ghost with no minions.
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This might just be because I don't care enough about Battlegrounds to relearn how to play with buddies, but it seems like a mistake to introduce this system that speeds up the game while also getting rid of armor (temporarily?) and like quadrupling the gold cost to hit level 5.
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L0cke17 posted:At first they were fun, but now I absolutely hate the buddies. Especially if someone quits early and doesnt play any minions you're just so far behind because you dont get any significant progress on getting your buddy if you face a ghost with no minions. Yeah it's kind of dumb how your buddy meter relies on your opponents helping you. Guy played one minion and upgraded on 2? Get hosed. Guy played two Icky Imps? Congrats on your 35% buddy meter by turn 2.
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Elysium posted:Yeah it's kind of dumb how your buddy meter relies on your opponents helping you. Guy played one minion and upgraded on 2? Get hosed. Guy played two Icky Imps? Congrats on your 35% buddy meter by turn 2. The real buddies were the opponents you played against all along
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Elysium posted:Yeah it's kind of dumb how your buddy meter relies on your opponents helping you. Guy played one minion and upgraded on 2? Get hosed. Guy played two Icky Imps? Congrats on your 35% buddy meter by turn 2. I think this is the reason why the hearthstone team refused to release the math behind the progress meters on the buddies.. rather than being too difficult to understand for the average player, the logic behind the progression is moronic and too easy to exploit / meta game.
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Finally made the push to legend with bolner otk shaman after bouncing up and down diamond 1 for the last week. It's really good against pallies which is basically 90% of my pocket meta. Dunno what I expect or even want from this mini expansion. Maybe some more control and disruption tools to slow down those boring aggro decks that can win by turn 5?
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Oenis posted:Finally made the push to legend with bolner otk shaman after bouncing up and down diamond 1 for the last week. It's really good against pallies which is basically 90% of my pocket meta. Well I watched Zeddy's video on the speculation around the Mini set and I think he made a good point about how the previous end of year mini set (The Darkmoon races) brought back all of the mechanics from the expansions of that year.. so we could see more Frenzy, Tradable, and Honorable Kill cards from this set, and more support for some of the deck archetypes they evidently wanted to get off the ground but never did.. stuff like beast hunter, big spell mage, maybe even burgle rogue (which did get off the ground but not really because of the burgle effect battlecrys). I really doubt they give much support at all for the deck archetypes that have been entrenched for a while now.. I can't see hand warlock, beast druid, face hunter or the other prominent quest decks getting much in the way of support.
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Starsfan posted:
Sweet summer child. I'm expecting a bunch of pirate warrior buffs, possibly some more overstatted charge minions, and a few poorly thought out legendaries that get nerfed a few weeks later after they've completely poo poo all over the meta.
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Some people are still playing Trogg Paladin, and the worst thing about it is how it slows down my Ignite animation. Still got in 6 casts for the OTK though.
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I bet fire Mage gets some love, deathrattle Rogue/Hunter, weapon or rush warrior, zoo/token warlock, big/heal Paladin, burn/spell damage shaman, ramp/choose one Druid, Fel DH, priest who knows/cares
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isnt the miniset established long in advance? no reason to assume theyre going to patch up under-performing archetypes
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Yeah, this is always what everyone wants, but not what actually happens. See Mr. Smite. Still cool to be hopeful, though.
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Battlegrounds is hilarious right now with the crazy imbalance between the various buddies. For the new heroes, Bru'kan seems pretty good but not insane, Drek'Thar feels awful with a bad buddy and a weak hero power, Vandar can abuse Tarecgosa so he's great but Tavish is even better. I can't believe Tavish's hero power is free right now but I'm going to keep abusing it until the patch hits.
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:I bet fire Mage gets some love, deathrattle Rogue/Hunter, weapon or rush warrior, zoo/token warlock, big/heal Paladin, burn/spell damage shaman, ramp/choose one Druid, Fel DH, priest who knows/cares In the proper spirit of Warsong Valley Demon Hunter's are going to get a card that just stomps on everyone and makes it easy mode for them.
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