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NorgLyle posted:Battlegrounds is hilarious right now with the crazy imbalance between the various buddies. Tavish is close to but not quite the most degenerate hero in the history of the game. He's currently averaging very slightly over a 3.00 finish, which is more busted than Sneed and Scabbs at their best. I think Jandice got to 2.93 at the peak of Pogos, and that's the worst it's ever been.
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# ? Feb 1, 2022 10:10 |
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# ? Jun 9, 2024 10:20 |
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What are the odds in BG of a game going to turn 15 and literally never seeing an Argus? Let's say I hit level 4 at turn 7 and literally no one in the game has an Argus on their board and I roll an average of 7 times a turn and LITERALLY NEVER SEE AN ARGUS.
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# ? Feb 1, 2022 17:21 |
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Elysium posted:What are the odds in BG of a game going to turn 15 and literally never seeing an Argus? I have no idea what the odds are but it happens to me fairly often soooooo probably not bad
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# ? Feb 1, 2022 18:34 |
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are you surprised tarecgosa got nerfed? i'm not surprised tarecgosa got nerfed https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23769124/22-2-1-patch-notes Millicient's bomb minion moved from tier 3 to tier 4, Tarecgosa moved from tier 3 to tier 4. They REALLY wanted to get the Tarecgosa nerf out quickly... quote:Developer’s Note: Because this is a hotfix change, the changes will not show correctly while hovering over the minions in the shop, on the hero select screen, or when hovering over the Buddy Meter. This will be corrected in a future update.
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# ? Feb 1, 2022 20:33 |
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Lum_ posted:are you surprised tarecgosa got nerfed? i'm not surprised tarecgosa got nerfed I can't recall the last final two I had where the other guy didn't have Tarecgosa, so I'm glad they pushed this out server side. On another note, every time I go into mercenaries training ground and assign a guy to train, my game crashes. It still assigns the merc but is anyone else having this happen?
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# ? Feb 1, 2022 21:17 |
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Did they fix the bug where you get locked out of duels?
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# ? Feb 1, 2022 21:41 |
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:Did they fix the bug where you get locked out of duels? Nope, that is coming in the next big patch. I assume it is something they can't hotfix. I think there is a work around if you have another device you can use to log in to hearthstone and try and get into duels.
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# ? Feb 1, 2022 22:03 |
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Lum_ posted:are you surprised tarecgosa got nerfed? i'm not surprised tarecgosa got nerfed Whilst I’m glad they have, I find it also interesting that ‘old’ Blizzard (the one who made all these IP, rather than the hollowed out Acti skin puppet they are), the one that was UI/UX obsessed, absolutely would not have done this. The very fact it wouldn’t end up consistent in the UI would have delayed the change. Not necessarily a complaint (though I share that UX feeling, so I’d prefer it) but just… interesting.
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# ? Feb 1, 2022 22:35 |
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Lum_ posted:are you surprised tarecgosa got nerfed? i'm not surprised tarecgosa got nerfed (Up until the final turn I had two regular Tarecgosa and decided to combine them since I grabbed the Nadina)
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 03:53 |
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The Tarecgosa nerf is good but Milli's bomb nerf won't do much. Her passive will get you to midgame to grab it, and once you have it, it's so easy to force draws at worst. It needs a damage nerf
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 05:55 |
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Fun buddy fact: if Reno can get Elder Taggawag with Murozond, his hero power will be triggered by it. This is a recipe for infinite golden minions in a single tribe comp with a flex spot.
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 12:16 |
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Man, this scenario seems like it happens way too often. It's turn 10. I won every single match and maxed out the buddy meter until the previous one where I got smoked a bit. Is the buddy meter hard coded to stop at 98% for T3 buddies, because it seems like that happens A LOT. I'm about to get smoked next round, and I'll die without ever even getting to play my second buddy.
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 16:29 |
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Elysium posted:Man, this scenario seems like it happens way too often. It appears so. Typically I think you're meant to get tier 2/3/4 buddies on turns 4/5/6 and 8/10/12 respectively, but the number of times that I've been stuck at 98% or 99% for the second round of buddies after a turn is ridiculous.
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 16:53 |
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look they could tell us how the buddy meter works, exactly, but most of us just wouldn't get it because we're idiots (this is the actual dev stance)
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 17:08 |
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Don't we already know how it works though? It's based on damage, hits, wins, divine shield pops, etc. It has a cap per turn. It's not a mystery.
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 17:16 |
Disargeria posted:Don't we already know how it works though? It's based on damage, hits, wins, divine shield pops, etc. It has a cap per turn. It's not a mystery. This is how it works with obfuscation, not how it works exactly. There are no turn by turn decisions or long term strategies to devise because the specifics have not been given.
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 17:19 |
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Disargeria posted:Don't we already know how it works though? It's based on damage, hits, wins, divine shield pops, etc. It has a cap per turn. It's not a mystery.
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 17:28 |
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I guess I don't see how knowing the exact percentages is going to change any strategy. You're completely at the mercy of RNG to not get buddy-screwed by players with overly strong or weak boards, much in the way you also get screwed by the minions offered, other player picks, and fight orders. It's a chaotic mode by design.
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 17:37 |
RNG and playing exact %'s is a big factor in the top tier play of most card games. Poker, Magic, Blackjack, Hearthstone, etc. Otoh I'll grant the majority of hearthstone players never moved beyond valuestone.
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 18:37 |
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You're not wrong, but I think some context is important because we see it within standard Hearthstone itself. As power levels crept higher, we saw more and more solitaire style decks present. These decks did not care what your opponent did or played. They did not care if you countered their cards or not. They had one game plan and it would either go off and win, or would fizzle and lose. Mirror matches between solitaire involved very little strategy, you simple played the game out to see who drew their combo first. You could argue that maybe picking certain decks to play against the field mattered, but the important distinction is that the turn to turn gameplay was quite dire with so many of these decks present. In competitive hearthstone, these were non-existent and instead featured many tactical decks, where turn based decision making really mattered. I'm just saying that BGs are leaning more and more into the explosive powercreep solitaire model where there is no point in tactical buddy placements, you are either going to get screwed by the RNG or blessed by it, so your best optimization is to double down on your own gameplan.
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 19:05 |
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play dh and choose pig for the brawl
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 20:47 |
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Disargeria posted:
I don't know about claiming there are no solitaire decks in competitive hearthstone.. Am I insane or during the last world championships were the most popular decks not Garrote rogue, Quest OTK DH, and Celestial Alignment Druid?
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# ? Feb 2, 2022 21:35 |
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Whenever I see things like the Golden Standard Bundle ($49.99 for 10 packs and 2 Legendaries), I realize that despite the amount of Hearthstone I play and my collection I do not qualify as whatever they see as a whale. Do people actually care about Golden cards? I've always tended to disenchant them for dust (aside from the cards the generate other cards just because I think that's neat) and I guess I don't really notice the animations in game very often. For the longest time I only had Golden Preparations just because of RNG when I was opening packs back in the day but I've never thought that I should go and start collecting a whole deck of Golden things.
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 13:38 |
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I've never paid for a golden card, and I nuke most golden cards I get for crafting. The exceptions are cards that create other cards, which I keep in golden. If you have golden card creators then ultimately you have every other gold card anyway, even the Coin.
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 13:45 |
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I try to keep golden cards but I don't ever craft or buy them.
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 15:17 |
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same only dusting them if out of dust and desperately needed
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 15:54 |
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I never dust golden legendaries but everything else gets nuked to accelerate completion theyre worth the most dust but I just can't bring myself to do it
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 15:56 |
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Nice nerf. Good plan there (Also Tavish remains insane).
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 16:48 |
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NorgLyle posted:Whenever I see things like the Golden Standard Bundle ($49.99 for 10 packs and 2 Legendaries), I realize that despite the amount of Hearthstone I play and my collection I do not qualify as whatever they see as a whale. Do people actually care about Golden cards? I've always tended to disenchant them for dust (aside from the cards the generate other cards just because I think that's neat) and I guess I don't really notice the animations in game very often. I'm fairly sure for most folks buying this bundle they would dust the goldens and then create the legendary they wanted.
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 17:34 |
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Anyone know of a good website for PvP mercenaries? I'm using the training grounds to level mercs and would like to know what the meta might be.
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 17:35 |
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NorgLyle posted:Nice nerf. Good plan there (Also Tavish remains insane). A good and successful nerf doesn't have to make a thing completely useless.
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 17:49 |
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When I first started out a couple months back I disenchanted every single gold card I got for the dust, now that I have the cards for a couple meta deck archetypes I just let my duplicates pile up in the hopes of big refund payouts on nerfed cards in the future.. When the cards rotate to wild I will consider dusting any gold cards (and legendaries + epics) I don't think will ever be competitively viable in that format. I got another legendary off of a random Alterac pack last night and I have to say my luck has been on point this expansion got the hero cards for Hunter, Paladin, Warlock, Rogue (since dusted), Druid and Shaman.. Usually I pull Grand Totem Eye'sor and that 8 mana druid legendary that makes the next 3 spells you draw cast when drawn.. I still gotta figure out a way to use that loving thing in a druid deck **Oh and remembering the reason I wanted to post in this thread in the first place, the Golden card packs are generally considered to be really poor value for your money, even recognizing that they are basically wild card packs. Stay away ***And another thing that I'm just hearing about now (that I actually noticed last night but I didn't think anything of it) - there was supposed to be a lunar new year event for February 2nd which was a sequence of daily quests where you got packs for playing various game modes. Apparently there was a bugged implementation and some players are getting like.. 4 seperate copies of special daily quest sequences offering card packs.. as many as you have open slots in your daily quests. I got 2 of them last night, one was called "happy new year" and offered exclusively Scholomance and Darkmoon Faire packs, the other was "happy lunar new year" which was the one you were supposed to get for Feb 2nd 2022 offering Alterac Valley and Stormwind packs. Some people also got 2x "happy winter veil" quest lines which also offered a bunch of packs from this year and last year. It's like they accidently loaded all of these event quest events onto accounts. So.... get your free packs while you can I guess. Starsfan fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Mayveena posted:Anyone know of a good website for PvP mercenaries? I'm using the training grounds to level mercs and would like to know what the meta might be. Only the decklists website: https://hearthstone-decks.net/mercenaries-decks/ All the other PvP discussion happens on Twitter/Discord/Reddit. Edit: HSReplay had a PvP tier list, but it is paywall'd
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 18:32 |
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AnacondaHL posted:Only the decklists website: Because I'm old and don't know a lot about Twitter (I do have an account but that's only for trying to find an Xbox ), how would I engage on Twitter with Mercenaries discussion?
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 18:34 |
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I used to auto-dust Gold cards, but now that I have roughly 100% of all playable cards (87% total between Wild/Standard), I can just waste dust getting my Tonk deck to 100% Gold. I'm maybe? like 800 dust away from that. If your collection is small and you need the dust, go for it. It's just this fancy thing for high-level Wild players to show off how much time and money we've wasted. You can always re-craft them later if you're into that.
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 19:22 |
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Burn Shaman's pretty fun. The 'OTK' is confusing to say the least, but Shaman has decent cards to play for board which is a nice crutch.
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 22:14 |
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I don't dust golden legendaries or non-duplicate epics since I might want to make a deck with them and don't want to recraft them later if they're good. I do wish they'd implement an upgrade to gold function where it would be cheaper to convert an existing legendary to gold than have to craft a golden from scratch even if you already own the base. I'm not huge on golden cards, but every now and then a great combo of art/flavor/performance comes along and blowing 1600 dust on an upgrade might be worth it, like Instructor Fireheart or Guff Wildheart.
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 00:07 |
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How do you not un-add me after this lol. I kicked his rear end with my lovely Quest Pirate. Like, this is not good? Love rage adds. ### Pirates OK? # Class: Warrior # Format: Wild # # 2x (1) Bloodsail Corsair # 2x (1) Bloodsail Deckhand # 2x (1) N'Zoth's First Mate # 1x (1) Patches the Pirate # 1x (1) Raid the Docks # 2x (1) Sky Raider # 2x (1) Small-Time Buccaneer # 2x (1) Southsea Deckhand # 2x (2) Fogsail Freebooter # 2x (2) Harbor Scamp # 2x (2) Parachute Brigand # 2x (2) Ship's Cannon # 1x (3) Ancharrr # 2x (3) Defias Cannoneer # 2x (3) Southsea Captain # 1x (5) Loatheb # 1x (6) Mr. Smite # 1x (7) Rokara, the Valorous # AAEBAaPLAwb6DpG8At6tA5j2A7+ABLyKBAzUBeUH+w+CsAKgvQLdrQPpsAP+5wOV9gOcgQSmigSvoAQA # # To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 00:38 |
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I told them GG and tried to be nice but as you can see it didn't work out so....
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 00:47 |
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# ? Jun 9, 2024 10:20 |
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Only one person has bothered to rage add me when I OTK them on 8 out of nowhere. Well, I honestly don't know if people know what to expect when I play basically only minions or generated spells as Mage. But a lot of people mouse over the Chandler and don't seem to know what it is. Also they really dropped the ball with the flavour test on that one.
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 00:53 |