prolix
2703
Have you all no sense of decency, sirs, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
p.s. Wheeljack, would you mind posting your divine shield deck? I’m interested in giving something like that a whirl (although bizarrely after all this time I still don’t have Blood Knight).
Yeah, sure. You can see it in it’s current version here.
It’s fairly standard, I think.
It was originally built off slantz’s idea for a deck that tries to get mileage out of Redemption. That’s why it has Sludge Belchers and Harvest Golem, who are arguably slightly off theme for divine shield.
- The Avenge is in there purely for psychological purposes, since not many people run Redemption. It probably doesn’t need to be there.
- I’ve been running this deck on and off for over a year. I gradually added Tyrion and Sylvanas, but it functions without them.
- Coghammer is cool! I’d probably consider running another except I only own one.
- Sunfury Protector / Annoy-o-tron / Harvest Golem / Shielded Minibot can all be swapped depending on how aggro the meta looks.
- It has no silence or hard removal. I should probably find a way to get Equality in there.
prolix
2705
That looks fun. Of course, I don’t have a Coghammer either. Grrr.
Cairne, which I do have, would fit nicely into this deck though.
Cairne is a pretty close replacement for Sylvanas. The coghammer was a recent add, like Avenge, that I just added because I realized I had one. I think I previously had another minibot or something.
Muster for Battle might fit there, but I don’t know that it even needs to be a weapon.
Spock
2707
So I had three more runs over the past few days. Three wins as a Hunter, just two wins as a Rogue, and, just now, five wins as a Warlock. My overall average has dropped to about 4 wins per game, from a high of 4.5 earlier this summer. I never see pushovers anymore! Everyone’s got a good deck, everyone makes reasonable plays. I’m hoping things will get easier when the expansion arrives.
My Hunter run was my first-ever Arena run with that class, and I was surprised how fun it was. The play of the hand was simpler than for other classes, and I think I made fewer misplays. But the deck was also weaker than those I normally get. The Hunter’s common cards just aren’t as good as those of most other classes, it seems to me.
Statistically, Rogue is one of my better Arena classes, but you wouldn’t know it from all the misplays I made in that run! I drafted three Deadly Poisons and made inefficient use of the card repeatedly. But my draft was also a bit unlucky; I had no real standout minions, one Backstab, no Goblin Barbers, no SI:7s.
The Warlock run was fun, and I played okay, but I probably made one or more misplays in most games, even those I won. This Hearthstone thing is harder than it looks!
Sylvanas saved my butt earlier today. I had a damaged Sludge Belcher and a Silver Hand Recruit on the board and my opponent played Dr. Boom. I played Sylvanas and hit his face taking him down to 6 health. He attacked the Belcher with the bots, but unfortunately for him they killed Sylvamas and I got an unopposed Dr. Boom to win next turn. It was a bit of a desperation play, we were both on low health.
But to the original poster, I agree with you, Yserea is awesome, a real game winner if you can survive until turn 9. She also has dragon synergy for those ‘if you have a dragon in your hand’ minions.
Spock
2709
Had a couple good Arena runs. 5 wins as a Warlock, and just now 8 wins as a Mage. I made a lot of misplays as a Warlock, but my Mage run was pretty good. Two of my losses were after I drew poor starting hands and missed a 2- or 3-drop. The third loss, against a Paladin, was avoidable. On turn 3 or 3, I tried to play around an Avenge by hitting face, and it just made things worse. Still, a great run, and it earned me Mogor the Ogre, in all his legendary glory, plus 220 gold or so.
A lucky Friday 14th for me, I had Archmage Antonidas drop in a random pack bought with daily quest gold, very good addition to my mech mage deck, as I can now turn all thode spare parts into fireballs. I also had Chandra drop in a random MtG Origins booster pack late last night. They say things happen in threes, perhaps I should buy a lottery ticket.
Spock
2711
Are there any Blizzard-approved plugins that track your deck as you play, or are such things against the rules? I’ve seen Kripp and other streamers put a card list on the side of the screen, and cards will gray out as they’re played. Is this sort of thing permitted by Blizzard? If so, do any of you use them, and can you recommend one?
Hearthstone Deck Tracker is the most popular and while not officially Blizzard approved, they have said on numerous occasions that it’s not illegal as it does nothing that you couldn’t do with pen and paper.
Get it here:
YouTube review:
Squee
2713
Brakara
2714
Hmm…
Evil Heckler is a straight upgrade from Booty Bay Bodyguard. It’s a common instead of a core card, but I’m trying to think if this is the first time they’ve added a new neutral card that’s strictly better than an existing one (i.e. class cards are often strictly better than neutrals.)
Edit: ice rager is too. I assume they’re trying to get something useful out of those cards, since basically nobody uses them now.
Also, from a quick look over the cards, it seems like some classes did much better than others.
So is tournament attendee, doesn’t really matter if they do that for bad cards anyway. The old ones weren’t really playable, maybe the new one will be. I’d be more concerned if they made a Dr Bam that was a 8/8 that made two 2/2’s that exploded though. It’s not really power creep if it’s only on cards that sucked too much to be used.
Squee
2717
For non-class cards and keeping the same raw stats and mana cost only Dr Boom (Maybe mech-yeti if you consider mech tribal and spare parts noticeably beneficial). More generally speaking the straight up upgrades come in the form of things like shredders (4/3 with another random body which will almost always end up being better just playing a 4/5 yeti for the same price, etc) and mad scientist (2/2 which oh hey look at that it just killed your minion and drew me a card and played the card for me with no mana cost).
If you wanna worry about power creep there are way better cards to be concerned about than +0/+1 Magma Rager and 1 mana cheaper Booty Bay. Basically what Harkonis said about the cards being unplayably bad anyway that even the improved versions in TGT will be unplayable.*
*In constructed. 5/4 taunt for 4 would be tolerable in arena. Not something you’d be excited to be offered but it’s workable.
Also not sure if all the focus on slower decks in TGT is going to matter in the long run. There are some cool cards but not much in the way of staying alive against zoo/face hunter which will kill you by turn 6 anyway. Also disappointed that they still have added fuck-all for silence. Minions keep getting more and more powerful and we’re still basically just limited to owl and spellbreaker.
Waffling on doing the $50 for 50 packs deal or not. Can pick up around 30 packs just in gold at the moment and have enough dust for 6 legendaries. Tempted to buy packs since Hearthstone’s one of the very VERY few games I’ve played regularly for years, but on the other hand I don’t really play it hardcore enough to demand a full card pool so I can make every deck, either. I usually play about an hour a day and bumble up near rank 5 in the last third of the month and then completely lose it because the lack of winstreaks slows advancement down painfully.
Spock
2718
Thanks for this! I’ll check it out.
Sure, I wasn’t worried about power creep so much as those cards being pretty boring.
Really, its kind of a question of if the game is becoming slightly more pay 2 win than it was, and being somewhat unapologetic about it.
Spock
2720
What do you guys do when opponents offer to friend you immediately after playing (usually defeating) them? So far I’ve ignored such friend requests because I suspect my opponent simply wants to vent after having lost. What do you do?
Daagar
2721
Having played someone one time doesn’t make them my friend. Friends are people I know (virtual or otherwise) from somewhere other than a game with no chat - you know, some reason to actually engage with them. I wouldn’t feel bad about ignoring them.
Brakara
2722
Decline unless you want obscenities spewed at you.
