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Desert Bus posted:If I share my login with someone so they can try the game out properly before they decide to sink a bunch of cash into packs will Blizzard care or will they just assume i'm playing somewhere else? I know it seems like a stupid question and I am about 99% sure it's safe but I don't want to risk a ban. I've spent way too much time and money getting a near complete standard collection and a roughly 2/3rds complete wild collection. Obviously we'd be communicating so we don't log in at the same time. Should be entirely fine. I've been playing on and off from like three computers and two phones from God knows where all the time, including at least three countries, even interrupting existing sessions constantly. Sometimes I swap from a computer to a phone when I gotta get going mid game and just reconnect via cellular without any problem. Now, obviously those devices are all me and I don't actually share the account, but I couldn't imagine the Blizzard servers could see the difference in any way, let alone automatically. Even if they would get behind account sharing, I'd highly assume they'd warn or notify you or maybe a temp ban or something at worse, not throwing you under the bus permanently for showing a friend the game. Never heard of this happening either, unless it was actual account selling via eBay and whatnot.
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Goons Are Great posted:Should be entirely fine. I've been playing on and off from like three computers and two phones from God knows where all the time, including at least three countries, even interrupting existing sessions constantly. Sometimes I swap from a computer to a phone when I gotta get going mid game and just reconnect via cellular without any problem. Now, obviously those devices are all me and I don't actually share the account, but I couldn't imagine the Blizzard servers could see the difference in any way, let alone automatically. That was pretty much my thoughts on it, but I didn't want to risk hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars. I think my new weed is making me paranoid lol.
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Jun 7, 2020 17:25
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Desert Bus posted:If I share my login with someone so they can try the game out properly before they decide to sink a bunch of cash into packs will Blizzard care or will they just assume i'm playing somewhere else? I know it seems like a stupid question and I am about 99% sure it's safe but I don't want to risk a ban. I've spent way too much time and money getting a near complete standard collection and a roughly 2/3rds complete wild collection. Obviously we'd be communicating so we don't log in at the same time. Your friend can borrow your decks. Much safer in my opinion than risking your account as account sharing is against the Terms of Service. https://twitter.com/playhearthstone/status/996072975290920960?lang=en
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Desert Bus posted:That was pretty much my thoughts on it, but I didn't want to risk hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars. I think my new weed is making me paranoid lol. Yea, I'd say just have them make a new account, go through the tutorials, then use spectating and borrow decks.
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Jun 7, 2020 18:09
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Oh right that's a thing, yeah that might actually even be better because this way they already can get free packs, some quests etc going while playing the full range of decks. Also even though Whizzbang is in wild (assuming you don't want to introduce them to that already), Zayle is still in standard and offers some fun decks to learn. Of course that's only an option when they're already sold on playing a bit as crafting is somewhat expensive and buying it via real money is at like, I think 20 bucks?
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Jun 7, 2020 19:38
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For those jumping into wild arms needing to backfill stuff, Naxxramas adventure is on offer right now, which provides some really quite important cards. The adventure is stupidly easy with modern cards and decks now.
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Jun 7, 2020 20:27
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Granted, there’s also only a couple of cards that still see any regular play in Wild (Loatheb and Duplicate) outside of gimmicky decks.
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Jun 7, 2020 21:18
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Yeah only a few cards in Naxx are actually good, so it might be better to craft them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLz8jwdlvaY
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Jun 7, 2020 22:13
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Loathe and duplicate for sure, but there's also Deathlord, Mad Scientist, and Void Aller that are pretty important. Kel'Thuzad himself is quite good for most res decks or other stuff that can cheat minions out. And there's some legendaries that are safe to dust too... Maexnna especially is not worth keeping, ever.
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Desert Bus posted:If I share my login with someone so they can try the game out properly before they decide to sink a bunch of cash into packs will Blizzard care or will they just assume i'm playing somewhere else? I know it seems like a stupid question and I am about 99% sure it's safe but I don't want to risk a ban. I've spent way too much time and money getting a near complete standard collection and a roughly 2/3rds complete wild collection. Obviously we'd be communicating so we don't log in at the same time. Look, you’re amongst friends, you can just say you’re buying rank, nobody is going to hold it against you.
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Jun 7, 2020 23:03
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Anybody want to let me spectate a win for 80 gold? Any mode counts (even against the innkeeper). Carcass#11432
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Jun 8, 2020 00:05
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Shockeh posted:Look, you’re amongst friends, you can just say you’re buying rank, nobody is going to hold it against you. I'm actually not, I'm really not that great at the game. What I am doing is buying my way to having as complete a set as possible. Getting ALL the cards will feel like a much greater achievement to me than any rank I gain. And I forgot about sharing decks, thanks!
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Just went to probably about turn 20 or so vs pure Paladin with my Big Druid deck. I wish I could get it on hsreplay, some of the best playing and luckiest draws I’ve ever had. Both got down to 1 health, then stabilized at 9 before I was able to overwhelm his taunts.
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Shockeh posted:Look, you’re amongst friends, you can just say you’re buying rank, nobody is going to hold it against you. First thought: People do that? Second thought: Of course they do that. Not gonna lie, that's pretty much nerd rock bottom.
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Jun 8, 2020 15:45
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I'll pay 200 bucks anytime to finally get this one time reward of reaching legend before crashing my MMR into the oblivion where it belongs so that I can act like I know jackshit about this game while falling through the ranks over the next few months and ending up on bronze 5 for the rest of my life I'm a professional ok
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Jun 8, 2020 16:42
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbsbCO5qC5A pirates coming to BGs as well!
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Jun 8, 2020 18:07
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Hearthstone trailer team are the best team in blizzard.
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Jun 8, 2020 18:34
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VENGEANCE
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Jun 8, 2020 18:40
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Felfire Ragnaros, hell yeah. Also tempted to buy that Starseeker bundle, if only to not have to do deal with Illidan. Know the trailer team has consistently knocked it out of the park, but dang this one is a real banger 
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Jun 8, 2020 18:54
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Blooming Brilliant posted:Felfire Ragnaros, hell yeah. another well employed strategy by team 5 to sell packs, make the most unlikable default hero
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Jun 8, 2020 18:56
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Holy poo poo I love this
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Regalingualius posted:VENGEANCE Thanks to Vulperal Scoundrel, I discovered that all 6 tokens generated by Command the Illidari still equivalently yell this 
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Jun 8, 2020 19:19
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Oh my god Holy Mackerel is out of bgs
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Jun 8, 2020 21:13
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yeah and good riddance It’s so good that sometimes it’s best to take it when it’s offered even if you don't intend to use it just to keep it out of other players’ lineups.
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Jun 8, 2020 21:23
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Holy Mackerel had some absurd win rate for people who had it. I might start playing BG again with these new pirates.
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The rotating pool of tribes adds immediate complexity to the game, notably because all the tribes aren't in equal numbers across tiers. So each of the 6 versions of the game have different %'s, which can be brute force calculated and memorized, but may give way more of an advantage to players using deck trackers. Double-edged sword here, let's see how it goes~
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Jun 8, 2020 22:17
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I love this. Seriously looks like a great patch.
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AnacondaHL posted:The rotating pool of tribes adds immediate complexity to the game, notably because all the tribes aren't in equal numbers across tiers. So each of the 6 versions of the game have different %'s, which can be brute force calculated and memorized, but may give way more of an advantage to players using deck trackers. I am interested to see how certain comps will become better/worse when others are missing. For example, maybe big demons will be really good if murlocs are gone. Chernabog fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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Jun 8, 2020 22:30
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AnacondaHL posted:The rotating pool of tribes adds immediate complexity to the game, notably because all the tribes aren't in equal numbers across tiers. So each of the 6 versions of the game have different %'s, which can be brute force calculated and memorized, but may give way more of an advantage to players using deck trackers. As someone who plays solely on iOS, this would likely make me stop playing BG altogether.
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I seriously doubt a majority of the lobby is using 3rd party anything below 8k.
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Chernabog posted:I am interested to see how certain comps will become better/worse when others are missing. For example, maybe big demons will be really good if murlocs are gone. Since there are "only" 6 modes now (contrast to, say, if there were 7 tribes and 5 are chosen, making 21 different game modes), I predict people will come up with quick tips like this for all 6 variations, but again I worry if the complexity will make deck tracker effectively required. Either way I can't wait to explore -Mech mode.
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As a 10 mana spell, I find Puzzlebox distasteful as an effect - ‘Hey, I’m losing, so let’s flip the loving table and play Pachinko instead’. As something that can come out of various discounts or random effects, it can get into the loving sea. Who at Blizzard likes this poo poo enough they keep making it? What even went through their minds as ‘Yeah it’s not OP, but shall we make the game just... random?’
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The new powers are so cool! I'll admit - I kind of liked the game better pre-dragons and would have preferred an attempt to have it balanced around 4/6 tribes instead of 5/6. But I haven't thought about it hard enough, my guess is minion distribution would become too volatile.
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DNK posted:I seriously doubt a majority of the lobby is using 3rd party anything below 8k. Perhaps, but I don’t play BG that much now anyway since I’m terrible at it and can’t meaningfully push past 6K. The “feelbad” that would come with such a development would just be the thing that pushes me off the ledge I’m already teetering over.
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Shockeh posted:As a 10 mana spell, I find Puzzlebox distasteful as an effect - ‘Hey, I’m losing, so let’s flip the loving table and play Pachinko instead’. As something that can come out of various discounts or random effects, it can get into the loving sea. To play devils advocate I really like it and it makes the video game fun Edit: to be fair my main point would actually be that ship has long sailed from hearthstone so embrace it
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teacup posted:To play devils advocate I really like it and it makes the video game fun This is my general flow chart post Dragons: Are you drunk? Y/N If yes, play Hearthstone, it's funny and wacky If no, play Runeterra, it will be hard to play when you're drunk later
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Shockeh posted:As a 10 mana spell, I find Puzzlebox distasteful as an effect - ‘Hey, I’m losing, so let’s flip the loving table and play Pachinko instead’. As something that can come out of various discounts or random effects, it can get into the loving sea. Adding randomness is one of the key ways to make game experiences different, and thus memorable, and HS does overdo it but it makes sense for Blizzard because first and foremost their games are designed to be prolific, and the RNG in HS lets bad players beat good ones every now and then, and so it keeps them engaged (in Overwatch it's the existence of ults, and I would argue their drive to make the game prolific is the sole reason they've doggedly stuck to the MMO trinity of tank/damage/healer roles, but that's another topic). As another poster mentioned, the RNG ship has sailed long ago in HS and it used to annoy me too, but then I stopped worrying and learned to love the Box. And I really miss Tess Greymane. Hopefully when they do another incarnation of her they'll retain some of that original design. fake edit : I think I remember reading here a long time ago that statistically (based on numbers crunched from the original Yogg) playing ten random spells gives you a favorable outcome about 66% of the time. I wonder if I remember that number right, and whether it's still true with the current card pool.
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How are Overwatch ults RNG?
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Disargeria posted:How are Overwatch ults RNG? It's the this part, not RNG: quote:bad players beat good ones every now and then
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