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Olpainless posted:That honestly looks pretty fun. I mean, as much as a couple dozen golden commons will give you... all together I bet it's still less than a single legendary.
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Kalko posted:Haven't seen anyone mention Duels for a while in this thread, which is understandable if you've spent more than five minutes with the mode, but seeing as how I have been persevering with it I figured I'd share what I've learned in case anyone else is also chasing that 12-0 achievement. Thanks for the write-up, I've been mostly playing Duels the last few months myself. I've only made it to 12 once with discard Warlock, but have been enjoying trying out new variations. I've been having ok success lately using this weapons rogue as a starting point, although I've struggled with bucket dilution and finding the right balance between aggro, combo, and refill.
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It is really neat that they're doing a 'exactly as released' mode with a ladder. I can't even remember what the meta looked like in the very early days.
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orangelex44 posted:I mean, as much as a couple dozen golden commons will give you... all together I bet it's still less than a single legendary. 50 per card, and you could potentially have 143*2, 286 basic cards. That's... a lot of dust.
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PneumonicBook posted:It is really neat that they're doing a 'exactly as released' mode with a ladder. I can't even remember what the meta looked like in the very early days. It looked like garbage, 30 minute mirror matches between fatigue warriors made up of 29 removal cards and Grom Hellscream.
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Coming back after not playing since October. Do they still do the free deck for returning players? I think it was a 4-month timer
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sirtommygunn posted:It looked like garbage, 30 minute mirror matches between fatigue warriors made up of 29 removal cards and Grom Hellscream. Yes but consider that there are no demon hunters.
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sirtommygunn posted:It looked like garbage, 30 minute mirror matches between fatigue warriors made up of 29 removal cards and Grom Hellscream.
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i mean i guess i want to play sunshine hunter a little but ehhh. they're totally going to end up with it as the rotating mode they said they wouldn't do in like 2 years oh actually yeah 5mana auctioneer miracle rogue and freeze mage let's go it seems like it will just get old quick Quotey fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Feb 9, 2021 |
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Feb 9, 2021 20:10
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oh, the three kingdoms portraits are out
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PneumonicBook posted:It is really neat that they're doing a 'exactly as released' mode with a ladder. I can't even remember what the meta looked like in the very early days. Gorehowl + Alextraza + Charge Warrior Turn 1 Coin + Innervate + Chillwind Yeti, into Force of Nature + Savage Roar Druid Turn 4 Prep + Sprint into Auctioneer and Leeroy + Shadowstep Miracle Rogue Freeze Mage Pyro+Equality Paladin Hunter, Priest, and Shaman kinda sucked And of course Zoo Warlock always Zoo eternally. Handlock with OG giants and Jaraxxus as well.
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I’m very happy at that news, I’ve been wanting a core set shakeup for a long time
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Remembering how warlocks could do 20 charge damage from hand
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Charge forward! *Coin Noise* A FIGHT, COUNT ME I-HEY EVERYONE, GET IN HERE! Oh I misread 
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AnacondaHL posted:Hot News: basic set and classic set changes announced: This is cool but uh, does that mean buying the darkmoon set was a waste because it'll be free...?
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Acerbatus posted:This is cool but uh, does that mean buying the darkmoon set was a waste because it'll be free...? Well, the whole game is free so buying anything...
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Acerbatus posted:This is cool but uh, does that mean buying the darkmoon set was a waste because it'll be free...? The Darkmoon set is not free, the free core set is replacing the basic & classic cards in standard.
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Acerbatus posted:This is cool but uh, does that mean buying the darkmoon set was a waste because it'll be free...? ??? Darkmoon is not free, and will still be its own set for Standard and Wild play. The new free Core Set is completely separate. The one thing to do would be to stop crafting old Wild cards or buying Wild packs until the contents of the Core Set are revealed, because we're about to get a bunch of cards for free. edit: here is what we're getting for free: 88 cards returning from Classic (54 class cards, 34 neutral cards). 54 cards returning from Basic (41 class cards, 13 neutral cards). 55 cards returning from Wild (36 class cards, 19 neutral cards). 4 cards returning from Ashes of Outland (4 Demon Hunter Class cards). 4 cards returning from Demon Hunter Initiate. 1 card returning from Hall of Fame (Shadowform). 29 new cards (20 Class cards, 9 Neutral cards).
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AnacondaHL posted:4 cards returning from Ashes of Outland (4 Demon Hunter Class cards). also I will lol heartily if Skull of Guldan is one of the 4 cards chosen to become Core 
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AnacondaHL posted:??? I must have misunderstood because I thought it said that the new core set was using cards from year of the phoenix standard.
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AnacondaHL posted:also I will lol heartily if Skull of Guldan is one of the 4 cards chosen to become Core God I hope not
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Which sets won't get a single card in the core set, I wonder. I could do without bringing back anything from GvG or the Grand Tournament.
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Three years ago I made the joke that they would reprint Dr. Boom with new art and I stand by that prediction. Hopefully the boring top end of Classic will disappear and get replaced with at least potentially playable cards. Nobody ever wanted a War Golem and I don't need to see any more dumb Boulderfist Ogre memes.
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PneumonicBook posted:It is really neat that they're doing a 'exactly as released' mode with a ladder. I can't even remember what the meta looked like in the very early days. So not much, really 
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Mayveena posted:Sorcerer's Apprentice makes the cut? Very curious. They'll be rotating cards in and out every year so I guess the answer for any given card is 'sometimes'?
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Blasmeister posted:I wonder if they'll change the tavern brawl reward to the current set now Seems like it. Chernabog posted:Is saving classic packs pointless now? Probably.
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Chernabog posted:Is saving classic packs pointless now? Hold them for now. It looks like they will become "Legacy" packs. If you're missing cards from HOF cards you may be able to open them in these packs after this is live. edit: it's also possible they will not change and still offer the same cards, so it wouldn't matter if you opened them now or later AnacondaHL fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Feb 10, 2021 |
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sirtommygunn posted:Which sets won't get a single card in the core set, I wonder. I could do without bringing back anything from GvG or the Grand Tournament. Welcome to the Grand Tournament, Champion! e: wait also Nexus-Champion Saraad. That's probably the coolest card in the game. Jeza fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Feb 10, 2021 |
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Sloppy posted:Thanks for the write-up, I've been mostly playing Duels the last few months myself. I've only made it to 12 once with discard Warlock, but have been enjoying trying out new variations. Rogue is very inconsistent. I try it every now and then but you basically need to highroll every game; when you get your weapon buffs and Secret Passages and card draw you can smash someone's face in on turn five, but if the game goes much longer than that you generally lose. Compare it to the pre-nerf DH where they could hit you for 5-15 damage every turn, weapon or not. For overall rankings I'd say Mage > Shaman, Warlock, Hunter, Druid > Warrior > DH, Priest, Rogue > Paladin. I haven't actually seen a lot of Hunters since the patch but the ones I do see are crazy good, and I think the class is still really strong (Deathrattle only, of course). Playing Duels so much lately has reminded me that this game has emotes. I don't encounter them much in Standard anymore but everyone loves spamming them in Duels games. Is it because there are actual stakes? I mean, 150g isn't much, but it's either that or it's a similar mentality to serial gankers in WoW where the thrill of the gank is that you can't possibly lose, and with the power level of some of these Duels decks maybe they feel that same kind of high?
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orangelex44 posted:Of note, this is a significant reduction from the current number of cards in Basic/Classic combined (235 versus 240+143=383) - they're keeping just a bit over a third of each set. Not coincidentally, about a third of the Core set will also either come from Wild or be new. I wonder if this will result in them tightening up the themes of each class. I'm not particularly aware of how many different things each class has going on at the moment but I'm sure a few of them could use some work. Either way, I only want one thing from this : Tess Greymane back in Standard! I guess we will find out what makes the cut next weekend.
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Jeza posted:e: wait also Nexus-Champion Saraad. That's probably the coolest card in the game.
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Kalko posted:Rogue is very inconsistent. I try it every now and then but you basically need to highroll every game; when you get your weapon buffs and Secret Passages and card draw you can smash someone's face in on turn five, but if the game goes much longer than that you generally lose. Compare it to the pre-nerf DH where they could hit you for 5-15 damage every turn, weapon or not. Is Paladin really that bad? Didn’t someone say they had a pretty good gimmick deck with the sword?
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Yeah, that was me, and in like four of my winning games I got the sword in my opening hand (three of them it was in the leftmost slot for the discount) in a deck of 40+ cards. Paladin is the weakest class but when the stars align you can do great things. I'm definitely going to try it again because the Gem + Goggles was actually pretty consistently good for dumping annoying minions early, but in each of the games I lost it was because my expensive cards (which you need to make the deck work) all appeared on the left side of my hand, blocking the Goggles. Here's the starting deck if you want to try it. It was actually the most fun I've had in Duels yet. 
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