Hearthstone: Forged in the Barrens Chat

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Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

I think wild Elemental Shaman will be fun. They already have a whole year of cards dedicated to it from like 2016 or whenever and now they have that hex machine to really ruin people's day.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2021 01:45

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 08:56

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

GTO posted:

Can you buy packs with gold at a pre launch fireside, or is this just for pre-orders?

Pre-order packs only. New expansion packs are only available to buy with gold on the official release date.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2021 09:02

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

I think the worst part of it is losing the completely random first day or two that used to happen on release, where everyone was trying out weird new homebrews (along with the predictable grumps running face hunter).

Now the new cards have generally been fitted into fairly well optimized decks already and half the people are already playing them.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2021 18:29

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Amoeba102 posted:

I've been playing Yogg DH for the last 2 days, and haven't gotten the rod of roasting once. It's been a lot of games, and yogg is really letting me down. Blur rotates and this deck dies.

It took me about 2 days of casually queuing up Blur Yogg DH on the side to finally get Roasting Rod. Must have been 25+ games. Sometimes RNG just hates you.

When I did finally get it Yogg blasted me in the face no less than 8 times before killing my opponent, which just goes to show what a bastard he is.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2021 10:33

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

I have 20 classic packs unopened. I feel like at this point it's a battle of wills - I'll keep them for years until they offer an incremental improvement to average dust value over what they offer now.

Or if I just need some extra dust.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2021 10:54

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Amoeba102 posted:

Yeah, I managed to get it on my first try when playing ranked at the start of the month. But have just been trying to get the last hurrah for the deck before rotation. I see it only has a 5% chance, I thought it was higher. I knew it was less common, but not that low comparatively. I though maybe 10% v 18% not 5% v 19%.

You are a sucker for punishment. Playing that deck actually killed any desire I had to go achievement hunting afterwards and I definitely won't be going for any "last hurrahs" for bloody Yogg.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2021 11:16

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

NorgLyle posted:

I don't get the Mankirk stuff. I assume it's a reference to something from WoW but I must never have run across the zone where he is featured.

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/16-years-later-world-of-warcraft-players-finally-found-mankriks-wifein-hell/

Which means we'll undoubtedly see the undead version of Mankriks wife in a future card set release (maybe even the mini-set for Forge of the Barrens).

# ¿ Mar 24, 2021 13:01

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Do we still get a free ticket for having an Arena (or Duels?) run active when the expansion hits. It hasn't been mentioned.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2021 16:22

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Hold on to quests from Sunday so you have the max in the bank for the start of the next track.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 11:19

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Amoeba102 posted:

Wouldn't be equivalent though? It's exp now for the 1500/50 g bonus levels, or it's just getting through the rewards track slightly faster to get to the same 1500/50g at the end anyway?

For me it's because I plan to get the tavern pass this time round but didn't the first time so I'm aiming for those sweet 10% gainz. In general though yes, just so you complete the first 100 levels faster for the better rewards quicker.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 13:00

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

You get extra copies of Captains Parrot and Old Murk Eye if you have already triggered that achievement. I bet they fix that soon so disenchant the extra copies now imo

# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 18:50

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

There's a new achievement for being killed by Annoy-o-tron that grants 1 exp, seemingly designed to trigger people's OCD.

I love it!

You can get your exp back to a nice round number by completing the reverse achievement for 9 exp points :ssh:

# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 20:39

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Been playing some Classic, it's actually quite a nice change of pace. Classic token Druid with ye olde 14 damage finisher has been my poison of choice.

Speaking of Classic some of the achievements are great. Particularly YOU FACE A 0-MANA SPELL and Ragnaros the Snipelord (if you can guess the achievement requirements from the name that means you're cool).

# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 23:27

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

NorgLyle posted:

Playing around with Classic and I'm surprised to see so many people who have forgotten how the Classic era worked.

I reckon plenty of people are trying out the mode who weren't playing Hearthstone back in 2014.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 08:24

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Amoeba102 posted:

How so?

In my experience so far its mainly people misunderstanding the meta. The big miss is going for face damage instead of efficient minion trading which has made playing Druid very pleasant as it's been a lot easier getting people in range of fourteen damage than it should be.

Plenty of misplaying Handlocks and Freeze Mages in particular, people either forgot how to play those decks or have netdecked for a meta they don't understand.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 10:06

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Edit; double post

# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 10:06

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

lllllllllllllllllll posted:

So a friend of mine and regular player complains about the game's odd behaviour:

1. Yesterday, after the patch, there were lots of golden cards shown as a reward when clicking on Journal>Achivements. Stuff like "Great Victory win 500 games in ranked, arena or duel " popping up several times with several golden cards above it. These cards do not show up anywhere in the Collection though. We tried the various filters and nothing.

2. The little icon that indicates you can turn new cards you already had into dust is showing you should use that function, but upon clicking it the area where you can stays empty. I assume you can make dust only in certain modes, but clicking around didn't help.

3. There was a pack of the new expansion promised and shown after the patch that did not show up in "open packs", as they usually do, with the note "open only when X is released." Now it just isn't there.

Now she is livid and wants those golden cards!!! I assume it will all sort itself out in a few days but promised to ask around which I did. I started Hearthstone myself and noticed the same issues (and took pictures as proof) so it's not just her. This is an EU account. Perhaps you could shed some light on this situation? Are these known bugs? Anyway thanks for reading.

Those are core cards. They will become available when the core set releases on the 30th of March. It is also worth noting that they are non-dustable so no tens of thousands of dust, unfortunately.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 11:39

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Olpainless posted:

I've just seen something potentially HORRIFYING.

Blademaster Samuro in Big Priest.

Hope you like having your board wrecked forever

Blademaster Samuro in Big Priest was actually featured by Blizzard in their final card reveal stream, so they are well aware of it and actively support it. Enjoy!

# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 12:00

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Nybble posted:

Enemy Secrets triggering the bow charges, they really have thought of everything!

Is this real? Used to be my favourite interaction. I've only been playing Druid in Classic so hadn't encountered that.

Also Classic is a griiiinnnddd without bonus stars. Reminds me of the real thing back in the day. I don't imagine that many people will ever make it to Diamond/Legend in Classic just because of how many games you need to play the first time through.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 13:06

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Nybble posted:

yeah, Face Hunter v Face Hunter was quite a surprise to see how we were both gaining charges.

Also I would have thought stars would have carried over from the other modes. Maybe it will at the April reset?

Stars don't carryover between Wild and Standard so I wouldn't assume that, unless Blizzard make a special case for Classic.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 13:20

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

doingitwrong posted:

I am excited to figure out how to make the watchtowers viable because I liked man land decks in MTG and this is the closest we get in Hearthstone (aside from that one Druid card).

I really wish they had made the Peon card have watch tower symmetry. Defender of Argus is in the Core set though which should help.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 17:54

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Jolly Jumbuck posted:

I just checked and couldn't find anything conclusive, but does anyone know for sure if we should be hoarding quests for more XP or emptying them in case they give us special pack quests?

There's now a 4th quest slot which is reserved for special quests so you don't need to worry about that.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2021 14:31

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Parked my account 29 exp over a 50g unlock, 4/5 on ladder games won and progress on 4 other quests with an open spot for another daily. Should be able to pop up to lvl27 or so within a couple of games of the new track opening up.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2021 20:13

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

T-Minus 5 minutes to release. Might be worth opening up the client now if you want to be on for the launch.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2021 17:55

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Ah dammit, I thought Blizzard said they had a system where you could stay on and the client would auto-update. Queue was only 7 minutes when I got booted, down to 2 now. So doesn't seem too bad.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2021 18:04

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Opened 127 packs, did not get Samuro or Mankrik. Looks like you don't have to claim them to get the exp boost from the tavern track so I'll hold off claiming for now! There's a few more packs to earn!

# ¿ Mar 30, 2021 18:47

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

sirtommygunn posted:

I can't queue up for standard matches, but I can get in any other queue. Did they forget to switch the "Forged cards are allowed" from off to on in the update?

I have the same issue. I'm betting lots of people are queuing standard decks into wild right now so shouldn't be too bad...

Edit: scratch that all the queues are affected now

# ¿ Mar 30, 2021 19:01

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

1750exp weekly quests always seem to swap into the 2500exp win 5 ranked games quest if you don't already have it, if you want a little extra exp.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2021 21:34

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

bloom posted:

You can now re-roll the win 5 ranked games weekly and they added arena to the other modes quest.

You'll always get a 1750exp quest in return though.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2021 09:06

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

It's so you can tower rush and destroy people like its 2003 WC3 all over again. Vibes.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2021 13:35

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

I built up a board of 5 towers in a game earlier. They can get really snowbally fast if you start the game banging down a couple of the cost increasers and the opponent doesn't have an answer in hand. It can reach a point where you are countering everything passively and have loads of stats on the board.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2021 14:37

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

I can't believe Hearthstone is finishing this year, why didn't anyone tell me earlier?!

# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 11:39

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

RatHat posted:

So they clearly didn't test Reckless Apprentice with every hero power because some of them are just completely broken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_BQNKtUnk8

I think it's fun that if you manage to get a Reckless Apprentice off-class and get a more powerful hero power (or as Mage get an interesting off-class hero power) you can do some funky poo poo. That kind of random stuff is the fun kind as it's a one off moment rather than something you could ever plan for in a serious way.

This also relies on having an opponent conveniently build a board and not killing you as well.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 16:21

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

The building archetype does seem the strongest at this time, making Kargal a pretty safe looking craft (especially as a neutral card). However if you want to be really safe you can never be 100% sure on day 2 of a new expansion.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 16:36

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Penflinger could get the Dreadsteed nerf and only get returned to hand at the end of the turn.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2021 09:46

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

The stronger starting decks contain a decent amount of draw/cycle/resource generation I find. You definitely don't want to be stuck top decking vanilla value in a mode that rewards insane combo-ing and straight up ridiculously op cards.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2021 22:09

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Anyone else having fun with Weapons DH? The Sigil of Silence and Illidari Inquisitor combined with all of DHs weapon stuff make for a pretty effective burn deck. I particularly enjoy burning out Lunacy Mages.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2021 10:59

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Elysium posted:

I have a new nemesis in Duels. It's that Locusts card. 28 unblockable damage to face? Who thought that was a good idea.

It's the best card in duels, hands down. Always take it if it gets offered. If Locusts is drawn it can only realistically be beaten if you can force your opponent to use it defensively to clear something that would otherwise lethal them first.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2021 17:19

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

I've had a good time against Warlocks as Warrior. From hand you can dump 16 damage to face on 9 mana with Playmaker+ETC+Bumper Car tokens (and even more with windfury murloc and/or Athletic Studies shenanigans). If you keep that combo in mind you are definitely the favourite in my experience.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2021 22:25

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 08:56

Flayer: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy; Buglord

Deck thinning as a concept is not high on the agenda for aggro decks that aim to win in 4-5 turns since every deck has to be exactly 30 cards anyway. If there is some kind of Pirate Mecha'thun deck in the future then it's possible Patches could get in on that regard.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2021 10:47

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