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"Marinade" 2 Months is fine. Ranked Queues are hard to balance with low population anyway.

HS isn't an eSport in the same way Poker isn't a sport. Maybe it's because I also play HS, but viewership for Hearthstone tournaments is actually quite large. Sure, it's an outlier, but only because it's not team-based and isn't a traditional eSport/Sport/whatever.

Twitch viewership is a good gauge for which games become huge eSport games. Like I said, OW is a decent game to play casually right now, but I'm having doubts on how well it does as an eSport. The games at the top are strategic. LoL, Dota2, Hearthstone, CS:GO, HotS. All these games are easy...

I see a lot of the same people as well and I only play 1-2 hours a day. I think a lot of beta testers aren't FPS fans. They play it a week then quit. This is easy to see when looking at the twitch numbers. They started high and have since dropped off. I like the game but I'm not sure it'll be a...

It's not that big a deal imo. I play it casually like I did with TF2 and most of the strategy I use is very similar to how I played TF2 maps. Only big difference is class hierarchy which is figured out quickly and isn't necessarily set in stone. Best results usually happen by "maining" a couple...

You probably already know what people will say, but if you buy packs, buy the basic or TGT packs unless you plan to play Wild a lot. Start saving your gold up for the expansion and you can avoid dumping more cash in a month. If you enjoy the game then buying packs is completely fine. The...

With only 2 weeks of lcs left I'm avoiding power rankings and sticking to predictions. Right now my predictions from last week have been fairly accurate so nothing to revise. Might do a final analysis before the final week, depends on time. Got some shit going on irl.

Winter Championship is 18th-20th. Don't expect expac or Standard until April 5th. Should see spoilers all month though. At least that's something, right?

Nice! I might have seen a 5 man ult once from a McCree, but yea, pretty rare. I've been spamming D.Va recently and can hardly ever get a good ult off. I'm lucky to kill 1 person, however my best was killing 4. Loving D.Va though. Had a 30 killstreak on defense on Temple of Anubis. Didn't...

I really don't want to play in this meta anymore. I also know I can't avoid getting the rank 5 chest. Sad.

Another card everyone missed on was Shieldmaiden, and now we're about lose her. Warriors are losing so many 5 & 6 drops, the expansion can't possibly fill all the holes. Sylvanas/Harrison could be near 100% now for those slots and possibly Cairne, but I've gotta believe we'll get some other 6...

My initial remark was she would be bad but fun. Mainly because I've always been wrong about everything that I didn't want to get my hopes up. I'm happy to see that she's found a place. Honestly I don't think anyone could have guessed that all the LoE Legendaries (except Rafam) would find a home...

LOL. I had high hopes man! At least I was able to play her in the Naga deck. Got golden druid with that deck. Not game breaking though Problem with any 7+ mana card is they all suck or rarely used. Can't really have high hopes for anything that expensive. Boom being the only exception obviously.

Yup. 3 teams tied at 1st, gilg 1 game back. Interesting matches this upcoming week too. I was so close to upsetting bandwagoneers too. My gamble on team Fox flopped

Meh, yea I'm kinda shit at deck building and card analysis. I think I did better with LOE though. Playing the game and building decks are like 2 different games. It's fun to theorize though

I think Anyfin will still be viable. The 2nd cast is what hurts and with 4 bluegills it's still like 32 damage or some crap. The murkeye thing makes every other murloc deck dead in the water though, which sucks, and makes this one of the more unreasonable changes they are making. If they want to...

Lets be real here, the Rogue deck is not bad. It's beatable, but it'll be hard. If you refuse to play minions then have fun getting an Eerie Statue to the face.

Yea the current brawl is going to be that deck 90% of the time. To counter you'll need to play it like vs a handlock. Always consider them having moltens in hand. What makes it tougher is Rogue can weapon up and attack your taunt minions to get his health low. If you're not playing the same deck...

Probably. A lot of the rng and sticky cards are rotating out. .. not to say they won't add new ones but hopefully they learned their lesson

Im really surprised it's close like that. I expected Flash on F to be like 75% across the board. Really interesting that Masters+ in NA are over 50% with Flash on D too. Must be why NA can't beat Koreans.

LoE definitely made the game better, can't deny that. Without Reno/Elise and even Brann/Finley, the game would be an even larger cesspool. LoE put the game on life support for a few more months until they can get Standard released. Nothing too toxic came with LoE. So yes, Reno/LoE made the meta...

Did you add him?

I really expected Blizz to release some news this weak. Here's hoping we get a preview March 1st. The 2016 Hearthstone Americas Winter Championship is March 11-13. According to their Tour schedule, Spring series is March - May. I would have thought they would want to start the Spring...

LOL. I was never a fan! You're my competition! But if I was to do power rankings again you'd still be #1. Predictions are different as it weighs record higher. I doubt anyone will overcome your team in total points scored.

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I agree right now isn't the time to address it. And the stacks I imagine would be like a 4-1-1 comp. Stacking 4 of something (tank or damage) but then like 1 sniper 1 support or a 4-2 where it's 4 damage + 2 support, etc. Basically I don't think we'll see 5x or 6x stacks. We'll see a lot...

I haven't had to play against too many stacked teams, and I've not been part of any, so it hasn't affected me much at all yet. The only reason I am starting to advocate having a hero cap is because this game isn't like CS:GO where it's item based, and it's not like TF2 where it was only like 6...

TF2 had class caps for competitive, right? I imagine this game would need to implement caps too, but whether it happens outside the pro scene is another question. I really doubt Blizzard will do it, but I'm starting to think they should for Ranked play. It's going to come down to how well a...

With 3 weeks remaining, rosters are pretty much set and we can easily see which rosters are consistently strong. I don't have the time to do my usual wall of text for Power Rankings, so instead I'll transition to Predictions. Predictions: Disclaimer: The Fantasy website doesn't show...

yea, TSM got me good.

from 3-0 to 3-3 and soon to be 3-4 after next week

Well this was fun... not even that impressive of scores but 5 golds and a win, kinda rare. Best previously was 4 golds.

losing healbot and belcher are the two most scary things that will happen. and while i agree with a lot of your points, I don't agree that every class is a "problem". The problems are the frustrating & unfun decks. Face decks are unfun simply because you are required to draw into your...

Yea, Blizzard never liked the concept of freeze mage either, it's a frustrating deck to play against. December 2013 they made some nerfs: I wouldn't be surprised if the deck gets hit again unless Blizzard changed their stance since then.

Yea, I see what you're trying to do, I wasn't really critiquing your deck but here's my thoughts now: Even though you have Varian, you shouldnt eliminate all Battlecries. I had a deck without battlecries to try out Varian and it just isn't as good. Varian is still great value even if you lose...

Hate to theorize anything before seeing the new cards but good warrior decks would probably include the Giant+Faceless combo or go the Elise route. I like Obsidian destroyer for sure. Maybe Varian sees play since Lightbomb will be gone.

I believe there's a hidden MMR, at least that's what was implied on Reddit somewhere. Even though there is no ranked play, more wins pits you against better players. That said, levels shouldn't mean much. It's like someone with 1K games played in LoL but still stuck in Bronze. Experience doesn't...

I loaded up an aggro druid with magma/ice ragers and shit. Could have optimized it further but went 3-0 and done to finish a quest.

Elise has been common in some control decks for a while. In fact I copied a Priest deck from Kibler that focused on Elise. This was like over a month ago he played it. It works pretty well tbh. Yesterday Kolento was grinding out Priest with Elise and won about 10 ranked games in a row at Rank 2...

I'll swap once or twice if we're getting heavily stomped but the ultimate thing is a huge deterrent for sure. Seems balanced